Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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[DHT]Osiris

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I think I'm in the zone of greatest unpleasantness, fifteen miles from the missile factory and air base, close enough to witness the festivities and get irradiated but probably not close enough to get immediately dead.
Let's find out!
Using data around me, looks like you're safe from instant incineration up to around 15MT (assuming airburst). Note that's still got widespread 3rd degree burns, but you might be okay if you're hiding in a bathtub and your house doesn't kill you.

Note that this doesn't take into account radiation death, just burny/smashy.
 

rommelrommel

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yes but it can amplify your initial Nazism--but also consider that you are talking about the ave foot soldier in the German army at the time. They served in the Nazi army, but it's not like any of them had any choice. I'm certain there were some bona fide Nazis among them, but a lot of those kids were just soldiers. The Nazi Nazis were the SS and of course central leadership and much of command.

The general German army fought a lot less clean than many think espcially in the east, and those young men who started the war had grown up under years of Nazism and were generally more rabid Nazis than the older ones.
 

hal2kilo

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Russia is against some decent numbers. And then when you apply the force multiplier of the home ground advantage and Western weapons... yikes..


Form https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/15/how-russias-tactics-are-evolving-in-ukraine

80k new committed fighters is a nice boon to receive. No wonder there are stories today of counter attacks by Ukraine.

And a fourth general have been lost by the Russians.
Probably why they haven't attacked the networks as much as people were expecting. The Russians need to use them too.
 
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rommelrommel

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Problem with that is you can't really hide where the originating missile came from. And literally no one in the world is going to believe Putin when he tries to claim the US or Israel or the UK or India or Pakistan or France sent the nuke after him.

You wouldn't send a missile, you'd either airburst from a private plane, or simply put it in a truck.
 
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woolfe9998

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It is pretty well documented that germany during WWII that crystal meth was given out like candy to their armed forces.


Yes, but that article and several others say it was given to the Wehrmacht. None mention it being given to the SS. It would make some sense given the mentality of the SS that they were not given meth.

And since the SS carried out the majority of atrocities committed by the Nazis, meth is likely no part of the explanation.
 

cytg111

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I came across this account of a family evacuating in a car from the smaller city of Rubizhne and were gunned down by Azovs. The young woman's father is now dead. They're being interviewed in a hospital, some of them wounded. Had a Russian soldier not helped as they were pinned down by gunfire it could've went even worse for them.

Sadly this story is not unique. There are many such accounts and witnesses of the inhuman nature of the Nazi nationalists.

One reason the Nazis in WW2 were so inhumane is that many of them were meth addicts. Over time, Meth changes the stucture of the brain significantly, and in a very inhuman way. They loose any sense of compassion. I have more than a hunch that the same is happening here, and that there are many methheads within the Azov battalion, which is a big part of the reason these attrocities are being committed.

Omfg you made me read about it.
So you are bitching about 900 people, of whom 10-20% might have neo nazi sympathies, 90-180 people, alleging that they have altered their brain structure with drugs and turned them selves into psycopaths.

200 bigoted psychopaths' on methyl amphetamine fighting Russians in Donbas <- And that is the reason Putin had to level Ukraine? Go back to your handler and return your paycheck.

Also, maybe you could tell the class about this "Wagner Group" that Putin has deployed in Ukraine... What kind of upstanding moral ethics codes do they obey?
Waiting.
 
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fskimospy

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Article about why Russia has not achieved air superiority in spite of having 10x the planes that Ukraine has.


One major reason is that Ukraine has received intel telling them where Russia will strike its airfields, and have moved their planes to avoid destruction. Our intel, I assume.
I am very pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of US intelligence here. They've done about as good a job as could be asked for.