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

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Racan

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If you're familiar with the above video and Dr. Phillip Karber, here's a new video which is IMO very interesting, where he talks about the current war:


One idea he bring up (starts at 1:08:03) is some sort of watered down no fly zone, a "refugee zone". l'm not sure though if that's much better in terms of avoiding direct combat with Russian forces.
 
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Also big yikes for the Russian Air Force to be ordered on more low altitude support missions and Zelenskey telling the US congress he doesn't really need more FIM-92s right now.
 
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K1052 said:
yep basically

https://twitter.com/x/status/1500144534444986371
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I don't know if there's any truth to the charges, but...damn...you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to try to smuggle drugs in/out of Russia, especially in light of the war. This is the kind of thing despots are known for...arrest a US citizen on trumped up charges, either as an in your face,"FUCK YOU," or as some kind of bargaining chip for negotiations.
 
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BoomerD said:

I don't know if there's any truth to the charges, but...damn...you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to try to smuggle drugs in/out of Russia, especially in light of the war. This is the kind of thing despots are known for...arrest a US citizen on trumped up charges, either as an in your face,"FUCK YOU," or as some kind of bargaining chip for negotiations.
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I wouldn't put any credence to the charges unless the oil was planted. Possible, but my benefit of the doubt goes to her.
 
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BoomerD said:

I don't know if there's any truth to the charges, but...damn...you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to try to smuggle drugs in/out of Russia, especially in light of the war. This is the kind of thing despots are known for...arrest a US citizen on trumped up charges, either as an in your face,"FUCK YOU," or as some kind of bargaining chip for negotiations.
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My strong suspicion would be that she's been falsely detained.
 
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BoomerD said:

I don't know if there's any truth to the charges, but...damn...you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to try to smuggle drugs in/out of Russia, especially in light of the war. This is the kind of thing despots are known for...arrest a US citizen on trumped up charges, either as an in your face,"FUCK YOU," or as some kind of bargaining chip for negotiations.
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Seriously, I cannot fathom any sentient non-Russian human being carrying illicit drugs on them in Russia.
 
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Muse said:
Poland (September 1939) was the last straw. It was war. For the US it was Pearl Harbor (December 1941).
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Anybody lives near McGuire AFB/McGuire ?
I could see planes leaving it from my home when I lived in Marlton. After 911 it got real busy anybody notice a major uptick in traffic lately?
 
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Fenixgoon said:
So what I took away from that is Tucker's fallback plan is racism and misogyny.
(My paraphrasing)
"We didn't take this seriously because Kamala Harris went to Europe and she's really more qualified to date Montel Williams"

Fuck that asshole. There's a special place in hell for him.
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Hell called; it seems they've run out of room due to the ginormous increase in ass-holery of late.
 
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nOOky said:
Looks like the same thing we had back in the 1980's, they are pretty easy to use. IIRC you pop off the end caps, press a button to extend it open until it locks open, put it on your shoulder and aim and fire. Figuring out the elevation I suppose would be the most difficult thing, you don't want to miss so practice a few times would be good.

Edit: there Youtube videos showing how to use it lol.
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So LAWS are still in use. Dirt cheap, and lethal to armor. No fire and forget though.
 
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uclaLabrat said:
Wonder how long they can sustain that loss rate before their operational air arm is annihilated? They probably have what, 200 operational Frontline aircraft? Keep that rate up and assume similar losses to maintenance/ accidents or planes that made it home but not recoverable and they're out of action in at most 3 months? Probably more like 1?
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Well, no. They have something like 1200+ relatively modern fighters in inventory most with some ground attack abilities. Anything that's out for service or even effectively in storage can be made operational fairly fast. Shooting down planes costs them a lot of money but they can keep throwing planes at Ukraine for a long time if they don't mind what a NATO country would consider unacceptable attrition.

K1052 said:
Also big yikes for the Russian Air Force to be ordered on more low altitude support missions and Zelenskey telling the US congress he doesn't really need more FIM-92s right now.
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It is possible to have more MANPADS that you can effectively use, hard to say how many have been sent. More advanced systems or a no-fly would be of a lot more good to Ukraine, but those are both big asks.
 
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