Both sides are downplaying their own losses and inflating the losses of their enemy.
The conflict is an absolute modern hellscape and there are a shit ton of people on both sides getting killed and wounded. 1 month of this war probably has more casualties than the US in a decade of GWOT...
Evil scum.
Well I no longer have to question and wonder what I'm going to be mad about today.
This wasn't satire, that creature was being genuine. Just evil and demented on so many levels.
It seems similar things are happening in multiple countries simultaneously.
I wonder what future historians will think when they look back at say 2015-2025 and what major world events were shaped by this 10 year period. I think they will view it Similarly to the pre WW1 or pre WW2 eras
Apparently our sentiments are pretty much in line with everyone's
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/health-insurance-murder-reactions-1235192490/
"Maybe his lead exposure he was a preexisting condition "
"Police are combing through surveillance video and examining clues the gunman may have left while fleeing the scene.
The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were found on the shell casings discovered at the scene of the shooting, ABC News reported, citing police sources."...
First 2 things I think of. This is not random. It's specific and targeted and planned out to some extent.
1- it's a parent/dad/husband very angry at the company for denying health insurance or going bankrupt over medical expenses. Possibly even a former employee who feels they were screwed but...
I bet this is more real than people realize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
There's probably mature technology that we are not aware of.
One thing I think the world has learned in this testing ground is you cannot allow an offensive to bog down and become static where defensive positions can be created to build trenches and infrastructure for drone operations. In any future war speed and continued sustainment will be key to...
The extremely small knowledge I have, is I think what Russia is saying that is unique about this new variant, is that it has some sort of customizable and modular variations on multiple independent reentry vehicles. It can carry a combination of inert vehicles, decoys, multiple nuclear warheads...
Guys don't forget about the "Nazi" sympathizers and other extremists like the Azov who were shelling areas in the donbas.
Back before this war really started even CNN and MSNBC were running stories about radical Ukrainian extremists and Nazis.
That entire narrative vanished overnight when...
Russia believes in a risky strategy to "escalate to deescalate".
Basically it's as simple as, are we willing to risk Washington, London etc in addition to hundreds of smaller cities, our economy, our government etc for a 100kt airburst over some random irrelevant area of Ukraine? A country...
There were japanese holdouts literally shooting at and fighting Americans on Guam during Vietnam. Reread that previous sentence.
I saw the caves they hid in with my own eyes. It happened literally decades after the war ended. Not hyperbole but fact. The Japanese refused to surrender. They...
Curtis Lemay was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in firebombing Japanese cities to bring them to surrender. You think that guy would view the atomic bomb any differently? Hell no.
At the time most of them just viewed the A bomb as a shit ton of TNT in a single bomb...
It's about the "I'm just following orders, I'm just doing my job"
This is the mentality of how it happens. Thought it was worth sharing to get a perspective on how it happens. You can condone it or make excuses or say "hey look over there" but regardless it's worth understanding
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/28/ukrainian-mobilisation-officer-explained-kyiv-war-russia/
Worth a read to get into the mentality of those who are the muscle for tyrants. It's specific to Ukraine but the mentality can be anywhere.
Whether Hawaii was a state or territory is irrelevant. It was US territory. It would be like saying we don't count it if china attacks Guam or cuba attacks Puerto Rico. They attacked our fleet and killed a bunch of people and then simultaneously on the other side of the Pacific attacked a bunch...
Keep checking.... You might yet get what you are hoping for.
Sounds like there was another very recent ATACMS strike deep into Russia on an airfield and S400 battery.
I would imagine Russia doesn't let that go without a response. Something is going to happen.
I would just like to point out that it's nice to see this thread is not an echo chamber and there are multiple opinions and there are civil arguments to try and prove a point of view.
It's just nice to see there are still adults left in the world.
Expect more Russian IRBMs and/or ICBM strikes.
Some of the same obscure web osint reports that discussed Russia planning to use their missiles the other day now say with Putin's recent warnings, and apparently there was some closed door meeting in the Kremlin in the middle of the night Russia...
I've noticed Russians tend to be pretty deliberate in their wording and that's an interesting quote.
He will warn citizens of "other friendly states to leave potential attack zones in advance"
Read into that a few different ways and meanings.
I guess I don't. It's just being a wordsmith playing semantics. Western citizens are fighting Russians in Ukraine in one capacity or another already either in uniform or privately on their own choosing so to act like NK suddenly joining is an outrageous development. To be honest they're likely...
Honestly..... how different is that if north Korea decided to train Russian soldiers, and donated higher quality tanks, ammo, artillery, rocket launchers, fighter jets, missiles than Ukraine has, and in addition to donating all that equipment and munitions that they also physically were...
This.
Absolutely this.
NATO is slow playing this. Every time Russia starts to make advances NATO allows Ukraine to use a technology or weapons system that was previously banned from doing so that was seen as a red line. One of these red lines will matter.
First it was javelins and stingers...
There are rumors of a lot of Russian diplomats and military officials sending their families to Yamantau mountain.
I checked myself and some of the most watched flights on flight radar24 at least the ones that have transponders on and flight plans are leaving Moscow and/or going to airports...
IMO I think (and if I'm being impartial probably justified) response will be for Russia to start shooting down NATO Intel drones and aircraft over the black sea that are being used to collect targeting data.
I don't like it at all. I hate the idea of potentially losing American lives due to...
Expanding ICE and DHS could probably fill that role as it aligns with their job scope.
Regardless I'm thrilled it sounds like they are serious about actively deporting people who don't belong here. Long overdue.
This isn't just Bullshit other countries are trying to warn their citizens.
Sweden and Finland telling residents to stock up on supplies and essentials to prepare for war.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/nato-sweden-finland-wartime-guidance-intl/index.html
Our politicians are creating...
We "could" have but chose not to do what was needed. And don't forget about literal human waves of screaming china men pouring over the yellow river heading southward.
But I'm certainly not discounting Nk Today. They are an impoverished hard militaristic culture where duty and sacrifice are...
In a perfect world it wouldn't be a concern because we would have welcomed Russian cooperation and formed some sort of loose alliance with them. Russia should be our ally and should be aligned with us focused on countering china.
Imagine how much different the world could be right now if NATO...
I don't know if it's factual or was fake news, but the idea of signing a peace accord, freezing the conflict lines as they are, and establishment of a DMZ buffer zone sounds like a great way to end this conflict and Ukraine won't like it but the pragmatic reality is they will still have a...
Hopefully we can avoid getting dragged into ww3 for the next 3 months.
Soon the adults will be back in charge. This sounds like a good start.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pentagon-pick-pete-hegseth-criticized-us-involvement-ukraine-aid-2024-11