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Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

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Post by codedokode »

EliRivers wrote: post #35
codedokode wrote: post #33

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Russia has many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks I've got a high quality 486 processor here but it still gets slaughtered by a cheap, ropey CPU I bought last year. A high-quality Soviet tank is a high-quality outdated tank that's very vulnerable to modern weaponry.

This comparison is not fair because tank's performance doesn't double every year.

Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

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Post by anakaine »

medo-bear wrote: post #40
codedokode wrote: post #33

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sure. we should all put on uniforms and go to war for ukraine because if ukraine loses it will be the end of the world as we know it ... not

By equal measure, who'd have thought the assassination of an Archduke and Duchess of two reasonably low priority places by a Bosnian student would have even been front page news.

What precipitates from these issues isn't always clear at the outset.

Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections

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Post by notorandit »

codedokode wrote: post #33
traveler01 wrote: post #28

Clearly they're winning the war /s

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Determination. Ukraine has no air force, Russia has. Russia has almost 10 time more soldiers. Unless western countries start sending soldiers to fight Russians, there should be no way for Ukrainians to even withstand.

Nonetheless, Russia is definitely not winning after 1 year.

Maybe Russia will end up controlling the majority of the land. Just rubbles and ashes.

This is not winning IMHO.

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

medo-bear wrote: post #40
codedokode wrote: post #33

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sure. we should all put on uniforms and go to war for ukraine because if ukraine loses it will be the end of the world as we know it ... not

It will not be the end of the war, but the West, and especially Europe, will have an aggressive bully at its borders who already proved it can murder and torture people ruthlessly. So the economy will focus on arms race once again until someone in Russia finally understands it doesn't make any sense.

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Post by codedokode »

raverbashing wrote: post #39
codedokode wrote: post #33

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> has many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks You men the ones that go extra-boom whenever something hits them? (just to be clear I mean having the auto-loader under the turret make things extra-spicy when hit even by a grenade or something)

Any modern tank can explode when hit by an anti-tank missile. There are little Western tanks in Ukraine (Ukraine also has Soviet tanks) so you don't see such videos often.

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Post by tokai »

walkhour wrote: post #44
traveler01 wrote: post #28

Clearly they're winning the war /s

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It really isn't. Russia has gone backwards for a year now. There isn't a single parameter where things doesn't look bad for them. Sure the fog of war makes things somewhat unclear, but saying that its hard to gauge who is having the most trouble is nonsense for anyone following the conflict.

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Post by tokai »

notorandit wrote: post #63
codedokode wrote: post #33

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Determination. Ukraine has no air force, Russia has. Russia has almost 10 time more soldiers. Unless western countries start sending soldiers to fight Russians, there should be no way for Ukrainians to even withstand. Nonetheless, Russia is definitely not winning after 1 year. Maybe Russia will end up controlling the majority of the land. Just rubbles and ashes. This is not winning IMHO.

>Ukraine has no air force

Not true. They are still flying.

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Post by m2fkxy »

smcl wrote: post #54
codedokode wrote: post #48

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If you talk about kamikadze drones then a simple fishing net can protect against them. Also, are Western tanks immune to $500 drones?

I mean yeah they tend to actually have reactive armor and don't tend to be quite as vulnerable to the "turret tossing" as those operated by the Russians. But this isn't about western vs soviet tanks. The point was the "many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks" appear to be quite vulnerable to very inexpensive and widely available equipment that Ukraine have become adept at using.

It also doesn't help that those tanks are employed in a completely inane way by the Russian side.

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Post by codedokode »

notorandit wrote: post #63
codedokode wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Determination. Ukraine has no air force, Russia has. Russia has almost 10 time more soldiers. Unless western countries start sending soldiers to fight Russians, there should be no way for Ukrainians to even withstand. Nonetheless, Russia is definitely not winning after 1 year. Maybe Russia will end up controlling the majority of the land. Just rubbles and ashes. This is not winning IMHO.

> Russia has almost 10 time more soldiers.

I believe this is wrong. Russia doesn't have 10 times more soldiers now, and regular army isn't deployed in Ukraine; only volunteers (including prisoners), mobilized soldiers and contract army is.

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