Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
'Official' word from the Kremlin is that the Bomber escaped to Estonia.
So either they're actually telling the truth this time or they're looking to pick another fight for some ungodly reason and are using the bombing as an excuse.
There is nothing Putin can do that he hasn't already done or tried, save nukes, and he can't use nukes because then NATO's gloves are off and it will involve directly.
NATO will not allow nukes being used on its border, considering radiation moves around and doesn't care for borders, and radiation affecting a NATO state will be interpreted as aggression on a NATO member, and then NATO is obligated by the treaty to act.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
Russia is spending money it barely has it is, while narrowly avoiding an failing economy. Putin can't afford a full war, he doesn't have the money for it. Also, I seriously doubt Russians will jump in to register to go die in a war that isn't for their own defense, kinda hard to push that narrative.
Only way that happens is if China jumps in.
Putin is hard pressed by his own men to show results, and he has no results to show. Odds are he will retire next year, more less in a wooden casket.
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Get 'em by the numbers, I'll remind you that the Ukrainians today published 9000 dead soldiers, take that vs the reported 40-80k russian dead, which is about 6.6 times the casualty rate if you take the average of 60k, that means that russia would need EVERYTHING, and then some, of the stated current full power of their army mobilized and in the fight. I don't think they even have enough equipment to equip all of those soldiers.
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
"Kremlin linked officials vow to strike Ukraine after daughter of Putin ally dies in car bomb"
Right, because they are definitely not already striking Ukraine.
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The idea that USSR generally sent basic infantry into battle without so much as some sort of small arms on them isn't true to real history, especially not on a wider policy scale from the government.
That's one of the areas were media have taken extensive creative liberties, outside of situations where e.g people filtered out of encirclements during breakout attempts without their weapons in the chaos that developed.
Yeah, Stavka didn't have the highest regard for the value of human life among their own ranks doctrinally, but that particular idea crosses so far into absurdity to be straight up counter-productive to effectively fighting a war.
This didn't really happen with proper red army formations, so much as desperate holding actions by press-ganged civilian militias being poorly equipped for logistical reasons.
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