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    Quote Originally Posted by zealo View Post
    Uh, there's a 403 error on that link, I'm pretty sure reddit doesn't allow you to link image previews like that.
    weird, it was working earlier >.<

    will have to try to find it again now

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    weird, it was working earlier >.<

    will have to try to find it again now
    It's still working, and yes, it was anemic...

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    Surely they have more T-34's to use? Like, at least use them? Why a single one?

    Is he afraid even those can be used for a coup or something lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voidism View Post
    Surely they have more T-34's to use? Like, at least use them? Why a single one?

    Is he afraid even those can be used for a coup or something lol
    The T-34 is symbolic, as far as I know there's always just one leading the parade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iphie View Post
    The T-34 is symbolic, as far as I know there's always just one leading the parade.
    yea it was pretty decent when it first turned up on the eastern front. (although iirc it was made in kharkiv, ukraine)

    Quote Originally Posted by Voidism View Post
    Surely they have more T-34's to use? Like, at least use them? Why a single one?

    Is he afraid even those can be used for a coup or something lol
    go to oryx list and look at tank losses lol, the Russian military had to "borrow" 10 Remdiesel Ahmat Z-STS from Kadyrov. just to get 51 vehicles in the parade

    Russia had a 50 year build up of material and its lost in in year. They have lost over 10,000 pieces of military hardware. Tanks, artillery pieces, troop carriers. It will take them over 25 years to build that back up (maybe more). They are so fucked they are restoring old tanks instead of building new ones because they don't have the resources to build new ones. Its why T-62 keep turning up instead of T-90's. They have a new service rifle meant for troops (AK12) and they can only produce enough to arm 10% of their forces. And lets not talk about manpower. They have been on the offensive for over 6 months and have barely taken Bahkmut. Their offensive capability is gone, their ground forces pose no threat to NATO countries now.

    TLDR They are using everything they have + Putin is keeping it small and controlled in case mothers of dead soldiers turn up and with pictures of their dead sons, or the legions of cripples.

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    So...it seems russia "borrowed" some vehicles from the Chechens to bolster their parade:

    https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/sta...45525390864384

    You just can't make this up.

    Related (but I think a different tank than the one in the parade) and peak russian:

    https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/st...46975836262400

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    I just hope this flop of a spectacle doesn't lull the world into a false sense of security on the threat Russia poses. Something I see fail to mention is as this parade was ongoing, Russia unleashed a brutal missile attack on Ukraine's capitol.

    Russia launched about 15 cruise missiles at Ukraine's capital on Tuesday, the second attack in as many days, with air defence systems shooting all of them down, officials said, after air raid alerts blared over most of the country.

    "As at the front, the plans of the aggressor failed," Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv's city military administration, said in comments posted on the Telegram messaging app.

    Tuesday's attacks - the fifth in May - came a day after Russia launched its biggest drone swarm yet in a renewed air campaign unleashed 10 days ago after a lull since early March.

    It also came on Russia's Victory Day, one its most commemorated public holidays, marking the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
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    And more unraveling since, the Western world is only just discovering the scope of Russian infiltration and espionage planted outside their borders. They don't just openly destroy what they cannot take, but manipulate politics.
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    I believe those missiles were shot down by U.S.-made Patriot missile Defense systems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowferal View Post
    I believe those missiles were shot down by U.S.-made Patriot missile Defense systems.
    Very likely. Shooting down cruise missiles is what they were made to do and Ukraine got a bunch of them.
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    Russia is so arrogant and ignorant they think they can fight most of the world, which is effectively what they're doing given the supplies flowing into Ukraine every day. How stupid can you get?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flarelaine View Post
    Muscovy can go kick a rock if it thinks anyone ought to care about their opinion on such matters by now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    Russia is so arrogant and ignorant they think they can fight most of the world, which is effectively what they're doing given the supplies flowing into Ukraine every day. How stupid can you get?
    It’s the sunk cost fallacy.

    They swung at Ukraine thinking they’d show the world how big and strong they were against a weaker opponent and go home with an easy win.

    Ukraine swung back. So now in order to “save face” internally and (hah) externally Russia needs to keep fighting, lest they look weak.

    Now of course anyone paying attention knows Russia is weak. But they’re too far in the hole to do the right and smart thing, which is to just give up.
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  14. #30614
    Quote Originally Posted by zealo View Post
    Muscovy can go kick a rock if it thinks anyone ought to care about their opinion on such matters by now.
    I don't know, i'm not opposed to pissing off Russia's government for its own sake but wanting to rename a region that's not even part of your country is just weird.

    Like what's the point? The name Poland wants to use is even the original german one (albeit translated into polish), as this territory was german before for hundreds of years.
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    I love how Prig the Prick just did the best drunkard routine of his life, and committed suicide by insulting the Führer directly.

    Just counting the minutes now.
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    True, I was just bored and tired but you are correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    I don't know, i'm not opposed to pissing off Russia's government for its own sake but wanting to rename a region that's not even part of your country is just weird.

    Like what's the point? The name Poland wants to use is even the original german one (albeit translated into polish), as this territory was german before for hundreds of years.
    They aren't renaming it really.
    Just using a historical name that's translated.

    Same as in Sweden Gothenburg isn't said like that.

    And if any country is historically great at renaming it's Russia.
    Looking at you St Petersburg, Petrograd, Lebingrad, St Petersburg

    While two of those names are technically the same in meaning (petrograd).

    This is more Poland doing a late reaction to being independent.
    Lots of history books call St Petersburg that when it was technically named Petrograd
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muzjhath View Post
    They aren't renaming it really.
    Just using a historical name that's translated.
    Yeah but that historical name is not being used be people that own the territory.

    Belgians also would probably not be too pleased if the Netherlands started calling Belgium "Zuid Nederland" because they owned most of what now known as Belgium sometime during the 1800's.
    Quote Originally Posted by Muzjhath View Post
    This is more Poland doing a late reaction to being independent.
    Lots of history books call St Petersburg that when it was technically named Petrograd
    I think there is however the difference that St Petersburg was russian for hundreds of years by now and those renames were pretty much always done by the russians themselves, whereas Kaliningrad was taken from germany.

    Bit of a difference whether you choose to rename that you own by yourself and when someone else decides to call a place you own by the name of the previous owner.

    It's less about renaming itself, but rather deliberately choosing the previous name as basis.

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    seems like Ukraine has liberated Bahkmut despite Russia's warnings of a "red line." Headlines are breaking all over of a complete breakthrough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kralljin View Post
    Yeah but that historical name is not being used be people that own the territory.

    Belgians also would probably not be too pleased if the Netherlands started calling Belgium "Zuid Nederland" because they owned most of what now known as Belgium sometime during the 1800's.

    I think there is however the difference that St Petersburg was russian for hundreds of years by now and those renames were pretty much always done by the russians themselves, whereas Kaliningrad was taken from germany.

    Bit of a difference whether you choose to rename that you own by yourself and when someone else decides to call a place you own by the name of the previous owner.

    It's less about renaming itself, but rather deliberately choosing the previous name as basis.
    Netherlands never controlled Belgium that long, only about 50 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuiking View Post
    Netherlands never controlled Belgium that long, only about 50 years.
    And Russia has been controlling Kaliningrad for less than 80 years, with germany even formally recognizing that Russia owns this territory.
    Whether you call a place by a specific name can be quite the politically contentious issue, especially when talking about territory that was annexed.

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