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War in Ukraine

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Jan 21, 2022.

  1. NavyGator93

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    This thread is so much more informative once you get used to scrolling past the pravda shills.
     
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  2. PITBOSS

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    it’s surprising the entire west can’t get more pilots trained. “More” as in a total of 40 for a full squadron of 20 f16s per article. We’ve been working on it for 10+ months and it’s mentioned it will take to the end of 2025 to reach 40.
     
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  3. slayerxing

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    The sense of urgency at this point in western militaries is so ridiculously low it amazes me.
     
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  4. AndyGator

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    They use single digit signs for their days since balcony accident
     
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  5. Gatorhead

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    Yes Sierra, Putin did put one up, but the gentelman in charge of that, unfortunately, fell from a 20 story balcony in Moscow. Accidentally of course. He did not survive so that data is no longer available.
     
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  6. duggers_dad

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    They heard you the first several times, Rain Man.
     
  7. oragator1

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    As I read around. it’s really interesting to see how Russia apparently views the current state. They are actually quite content supposedly, they are willing to go years if needed and just grind down Ukraine and the west’s support, they feel like they can sustain indefinitely. They don’t really see a scenario where they don’t gain in the end.
    It will take a large escalation from the west, one that changes Russia’s pain threshold to truly change the trajectory.
     
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  8. duggers_dad

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    Amidst this flurry of activity, no one, from Sullivan to Stoltenberg on down to their stenographers at the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs can explain in clear, unambiguous language why the matter of who governs Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Donetsk (or even Odessa and Kharkiv) is worth a direct, possibly even catastrophic confrontation with Russia. How and when did it become a paramount national security objective of the United States and NATO to help Galician ethno-nationalists regain control over a people they neither desired nor valued?

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-does-american-folly-march-on-in-ukraine/
     
  9. G8tas

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    What happened to this being a quick offensive for Putin? Now we're talking years?
     
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  10. duggers_dad

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    It was shaping up to be a quick offensive … until Boris Johnson, likely with US endorsement, persuaded Zelensky to scuttle the Istanbul Accords.
     
  11. uftaipan

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    Yeah, the enemy decided to fight back, the international community objected to the Russians trying to take land by armed conquest, and the Russians proved to not be as good at this war thing as they wanted us all to believe. It’s been very inconvenient all around.
     
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  12. uftaipan

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    upload_2024-6-7_14-7-30.jpeg
     
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  13. PITBOSS

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    as it has 6 positive votes i guess not.
     
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  14. duggers_dad

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    Rain Men.
     
  15. apkgator

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    The irony of you posting that twice on the same page as a complaint about someone posting repeatedly is just rich.
    Maybe you can make a ghost of Kyiv post for the 100th time
     
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  16. NavyGator93

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    Pravda crowd gets testy when they are ignored. Post after post after post and no reaction is rough when you are a troll.
     
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  17. okeechobee

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    Are we talking about Russian Pravda or Ukrainian Pravda?
     
  18. G8trGr8t

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    They had to teach many of them English before they could teach them to fly
     
  19. uftaipan

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    Weird you have to ask. In context, clearly Russian Pravda.
     
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    I have serious doubts he understands there is a vibrant Ukrainian Pravda today. I think it's more likely he is spitting Soviet era flash words, hoping to pass himself off as someone with some knowledge about how things run in that part of the world.