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DIY-HP-LED said:

there are lots of small arms shell casings of all types laying around for recycling

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Not likely to be more than a few percent of those collected for reuse before the end of the war. Guys in fire fights have a lot more pressing matters to deal with than worrying about what they leave laying around that has no immediate use to them. Hard to find under the snow or ground into the mud as well.

Another anti-war candidate for the presidential election in Russia. Hope he gets his 100,000 signatures to qualify.

printer said:

Another anti-war candidate for the presidential election in Russia. Hope he gets his 100,000 signatures to qualify.

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He will likely get tossed out a window! These Russian political hopefuls have guts, I'll say that for them. Vlad would no more give up power than Trump and if he lost power, he would end up dead.

printer said:

Another anti-war candidate for the presidential election in Russia. Hope he gets his 100,000 signatures to qualify.

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better watch those windows

and from what i've been reading he got the signatures....

A few more cracks occurring.

Poland prepares for WAR with RUSSIA! | Ukraine War Update

Now Sweden and Finland can express to Russia exactly how they feel about them, and it will be 2 more Russia hawk votes along with eastern Europe and the Baltics on the NATO council. Everybody in Europe is rearming and it won't matter what happens in November in America, by then the Russians will be screwed and probably driven from Ukraine in defeat. Donald's master Vlad might be dead before election day if he loses in Ukraine and is driven out in defeat, he probably won't live long. When you can't unelected them, then killing them sometimes becomes the only option.

Europe will have a decade to rearm while at the same time Russia decays and might fragment in civil strife, they will be crippled economically and militarily for a decade. If they were insane enough to try anything they would have a heavily armed Ukraine at their throats, if not a NATO member, as an ally. All this time propaganda will be pouring into Russia from Ukraine and Europe funded by the western governments who will also make sure Ukraine prospers economically, they also have a lot to offer.

They know the Russians well, speak the language fluently and can have the biggest cultural impact on Russia along with Belarus. It puts a new iron curtain further east, right down the middle of the Slavic world and a couple of hundred miles south of Moscow. The example of future Ukrainian prosperity compared to their situation should cause political discontent and migration to Ukraine, if possible. If Europe can use Ukrainian gas and oil for industrial purposes, then they would become prosperous much quicker, and Europe will still be using oil and gas for a couple of decades in diminishing amounts, except for the chemical industry.

They should start right away on pipelines at least in the EU to the gas fields in the black sea shallow water near Crimea, then Ukraine could start paying for its own defense in oil and gas, Turkey would be a big market too as would several other countries. Germany built LNG infrastructure in months recently, why import gas by tanker when its right next door a few hundred miles away, enough for Europe's needs for the foreseeable future. They also get double value for the money spent on energy, Ukraine will use the money to buy arms from them, products too, they get security plus energy for the same euro.


Turkish parliament approves Sweden’s NATO membership bid

If China blockaded Tiawan America would send in an American flagged ship and wait for them to shoot, America and the allies would blockade China and cut its imports and exports off by sea.


Let's talk about China, Taiwan, surveys, and media consumption....

The EU is considering tariffs on Chinese cars to protect domestic auto makers. I'm sure any Chinese aid to Russia might be sway that decision or jack up the numbers. Meanwhile they are selling junk ICE cars to Russia and don't car because they are the only game in town for them and are dirt cheap. Lots of Russians are bitching about it and prefer more durable European cars. However they will learn like the Japanese before them and the cars will improve and in Europe, they are selling more expensive better-quality EVs, or will.

Maybe they expect Russia to rise from the grave quicker than logically anticipated. I think having their military wiped out and defeated in Ukraine while their economy and markets for their main products crashed, might slow them down a bit. Are they gonna reform the government and get rid of corruption? Then it will be impossible to reform the military culture, officer corps, command and control, and they will steal them blind besides. They will be under sanctions for a long time and Ukraine might end up with much of their cash, nobody will want a career in the Russian army after this shit. Nobody trusts the state and there are mysterious fires burning the place to the ground one business, government building and warehouse at a time. The infrastructure is breaking down, the people live like shit and the society is headed for a North Korean existence. Oh yeah, a million of their best and brightest young people, mostly men left the country, and most won't return if they can help it, there is no future in Russia, and they know it.

Nato would cut Russian rai bridges over 100 miles inside Russia and Belarus using missiles and airpower, the Russian offensive would grind to a halt, Meanwhile NATO would bomb the shit out of Kaliningrad while the population inside the place revolted and the army mutinied. They wouldn't waste Troops trying to break through they would use air power and transport to support the Baltics and now so would Sweden and Finland. Poland would go through Belarus like shit through a goose via Ukraine with assistance from Ukraine.

If the Russians performed as they did in Ukraine against NATO it would be a turkey shoot. After this European strategy will focus on cutting rail bridges inside Russia and coming up with weapons systems that can kill masses of Russian troops remotely, drones and cluster munitions HIMARS and more. AA defense missiles like patriot and lasers are useful too and can apparently even stop some nuclear missile attacks, they stop the same kind of missiles in Ukraine and a modern EU system can do even better. America might want to look at missile defense again too, it is more likely to deal with a few missiles than thousands of warheads, Vlad has many enemies and not enough missiles to go around.


How Russia is Losing Kaliningrad (and why it matters)

In the shadow of Russia's war against Ukraine, there is a front that has often been forgotten.

The war is having a significant impact on Russia's exclave, Kaliningrad. And because of the consequences of Putin's invasion, the regions importance is quickly dwindling - to the point that Kaliningrad has lost its strategic value, and has become an expensive, and vulnerable area for Russia to manage.

Watch this video to learn about secessionist movements in the Kaliningrad exclave, the Baltic Republican Party, the Suwalki Gap, NATO military strategy, the importance of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, and much more.

They have him cornered, his love of Putin or his country's interests.

DIY-HP-LED said:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1749776339412873486

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This man has tired eyes,must come from the burden of a leading a military that is underperforming,trying to accomplish a mission that is unattainable, had a large % of his best units lost to attrition,and working under a man who could have him executed on a whim.Odds are 50/50 he will meet his end like many Russian Generals have,hunched over his desk w/a gun in his hand and a hole in the back of his head.

Russians are saying the Ukrainians shot down the plane full of Ukrainian POW's. Could be them lying as Russia will say anything to discredit the Ukrainians.


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Russians are saying the Ukrainians shot down the plane full of Ukrainian POW's. Could be them lying as Russia will say anything to discredit the Ukrainians.

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yeah i'm catching the reports as well......

what was that little puff of smoke at :27? you can see the person looking at the crash and pan over and up and you see that puff of smoke....anti air?