what the fuck do they mean theyve grown back? are they actually thinking theyre fungal warhammer 40k orks?
They need to frame this in the context of the propaganda they've been feeding people for the past two years about Russia being decimated on the battlefield. Otherwise, they just have to straight up come out and say they were lying this whole time.
asiatic hordes, etc,etc
no, they mean they did everything they could to destroy the country and its people and turn it into a gas station colony and would you look it, they're back after a few decades of krokodil.
of course, the russia that's back is a twisted shadow of its former self
Juche ~~Necro~~Orkromancy
By foul craft, Putin has crossed Orc with Goblin Men. He is breeding an army in the caverns of Kremlin. An army that can move in sunlight and cover great distance at speed.
Libs called Russians Orks for a while.
They actually believe that Ukraine has killed 315,000 Russians and only sustained around 175k casualties?
Yankee land is deeply unserious.
Kim gave Putin the secrets of Juche necromancy
The only western source that has any methodology shows around 53k https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
I was going to poke fun when I was the URL, but:
Last update of the names list: 10 May 2024
Last update of the Probate Registry estimate: 15 March 2024
fair enough
what would be more accurate figures?
They didn't surprise anyone. Realistically, did anyone think that Ukraine could really stop a country with a population and economy of Russia?
To be fair, it's a proxy war between NATO and Russia, and a lot of people did think that NATO was stronger militarily and economically because they didn't understand the difference between financial and industrial economy.
true, liberal tankies really did think a few shipments of leopards would do it
They saw Soviet and Russian tanks being blown up or disabled by drones and atgms and thought their tanks would be immune 🤣🤣🤣
No, no, you see it's totally realistic to expect a highly industrialized country with vast domestic natural resources and a land border with a friendly manufacturing powerhouse and 20+ years of being forced into self-sufficiency by ridiculous NATO sanction temper-tantrums to wither in the face of the military might of a neighboring country with a land border and decades of being gutted by western vulture capitalists and which has had its military training informed by fascists high on their own propaganda supply. That's just common sense.
"if we kick in the door, the entire rotten structure will come crashing down!" —some Austrian like eighty-five years ago
did anyone think that Ukraine could really stop a country with a population and economy of Russia?
Libs apparently. After decades of getting brains washed with narratives about "Asiatic zerg hordes" suicidally rushing into machine guns killzones and "economy the size of Italy" vs what they know well is entire economic power of NATO.
Ukraine is backed by the worst empire in the world with the most expensive military-industrial complex on the planet, and it's also not like there haven't been recent cases of the weaker side winning a war. I don't think that either of the possibilities should have been dismissed as completely improbable.
Hometown of Williamsburg Va, college at William and Mary, and a Petagon reporter? The guy that wrote this has likely never spoken to a human being not directly affiliated with the US Military Industrial Complex.
I recall reading how the MIC is basically the main industry and source of employment in a lot of states.
While it would make military sense for a state like West Virginia or Arizona (next to very expensive but vital states, lots of space, far enough from coastal attack) to be the main base for any of these companies, the logistics planning of these companies are meticulously stretched out so that essentially every congressperson is at risk of losing votes if they vote for any sort of cuts to the MIC.
This is part of why things are so expensive. Northrop Grumman engineers on Long Island have to travel to Fairfax VA for meetings, and then go to Palmdale CA to see what they are building in person.
I imagine the main reason things are expensive is that producing cheap weapons isn't a goal. The primary motivator is to divert as much tax money as possible into the hands of people who own the war industry. This results in making expensive weapons that require a lot of maintenance, because that's how you maximize profits.
Yes in every county of every state there’s someone getting money from that MIC budget
The difference is that in some countries the MIC has become an industry where profit is the main goal because it's been privatized.
Sitting in the British Embassy, Radakin said it would probably take about a decade for Russia to seriously threaten NATO again. Despite Russia’s refreshed troop levels, its invasion of Ukraine will eventually collapse, though he would not guess at that timeline.
I also love how their conclusion basically contradicts the whole thesis of the article. They go on detailing how western analysts were basically wrong about everything, and how Russian production is ramping up. Then they throw in the cope that Russia can't keep this up forever, but they never discuss the key question of whether the west or Russia can keep it up longer.
"China collapsing any day now" warns man who has predicted its imminent collapse for 25 years
Isn't this like the one expectation any pop history and international politics dipshit would have?
The only historical event Americans know about is WW2, and even that they don't really know anything about.
"That Hitler guy threatened to bomb Israel so we stormed the beaches, marched to Berlin and Hitler killed himself because he was scared of the U S Marines and capitalism. I have a degree in World History from Prager University."
Giving vibes of that hitler diary entry where he goes "oh shit oh fuck the red regime is fighting back oh no"
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