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The Myth of the Russian Superpower
  • A strong sentiment following this conflict centers around Russia being so shit at war they can’t even beat Ukraine.

    On point for a non credible defense message space.

    Ukraine is fighting a literal world war alone and taking the kind of losses in a year most NATO countries wouldn’t accept in a decade.

    The humanity of the situation is that Ukraine is being told to fight by countries that don’t really care at all for their losses. When they persist to exist where others fell it’s credited to Russian incompetence as opposed to fighting skill and leadership.

    The history is that Ukraine was a buffer between Russia and Europe. Civilian infrastructure was over built to withstand a NATO invasion until Russia could counter attack. That’s why Asov steel works held out as a notable example. The extremely resistant electrical grid is another.

    The reality is that when Ukraine no longer wanted to be a buffer between Europe and Russia decided what Ukraine would be. the west sided with Russia over Crimea. Then the Donbos ‘independent’ regions.

    A decade long genocide has been executed in steps against Ukraine.

    In that time the collective of NATO can’t even produce enough artillery shells to put Ukraine at a 2:1 disadvantage.

    No opinions here matter. None have any value beyond glib entertainment.

    There was a 5 minute video posted here about if a guided munition was an anime girlfriend.

    A shit comment about Ukraine fighting better than NATO would isn’t out of line here.

  • The Myth of the Russian Superpower
  • On paper it isn’t even close.

    NATO is not even willing to let someone else fight and win but magically when the casualties are theirs they’re totally gonna own the Russians?

    It’s the same kind of numerical thinking that lead most of the world to think Russia was going to win in the opening weeks of the attack on Kiev . More money and better weapons will equal a quick and decisive win.

    Russia has absorbed many hundreds of thousand of casualties. Ukraine has no choice but to fight .

    Reasonable chance that NATO has trouble sustaining support for the kind of troop losses needed for a war.

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  • It seems to me that people keep begging on Ukraine. How about Russia was all of that and a bag of chips but Ukraine was developed for decades of Soviet rule to be a troop sponge where wave after wave of nato troops die and die and die keeping Russia safe.

    Ukraine was made to be a rock on which superior armies dash themselves on until they break apart.

    After seeing how NATO advised the Ukrainian counter attack to go I’m certain Russia would be in Poland by now if NATO was on the ground.

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  • That cgi was something else. A lot of chi gets by on rapid fire cuts. Because this was about slowing time and showing effects for longer it really stood out. Better cgi wasn’t going to save the film .

    I could see this becoming a cult following if it wasn’t for millers off screen shitshow.

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  • I actually liked this film. It was not art but it was fun. Miller despite being an alleged groomer:kidnapper managed to act really well against himself for the movie. It felt like 3 different characters acting against each other.

    Very very flimsy and cheesy plot that was similar to the majority of comics I read as a kid. The kind that made the .25 bin

  • Haven't the faintest, sovcit.
  • They want the legal system to work for them like it does for the rich. They think they are invoking the same kind of arcane stuff the best lawyers do.

    It does seems kind of like magic when you see the rich get out of trouble.

  • what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you?
  • Your life, physical and then professional were both threatened. The things you mentioned aren't little oopsies. These are well beyond normal. You describe being assaulted and abused. Those aren't suck it up and learn situations. That isn't a regular kind of problem. You should seek trauma counseling.

  • Has google stopped working for finding anything?
  • no and it's ALL googles fault. It's not a walled garden problem, It's a google problem. I'm searching for specific items to buy and look for small shops with online presences. Google will NOT give me results for shops that don't advertise with them. I can even type the name of the shop into the search. Sometimes Bing, sometimes duck duck go will give the results.

    I can have the site open in one window and use another to type the description of an item I am looking at AND the name of the site I am searching on google and it's like 'Nope' never heard of them. i have to type the url in to the search bar then it will return a link.

    Now sponsored links pop up a plenty.

    We are the product being sold to advertisers. Search is working as intended.

  • Judge severs Trump's Georgia election interference case, and 16 others, from trial starting in October

    A big win for Powell and Chesbro in others in this Rico case. Forcing the DA's case to tried twice.

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