Ukrainian War Developments

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Chilled_k6

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No, it is definitively a Russian T-72B3M. Since it is intact I assume it broke down.

I think this is legit the first Russian vehicle casualty not on the roads that I have seen, and it looks like a mechanical failure.

IMO at the cost of temporarily slowing down the advance, they should stay off the roads in contested areas and let the artillery do its job. Otherwise they just get picked off piecemeal in the open.
 

Broccoli

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So Putin really thought that this was a war between brotherly nations... Flagrant violation of Siege's rule no. 1 -- "Never drink your own Kool-aid".

One biggest problem with single party states and strongmen is that leader/leadership can easily end up being surrounded by "yes men" who agree on things they know are stupid. Russians are moving forward in Ukraine, slow but surely, yet Putin goes on talking about nuclear weapons. Shoigu was giving Putin "wtf going on here, mate" look when Putin mentioned nuclear weapons.
 

LawLeadsToPeace

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One biggest problem with single party states and strongmen is that leader/leadership can easily end up being surrounded by "yes men" who agree on things they know are stupid. Russians are moving forward in Ukraine, slow but surely, yet Putin goes on talking about nuclear weapons. Shoigu was giving Putin "wtf going on here, mate" look when Putin mentioned nuclear weapons.
China and the Trump administration are literal counterexamples to the single party suggestion: the former is extremely efficient and rectifies errors quickly while the latter, which was filled with yes-men, rose to power via a multi-party system. No system is immune to yes-men.
 

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So Putin really thought that this was a war between brotherly nations... Flagrant violation of Siege's rule no. 1 -- "Never drink your own Kool-aid".
He should have learnt from the Soviet Union. Whenever one ethnic group would rebel, he would send in that groups enemy to quell them. Azeris against Armenians, Czech against Hungarians and so on. That way soldiers are motivated to actually fight.

Some of the videos being posted make this whole conflict look like a joke. Civilians and soldiers joking with each other...WTF. You're supposed to be at war.

The only fighting that seems to be taking place is in the eastern front where all the neo-nazis are stationed. Time to send in the Chechens and get this over with.
 
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