They don't need the Greens. SPD will suffice.
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yes. this is the plan and even now they talk bad about Europe. he came from Israel recently.
Yes if BSW doesn't get over 5%, it looks like they ended up with 4.97%. If the final vote remains the same then CDU/SPD is enough, otherwise CDU still needs SPD and Greens. Regardless CDU/SPD combo won't last long either.
He may or may not get replaced but it sure as shit wasn't part of any "Plan B". You again have the benefit of hindsight, where the war is not going Zelensky's way and where a resurgent Trump wants to bargain with Putin over Ukraine's ashes without Zelensky even in the picture. This is not something you or anyone else could have predicted as they formulated a Plan B after Plan A went to hell.
Who said they were losing? Russia sure as hell wasn't winning until recently though. These two are not mutually exclusive.
yes. when there is unlimited wealth old stuff can be disposed off and there is no evidence any thing of substance destroyed because Russian airforce was round the clock bombing them.
This unknown expert is what they revealing they can do the decapitation strike anytime.
I don't see why they wouldn't last. Merkel era Germany were basically CDU/SPD coalitions.
They need revolutions now in hopes of reverting the course, not pointless changes, old stuff won't suffice anymore, this is not the same world.
I think you need to re-evaluate Merkel's legacy. She bares great responsibility for present day Europe's woes. If she didn't open the flood gates for refugees, Europe would be totally different today. If she actually tried to enforce the Minsk agreements, then the tragic war in Ukraine might have never happened. Chinese people speak highly of her cause Germany then got along with China well, that's when Chinese people were Germany's biggest customer. In retrospect, other German leaders would have gotten along with China well cause they know which side of the bread is buttered.
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Why didn't he? Was he weak like Putin that he was losing and had to resort to nukes?
A single throwaway sentence doesn't prove much. Let me help you with a very simple ORBAT:
You can also look at Linebacker II which went even worse for the US which had an abysmal 6 to 27 kill ratio by their own numbers.
And why restrict it to air to air? If you go by total aircraft loss ratios, 10k vs. 100 isn't a good look no matter how you slice it.
How is it semantics? It's a huge difference - it is basically what Russia was doing in Donbass in 2014-2022, vs what Russia did in 2022 onwards. Any intellectualy honest person would understand that Russian actions in 2014-2022 are different than Russian actions post 2022.
PAVN wasn't fighting in North Vietnam on its own territory as an insurgency. It was fighting conventionally at the North-South border and projecting power into South Vietnam with gray zone warfare. This is very important because an insurgency relies on local support and logistics. South Vietnam was not the territory of North Vietnam - it was a sovereign state governed by the Republic of Vietnam.
The Taliban was fighting in its own territory as an insurgency. Completely incomparable situation.
You also said something else:
Yet it lost the Battle of Khe Sanh, a 40k on 40k conventional battle, with more casualties (2.5-3.5k KIA vs. 2.4k KIA) and losing Khe Sanh Combat Base. Losing more soldiers + losing territory + losing stated objectives is an unambiguous loss.
It wasn't because they didn't care about it either, they tried to retake Khe Sahn 5 years later in Operation Dewey Canyon II. The end result: total collapse of their offensive and the US-South Vietnamese forces losing in a 1:5 KIA ratio.
I must keep pointing this out to you since you keep trying to reduce Vietnam to a counterinsurgency war and even proclaimed here that it was the insurgency that wore the US down as you wrote here:
The North Vietnamese military did not 'go into hiding' and fight 'rare force on force engagements, which it overwhelmingly lost' if it shot down 10k planes while losing around 100 and fought multiple 10k+ on 10k+ conventional battles with 1:1 or better KIA ratios without losing territory.