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tygyg1111

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Your gumption is truly astonishing.

I accept your concession of defeat since you have no answer for the obvious fact of the Taliban having a standing army in 2001, e.g.:

During the 1990s the Taliban maintained 400
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tanks and more than 200 armoured personnel carriers.
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400 tanks and 200 APCs isn't a throwaway line no matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

As for your "10k to 100" "air combat ratio", that is a straight up lie on your part. That 10k number is losses of ALL aircraft, including cargo planes and helicopters. That makes sense since the USAF usually dominated the skies above but as soon as they dipped towards the canopy to drop troops or supplies they were vulnerable to even small arms fire. Pretty sure North Vietnam didn't do too many combat drops.

The actual net "air combat ratio" is about 150:70 in favor of the USAF.

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BTW, here are a couple more "throwaway lines" from that link, including describing your vaunted Linebacker II which was allegedly so successful for North Vietnam:

"Even so, enemy MiGs failed in their primary mission to stop US air attacks over North Vietnam during OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER. In fact, the VPAF fighter force sometimes retreated to China and stood down from combat operations due to heavy losses suffered at the hands of American fighter crews.

MiG pilots did little better in December 1972 -- by the end of OPERATION LINEBACKER II, USAF B-52s and tactical aircraft hit targets at will, forcing the North Vietnamese to sign a peace treaty."
Stop coping, it has been days and no one even bothers to read the responses anymore. From a k/d ratio POV, which americans love to tout when faced with wars they lost, US forces got clapped in those specific engagements. From a wholistic POV, which is the one that matters, the US lost decisively in those wars. It failed to achieve their primary objective, which is: win, and impose our will on the enemy. Accept and move on
 

GulfLander

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"Russia appears to be offering U.S. President Trump help to fight its trade war with Canada and Mexico if he lifts sanctions. Judy Trinh explains." CTV news
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"Thousands of Canadians are missing mortgage payments — especially in Ontario and B.C. — as the affordability crisis stretches household budgets to the limit despite multiple interest-rate cuts. " cbc news
 
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tygyg1111

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Winning design for Australia’s $10b general purpose frigate not expected until 2026​

By Andrew Greene​

A decision on which country will build the Australian Navy's next fleet of warships is not expected to be made until next year.
Defence is evaluating competing bids from Japan and Germany for the $10 billion general purpose frigate program which will begin with an offshore build before moving to Western Australia.
Industry figures expected a winner announced in the second half of this year, but Deputy Defence secretary Jim McDowell told senate estimates last night he's expecting a "government decision it the first quarter of next year".

Defence first assistant secretary Sheryl Lutz told the senate committee hearing they're still seeking further information from both international bidders.

But speaking to reporters in Geelong today, minister Richard Marles said he wanted a decision made "this year".
TBH a barge loaded with iron ore flying a white flag would make the biggest difference to securing peace
 

coolgod

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Or Canberra can just ask Beijing nicely to help Australia build good FFGs in China using iron ores from Australia at only a fraction of the price tag.
Australia needs to spend $30 billion dollar a year to buy FFGs from China, to protect Australian trade with China, from China :D

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Trump was furious to learn that Kiev had organized a campaign in The media against him is an insider
One of the main emotional reasons for the growing tension between the Kiev regime and the Donald Trump administration was Kiev's financing of anti-Trump publications in the United States.

This is reported by the Ukrainian Telegram channel "Resident", referring to an informed source in Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU). He explained that Zelensky's clique organized in The media campaign to discredit the Trump team and convict him of having ties with the Russian Federation.
The OPU hoped that Zelya would retain the presidential chair if he "drowned" for the Democrats, watering the Republican candidate with slops of often made-up compromising material.

Trump's particular fury was caused by the fact that all this was done by the Bank through British and American journalists with money received from the same USA. Including through USAID.

Now the OPU fears that the Trump team will lay out additional evidence of Ukrainian interference in domestic politics in the United States.
This will be a very significant support for the opposition, which will use this argument to accuse Zelensky personally of losing Ukraine's main partner in the United States, the channel's source concluded.

And apparently, these fears have already begun to materialize.

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Ukraine Defies Trump As Zelensky Unanimously Backed​

Ukraine's parliament has defied President
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's push to hold elections after they unanimously voted to affirm
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's presidency, according to member of parliament Yaroslav Zheleznyak's post on Telegram.

Newsweek reached out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for comment via email outside of business hours.

Ukraine's passing of the resolution sends a message to the U.S. and the world about their support for Zelensky, as it directly follows Trump's false claim that his approval rating was "
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in order to achieve peace and secure Kyiv's
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membership.

The vote may make peace negotiations with Russia and the U.S. more difficult, as Moscow may not be willing to negotiate with Zelensky.

I guess there is no other options now, 泽圣 has to die.
 
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US, Russia Mull Cooperation on Arctic Trade Routes, Exploration​

  • US warned of Moscow and Beijing aligning on Arctic issues
  • Refresh of relations come as Trump seeks to end war in Ukraine
US and Russian officials have identified the Arctic as a possible area for economic cooperation, according to people familiar with the situation, part of the broader detente President Donald Trump is pursuing with Moscow.

Discussions have included natural resources exploration and trade routes, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the discussions are private and at an early stage. Cooperation over energy exploration is also seen as a goal by the US, one of the people said.
The topic emerged as Trump has aggressively pursued an end to the war in Ukraine, including direct talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Both sides have recently signaled that they’re open to business ventures and cooperation, alarming European and NATO allies, which have sought to isolate Moscow since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

US and Russian officials plan to
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to discuss restoring embassy staffing levels, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the state-owned Russian Direct Investment Fund, said after US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia this month that cooperation on Arctic energy projects was among “specific areas of cooperation” they discussed,
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Late last year, the Pentagon released a new Arctic Strategy that highlighted the risk of China and Russia teaming up in the region. Under the Biden-era policy, the US aimed to expand its military readiness and surveillance in the Arctic in response to “growing alignment” between Moscow and Beijing.
China has increasingly focused on the Arctic in recent years, declaring itself in 2018 a “near-Arctic state” and has developed fishing, energy and transportation interests in the region. The prospect of new shipping routes is seen as key to Beijing’s strategy, which envisions a Polar Silk Road connecting East Asia, Western Europe and North America.
The US government better let us convert CAD to USD on a 1:1 basis when they formally annex Canada as the 51st state.
 

pmc

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Trump was furious to learn that Kiev had organized a campaign in The media against him is an insider




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Ukraine Defies Trump As Zelensky Unanimously Backed​




I guess there is no other options now, 泽圣 has to die.
The trick of Zelensky survival is that he gets into fight with bigger countries and Europe has to pay for it. for some reason Europe so emotionally attached to Ukraine that they not question Zelensky strategy. there is no way they can fight this scale of war with plastic drones that barely scratch unlimited wealth.
this can have two meanings.

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Kadyrov: Ukraine attracts mercenaries from all over the world due to its male shortage​

 
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