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Interesting post on a pro-Russian telegram channel about the American 3 star general that was rumoured to have been captured:
Officers from the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Poland and Greece are now blocked in the dungeons of Azovstal. American Lieutenant General Roger Clothier, captured by the People's Militia of the DPR the other day from a downed helicopter, was tracked by the GRU of the General Staff and the SVR of Russia in Mariupol based on the results of external surveillance of his mistress in Turkey in Izmir.

A citizen of Ukraine, known to intelligence as Klute, always accompanied the general as a traveling wife, confidant and translator. As soon as it was reported that this lady had arrived in Mariupol, Russia launched a military operation and blocked the city.
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Apparently this was "debunked" because on his profile someones posted a picture of him at a conference in Izmir, Turkey.

A few comments under it are claiming the conference is from earlier in the year.

Western fact checkers are claiming that he hasn't been in Ukraine for a year, yet he is pictured on his profile with the land commander of the Ukrainian forces a month ago.

I'm not sure what to think....
 
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Holy sh*t. 125mm at point blank range. They'll definitely feel that in the morning.
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Bad identification ? The infantry didn't even buldge with the tank coming in ! Misidentification is probably occuring a lot in Ukraine, lot's of look alike equipments.
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Yep, they let their guard down. You don't expect an enemy tank to roll right up next to you...
 
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Atomicfrog said:
I would fill old T-72 with concrete (carroussel and gun compartment) and make them roll in front of convoy to get the first couple of ATGM salvo. At this rate, if they go blind, way better to use a hard target to find ennemies. I'm sure that these rugged soviet era machinery are easy to start and roll for day use. They are not upgraded a lot.
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Due to unmanned vehicle advancement, are we going to finally see unmanned main battle tanks in the near future? They will be great in urban combat to soak up ATGMs
 
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Abominable said:
Interesting post on a pro-Russian telegram channel about the American 3 star general that was rumoured to have been captured:

Apparently this was "debunked" because on his profile someones posted a picture of him at a conference in Izmir, Turkey.

A few comments under it are claiming the conference is from earlier in the year.

Western fact checkers are claiming that he hasn't been in Ukraine for a year, yet he is pictured on his profile with the land commander of the Ukrainian forces a month ago.

I'm not sure what to think....
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Not much to think of tbh. Not like it really “changes” anything if he is or isn’t captured.
 
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Bill Blazo said:
The fundamental source of America's hegemonic power is that China and the Soviet Union lost over 40 million people between them absorbing the blows of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, while the United States lost 400,000 and coasted to victory against its exhausted and distracted opponents. This is always America's strategy for containing any geostrategic rival in Eurasia: arm your allies and let them bleed to death fighting your wars, then reap the rewards at the end (see this war in Ukraine right now, or how the US is heavily arming Taiwan). While much of Eurasia was literally in ruins after World War II, America emerged as the last man standing and used its power over Western Europe and Japan to make the dollar the world's dominant currency. It then poured billions into the Marshall Plan not because it wanted to spread "value creation" or other such non-sense, but purely because it wanted Western Europe to serve as an effective military and economic bulwark against the Soviet Union, so that when the time did come to fight, it would be the Europeans doing most of the dying and hopefully holding the Soviets back at the same time. Why do you think the Soviet Union was left out of the Marshall Plan, despite intentionally misleading public propaganda from American officials that it could be included? It's because the Soviets were a threat and the Europeans weren't. By the end of the war, Western Europe had become America's puppet satellite over the Atlantic, and it remains so to this day.

American influence has declined substantially in the last decade. Even many Western Europeans don't see America as something to emulate or admire anymore. After 40 years of neoliberalism and corrupt leaders, even most regular Americans no longer believe in their system. And it's easy to see how the American imperium will eventually terminate: through internal divisions. No foreign conquest necessary.
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You greatly exaggerate the impact of their casualties on either Russia or China to compete with American hegemony. It is true that After suffering these casualties, neither were imposition to challenge the US. But position would’ve been even weaker without those casualties. The war that inflicted that casualty actually strengthen both in their relative positions in the world.
 
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Due to unmanned vehicle advancement, are we going to finally see unmanned main battle tanks in the near future? They will be great in urban combat to soak up ATGMs
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T-14 armata was designed to have an unmanned/remote version. Still it would be too costly to waste a top notch MBT to soak up ATGM. A old horse could be a good option . Unmanned T-64 or 72 with up armor, maybe with a remote AP turret .
 
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