Ukrainian War Developments
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The Russians have guided MLRS too. With 1m precision.
They did. But how hard do you think would be to hide a drone in the ground?
There are also rumors they are bringing them in from Poland. AFTER the war started.
If the operators are also in Poland maybe they'll get a present.
Okay, that's kool.
It's not a good thing when people start advocating for limitless brutality in order to quickly win a war.
Destroy the enemy's military, that's the operational objective in modern warfare.
Destroying civilians and purely civilian infrastructure is wrong on principle and not required (despite what the Americans did.)
What Russia sells is natural resources, commodities, the most liquid thing in the world. They can sell it in cash, in gold, barter and people will buy it. Cause they need it. Even ISIS was able to sell oil. Russia will sell through third parties who will pay in cash and in turn sell to entities through the banking system. They will just have to provide a discount in oil and gas prices and boom they will sell like hot cakes.
What we will likely see is some short term volatility. But long term Russia will adjust and become even resilient in the process. They still have one of the most self-sufficient industrial bases in the world.
The currency will lose some value which again will lead to higher exports through 3rd parties in a globalized world.
The thing they will lose the most will be arms sales, since that is hardest to do through third parties. But everything commodity based will continue with a discount for sure.
Ukrainian will fight for a long time under NATO encouragement unless it is deprived of the ability to fight, or it suffers such mass casualties that those not eager to die for ukraine will press for ceasefire because their internal anslysis pegs their own chances of dying at too great a level.
Leaving Kiev as well as most of the country unoccupied is a recipe for indefinite extension of the war by leaving ukraine with both the ability to fight and the room to have that capability sustained by nato, and make it tangible that many ukraians can press for defence of ukraine without being personally much endangered.
Not taking kiev quickly is a strategic setback for russia comparable in effect to hitler’s decision in mid to late summer 1941 to procrastinate till october before driving on Moscow.
it may not be immediately fatal to the entire war effort by itself, but it constricts later options so that odds facing later actions become steeper and a later failure would have much greater negative repercussions. So if the entire effort ultimately fails, one could chase the chain of failure back in time to this event.
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If it is funding issue, Should be obvious to all that China provides the best value for the buck.
Politicians in EU are easy to buy, see Sputnik vaccine veto and billions given to the USA companies.
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