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[Pjay]

[Im-a-Ridah]

Despite the Russians sending "3 armies" of of troops etc I don't think its a big news topic because most informed sources say its about Russia puting pressure on during negotiations abnout nord stream 2 and in negotiations with Ukraine. The only reason for any military invasion of more of Ukraine would be to boost Putin in the september elections.

Also Russia is gradually becoming a spent force. They were militarily powerful after the fall of the SU but those tens of thousands of inherited tanks, IFVs, APC, fighters are going to be getting very rusty and Russia has bought relatively few replacements especially land and naval equipment. The SU fell 30 years ago. When those weapons cease to be viable anymore (coming soon, if not already) then Russia is only as powerful as its more modern post soviet force, very powerful for sure, but not the mass invasion threat it otherwise could be. Russians said they will replace all T72, T80 and T90 with the new T14 super tank, 2500 in service by 2020! Well its 2021 now and Russia has 20 of them so only approximately 13000 to go then

Finally Russia as a country is relatively poor with a GDP of $1.5 trillion, more than Spain, but less than Italy. And it still has to sustain a vast land area and maintain huge numbers of left over nukes which could otherwise be spent on actual weapons.

Current Russian main forces:
T90 tank - 570 (350 active)
T80 tank - 3,500 (500 active)
T72 tank - 7000 (2000 active)
------------ 11,000

BMP3 IFV - 560
BMP2 IFV - 4500 (3000 active)
BMP1 IFV - 7500 (500 active)
------------ 12,500


Without the oldest tier - probably current realistic levels:
T90 tank - 570 (350 active)
T80 tank - 3,500 (500 active)
------------ 4,000

BMP3 IFV - 560
BMP2 IFV - 4500 (3000 active)
------------ 5000

[Pjay]

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Much better sauce for keeping up to date is https://liveuamap.com/

[Easy-X]

[Tdibs]

Another interesting factor is after Russia's totally not soldiers annex Crimea, Ukraine built a damn cutting off Crimea's main water supply, they are hurting a lot from this now.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/1/4/dam-leaves-crimea-population-in-chronic-water-shortage

https://jamestown.org/program/unprecedented-drought-in-crimea-can-the-russian-occupied-peninsula-solve-its-water-problems-without-ukraine/
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[mentalboy]

[Pjay]

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US sitting pres has had no real impact on the conflict at all. Its the same game that has been going on for a long time, former states wanting to be free from the Russian sphere, toying with joining NATO as their only real option of that, Russian takes that as open aggression. For example Biden wanting to accelerate Ukraine's membership now, and we see a massive Rus buildup. Same thing happened in Georgia 2008.
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[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Yes, the cronyism within the tory party really needs an inquiry.
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Anyway, Russia's a relatively nice place to live. In Russia, you only go to prison if you upset Putin. In the UK, you go to prison for upsetting any little snowflake.
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[RhynoCZ]

Without starting a yet another thread, as this seems to be related.

A quick recap of what's going on in the Land of Beer these days.

1) 2014, local arms dealer had some stuff stored in an local ammunition storage owned by the state, two explosions occured. Two people dead on site, material damage, clean up that costed the Czech tax payers a lot of money, etc. We're talking 50 tons of ammuniton, 13 tons of explosives and many firearms originally stored there.

2) 2020, the investigation of the events is done.

3) April 2021, the Czech gov. publicly declares they have a reasonable suspicion that Russian secret service officers were involved in the explosions.

4) ''Today'', 18 Russian diplomats expelled from the Czech republic and in return Russians expelled 20 Czech diplomats from Russia. Rosatom was also supposed to do some work on one of our nuclear power plants, well they are no more.

5) The connection? Apparently all those firearms and ammo/explosives above were already paid for and were meant to be delivered to the Ukrainian army and to Syria (the civil war).



EDIT: BBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xnUICPQaoU
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And the Bulgarian arms dealer later fell ill several times with "food poisoning"

I always think back to Leon: The Professional. Amateurs use a sniper rifle at range from the target. An enthusiast might shoot someone with a pistol but a professional gets in real close with a knife so there's absolutely no doubt the target is dispatched

Poison is unprofessional, cowardly and lazy. Yes, it is a tool that instils fear but if I was on the floor, having a stroke and pissing myself I'd prefer loyalty. Remember Stalin, Mr. P.
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