A human, from a Finland.
What is important to me? Well, generally: doing the right thing. And then everything that follows from this: Sustainable living, including suistainable travel and eating, privacy, opposing fascism, opposing genocides.
And then languages and bicycles are other interesting things. I also am a parent of some further human beings.
I have lived in Finland, Germany, Ukraine, Spain and the Russia. And hitchhiked from Finland over China to India.
ATACMS is old technology from, when? 1970’s?
Would be surprising if 2020’s technology was not better than half a century old technology. especially if it’s designed by people who either were there to design Soviet Union’s missiles or were trained by people who were. Because Ukraine is where most of Soviet rocket technology was always developed. And the Soviet rocket technology sure had many clever solutions to it!
Probably not. At least they are known to cause allergic reactions in many ingesters.
Darf auch scheiße sein.
Solange ich dich vollständig verstehe, und du mich, ist alles gut.
Aber gerne können wir uns auch auf Finnisch unterhalten!
The missile hit while Putin was having talks with Erdogan.
It was not an accident.
It would work for Russians. They are different. They assume everyone’s evil anyway, so that part does not affect them. They would just “choose the least evil” to live with – no question. This also applies to Putin. He cannot fathom why anyone would choose differently because he cannot fathom someone being not evil.
It would work for Russians. If the Russia was bombed that way, it would capitulate. That’s how most people in that nation are.
Putin seems to really think that Ukrainians and Russians are the same, so he really assumes this will have the effect it would have on his own people and him.
He has successfully ruled his country this way and cannot fathom why it “still” hasn’t brought the expected result.
Ja, ich habe irgendwann einige Jährchen in Deutschland gewohnt, Sprecharbeit machend. Außerdem habe ich in der Schule hier on Finnland gut zugehört :)
Das Wort “Lebensraum” wurde in 1930-er Jahren in einer Bedeutung verwendet, die es weltweit bekannt gemacht hat. Dieses Wort soll man schon kennen, egal ob man sonst Deutsch kann oder nicht.
Sorry, I do not understand what you are referring to. “Yes” to what?
Afghan war was not deeply unpopular during its first 2 or 3 years. On its 10th year it was. Extremely. And now 75 times as many (in proportion) Russians are dying per decade as back then.
There’s no way the Russian populace will put up with that if they need to move to conscription.
The Afghan war was too much for them. This is is as big as 75 Afghan wars at once.
The Russia will probably not fall, but they will 100% surely lose their ability to fight a large-scale war such as this.
Yes.
And the amount of dead in the war the Russia is waging now is dramatically underreported inside the Russia. The same thing :)
But yeah, the amount of real deaths (that we know nowadays, not what USSR told back then) in Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan was 25 000 Soviets plus 60 000 Afghans on the side of USSR.
About 15 times as many Russians have died in this war in 4 years as that one back then in 10 years. And the Russia is half the size now compared to USSR back then.
Absolutely, and Russians will be okay with them again.
But, they won’t enlist as professional soldiers without a very substantial compensation. Once that becomes economically impossible and they need to fall back to ration cards, they can only get soldiers through conscription. And 70 000 conscripts at the relatively safe front in Afghanistan brought down Soviet Union. The 50% smaller Russia cannot survive 700 000 conscripts at a deadly front.
I know Russians would choose that way.
They choose to live separate from reality.
But once you have no food on the table, you die. When you have no food in the table, it’s irrelevant what you choose. The physical reality will start dictating the course of action.
Russians can want all the want. But in the end they’ll have to bend to laws of physics.
It doesn’t matter if anyone cares or not.
When all commercial banks go bankrupt, there won’t be much anything to call an economy left in the Russia.
Of course they can just print a _lot_ of money to bail out the banks, but then that has the consequences of printing a lot of money.
They can non-care as much as they want, but their economy will die anyway. And then they won’t be able to pay their soldiers anymore. At which point it is bye-bye for the Russian occupation.
Yes. And how will they survive that? How does a bank survive handing out billions and billions that it will never see again?
What will the banks giving the preferential loans do on the long term?
It’s a doctrine dictated by machine accuracy.
There was a lot of text about the accuracy of Soviet-style artillery back in 2022 when Ukraine migrated to the western 155 mm ammunition and, at the same time, to western-made artillery.
Russian artillery is magnificently imprecise. In order to hit a specific target using Soviet-style artillery, you need about 10 times as many rounds as with western artillery.
When the goal is to obliterate a town, that doesn’t matter. But when you’re trying to hit a single tank, it does.
They’re saying “yebat’!”, which literally means “to fuck” and practically something along the lines of “fucking hell!”
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The service station change Teboil, in Finland, belongs 100 % to Russian Lukoil, because all German-owned property in Finland became Soviet property when the peace agreement between Finland and Soviet Union was made in year 1944.
So, there is precedent indeed, and Moscow is known to be okay with the concept.