Er, I take it you're not familiar with him? I legit don't know if there's 2 people that use that account because of how often he'll contradict himself, seemingly oblivious to having done exactly the thing he's condemning.
You've done the same thing in this thread, haven't you? I seem to recall myself, and others, pointing it out to you on more than one occasion.
Your back and forth from 'take them out!' to 'look at the crazy people wishing for WW3' is an odd thing to behold. Maybe don't use "we," stick to speaking for yourself? I don't feel mad.
Those aren't ordinary Russian citizens at all, just an unsurprisingly small group of pissed off imperialists. Some didn't look too fired up at all. Repeated defeats make people angry, they see their country crumbling away in a humiliating fashion. Oh well.
Data released by the Russian Ministry of Finance on Friday showed that in the year to October, the government budget surplus stood at 128 billion rubles, or around $2.1 billion, down from a surplus of 2.3 trillion rubles in the same period last year. In October, revenues from a one-off energy tax helped prevent the budget from veering into a deficit for the year, which economists expect to happen by the end of 2022.
The darkening prospects come after the Russian economy showed signs of stabilizing over the summer. GDP is expected to shrink between 3% and 3.5% this year, according to recent forecasts by the country’s central bank, a shallower decline compared with forecasts earlier in the year after sanctions dealt a body blow to the economy.
Quarterly data, however, depicts a worsening trend. While the economy contracted by around 4.1% and 4% in the second and third quarters respectively, it is expected to shrink by 7.1% in the fourth quarter, according to a report by the central bank published this week. For the year as a whole, Russia is expected to record the deepest recession for any large economy.
As of Nov. 8, about 13% of Russian developers listed a new country this year and another 13% obscured their location, a rate that is about four times higher than for developers from comparable countries. The most active Russian developers on GitHub were also more likely to have changed their location, his research showed.
In February, ride-sharing startup inDrive, based in Mountain View, Calif., had about 1,200 employees in Moscow and the Siberian city of Yakutsk, where the company was founded.
“We’ll have zero by the end of the year,” said inDrive Chief Executive Arsen Tomsky.
The company had already relocated about 800 employees, mostly to Kazakhstan and Cyprus, before the mobilization. That sped up inDrive’s plans to move the remaining workers, Mr. Tomsky said. Those who don’t want to relocate will be laid off, he said.
At the current rate of equipment and manpower losses in a couple months Russia will cease to be a military threat to Europe. All those mainstream media click-bait fantasy's of the russian army suddenly appearing at europes borders without anyone noticing and crushing all opposition with their magic super solders and supertanks will no longer be legitimate.
Once this war is over what is there for NATO to do? A lot of big changes are coming.
That video is impressive, but it is not quite as impressive or crazy as it looks.
It kinda suggests they never were. It would have taken some time for them to amass a similar force near Poland or the Baltics, during which NATO could have moved in men, light equipment, and most importantly air power. We always figured NATO air power was superior, but this war suggests that they have no answer at all. Their AD would get suppressed and destroyed in pretty short order, and NATO would obliterate them from the air. Stuff like HIMARS and ATACMS would be ruining them from day one.
That video is impressive, but it is not quite as impressive or crazy as it looks.
Yes, the two Ukrainian soldiers demonstrated exceptional violence of action.
Watch the video closely, something is firing on the Russian position from the bottom right, putting the Russian position in a crossfire.
The white puffs of smoke behind the Russia position makes it look like the flanking unit is firing with an auto cannon with HE rounds. This suggests in addition to the BMP we see pushing the front of the Russian position, another IFV of some sort has flanked to the bottom right and is putting the heat in. Being an IFV, it likely also has an infantry squad with it.
So infantry squad + BMP attacks from the front, while IFV + infantry squad takes position with flanking fire at about 70 degrees to the defensive positions orientation.
The Russians were lucky to escape. If they did escape. They are in a very bad spot, the BMP + IFV could link up and push them along that light forest area.
You have advocated for the attack of Russian forces with NATO assets. That's WW3.
without the ability to punish all countries equally (including the USA) the UN is flawedAbsolutely. One of those seems like it would be easier to do than the other though. US and EU solidarity in G20 could count for something. One more thing Hungary can be kicked out of too right? Ha.
A new UN security council means a new UN, let's be honest here. China and Russia both would take issue with their power being diluted or removed. Would need a hell of a lot of agreements, short of Russia using nukes I don't see China signing on either. It's more likely China will continue to protect Russia diplomatically like they always do, resist any effort by the international community to address the terrorist state on the UNSC constantly undermining the UN charter.
That's the thing. You have no respect for the difference between a Genocidal invasion of Europe.... and defending from that invasion.
The risk was Russia starting a war in the first place. THAT is WW3, as you so dogmatically fear.
Russian forces in foreign countries were fair game for killing the moment they started it. In our fear, we prolong the war and let the Ukrainians pay the price. Ours is an immoral position of letting the Russians dictate how many Ukrainians they get to kill. A world in which we allow genocide under nuclear blackmail, is not one that I accept. My conscience is clear no matter the outcome if we defend.
Sorry you cannot see the difference between that, and "Let us kill all the Ukrainians, or we will turn the world to ash".
My position is VERY different from theirs.
without the ability to punish all countries equally (including the USA) the UN is flawed
Thank God Kherson was liberated without urban fighting. I was terrified that it would be reduced to rubble before the Russians gave it up.
Russia needs to be removed from the G20 and UN security council.
I wonder if they could disband the security council then remake it minus Russia. There would be plenty of smaller 3rd world countries who would continue clinging to them just for the support they receive from them.I don't believe there is any mechanism for removing a member of the Security Council. The only way to do it would be for everyone else to quit and then set up a New "Unified Nations" and not invite Russia.
Seems Ukraine has received the dozen 120mm M113 based mortar carriers from Lithuania. While not new or particularly fancy they are very effective combo firing a round that is in ample supply.