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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Start with Henry VIII and work forward. Similar tactics were used against Scotland but very different results in Ireland (religious oppression and weaponized famine to clear population for noble estates). If he had simply enforced his rule and left out trying to annihilate/genocide Catholics he could have easily subjugated Ireland forever. But he chose scorched earth on them instead. Russia might want to pay attention to that. When you use state controlled religion to justify your power grab you leave the population no room to exist. They have nothing to lose by resisting forever. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RockNwood: Originally Posted By jungatheart: Originally Posted By Zhukov: It never ceases to amaze me how people can commit genocide on each other - throughout all of human history - for the slightest perceived differences. It always seems to happen between peoples who are very close to each other ethnically. What happens in Ireland confuses the shit out of me. Start with Henry VIII and work forward. Similar tactics were used against Scotland but very different results in Ireland (religious oppression and weaponized famine to clear population for noble estates). If he had simply enforced his rule and left out trying to annihilate/genocide Catholics he could have easily subjugated Ireland forever. But he chose scorched earth on them instead. Russia might want to pay attention to that. When you use state controlled religion to justify your power grab you leave the population no room to exist. They have nothing to lose by resisting forever. Henry did start the ball rolling, but the Troubles came to be a bit later, after Parliament sent Cromwell with an Army to crush the rebellion which Charles I had been trying to deal with when he blundered into the first Civil War. First, Cromwell lost his shit when storming Drogheda and butchered the garrison (and a portion of the civilians in town ) before he regained his self-control…..then after the war Parliament paid his men with land in what is now Northern Ireland, creating the conditions for the “Troubles”, it’s lasted long after both sides ceased observing the religions their ancestors fervently believed in when it started. |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7N7r6RWwAAHB4-?format=jpg&name=large View Quote I dunno if that's going to help against a DPICM ATACMS warhead. |
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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia's historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESCLATION???!!
View Quote Just after the Ukraine War kicked off, Kosovo asked for a permanent NATO base be established and their NATO membership be sped up. The issue with the latter is four NATO members don't recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia. |
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Originally Posted By Tiberius: Henry did start the ball rolling, but the Troubles came to be a bit later, after Parliament sent Cromwell with an Army to crush the rebellion which Charles I had been trying to deal with when he blundered into the first Civil War. First, Cromwell lost his shit when storming Drogheda and butchered the garrison (and a portion of the civilians in town ) before he regained his self-control…..then after the war Parliament paid his men with land in what is now Northern Ireland, creating the conditions for the “Troubles”, it’s lasted long after both sides ceased observing the religions their ancestors fervently believed in when it started. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Tiberius: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Originally Posted By jungatheart: Originally Posted By Zhukov: It never ceases to amaze me how people can commit genocide on each other - throughout all of human history - for the slightest perceived differences. It always seems to happen between peoples who are very close to each other ethnically. What happens in Ireland confuses the shit out of me. Start with Henry VIII and work forward. Similar tactics were used against Scotland but very different results in Ireland (religious oppression and weaponized famine to clear population for noble estates). If he had simply enforced his rule and left out trying to annihilate/genocide Catholics he could have easily subjugated Ireland forever. But he chose scorched earth on them instead. Russia might want to pay attention to that. When you use state controlled religion to justify your power grab you leave the population no room to exist. They have nothing to lose by resisting forever. Henry did start the ball rolling, but the Troubles came to be a bit later, after Parliament sent Cromwell with an Army to crush the rebellion which Charles I had been trying to deal with when he blundered into the first Civil War. First, Cromwell lost his shit when storming Drogheda and butchered the garrison (and a portion of the civilians in town ) before he regained his self-control…..then after the war Parliament paid his men with land in what is now Northern Ireland, creating the conditions for the “Troubles”, it’s lasted long after both sides ceased observing the religions their ancestors fervently believed in when it started. Answers like these are why I love this site. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: I agree with this. China was basically sneaking up on the sleeping US giant with a huge club waiting to pounce when Russia began to bark... I doubt we are all in the clear but it's possible Russia "saved" US by jumping too soon and missing the mark so badly. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By kncook: I don’t think so at all. I think China is pissed at Russia and if they don’t do what they want in the next year or two it’s over for their ambitions. We aren’t “gutting” ourselves of anything g that would be needed vs China. What we are doing is prodding awake our sleepy defense industry awake to ramp up weapon production. Have you seen weapon sales for this? We are also now forced to face the supply chain issues with china before they ever made their big move on Taiwan. This has energized the US defense industry. The 1980s HARM missiles, Cluster munitions that were set to be decommissioned, block 28/32 F16s, and all the old M113s, old gear etc that has been given away is getting replaced by new shiny stuff. New LRASM Missile production is now pumped to go through the roof because of what we are seeing and learning. F35 production through the roof, evaluating accusation channels with China/Russia in mind more closely, etc. All this stuff is NOT what china wanted. I agree with this. China was basically sneaking up on the sleeping US giant with a huge club waiting to pounce when Russia began to bark... I doubt we are all in the clear but it's possible Russia "saved" US by jumping too soon and missing the mark so badly. Xi Jinping wanted to be the guy who finished off the Nationalists and made China a Superpower….his greed and hubris led him to make his move about 10-20 years too early. Or he and the CCP realize from their own data they didn’t have 10-20 years to make their move and decided to play the hand they had and hope for the best… kind of like Hirohito and his fellow travelers in 1940-41. Could be either. |
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Royal Princess of Wales Regiment - the reserve force for NATO's Kosovo* Force (KFOR) - to NATO so that it can provide support if necessary." - Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom. View Quote |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote How quaint….Vucic thinks he can emulate Azerbaijan. Problem is, Aliyev’s claims are recognized under International law, and he’s useful to the West. Vucic enjoys neither advantage. And we aren’t Russia, hoping to make a State out of Kosovo and prepared to let them twist in the wind to force them into our orbit deeper while unable to act anyway. He really needs to think twice about this. |
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In the Nizhny Novgorod region, an ex-prisoner from Wagner burned his sister alive The cause of the murder was a domestic dispute. The victim died on the spot, and her brother Oleg Grechko was taken to the hospital with multiple burns. Previously, 55-year-old Grechko was convicted several times. In March 2022, he was sentenced to 11 years in a special regime colony for the murder of his acquaintance, whom he stabbed at least 12 times and then strangled with a wire from a boiler. A year later, he received a pardon thanks to his service in the Wagner PMC. The last criminal case was brought against him this summer - for beatings and theft. |
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Serbs seem to have a lot in common with Russians.
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I stand with Ukraine. Fuck Putin! And fuck Russia!
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Never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - Adm James Stockdale
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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Granit? This is Sky Rambo. Hold fire! Hold fire! Damn you bastards, I’m gonna shove those abacus beads up your ass! You are shooting at me! Hold fire! No no no! Don’t “Fire!” Granit, damn you MF!!!!!!! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/494438/IMG_4018-2969829.jpg Pilot died in the plane.
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Originally Posted By Tiberius: Xi Jinping wanted to be the guy who finished off the Nationalists and made China a Superpower .his greed and hubris led him to make his move about 10-20 years too early. Or he and the CCP realize from their own data they didn't have 10-20 years to make their move and decided to play the hand they had and hope for the best kind of like Hirohito and his fellow travelers in 1940-41. Could be either. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia’s historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESC☢️LATION???!!
View Quote Jeeez not again!!! Apparently Serbia cannot let go of the historically Serb heartland territory that is now inside Kosovo. Like Russia, they do not agree that Kosovo exists. *The historic heartland of Hungary (Szekelyfold) is inside Romania. WWII fucked up a lot of borders... |
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Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Fixed one detail. It baffles me that Putin would rather be a client state of China than a partner with Europe. But that's where he is and the course he's charting. They think China's going to be better to them than Euro & US? Putin and his cadre have to go, then we can maybe start putting pieces back together with a new generation of Russian leaders. View Quote Europe and the US was eager to cozy up to Putin and Russia despite everything. All Putin had to do is be the good pimp and collect the money hand over fist. But he had to play the brutal asshole... |
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Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7N7r6RWwAAHB4-?format=jpg&name=large View Quote We should definitely stall on long range fires until Russia has plenty of time to entrench and reinforce bases and logistics against them. |
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Click To View Spoiler Intelligence Notes- Into the Meat Grinder, Attrition of Russian Special Forces in Ukraine https://defaakto.com/2023/09/29/intelligence-notes-into-the-meat-grinder-attrition-of-russian-special-forces-in-ukraine/De Faakto Intelligence Research Observatory Intelligence Notes- Into the Meat Grinder, Attrition of Russian Special Forces in Ukraine Methodology-OSINT research Research & Analysis-S.A. Cavanagh Research-Chuck Stevens Background & Analysis The number of elite Russian Special Forces (RSF) is classified information. Russian defense officials are adept at confusing the numbers with disinformation and it is therefore difficult to track the exact number of Russian special operators killed in the war in Ukraine (2022). The BBC has published the numbers of the GRU intelligence agency 3rd guard’s brigade killed in Ukraine. The GRU are Spetsnaz special operators. BBC Moscow researchers believe the attrition for this reconnaissance intelligence unit is 75%. Research from social media confirms that 56 soldiers of 3rd guard were killed early in the war. Family members of this RSF unit believe losses are higher, saying: “Do you expect they’ll tell us about them?” One soldier’s relative reports “The entire 3rd Spetsnaz Brigade was laid to waste, thrown into the meat grinder.” (BBC Moscow, 2022) The deaths of such soldiers are particularly problematic for the Russian Armed Forces because they are very costly to replace. Russian state media and pro-Moscow military bloggers avoid reporting on the GRU units’ involvement in Ukraine. The Pentagon intelligence assessments find the numbers are much greater and report that 95% of RSF Spetsnaz are casualties. Intelligence analysts attribute the decimation of RSF to Russian commanders over reliance on highly skilled commandos, deployed in place of regular infantry. Spetsnaz units are valuable clandestine troops used for battlefield reconnaissance, sabotage, counterinsurgency, and training of guerrilla troops. While RSF do conduct infantry operations, it is not their intended use. Pentagon analysis in 2022 found that Russian command decided to use RSF in conventional infantry battles to seize the momentum, as there was a lack of confidence in regular infantry and conscripts. (New York Times, 2023) Another challenge for Russian command is that RSF have been draining regular infantry of the brightest soldiers to compliment their own ranks leaving a void in depth and training at the regular infantry level. The risk of sending RSF into the meat grinder in places like, Mariupol, Bakhmut, Kherson and Lyman to seize the initiative came with a very high price. Each RSF operator takes up to four years to train and the specialized training is costly. Each Spetsnaz soldier is worth millions of dollars. What is worse, while there may be enough RSF to maintain a training cadre and a few units, there will be a lack of Spetsnaz to conduct Russian interest’s world wide. Another area Russia has suffered a drain in human resources, is the loss of pilots killed flying missions in Ukraine. While Russia’s air force remains fairly intact with fixed wing airframes at 96% survival, and with 90% of helicopters operational, there is a human resources toll to pay. Analysis by British Intelligence and Oryx OSINT, count Russian losses at 176 military pilots. When considering the cost of training combat aviators, and the loss of depth and experience of combat pilots, Russia is risking its own security by expending Spetsnaz RSF operators and combat aviators unnecessarily. Factor in Wagner, other Private Military Contractors and Military contract pilots with state sponsored aviation or RSF training, the human resources attrition for the Russian security apparatus is unsustainable. Image thought to be Russian Special Forces courtesy of Russian Ministry of Defense The Meat & Potatoes-Where did the numbers come From? British Defense Intelligence & Oryx OSINT According to assessments by British Defence Intelligence and open-source tracking website Oryx Russia has taken over 220,000 casualties, including 176 military pilots, and lost 162 air-defense systems Russia’s air force retains 96% of its 2,021 fixed-wing aircraft and 90% of its 899 helicopters, with losses of 86 planes and 90 helicopters (Business Insider, 2023) Captured Russian pilots plead 'we were following orders' as 9 jets shot down in 24 hours - Daily RecordPictures show another two airmen tied up and blind folded Image of a Russian Aerospace Forces Pilot shot down in Ukraine courtesy of Daily Record & US Sun Ukraine Shot Down One of Russia's Most Advanced Fighter Jets Image of Russian SU35 shot down in Ukraine courtesy of Popular Mechanics RAND Analyst & Engineer-Michael Bohnert According to RAND analyst and engineer Michael Bohnert, the loss of Russian airframes and pilots is difficult to assess To be clear, the exact composition of the VKS force (Russian Aerospace Forces) and the precise age and historical usage of all its airframes are not precisely known. Further, some VKS tactical aircraft aren’t operating in Ukraine; they are either harassing NATO aircraft or being used for training. These sorties are in addition to previously mentioned Ukraine-related sorties and are in excess of the usage calculated above. They are being conservatively excluded from the usage being applied to the total force. These factors likely mean that Bohnert’s estimate of 57 imputed losses is an undercount This results in total true losses closer to 187 VKS airframes. Extrapolating this, the VKS will continue to lose 30 to 60 airframes a year from combat, accident, and imputed losses (RAND, 2023) The BBC Russian Services & Moscow Times According to leaked documents, the 346th Spetsnaz unit “lost nearly the entire brigade with only 125 personnel active out of 900 deployed” Another unit, the 25th Spetsnaz Regiment, apparently never made it back to Russia from Ukraine, possibly due to extreme casualty rate and equipment losses US analysts have attributed the catastrophic personnel losses to Russian commanders’ over-reliance on these highly skilled commando units in front-line infantry formations at the start of the war An elite, highly secretive Russian military intelligence unit may have lost up to three-quarters of its reconnaissance manpower in Ukraine, according to research published by the BBC’s Russian service Tuesday The deaths of such soldiers are particularly problematic for the Russian Armed Forces because they are very costly to replace Russian state media and pro-Moscow military bloggers avoid reporting on the GRU units’ involvement in Ukraine (BBC, 2022) (Moscow Times, 2022) (Business Insider, 2023) Satellite Images US Government Intelligence -22nd Spetsnaz Brigade Motor Pool courtesy of Air National Guardsman Jack Texeira Washington Post-On Leaked Pentagon Documents Considering that it takes about four years to train a single member of Spetsnaz, US officials suggested that it will take Moscow up to a decade to replenish the critically depleted special forces units, as The Washington Post first reported, citing the leaked documents The cache of classified materials that first showed up on the gaming platform Discord — allegedly leaked by Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira — included before-and-after satellite images showing the 22nd Separate Spetsnaz Brigade’s motor pool The image taken in November 2022 — months after the brigade’s return from its deployment to Ukraine — shows the same site but with fewer than half of the Tigr tactical vehicles the unit had a year prior Losing a large number of well-trained commandos in the first months of the war allegedly hampered the Russian forces’ ability to use clandestine tactics behind enemy lines US experts have concluded that, gutted Spetsnaz units will be less effective not only in Ukraine, but in others parts of the world as well Image thought to be Russian Special Forces Ukraine 2022 RUSI-Royal United Services Institute-a defense and security think tank Ironically, the Russian military’s approach to Special Forces in recent years compounded the problem in Ukraine Efforts to increase size of those Spetsnaz units drew in the cream of the volunteer contract soldiers who have begun to replace the often-reluctant conscripts who made up most of the Soviet army “The expansion of Spetsnaz units had contributed to a shortage of competent contract infantry for the wider Russian military — as most competent infantry had been pushed toward Spetsnaz and airborne units” When the airborne assault on Kyiv failed and the tank columns stalled, the Special Forces were left adrift. “When the occupation of much of the target territory failed, these troops were neither in position to fulfill their traditional role nor able to fulfill the role specified in the invasion plan,” the RUSI researchers wrote Special Forces by their nature are supposed to be adaptable, so perhaps they could have used their unique capabilities for other missions in Ukraine. But within the first days of the war, the tactical clumsiness and rigidity of Russian line infantry became evident. The Kremlin’s solution was to use elite units — paratroopers, naval infantry, and Special Forces — as assault troops. “Once the Russian military found itself in heavy fighting, however, the shortage of infantry became a serious problem,” the report said. Russian commanders then sent Spetsnaz units in to operate as light Infantry, which increased their casualties and left fewer Spetsnaz units available for their designated missions (RUSI VIA Business Insider, 2023) Image Thought to be 364th Independent Spetsnaz Brigade GRU Ukraine 2014 courtesy of InformNapalm Images of some of the verified Russian Special Forces Confirmed KIA Verified by BBC Researchers Soldiers of the 331st Regiment The BBC has so far verified the deaths of 39 soldiers from the 331st regiment: Klim Abramov, Cpl Artem Arbuzov, Oleg Bedoshvili, Capt (Co Cdr) Yurii Borisov, Snr Lt Ilya Chernyshev, Cpl Yuri Degtaryov, Konstantin Dobrynin, Sasha Dolkin, Sgt Sergei Duganov, Kiril Fedoseyev, Andrey Kovalevsky, Maj Sergei Krylov, Stanislav Kutelev, Cpl Yanosh Leonov, Sgt Alexander Limonov, Snr WO Sergei Lobachyo, Cpl Ivan Mamzurin, Cpl Ilya Martynenko, Lt Lev Ovchinnikov, Maksim Ovchinnikov, Cpl Leonid Panteleyev, Maj Oleg Patskalyev, Sgt Stanislav Petrutik, Sgt Roman Pomelov, Snr WO Pavel Rudenko, Snr Lt Alexander Shalygin, Sgt Nikolai Smirnov, Col Sergei Sukharev, Maxim Svetlenko, Snr Lt Nikolai Symov, Daniil Titov, Maxim Trokai, Ivan Turyev, Sgt Maxim Vorotyntsev, Capt Alexei Vyshegorodtsev, Alexei Yelimov, Cpl Artem Yergin, Sgt Ravshan Zhakbaev, Cpl Danila Zudkov Colonel Sergei Sukharev Col Sergei Sukharev, commander of the Kostroma 331st regiment, was also confirmed killed by the BBC Resources Russia’s air force ‘remains largely intact,’ but more jets won’t fix all its problems in Ukraine, NATO commanders say-Business Insider-Christopher Woody (2023) https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-air-force-largely-intact-has-operational-problems-in-ukraine-2023-7 The Uncounted Losses to Russia’s Air Force-RAND Corporation-Michael Bohnert (2023) https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/08/the-uncounted-losses-to-russias-air-force.html#:~:text=The%20Russian%20Aerospace%20Forces%2C%20or,%2C%20fighter%20aircraft%2C%20and%20crashes Russia’s brash invasion plan for Ukraine wasted special-operations units on missions they weren’t meant to do-Business Insider-Michael Peck (2023) https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-military-wasted-special-operations-units-in-ukraine-invasion-2023-5 Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray-Reuters-TOM BALMFORTH and FILIPP LEBEDEV (2023) https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-intercepts/ Russia’s commando units gutted by Ukraine war, U.S. leak shows-Washington Post-Alex Horton (2023) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/leaked-documents-russian-spetsnaz/ The heavy losses of an elite Russian regiment in Ukraine-BBC-Mark Urban (2022) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60946340 |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Jeeez not again!!! Apparently Serbia cannot let go of the historically Serb heartland territory that is now inside Kosovo. Like Russia, they do not agree that Kosovo exists. *The historic heartland of Hungary (Szekelyfold) is inside Romania. WWII fucked up a lot of borders... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia’s historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESC☢️LATION???!!
Jeeez not again!!! Apparently Serbia cannot let go of the historically Serb heartland territory that is now inside Kosovo. Like Russia, they do not agree that Kosovo exists. *The historic heartland of Hungary (Szekelyfold) is inside Romania. WWII fucked up a lot of borders... Looks like an opportunity to demonstrate just what it looks like when the west wants to destroy something. After all, lots of defense contractors haven't had a chance to show off new/classified toys yet, and they will sell better with cool video montages. |
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Originally Posted By Tiberius: Henry did start the ball rolling, but the Troubles came to be a bit later, after Parliament sent Cromwell with an Army to crush the rebellion which Charles I had been trying to deal with when he blundered into the first Civil War. First, Cromwell lost his shit when storming Drogheda and butchered the garrison (and a portion of the civilians in town ) before he regained his self-control…..then after the war Parliament paid his men with land in what is now Northern Ireland, creating the conditions for the “Troubles”, it’s lasted long after both sides ceased observing the religions their ancestors fervently believed in when it started. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Tiberius: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Originally Posted By jungatheart: Originally Posted By Zhukov: It never ceases to amaze me how people can commit genocide on each other - throughout all of human history - for the slightest perceived differences. It always seems to happen between peoples who are very close to each other ethnically. What happens in Ireland confuses the shit out of me. Start with Henry VIII and work forward. Similar tactics were used against Scotland but very different results in Ireland (religious oppression and weaponized famine to clear population for noble estates). If he had simply enforced his rule and left out trying to annihilate/genocide Catholics he could have easily subjugated Ireland forever. But he chose scorched earth on them instead. Russia might want to pay attention to that. When you use state controlled religion to justify your power grab you leave the population no room to exist. They have nothing to lose by resisting forever. Henry did start the ball rolling, but the Troubles came to be a bit later, after Parliament sent Cromwell with an Army to crush the rebellion which Charles I had been trying to deal with when he blundered into the first Civil War. First, Cromwell lost his shit when storming Drogheda and butchered the garrison (and a portion of the civilians in town ) before he regained his self-control…..then after the war Parliament paid his men with land in what is now Northern Ireland, creating the conditions for the “Troubles”, it’s lasted long after both sides ceased observing the religions their ancestors fervently believed in when it started. Very true. My underlying point is that by using state controlled religion as a pretext for secular conquering and dominance it made the conflict radioactive for centuries until it finally devolved into organized crime and foreign influences. Which may have seemed a handy thing to do by the kings and queens at the time but it ultimately outlasted them and poisoned relations for centuries. Something Russia may want to heed as they are likely to be not the dominant player eventually. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: Just after the Ukraine War kicked off, Kosovo asked for a permanent NATO base be established and their NATO membership be sped up. The issue with the latter is four NATO members don't recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia's historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESCLATION???!!
Just after the Ukraine War kicked off, Kosovo asked for a permanent NATO base be established and their NATO membership be sped up. The issue with the latter is four NATO members don't recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Thank you for the background. But still not NATO and still very likely to ESCAL☢️TE as much or more (boots on the gr☢️und) as sending arms to Ukraine. The hypocrisy of openly risking escalation with China, and Russia via NATO air and ground personnel against Serbia while fretting over every missile in Ukraine is beyond ludicrous. Shameful lies. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: something is changing View Quote So Ukraine gets one time $500 million and Russia gets the spigots opened for ongoing billions? Master strategists at work for sure. |
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Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: It breaks my ruthless heart when Ukraine can only afford one HIMARS for a target that's absolutely begging for a full salvo of six. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Absolutely. In so many videos I am saying that is a great first hit. Now 50 yards to the right and pour it on boys. But the video ends. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Jeeez not again!!! Apparently Serbia cannot let go of the historically Serb heartland territory that is now inside Kosovo. Like Russia, they do not agree that Kosovo exists. *The historic heartland of Hungary (Szekelyfold) is inside Romania. WWII fucked up a lot of borders... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia’s historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESC☢️LATION???!!
Jeeez not again!!! Apparently Serbia cannot let go of the historically Serb heartland territory that is now inside Kosovo. Like Russia, they do not agree that Kosovo exists. *The historic heartland of Hungary (Szekelyfold) is inside Romania. WWII fucked up a lot of borders... The entire 20th century purposefully created conflict prone nations to keep them controllable throughout the globe almost. At this late point there is no unraveling the mess and best to accept the current borders and face current challenges. It must be extremely difficult but countries like Oklsnd are showing what can be achieved by making friends with neighbors and not dwelling on rightful grudges. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: Time for a fire mission to contact your reps in the house in support of Ukraine bill passed the house w/ 117 GOP reps voting against it. View Quote My rep sent me a canned email stating he supported the people of Ukraine but we had problems here at home. I will not be voting for him next time. |
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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Thank you for the background. But still not NATO and still very likely to ESCAL TE as much or more (boots on the gr und) as sending arms to Ukraine. The hypocrisy of openly risking escalation with China, and Russia via NATO air and ground personnel against Serbia while fretting over every missile in Ukraine is beyond ludicrous. Shameful lies. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RockNwood: Originally Posted By Dracster: Originally Posted By RockNwood: Things might be heating up in Kosovo. Not sure how this might impact Russia, Serbia's historical guardian. But Serbia, Kosova and Bosnia are the only non-NATO members in that region. The conflict will be within a pocket of several NATO countries including pseudo-NATO Hungary. I imagine there is a Russian pipeline through that area as well. NATO increase in deploying to northern Kosovo???! What about ESCLATION???!!
Just after the Ukraine War kicked off, Kosovo asked for a permanent NATO base be established and their NATO membership be sped up. The issue with the latter is four NATO members don't recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Thank you for the background. But still not NATO and still very likely to ESCAL TE as much or more (boots on the gr und) as sending arms to Ukraine. The hypocrisy of openly risking escalation with China, and Russia via NATO air and ground personnel against Serbia while fretting over every missile in Ukraine is beyond ludicrous. Shameful lies. The big difference is the 6000-strong UN KFOR peacekeepers in Kosovo. Its a bit stupid that the ethnic Serbs boycotted the elections so no Serbs got elected and now they're protesting that no Serbs got elected. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: Its a bit stupid that the ethnic Serbs boycotted the elections so no Serbs got elected and now they're protesting that no Serbs got elected. View Quote Many Ukrainians stepped on the same shovel in 2014. The timing was particularly unfortunate since the election winner got to decide the renewal of the Sevastopol naval base lease. |
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Originally Posted By Easterner: Yeah everyone was surprised to see me come in with the package. It is the simplest things like the snacks that bring enjoyment here. The food here is 90% potatoes, pasta, hot tea, bread, kasha, and salad. That is what we eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It gets old. View Quote Noted : |
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connoisseur of fine Soviet armored vehicles
Let's go Brandon President of the Volodymyr Zelenskyy fan club |
Originally Posted By fadedsun: My rep sent me a canned email stating he supported the people of Ukraine but we had problems here at home. I will not be voting for him next time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By fadedsun: Originally Posted By HIPPO: Time for a fire mission to contact your reps in the house in support of Ukraine bill passed the house w/ 117 GOP reps voting against it. My rep sent me a canned email stating he supported the people of Ukraine but we had problems here at home. I will not be voting for him next time. Dear Mr John Q Public, How do you expect the venerable Congress of the United States of America to work on domestic and foreign policy concerns at the same time?! We are in session 15 days a year which I might emphasize severely disrupt our globetrotting to critical tropical islands and European shopping districts. How then kind sir do you propose such an august and deliberate body abandon the domestic concerns of the Please do continue to keep us informed of your Sincerely, Your public servant Worshipful Master and Lord to be Obeyed, Senator Greedey Bass Terd IV |
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Deplorable fan of liberty
“I don’t need a ride, I need more ammunition.” |
Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: It breaks my ruthless heart when Ukraine can only afford one HIMARS for a target that's absolutely begging for a full salvo of six. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
No doubt! Wonder why only one rocket? Arleast 3 damn |
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Apparently after many evidences about how Iran are producing its drones on the Syrian soil and shipping them through the Syrian harbor in Latakia towards Russia to be used against Ukraine. there is talk about a large military operation against these factories in Syria, Iran, and Russia. might heat up this fall.. https://damascusv.com/archives/54107 |
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Originally Posted By fadedsun: My rep sent me a canned email stating he supported the people of Ukraine but we had problems here at home. I will not be voting for him next time. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: Apparently after many evidences about how Iran are producing its drones on the Syrian soil and shipping them through the Syrian harbor in Latakia towards Russia to be used against Ukraine. there is talk about a large military operation against these factories in Syria, Iran, and Russia. might heat up this fall.. https://damascusv.com/archives/54107 View Quote Where are the jewish space lasers when we need them most? |
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„From a place you will not see, comes a sound you will not hear.“
Thanks for the membership @ toaster |
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Originally Posted By RockNwood:
View Quote The national debt exploding and the deficit. C'mon, Republicans, try harder. And I know that Ukraine is a tea cup against a swimming pool in the debt picture. |
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Originally Posted By Cypher15: Whats super interesting is that China is making some of the same mistakes for the same reasons. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Cypher15: Originally Posted By Tiberius: Xi Jinping wanted to be the guy who finished off the Nationalists and made China a Superpower .his greed and hubris led him to make his move about 10-20 years too early. Or he and the CCP realize from their own data they didn't have 10-20 years to make their move and decided to play the hand they had and hope for the best kind of like Hirohito and his fellow travelers in 1940-41. Could be either. Gee, maybe we should embargo oil exports to China. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Europe and the US was eager to cozy up to Putin and Russia despite everything. All Putin had to do is be the good pimp and collect the money hand over fist. But he had to play the brutal asshole... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Fixed one detail. It baffles me that Putin would rather be a client state of China than a partner with Europe. But that's where he is and the course he's charting. They think China's going to be better to them than Euro & US? Putin and his cadre have to go, then we can maybe start putting pieces back together with a new generation of Russian leaders. Europe and the US was eager to cozy up to Putin and Russia despite everything. All Putin had to do is be the good pimp and collect the money hand over fist. But he had to play the brutal asshole... And that is the part I never could understand. Why not just sit back and become even more wealthy?. Just collect the damn money. Heck if you start to feel generous, and want the love of your people, why not even develop the "outback" part of your country, and put in some paved roads, some natural gas delivery to homes and upgrade the electric and internet. You know, the easy stuff that money will buy. What's not to like? I just don't see any downsides to this plan, You already have more natural resources than you could ever want, more land than you know what to do with, and money rolling in every day. |
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Originally Posted By RockNwood: Absolutely. In so many videos I am saying that is a great first hit. Now 50 yards to the right and pour it on boys. But the video ends. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By RockNwood: Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Absolutely. In so many videos I am saying that is a great first hit. Now 50 yards to the right and pour it on boys. But the video ends. Agreed. That video was showing a miss. The largest troop concentration was unaffected, the next group was slightly affected, and they wrecked one van. That strike was a Ukrainian fail, unless there's more to the picture we didn't see. |
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There's probably five guys in Serbia poking and prodding for Putin. If we had a functioning clandestine service, those guys would all be dead before the sun went down.
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That shit got turned into a pile of slag and scrap. ~3 min video in tweet.
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote There's something to be said for taking the Israeli approach to this. You send a drone into our territory, we send a dozen missiles back and destroy the launch point. Over. |
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Russia and China are bringing good to the world.
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@Fund_GARISSON
Here is the balaclava displayed in my classroom. My kids (fourth grade) begged me to let them be in the picture giving you guys a bunch of thumbs up! They are very pro Ukraine. But the county would have my head for posting their pictures on AR15.com. LOL Attached File ETA My kids thought it was the coolest thing in the world that this had come to their classroom all the way from the front lines in Ukraine. A few times a week someone raises their hand and asks about how things are going in Ukraine. Kids being kids, they hate bullies. They would give you all of our nuclear weapons if they could! Huge thanks! |
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When being irresponsible becomes painful again, we might be able to make some progress in this country.
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