Wow, another acident with russians? Maybe they should start a series of seminars on how not to have acidents... step 1: don't invade...
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Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
As far as those 100,000 North Korean are concerned, I don't think it's quite as simple as "Ok now go be a bullet sponge". I mean, first you have to get them from North Korea to eastern Ukraine and it's a 10,000+ km train ride from Pyongyang to Moscow.
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Reports in Russian media of black smoke clouds coming from a naval airbase at Hvardiiske near Simferopol. Will be interesting to see the satellite photos that emerge in the coming hours/days.
Lots of stuff getting lit up in Crimea, more and more I'm thinking Ukraine has ATACMS."Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostSF would be my guess. It's a lot easier than missiles given how lax Russian security is.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostIt ain't ATACMS nor any other American munitions, Too damned easy for the Russians to prove American made munitions hitting Russian soil.
"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."
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And I don't get how Crimea is Ukrainian territory. Mongolia has a better claim to Crimea than Keiv.
Then Russia seized Crimea when Ukraine was weak.
Russia has even less claim to Crimea than Ukraine does, because if you use the Soviet Union political framework for legitimacy (which I don't), the Ukraine SFSR held Crimea longer than the Russian SFSR.
in any case it's all down to bullets and not ballots now....and I fully hope that Ukraine kicks the crap out of Russia and takes Crimea, because that would be a very good lesson for other autocrats seeking territorial aggrandizement with military force.There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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The United States recognizes Crimea as Ukrainian territory.There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov
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Originally posted by astralis View Postthis is sort of like arguing that Quebec is part of France. Crimea became a part of Ukraine because the USSR disintegrated and Crimea didn't have the strength to be its own republic.
Then Russia seized Crimea when Ukraine was weak.
Russia has even less claim to Crimea than Ukraine does, because if you use the Soviet Union political framework for legitimacy (which I don't), the Ukraine SFSR held Crimea longer than the Russian SFSR.
Originally posted by astralis View Postin any case it's all down to bullets and not ballots now....and I fully hope that Ukraine kicks the crap out of Russia and takes Crimea, because that would be a very good lesson for other autocrats seeking territorial aggrandizement with military force.
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