I am afraid such a war unfortunately can’t change Trump’s regime.

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

Of course, agent Krasnov has to report home. He isn’t even hiding it anymore.

Unlike the Epstein files.

There is obviously no infrastructure, no buildings and no cellars to hide in. If you try to hold it drones will go Liam Neeson on you.

Also Ukrainians would have to cross Dnipro first.

Well, since we were not able to get our production up sufficiently in the 3 years(or the 8 before that) we have to pay now. The question is whether our governments have a plan how to replace these shipments with our production. Even if the war in Ukraine ends it might be soon needed in Caucasus, Moldova or elsewhere.

I’ll give you the Spanish Civil war, but the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia(Slovakia declared independence a day prior) was not a war as the authorities decided not to fight back.

The latest news is they got back through Estonia. Too bad, they should have been left to rot in Mordor. Or at least made to pay for detour through Turkey at the very least.

a) The Red Army hasn’t existed for almost 80 years now.

b) If you like ruskys so much let them intervene in your ass for all I care, but leave us out of that.

What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can’t do everything he wishes.

Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of “undesirables” before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can’t use conscripts in Ukraine.

It shouldn’t be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.

In ideal world EU should agree on a handful of red state exports on which we’d apply say 10%, let the US exporters explain their president why that’s wrong and only then enter the negotiations with the US and whatever then the outcome is GET IT IN THE WRITING with his signature.

Yes, he would then try to blame the “evil EU”, but having a written and signed agreement is the only way to prevent this monthly “it’s on - and now it’s off” charade.

Now unfortunately even if anybody had the balls to actually propose it there is too many actors who would shoot any such proposal down. Be it because of fear for their exports or just to be contrarian.

Yes, so far it’s a debate only in the US, but there’s a danger that the lunatics currently in charge of the US will try to push it back on us.

Austria isn’t as blatant as Hungary but their policy is also pretty russia-friendly.

And there is a reason A-H collapsed and it wasn’t just because of WW1 and Bosnian Serbs. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians or basically anybody who wasn’t German or Hungarian hated the monarchy in the end(With the possible exception of the Croats, who reached some kind of agreement with Hungarians right before the collapse).

As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don’t like that they can make their own Maidan.

This statistic alone doesn’t tell you anything because according to a Land forces production overview table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

USSR had Germany beaten in artillery pieces production 5:1.

I think the unwillingness to switch Ukraine to 155mm caliber prior to 2022 has less to do with the west trying to not provoke russia and more with Ukraine’s desire to use existing stocks and tooling in domestic ammo factories. They themselves ordered DANA M2 in 152mm caliber in 2020. Only after the invasion they realized they will need much more ammo then they can produce domestically and west started providing 155mm systems. Already in 2022 Ukraine has been given German PzH 2000, Slovak Zuzana 2, French Caesar and eventually Swedish Archer. The ammo problem simply took time to solve, but it seems European productions is ramping up and the Czech initiative is still ongoing.

The need for armoured cabin is now well understood and I would say that Swedish and Czech solutions go even further with autoloaders and targeting computers reducing the crew needed to as little as 2 and removing the need for the crew to leave the cabin during a fire mission.

Germans called infantry the queen of all arms, soviets called artillery the god of war. We know who won.

Interesting, the article somehow presents this as something new and groundbreaking, but wheeled self-propelled howitzer was introduced by Czechoslovakia and South Africa already in the 80’s. And indeed Czech and Slovak howitzers derived from the original DANA are used by AFU since at least 2022.

Does he even has a say? Doesn’t Polish stance on Ukraine’s entry depend on the government & parliament rather than the president?

And how long are you going to survive in the no man’s land, operating your scissors?

…and stay there.