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Russian invasion of Ukraine
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zandvoort blue
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A critical day will be when they open the Russian Stock Market. That`ll be when your Mr Joe Averageski has a reality check on what Pootin has done to their economy, savings, pensions and future.
Elbow beards
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He's said that one before. Needs a new repertoireHe's claiming that sanctions are an act of war.
Aren't nuclear submarines using small nuclear plants?AND capitalism will find the money to develop alternative sources of energy. For example, an experimental nuclear fission plant, one third operational size is currently being built in uk. Rolls Royce have developed the idea of small nuclear plants which would be much cheaper than those massive plants. Think gov has allocated funds to build a trial site. We have also developed non fossil fuel truck engines. This is capitalism in action to improve the lot of man, as it has done for 300 years. Necessity is the mother of invention. I am optimistic re future of global emissions.
And seriously, no communist ever invented anything?
Scottyboi
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Israels PM has just visited Putin and is now flying to Berlin, source is DiscloseTV. Fingers crossed there is some movement towards peace.
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Israels PM has just visited Putin and is now flying to Berlin, source is DiscloseTV. Fingers crossed there is some movement towards peace.
Good news if accurate.
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If it opens not whenA critical day will be when they open the Russian Stock Market. That`ll be when your Mr Joe Averageski has a reality check on what Pootin has done to their economy, savings, pensions and future.
10000 dead is total bullshit that’s for sure . I’d say prob around the 2000 mark with more civilian dead .
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss that figure The old estimate for USSR figures was take what they said and x10.
When Ukraine said Russia had 5800 losses, the Kremlin said 595.
Remember that most of the fighting is taking place between Ukraine's full time army that's been prepared and trained by US and UK special forces for the last 8 years, using state of the art equipment and live intelligence provided by the US and surrounding countries against Russian conscripts who have 3 weeks training and didn't know they were going to war, using 30-40 year old equipment with no logistics or back up.
Both. Necessity etc. Capitalism can respond, socialism doesn't.I think this line kinda undermines the rest of it.
Why are companies looking for alternative fuels sources right now after being happy with fossil fuels for decades? Is it because that's just the ingenuity and progress that is inevitable under capitalism, or is it actually because government regulations in pretty much every rich country in the world has forced them to?
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We are getting an insanely one sided view when it comes to what's actually happening on the ground.
Russia has more boots on the ground and are attacking a defended position, they were always going to take more losses.
The way that it's being reported you'd think Ukraine hadn't suffered one casualty of war.
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I live in Ukraine. My mom thinks that all those news about Ukraine crushing Russian army, and Russian "underperformance" is just fake news to encourage ukrainians and army. She wants Ukraine to win, tho. She also said, that what we "see" in reality, is that Russians slowly take city by city, especially in the South part. Her main argument is: "if Ukraine's army was that strong, they would already stop Russian progression at South".
No, we get a confused, patchy sense of what is happening on the ground. I may be cautiously optimistic, but this conflict is by no means over, hence the caution.
But you cannot take a country the size of Ukraine, with a population of 45 million with 200k troops. Especially as they are facing a well equipped modern force of comparable size in the conflict area. The Russians can capture a city here and there, but is that city under their control and subdued? How many troops do they need to station per city? What is the overall strategic plan here? Is eventually levelling every city one by one going to secure any thing other than eternal enmity? Can Russia sustain the current level of losses even accounting for Ukraine over estimating them?
And that’s not even taking into account sanctions starting to bite.