I agree with you but are those recovery numbers based on western on hospitals and treatment? I imagine they’re going to be less rosy if you factor in a few days in the mud before treatment followed by the best medicine whatever money hasn’t been stolen can buy.

Is it really WWIII if its just Russia, which can barely handle Ukraine. Versus all of NATO?

I mean refinining is the hard part, Actually assembling a gun-type nuclear device is rather simple by the standards of modern technology.

Ah but Russia isn’t keeping track of its own losses anyway, easy to slip away and they assume you’re dead.

I dunno the NK troops at least appear to have boots, so coming back and telling stories of how the ‘western’ Russian troops don’t even have shoes or ammo is probably decent propaganda for the regime.

There’s potentially up to a few kilotons worth of munitions (about half a hiroshima bomb) sitting right next to Kent (England) in a sunken liberty ship.

bought the land legally doesn’t really mean much, the american settlers obtained their land ‘legally’ too.

Well you see Ivan, if send enough people to freeze to death in Arctic eventually heat from decomposing bodies will warm terrain.

Isn’t their current level of inflation now what it was at when they decided it was time to enact emergency measures? measures that are still in place yet haven’t prevented inflation from continuing to rise.

The last time Ukraine was under Russian rule there was a literal genocide, so their backs are kind of against the wall, any peace with Russia is just a re-armament period until the next invasion.

Assuming your well fed and have the assurance of dry clothes on the other side.

I suspect turning another country into a radioactive wasteland of black-brown glass is politically unetnnable for most nations.

More realistically warheads need their fissionable components replaced every 20 years or so, Considering Russia claims to field the worlds largest nuclear arsenal on the same budget the UK spends on a much smaller arsenal (albeit likely far more advanced in the delivery system department) its extremely questionable wether the nuclear material in most of those warheads is still viable.

While in a full scale nuclear war even a 10% success rate is apocalyptic it really does matter if they want to make a demonstration strike on Ukraine, imagine the geo-political ramifications of Russia making the huge decision to make a nuclear strike only for that missile to fail to properly detonate.

Video appears to be blocked in the UK? Rest of youtube loads fine but this video can neither be watched nor can I copy the video URL.

Damn that really puts the horror of it all into perspective, its not just people being shot and blown up, you got people dying of radiation poisoning, choking to death on chemical weapons or just melted where they stand by white phosphorus or thermite (On the thermite drones, yeh I want Ukraine to win and understand that things like that might even be neccesary but fucking hell is it still grim.)

If I’m not mistaken, this wasn’t a pro-Russian thing, this was a blackmail NATO allies for concessions in exchange for agreeing thing.

Honestly there comes a point where its functionally the same thing,

I mean… China is capitalist too its just state capitalist.

So the real victory here isn’t damaging the rail line, its the fact that it was done somewhere unexpected and without any sign of the culprits, a few more times and you create a culture of paranoia around rail safety that slows down rail based logistics all along the border with Ukraine. Rather similar to exploding rats

Last I heard Ukraine had gotten through an estimated 2/3 of Russias entire tank stock, including tanks that could realistically be repaired. Doesn’t account for potential purchases or getting really desperate and sending partially non-functional vehicles into combat.

The problem is in the UK our houses are often made out of rock with even less insulative properties than the plywood and cardboad the americans use. Usually all you get is double glazing, seals around the doors and maybe some attic insulation.