Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Dulfite said:

What I did was not defending Trump, it was rejecting the idea that Trump was defended often by the media. But I misunderstood you, I had assumed you meant the media, not the people, as there are always millions of people that defend everything about each President. You will find millions of Obama loyalists out there to this day, and millions of Biden ones too, has nothing to do with just one President. When people vote for someone enthusiastically, then they feel they have to defend that person from criticism because it is how they justify making that vote in the first place. 80% of decisions are made emotionally, not logically, and we do irrational things, as humans, to continue justifying that decision, rather than face the reality that the decision we made may not have been as perfect as we make it in our heads. Every election has people that get sucked into this mindset for candidates from all sides.

You were defending trump. And I meant everyone.

KiigelHeart said:

Perhaps.. but didn't US troops wipe out hudreds of these guys during one afternoon in Syria?

Actually not sure... Didn't pay much attention to that conflict.

But I wouldn't be surprised, the USA can afford to up-skill it's military to great effect.

JRPGfan said:

I watched a video of some ukraine soldiers makeing use of what others commented on as a "shoot and scoot" (hit and run), or "kiteing" in gamer terms.
They would lay low, make use of drones to get a birds eye view, get coordinates (lazers? gps?), run in a small team of 4-5 people, carrying parts of a "reuseable laucher", deploy it (its like a little stand, that then gets 4-5 parts added ontop, and loaded with a rocket), and basically as soon as it was fired, they where pulling it apart, carrying their parts (each guy takes care of their part) and then running off, even before the missle even lands (and usually hits).

Apparently, these guys just keep doing things like this, you can hear frustrated russian soldiers fireing at them (their out of range usually) and theres like bush/vegitation in the way (sight issue).

I thought, damn... now I know why the russians are makeing such heavy losses.
These small hit and run teams (with drones, and smart weaponry), and the Guerrilla warfare they make use of, are apparently hard to deal with.... if your soldiers are basically just cannon fodder, just drafted, that are clumped up together in a caravan or such.

Sounds like guerilla warfare, which is actually extremely effective.

As Sun Tzu famously said...
"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."

Zkuq said:

Why would you ever have 65 TB of data without a backup... When you have the funds to process that much data, surely backing it up is a no-brainer?

It was likely a large RAID array... Which has built in layers of redundancy anyway.

However... You are 100% correct.

The issue starts with the oligarchs... If they can reduce costs by cuting a corner... They will, then pocket the money.
Corruption is an incredible thing.

The western world, whilst also having corruption... Doesn't have it at this extreme, there are *allot* of checks and balances.

drkohler said:

That growing leaves thing reminds me of the Russian attacks at Chernobyl. Apparently many of the young soldiers never heard of Chernobyl, and some of their tanks drove close to the "Red forest", an area labeled for the tree leaves that turned red due to extremely high radioactivity in the soil.

Plowing the soil with tanks is highly not recommended if the soil is heavily contaminated. This "Red forest" area has been assigned "no go for anyone" ever. None of the Russians had any protective gear, not when the attack started, not now. Even the specialists that came later had no protective gear (reported by the plant operators, so it might be true or not true).

I have worked in a Uranium mine before... It all comes down to intensity and duration, if you are passing through the outskirts, the issue of Radiation is likely inconsequential.

It's still best to avoid, but I think Russia has showcased that it see's it's military as expendable anyway.