I think it helps Ukraine more than russia.... same with when the ground goes soft (rain and mud, and mild weather) for tanks.

Legit think this is human error on Russia's part.
Would be neat if it was actually Ukraine being like "lets give them a taste of their own medicin".

The problem with that line is the optics.  Russia still want international support even if they cannot get it from the US and EU.  Going scorched earth make it harder for any of the other international groups to support such actions and definitely China does not want that blood to represent them standing by Russia.  This is the reason why this war stretching out was bad for Putin.  If you really think about it, nothing has really gone right in this whole enterprise and its making Putin look bad on the world stage.

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).

You were defending trump. And I meant everyone.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Seems like they hit the Red Cross building twice the last week. There's really nothing they don't shoot at

The irony with Kadyrov is given he himself is a former rebel fighter if Russia were to be in a position like the UsSR was in the late 80s/early 90s he would almost certainly take the chance to declare Chechen independence at the earliest opportunity.

Surprising to some extent but more confirms theories that South Ossetia was essentially operating as part of Russia anyway rather than being independent. Ossetians aren't Russians. It's highly unusual for a region to breakaway from one state only to seek to join another. Feels like the South Ossentian President is a Putin stooge like Kadyrov or Lukashenko and is doing what he is told. You can expect Abhkazia and Transnistria to do the same shortly.

I do wonder though if this would trigger Georgia to attack the region to recapture it from Russia. Whilst they were beaten badly in 2008 they have similar relation with Nato to Ukraine, although I'm not sure if they've received the same level of training, let alone armaments, from them. With the bulk of Russia's forces concentrated elsewhere they could decide its now or never.

Then again they could feel the risk is too great and, whilst the two regions are internationally recognised as part of Georgia and therefore technically wouldn't be seen as illegal, further defeat would result in even greater concessions. Plus even if they do succeed the onus would be on Russia to attack again somewhere down the line. Moldova could end up trying the same in Transnistria - it has a smaller long-term risk as it does not have a border with Russia so a future relatitory attack is less likely.

There are satellite images that show Russians did a lot of defense digging in north of the Kieve region.

Apparently, Russians did the same in Chernobyl. According to the same sources, many soldier left in panic when first signs of radiation sickness were showing up.

I dont know much about the military, and how real combat looks..... but like, even I can tell that looks staged or fake, or just off.
This like when you watch a movie with bad acting (best way I can explain it). It would be like, handing an a guy a gun, that doesnt know how to hold it when fireing, and then trying to pass him off as a professional soldier, while hes fooling around, acting cool (but failing to look like he knows what hes doing).

Also, you dont see what their shooting at? or even hear return fire.
For all you know, this could be them just shooting at a empty building or something, right?

Yeah, maybe this is part of the issue.
When you see Ukraines, makeing videos, you see the action from like body cams, and them running around and doing objectives.
They show the targets, you see the hits, you see the people their shooting/fireing rockets at and stuff, and you see/hear return fire ect.
Like when you see a video of a guy, hideing in a building a tank drives be, and he goes out the window to fire a rocket at a tank (and hits it)... your not questioning if its real or not.  Also their usually good with showing wreckages of tanks, or artiliery and such, shot down planes.

Those chechen army guys... their videos are just weirdly differnt from others.