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Russia has a GDP of around 3x Belgium. They are no threat in any conventional war for a EU that is going to spend 2% or more on defense (mostly due to this Ukrainian aggression). They have encountered logistical problems even when attacking a neighbor country. Imagine what would happen to their supply lines if they are fighting 30+ countries. Their sabre rattling is only worrisome due to the nuclear option. But even that constitutes a murder-suicide reality for them, since there would not be Russia the day after they launch a major nuclear strike. As for Ukraine, no one can blame them for not wanting to live under the rule of these people:

It's mostly the weight loss with Liz. It's funny because her BFF Christen Harper got back most of those pounds she had lost.

Love that she and Laïs are still good friends.

They do care about territorial ambitions of Putin & co. If he can just carve chunks out of any country he likes, why exactly would he stop at Ukraine? Especially since he has already admitted they have no intention of limiting themselves to Ukraine. This isn't about NATO "caring" or not about the Ukrainian people, but them caring about a Russia that believes it can just do whatever it likes without any consequences. Also, the Ukrainian people still want to fight. Until that changes, why would NATO stop giving them their support?

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1. Russia's territorial ambitions do not end with Ukraine. Putin has even admitted this publicly. 2. The Ukrainians under Russian rule are being treated terribly. So I don't get the argument how they would be better off just giving up entirely on those people.

What exactly do they expect the west to do? The Russians are committing war crimes in all of the occupied territories. Supposedly what they have already done in Kherson will make Bucha pale in comparison. (There are increasingly high number of mass graves in that area) So they should just allow Russia to capture even more of Ukraine? I'm sure that will go great for Ukrainian civilians. On the subject of Russian missile supplies, reports of them increasingly using air-to-air missiles to attack ground targets. Which is weird. And doesn't exactly suggest plentiful stockpiles of all missile types.

Her legs are so amazing!

She's amazing!

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Bregje + Maggie =

@Cult Icon You mentioned you might have liked Katharina Mazepa with her real nose. I think I found an old picture of her before the nose job.

Dead Space is still the best experience from start to finish. A near perfect game. But Dead Space 2 was still very good. Dead Space 3 largely felt like they had run out of good ideas.

Thinking about replaying Dead Space 2. I only ever did one playthrough, whilst I did do a repeat of Dead Space. Dead Space 3 was less interesting narratively.

As for how quickly things are going, it's all relative. The Donbas offensive has already taken longer than some of the major battles of WWII. e.g. the Battle of Kursk.

It's considered a basic tactic to have a 4-6 week break to allow for the logistical demands of a change of objective/new front lines. In any case I will be very, very surprised if Russia realize their objectives in the South (which is essentially capturing everything up to Odessa) by New Year.

Well I guess we will find out. Most experts seem to expect a strategic pause in late Summer, so they can start the Fall offensive in October.

Why would you assume the war ends in 2022? The only scenario in which that might end up remotely true is a Fall offensive on the part of Russia that is far more successful than anything we have seen from them so far. I'll believe it when I see it.

It's not propaganda to believe that many of the 10K tanks are not battle-worthy. You seem to interpret the 10K number as if they could throw 10K tanks into battle tomorrow. I believe the 10K number is more two categories: tanks that could be made battle-ready with some minor work. And then the second category: scrap metal. I believe the second category is quite big, though it's impossible to know how big, obviously. If you believe otherwise, tell me why Russia would have carefully maintained 10K tanks for decades, when there was no immediate reason to assume they would ever need them in those numbers?

The analysis suggests their current stock of necessary electronics would run out sometime next year. So even the people who pointed out this weakness did not suggest this would immediately be visible in the field. They could also try to solve the problem somewhat with some sort of shady deal with China in which they import them via that way. But I'm guessing the U.S. is watching this potential channel like a hawk already.

Repeating myself, but 10K in storage doesn't mean anything if most of them aren't battle-worthy. The large majority of those will not have moved since the 1990s.

As for the electronics for their more advanced missiles this is 100% a real thing. Even though we are in war-time production, the two major companies that produce them in Russia are only operating at 120% of normal production. This is due to a limited stock of foreign-bought (western) electronics that they won't be able to easily replace once they run out. Several country's military intelligence estimates say that they will definitely run out by the end of next year, and that is assuming that production isn't heightened at some point. If they do move into a real war-time production then they will run out much sooner.

Do you believe that Russian has 10K battle-ready tanks? You don't have to guzzle down Ukrainian propaganda to know that there is zero chance of that being true. How much value do you think a T-72 that was moth-balled in the mid-90s has in 2022?

I'm sure that Vlad has plentiful men to still throw into the meat grinder but it's pretty clear that in terms of equipment they are starting to feel the pain. They lack some of the materials for the missiles they were launching at the start of the war. We have seen T-62s in the field. If they had plentiful more recent tanks they wouldn't get sixty year old vehicles out of storage.

She also had a fantastic SISE shoot that year: