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Post by Dougs on Oct 18, 2024 16:16:03 GMT
And, you know, show younger people that if they have a family, there's a life worth living. Not surprised no-one wants to raise kids under Putin
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Post by apollo on Oct 18, 2024 18:19:57 GMT
reports of Russia sending North korea cannon fodder to fight for them in Ukraine. NK is legit target if correct
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Post by Frog on Oct 18, 2024 18:32:34 GMT
Who is reporting that?.
Edit: Just saw it on the BBC. Not sure their troops will fare particularly well but it's more numbers for Russia.
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Post by apollo on Oct 18, 2024 18:48:26 GMT
Who is reporting that?. Edit: Just saw it on the BBC. Not sure their troops will fare particularly well but it's more numbers for Russia. its typical russian tactic of throw cannon fodder at the enemy and hope it wears them down
if NK troop transport is blown up then its great day
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Post by richardiox on Oct 18, 2024 19:13:56 GMT
The fact RUS has become so dependent on Iranian Drones, NK Artillery and Missiles and to a lesser extent some Chinese materiel just shows how much the invasion has depleted their armouries. Now with NK troops being fed in it signals increasing manpower problems.
It's funny how they still flex big against NATO yet in two years they have only made marginal gains against Ukraine who have no navy and not much of an airforce. And this was when they had full stockpiles and battalions. Their loses are no joke, I don't see how realistically they could enact their imperialist fantasy of taking Poland for example.
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Post by Frog on Oct 18, 2024 19:30:41 GMT
I'm not sure it signifies that though. If someone is stupid enough to throw their troops to the wolves it saves you doing it with yours.
It's staggering how badly their military has performed though. I'm not sure 12000 NK troops who have never faced combat will change things too significantly.
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Post by apollo on Oct 18, 2024 19:44:01 GMT
I hope any NK cannon fodder that is not blasted into pieces is made to watch the team America film (fuck yeah) mainly this part
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Post by Frog on Oct 18, 2024 19:54:00 GMT
I wonder how many will use the opportunity to surrender and defect to get away from NK
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Post by Chopsen on Oct 18, 2024 20:01:45 GMT
NK state would kill their family back home in response. It's an established threat they've long used to ensure compliance. People might be happy to sacrifice themselves, but don't want to see their loved ones to come to harm.
Awful, brutal regime.
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Post by Frog on Oct 18, 2024 20:06:17 GMT
Oh that's a good point that I hadnt considered. I remember reading it was a thing from when someone defected across the border.
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Post by technoish on Oct 18, 2024 20:08:18 GMT
It's just so pointless.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 18, 2024 20:09:57 GMT
The tag line to pretty much any war.
Considering how shit parts of rural Russia is the DPRK troops probably think they're helping out a country that's worse off than theirs.
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Post by peacemaker on Oct 18, 2024 23:11:15 GMT
I hope any NK cannon fodder that is not blasted into pieces is made to watch the team America film (fuck yeah) mainly this part
The other scene where hans blix tells him the un will write him a very strong letter if he doesn’t comply with un rules and weapons inspections. Totally reminds me of America and the un now in trying to deal with Israel. Just this week America wrote a very strong letter saying they have 30 days to get food in. Thirty! And that there “may” be evidence of starvation tactics which is not the American way! |
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Post by simple on Oct 19, 2024 8:07:08 GMT
Syrian troops have been fighting for Russia in Ukraine as well haven’t they?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 19, 2024 8:14:37 GMT
I really hated Team America: World Police, it hasn't aged well at all. Hell, even at the time it was naive and simplistic at best, out-and-out racist at worst.
Some of the puppet stuff is funny, though. And the vomiting scene.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Oct 19, 2024 9:29:42 GMT
I think it’s like Starship Troopers, you can take it at face value if you really want to.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 19, 2024 9:31:33 GMT
Starship Troopers is about a thousand times smarter and more entertaining though.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 19, 2024 9:51:53 GMT
I saw Team America recently. Still found it fucking hilarious.
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Post by skalpadda on Oct 19, 2024 10:37:40 GMT
Syrian troops have been fighting for Russia in Ukraine as well haven’t they? There was some recruitment drive there early in the war, but unclear how many Syrians actually ended up signing on. Doesn't seem to have been many, or we'd probably have heard more about it.
And as a general note, the North Koreans might not do much in the end and we don't know if they'll actually be fighting or freeing up Russian soldiers from elsewhere. But even with Ukraine generally having fewer losses a thousand more troops on the Russian side is still hundreds of Ukrainian casualties, more attrition and expenditure of materiel they don't have in abundance (because we are still shit at supplying them).
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Post by simple on Oct 19, 2024 11:24:45 GMT
Attrition has always been the Russian way, look at all those WW2 battles where they’d have ten+ times the losses of the Germans and still “win”
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Post by zephro on Oct 19, 2024 12:32:09 GMT
World War 2 is the time when the Russians were least into attrition. Yknow relative to WW1 or the Napoleonic Wars which definitely was about attrition. The Eastern Front is roughly the same combat casualties on either side. During Barbarosa the Germans inflicted massive casualties on the Soviets, then there was the mid period around Stalingrad which was attritional, but by the end of the war with Bagration the Soviets had perfected Deep Battle and were winning pretty decisively.
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Post by simple on Oct 19, 2024 13:56:17 GMT
Alright Antony Beevor
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 19, 2024 14:10:30 GMT
I have played Company of Heroes 2.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 19, 2024 14:16:34 GMT
Ukranians have a preset kill limit. So Russia just need to send wave after wave of their own men at them until they reach their limit and shut down.
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Post by rftp on Oct 19, 2024 14:18:44 GMT
Ukranians have a preset kill limit. So Russia just need to send wave after wave of their own men at them until they reach their limit and shut down. Alright, Zapp Brannigan. |
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Post by richardiox on Oct 19, 2024 14:48:54 GMT
And if UKR send any formation of foreign troops Russia would do their usual Sabre rattling escalation talk whilst they happily use North Korean soldiers on the front. Because they are fucking disingenuousness cunts and the West really need to step up a level. Get those promised F16s all in as well as lifting the ban on using Western long range missiles to attack Russian airbases.
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Post by JuniorFE on Oct 19, 2024 14:53:26 GMT
Russians 🤝 Republicunts 🤝 assorted assholes in power elsewhere (rules for thee but not for us)
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Post by X201 on Oct 19, 2024 21:21:34 GMT
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 20, 2024 18:45:04 GMT
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Post by skalpadda on Oct 21, 2024 23:11:07 GMT
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/21/moldova-vote-join-eu-razor-thin-majorityHas to be one of the closest referendums I've ever seen. Last I looked it was just a hundred or so votes that separated yes and no, but it widened as diaspora votes were counted. Nice that Russia's blatant attempts to buy voters and generally sabotage it didn't succeed, or well, didn't buy *enough* voters at least. Transnistrians didn't vote as overwhelmingly "no" as expected either (I think it was 62% or thereabouts). Of course this isn't a final yes to joining the EU, but rather yes to writing the intention to work towards joining the EU into the constitution. Just getting the process moving properly could be very good for them though, even if it's going to take a long time to get there.
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