re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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More like JJJimmyJimJones, amirite?

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actually my name is Rufus.

But dont call me out for only riding 3000 miles per year

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I mean, there's supposedly a video out there of a Russian soldier's corpse being devoured by a group of pigs. But I don't need to see that.

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Who does? All I’m saying is that gory, violent things have been on the internet for a while, and you can become completely desensitized to that sort of media. The most fricked up clips absent this war is all the Narco footage coming out of Mexico.

I see the talk of Russia possibly using tactical “battlefield” nukes is gaining steam. There’s only one problem with this. The Russian army can barely pull off fighting a conventional war as it is. Add in the fact of having to carry out combat operations in a nuclear/biological/chemical (NBC) environment, and they’d lose what little battlefield cohesion and capability they currently have.

The Red Army of the 1970s and 80s was trained and equipped to fight a NBC war. But the Russian Army of 2022 is neither trained nor equipped to do so, especially after the horrendous losses it’s taken to it’s best trained divisions. It’s merely a shadow of what once was.

I’m not saying it’s impossible that Russia might go with the nuclear option. A cornered animal will do desperate things after all. But, unless they’re even more stupid than we supposed, it would be a huge mistake to do so.

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You could simply bring two sub-critical pieces together

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I've seen articles written in the context of nuclear terrorism that claim just slamming two uranium plates together would do it, and simply dropping one plate onto another from a few feet might be enough. No idea if it's true.

It's true if the plates are of the right mass. As I said that's essentially how Little Boy worked. However you can't do that with Pu, only Uranium. With Pu, the bomb would blow itself apart before the pieces got close enough together to produce a decent yield. Pu requires that you start with a barely sub-critical sphere and compress it into criticality. For a variety of reasons Pu is the preferred fuel over U so that's the method now used.

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I see the talk of Russia possibly using tactical “battlefield” nukes is gaining steam. There’s only one problem with this. The Russian army can barely pull off fighting a conventional war as it is. Add in the fact of having to carry out combat operations in a nuclear/biological/chemical (NBC) environment, and they’d lose what little battlefield cohesion and capability they currently have.

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Russia has long since lost any battlefield cohesion. But it may not stop Putin. He might be thinking of some kind of shock and awe gambit to get everybody's attention. Popping a nuke surely would, whether it actually achieved any operational success or not. He could even just conduct a "test" on an existing missile range. It would make him even more of a pariah but it would also ratchet up calls for a diplomatic solution by several orders of magnitude.

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Russia has long since lost any battlefield cohesion. But it may not stop Putin. He might be thinking of some kind of shock and awe gambit to get everybody's attention. Popping a nuke surely would, whether it actually achieved any operational success or not. He could even just conduct a "test" on an existing missile range. It would make him even more of a pariah but it would also ratchet up calls for a diplomatic solution by several orders of magnitude.

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Well, as I said, a cornered animal will do anything so it’s possible. But if he does, then he’s completely divorced himself from reality akin to Hitler in the Führerbunker underneath the ruin of Berlin circa April 1945.

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There's an English guy with a youtube channel who just verbally describes narco videow without showing anything. He has a lot of subscribers.

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Do you know the channel name? I’ve always been fascinated/horrified by the cartel savagery. The stuff of nightmares. I’ve always stayed far away from the actual torture videos, but I’d be curious to check this guys channel out if what he does is just talk about specific incidents.