re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

quit upvoting yourself

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Much like the Luftwaffe changing tactics in the Battle of Britain by attacking civilians instead of bombing RAF airfields, production facilities and radar stations gave the Brits just that little bit of breathing room they needed to rest, train and refit pilots and aircraft backfired for Germany is how I view the Russians decision to attack civilians in the winter of 2022/2023 gave the Ukrainian military the time to regroup. The Russians weren’t expecting us to be able to send entire power stations to Ukraine to replace the ones they attacked.

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Not only did it give the UAF time to regroup they did not even bother attacking the most obvious targets in Ukraine. There were only 12 (11 now) railroad bridges across the Dnieper River in all of Ukraine. I can understand not destroying the bridges when during the initial invasion because they were trying to take the whole country swiftly, but any decent military strategist would have recommended taking out those 12 bridges when Russia was defeated at Kyiv and decided to focus on the Donbas.

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This has nothing to do with what i said above but I’ve been wondering why with Ukraine needing to revamp it’s air force why they Antonov hasn’t struck some kind of deal to build a plant in another country like Germany or Romania and design their own fighter aircraft.

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IDK but if I had to guess it Antonov was a shadow of its cold war self prior to the Maiden. A lot of Antonov's engineers were lured to Russia to work for Sukhoi and Illyushin etc in the 8 years between the Maiden and the invasion. Antonov was basically a transportation company and a repair depo before being destroyed by the Russians on the first day of the invasion. Plus I would imagine Germany would prefer Ukraine buy or lease Eurofighters and France would prefer them to buy Rafaels than design and build its own fighter.

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Obviously this would be a long process but when the F-16s they are getting need replacing they will need to find a new fighter fleet from somewhere. They could always sign a contract with any number of nations for new fighters but Antonov is a very good company with some bright engineers. They have always been more of a transport type aircraft company but I bet they could in time put together a good 4++ gen fighter that would be able to counter Russia’s Sukhois.

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Why waste time and money designing your own when there are already good options available? Petro Poroshenko attempted to negotiate a deal with Saab to build Gripens in Lviv back in 2015 or 2016 but the Obama administration blocked the deal. Apparently the Gripen has enough American components on it that Saab and Sweden need our approval for it to be sold. Damn Obama was a pussy.

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If Russia were really in "win at all costs, conquer Europe" mode, you'd think they would use attacking oil refineries as justification to just blow up every power plant within striking distance in Ukraine.

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if NATO was truly interested in escalating this to WW3, youd think wed be using literal stealth bombers to destroy refineries instead of jank drones

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You are the one who is supporting the side that committing mass murder.

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The civilian death toll is very low.

The Israelis have killed three times as many civilians in Gaza, in the space of six months.

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WTF does that have to do with mass murder committed by Russia in Ukraine?

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Mass is relative. Relative to the side you support, presumably.

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I give 0 shits about Gaza.

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Neither does any actual Arab nation.

That was before he chose the red pill and realized that it was a planned indoctrination

And, hilariously I must add, the same group of peace loving, war hating, non Russian supporting just want peace you genocidal warmonger people on the poli board all seem to REALLY hate the idea of a ceasefire in Gaza

probably because the only people making it a “all or nothing” culture war are your dumbasses