Current Affairs Ukraine

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How terrible is a for a parents/siblings/wifes of the soldiers who are sent to [Poor language removed] like this.

I was just a kid (born 88) when war was going here in Croatia in 90s, but i remember constant crying and anguish my mom was going through, worrying for her brother/my uncle who was on the front.
 
All your numbers are hypotheticals.

They could have displayed the power of the bomb in better ways than annihilating two cities. And killing 200,000 inoccent people.

The Soviets killed over 2 million Germans (lowball estimate) after the end of the WW2 - forget about what they did during. That is what would have been coming from the North of the country had those bombs not gone off. You live in a fantasy land if you think in those days we could email them a couple of mp4s to show them what might drop on them if they don't surrender.

Meanwhile Russia has already invaded and killed that many people... ?
 
How terrible is a for a parents/siblings/wifes of the soldiers who are sent to [Poor language removed] like this.

I was just a kid (born 88) when war was going here in Croatia in 90s, but i remember constant crying and anguish my mom was going through, worrying for her brother/my uncle who was on the front.
In more recent times, my cousin was deployed to Kosovo and he saw some very PTSD-inducing things and had all of us worried sick.

I fondly remember he came back and he had gifts and all for everyone, which he wanted to give us, and no one gave a single [Poor language removed], as we were all just happy he's not back in a coffin like his friend...

Dire times.

Sorry you've had to go through that as well, my friend.
 
All your numbers are hypotheticals.

They could have displayed the power of the bomb in better ways than annihilating two cities. And killing 200,000 inoccent people.
How? Let's be clear, it was at that point total war and most Japanese cities had already been systematically been raised to the ground in fire bombings.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen due to their military targets and certain geographical features, albeit Nagasaki was not the primary target for Fat Man.

And while the figures were hypothetical, they were based on projections from countless invasions like Peleliu, Guadalcanal, Iwoa Jima and Okinawa et al.

It's also based on the fact that at first the use of Little Boy and Fat Man didn't sway the Japanese Imperial Cabinet too far away from carrying on the war.

While the loss of life is obviously regrettable, the use of the weapons has been reviewed as justifiable by countless countries and organisations.

The invasion of Japan would have been immensely costly for both sides, thus many argue that the use actually saved lives by being a component of surrender.
 
Very interesting to see whats happening internally in Russia today. Waves of protests against a war in Ukraine, from individuals protesting alone to quite large demonstrations in St Petersburg amongst others. There is also some soul searcing going on among some

This guy is a RT journalist from Ireland who has spent the last few years spouting Kremlin lies.



He used to make up stories about ghost towns in Ireland during the banking crash in 2007.
 
The Soviets killed over 2 million Germans (lowball estimate) after the end of the WW2 - forget about what they did during. That is what would have been coming from the North of the country had those bombs not gone off. You live in a fantasy land if you think in those days we could email them a couple of mp4s to show them what might drop on them if they don't surrender.

Meanwhile Russia has already invaded and killed that many people... ?
OK sending mp4s. Ye got me. There's no other way. Should have nuked 3 cities.
 
Very interesting to see whats happening internally in Russia today. Waves of protests against a war in Ukraine, from individuals protesting alone to quite large demonstrations in St Petersburg amongst others. There is also some soul searcing going on among some

This guy is a RT journalist from Ireland who has spent the last few years spouting Kremlin lies.



He used to make up stories about ghost towns in Ireland during the banking crash in 2007.

Russia was in a shaky state way before that. They had civil unrest that could've gone into a civil war between the people and the army (shocker, history repeating itself) about 4 times in the last 7 years.

How someone who's been there doesn't see what they were doing is well beyond me though. He's either lying or is very, very stupid and gullible and takes everything being told to him very seriously.
 
Not right not and especially not close to Kyiv. There'll be elements where they'll want to parade troops to help demoralise the Russians with propaganda.

Yet as @Mutzo Nutzo mentioned, their key objective right now is to defend these key targets and annihilating their forward, well-trained troops will help this.

If the landing zone is removed, it will mean the advancing armour won't have something to join up with; it'll mean the Ukrainians can focus on defensive positions.

Right now, they'll be giving them no mercy and especially to professional paratroops.
I agree that they have pressing problems in certain areas that require no quarter. However, Zelenskyy's single most pressing problem is keeping the spirits of his people up. If he loses that, Ukraine is finished and he may be buried alongside her.

The reports could equally be faked - I'm not dismissing that. Keeping in mind that he's a comedian, and therefore by definition a successful media personality, I'm also not willing to dismiss the notion that he's taking steps to keep his audience. His perimeter units may have orders to capture, rather than kill, scouts wherever possible for dual purposes. One, trot them out. Two, figure out what their orders were in order to try to figure out Putin's next moves.
 
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