Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I hate trying to deal with people like that. They just have one mantra and think it makes them smart so they stick to it.

Whereas,in reality, everybody knows that Russia invaded Ukraine because of Hillary's email servers

This early in the conflict there is no way you're going to get accurate details. Ukraine will have had a high number of casualties but for morale reasons they aren't going to admit it.

The Russians lie at every opportunity so scratch getting it from them.

The Ukrainians numbers for Russian dead are exaggerated but maybe only by 50%. Just going by the number of destroyed Russian vehicle convoys if they had troops in them there definitely were heavy casualties, couple that with 3 troop transports being shot down at least 300 troops gone if they hadn't been dropped from the planes.

The Ukrainians are definitely bleeding the Russians and causing a considerable weakening of the Russian military machine.

I reckon this has shown NATO as little more than a potential big bullies club.

If Ukraine were to bring any military action across the border into Russia during the curent conflict, Russia's mates in NATO may view that as an invasion. Yet Russia can quite happily invade Ukraine and NATO members don't do a thing.

With regards Germany spending 100bn on refurbishment of their armed forces.

I was watching a guy the other night who made some good points about how much the west has actually DE-militarized in the last 40 years. This peace narrative has put Europe especially, in a position of pretty low competence when it comes to war or an invasion.

He said France has 250 tanks, Germany has 280 tanks, and the uk has 200 tanks

Russia - wait for it - has 12,500 tanks.

This wasn't about tanks, it was about how dumbed down European militaries have become. I know if anything like this happens again (china invades Europe for instance) you will be very glad of Germany's investment.

Hi. Great question. They have used cruise missiles throughout the campaign. Mostly Kalibr cruise missiles launched from TU-22 over Belarus and also ship launched munitions from the Black Sea.

So the gay bashers from Chenyna got their arses kicked. The Airforce who found that hitting undefended hospitals in Syria is not as easy as dodging determined men with stingers had their go. Now the woman beating mysoginists from Minsk are on the way. Belarussian airbourne troops on the way according to Ukrainian defence ministry.

I suspect they find that women armed to the teeth in Kiev are not the same prospect as women armed with flowers in Minsk.

Moscow to Kaliningrad flight route:

Moscow to Athens:

I think that few days have shown that those Russian figures are overestimated.

How many of those Russian tanks are actually running?

How old are they? You can be guaranteed that the tanks in Germany, France and the UK are far more advanced.

A man with a modern mobile anti tank missile system turns those multiple tanks into multiple iron coffins.

That's the point, on a military level NATO members won't attack Russian forces.

Agree. This is a war like no other in history. I assigned this weekend to study but cannot get focused on what I need to do at all.

It's almost like we can all play our part, whether not buying Russian goods, making a donation to buy arms and supplies or retweeting an important message. In a way with modern communication methods, you see the impact of the war in close to real time from the living room.

NATO and Russia have signed several important agreements on cooperation.  And that's why NATO won't attempt to do anything in NATOS name to Russia

Again what use is that - If their role is only to protect their own regardless?