Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

The Kornet is like a musket compared to the first ball rifles. Kornet is a two man unit and it needs to be guided onto the target. It's quite bulky and is fired off a tripod AFAIK.

The Laws is a disposable anti-tank launcher. It's quite ligh and infantry men can carry it quite easy. Because of this many can be carried into battle for use against tanks or armoured personnel carriers.

The javilin is a slightly heavier version of the Laws. It's designed to defeat modern tanks. It attacks tanks from the top turret where armour is thinnest. It's also a fire and forget in that you give it the target and it's then dose the rest itself. Again it's a one man operated weapon. Other soldiers in the unit can carry the extra missiles for it. Both are effective against Russian tanks.

Russian drones have been fairly ineffective against Ukraine, however the Western drones(especially the Turkish heavy drone) has been successful against the Russian armoured columns.

Russia is occupying hostile territory. It will struggle to hold onto. It cannot develop air superiority be wise of stinger anti aircraft missiles. While they may capture and control some larger urban areas they will always be susceptible to guerilla warfare.

This is from January this year before the invasion of Ukraine.

The invasion of Crimea in 2014 artificially brought up the population number but the core reasons for people not having children in Russia remained and then Covid hit.

Article mentions even Putin was worried.

The stolen Ukrainian children going to be raised as Russian will bring up that number but it won't be a million.

The sooner the state dissolves into itself the better.

BMW and Mercedes did halt all production in and sales to Russia including parts, early on. But I'm not sure if that was because of sanctions or not.

I'd go 99% the result of sanctions tho.

Wonder did the Russia Embasy get their fill of oil...No noise out of them at the moment..

Usually all about money and power. You'll often find those at the top are morally bankrupt.

And those who don't know any better and expect it will always be this way. The I'm alright Jim brigade and that's all that matters.

The top in Germany and Russia are all the one. The eastern european states with a fraction of the economies but 100% of the morals are showing their way.

Another way of putting it. The top in Germany are hoping to profit by acting this way towards russia and make money from the raping, pillaging, killing, torturing, looting, land grabbing, destruction, kidnapping in Ukraine.

Things won't collapse, but some nations will hurt (and we'll all take a hit from higher energy prices regardless). One of the most reliant is Germany, if they fully stopped tomorrow, analysts say their economy would contract 1% to 2%. A complete cut is doable, but nations like that are preferring to do a phased approach, where they phase out reliance over the next year or two.

Right.

For Germany:

"Similarly, taking into account GDP growth in a “do nothing” baseline (which various estimates predict to be substantially positive), no study has found a recession with a year-to-year GDP drop larger than 2.5%. "

Most estimates put the GDP hit at between around 1% or 2% if Germany were to cut.

Germany will cut Russian coal imports by this summer, cut Russian oil by the end of the year and project that within 2 years they will have completely stopped using Russian gas. The EU is planning to reduce Russian gas imports by two-thirds this year alone.

As mentioned, if all of that is cut tomorrow, indeed there'll be some pain in Europe, but nothing compared to what Russia will experience. These exports are Russia's primary source of income, and Europe is it's biggest customer. It's estimated that it will take Russia until 2025 to build the gas infrastructure to switch to China, and even then it's just a fraction of what it exports today to Europe.

2014 was a wake-up call which Europe acknowledged but didn't really respond to (except for certain Baltic countries). This is different, there's no turning back from this. No going back "to normal" with this Kremlin. Scholz will be lucky to have a job by the end of the year.

That and Bryansk means Russia will officially be at war.

Whatever that means as opposed to the Special Military Operation.

Probably still gearing up for their weapon of mass destruction in ukraine. In their warped sense of logic they'll say look at the US and Hiroshima.

The Russian government/military can only function with fear. In their eyes they'll only "win" with fear. Still all a chess game for the military. Atm the world thinks of them as a laughing stock like something at the bottom of your shoe. Not afraid enough to back off giving Ukraine help. The wmd will bring that fear back and in their eyes save Russian lives.

Only posting that as it was eluded to in response to one of your twitter links.

They're insane. But they need to be feared insane.

Man I wish there was as much support for Palestine that there is for Ukraine. It’s surreal how the information war has been won by the west for Ukraine . The man on the street knows all about the occupation and destruction of Ukraine but not of Palestine.. I am guessing folks still think there are weapons of mass destruction too in Iraq.

Prople can be lead and mislead so easily. Manufacturing consent is a truly a sad tale and a weakness in our psychology.

At the end of the day Oil sanctions against Russia are a waste of time. The world Oil trade is one leaky bucket. If Europe doesn't buy it then the likes of China, India, Brazil etc will, then the west will just buy the Oil that they used to buy but in the mean time they have double and tripled the price of Oil and Gas so now Russia has only to sell a third of its Oil to get the same revenue but at the moment they are selling the same amount of Oil and getting 3 times the revenue.

The Ban on fertilizer is another joke move. Europe bans buying Russian / Belarus fertilizers but Brazil, India, and the rest of Asia and south America load up.

The Ban on western companies doing business in Russia is another joke, how is it John Deere was allowed to keep operating in Russia due to "risk of world food shortage" yet everyone else has to pull out and let the Chinese and Indians do business with them instead.

Sanctions will cripple Russia my ass.

That seems to be the undercurrent throughout this thread, with posts and claims loaded with such irony those making them have to be pulling the mick, or talking mick.

It's an amusing to read though I must say.

We're being advised to boycott the Germans now, I've seen in here.

This thread is a good reflection of Irelands uncompromising desire to be seen as the absolute moral standard the globe should follow.

Always be seen as the best in class, even if it means leaving school

The Germans are looking after the Germans 1st.

Which makes sense to me