Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Within a few days of their arrival in the search for Bin Laden, the US had chased the Taliban out of the Country, and this is under the very same circumstances you describe, heading for mountains etc. Drones and satellites have blocked off these avenues of escape. For 20 years they held it. They could retake it again very quickly if they wanted. Afghanistan did not defeat the Americans militarily.... Afghans defeated Afghans, helped with massive support from Pakistan.

For Ukraine, I seem to remember the Germans using the same methods during the ww2 in any Country they controlled, and that did not stop the resistance back then either.

Both Afghanistan and Ukraine share one very powerful trait....With Afghans, they were united not only as citizens against an invader, but by religion, it was a Religious war against the unbeliever.

With Ukraine, Putins murderous escapades has united the whole country against him. In the generations yet to come, they will remember these atrocities'.

There you have the most powerful motivation known to Man for fighting and destroying invaders. The Russians do not possess a fraction of this kind of powerful motivation, but you can rest assured Russian Invaders lives will be made hell.

"Helicopters can't actually fly, but they're so ugly the ground rejects them."

One thing I've learned about air crashes is to ignore all speculation, of which there is usually a huge amount, and wait for the investigation report. Two examples:

American Airlines 587 crashed in Queens, November 2001. Cue lots of (understandable) speculation about a new Al Quaeda terror attack. The investigation showed that the vertical stabiliser had separated due to excessive rudder inputs by the pilot in response to encountering wake turbulence.

Manx 2 Flight 7100 crashed at Cork Airport on its third attempt to land in foggy weather. This resulted in lots of speculation about whether the pilots should have diverted instead, whether the airport should have been closed to traffic and whether it had been a bad idea to build an airport at that location in the first place. The accident report revealed that the fog was just one factor among many, which included one engine producing more thrust than the other, two relatively inexperienced (on that type) pilots flying together, and a "virtual airline" that had slipped through several regulatory cracks.

I've also heard of a number of cases of witnesses reporting flames when in fact there were none. Granted, flames and a shot-down aircraft are for more likely in Ukraine at the moment than would be the norm, but accidents still happen even in wartime.

You think Ukraine would be more easily subdued.........have you not been watching the savagery of Ukraine's defense of its country ? Easily subdued, yeah right !

The problem with the donbass, crimea and most other soviet republics is that stalin gave all these republics a certain amount of autonomy but in order to retain control of those regions, industrial cities were created and populated with citizens of Russia bringing their language and culture with them and displacing the indigenous population. We see even on our own island the consequences of such a tactic.

70 years later putin is justifying his invasion in a large part on the basis of that russian plantation.

When ukraine eventually push the Russians back and I do believe they will. This is issue will need to be resolved. Most if not all of these russian citizens in the donbass and crimea have at this stage rejected their Ukrainian citizenship and now have russian passports. Do the Ukrainians deport these russian citizens even if generations of them were born in the territory of Ukraine?

Looks like his speech was a nothing burger.

Usual BS about mighty Russia ..

Yeah the latest US package contains all sorts of useful tools. Those longer range rockets might also give Russia pause for thought if they are thinking about a new offensive up North.

Considering or definitely will? There is a huge difference.

It's been widely reported in reputable media, not just made up stuff on Twitter like we saw with the Apache story last week.

I wasn't doubting you or the story.

This has been talked about for some time, as have other systems:

I did find a different article that said 'likely' so that's an improvement on 'considering' so I hope It happens.

If they can supply a lot of these, they will have a large impact; no pun intended.

UMP9 and M16. And I would not be concerned if they are freightened or not as long as they are dead. I understand it must be funny to joke about from far away distance, not so funny when your country borders with that zoo.

He started this war, so an easy call.

No one is suggesting a country's history and tensions are "cut and dried" (certainly not post-Soviet regions). I'm addressing blurring of the lines. In 2012 Donetsk was hosting the Euros and the biggest worry was racism. Two years later that stadium was being shelled. Slight difference.

A couple of days ago I posted a video, that no one seemed interested in, of a Ukrainian drone finding an Orc radio on the ground outside a dugout. They then sent another drone with a magnet on the end of a line which managed to snag the radio and carry it back to their base.

This allowed the Ukrainians to listen in on Orc radio comms for 9 days.

If Russia didn't invade and was attacking everything and anything that wasn't a legitimate military target,then the helicopter wouldn't have been where it was and at a low altitude trying to avoid missles.

So yes it's Russias fault