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This is being quoted by multiple sources this morning. And they are saying its coming straight from Russian social media, apparently the mercenaries shared the video themselves.

So looks legit. Whats scary is it also shows many positive comments and likes from the Russian public who viewed it with only a few negative comments.

Horrendous stuff if true, unfortunately nothing like this is surprising anymore.

They have a lot of scrap left not sure if a have that many tanks left. In the Kuwait war a US Bradley tank knocked out about 40 T-90 Russian tanks. It would have knocked out a few more but it ran out of munitions.

Because a lot of the Russian tanks left are parked up they be lucky to 30% operational in the next 12 months. They have about 100 T-90's parked up. Odds are if they are parked up at this stage they are not capable of becoming operational. So any tanks entering service now will be T70 models or earlier.

The UA now has more operational of there own T-series tanks than at the start of the war. They now have probably 100+ Bradley's and a similar number of other similar NATO light tanks as well as I suspect 50+ heavy tanks ( Leopards and Challengers).

How do you think obsolete Russian tanksT80( and there is very few T80's) series and earlier models will manage on a modern battlefield again proven light tanks, heavy tanks, the UA own upgraded T-series as well as against LAWS and Javelins.

When this war is over the price of scrap steel will fall through the floor for 2-3 years.

It was on the front page of reddit for hours last night. The Ukrainian subreddit is claiming its legit. There's plenty of kids on that site without people having to post stuff like that. Wtf is wrong with people?

It's the long-range s-300s,Buks and tors that are denying high and medium level air superiority to the Russians , and ensuring that they're flying low .. which puts them into manpad territory..

The Russian missile and long drone range drone attacks were to deplete these higher altitude / longer range missiles , and they appear to be doing that ..

There appear to be western alternatives , but maybe not enough , and at high price ,

There was talk of using American sparrow missiles with the Buk system , but they're much shorter range ,

I don't really buy that argument about "educating" themselves. I can imagine what a beheading looks like without watching a video of a real person being killed.

I think it's more just morbid curiosity.

And I also don't find the existence of these videos surprising, given that there have already been castration videos and videos of being sledgehammered. It's disgusting, but this is what war does to young men

Most people sharing it are blurring it out. I would say very few people want to actually see the gruesome act itself. I know when I seen anything of the video myself being shared I scroll quickly past it. Although im sure there may be one or two that would.

However IMO it is important that this story is shared and not brushed aside. Their are a large amount of people in the west and even in our own country here that blatantly support what Russia are doing or at the very least sympathise with their position.

They need to be made aware of what exactly they are supporting, and shown that in fact this is not just MSM or 'Western propaganda' making this stuff up.

No I stand by what I and that hasn't changed one bit ,

No matter how many new accounts try to tell me I said this and I said that.

So unless you have anything new to bring up your wasting your time trying to jump on this .

China and Russia about to jointly declare world war I think xi visit was to let putin know the date

Taiwan looking very dodgy at the minute

Western democracies has no stomach for conflict China sees Russia getting away with the grotesque violence against a sovereign state virtually unchallenged aside from a few delayed weapons delivery's

A no fly zone was needed at least

Now we have been to slow and late bye bye Taiwan

What, you mean that "enciclement" nonsense the Chinese pulled a few days ago because they got pissy (again) about Taiwan and the US being nice to eachother? Taiwan looking "dodgy"? "Bye Bye Taiwan?" My friend, kindly put down the People's Daily for a second and reflect.

The PLA is little better than the Russians when it comes to the quality of material and combat doctrine. The main difference with China is that they simply haven't pissed so much of what they have away in a poorly planned annex attempt. China has nothing to lose by waiting and making a few quick bucks from the Russians. They have everything to lose if they actually come forward and start a war.

Being able to fight for 2 more years means very little in terms of what might be accomplished or the ultimate outcome.

Nazi Germany fought for two entire years past the war being irreversibly lost, with absolutely no chance of victory at any point during that time. All they were doing was staving off inevitable defeat by sacrificing millions of men in a completely unwinnable war.

Russian land forces have already lost the best of everything it had prior to the war, having made incredibly little progress at enormous cost.

At this stage they're looking at increasingly diminishing returns. Having massive stockpiles of outdated equipment can maybe ensure they'll keep going, maybe make some limited gains, but it's not going to lead to ultimate victory and it's not remotely sustainable.

Putin seems to operating out of the Hitler playbook, desperately hinging on something external happening that'll reverse their misfortune or allow them to stabilise on a permanent basis. Political fractures, ending of western support, etc.

From a purely military POV Russia can continue to do major damage and occupy Ukrainian lands at enormous cost to themselves and their economy, but it's not capable of mounting war-winning offensives.

AFAIK Iraq did not have any t90s during the Kuwait war

What I find intriguing with all those aerial shots offie,dos and fields of all types of tanks -in Moscovy lined up in THE OPEN and if there for a year they must have been subjected to very harsh weather. One must wonder how operational they all are - unless they are started frequently, anti freeze is used, etc, etc,etc. these aerial shots remind me of the hundreds of air planes parked up in some of the deserts in the US because , I assume , they are gone past their sell by date re fratigue, etc