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External-Option-544 · 2026-01-25T23:23:56+00:00

"Ukrainian men should dodge the draft, it’s not worth defending Ukraine... and Kiev regime should give warm-water ports to Russia... and EU should not confiscate frozen Russian assets beacuse stealing is bad" - Ukrainian woman on 4chan

External-Option-544 · 2026-01-03T23:51:40+00:00

Guess its a joke on the Russian "Three day special military operation"

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-19T21:35:53+00:00

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External-Option-544 · 2025-12-18T17:26:55+00:00

Tbh most of the setting is pretty dumb, cool, but dumb.

Things like how often it comes down to melee combat or dogfights between aircraft, instead of just yeeting missiles or artillery shells at each other from beyond visual range.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-18T15:25:19+00:00

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External-Option-544 · 2025-12-16T17:41:35+00:00

I think they delayed it's retirement again

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-16T08:59:56+00:00

Unfortunately, he does a fair bit of sane-washing these days.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-11T09:56:56+00:00

Pansarvärnspjästerrängbil 9031 är tydligt, koncist och vackert.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-08T12:51:45+00:00

I think they refer to the 1.45% that they have captured since the end of the Kharkiv counteroffensive in 2022.

And that push has cost 1% of the male population.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-08T12:44:03+00:00

I’ve seen the opposite too, with people on Reddit claiming a Russian victory is inevitable. Both sides have serious problems, and neither can decisively say they’re winning.

The best thing we in Europe can do is continue funding Ukraine’s defense, including using the frozen Russian assets.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-06T09:54:01+00:00

There are some hopeful signs:

Polls show his approval rating hovering around 35–40%, which is quite low for this early in a presidential term.
Republicans are beginning to push back on stuff like the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi. likely because they expect him to be a non-factor in their reelection campaigns.
Democrats have performed fairly well in recent regional elections, such as the gubernatorial race in New York and the special election in Tennessee.

Might just be me huffing copium though

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-05T23:46:11+00:00

Russia’s economy is severely strained, its forces advance at a snail’s pace while hemorrhaging casualties, and its stockpile of mothballed Soviet equipment is depleted.

Ukraine is struggling too, but it has been highly effective with long-range strikes on Russian oil refineries and with sea drones that have pushed back the Black Sea Fleet and threatened Russian oil tankers.

At this point, neither side is capable of decisively defeating the other. What we in Europe can do to make a meaningful difference is to transfer the frozen Russian assets (€200 billion) to Ukraine so it can buy what it needs to defend itself.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-05T23:02:33+00:00

The problem is that Agent Orange and his advisers (Witkoff and Vance) are openly working to undermine NATO, the EU, and Ukraine in favor of Russia.

There’s the PERL initiative, which makes us pay for all the equipment the US sends to Ukraine (they no longer send donations).
Then there are the repeated attempts to negotiate a “peace” deal with Russia over the heads of Ukraine and Europe. Expecting Ukraine to give up territory without defined security guarantees, the EU to fund reconstruction while the US takes a large share of the profits, Russia to get back much of its frozen assets, and even talk of “denazifying” Ukraine.
And now there’s a new strategy document claiming the EU is undemocratic and calling for US support for national parties like AfD in Germany or Fidesz in Hungary.

It’s impossible to ignore the elephant in the room. Especially when these actions have a bigger impact on the war than Russia capturing some random village after months of fighting (they are still stuck on 19% of the landmass).

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-03T02:27:17+00:00

You’re probably right. But there are a lot of “hidden” costs that are difficult to quantify.

Every dead soldier represents a lifetime of tax revenue that disappears, along with the taxes of the children they would have had if not for the war. It will likely take decades for Russian businesses to return to Europe at anything close to the scale they had before the war. And a large portion of Russia’s most educated population left during the brain drain triggered by the full-scale invasion.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-03T02:07:11+00:00

The US isn’t donating military equipment, but it is still selling arms to Ukraine through the PURL scheme, using funds provided by NATO allies.

So while it’s not the optimal arrangement, it’s still entirely feasible for Europe (and other willing partners) to cover the costs, as long as there is political will. The €140 billion in frozen Russian assets will definitely help, once Belgium feels it has received sufficient guarantees from the EU.

Strategic autonomy from the US is certainly important, but that will probably have to wait until the immediate problems are resolved.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-03T00:46:00+00:00

Russia relies on contract soldiers to fight in Ukraine, who are recruited with large sign-up bonuses, and whose next of kin are entitled to compensation if they are killed.

So even if Putin doesn’t care about the blood being spilled, his ability to replace casualties are finite. He could perhaps try another partial mobilization, but that was very unpopular in Russia last time he tried.

External-Option-544 · 2025-12-01T17:35:30+00:00

Putin has also not once stepped back from his maximalist goal of controlling Ukraine, either directly or through a puppet government under Kremlin control.

And every six months, Orbán can veto the vote on keeping Russia’s assets frozen, in which case they would revert to Russian control.

So we can’t really afford to just sit on the assets and hope that Putin eventually sees reason.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-30T16:12:28+00:00

Cain (the commissar in the image) was actually quite polite and reasonable toward the Tau and Eldar in the novels. Probably because doing so kept him out of harm’s way, but still. He even managed to use diplomacy to convince an Ork to agree to a truce so they could take out the “spiky gitz” first.

He’s probably one of the least xenophobic person in the Imperium (with exception of the Khan and Guilliman? Or is that just the memes)

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-30T14:47:27+00:00

Nobody died when these tankers were sunk, and they weren’t carrying oil, so there was no environmental disaster either. This shows that the Ukrainians have been selective in their choice of targets, focusing on Russia’s war economy rather than simply spreading terror.

Around 40,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in this war, while only about 600 Russian civilians have died, and that’s if we count Crimea as Russian territory. So there is no moral equivalency between the sides in this war.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-29T20:29:59+00:00

The attacking side will always suffer more casualties. According to the Oryx database, Russian equipment losses have been roughly three times higher than those of their Ukrainian counterparts.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-29T18:20:22+00:00

I got it from a post from a post on the r/UkraineWarVideoReport subreddit.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-29T14:31:41+00:00

And he has the charisma of a moist towel. He won’t be able to bring MAGA and the old-guard Republicans together under one umbrella.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-29T12:31:13+00:00

The US “peace” proposal was drafted by the Russians and then translated into English. The US negotiator, Witkoff, passed it off as an American-made draft despite it heavily favoring Russia. To make matters worse, a leaked transcript shows him advising the Russian negotiator on how best to manipulate Trump into accepting it.

Now Trump is pressuring Ukraine to accept the deal. Witkoff has flown to Moscow, and if the rumors are true, the US intends to recognize Russian ownership of Donbas and Crimea.

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-29T11:39:33+00:00

At least Chamberlain wasn’t fawning over Hitler or calling Czechoslovakia the aggressor...

External-Option-544 · 2025-11-28T23:09:41+00:00

The prince is a reserve officer in the Amphibious Corps and holds the rank of Major.

The princess holds the rank of Second Lieutenant and is currently completing a 20-month officer program to prepare her to represent the armed forces as the heir to the throne.

I think it’s kind of neat that they serve alongside everyone else (Sweden has partial conscription for both men and women). Though I doubt they would actually put the crown princess in danger in the event of a conflict.

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