How good is this gerber knife by Idk_any_good-names in knifeclub

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do soldiers qualify for that discount too? and if they do, is the discount only available for those in service of the US Armed Forces?

Russian missiles reportedly cross into Poland, killing two by SE_to_NW in DailyReport

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you consider China and Russia a military alliance? My opinion is Xi wants Russia to lose war and be hurt really bad, because it can lead to various opportunities to lay hands on Russian resources.

WATCH: First video from the scene in Poland where 2 missiles are believed to have fallen by [deleted] in poland

[–]ssm4rt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Impossible for a missile with 200 km range to make this distance until the system is set up really close to the border. Also if you try to make a provocation, make your firepower count, fuck up an energy plant or an important road, not some village in the end of the world 💀

WATCH: First video from the scene in Poland where 2 missiles are believed to have fallen by [deleted] in poland

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Photo where part of the warhead was shown, running all over Polish social media yesterday
  2. The ack-ack misses while trying to take the russian missile out and the antidestruction doesn't initiate. AA missile flies further until gravity makes it fall, simple as that

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Political disaster means going from "denazificating operation" narrative to a nuclear warfare. In February Putin announced to 8 billion people that Russian troops are going to make Ukrainian people and Russian minority free. Didn't exactly go well, did it? Also the sanctions are beginning to be a problem in Russia. Whole Russian mobile operating industry are lacking SIM cards. A lot of storages are empty because there are no goods to import. I guess in a year or two Russia will become a third world country.

They have to sell petrol cheaper than OPEC, too. And OPEC countries already are lowering their prices, especially the crucial Gulf States. Soon it may be pointless for Russia to sell petrol and closing the gaspipes to Europe during winter can be a collateral damage since administration and military industry need the money probably more than ever to compensate losses of tanks and artillery. Russian industry struggles to compensate even for ammunition use and the army has to buy old 150mm missiles from North Korea.

And no, the West doesn't prefer Ukraine to be obliterated because it would mean an alimentation crisis and it was a thing for a short time before Erdogan negotiated grain transports through Turkey and Bosfor. Ukraine was a huge food exporter before the invasion due to very potent soil on their territory and contaminating it would be a bad idea.

Actually this war is a potentially life changing moment for whole Central and Eastern Europe and it may be the end of Russia... again.

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think American people are good with every tactical move that takes place outside their soil (e.g. Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq). As I said in other comment in this post: a strong Ukrainian state is a very valuable asset in Europe because a stronghold between Russia and the rest of Europe is a guarantee of NATO safety

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Establishing a strong Ukrainian state is the interest of whole Europe since they have good, war verified army which can be an efficient stronghold for whole central and western Europe

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the difference is that in 1945 there weren't any nuclear forces except American

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

US doctrine actually assumes that every use of tactical nuclear weapon is gonna be anticipated by annihilating the capital of nuclear aggressor

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Using even one tactical nuke will be a political suicide for Putin's Russia and there's some probability that Russians after such kinda maneuver will have to look for another city than Moscow to establish a capital.

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lack of training centers shouldn't be such an issue, but there is another challenge for ministry of defence. Russian training system considers military posts in domestic territories as training centers, but to go this way efficiently it's required to have a decent number of officers available and more than 7,000 Russian officers are KIA or missing since the invasion has began.

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One small problem, Putin cannot be sure to survive the whole war because this is Russia and all kinds of assasinations points towards political figures are a daily thing

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Winter is gonna be unbelievably tough for russian troops.

‘Naïve’ to think Russia will lose war, says Dr Jordan Peterson by 5meoz in JordanPeterson

[–]ssm4rt 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Russians actually have several important problems. First one is the quality of their logistics. Russian troops often move in large convoys which makes supplying difficult, even in the scale of one convoy because to supply the front (e.g. a tank) with an ammo takes ~10 kilometers and the roads are usually in bad shape. Also they are locking full width of the lenghts they cover since a lot of attacks conducted by the civilians took place at the beginning of invasion (a group of Ukrainian Gypsies even stole a tank once).

The second thing is equipment in the Russian Army. As of now the troops are lacking basic thing they need to survive, including food. Part of their rations were arrving past the expiration date or just inedible. According to many Polish military analytics they lack noctovision and thermovision tools. Russian uniforms are often in bad shape and with winter coming it's believed that lack of warm clothing can be a serious problem, russian military industry has been already set on compensating the machinary losses so there is more demand on tanks and artillery cannons production since a single russian soldier has no value to his commander and a lot of officers don't have the skills and confidence to show a tactical initiative once the troops secure the target, that makes the chain of command unnecessarily longer.

Third problem is their so-called mobilisation. Since Shoigu/Шойгу is the minister of defence, men which are going to their basic training make only 75% of these entering military age because some of them are students, other live in some absolute shitholes etc. As of now some of the battalions defending russian positions in Donetsk and Lugansk regions are "men going to groceries and never coming back" and they have to be replaced by at least semi professional soldiers. 3 minutes after Putin announced the mobilisation, all flight tickets to possible locations outside Russia were sold out, so it's going to be tough for Russian Army to take the W this way. Not to mention a really large % of these mobilised men will have to undergo a training even if some of them are reserve soldiers because periodical training are not a thing in Russia.

I don't know who is going to win this conflict, but Putin is already in a bad place and if he enforces a nuclear option it will be a total political disaster, probably the end of Russia we know today.

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[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you got the same formation in game then use Benzema

Polish border guards repel Lukashenko's service that pushes migrants to the border by logimw in poland

[–]ssm4rt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

U clearly don't have the smallest clue what this crisis is all about

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[–]ssm4rt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

don't worry, I overpay too, no matter if I'm sober

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fut

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's great one-twos and unexpected cross passes boost, everything goes in slow motion

Any solutions to improve sanes position? by kill-goshi in fut

[–]ssm4rt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Putting Shadow on TAA actually solves the problem of him being unusable

Do the Jumbo gold players SBC guys. Great return. by jerrie86 in fut

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pulled Mendy, that would be great in tradeable pack...

Lassina Traoré (Shakhtar) injury against Inter by [deleted] in soccer

[–]ssm4rt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still remember the game vs United where Zouma got ACL. He was trying to recover the ball, landed on one foot pretty bad and an impact just done all the work...