Does whether or not Ukraine can win affect the calculus for the Biden admin in any way? Politicians on both sides have described the war as a way of killing Russians without spending a single drop of American blood, and every bomb sent justifies/enables more campaign donations.

The only thing that would be problematic for them would be a quick victory or loss.

I am blocked by WSJ for using an adblocker, do you have an archive link?

Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline

Why do our teeth grow in less perfectly now?

She’s a teacher, so she has kids that aren’t hers, and probably pays her phone bill and auto loan and student debt (and possibly rent to her shitty parents). Those parents of course don’t consider those real bills.

A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

Did it? I remember a ton of propaganda about Putin and Russia going back to the Obama era, but then they’d show off stuff the USSR had developed to fight a war in Germany/Ukraine against late 1900s American equipment and tactics.

Whereas China was showing off their modern fighters, tank and ship production, and an entire branch of the military dedicated to missiles, and greater numbers than any other military.

it’s a pretty bold claim to say that EVERY nation with a military has tried to invade

It’s only the slightest exaggeration..

Between 1915 and 1920, they were invaded by: United Kingdom, France, US, Japan, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, China, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and I’m sure I missed a few more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russia_intervention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_intervention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_intervention

All of those happened before the modern safeguards were adopted by the US.

Which modern safeguards are you talking about? There’s been ~32 official broken arrow incidents between 1950 and 1980, and multiple safeguards were tried during that period. Modern 2 point detonation safety goes back to the early 60s

We just don’t know for sure if the Soviet leftovers Russia has were upgraded to the same atandards.

We do know the soviets had their own share of accidents. I wasn’t able to find any info on soviet nuclear weapon design safety mechanisms, but I feel like we’d have seen at least one nuclear blast if they didn’t have them.

It’s copium to acknowledge that Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country 58 years ago, and that modern Russia and Ukraine are able to achieve far less than the USSR was? This is evidenced by both countries primarily fighting with 30+ year old weapons.

I guess basic historical literacy is tankie shit now.

if you’re exploring these avenues simply to lose weight you’re lazy

Fuck off. I guarantee you that every single person considering medication to control weight has tried exercise and diet.

Please don’t shoot yourself if 5-10 planes just happen to fly parallel

The USSR couldn’t have achieved a fraction of what it did without all its SSRs working together.

Hell it probably wouldn’t have survived getting invaded by every country with a military after WWI without both Russia and Ukraine.

Most nukes are designed such that they only create a nuclear blast when detonated electronically.

We’ve had nukes fall out of airplanes and explode, or nuclear-tipped missiles explode in the silo, without a nuclear blast.

Most nukes are designed such that they only create a nuclear explosion if they’re detonated electrically.

The US has reported dropping or misplacing like a dozen nukes before they stopped reporting them. Typically they’d just send people out to see if they can find the core, and if not, just say “guess if we can’t, nobody else will find it”

Satan 2 literally is a nickname.

The official NATO reporting name is SS-X-29

The official Russian name is RS-28

It can carry multiple warheads, including nuclear ones, with estimates suggesting it can deliver up to 10–15 independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).

Oh good, if only one single missile in Russia’s entire arsenal goes off, we’d only loose 10-15 cities.

Try to copy Ukrainian missile from 58 years ago

When both Russia and Ukraine were part of the USSR?

Second greatest military in the world!

The USSR hasn’t existed for >30 years, since then, Ukraine and Russia have done little but feed on its corpse. Does anyone honestly think modern Russia has a better military than China?

But who needs facts when there’s a fascist state to sieg heil for?

What the fuck are you talking about? I’m not pro-Russia because I point out that these numbers are unrealistic. Maybe in a few years when the fervor goes down, you’ll look back and realize that take is no different than calling people who opposed Iraq and Afganistan terrorist supporters.

Given that there’s 2 orders of magnitude difference between what Ukraine and Russia claim Storm Z is, anyone who thinks they can either has access to information that we don’t, or accepts low-confidence information.

Russia has way higher losses because the use meat waves to try to grind down Ukraine

Russia has a lot more equipment to employ than Ukraine, “meat waves” is just recycling the nazi “Asiatic hordes” myth.

But yes, while we do expect higher casualties for the attackers, 6:1 is not realistic for peer adversaries.