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Some of it has to do with being the defending country and supply lines, but we've all seen Russia's equipment, their history of maintaining that inventory, this including atrocious examples of what they consider battle-ready, and when you compare that with how Ukraine maintains and retrieves every piece of equipment as if it's the last one they'll ever get and that they actually care that their soldiers lives depend on it working in the field, then yeah, I've got no doubt they'll adapt and specialize and prize every one of these high end main battle tanks like the most precious thing in the universe.
Russian state TV reacted to the news of Leopard-2 tanks going to Ukraine by making comparisons to Afghanistan, resorting to nuclear threats and claiming that Ukraine was Russia's territory, because history and literature are more important than borders
— Julia Davis 

I don't know but I think it's really horrifyingly unsafe that the biggest bald-faced liars and criminal psychopaths actually DO have access to nuclear weapons.  At some level, I'm glad that they know that it will not end well for them. Yet they continue to play their fucking games.  An entire nation, willing to forgo all international relations and alliances, just for the luxury to act like complete assholes. >

My guess is that the CIA is making deals throughout the Russian power structure to ensure that doesn't happen. Want to live after all of this is over? Let's make a deal. >

If what's left of the Russian empire implodes the west is going to make sure they snag all remaining Soviet era nuclear weapons. >

That would be one less thing to worry about >

Estimated Russian losses from 24.02.2022 to 26.01.2023 (Day 337):
|Category              |Change*|Total     |
|:---|:---|:---|
|Personnel             |+780      |123860    |
|Tanks                 |+14      |3175      |
|APVs                  |+27     |6334      |
|Artillery             |+15      |2169      |
|MLRS                  |+2     |452       |
|Anti-aircraft Systems |-      |220       |
|Aircraft              |+2      |292       |
|Helicopters           |+1      |282       |
|UAVs                  |+6       |1908      |
|Missiles              |-      |749       |
|Warships / Boats      |-      |18        |
|Other Vehicles        |+19       |4986      |
|Special Equipment     |+1      |195       |
*Change since the previous day.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine >

Huge material losses >

“Maybe if we let all of our tanks get destroyed nato won’t send tanks” >

Donate directly to the Ukrainian government (for defence, medical aid, rebuilding efforts) via United24
Or look into other ways to help >

Got my recurring $24/ month donations set up for both the wife and me!
Anyone who can afford to should do the same! >

Near Svatova ? Which specific region you are talking about ? >

The alert is across all of Ukraine >

Holyshit, so this round entirely in russia's favour ? >

I don't know what you mean? 
Every oblast has been advised to seek cover and wait until the danger has passed. This has happened dozens of times before. >

Yeah, I mean Ukraine can't do something about for now? 
The only option is to seek cover and wait ? >

The Ukrainian air defenses will be trying to intercept them, if that's what you mean.
But Russian forces launch missiles with low accuracy into dense urban environments so yeah pretty much the only thing the majority of civilians can do is try and find somewhere safe and hope the missiles are either intercepted or on target for once. >

Russian tank tossing should be in the next summer Olympics >

Why does it feel that ukraine is playing a role playing game and only gets new equipment after it sufficiently levels up and completes assigned quests? >

That's basically experience in the making. The more they fight, the more battle-hardened troops they receive. 
Also after that quagmire in Afghanistan, the West is pretty reluctant to invest military hardware other than light arms and munitions until Ukraine proved they're grit and dedication to fight back with the right equipment supplied to them. >

This is real life not a contrived level up system.
Spending months on infantry offensives does not suddenly allow you to take a level in "combined armed warfare." >

No, but 60k UA troops training at NATO training centers does. >

What's the difference between the Shahed-131 and Shahed-136? >


The Shahed-131 has a range of less than a thousand kilometers, while the Shahed-136 has a range of a few thousand kilometers >

Not sure, both sound like lawnmowers and have less tech than a hobby RC plane. >

Well they are suicide drones, so you want the minimal amount of tech possible to achieve that. It's how they can build them so quick and cheaply, far more so than the huge and expensive SAMs that Ukraine often has to use against them.
So in that regard, cheap and nasty is a benefit. >

Normally, that logic applies,  but the Russians' minimal tech is so low tech that they are now intercepted almost 100% of the time.
And Ukraine doesn't use SAMs to irradicate these flying lawn mowers because they are large, slow, and noisy...  because Russia doesn't have the technology at scale to produce anything effective. >

So 24/24 for the Shahed Drones being intercepted. Now we have a missile attack underway. Probably wont know the results for that for a couple hours. I do not believe there are patriot systems in operation yet, but you never know. >

It's great that the drones aren't directly doing damage. Sadly that is their secondary objective. Primary objective seems to be to assist with the missile attack shortly after as well as to deplete Ukrainian AA ammo. >

LockMart is ready to supply allies, and possibly Ukraine, with the F-16:
(Soft paywall with Financial Times) Lockheed ready with F-16s as Kyiv allies revive debate over fighter jets >

Abrams need their falcons. >

Wasn't this talked about in the beginning of the war? >

It was and then it was suspended. Now that the prospect of delivery of F16 is on the horizon everyone will be offering their Soviet fighter jets in exchange for western airframes. >

Ukraine downs 15 drones in Kyiv >

Time for the russian bots to talk about healthcare. >

Am Americanski from utakh oblast, tank is my medicine, but now no medecine. Tank must be tank or medecine. If tank, I am died. >

Good news, fellow comrade from utah oblast. Tank is actually vodka so is medicine. >

Those half a million chumps Russia is conscripting for their next wave are going to be facing off against some of the best tanks in the world. >

Anyone have an article explaining what casualty thresholds matter as tipping points and why? I'm having a hard time understanding how < 1% of russia's working population even vanishing on the spot would land the nation in all that much trouble. I'm sure there are all kinds  of economic ripples, but I'm having trouble visualizing >

1% is a very misleading thing for economies. If you personally lose one percent of your income or your life quality it doesn't mean much. At a very large scale there are so many interconnected systems that the wrong 1% could spell doom for large parts of it. Especially in modern times where almost all work is extremely specialised. You can always default back to a lower level of technology but even losing a few years here means basically game over internationally. >

Also, that 1% is at the prime age range for productive work. Taking out the top producers is not good for the society. >

Slava Ukraini! >

Heroyam Slava! >

A bit off-topic, but how has the information flow regarding this invasion affected on Twitter since Musk took over ? Are we seeing any bias ?
Because on Youtube I have come across various clowns uploading some wannabe alpha shit about putin and stuff that just doesn;t make sense. >

Nothing says “alpha” like trying to pick on the little kid next door and he beats 7 shades of shit out of you. >

While crying to everyone that the kid shouldnt be allowed to fight back / other neighbours shouldnt be helping the kid. >

I get the feeling now that the West have given tanks, they are more likely to give some jets for the simple fact that they wouldn't want propaganda coming back of their tanks getting destroyed without being effective enough.
So having some F-16s for air support gives the tanks the best chance of success.
Long story short, if it was bad to be a Russian mobik, it's likely only going to get worse from here. >

Western tanks are going to be destroyed, there's no two ways about it. We all need to expect it, and expect that Russia will count each one 10 times. It's a real war, equipment is lost. All we can hope is that the crew have a better chance. >

Wappie (from Dutch). In reply to u/cagriuluc . Sorry I was unable to reply in time. You did get the right answer already. But here a bit more elaborate:
Wappie has been an insult in Dutch (so Netherlands and Flemish) similar to idiot/dumb. But pretty weak and not used much.
Now when covid came along and you got those antivaxers and the likes, we started to call them wappies. The weakness of the insult actually plays through. Antivaxers makes things edgier. A wappie? Oh you ignore and don’t pay attention to.
I believe myself many of the narratives from wappies have been pushed or at least helped by russian disinfo influence. Not limited to antivax and covid conspiracies, but it is the core of people who we as Dutch call wappies.
So as suggested in the comments from yesterday my comment is directed at: lets push for the internationalization of the word ‘wappie’.
/unrelated story out >

They also tell you to do your own research and don´t trust mainstream media.
Then link you to russianpropaganda . Ussr
If you link them a good source.
They claim fake mainstream media,  or say footage is from hollywood.
When they lose an argument they say, keep sleeping sleep. >

As a scientist, this one really gets under my skin. 'Do your own research' followed by a fucking facebook link... >

Those idiots couldn’t digest the abstract, let alone an entire paper or study.
Peer review and statistical analysis are not as good as their Google fact finding apparently. >

For the all the trolls and Russian bots who think that sending these tanks is an escalation on NATO’s part, It’s hard and lengthy to teach soldiers how to use a tank which is why they were so reluctant to give them the tanks in the first place. Russia may start another offensive by then at that point. Most likely February since that would mark the one year anniversary of the war. So preparing tanks is a wise decision. They should have gave Ukraine those tanks a long time ago. >

Perhaps a bit earlier. Last year the Chinese Olympics were ongoing and Potato Fuhrer didn't want to tick off Xinne the Poo. >

Russia is really not going to retaliate with all the tanks coming. I mean to be fair wth are they really gonna do. >

Large drone attack on cities today. Really just another missile tantrum in disguise, but that's their response it seems >

They used launch something every 10 days, tho the gap has been increasing longer and longer (now 15). Really seems like they are running how >

Either 'NATO is in direct conflict with Russia' is the new troll talking point, or it weighs really heavily on people's minds today. I've seen three separate people talk about it in this thread already. >

The trolls are panicking about new western armor while they’re simultaneously running out of armor. I’ve seen the same thing come up. >

When the Kremlin says U.S.-supplied tanks will 'burn' in Ukraine they are projecting from their personal experience of having a literal shit-ton of tanks burn in Ukraine. >

They’ve also been spreading misinformation about how Abrams are terrible tanks and the logistics challenges make them not worth the effort and that they’ll be ineffective in the field. The implication of course that Ukrainians can’t hack it. 
The US wouldn’t use them if they were shitty tanks that were more trouble than they’re worth. Each one is a huge net positive for Ukraine. And of course we also know that the Ukrainians have proven to be extremely capable on western systems.