These new air-bursting drones are just death. It's the UCAV on Battlefield 4 before they nerfed it. Automatic targeting on some too now.I remember somebody here complaining that if the Russians had such heavy losses, then we'd see some corpses. Which really only revealed that they went out of their way to avoid looking at frontline pictures.
Anyway, this is for them:
Your daily reminder that it's the Russians who are the Nazis. Because some people around here are extremely reticent to acknowledge basic facts.
South America is mostly out of the way of global trade routes, except for the Panama Canal. Not comparable to places like Bab-el-Mandeb or the Malacca Straits. The continent is also largely peaceful; the biggest factor of instability are drugs and revolutionary or counter-revolutionary guerillas rather than inter-state conflicts. So there haven't been much reasons for foreign powers to seek to deploy a permanent military presence.
But legally, nothing stops it. Monroe doctrine has no binding legal value to anyone.
As you can see on this maritime traffic map, there's very little traffic along South America unless it is the origin or destination of said traffic.
When Russia annexed Crimea there were massive demonstrations against that move in Donetsk city. Huge crowds waving blue-and-yellow flags. Then the FSB and Russian military removed the patches from their uniforms, claimed to be Donetsk people, and created a fake independence movement.
Ukrainians wanted to be Ukrainians and independent. Including in the Donbass. Your anti-incumbency argument isn't enough to explain an absolute majority not just of voters, but of the actual entire voting base, desiring independence.
Russia is a corrupt shithole of a country, the most corrupt in Europe.
Ukraine is corrupt due to Russian influence, and their fight against corruption was interpreted by the Kremlin as a fight against Russia.
Are things perfect yet? No. But they were getting better, and Russia invaded to make sure they would go back to getting worse.
It's also no surprise that in the EU, the most pro-Russian countries and politicians are also the most corrupt.
Finally, your daily reminders that it's the Russians who are the Nazis:
Fun fact, far-right political parties in the EU got their funding from Russia, because Russia is very invested in spreading Neo-Nazi ideology since Neo-Nazi ideology is indistinguishable from Russian ideology.
Russia is attacking with these vehicles. They're not used only behind the lines, they are used in combat roles.
Russia also experimented attacking with bikes and quads recently.
Yeah, but there are far more of them in Russia and the Russian government's policies are definitely ultranationalist if not full Nazism.These guys are everywhere.
Valkyrie, really. Try again when you know what you're talking about.That's Valkyrie, a very old Slavic symbol. It has nothing to do with the Germans.
Not really. It could certainly be useful in case of direct military confrontation, but is a direct military confrontation with a nuclear superpower and owner of the world's strongest military what you want to do?Miltary presence in South America is extremely critical for US enemies.
No, it's because maintaining a permanent deployed base on foreign soil is expensive and only worth it if they can help you secure vital logistic lines or access to resources. Having to maintain a steady flow of logistics across the Pacific Ocean, and protecting this flow so that your foreign bases are not easily cut off in case of conflict, is also a problem.But they haven't done it. 'Cause sovereignty is just eyewash.
Nope, not to that extent. Russia would not have needed to send its military to seize administrative buildings by force, shoot the actually elected mayors, and replace them with FSB operatives, if there was enough "anti-incumbency" to get Donbass people to want to become Putin's slaves.That's how it works.
Funded by Russia.These guys are everywhere.
That's because they got freed of Russian influence very quickly. To the dismay of Russia who, as usual, whines about a supposedly oppressed Russian minority.I don't see anything special about all the Baltic states that are in the EU.
There are mall fires in Russia like every month or so.@randomradio, @RASALGHUL Okay, now the ninnies at HT are talking about a mall fire in Moscow? Was there a mall fire in Moscow recently??? What are these crackpots even talking about. India could save a lot of money simply by turning a portaloo upside down, instead of having HT. Content would be the same.
What are you talking about?@randomradio, @RASALGHUL Okay, now the ninnies at HT are talking about a mall fire in Moscow? Was there a mall fire in Moscow recently??? What are these crackpots even talking about. India could save a lot of money simply by turning a portaloo upside down, instead of having HT. Content would be the same.
This. I can't even figure out which event it's talking about.What are you talking about?
LOL! BTW, I don't get my news from HT.