Russia

[Le Redditeur]

Including us. So how are we going to sanction them if they attack Taiwan again?

By blockading the South China Sea and letting them starve for a few months.

Letting China starve or Taiwan?

It's easier to starve the 1 billion pop country that can't grow even 20% of its food consumption.

[RAPEMAN]

Like I said, money would have been better spent feeding Taiwan than the shit hole that is the Ukraine. Maybe bordering Asian nations that hate China like India, Korea and Japan (and the rest, really) could team up and support Taiwan financially, not militarily to fuck over China. It would never happen but one could dream to see such unity.

[rabidtictac]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgr ... may-1-2023

The best source I have found yet for the Ukraine War, which isn't saying much. But at least they seem to be sincere in studying what is happening, rather than attempting to impose a result.



As costly as the gains may be for Russia, it does seem bakhmut is totally fucked.

[RAPEMAN]

They really need Kiev to make this a win. Also Bahkmut has mostly been erased from the map.

[Le Redditeur]

I gave up on following this shit over media a long time ago. It has been impossible to find out information that isn't just cheerleading, misleading/disingenuous propaganda, or even blatant lying. I understand that the nature of an ongoing war makes information about it speculative by nature (no warring party will make its internal affairs open source, of course), but it's still possible to do ´informed speculation, based on what is known and real projections instead of blatant propaganda.

The Institute for the Study of War is admittedly biased, but at least they don't seem to engage in lala fantasy land speculation and do seem to source their reports.

[AdorableOtter]

It seems depleted uranium ammunition (which UK sent) blew up in Ukraine's face and that fireworks allegedly cost €200M. It's probably the most retarded moment of this war so far.

[RAPEMAN]

Hurrrr oops!

(Hasn't the use of uranium slugs been banned since the horrors it left the Iraqis after the Gulf War?)

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

(Hasn't the use of uranium slugs been banned since the horrors it left the Iraqis after the Gulf War?)

Near as I can tell there isn't anything more than a "Please consider not using depleted uranium, okay?"-resolution.

[RAPEMAN]

All I can say is I'm glad it literally blew up in the west's faces.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

But not nearly as bad as Chernobyl