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The Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Cavoli, said this week that Russia has completely reconstituted its army, and that its ground forces are now 15% larger than when the war began.

Only 10% of the Air Force has been affected.

Only the Black Sea Fleet has suffered any attrition, whereas other fleets grew in strength.

Electronic warfare and cyber capabilities have multiplied.

Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia is will be larger, more lethal, and angrier with the West than when it invaded.

Don't trust my word for it, and read the actual transcript of his testimony before the Armed Services Committee in the House.

Source: armedservices.house.gov/sites/republicans.armedservices.house.gov/files/USEUCOM%20GEN%20Cavoli%20CPS_HASC_2024.pdf

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You have been conditioned by decades of normality to think that people like me are loons.

For yours, and my sake - I hope you are right.

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There's enough blame to go around. But I'm quite serious that people do not appreciate how some of the more recent rhetoric, could be a harbinger of something not very nice at all.

Of all of you - I am the least interested in such a development.

Some people may subconsciously want to see the world burn. Not me.

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These kinda comments will bring us to WW 3.

We should be careful we do not feed the fire, unless we know the information is 100% confirmed. Even then, it may not be wise to share it.

People are not giving themselves an honest account of how close to Armageddon we are.

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@Velund

That the company, where Biden's son was on the board, financed terrorist activity in Russia... I simply cannot subscribe to.

Too convenient and too transparent an attempt at manipulating the elections in the United States. Purely intended for a domestic Russian audience, and the less intelligent in America.

The world is not some version of House of Cards. It's quite a bit more complicated, with many actors involved.

I wish my government the best of luck in propagating this narrative, however I cannot help but feel that valuable time and opportunities are being lost elsewhere.

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@cms neuf

A periodic culling of the herd, leads to an overall healthier constitution for the whole.

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I ain't going anywhere.

When this war is over, the truly fun times on PF will begin.

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A hard drive has limited capacity, however large. They must make more allocations for grievances than knowledge.

It's the only answer which makes sense.

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A problem for another day. In the meantime, this is what the international press writes about:

Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying relations between Russia and China had reached an "unprecedented level" and that President Vladimir Putin's re-election in March offered "additional guarantees" for the strengthening of ties.

Wang assured his counterpart that China would "continue to support Russia's development and revitalisation under the leadership of President Putin", the Chinese foreign ministry said."

Source: ft.com/content/272e71e6-a355-4099-9640-3c7694316722

This was a big middle finger to America, by China. Janet Yellen left just a few days before Lavrov arrived, and sternly warned China of "significant consequences" if it continued to aid in rebuilding the Russian industrial base.

China probably didn't like to be spoken to in this way. It probably also didn't like that while being asked for favors by Janet Yellen, with its other hand the West maneuvered Japan to join the AUKUS alliance and further prodded the Philippines into standing firm on its territorial claims.

Finally, Xi likes Putin and models his rule on Putin's. Putin just got reelected. You could say, in a way, that the Russian people have confirmed in Xi's eyes the reasons for why it's necessary to align with Russia.

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A thought occurred to me today.

I grew up hearing - "Russia has no allies", "Nobody wants anything Russia has to sell", and so on... and so forth.

In this war, a critical role was played by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Now, increasingly, China is beginning to play a very important role as well.

Though I was not his fan, for a long period of time, this makes me somewhat appreciate Putin's genius more. When everybody on the Russian liberal opposition side was cracking wise jokes about Putin and his little fan club of dictators, the common sense proposition seemed to be that we should be friends with rich and pluralistic societies. However, Putin's actions did in fact prepare us for the type of existential war we are in now.

Where are Ukraine's friends? What are they saying now?

Meanwhile, Russia lost its currency reserves, was disconnected from the international financial system, and is burdened by the heaviest sanctions regime in world history - yet we still carry on. In many ways, thanks to these "friends", that did not abandon us.

Ukraine gets all the help in the world, isn't sanctioned by anyone, and yet seems utterly f*cked.

Putin, while not always the most clear-thinking person, had definitely correctly read the map of the world. It's astounding, also, how Iran and Korea are willing to recognize their share of the burden and repay past kindness. For a long time after this war, we will owe these people.

Just think about it - Ukraine had the pick of the litter with its friends, and now they are all abandoning them one by one. Putin seemed to relish collecting different freaks, and now they are actually standing by our side through thick and thin. Some lesson about life is hiding in there, somewhere.

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@Velund

We Russians must really be an ingenious people, if we can make a modern cruise missile from washing machines.

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How does it happen? Magic?

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Oil money never made anyone successful, except countries like Norway and Kuwait with microscopic populations.

In Russia we often talk about the Dutch Disease.

According to Wikipedia:

The term was coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of the large North Groningen gas field in 1959.

Another example of a country that suffers from disproportionate oil income is Scotland.

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I love you too, you miserable turd.

We'll teach you to love Russia too, before you leave this Earth.

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"[...] lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty."

There, I corrected it for you.

The USSR was a power for good, outside of the excesses of the Stalin period.

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Yes. We will destroy their hydroelectric dams and coal fired thermal plants... and they will destroy the roof of a single building at a manufacturing site which stretches across hundreds of hectares.

Quite asymmetric indeed.

They want to play at the high stakes table, even after their Western friends have pulled all support... so be it. We'll give them a shovel-full of sh*t to digest.

They try to strike our refineries and factories again - we'll turn the lights off in all of Ukraine.

I don't know what gave them the idea that this could ever be symmetrical.

They should instead spend their energy trying to get the US Congress and EU parliament to approve their assistance packages.

Bombing our factories with their makeshift drones,will quickly plunge them back into the Bronze Age.

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I've been hearing this for two and half years.

Ukraine crashes a remote-controlled Cessna into a Russian factory - "HOORAY!", "WHOAAA, HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED!"

Russia sends a missile barrage consisting of 100 state of the art cruise missiles capable of executing evasion maneuvers and firing off heat decoys - "RUSSIA IS RUNNING OUT OF MISSILES!".

It's hilariously biased. Russia destroys 20% of Ukrainian power generation over the course of two days, in response to Ukrainian attacks on our refineries - none of the PF crew cares to comment.

Ukraine crashes a plane into a factory roof - "START PACKING YOUR BAGS RUSSKIY".

Hahahahaha.

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I noticed you abruptly took an anti-Russian position, after a Russian called you a worthless piece of sh*t.

Until then, you were moving more or less in lockstep with your Republican friends.

How absolutely fascinating... as a study in human psychology.

Suffice it to say, you are now twice the loser in my eyes.

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Do you deserve it, slithering worm that you are?

I think.... not.

You are as the dirt under one's nails. The irritable squeal of a pig. The annoying tug of a mutt at your pant leg.

In brief, you are not worth spending even an ounce of emotional energy - such is your worthlessness.

Enjoy your last days, old man, and do not trouble me with your retardation.

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Do you need a threat to force you to do something?

I asked you politely to keep your idiocy out of this thread.

Edit: Recognize your superiors, animal.

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@johnny reb

Leave this thread please, you diseased idiot.

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@Novichok

I dream of the day when Russia and the US embrace each other, and remind everybody else what it looks like when we flex. (Hint: they won't be able to let so much as a fart out without our permission).

Then, even China, not some demented Europeans, will sh*t its pants.

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Useless to wait for this satisfaction.

We do our work. Quietly. Methodically. Unstoppably.

We do it not for outside recognition, but because we know we are right.

Engaging in their sophistry is to give them ground.

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Not the worst comparison.

It pleases my ego.

Brutality... with purpose.

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I show a lot of respect to Ukraine, more than 90% of Russian observers.

I did this for years, even before the invasion. I was watching closely what they were doing, and I knew it would be no picnic - because of their preparations.

People had an infinite belief in the strength of Russian arms after Syria. They thought, if we can do in 9 months in Syria, what America was not able to do in 10 years in Afghanistan and Iraq then we can steamroll Ukraine.

They ignored the fortifications, the arrival of Western ATGMs, the improvements in command and control, and so on, and so forth.

Ukraine has a powerful army, almost by any standard. Orders of magnitude more powerful than Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...

But we Russians don't do something unless it is hard. Some people mistake this for laziness. If somebody tells us something is impossible, that's when we become truly interested.

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If it was just them, they would have lost a long time ago.

Half their male population has fled.

The other half is hiding at home, afraid to go to the supermarket lest they be stopped by recruiters.

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They want us to roll over like the Europeans, and show our bellies.

America doesn't know how to deal with countries that are independent on equal terms.

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India and Turkey are dictatorships?

What happened to "the largest democracy in the world"?

Erdogan just lost a bunch of local elections in Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, and other places.

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You understand Russia quite well.

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What do you think, personally?

Is Russia in any form comparable to the US?

How about, at least Germany?

What country is more powerful, in your opinion, Russia or Germany?

Who should Russia be compared to? Nigeria? Indonesia? Turkey?