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Crimea is obviously much smaller and easier to secure. It will be much easier to slip arms into larger Ukraine if that’s something we allow our 3 letter agencies to do.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44439/russias-frightening-multi-prong-invasion-of-ukraine-has-only-just-begun This is one of my follows for military stuff. I assume some/all of this stuff was probably linked while I was asleep, so I’m not digging through it all. And maybe paranoid, but you Austin guys may want to avoid the 7th and Brazos area for the foreseeable future.

We have a bunch of rare earths here in the states. The problem is refining.

Very little, but they benefit from Russia’s destabilizing effects on the US. They also don’t have too many anti-west partners that can impart the influence that Russia can. Sure, the NORKs and Iran really hate us, but in the grand scheme of things their sphere of influence is dogshit. I don’t think Xi will stick his neck out for Putin, but I also don’t see him joining in anything that hurts Russia either. A strongly worded letter would be about the worst I would expect even for something like genocide.

If they were running dark Russia could shoot it down and claim they were being attacked by an unknown plane. They are also letting Russia know that their shit is on blast. It also provides great cover for something that is running dark.

It’s pretty damn good. Bosses are brutal on legendary though.

So I knew my grandmother had a fuel based heating system added to her house almost a decade ago. I was curious what she thought about all of this. Apparently it runs on biogas that is produced in her village. One of the cow farmers decided to put all that shit he had laying around to use and started up biogas production. He offered it for free to anyone in the village that wanted it, with the caveat that he would start charging after a few years. He still has yet to charge her, so her only worry is the price of gas for the car she rides in like once every 2 weeks. She still has her wood burning heater and a decent amount of wood. Her neighbors that didn’t switch over to biogas still rely completely on wood. I know that’s not an option in the cities, but I’m curious how big of an impact the fuel stuff has on rural Germans. I know both of her sister in neighboring villages have a similar setup (house built around a wood burning heater, fuel based stuff added later), but they don’t get their fuel oil/biogas for free.

You’re missing the forest for the trees. A large point was their rampant misuse of the term, but ignoring it when convenient.

Corporations aren’t communist either, that’s never been the point of the label with that side. Pedantry noted though.

I know we are becoming immune to cognitive dissonance, but how do people simultaneously rail about communism 24/7 and then hear praise for Putin from the ironclad leader of the GOP and not bat an eye? How do you bleat about inflation and the rising cost of gas in every news cycle and then completely ignore how the communist of all communists is destabilizing oil markets for the foreseeable future? It’s almost like if you can’t blame it on Biden or the left it’s somehow not a news story according to certain fair and balanced news companies. Putin ignores a sovereign nations borders and chooses to carve out more of it for himself and his communist empire? “NIMBY, Putin doesn’t call me racist, why should we care?” Trudeau breaks up protests that are directly impacting US trade and inflation. LOOK AT THIS FUCKING COMMUNIST FASCIST FUCK INFRINGING ON FREEDOMS, LETS INVADE. I don’t understand how their necks withstand the whiplash.

There’s nothing rare about the material, but we have allowed China to completely take over the ore processing because it’s extremely dirty for the environment and their labor prices can’t be beat. If they shut off the pipe most manufacturing stops. It’s not just cell phones, they are used in almost everything; cars, appliances, computers, defense industry, etc. Thanks to JIT logistics and profits over everything board mentality, no one has any realistic stockpiles to weather the storm until non-Chinese refining could be stood up to compensate. It’s a way bigger hurdle to overcome than cheap labor/manufacturing.

It’s funny that the party that makes up shit like corporate communism gets all mumble mouthed when communist communism is right in their face. This should be the easiest of slam dunks, but instead we get dissembling. Strange.

Yup, a double 6 of Acosta and Adams would be bueno in Azteca. I would honestly start LDLT at the 8 and bring Musah on at 60 to bring the gas. Genuinely curious to see how Pepi handles this, and is handled by GGG. Dude is going to be super overhyped for Mexico, so maybe start him and be ready with Pefok to close out when he has his adrenalin crash.

If you think Germany was beholden to Russian gas, wait until you find out about the modern world’s complete reliance on China for rare earths. We aren’t doing shit to China.

You weren’t told that, you were provided with that quote from a video that you posted you moron.

The Koreans mark those temporary mines with little flags. They aren’t any kind of secret, it’s there to slow the NORKs down to give Seoul a little more time to GTFO. The rock drops are way cooler than the mine fields. Probably for another thread.

They cook off.

Korea? SK doesn’t follow our doctrine on mines, and it’s their stuff in the DMZ. I do know they have a system that is reusable that they deploy in the rice paddies in the winter. Stick them in the soft stuff, can’t get to them in the cold without setting them off. When things thaw they go in and disarm and put them to bed until the next winter. Being a SK farmer north of Seoul is sketchy.

I should also add that there’s an AP mine interspersed with each pack of vehicle mines. The AP mines deploy filament triggers, creating cover for the AT mines. It’s next to impossible to approach these without cooking something off. No one is walking up and disarming these to reuse somewhere else.

No, after a fuse timer reaches zero they blow up. edit: max setting is 15 days.

All US mines have timed fuses, so no matter what our terrain denial is temporary. It’s been more than 20 years since I trained on the volcano, but I think the maximum setting was like a week.

Me either, but I spent a year in Korea in the army and spent half my childhood in Germany. I knew what the Fulda gap was before I had a favorite football team. I wonder if we passed any of this old shit off on Ukraine, lord knows we never used it.

Terrain denial is a tough game, and one of the big reasons Russia wanted to go now is so they aren’t limited by soft ground creating known approaches. Ukraine is surrounded on 3 sides by Russian troops potentially. Way too much ground to cover. They have a much better chance allowing forward heavy elements to pass and then start the asymmetric stuff on supply lines and softer targets that follow.