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  1. 2 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:


    I believe the blast radius of a 100MT nuclear weapon is about 40 miles. That’s 40 miles in every direction. How many did the Chernobyl meltdown kill? 60 people?

    lol - USSR I think acknowledged 39 total deaths directly attributed, but it was more like hundreds of thousands via cancers and shorter life spans.  Maybe even upward of a million.  Remember, they used human "liquidators" to clean the roof of the exposed radioactive graphite.  

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  2. Just now, TXSG8R said:

    I’m starting to believe Putin wants to draw NATO in. He dangled a 40 mile convoy, and now he’s doing an oops on a nuke plant?  

    No, this is what happens when you have a population of uneducated hicks and you send them to war.  They are just plain ignorant morons with big weapons and no concept of context  

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  3. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    They are launching missiles at it. Probably unintentionally because of incompetence. 

    Also, if they hit any of the containment with the shelling, there will be a spike in radiation for sure, but nothing like Chernobyl so long as they stop the reactor and repair the damage.  For weeks if not months after Chernobyl Cesium 137 spewed from it, that's gamma radiation on such a massive scale that it's like that everyone in the world to this day has trace levels of it in them.  

  4. 2 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

    From what little I understand. It won't explode like a bomb or anything, but it can crack and leak and turn into another Chernobyl depending on where they shell.

    Well, safety systems should act to shut everything down automatically should anyone system fail, i.e. coolant, power, etc.  So nothing like Chernobyl, where all the safety systems were deliberately bypassed. Additionally, the Chernobyl control rods had graphite tips that the operators didn't know about which is what actually caused the explosion because when they went to reinsert the control rods (that should have never been removed to the level that they were, a whole different problem), the graphite caused the reaction to spike, thus causing the actual explosion.  To my knowledge the Russians actually did change this practice moving forward and retroactively replaced the boron control rods that had graphite tips.  

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

    I mean, I’m not try to split hairs or be unpatriotic but… Russians would take the gold if we had to go up against them in crack, mdma or methamphetamines. With out question. While we would destroy them in prescription pills, cannnabis and cocaine. 

    just trying to offer facts

    USA new national motto:  We aren't number 1 in Meth! 

  6. 1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:


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    Indeed, sort of Dr. Evil like shit, nonsensical.  That having been said, I imagine this has to be nipped in the bud right away.  The FBI can issue reward money for arrest or capture of anyone afoul of the law, but a private person (yes even not a citizen) doing this under any guise from our soil is strictly illegal.  Where would it stop, this has to be prosecuted, otherwise we are turning a blind eye towards lawlessness, which could be contrived legally as state sanctioned murder.  This will be an unpopular opinion but if we don't shut this down we risk looking lawless in the eyes of the international world.  

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Pods said:

    It don't know if I'd call it Ukraine winning, but I don't think the Russians have any options left that result in a win. Their equipment is outdated and they don't have enough. I don't see how they logistically maintain a siege, when they can't even come close to supporting the units they have deployed currently. 

    Hannibal marched up and down Italy for 15 years kicking the shit out of the Romans every time they faced, but Rome refused to admit defeat. Extreme stubbornness is damn hard to beat. I see that in the Ukrainians and they are doing far better than the Romans ever did against Hannibal until Zama. 

    I think the more Putin hits Ukraine, the harder they will fight. Long-term, Russia is fucked and will retreat in disgrace. 

    I'm fearful that a few morale crushers could hurt Ukrainian prospects, but may strengthen their collective resolve.  I'm highly concerned that we haven't heard about Kharkiv tonight, to me it signals that the Russians may well have escalated the attack there and may well have flattened the city.  The longer they continue to hold in area's like Kharkiv, where the Russian's expected virtually bloodless transitions, the more apt their Generals are to unless everything they have at those targets.  

  8. 5 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    At what point do I start thinking the Ukrainians can win this thing? With the assumption that a tactical nuke isn’t used. Which I like as an assumption, because it fits my preferred world view. 
     

    I guess it’s when I feel like the Russians have reached their peak military investment in the invasion, and they’re still not really getting anywhere. I’m not there, yet, but it’s no longer beyond my imagination. 
     

    That national review article about their lack of training and leadership, and how it affects counterintuitive local fire fights, compared with a single American unit in a fire fight in 2003 Iraq, was illuminating. Thank you for sharing @phdhorn

    In the long run 100% confident they will win.  In the short term, things could become extremely awful, lots, and I mean lots of civilian and militia casualties and death.  My hope is that someone kills Putin and ends this madness, but that seems unlikely.  

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