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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 1:42:25 GMT 1
This shitester is of course perfectly aware that "fiduciary duty" has never meant that you must let anyone buy your company. Everyone knows that's not the law at all, and he's a lawyer.
Gross stuff.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 3:22:12 GMT 1
The problem is that Nato was never meant to actually fight anyone. In a nutshell, it was and still is a club to intimidate others to secure preferential commerce and also sustain the global defense industry. None of the European members ever thought of actually fighting anyone, let alone Russia.
Germany and France have good stuff, perfect for Ukraine now, but there aren't tons of them. They are very, very reluctant to give away what they have, and you would be too if you were in their shoes.
And, needless to say, Zelensky has been half-acting all along, as any wartime leader must.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 3:30:15 GMT 1
I own a Japanese book about Nazi German art, and it's amazingly full of homoeroticism. You really get the impression that every fucking male in Germany was secretly craving for male flesh or something back in the days despite the strongly anti-homosexual discourses.
The psychology - the anti-homosexual homoeroticism, if you will - is more complex than that, but that stuff really is a huge giveaway, of an "ethos".
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 8:53:40 GMT 1
It's kind of amazing that there are still idiots, highly paid idiots, who think the "Nazi Germany's main foe in Europe was the USSR" argument/fact is some contrarian exaggeration. I still meet such a person almost every two months- I've just met another one! - and every single one of them has been either American or British or Canadian or Australian (See the pattern?). Overwhelmingly American and British of course.
The feeling that I get when I talk to them is no better than the discomfort that I had when I had a "discussion" with a North Korean.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 9:01:27 GMT 1
70%-80% of all German casualties in WWII occurred on the Eastern Front, and I'm being very, very generous to the D-Day-loving "The US/UK defeated the Nazis!" crowd with these numbers. Many historians argue that it's as much as 85%, and I'd say that's closer to the reality.
And yes, when I say the USSR, it's the Soviet troops plus American supplies. That's what defeated Germany. The US fought hard in both theaters, but in terms of manpower and resources (for their own use) the US military's main foe was Imperial Japan, the Imperial Navy in particular.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 9:23:22 GMT 1
Soldiers aren't machines. They will have been in gruesome urban battles for weeks in Mariupol. They will be in no condition to just move to another front to fight another battle. It doesn't work like that. Mariupol has been a total hell for everyone involved.
Any source who says shit like this casually is completely untrustworthy. Any sensible journalist should know thta.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 14:32:14 GMT 1
What does this even mean, NYT? What an awkward waltz. "Yes, most of the Azov guys are neo-nazis, but that doesn't mean Ukraine is run by Nazis." would be such a simple - and correct - statement, but it's a pity that they are clearly not allowed to use the N-word to describe *anyone in Ukraine*.  |
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 14:41:18 GMT 1
I've been hearing disconcertingly many nuke talks from Russia. People, including many Russians, are clearly worried.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 15:14:41 GMT 1
It indeed has, but I'm just amazed by the sheer scale and complexity of the operations. This is turning into a major war, somewhat reminiscent of the battles in WWII.
It's always a very bad idea to underestimate the Russian military, but do I believe that the current Russian military, with as little preparation as it had, is able to pull it off?
No, I don't, FWIW.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 15:22:47 GMT 1
I'm afraid that it's going to be terrible either way, no matter what. It's going to be terrible for Ukraine.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 16:55:08 GMT 1
See? Told you so.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 17:26:07 GMT 1
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 20, 2022 17:31:48 GMT 1
I was expecting something like a three-year plan, but it seems that Germany is planning to stop buying Russian oil by the end of this year. That's a hell of a lot sooner than I thought.
No, I wasn't being sarcastic. It's my honest reaction.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 21, 2022 2:22:50 GMT 1
They say China will be the winner of this awful war, but Turkey says loud hi. China will be saddled with all kinds of problems because of this down the road, but Turkey won't.
It's simply amazing how much murder, literally, Erdogan has gotten away with in the last several years. I guess it's actually very important to bribe influential Western think tanks, Turkey's favorite strategy.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 21, 2022 9:40:53 GMT 1
From that dark-age-style one-hundred-meter-long royal table to this tiny cafeteria table.
On a serious note, I do get the impression that the Russian military has been learning from the mistakes that they made earlier in the war. They have been far more careful and patient lately, and got out of the Northern front/Kyiv very quickly and orderly. Didn't dwell on.
Initial disasters -> learning & improving -> total war of attrition -> winning ugly is Russia's traditional winning formula, but taking that into consideration I still don't think this is going to end militarily well for Russia. Logistical hurdles seem immense, and given the enormous cost, they would need a lot more than taking Mariupol in order to sell the whole "special operation" objective to Russians, who will have to go through real economic hardship for this.
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