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Secular Progressivism promised Star Trek but gave us Brave New World.

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@IvorMectin1 There’s truth to this but don’t overstate. In 1905, Japan was nearing exhaustion and economic collapse right before peace was signed. In WW1, Russia launched arguably the most successful offensive of the war. In WW2, by late 44 eastern front battles had loss ratios nearing 1:1

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@JamesRaxz Recent polls show a sizable majority of Ukrainians want a negotiated end to the conflict as soon as possible rather than an expansion of the war to achieve total victory.

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@johannesmkx On average, Russians are wealthier than Ukrainians.

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@OzKaterji Syria wouldve been an Islamist hell- In 2013 HTS (then Nusra) was still deeply connected with Al-Qaeda. what later became ISIS hadn’t fully detached from the FSA, so those future terrorists were plentiful in rebel ranks. Assad’s victory in the 1st-stage arguably prevented this

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@ShaunPinnerUA It’s actually closer to a trillion KIA per day up from 700 billion last week.

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@KareemRifai It’s because the videos are well known fakes

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@StephanAJensen It’s clearly fake. For starters, there is no writing surface.

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@Szabadsag1956 GDP is not a measure of “how much money a country has”. It’s a measure of economic transactions within a country, getting paid 5$ to eat dirt would contribute to the GDP whereas doing that for free wouldn’t.

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@USA_Polling No… Ukraine and Russia were the only countries that had conventionally-oriented armies in Europe. Ukraine is doing better than any European country would. The entire UK army is enough to defend a couple towns in the Donbas.

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@euromaximal Larp

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@ShaunPinnerUA I’m surprised people are still taking NAFO and Ukraine-sourced casualty figures at face value four years later

It was abundantly clear by late 22 (early 23 at the latest) that the Ukraine gov and many (not all) pro-🇺🇦 accounts just sort of make stuff up or feed-loop each other

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@SonOfJenin Houthis seem to be rather adept at conventional warfare as well. HTS likewise reformed from guerrilla army into a more formidable offensive force.

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@joni_askola There’s no accurate measure to establish casualty ratios. Both sides suppress their losses and double count (or more) enemy losses. We won’t know until well after the conflict has concluded.

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@I_Katchanovski @grok real?

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@PrussianKalisch You can argue the invasion is bad without resorting to contextless data-If you adjust for PP Russia has the 4th largest economy. Ukrainians are on average poorer than Russians. Ukraine has the only conventionally-oriented army in Europe-any other Euro army would have done worse

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@mikepompeo And the preceding world war started because every side was full of self-righteous hard heads who refused to acquiesce on any of their desired political objectives. World War II is not the sole arbiter of historical relevancy.

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@maybe_ghuf He had essentially won the war by 2019. Turkey decisively intervened to save HTS, no Turkey (foreign power) no opposition victory.

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@IbrahimMajed @grok is this real?

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@sentdefender The Z army being weaker part is absurd-Russia invaded Ukraine with 190,000 troops with at most 30,000 being arrayed against Kiev. Now Russia has between 600-700,000 troops in Ukraine-If an attack on the capital occurs it will be with far more troops than were involved in 2022.

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@AuronMacintyre The opposite is possible. The modern state came about to wage war, but with new technology sovereign control seems to be shifting to tech developers and away from bureaucracy- which is already suffering from a competency crisis that undermines its original raison d’etre.