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@NotWoofers To me this speaks as very effective drone suppression, isn't it? In the modern battlefield, just a single drone could stop it

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@TelvaniMage @uhshanti Back to the arcane/divine spellcasting divide!

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@clement_molin It's interesting that Ukraine managed to perform successful mechanized assaults. Do you know which vehicles were deployed to?

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@LP1080pi @Rebel44CZ In theory (but all reports and interviews point in that direction) they manufacture a lot of Bohdana, which on the other hand doesn't suffer heavy casualties (quite the opposite), so Uk won't run out of SPG

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@nopenope111234 @Jonpy99 Not sure to understand the tone of your answer. Anyway, Red Army was so massive that the phasing out were not completed, so T62 continued to serve massively (es in the Soviet Afghan war, where there weren't reason to risk more modern hardware)

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@nopenope111234 @Jonpy99 Ok, maybe the part on the competition between the different bureaus can be expanded a little. But the other, as far as I know, are factual: T62 were phased out to T64 and T72, and T64 development started in the early 50s, and T62 is a upgunned T55 (maybe uparmored, don't remember

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@nopenope111234 @Jonpy99 There wasn't a unified procurement for tanks, different companies were competitors. Anyway, T62 was a stopgap (basically a T55 with a bigger gun to counter M60), T64 (whose design started almost together w the one of T55) and T72 were meant to replace it

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@settime2588 @ricpuglisi La cosa divertente è che se c'è un comandante ucraino soprannominato 'Il macellaio', era proprio quel Sirsky che Drapati va a sostituire...

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@clement_molin Was Kramatorsk one of them? If I recollect well, the interaction between drones and mechanized assault here was a novel and a successful one

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@jacintojacintez @bayraktar_1love Donated F16 are (often) old, so for short and medium term they do the work but for postwar Ukraine some more modern jets should be considered. The soviet component will be phased out, so I presume that the qualitative edge of the postwar UAF will be the modern FRA/SWE airframes

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@Eggroll33607091 @FinalWrangler Which was the context behind? I did not remember this photo

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@EdoardoFontana7 Molto interessante. Solo per curiosità metodologica: perché restringere l'analisi all'annualità 23-24? Carenza di dati, approccio incrementale oppure sforzo richiesto eccessivo? Grazie per l'impegno e per la ricerca!

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@noclador What about the status of the Turkey navy? I don't follow constantly the news in this field, but I've never heard anyone claiming that Turkey's navy is top notch (in general it gets hardly mentioned)

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@SaladinAlDronni On the other hand, at least he doesn't seem to be the guy that is quiet with the idea of massing killings (But yeah, him cosplaying Kurtz of Apocalypse Now is amusing)

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@RiccardoTrezzi @KalistatData Political decisions at the lower levels? (ie comuni, province)

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@NotWoofers It is starting to resemble the methodic destruction of the syrian SAMs in the Bekaa by Israel in the Lebanon war

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@GabrieleCarrer Però il "famoso" articolo in cui assicurava che la Russia non avrebbe attaccato seguiva questo ragionamento: "Se la Russia attacca fa una cazzata, per questo Putin non lo farà". L'implicazione logica fu sbagliata, ma lo scenario futuro che delineava in caso di guerra era corretto

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@Majakovsk73 https://t.co/9pyIF840mG

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@AlanKielan @WarSpotting @moklasen Not much, the fighting continued as usual along the whole front

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One of the most disturbing aspects of the people running this country today, like Stephen Miller, is the blatant and deliberate lying. They lie even when they know everyone knows they are lying. There are videos, eyewitness accounts. Sworn affidavits.
What explains this? The only rational explanation I can find is what's often observed in totalitarian regimes. Stating obvious lies is a way of asserting power: "I can say whatever I want—what are you going to do about it?" Forcing others to defer to obvious falsehoods, like Trump's insistence that people falsely claim he won the 2020 election, is a display of dominance. We see this dear-leader behavior in North Korea; we saw it in the USSR and Nazi Germany.
There's another element, also used by those regimes: lie so often, and make the lies so big, that people become exhausted and believe nothing. Submit. Everything becomes "alternative facts." There is no truth—only strength and power.
We saw this with the killing of two U.S. citizens in broad daylight in Minneapolis. They were immediately branded domestic terrorists by authorities, before any reasonable investigation. And with the smallest effort, the lies were there in the open: it was claimed the second victim was rushing ICE agents with a gun. Yet there it is for everyone to see—the man is standing, filming ICE with his phone. Videos and eyewitnesses describe an ICE agent rushing the man and two older women for no apparent reason. He tries to help one of the women stand up and pays with his life. Shot ten times in under five seconds. Three bullets in his back.
What makes this unmistakably an exercise of power rather than ordinary political spin is what happened next: multiple news organizations published frame-by-frame video analyses showing the official account was false. And the administration continued to assert the same claims anyway. Ordinary lies get walked back when contradicted by video evidence. Maintaining the lie in the face of video is the power assertion itself.