3/ Ukraine is no stranger to counter-attacking. they've historically been informed by Soviet mil doctrine, also got the legs & intel to pull it off.
throwing all units in as the first-and-only-wave would've courted humiliating & stingy breaches of Russian's own territory.
4/ gracefully understated
5/ harsh, likely correct
6/ a lesson in here for fellow dissidents here:
the cultural & organizational territory where the socialist/marxist/woke mob truddles is not under their control - as long as you are ready to re-claim it.
don't cede a subject just because the woke mob tramples over it.
7/ the propaganda effort around the events is absolutely massive, and also quite skillful
8/ broader angle:
thewestern elites won't let the crisis go to waste: "we tighten up the belt for Ukraine" to explain & handwave away the massive inflation & economic fuckups in the west.
9/ i didn't realize it was this bad
10/ 👀
11/ the whole invasion is only possible because USA, Russia and UK pressured Ukraine into disarming itself. "thanks, Bush & Clinton" - Putin, probably.
12/ side note: Mearsheimer was correct.
sadly now people are trying to twist his subsequent warnings into weird directions. here's the baseline. also note proper word choice: *aggression*.
2/ Isn't she pretty?
In particular the Ukrainian maritime variant, with seabird decal.
3/ Unique design allows for low observability, in particular low radar cross-section. Not quite "full on stealth" - but it's much stealthier than an average flier.
We don't have official numbers, but this calculates baseline expectations - and it's good:
2/ #T14Armata, an innovative russian tank with crew fully enclosed in the front hull behind heavy protection, while a fully automated turret was located in the classic way.
Along with the tank, related T-15 IFV and 2S35 SPG were developed as shared platform.
3/ The design seemingly got a lot *right*, tho there remains some discussion as to armor of the turret - supposedly absent in the vehicles produced.
With a lot of hopes riding on its shoulders, the design failed to enter serial production and seems stuck. How come?
1/ Unpopular opinion:
the recent wave of "work from home" is the biggest and unique opportunity to "stick it to the boomers". Actually to do much better than that.
2/ Good management is both about enabling your employees - and also about measuring their effectiveness.
Beyond "walking around & seeing butts in office chairs", actual measurement - and reporting both up & down the chain. "Work from home" pushes in that direction.
3/ There are also various other benefits to "work from home" - less dependence on proximity to city; more personal freedom to shape work as you see fit, to juggle & smoothly change works, etc.
1/ >US commenced "invasion" in Ukraine by regime changing it
No.
2014: Ukrainians over-threw their government aligned with Russia - the Russia that for well over a century occupied Ukraine, drained resources & talent, suppressed culture.
2/ You see people in Ukraine staunchly & resolutely defending their freedom for 2+ months now. That is a clear and strong signal. I support their defense of freedom.
As for democracy... whatever. Both sides are democracies with all the trappings & faults, and it helped neither.
3/ To see just how pernicious and pervasive suppression of Ukraine's culture was back under russian control, see this well written thread: