General Russia Ukraine round 2 Price hike boogaloo

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Simo Häyhä is a national hero in Finland. If you haven't heard his story, look him up. Deadliest sniper in history. He was called the White Death and killed over 500 Soviets in 100 days during the Winter War. Apparently he killed as many as 25 in a single day- crazy considering how short the days are that time of year at that latitude.
I believe he didn’t even use a scope.
 

kaladin stormblessed

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ukraine is not allowing men 18-60 to flee the country, so they are getting turned away at the border

im rooting for ukraine. but thats bullshit imo
 

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Poland has few next-gen Reaper Drones by General Atomics- they've been testing them. I wonder if we'll see deployment in the next few days.

Come to think of it, Romania has them too...
 

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I wonder how fast Sweden and Finland are going to join NATO now that Putin has essentially told them they're next. Although article 42 of the Treaty of Lisbon has a mutual defense clause. If Russia invades Finland then that article is triggered and the EU member nations are obligated to go to war in their defense.
 
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@Lars - does ukraine have an airforce?

and if so, did russia detroy all airports in that first day?

or is ukraine flying around bombing the russians?
They have an airforce, it’s not large. The MiG-29 and Su-27’s have upgraded western weapons systems. They are using it sparingly but effectively. They have uses the SU-24 and 25s to bomb russian positions and the fighters are doing air patrols. Russia doesn’t want to destroy the airfields, they need them. They have been fighting over the airfield outside of Kyiv with control changing hands several times. If anyone destroys them, it will be Ukrainians so Russia can’t use them to stage landings and logistics.

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Wintermute

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Reports that over 1,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the last 24 hours. That's what the mobile crematoriums are for; obscuring official casualty numbers.

That's a big BIG number for a conscript army.
 
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@Lars any truth to reports that Russia has sent a delegation to Minsk to negotiate a ceasefire? Who called for that?
Putin has sent a delegation to Minsk, I believe primarily for domestic consumption. Ukrainians are saying they would meet with them in Poland or Romania but not Belarus.
 

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Reports that they're likely to kick Russia out of SWIFT in the next 48 hours. Germany and Italy have agreed. They were the holdouts.