Tunnelvision

It’s just because it’s an attack on Russian owned territory.

You can pretty much send however many tanks you want, but the level of surveillance and precision strike weapons on the battlefield today means tank pushes are not really a thing anymore. All aspects of war other than drones have to work in small teams (tanks and artillery work in pairs, infantry work in small fireteams) otherwise they’re just going to be found, targeted, then killed.

This, combined with state-of-the-art F-35 stealth fighters would be able to bypass the Russian air defenses and take out high value targets that are critical to the Russian supply line.

The f-35 is terrible and would probably be destroyed by Russias air defense which is the best in the world at the moment.

Unironically objectively better.

The thing I’m noticing about trades is that the most successful businesses are the ones with multiple licenses under the same brand, so they’ll be an electrician, plumber, hvac whatever else all at the same time. It’s becoming more difficult to learn a single trade and then open your own business and make it big. Way easier for a company to go on say an electrical call and then ask the homeowner if they would like their AC checked while they’re there for example.

This is always so crazy to me as someone who knows immigrants in the US. These people live anywhere from 2-4 families in a single house just to pay the rent. They are not balling by any means.

Sort of, this is pretty much how it’s done in the trades except for the becoming a partner part. That part is replaced by starting your own business and becoming a small business tyrant in our timeline.

If you really needed help you could hire someone who’s willing to learn, pay them decently, then once you feel they’ve learned enough ask them if they’d like to be a partner. That seems fair to me personally since you’re giving them a free education.

Good point definitely. I think Russia is at the point where they have to make a decision on what they’re going to do about the leadership. There’s gotta be a reason the leadership hasn’t been Khinzaled yet.

I’m pretty sure we’re going to see it when Russia does their trials after all this is over. There’s really no way they aren’t already building a case once they decide to Nuremberg all these stupid fucks in Ukraine. And yeah I understand the sentiment that Ukraine was just lying about the treaty if they did sign it like with the Minsk treaties, but I will say we should keep in mind that the reason the Minsk treaties were tossed aside by Ukraine so easily was because they were working under the assumption that they were going to make the first move and invade the Donbas (which Russia also claims to have proof of as well) it’s a completely different situation when you’re the one being invaded. So yeah I believe they were probably signing that in good faith until Boris Johnson arrived. Really the fact that Boris Johnson had to physically go there to convince them says it all.

The Ukrainian government did fold, the Russians supposedly have signed peace treaties with Ukraine. It’s just that the west was able to convince them they could take Russia on.

You’re aware that might trigger nuclear conflict right? Like what are you even saying at this point?