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I can't look away from the war.
When I was a child, the house was full of Cold-War era books and there were cold-war games and suchlike. So "mechanized warfare between BMPs, T-72s, and Javelin missiles" was a concept I have been aware of for more than 25 years. I never expected to see it in real life but it has an uncomfortable familiarity.
Sp far the Ukrainians seem to be hanging on. They are still losing ground and most experts do expect Russia to somehow win. But gosh this is going badly for the Russians; they aren't gaining ground quickly, they are taking a lot of casualties and we have open-source intelligence showing huge vehicle losses.
It's become increasingly common to acknowledge "ha ha yes this might become a global thermonuclear war."
When I was a child, the house was full of Cold-War era books and there were cold-war games and suchlike. So "mechanized warfare between BMPs, T-72s, and Javelin missiles" was a concept I have been aware of for more than 25 years. I never expected to see it in real life but it has an uncomfortable familiarity.
Sp far the Ukrainians seem to be hanging on. They are still losing ground and most experts do expect Russia to somehow win. But gosh this is going badly for the Russians; they aren't gaining ground quickly, they are taking a lot of casualties and we have open-source intelligence showing huge vehicle losses.
It's become increasingly common to acknowledge "ha ha yes this might become a global thermonuclear war."
