Sarex

I really hope so...

Nope, I imagine that they don't want to use them in complete chaos of an opening of the invasion where they probably have 0 control over them. Tbh, I don't know how much control they will have at all apart from setting general objectives.

Things are going to get very ugly when the Chechens arrive...

It is, it was just filmed from a different angle.

****. That was horrific to watch, no mercy on either side. The guy in the car was alive when they were trying to remove him from the wreckage.

That looks fake as all hell.

But how would they pay for the gas if they cut them off from SWIFT? The dollar must flow.

That would mean the least amount of victims and damage. He doesn't need anyone else to recognize the agreement, he just needs Ukrainian's to follow it. They can do what the US did, plop a Bond Steel in east Ukraine and have a military presence there.

I am not seeing the people of Ukraine being very willing to fight, it's a mass exodus right now, nor do I think he is dumb enough to believe that he can hold Ukraine. Best case scenario is that this ends quickly with surrender and that they sign the demilitarization agreement. I mean being defiant is all well and good, but all it got us was a destroyed infrastructure and 3 decades of economic setback and we were in a much better position as far as military was concerned.

I guess they can start bombing civilian and civilian infrastructure targets like it was done in Yugoslavia/Serbia to make them surrender fairly quickly.

Every country has contingency plans, against allies and foes, the closer the threat the closer the preparations come to fulfill those plans.

What was not in the media in the previous weeks was Ukraine shelling soft targets in the Donetsk area, but this is not really new when we look back a couple of years so it shouldn't really change the situation. In my opinion what changed is the amount of arms being injected in to Ukraine, a hundred and twenty something Abrams tanks is nothing to sneeze at and whatever else was potentially coming. Maybe he was simply losing control of the situation and decided to rip the bandaid off, or he was confident that this would be a net positive situation. Whatever it is the whole situation is a sad affair.

Problem is that in some countries we call it Nationalism and in others we call it Patriotism...

But those don't matter.

Bruce hurt his feelings.

We would at least see some videos.

Isn't that Ukraine?

Are they going in full force or just light infantry? I saw some twitter videos of tanks rolling in, but don't know if that was really in Ukraine.

Digimon is where it's at.

The only time I ever hear those two mentioned in the same sentence, is when people mention how Firefly was inspired by Bebop.

It's when they call you in to work on the weekends. Bonus work.

Nothing better then 4 hours of back to back meetings...

Right now yes, but in the future it may become a trend. To a large extent it's the US and Chinese market that dictate these things.