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Overbom said:

I don't care about his personal combat abilities.

I care about his leadership qualities and competence which are 0. If you care that much for 1vs1 you should switch to UFC instead

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Ok do you know attacking West is like attacking Arab and Jewish Wealth. you will get Asian currency crises on steroids and no one will know what happened.
Russia rouble is holding up and he managed to give subsidy on lower priced vehicles regardless of ICE and BEV. there is some other expenses he managed that no one in this situation could do. quality of leadership is not just in tactical battlefield where few thousand people involved but overall society and country word to the other international partners.

DUBAI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested nine people from Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries for their role in the protests against the death of a young woman in police custody, the Intelligence Ministry said on Friday.

The nine unidentified persons were detained "during the riots or while plotting in the background", the ministry said in a statement carried by Iranian media.

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kokole said:

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In a perfect world that should turn the rest of the population on the protesters. If anyone has the time, please keep an eye on the situation for the rest of us. Iran has a huge potential to disrupt NATO's plans in Ukraine.

xypher said:

I sometimes wonder whether this is russiadefenceforum in reality. So many people were given a pass for shitting on CPC and Xi because they did not like how Xi & co handled the recent Taiwan strait crisis (i.e. did not shoot down Pelosi, bomb airport or sth as dumb as this - people were even pretending as if that was an official Chinese position) but Putin still being stuck in Eastern Ukraine after 7 months of warfare and having to mobilize is a 56D chess & @Overbom is a CIA agent.

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This is a defense forum and forumners want war. Putin started one, Xi Jinping didn’t.

Overbom said:

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Gas price is not the only thing that Germans worry about. The CPI of food also jumped 19% YoY in September.

The U.S. and NATO cannot really blame Russia for the referendums in the regions in eastern Ukraine, considering what the U.S. did to Syria's Golan Heights and what NATO did to Kosovo earlier.

So what NATO will do next? Fight the U.S.?

A lawsuit has been filed against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. Navy for the alleged TWA800 shoot-down in July 1996.

supercat said:

Gas price is not the only thing that Germans worry about. The CPI of food also jumped 19% YoY in September.

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Certain things are not very obvious. Germany has alot of Turks and is responsible for custom union with Turkey. Germany was also first western country that showed solidarity with Turkey on that Journalist case and also arms embargo on Saudi. it will feel the impact
Turkey has to publicly remind its importance despite its services in Ukraine.
while Greece got F-16V and Rafale.

Abominable said:

He's been making posts with increasingly bizarre takes, like just recently the one where he said China should invade Central Asia to remove Russian influence

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that a good one. Invade Central Asia and enjoy Arab hospitality for the rest of life as they want to rule over them and they have ideology and money like no one else. that was the link i posted.
now they further moving with Porsche IPO and much more business. its all about them.

BoraTas said:

The most important alliance in the world is North Korean-American alliance

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“The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,” said the veep, flubbing the official name of longstanding US ally South Korea, the Republic of Korea. “And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.”

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Living proof that Alzheimer's can be as contagious as plain stupidity?

xypher said:

So what are the pros of dragging the war, draining your resources, losing trained personnel and destroying the territories you want to annex? He could inflict the same economic damage to Europe even if he took over Ukraine by similarly cutting the supplies in response to sanctions.

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The longer the war the more older equipment get destroyed.
that forward and backward movement is to make the war more mobile than static. we cannot assume nature of people left behind and what percentage involved that we can consider train. in Syria T-90 tanks were with Syrian Arab army very soon. putting the word Arab into it.
Phone call after announcement. It is all about public gestures.

xypher said:

Same with self-driving cars - gap between Russia and leaders is big

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why will Russia invest in self driving cars when most of population cannot afford it at prices that will be profitable for the manufacturers.
They did tests robotic machines in various situation including Syrian desert.

This $600K SUV launched. rock crawling with air suspension in this weight class. Tested in Arctic and Abu Dhabi.