Thanks, I'll give it a try

There's a more serious threat here.

If Russia takes Pokrovsk, it can use it to expand outwards and encircle Ukrainians fighting in northern Donbass. There's a reason that area has been stationary for so long, and that's because Russia hasn't been doing much to try and advance there. It's likely they are waiting for the fall of Pokrovsk to start. The Vovchansk attack might have also been a way to not only secure the passage to Belgorod, but also to tie down Ukrainian forces in the general area to be encircled.

Furthermore, beyond Pokrovsk there's literally no prepared defenses. I believe Russia will push to Pokrovsk before the end of the year and will look to immediately make an advance further west to the Dnieper region, to capitalize on the lack of defenses.

Russia has been shifting from attritionary positional warfare to maneuver warfare over the past month. The Russian generals likely believe that the Ukrainian army has reached its breaking point and can no longer mount effective defense anywhere.

We've been seeing more and more large pincer advances using mobile and armored units, unlike the previous offenses with small infantry groups supported by 1 or 2 APCs or tanks. There's been 4 large encirclements the past 2 weeks alone: 1 in Ugledar, that has been liquidated, 1 in New York (which the Ukrainians managed to break out from), 1 in the northwest Kursk area (created last Friday) and 1 to the north of Kurakhova (almost completed). There's also an ongoing attempt to create a large encirclement on the east bank of Askol river (north of Karlovka).

To me, that shift in tactics speaks to a larger offensive, that will probably come towards the end of October, all along the frontline. Likely the aim will be to take Pokrovsk, cut off the Ukrainian formations in Kursk, and make advancements towards Zaporozhie city, while trapping Ukrainian formations manning defenses on the front.

Fair enough on Chrono Trigger. It's an amazing game, but it might be about 30-40 hours of 100% complete gameplay. On that note though, my other JRPG recommendation (Felvidek) is much shorter. I finished it in about 8-10 hours.

Anyway, hope you have fun.

And by the way, you CAN NOT threaten me with vinyl CDs, I already call them that :D

I will look at it. Thank you comrade!

That's a lot of assumptions to make an argument.

Ok, so Zelensky has banned opposition parties, arrested political opponents. And furthermore he cancelled elections that were supposed to happen next month. Will you be condemning Ukrainian conscription then, since the government will neither be democratic or legally elected?

It’s not like Russia has never done any of those things individually.

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Yeah, I watched 2/3rds of the first episode and realized what kind of trainwreck it would be. Switching the story to England, totally decapitates the book's contrast between failures that occurred during the Cultural Revolution and the successes that came later with reforms, which I understood to be a major theme in the book.

Ofcourse. They dont want to start a nuclear war because their systems are shit... Yeah, I'm sure it's nice inside the bubble you are living in.

Lol, chinamongering now.

Videos show it missing a wing while dropping like a stone from the clouds.

Ukraine did sign a peace deal with Russia at the beginning of this mess, and then immediately backed out when the West yanked Zelensky's leash.

It's very telling that the terms that Russia imposed on this deal were:

1. Neutrality

2. Stop bombing East Ukraine

3. Accept that East Ukrainians can speak and learn Russian if they wish to.

4. Remove Nazis from positions of power and the military.

Russia did not start a war of conquest in Ukraine. That's just the Western narrative to maintain popular support for a proxy war with a nuclear power.

It's not just the news-worthiness. It's the way how 6+ different countries mobilized to rescue them. That was a result of precisely being rich fucks.