Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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fskimospy

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Ha! Gave up on the Europe and China fantasy after looking into it, huh? And now in typical cyka fashion you are trying to substitute bullshit about Asia's views on China instead. See? This is why you're a dishonest coward. Soooo predictable, my god.

I shouldn't bother but what the hell. As of today, 4/26/24, the current population of Asia is 4,779,277,198 - and you think less than 2,000 people polled means something? oh the lulz *inhales* that is some pungent Rail Fail, someone open a window.

Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines would beg to differ. India too. Do you see Indonesians threatening to sink American vessels in their EEZ? No, you don't. How about the US trying to take the Senkakus from Japan? Or ramming or flooding boats at Second Thomas Shoal? No, you don't. Given China's insane territorial claims, where it's desire for a large backyard overrules their neighbors right to have a front porch, yeah, really time for you to stop munching those old paint chips. Lead does worse things to you than causing crushes on authoritarian regimes, just a heads up.

I digress. You're dumber and more indoctrinated than I thought. And I already thought you were hopeless. I'll say it again: get help.
2,000 people would be sufficient if it were a truly random sample, but the odds of it being that are essentially zero.
 
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K1052

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Ukrainian drones also took out a UMPK glide bomb kit storage depot during an attack on an airfield in Krasnodar Kai.

The deep shit that the Russians are going to be in if Ukraine can increase long range drone production even more is kind of underrated. They clearly do not have remotely enough AD to handle this threat and a vast amount of stuff to protect over a giant area.

 

kage69

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2,000 people would be sufficient if it were a truly random sample, but the odds of it being that are essentially zero.

True randomness isn't the only thing lacking. Any poll about China that doesn't take into account nationality or age isn't worth the paper it's printed on.


From 2020, but an example of what I'm referring to.


 
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fskimospy

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True randomness isn't the only thing lacking. Any poll about China that doesn't take into account nationality or age isn't worth the paper it's printed on.


From 2020, but an example of what I'm referring to.


Well a truly random sample is in effect taking that into account.
 
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kage69

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Well a truly random sample is in effect taking that into account.

I suppose you are correct. Things have actually trended worse for them since 2020 too, so someone is clearly in denial regarding negativity towards China.

Hey, I'm curious, and you're pretty familiar with that scene I think - you know if Nate Silver has family doing what he does?
 

fskimospy

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I suppose you are correct. Things have actually trended worse for them since 2020 too, so someone is clearly in denial regarding negativity towards China.

Hey, I'm curious, and you're pretty familiar with that scene I think - you know if Nate Silver has family doing what he does?
I have no idea. I used to do quite a bit of stats but now I’ve become one of those shitty managers so I don’t do real work anymore.
 

kage69

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I have no idea. I used to do quite a bit of stats but now I’ve become one of those shitty managers so I don’t do real work anymore.

Reason I ask is I saw a Laura Silver was working over at Pew Research. Thought maybe wife or sister. Incidentally, here's something she helped do in 2022. Does a nice job of dispelling the bullshit previously peddled about China. In a nutshell, China has lost a lot of standing worldwide thanks to human rights abuses and it's belligerent expansionist bullying. It tamps this effect down by wooing those governments with attractive bilateral agreements and "gifts." It works because people like cheap goods and bribes.





And of course, rail's "poll" hails from Singapore. Total coincidence, I'm sure.
 
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kage69

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I just watched that the other day. Yep, still a role for caltrops in the 21st century. Pretty damn cool, and as far as value for the money goes it probably doesn't get any better that. $2 of steel pipe/rebar and 10-20min of trimming, bending and welding? Something like that?

Definitely Julius Caesar approved.
 

Indus

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I just watched that the other day. Yep, still a role for caltrops in the 21st century. Pretty damn cool, and as far as value for the money goes it probably doesn't get any better that. $2 of steel pipe/rebar and 10-20min of trimming, bending and welding? Something like that?

Definitely Julius Caesar approved.

Yeah it's amazing how the world of warfare is changing vs staying the same.

I saw this post on a forum I visit:

Abrams tanks have also proved ineffective and susceptible to defeat mechanisms (albeit to drones).

This war, as with all others, shows the waning of certain military equipment and the rise of others.

At the start of the war it was Man pads with reconnaissance drones In ascendancy over AFV, now its almost just drones, drones, drones - whether they be short range reconnaissance, naval attack, kamikaze short range and long range.

The Houthi attacks on shipping is similar.

There is, I presume, a large scale discussion in the long term forward procurement planning in the West - weapons that can nullify drones, and whether certain military items are white elephants in a drone environment - think AFVs, large warships (eg carriers), non dispersed airstrips (Harrier nods).

The throwaway cheap nature of drones could possibly drive a change in carriers/surface combatants. You have smaller but significantly more EMALS UAV capable ships, rather than a $13b (+ aircraft)per unit carrier, with smaller but considerably more ‘picket line’ defense ships to pick up air, sea and presumably undersea drones.

To me, it does feel like a sea change (boom tish) in what is the key weapon in warfare, in the same way that the 1st 2 years of WWII changed warfare - Blitzkrieg tanks and combined warfare, significant use of reasonable submarines, Taranto naval attack by aircraft - showing that Air Power was better than Battleship power.
 

Indus

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BTW did anyone catch the Ukrainian American congresswoman voting against the aid? She's gone full Russkie Trump.
 

Zor Prime

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BTW did anyone catch the Ukrainian American congresswoman voting against the aid? She's gone full Russkie Trump.
This was part of her explanation in an eMail, "... actually offensive and un-American to think that as an American my loyalty would not be to the people who elected me to represent them and to my family and children back home in Indiana, but to some foreign government in the country I left 24 years ago.”
 

Muse

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I suppose you are correct. Things have actually trended worse for them since 2020 too, so someone is clearly in denial regarding negativity towards China.
China's reputation suffered a fatal blow due to the pandemic, both their responsibility for it and their responses. It would take decades of miraculous redemption to regain trust. Not something I expect.
 

Zor Prime

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China's reputation suffered a fatal blow due to the pandemic, both their responsibility for it and their responses. It would take decades of miraculous redemption to regain trust. Not something I expect.
I do various ... things.

One thing I do is manufacture stuff. This one series of product that I make I specifically advertise as being American, and since it doesn't have Chinese components I use that to my advantage. American-Made, all that. Which is true. It's a damned wonderful marketing advantage, commanding premium price whereas the vast majority of the competition are using Chinese shit. Not to say their stuff isn't just fine, maybe it is, but they can't advertise Chinese-Made and get anywhere, either.

edit: Holy shit it took 25 years to hit 1K posts. Insert lulz here. Long gone are the days I used to bug Anand while drunk.
 
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K1052

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Hopefully ammo shows up to stabilize the Ocheretyne area. Russians are pushing hard in the area.

Various reports, including comments from Russian channels, indicate immense pressure to make gains before munitions resupply appears from the US at scale. Though this seems to also be increasing the Russian armor losses again as a result even though they are making some progress which is another problem they're going to have in about a year when the depots are empty of usable stuff.
 
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VRAMdemon

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Lindsay Graham credits Trump for the passage of the Ukranian aid package.


“President Trump has created a loan component to this package that gives us leverage down the road.”

Wut?! ... I have no fucking idea what he’s talking about.

What he might mean is “Trump is gonna give those pictures of my young rent boys to the New York Post if I don’t find a way to spin this so it looks like it was his idea all along”.

Or ... Trump’s criminal behavior and whining baby tantrums in social media have finally, finally gone too far, and convinced a large number of Republicans to cooperate with the Democrats to finally get shit done. So thanks to Trump for being such an absolute dick-wad, there is now work getting done in Congress.
 
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