These bastards are tough. Two javelins.
Ukrainian tanks can’t even penetrate their frontal armour and must often retreat when one shows up.
Thankfully, most RU tanks are not T-90
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What would the consequences be if a Nato head of Govenment (or senior member of the Govenment) was in Kiev and the Russians bombed it causing injury / death to said leader? Would that be an Article 5 type thing? If so, could they take it in turns to make sure one of them is there nearly all the time? I’m sure most countries could think of a few politicians they would be more than willing to nominate to be there!
It is hard to say, but Activation of Article 5 is a political decision and not automatic. Arguably, if you travel to a country at war outside the alliance, you probably will not be able to activate article 5. However, if say, Biden was seriously hurt or killed, it would probably not be war (if it was an accident, if it was not, then war, but probably not article 5, but hard to say).
This is actually not an easy question to answer. It would depend on who got hurt and how badly. Also very important if that person was assumed to be targeted or not. If not targeted, then the alliance would most likely not activate article 5. If assassinated, then it’s probably however war, but that’s of course a very unlikely event.
From yesterday
And the day before:
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Russians are about to encircle Bakhmut, situation almost a bit critical. I think UA will withdraw soon (situation looks horrible if you look on most recent map, as RU has broken through UA defensive lines in the north) but try to hold on until after the anniversary of the war, so to not give them something to celebrate with champagne in Moskva. But we’ll see.
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Watched a tiny bit of Putin’s state of the nation address 
What a miserable audience, everyone looked like somebody had died or they had digestive issues.
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If you had listened to the whole thing you’d have looked like that too.
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You know I’ve wondered this before, when I’ve seen his speeches - is it a cultural thing, where Russians have a different idea of charisma and what makes for an exciting speech, or does it get lost in translation - or is Putin just a really shitty orator?
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He speaks in that monotone all the time. Whether he is making addresses or big set piece speeches or holding forth with members of his inner circle , or even foreign leaders. It never changes , even when he’s angry. I think the impression he wants to communicate is that of a man as cold as steel and single-minded. Of course not being able to gauge precisely what he’s thinking from any inflection in his speech pattern adds to the sense of menace.
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Regardless of his oratory skills, the audience must have as much freedom to express its true feelings as these:
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Yep, that’s what I’m talking about!
just wow, those forces holding Bakhmut are holding firm. like Mariupol all over again.
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