Nah, what the Ukrainians are doing is effectively making little bottles of napalm with styrofoam. Far from an expert but you throw that into any open exhaust port, and bombard the vehicle and they're inoperable. They're sticky as f**ck and stay burning. Simple yet effective.
oh I agree but a modern AFV is designed to burn some, as long as its mobile it can drive through, one or two bottles bottles wont stop it, that's what I meant by how stupid that video was, by driving into the barricade and stopping was the death of them
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The Ukrainians are perfectly content letting the Russians keep marching into the meat grinder. They'll push back for territorial gains when the Russians run out of willing troops.
It's age old Russian strategy, the benefits of having a geographically large country. If land is what you have, you can give up a lot of it without it affecting your ability to fight much.
It's also much better for Ukraine in this situation to not have a need to attack anything on the Russian side of the border.
It's been clarified that the fighters are Soviet-era aircraft that the Ukrainian pilots are familiar with.
Yes I would guess Poland Hungary and Romania have hundreds of Mig's left, I don't doubt some of those 'Ukrainian' pilots will speak fluent Polish or Hungarian as well, no love for Russians in those Countries, plenty of historic precedence there as well
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Some background on Zelenskyy. Apparently he was the voice of Paddington Bear 2 for the Ukrainian market. He also in the Ukrainian version of Dancing with the Stars.
This guy is making every male on the planet look useless, lol.
The Rouble/USD exchange is currently about 200/1. For some context, when there was a huge crisis for Russia in 1998, the rates shot up from ~6 to ~24. The forex markets open later today, but that’s going to be a bloodbath for sure.
A little more colour, for anyone interested...
The Ruble is working from a base of about 75 this time. It slipped as low as 90 on Thursday, and closed Friday at 84. To state it in US dollar terms, the Ruble closed Friday being worth about 1.2 cents US. If it opens at 200, that would mean it is worth 0.5 cents
To put that in perspective, the CAD currently trades at about 1.275, meaning it is worth about 78.4 cents US. A similar devaluation would see it go to about 3.035, making it worth about 33 cents US.
Will be very interesting to see where it opens and how it trades
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