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>The Poly Pack factory building in Lugansk was hit by one or several Ukrainian missiles.
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>Decoys and new missiles - yeah, looks like a test run for future attempts at deep strikes.
1. bring knife to knife fight
2. start to lose knife fight
3. get handed a gun...
<- we are here
4. discover that enemy also has guns
starting to worry that a long-term lesson of the Russia's SMO is that the restraint will be seen as foolish. "I'd better act like the US and bomb places into the stone age, every time. If not, won't we have to bomb them anyway?"
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@sim @apropos I'm continually blown away by Ukraine's capacity to resist and continue waging this war. I've still got my money on Moscow but the recent counter-offensive near Bakhmut is making me raise an eyebrow
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@augustus @apropos @sim The biggest problem for Ukraine is their refusal to settle for anything less than retaking Crimea, which would be an existential humiliation for Putin. If not for that they could probably have gotten a ceasefire or something.
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@augustus @apropos This doesn't end well for Ukraine nor for their history and culture being preserved when it is bombed. I don't know why Ukraine can't just be neutral... oh wait, it's that oil again, isn't it?
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@apropos they interpret Russia's restraint as weakness and act accordingly