If that would work in the real world then the militairy would no longer be needed to take land.
Just send over all your people on holiday to the same place hold a poll and then ask the government of that country to please vacate your land.
That would be one way for China to take over America or Europe
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As a dutch TV host put it very accurately:
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Surprised they used the term âHollandâ, didnât their government spend a fortune on PR, reminding people that itâs called âThe Netherlandsâ.
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Very true, but the presenter is from the Amsterdam area, they are clueless as to the rest of us living in much better places in The Netherlands 
with sexier accents. 
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Sexier, eh? 
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So if Poland annexes all of Ukraine, instantly they become part of nato as well as part of the EU
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New information:
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Those resiliency numbers are really low for the number who would fight. Or maybe they are right and it explains Russiaâs problem with people fleeing.
Today the Kremlin leaked and then denied that t/he mobilization could be up to 1 million men. There have also been interviews with en being called up with no military experience. And still Russia says they have lost less than 6,000 troops.
Every time I think it wonât get worse, it kinda does. It seems to raise more questions:
If Russia calls up 1 million or some number close, can they even logistically train and equip them.
Can Russia increase the logistics support to the front lines to support more troops.
How much more support can the west give Ukraine? Military production is not supporting current usage.
How much campaigning can really be done by either side through the winter.
Whose economies are going to break first? Both sides are at risk here. This war is going into 2023 and itâs going to be a long cold winter with gas shortages. We start seeing videos of people freezing it will have an impact.
Is this situation still under control or is it moving out of control for both sides?
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Russia is moving out of control, or rather it is doublng down.
There really isnt much to negociate anymore; itâs a war of aggression wherein kyiv wants its 2014 borders back and russia to stay out of ukrainâe foreign policy.
At this point NATO will have to consider an economic mobilization to support continued arms production.
One move against those tripwires in the baltics though and its a different ballgame. The Finns, the poles, romanians, the turks, all hostile instantly. Cant say about hungary. Nato vs. Russia isnt even a contest, Russia will llose.
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I was watching a live feed of the Georgian border with Russia this morning and a drone was flying overhead showing a lineup at the time 27 kilometres long of Russians trying to flee to Georgia.
Currently Russia has sent an armoured BMP and several soldiers and border patrol guards to the crossing and have been detaining men who received papers for conscription and often using force to detain the men who were conscripted.
Add to that in multiple regions where protests are taking place in Russia several of the arrested male protesters have been forcibly conscripted into the military. It is estimated some 670 male protesters thus far have been forcibly conscripted into the military.
Although the Russian military denies it several hundred conscripted soldiers have intentionally harmed themselves in order to get out of the military or being sent to Ukraine and an undetermined number have also committed suicide.
In Ukraine unofficial numbers of Russian POWs puts it at over 7,000 since the beginning of September and the number is likely higher as many conscripts are surrendering every day.
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97% approval? Russia couldn 't be satisfied with 75% or some more reasonable number in its sham referendums? The heirs of the KGB seem to have forgotten to make their propaganda claims believeable. Complete Amateurs.
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I informed my neighbor when he returned from holiday that there had been a referendum about his garden wanting to join me.
Since he was not there I voted on his behalf and the results are in, 100% of the voters say that I can start annexing the terrain, all the neighbor needs to do is just to sign on the dotted line to recognize the democratic referendum.
Oh wait, I said referendum, sorry, I meant special opinion polling operation.
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Welcome to greater Russia! Donât like it then get nuked!
We blow up pipelines too! Or someone does.
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With the illegal annexation of the 4 oblasts Putin has stated publicly that he wants to annex more of Ukraine and has stated that he will take more of Ukraine by force. The illegal and unrecognized annexation by Russia has opened the doors for a full mobilization by Russia which is likely to be announced in the coming days or weeks.
On that note the horror stories of those called up are many and numerous and are backed up by captured conscripts already being sent to the front lines. Several stories have emerged of conscripts showing up getting a uniform spending a day or two at a marshalling area then boarding buses and shipped directly to Ukraine with no training, no weapons and no idea what to do. Once in Ukraine they are sent to various locations with a rifle, grenades and basic or no kit and being told to take kit from the dead. Several videos have surfaced of sergeants telling the conscripts to call their wives and girlfriends and asking them to send tampons as there are not enough tourniquets to go around and to take medical supplies from vehicle roadside first aid kits.
Other recruits are given 2-5 days of training and then sent to the front lines. A tank driver who was wounded and captured said he received 5 days of tank driving and nothing else and was told he would learn everything on the fly at the front lines. Basically the conscripts are being sent in to die.
On the other side Ukraine today submitted paperwork for an expedited membership to NATO. It is unlikely all NATO members will endorse the membership which a unanimous vote is required for membership. Still you never know.
Add to that Ukrainian forces are gaining momentum and despite Russian military shelling civilian targets in earnest now, morale in Ukraine has very high and it is felt that it wonât take much more pushing to topple whatâs left of the Russian military in Ukraine.
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Bet Putin is hoping to hold out until his buddy, who owes money to Russian banks, gets back in the WH.
Ukraine is fighting like a modern and competent army, those called up after the Russian Invasion received adequate basic training and have been sent to the front lines with full kit; any shortages have been rectified by a friendly populace.
Russia is fighting like they are trying to turn a Stalingrad movie into real life; mobilize everything that moves, who cares if it has a rifle and URA!
Stalingrad wasnt like that. It was desperate but the Soviet Army was not so short of rifles that every soldier who should have had one did in fact have one.
Stalingrad was won through Operation Uranus which took place around but not in Stalingrad. It was strategy, not brute force that won. Soviet Command had issues but they werenât idiots nor did they fall for their own PR.
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Hello, saw putin speech on the annexion live and he did the classic âwhat about ally bombing during WW2â wehraboo love to do. The northern front seem to be collapsing for the russian and ukraine made progress in kherson tonight too
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I just watched a long video on how the Ukrainians clear mines from the dead from the countryside, villages, towns and cities that were recently liberated from the Russians.
No, I will not post the video link as it is very gruesome and not for the faint of heart but I will do my best to describe it without being gory.
Basically as soon as it is deemed safe Ukrainian EOD experts come in and start searching homes, buildings, piles of rubble and basic everyday items like bikes, microwaves, fridges and stoves and furniture for booby traps and anti-personnel mines.
Dozens of EOD experts from all walks of life from civilian, police and military go methodically street by street, home by home and businesses looking for signs of booby traps and mines. Sometimes the mines are strewn throughout and other times there will be 2 or three other mines underneath the visible mine as a booby trap. In one home a childrenâs toy had three butterfly mines placed in and around it and were placed in such a way all three would detenate if the toy was moved and while butterfly mines rarely kill they are designed to cause injuries.
As the camera crew follows a military EOD team down the street a civilian inadvertently set off a mine that had been left in a basket, before the camera pans away you can see the civilian is missing an arm and is badly wounded. Just past that is an abandoned Russian transport truck with the letter âZâ painted on the grill and sides of the vehicle. The EOD with the camera crew says the truck is booby trapped as the door is rigged so as soon as it opens the Russian version of a claymore mine would kill anyone in its line of fire. A quick shot with a hand held camera shows a claymore on the drivers seat pointed straight at the drivers door.
After hours of searching the EOD teams make safe corridors for personnel and civilians to travel. Then the body retrieval teams come in first collecting any dead Ukrainian soldiers and civilians documenting everything like were the body was found, visible injuries and if there were signs of torture or if the hands and feet were bound or missing. In all cases before a body was moved a cable or rope was tied to the body and from several dozen feet away the rope was pulled to roll the body to see if it was booby trapped. This day 14 Russian soldiers, 4 civilians and one Ukrainian soldier had been booby trapped.
The names, rank and distinguishing marks on the Russian dead are recorded and packed with the body along with any personal effects found with the body. The Russian dead are bagged and eventually Putin a freezer truck. The civilians and Ukrainian military dead are documented and then placed in a makeshift morgue for burial or pickup.
The EOD teams finally get to rest and try to eat and sleep knowing that tomorrow another village, town, city and country road needs clearing tomorrow.
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Putin is not Hitler but he is definitely the villain in this situation. Hitler is a unique type of evil. While Putin is certainly a bad guy, he hasnât set up extermination centers to wipe an entire race off the face of the earthâŚyet anyways
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Quick video on the âI WANT TO SURRENDERâ hotline that Ukraine setup
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