No idea. Its been incredibly shitty on both sides. Russian losses ~3000 troops, 500+ vehicles, jets, copters. Euromaidan map from today ( https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FFMeWSViXoAIv6Eh.jpg%3Fname%3Dorig ) shows they made small advances aside from Kiev, which is close to Belarus. For day 1 of a Blitzkrieg with overwhelming forces, its a shitshow for the Russians. In return, they bombed some asphalt tarmacs and sheds called "airbases", which don't matter because UA had a negligible airforce that disappeared in a couple hours.
UA citizens bombed, Russian convoys slaughtered driving on highways, Russians fucked Chernobyl and radioactivity spiked.
Who is winning ? No one.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I hope China stays the fuck out of Taiwan after this. Some people saying China is waiting to see what happens to Russia and then they are gonna invade Taiwan.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
China is building up to Xi's coronation in November, and they have a massive internal economic catastrophe playing out, CCP pefers to wait it out.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
some ppl were saying they might attack while ukraine is undersiege if it is drawn out because the world can't respond to both crises at once
sounds like a 50% chance of happening#
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Taiwan is a beautiful country. Real gem in the mandarin speaking world. Its cheap to visit, you can use the western internet without a VPN. The people are nice and helpful. Beautiful Buddhist temples every where. Parks and mountains. They make PC gaming parts.
CCP is gonna roll up put up their giant firewall, claim every Taiwanese success was due to the CCP and destroy all their political social freedoms while looking the other way on prostitution because the CCP needs its whores.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Hi, @masterofballs@wolfballs.com , great news !
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masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They do that a good bit.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Ukraine had an extremely long border with open flat land, that makes it easy for tanks to roll straight from Moscow.
Taiwan is hard to invade. Yes, China can bomb them with artillery from the mainland, but to land large amount of troops and vehicles, they need to cross the water that can be mined. Limited landing zones are chokepoints. Taiwan has a lot of natural fortifications in mountains. A population of 23 million means lots of insurgency.
The biggest problem is... they have strict gun laws: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4148116
An unarmed population is just slaughter during war.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
There are a lot of international ships around the straits of Taiwan, and wind farms. I'm in the vicinity. CCP would use a lot of commercial ships to land.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I am sure they have ships. I think the problem would be mines. Like what Iran did in the Persian gulf.