Jimmy_D

Russia documented using artillery last produced in 1949 now. That doesn’t mean it’s completely ineffective of course, but it’s telling that Russia can’t provide anything better than that to those troops despite 70 years of military production as one of the world’s military superpowers in the meantime.

So you’re trying to make some point, large scale peer reviewed studies don’t back that point up, and you’re looking for smaller data sets in the hope that they’ll back you up?

Trousers was asking a series of questions to try to get you to figure out for yourself that anecdotal cases aren’t anywhere near painting the whole picture. You obviously hadn’t got that so I was supporting his argument in a different way. In short, no, anecdotal cases aren’t anywhere near being as important for the purposes of vaccination policy.For a start it’s countless anecdotal cases that are being used to create the large scale data. To take the opposite extreme as an example, one person being vaccinated and not getting ill wouldn’t mean that the vaccine was proved to be effective.

Because individual immune response varies? It’s not difficult. You’re conflating anecdotal cases with the recorded large scale effect of vaccination reducing transmission, severity, and mortality.

If it prevents you getting it, that protects every other person you would have been in contact while ill. This was a tested effect. Contributing to herd immunity was one of the effects that’s saved thousands of lives.

I assume Alex is talking about Warfighter 2021 https://www.army.mil/article/245466/warfighter_21_4_concludes_strengthens_collaboration_with_british_and_french_forces

China in particular don't want to risk breaking sanctions and losing US trade. It's possible they're being circumvented to a certain extent, but if Chinese components were showing up regularly in exploded ordinance that's been fired at Ukraine, we'd know about it.

Not personally, no, and I've never claimed to have one. I'll always be immensely grateful to those who fight, and allow people like me to not have to. I have been doing a lot of reading/listening to many that do have a military background, for what it's worth, over the last few months, and I've always had an interest in military history.

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In the past 2-3 weeks, Russia have lost territory that took them months to take. Any progress on the front line has been minimal to none for months. Putin has been forced to use a significant amount of domestic political capital to partially mobilise and reinforce the Russian army, with limited effect. The limited supply of precision missiles is self demonstrating by how rare events like today have been. Sanctions really have been having an effect, and that's not an assumption. Instead of using precision missiles to target Ukraine's military capability, they've used them to target highly visible targets, that don't help them in any significant military way, but that instead can be used for propoganda both domestically and internationally. That appears to be the only way they can claim any sort of success currently, hence it sends a message of weakness.

Among other limitations, sanctions mean they can't produce or obtain the microchips or materials for precision guided munitions. Missed Targets: the Struggles of Russia’s Missile Industry - CEPA They're not 'out' of missiles as such, but they can't get anywhere near sustaining heavy usage of them.

So I guess attacks like today, that Russia's been preparing for weeks for to scrape together the missiles to carry it out, they'll be a daily occurrence now eh?

The message they've sent is "We're too weak to take on military targets, so we're targeting defenceless civilians." Militarily these attacks do nothing for them. In fact the opposite, it's using up their limited supplies of precision missiles.

Yeah, that's not acceptable in any way. He's gone.

They already put the bridge out of action for a few days. That alone will cost Russia a lot on the southern front where logistics are already stretched to breaking point. On top of that there was a fuel tanker burning on top of that bridge for hours. That reinforced concrete there is severely weakened. They won’t be able to run full weight trains over it. That one attack was an enormous hit to everything Russia are trying to do militarily. Most plausible explanation for this is still long range rocket artillery. Ukraine can likely hit it again once Russia have wasted resources trying to repair it.

How are Russia so bad at this?

Congratulations, you’re officially more optimistic about the way things are going for Russia than Russian State TV

Interesting, Russian State TV actually acknowledging that it’s Ukraine, backed by NATO weapons and training, rather than NATO themselves in this one. Wonder if that’s a deliberate change or if the host will want to avoid high windows for a while.

Blimey. Really felt like we went into this one with no confidence at all. At least we're the first team in months to keep Haaland down to one goal, and we're having a better day than Putin? Loss wasn't unexpected, to say the least, but there's a fair bit of pressure on the next couple of games now. Hopefully we can find some of the aggression we had between the Leeds and the Chelsea games.

There's one frame at 13 seconds on that video that seems to suggest against the truck bomb theory. The camera clearly being affected by the attack before any indication that anything has happened to any vehicles.

Still incredibly early, still unknown, but from what I've been listening to, extremely unlikely to be Ukrainian SF from below, which would have targeted the pillars. Russian media have switched from an initial claim of a train fire that caused no damage to blaming some sort of truck bomb, which could be possible, but would be unlikely to cause damage to multiple deck sections of the bridge AND the railway section of the bridge. Their official story at the moment is basically saying that Russian security checkpoints have been utterly incompetent and let Russia's biggest logistics link be destroyed. Some sort of missile attack seems the most plausible at the moment, but there doesn't seem to be any one explanation that fits all the evidence available at the moment. Some footage apparently starting to emerge now as well. Whatever it was, it was a hefty explosion.

Blimey. Kerch bridge hit and entire sections collapsed/damaged, both the rail and road sides. That'll be Russian logistics to the southern front severely hit, as well as isolating Crimea.

Eh? How often do women’s friendly matches get 75k+ attendances!?

That's a hell of a win ahead of the World Cup! Wiegman's unbeaten record as England manager continues with a win against the current World Champions. Both teams missing a couple of their best players, not to mention a couple of VAR calls just going our way, but we'll go on with the belief we can beat absolutely anyone. Could have gone either way but these must be the best two teams in the world at the moment. Our calmness at playing out through the press was particularly impressive, and our pace on the break constantly caused them problems.