Turns out Ukraine is a corrupt country with an evil government. Who could have seen that one coming.
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It Just Keeps Getting Better and Better for the Foreign Volunteers in Ukraine - The Daily Rake
Yahoo News: British medical volunteers have claimed the Ukrainian army duped them into crossing the border before trying to conscript them as “cannon fodder” for the battle of Kyiv. Carl Walsh and Ollie Funnell left the UK with the hope of putting their expertise…
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For those curious, I have not died. I am just working on the fighter series, and each piece takes double digit hours to produce. This latest one, on fuel consumption and logistics, should be available by later tonight.
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Here's a hardcore introduction to why things like "fuel consumption" aren't unimportant trivialities for nerds, but rather the fundamental limitation of your entire military. And when I say "hardcore," I mean 10 thousand words drilling into your head what a joke the entire military is against a serious opponent.
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PSA: Modern Fighter Planes are Jokes, Part 3: All Militaries are Limited by Fuel - The Daily Rake
For the first entry in this series, which covered the trivial ease with which modern fighters, especially the US ones, can be destroyed on the ground, go here. In our last entry I pointed out the severe limitations brought about by the F-18 Shitty Hornets…
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Vladimir the Badimir is secretly losing the war because weeks ago some Russian tanks were abandoned.
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CBC Does World's Dumbest "I'm not mad, you're mad" over (((Ukraine))) Getting Curbstomped by Vlad the Bad - The Daily Rake
I’m taking a bit of a break from covering fighter planes and focusing once again on run of the mill day to day news. I’ll get back to fighter planes by tomorrow. And besides, with the Russia-Ukraine war, and the absurd propaganda surrounding it, I feel like…