In fact of the matter. Due to the low cost, you can launch fifty kamikaze drones at one target and it will be almost guaranteed to be hit, even if it is protected by the best air defense system. In this case, you spent only a million dollars, and your opponent shot all the ammunition and still could not protect the target. This is a serious problem for Ukraine and NATO, for which there is currently no solution (especially in the event of a night attack). Generally speaking, this is a problem for Russia too, because the mass production of such drones in garage conditions can be quickly deployed by almost any country in the world. By the way, this is why Iran denies its involvement in the supply of Shahid-136 drones to Russia, these drones are made in Russia and are called Geran-2. And in terms of the set of components, they are even more Chinese than Iranian.

Glad you're having fun.

It is only thanks to Russia's asymmetric dominant superiority in nuclear weapons that the US and NATO are doing their best to avoid being drawn directly into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The real world is a strange thing, six months ago it was difficult to assume that Iran has an asymmetric dominant superiority in the development of kamikaze drones. And now NATO is feverishly looking for an effective antidote to flying lawnmowers.

The British newspaper Daily Star launched a stream a week ago asking which would last longer: British Prime Minister Liz Truss or a head of lettuce that had a ten-day shelf life.

Well, the head of lettuce won.

You have strange ideas about a better life. Ukraine is a bankrupt country, unable to exist without continuous external financing, in your opinion is this the better life?

The most curious thing about your comment is that you were able to write it at all on the day when electricity ran out in almost all of Ukraine and there were serious problems with Internet access. Write your Russophobic nonsense more often so that I can know that everything is all right with you.

There is no reason for Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons as part of a special operation in Ukraine, all speculation about this is groundless. The possibilities of conventional weapons are far from being exhausted. However, the situation is developing in such a way that the military defeat of Ukraine seems to be an unacceptable scenario for the development of events for the United States and NATO. And for Russia, a military defeat of Russia is unacceptable. Under such conditions, the probability of an attempt to cut the tightening Gordian knot with a strategic nuclear strike is higher than zero. I think Russia's numerous threats about possible strikes on decision-making centers are not "the last Chinese warning" and are not directed at Kyiv at all, but at Washington and London. I see one of the most realistic scenarios for such a strike in the combat use of Poseidon nuclear drones. One Poseidon of half power is enough to wash away London and all of England with a radioactive tsunami. Four full-power Poseidons (two from the Atlantic and two from the Pacific) are enough to wash away Washington, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and create a deserted coastal zone 500 km deep on both coasts of the United States. After that, apparently, a mutual exchange of missile strikes between Russia and the United States and a test of the combat capability of their missile defense systems will begin. The chances of Russia in the post-apocalypse world, in my opinion, are higher than the chances of the United States, primarily for geographical reasons (vulnerability to strikes from the ocean), and secondly for technical reasons (the United States has no effective countermeasures against Poseidon, plus Russia has a hypersonic weapons and the overall advantage of delivery vehicles, plus, in my opinion, the missile defense system in Russia is more effective than the missile defense system in the United States). But the main beneficiary of such a scenario would likely be China (if the conflict in Taiwan does not erupt before the conflict in Ukraine enters a critical phase).

Biden consistently acts in the interests of the "green" lobby. The "carrot" lever in the form of subsidies, subsidies and tax breaks for the purchase of an electric car is apparently no longer effective enough. Therefore, in order to stimulate the transition of Americans to electric cars, you just need to make owning a gasoline car economically painful.

Russia's response to the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge was quick, but it can hardly be called rash. As a result of massive missile strikes, electrical substations with a capacity of 330 kW were damaged throughout Ukraine. This forced Ukraine to stop exporting electricity to the EU and led to blackouts in many parts of Ukraine, but this is not dramatic damage to critical infrastructure. If 750KW substations had been targeted for strikes, Ukraine would have been plunged into darkness for a long time, and these damages would have been much more difficult to repair. The prospect of meeting winter without electricity, heat, water, light and the Internet is not very tempting. No country can survive winter without heating and electricity, even at minus 5 degrees.

Russia's problem is that it is still conducting a special operation in Ukraine without taking off its white gloves. And Ukraine, in response, is fighting with all its might, not choosing the means to achieve its goals. For the most part, Ukrainians hate Russians, and Russians consider Ukrainians to be a brotherly people. For Russia, this is not an advantageous position, even taking into account its multiple superiority in strength.

The New York Times disagrees with you. They say that the Russians fired more than a hundred rockets, and killed only 19 people, which means they have poor quality rockets.

A massive missile strike on October 10 targeted 330kW electrical substations to inflict limited damage on Ukraine's critical infrastructure. Only one rocket, apart from substations, was fired at the building of the SBU in Kyiv.

Because they were paid from the funds of the US State Department, like you when you jumped on the Maidan?

The riots in Iran followed exactly the patterns of color revolutions, and enough about that here.

Judging by the shape of the striking elements, a Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft missile fell near the Samsung office in Kyiv. Do not build a conspiracy theory where there is operator error or the poor quality of an old Soviet guided anti-aircraft missile.

The question is not for me, but I will answer. Recently, a detachment of special forces from Ukraine returned to my city. They left six months ago and only now have they been given vacation leave (although the planned rotation should be carried out after six weeks of hostilities). Six months instead of six weeks - this is the price of the shortage of manpower involved in the special operation.

As for the scale of losses, people are tired, but everyone is alive. Recently, the first "cargo 200" from Ukraine arrived in the city, a sniper from Wagner.

The recent sabotage on the Nord Stream is a control shot in the head for the German economy. It is still moving, but already an economic corpse. I did not look at the latest statistics, but in July industrial inflation in Germany exceeded 37%, that is, the production of goods in Germany rose by more than a third in a year. This is a fairly reliable leading indicator for consumer inflation.

In theory, you are right, subpoenas from the military registration and enlistment office can only be served at the place of registration of citizens. In practice, summons for mobilization are usually handed over to the personnel department of the enterprise at the place of work of the person liable for military service in the reserve.

I have a dilemma - I do not want to shave, and with a beard I will become too conspicuous a target for snipers. There is an option to get to the front through the Special Forces University in Grozny, where almost everyone is bearded. While I'm considering the possibility of participating in the Ukrainian safari, but my assault backpack is already packed. If I stop writing on the forum for a long time, then I'm already much closer to you than you think.

Now, please return the courtesy - why are you yourself not yet at the front, after the eighth wave of mobilization in Ukraine?

The capture of Lyman is a Pyrrhic victory for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Two weeks of unsuccessful attempts to close the boiler, huge losses of manpower and armored vehicles, the weakening of the Soledar direction due to the transfer of reserves and the general loss of pace of the Kharkov counteroffensive. And on the nose is winter, for which Ukraine is not at all ready, soon the leaves will fall from the trees, Russia will begin to receive fresh reserves from the mobilized. But for now, rejoice - Lyman is yours.

Well, perhaps the first results of the special operation can already be summed up. Donbas is ours! Kherson and Zaporozhye too.

Liz Truss is absolutely incompetent, I don’t understand how it was possible to choose a person as prime minister, whose opinion on any issue is spinning like a weather vane in the wind.

Poseidon is an autonomous underwater drone with its own nuclear reactor (that is, with unlimited range and duration) and a warhead with a capacity of up to 100 megatons, it is also called the "continent killer". "Very low speed of about 100 kmph" - this is quite good, considering that Poseidon does not fly, but swims under water.
The concept of mutually assured destruction, as you understand, is theoretical in nature and essentially speculative; it has never been (and I hope will not be) tested in practice. Russia has a Perimeter system (Dead Hand in NATO classification), the US probably also has something similar, although the details are unknown to me. How all these systems work in practice - no one knows.

I do not think that Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons at all in the current round of confrontation with Ukraine. Simply because it is fraught with great political risks and does not bring any benefits. A dozen or two conventional large-caliber high-explosive bombs of the FAB-3000 type can achieve an effect comparable to a nuclear strike on Nagasaki. If the target is well protected, you can use Dagger hypersonic missiles with a conventional warhead, 500 kg of TNT at a speed of Mach 5 will produce an impressive destructive effect. I just don't see the point in using tactical nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, a strike by strategic nuclear weapons, both retaliatory and preventive, is much more likely. And it is unlikely that Satan or Sarmat will be involved, because of the need to take into account the wind rose in order to reduce the risk of radioactive contamination of their own territory. If the red line is crossed (and let's be honest - we don't even know exactly where it is), I think the decisive blow will be delivered by Poseidon, an underwater nuclear drone capable of causing a tsunami up to 100 meters high and destroying all life on the coast up to 500 km deep. And it will be either a simultaneous strike by two Poseidons on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, or a single strike by Poseidon on the UK. Or either right away. New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London will be completely destroyed from such a strike. As a side effect, severe damage will be in all coastal cities of the globe.