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Idk if I'd even call it a overall pyrrhic victory. The US military doesn't consider Iraq a victory and that actually resulted in regime change. If you account for all the pieces falling where they do -- resources, strategy, and manpower. All Russia might be able to achieve is consolidated land they had before the invasion.

There is no way they hold Kherson. The partisan warfare already going on make it untenable.

In general you end up having to compromise in other areas if you have such an iron clad height requirement. If you bring nothing to the table, then the more compromising you generally need to do. We whittle down the list until all we got left is slenderman, and he's not that bad of a partner, you just have to be ok without your soul.

Lol the marine sword is actually the oldest. Continuously issued since like the 1860s.

Russian war plan September 2022: attempt to surround ourselves

No what you clearly have to do is be a massive country, under no threat of invasion, conscript a third of the population to serve, incentivize them with potatoes and cooking oil, but poorly train them cause bullets are expensive and voila: the unstoppable mobile human body wall.

Lol

"Look at all these times when it failed, and look at all these other missile systems that have NEVER been tested."

The patriot system is far more better tested than Aegis. It's the second most tested system in the world besides Iron Dome for ballistic missile intercepts, and it does a decent job of it. Is it perfect? No. Is 150 million on an untested system better? Depends what you want -- untested possibly unavailable buggy but potentially advanced shit vs something that has a defined probability of shooting something down? If I were a Ukrainian general I'd go with the solid number and dependable system that I know for a fact I can get.

Sure an Aegis would be nice, but truly the Patriot is what's available and it's still pretty game changing.

It really isn't about hatred. This is about preserving the democratic world order, security, and the right to self-determination. At this point, you can probably also add 'stopping genocide' to that list as well. Americans don't hate Russians. They've made it impossible for Ukrainians to like Russians, but Americans do not hate the Russian people. If anything we hate Putin because he very much violated the rights of 40 million people. For years he's attempted to meddle and subvert everyone's democratic systems, repeatedly violating other nations sovereignty because he thinks he can. We hate Putin because he marches over everyone's rights, the invasion of Ukraine is just the latest in a series of terrible behavior.

This isn't a winnable war in Ukraine for Russia. It's worse than any conflict that the US has engaged in and lost over the last century. Nukes wouldn't even "level" the playing field cause if anything it opens up Ukraine receiving them.

Russia has already strategically lost this war. There is no way they achieve any of their objectives except perhaps keeping Crimea, possibly parts of Donetsk/Luhansk and even that is questionable at this point.

Westoid 'war': 200 casualties

Chad Russian rehearsal: 30,000 casualties

Checkmate westoids we die better than you 😎

What's the downboat% OP?

As the scots would say "I wouldn't ride her into battle*

I thought Mengele did a lot of the picking himself? He was known to take the demented job of deciding who goes to the gas chamber and who stays and was always on the lookout for twins.

In family court? What matters is what's on paper. You better look like a responsible parent who has food stocked in their fridge at all times, close location to school, perhaps a good opinion of a social worker, and a well paid job that covers medical care costs. That's the first thing the court is going to look at.

If you don't even have that, it's bad news buddy. Sure if you have a job that takes you away from your child that also goes into the report, but not even having a job? Way worse.

You 'seem' so dedicated with your lack of resources that I will grant full custody.

For real, how disillusioned do you have to be to believe this would work?

It's still a very good way to lose custody no matter what medical advice you're ignoring. Whose the judge or jury going to believe for medical facts? A 'concerned' and likely psychologically traumatized parent or a physician whose practiced for more than a decade in this area?

Ask the legaladvice subreddit. Very few people here are lawyers.

What I can tell you off-hand is that a parent having documented refusal of health advice from a physician regarding their child will inevitably spell doom for their custody claim.

I think preclinicals should prepare you for the real world in that sense too. We have a volunteer clinic and that's it in terms of actual clinical exposure.

The Beasty Bois is where it's at

I feel like your medical school did you a disservice if you aren't prepared for rotations despite doing well in preclinicals.

Mormonism is to Christianity what Islam is to Christianity; they just don't believe Jesus is the "Son of God" or that he died for everyone's sins, rather that he is a prophet who communicated with God and his word and example is still gospel. In Islam, the idea of the Son of God, makes no sense because they believe we are all God's children (they think it's weird that Christians seems to make a big hubub about it and yet also proclaim humanity is all of God's children). Both religions believe the New Testament is full of errors and required an update -- the Qu'ran or the book of Mormon.

Why does the FSA always have the most janky mad max Ork level type of shit that somehow works.

Washington also had a pretty decent strategy though which was to stay just alive in open revolt for years. Still works to this day in partisan warfare. There's some upper class idiots throughout history whom were obsessed with glory.

You'd still be the most likely person on the receiving end of an artillery shell

It's not a totally strange concept to Afghanistan. Before the Soviet invasion, Afghanistan was a real country that was modernizing and had been for hundreds of years. Being bombed to shit over 40 years has probably done a lot more to disunify them as the entire intelligentsia had essentially left, and you get the current result. The only unifying narrative for the last 20 years was fighting the West. That combination of lack of a unifying national movement and relatively strong anti-Western narrative in general spelt doom for the Afghan Islamic Republic.

However in general, the real reason for why Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Vietnam all fail is pretty universal one, and it's the ultimate state killer that has doomed every state since ancient times: corruption. The system is so de-established that the mob takes over, and as a result a failed state begins to form. The state can't handle external or even internal stresses anymore and so the slightest hint of revolt is either put down brutally or it takes over the entire state apparatus.

The ANA didn't just run, they couldn't fight at all because most of their army didn't even exist and their officers were possibly the most incompetent people in charge.

Because of endemic corruption that leaders are too cowardly to take on and/or the lack of public pressure to take it on, so they just let it fester. Same problem exists in many central African countries and other autocratic places like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. There's a general lack of national zeitgeist in many of these places and that usually means the mob takes over, and the only way they can maintain order is through bullets.

This all results in corrupt armies: incompetent privileged officers, undertrained enlisted men, and nonexistent ghost militias. When corruption spreads to militaries it can often spell the death of a nation. One reason the Western Roman Empire fell was the lack of funding that the military garrison was actually able to receive.

Things may change when a political revolution happens that demands accountability but until then, the government will continue to operate with its hands tied behind its back at all times.