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Old 07-13-2018, 04:00 AM  
slapass
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
I am not so sure of that. While I don't think too highly of the Russian military, I believe they are a bit more capable of what they are doing in Ukraine right now. It's not a full invasion, but instead "irregular forces" and not many in numbers. They are trying to play it off it like it isn't Russian troops when it's painfully obvious it is. This kind of shit might have worked twenty years ago, but now now when satellites (government, military, and civilian) can track military vehicles from their military base in Russia all the way to Ukraine.
The old satélites have an issue in that a lot of the citizens were Russian by origin. The Crimea has a large population of people that identify as Russian. They speak Russian in their day to day. The Baltic’s have a similar issue. Not sure of percentages there.
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