Do Ukraine use thermobaric bombs (ones that make your lungs implode)? Or cluster mines? or MOABs Or many things that go against the geneva convention.

Because that's that Russia does. IRL Mordor

It is 1939 and a Soviet army is marching on Finland. As they pass the border, they hear a Finnish voice over the hill;

"One Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviet soldiers!" The Soviet general laughs, as he sends 10 men on the hill to capture it.

There is gunfire for a minute and then everything goes silent for a moment, and they then hear the same voice;

"One Finnish soldier is better than a hundred of yours!"

Annoyed, the Soviet general sends hundred men to capture the hill. There is gunfire and bombs going for ten minutes, and everything goes silent again. Suddenly, the same voice yells out;

"One Finnish soldier is better than thousand of Soviet soldiers!"

Enraged, the general sends a thousand men, accompanied with tanks, artillery, mortar teams, and tells them to not return until the hill is theirs. For half an hour hell breaks loose, bombs and explosions, gunfire, screams and death all around, and then it goes silent again.

One Soviet soldier crawls back, severely wounded and battered.

Before the general could say anything, the soldier says;

"Do not send more troops, comrade general, it's a trap! There is two of them."

Good article, mental to think about. Russia really hasn't changed up their strategy in decades+, life is very cheap to them.

You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.

It is quite saddening to see.

At least Dr Evil was evilly cool compared to these facists!

That's a good analogy at the end there.

Thank you for the smile, PugJesus. Diogenes is the best

Ohh this will go well. Finland has the biggest stock of artillery in Europe and national service. If Russia can't take Ukraine in over 3 years good fucking luck to try even do it to Finland.

Unexpected firefly :)

Also yes!

What an episode, also I got a tattoo where Mal does! (a long time ago)

Fucking hell it got this far? Probably like 20-30!

What the fuck

Tyy for restoring faith in humanity bit by bit, PugJesus!

O2/giffgaff blocks it. I'm using a VPN to Netherlands since imgur got blocked so they too, can get stuffed.

2 submarines!

Might be KDE or to do with versions of libraries, Wayland runs pretty good with Sway on Alpine Linux.