>The report calls into question assumptions in many circles, including in the White House, that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable and incoming.
I guess that is true IF the following is true:
>“Russian military losses, of those killed and wounded, now exceed sustainable recruitment and replacement rates,” James Ford, Britain’s deputy ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said in a speech last week.
The well of humanity can't be bottomless, but I swear I've heard this sentiment years earlier in the war too. They're still fighting and throwing handfuls of troops at the front lines, seemingly carelessly.
Historically speaking Russian leadership's willingness to take massive casualties of their own with little if any political fallout has proven effective, sadly. Maybe WE can't imagine taking losses like this, but in Russia they seem more than willing.
>Russian leadership's willingness to take massive casualties of their own with little if any political fallout
All Russians joining the war after partial mobilization of the autumn of 2022 are doing this voluntarily. The West and Ukrainians managed to really piss off many Russians. It isn't Putin's war anymore and it isn't even the war of the whole Russia yet.
> Maybe WE can't imagine taking losses like this, but in Russia they seem more than willing.
WE are happily enabling Ukrainians to take such losses.
> seemingly carelessly.
They are doing what works—which evidently it does, however ugly and cynical it looks. And Ukrainians do the same when they try to recapture. This is the face of attritional warfare in the age of drones and under pervasive surveillance. But you’re probably right—WE could not sustain such for long. One hopes.
> now exceed sustainable recruitment and replacement rates,
That’s on even days. On odd days these people will tell you that the Russia army has been all but rebuilt and is about to invade the Baltics.
> Meanwhile, battlefield casualties favor Ukraine by a 2.5- or 2-to-1 ratio.
Russia is 4–5 times bigger. So, even if these numbers were true, they would be bad news. Same with materiel—just check Oryx. For extra credit, look at the trends of losses. Far from good enough and getting worse.
I recall a while ago there supposedly was an analysis done that indicate that in the case of a full blown shooting war that having US ships in the Persian Gulf was a bad idea. Iran supposedly has a volume of small craft with anti ship weapons that could conceivably overwhelm ship based defenses.
Dr. Fauchi pardon comes to mind. I doubt that his accepting of pardon was an admission of guilt. He wasn't even charged, so how can he admit the guilt?
And i think that similar preemptive pardon here, without charge and thus any guilt admission, wouldn't allow the fund seizure.
I wondered how much consumers and citizens will be able to handle a constant "look over here", "I mean these people, they're bad, no these people!" of crisis type situations the the Trump administration insists on having ...
Some countries do operate that way with authoritarian regimes, not sure how much Americans are willing to tolerate it.
My bet would be that "the standard" will be Heinlein Groups (company behind mailbox.org) OpenTalk (already better than Jitsy) and now they are doing OpenCloud as scaleable NextCloud alternative. The company behind the projects needs it for their own usecases, has stable business and they have decades of experience.
It doesn't matter. Office suites are a commodity. Google suite is knockoff of MS Office at certain point in time. That's just the nature of digital - information want's to be free.
It's network effects / lock-in. There is a reason why people still use Microsoft Office and that is that surprising amount of industries have everything build around it. In my country anything law related is submitted in Microsoft Word. Academic texts? Microsoft Word. Communication with government? Microsoft Word.
The reason why Google Docs somewhat managed to break this was 1. free, 2. multiplayer/easy to share.
One law about requiring the state documents to be submitted in open formats, editable in libre software... and the lock instantly breaks.
I guess that is true IF the following is true:
>“Russian military losses, of those killed and wounded, now exceed sustainable recruitment and replacement rates,” James Ford, Britain’s deputy ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said in a speech last week.
The well of humanity can't be bottomless, but I swear I've heard this sentiment years earlier in the war too. They're still fighting and throwing handfuls of troops at the front lines, seemingly carelessly.
Historically speaking Russian leadership's willingness to take massive casualties of their own with little if any political fallout has proven effective, sadly. Maybe WE can't imagine taking losses like this, but in Russia they seem more than willing.
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