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Never underestimate your enemy. Its hard to say how effective they are, but in theory its always combat ready and well trained army. Could be flop, considering isolation and moronic regime.
True, but as @Scaff pointed out at the top of the page, they likely have zero actual combat experience. Even their generals and those that train them will have little to no combat experience, other than a few border skirmishes.
In addition to a lack of combat experience, it's also suspect just how healthy and able-bodied they are. When Oh Chong-song defected in 2017 to South Korea, his body was riddled with parasites. There's also a severe lack of food in North Korea, and while the military probably gets preferential treatment over the average civilian, it's not like the nutrition is good. So no combat experience, poor health and nutrition, a lack of proper equipment, a language barrier, and probably low morale doesn't really make up a stout fighting force.
Combat engineering is trainable thing, speed of digging and quality of reinforcements doesn't require combat experience if theory is good enough.
As long as the Russian government maintains this opinion then I think we're in good shape.
You just said that training ground experience is same as flying simulator. No its not. Training ground experience is same as flying training flight. That's how you got all good pilots and combat engineers.
Not really.
How its different from fly training with instructors? Same controlled environment.
Its hard to say how many RUAF soldiers had full time training courses, considering most of those who were contractors in 2022 already out.
Guardian
To be fair, Moldova has 2 millions+ population and around 10% currently living in RF. Only two polling stations were opened in RF, while 232 were opened in other countries. Even with this manipulation results were far from excellent for EU course.Maia Sandu wins second term in Moldovan election in rebuke to Kremlin
Incumbent wins presidential runoff with 97% of votes counted, defeating Russia-leaning rivaltheguardian.com
OK
That's not a direct comparison, we would need to know how many other countries to see the average per country, also postal votes were acceptable which negates that point.
The only 'manipulation' seen so far has been carried out by the Russian state!
And?
She was born in Moldovia and holds dual citizenship, so please drop the bad-faith arguments.
Her opponent also holds dual citizenship, not that that stopped his party from criticising Sandu for doing the same thing. That smells more like hypocrisy to me:
Reuters
Not if one side is talking about people who aren't Moldovans influencing a Moldovan election, while the other is talking about Moldovans holding dual passports being foreigners while holding one himself. If that's the case then it sounds like you're drawing a false equivalence.
It's almost like he's doing exactly what those articles say is happening too. Every time they post, it cements the idea that they are on Putin's payroll to spread disinformation on the internet.Not if one side is talking about people who aren't Moldovans influencing a Moldovan election while the other is talking about Moldovans holding dual passports being foreigners while holding one himself. If that's the case then it sounds like you're drawing a false equivalence.
‘Russia’s dirty money will hijack our democratic process’: how tiny Moldova fears Kremlin is fixing EU referendum
Officials believe €100m has been funnelled into the country to influence the pivotal vote and the presidential electionGermany accuses Russia of ‘massive’ effort to stop Moldovans abroad voting
Foreign minister says bomb threats against polling stations in German cities show Putin ‘will stop at nothing’
Its clearly dual loyalty situation. President is commander-in-chief, what would happen if Romania and Moldova would have territorial dispute? How intelligence should work?
I was thinking recently about Russia's quite substantial contributions to art, literature, cinema, architecture, music, engineering, science, etc in years past and trying to square it with 700,000 Russian casualties in Ukraine and the mob-like mentality of the ruling class and it honestly just made me sad. It's like Iran where there is just a shadow over the country and people that has become so entrenched that's hard to see it ever lifting. Putin is so in love with the idea of Russia that I don't think he's capable of understanding that's he is ruining it.
