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  The foreign minister also said he was convinced that Moscow would 
  achieve its goals in Ukraine thanks to its “patience” and “perseverance”
  The only things russia has left at this point. The "We just have to hold out a little longer" delusion.
  The words of a dying nation.
context: No shit, this has been happening from the beginning of this war. Doesn’t mean that the arms deliveries are that obvious or easy to destroy. Russia has repeatedly said they’d destroy HIMARS and yet here we are, 100 destroyed ammo depots later, HIMARS were not destroyed and being supplied pretty consistently with ammo. 
  Russians prefer to waste their $5M missiles on targets like pharmacies not weapons delivery convoys. Totally logical of course. >
  
  Bellingcat had a really interesting article about the missile strikes and the teams the program the flight paths. I always imagined that you would simply select an exact target on your computer and send a cruise missile away in seconds. Apparently, that's not at all how it works, and the entire flight plan needs to be written by a programmer. Hitting a moving target may be too complicated for their precision weapons when the airspace is denied to the Russian military. Schools and hospitals are apparently within their reach, though. >
  
  This is correct, cruise missiles and drones for now lack autonomous targeting capability except for a few anti ship missiles and of course anti-radiation missiles. That may change in the future with AI and sensors upgrades but Russia isn’t in a position to do that so hospitals it is. >
  
  Tomahawk missiles from Block IV up have moving target capabilities >
  
  Yes but do Kalibrs? Seems like they are a bit less advanced than a Tomahawk or other western cruise missiles. >
  
  What I can find online is that they don't even have the ability to send to another target after launch. >
  
  The newer Tomahawks have a data link, which allows for advanced targeting and guidance after launch. The US has been quite excited about networked weapon systems that would allow real-time terminal guidance to be provided by something like a drone or stealth aircraft. They have repeatedly demonstrated that capability with everything from AMRAAM to cruise missiles and even long-range artillery rounds.
  Kalibr does not seem to have a data-link yet, so everything needs to be set before launch >
  
  That type of thing is supposed to be the F-35’s bread and butter. >
  
  Exactly. A stealth configuration requires carrying weapons internally, which severely limits payload. That becomes much less of a problem when you have a whole guided-missile destroyer carrying your weapons for you. >
  
  Yup. That was a big reason the F-15EX was developed as well. >
  
  Russia also planned to take Kyiv in 2 days >
  
  Kyiv itself(without the travel time) was supposed to take something like 4.5 hours, fucking hilarious. >
  
  It probably made sense on paper based off of reports saying troops and equipment were in great shape and ready to go. >
  
  And that Ukrainians weren't going to fight, and other similar stuff. >
  
  Everyone has a plan until they get HIMAR’d in the mouth. >
  
  I just read that with Tyson's lisp.... >
  
  With a Ukrainian accent haha. >
  
  Everyone haz plan until HIMAR hit you in mouth >
  
  Thankfully, Russian have done excellent job in incompetence.  Of course, Ukraine cannot let their guard down because getting complacent is dangerous. >
  
  Ukraine is receiving more heavy weapons from Russia than anyone else >
  
  More tanks a year into a war than they started with. >
  
  Good luck with that Russia. You’d have to attack nato or launch an extremely deep precision strike somewhere in Ukraine. Very unlikely. >
  
  "Noble goals". Ruzzians doesn't know what noble means >
  
  In fact, they're all bull. >
  
  Who wouldn't want to stuff a sweaty sock down lavrov's throat? >
  
  May be walk by a window. >
  
  The 3rd floor is always in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to strike! >
  
  Wow… you want this war to be over so badly you’re gonna “accidentally” strike NATO to try to get them end it… >
  
  Haha if they could do anything about it they would have done it a long time ago. What a bunch of morons ! >
  
  Just like how russia has been using dummy missiles to overwhelm Ukraine anti-air defence, Ukraine should use dummy supply vehicles to force russia to waste their missiles. >
  
  “Our national colours are today an international symbol of courage and indomitability of the whole world,” he said.
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  Uhm... I am pretty sure the French revolution is the reason why red, white and blue coloured flags are so popular. >
  
  Serbia allows nato railroad transportation of military equipment to Ukraine. Seems awfully coincidental that there is a shit storm brewing there right now >
  
  The United States under Woodrow Wilson avoided entering world War I until the last minute. Do you know what brought the United States in? Germany attacking shipments that were trying to get to the UK. Well that and the fact that we found out there was an attempt by Germany to get Mexico to attack the US. But my point is that Russia should be very careful about what they do in their effort to disrupt the arms shipments because if a plane is shot down or some Americans die shit will get very real very quickly. >
  
  The main issue for Putin and his cronies is that as soon as US personnel or assets are attacked, the average American goes from "well I don't think we should get involved directly" to "YOU SON OF A BITCH" yanks out revolver faster than you can say "military industrial complex."
  Every time that the US has been attacked by an entity that sought to intimidate it, "teach it a lesson," etc, it has backfired spectacularly.  I have no doubt they know this, and that's why Russia and China, among others, issue countless bellicose warnings and never actually do anything.