u/IncogCyberspaceUser

Can you expand on that or ELI5?

What happened in 1991?

I'm no war expert here, I'm not going to pretend I know anything more than a handful of videos and articles. So I wasn't trying to come at you hard or anything.

Ah, I do get what you're saying there. I've wondered the same. We do hear about the Russians even gaining ground.

But the losses in manpower and equipment Russia is incurring isn't sustainable, and with the level of sanctions against them, they can't replace their best equipment. Or so I've read.

What do I know, I'm always open to more information.

Do you have anything supporting that? There is a ocean of evidence showing otherwise.

How would Russia have surpassed the US and China? What did they have that would have contributed to that superiority? I realize that is a massive question, but to a a casual observer, that seems curious.

Why did they do that actually? What were they trying to gain? Provoke the war machine and point it at their rivals?

For anyone else who didn't recognize those initialisms:

>The **European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)** and its European Court of Human Rights are part of a completely different legal system to the EU. The ECHR and its court are part of the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, including Russia and the UK. The EU, on the other hand, consists of 27 Member States.

The **European Court of Justice (ECJ)** is the body responsible for overseeing compliance with EU law within the EU. That said, the EU and Council of Europe systems are intertwined because the ECHR lies behind many of the general principles of EU law and its provisions have been used as a basis for the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. All 27 EU member states are also members of the Council of Europe.

Source

The tech itself isn't secret, both sides use it. With Russia being ahead apparently. From the article:

>A video from a Russian military Telegram channel from last month demonstrates their ominous capability. A fibre optic drone, the nose of the yellow cylinder housing the coil clearly visible, flies with precision a few centimetres from the ground, to strike a Ukrainian howitzer concealed in a barn, a location clearly previously considered safe.

>But as Fedorenko acknowledges, it is Russia that, at least for now, “is well ahead of us” – largely because Moscow has had greater access to fibre optic cabling, with Ukraine scrambling to catch up.

I'm not really arguing that we have a lot of freedom here.

A small counterpoint would be that in a few countries they're pretty strict about having to carry personal identification at all times in public.

While I think it's important that people see what war is, I'm still not sure I want to watch terrible shit like this again right now, but here is a nitter link. https://nitter.net/WhatTheHekmat/with_replies?cursor=DAABCgABGlldE7R__-gKAAIaV6-A-ZaRFggAAwAAAAIAAA