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Kurdish YPG During Assault On Tal Hamis , diferent equipment , HD

Oh my god the turkeys in the last moments, when the guy is shooting his SVD(?). gooble gooble.

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In regards to Barbarossa being a TOTAL WAR and not a quick one. You have to remember the germans 'gambled' on the idea that they would be able to quickly destroy the RKKA west of the Dnepr and that this would lead to political turmoil within the USSR, people would revolt, the internal political leadership would fight amongst themselves, just like happened in 1917.
Then Germany could sweep up the remains and hey, GG. "Kick the door in and the entire rotten structure will collapse."


People often stare blindly at military matters and forget political ones. Kiev is my favourite one.
600 000 losses for the RKKA that could have been pulled out sounds like shit decision making.
Or abandon the 3rd city of the country and the historical cradle of your civilization without firing a shot? Good luck maintaining morale and trust in the government by regular people. Especially in that region of the country if you ever manage to get it back. "Hi, we kinda left you to fend for yourself for two years under occupation, hope you don't have any grudges against us, anyway we want you to listen to us again now"
Much better to try to fight and loose horribly in military terms, but using it to get people on your side; than it would be to retreat the army intact and loose the people.

The hype has been real for a long time.

You should consult Napalm by PM on this. He used to write these kind of threads but then something changed. PM him on this and he will relieve you from your worries.

He founded the Angry Bears and got great players to play with him 4v4, no matter the faction. Inhouse 4v4 with the Bears vs. Bears are some of the best games to be had.

YEEES!!!! Studing archaeology is paying off!!!!

Paleolithic era encompassed almost 100 000- 150 000 years of the homo-sapiens. (Debate is ongoing on how old the species can be said to be.) So sure we can defiantly survive. BUT, not all of us. Without modern industrial farming and foodproduction its a bitch to feed people.
Going back without anything, like before the neolithic revolution/evolution (debates debates) it takes a freaking HUGE ass space to feed even one person. I remember an estimate of 5km2 of space for each individual in order to get enough wild food.
So the planet can feed how many now? A couple of million tops.

Sure if everything we ever made was "poof" away tomorrow, different things would probably happen. Even if we don't have any things we still have knowledge. First of all: no clothes, houses, tools; people in cold areas freeze to death in days at best, minutes-hours in alot of places. Like anywhere you can't survive naked for long. (north of the alps?)
The rest would suffer problem with water yes, but water isn't really that scarce in many places with enough heat (so people don't freeze.) Running streams and the like are safer than other sources.

Then of course food, the best chances of survival is rural asia, africa and parts of American, a bit of southern europe to. Is the livestock still alive? Because then thats a no-brainer. Otherwise people need to start getting food by hunting and gathering.
Then cannibalism will probably set in after a few weeks. Seeing as other humans would be the easiest prey.
Everyone with diabetes, cancer, sever asthma, week heart and similar stuff that needs constant medication is basically dead.

Sure we'll probably be able to rebuild, (people can still write, so knowledge can be passed down) but expect about 90-99% mortality. Even if probably not rocket-scientists survive even regular folks in the above regions know OF these things and hopefully some have an idea of what to do.

We won't spend 10 000 years rebuilding but probably a 100-400 years to get everything back. Remember KNOWLEDGE is what wins the day. Just having a slight hum of technology is 100 times better than no knowledge. We have a base of knowledge, we can use it to rebuild.


my 2 drunken cents.