Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered an emabarassing setback as his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal failed four out of five missile tests, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site.

High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia’s Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile exploded, shows extensive damage.

A crater approximately 60 meters wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, along with visible damage in the surrounding area that was not present in images taken earlier in the month.

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    Try to copy Ukrainian missile from 58 years ago

    Fail

    Second greatest military in the world!

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      Second greatest military in the world

      I think they might be second best in Russia by now lmfao

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      Try to copy Ukrainian missile from 58 years ago

      When both Russia and Ukraine were part of the USSR?

      Second greatest military in the world!

      The USSR hasn’t existed for >30 years, since then, Ukraine and Russia have done little but feed on its corpse. Does anyone honestly think modern Russia has a better military than China?

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          True the engineering were always done In Ukraine, Russia just got carried by the others nations

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          The USSR couldn’t have achieved a fraction of what it did without all its SSRs working together.

          Hell it probably wouldn’t have survived getting invaded by every country with a military after WWI without both Russia and Ukraine.

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            And? I only said the Ukraine has been doing more to increase the quality of life for its citizens then Russia.

            Also, it’s a pretty bold claim to say that EVERY nation with a military has tried to invade. I’d like to see a list of that.

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              it’s a pretty bold claim to say that EVERY nation with a military has tried to invade

              It’s only the slightest exaggeration..

              Between 1915 and 1920, they were invaded by: United Kingdom, France, US, Japan, Italy, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, China, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and I’m sure I missed a few more.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russia_intervention

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_intervention

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_intervention

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                  The point was that it’s silly to try to divide up and assign individual responsibility for the achievements of the USSR 30-100+ years ago when those achievements were only possible because Ukraine and Russia were part of a greater whole.

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                    Considering what has become of Russia and Ukraine since the fall of the USSR, I’d say that Ukraine was just getting sucked dry by the elites in Moscow while they were a part of it.

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                Czechoslovakia certainly didn’t invade in the traditional sense, because:

                • The troops were there before the bolshevik revolution with the agreement of the Russian government and on the way out of Russia when they were attacked.
                • Czechoslovakia didn’t exist yet.
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                It’s kinda wild to claim that the US invaded Russia when they literally only sent one contigent of troops. That’s like saying Canada invaded Afghanistan.

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                    Ig technically, but it was really the US that invaded Afghanistan. Considering their allies that sent significantly smaller forces and did not make the decision to start the military activity as fellow invaders is disingenuous at best.

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        Good point. Failing to copy your own missile would be even worse, though.

        Does anyone honestly think modern Russia has a better military than China?

        A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

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          A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

          You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

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            I mean the jokes comes from somewhere.

            To try to be less technical, I’d go as far as saying it was a double-digit percentage of public commenters. I remember because I was there thinking how dumb that is.

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          A good number of people did until early 2022. It looked a lot better on paper.

          Did it? I remember a ton of propaganda about Putin and Russia going back to the Obama era, but then they’d show off stuff the USSR had developed to fight a war in Germany/Ukraine against late 1900s American equipment and tactics.

          Whereas China was showing off their modern fighters, tank and ship production, and an entire branch of the military dedicated to missiles, and greater numbers than any other military, all designed to fight their next war; defending against/driving the US out of it’s back yard.

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            If you’re talking about the whole “human wave” thing in WWII, the ex-Nazis made that up for their memoirs. The old AskHistorians subreddit went into it once; basically the USSR fought the same way everyone else did.

            I think the smart money was still on China post 2010 or so, but there was actual debate. They had a lot of old weapon stocks, and a still respectable population, if not as huge as China’s.

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              If you’re talking about the whole “human wave” thing in WWII, the ex-Nazis made that up for their memoirs.

              Ironically, there actual cases of human-wave like attacks in WWII, notably banzai charges by Japan and MacArthur’s Walking Fire.

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                Walking Fire is new to me. It sounds like it’s pretty much an older term for suppressive fire during an advance, from a quick search. Do you have an example of it leading to massive attrition like that?

                The Japanese liked to do it as a last resort sometimes, that’s definitely true, and it was the plan if the home islands were invaded. In practice, I have no idea what proportion of those civilians drilling with melee weapons would have been dumb enough to try it IRL, though.

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          No, the .ml moment would be something like “don’t believe your lying CIA eyes, all the non-Western nations are working together in beautiful anti-imperialist harmony and very competent”.

          This seems like a normal take from someone who happens to be on .ml.

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            Most propaganda isn’t that obvious. It often seems normal and a lot of it is actually based on the truth.

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          I expected a .ml to show up huffing copium when I saw this thread, wasn’t disappointed. So predictable.

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            It’s copium to acknowledge that Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country 58 years ago, and that modern Russia and Ukraine are able to achieve far less than the USSR was? This is evidenced by both countries primarily fighting with 30+ year old weapons.

            I guess basic historical literacy is tankie shit now.

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        Ever consider rooting for a team that isn’t fascist?

        It can be great fun, trust me.