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So it's been a while since I've followed the Ukraine conflict. Back then it seemed Ukraine was relying on militia type forces to resist Russian aggression. Do they now use their conventional forces? And if so don't those forces have the mass to retake the east or are they held back by larger concerns of escalation?
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az posted:Good work BM, I mean it. As a Dutch citizen highly annoyed by my countries near innability/unwillingness to stand up to Russian bullshit, very much this. Keep it up, please.
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Randarkman posted:That's Norway. Our navy is pretty much just a joke, a tiny showpiece, we can't even afford to take most of our dumb ships out of port. Like most other small NATO countries we are in reality entirely dependent on the US for defense. Considering that Norway is actually rich as hell, you can perfectly afford it. If there's no money in the budget then that is a choice that's been made. That it is hard to maintain a credible defense as a single country is kind of the point of NATO, so contributing some high end frigates shouldn't be treated as a showpiece. You start adding up all those European nato frigates of small-medium sized countries and that becomes a significant number.
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Brown Moses posted:All those Dutch pounds I'm rolling in. The "government of the Netherlands" is part of the blue logo next to it (rijksoverheid). I think the navy crest is the UKs royal navy.
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Apparently spouses of Dutch pilots in the baltic air policing mission and of soldiers in the enhanced forward presence in Lithuania are being harrased by phonecalls. Said phonecalls feature badly spoken Dutch /English with a Russian accent.  Military personnel are now no longer allowed to call their families on their private numbers while on mission but must use local anonymous Sim cards.
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[quote="HUGE PUBES A PLUS" post="497373177" Didn't the EU recently block anonymous SIM cards? [/quote] You're right I misremembered the article, it said local sim, not anonymous.
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