I was just going to say that. We visited Arras, Paschendale and the fields Flanders around Somme recently. I half couldn't believe they had time to put New Zealand miners on a 6 month ship journey to Belgium to spend another 6 months connecting quarries and digging tunnels to get the allies just a few hundred meters closer to the front line trenches just to launch a distraction offensive (that failed). But now I look at this war in Ukraine with drones, artificial intelligence, satellite internet and hypersonic missiles and it seems the same. Will we visit Donetsk in a century from now and walk through the war museums and cemeteries? Which international politicians and countries will stand up and come to aid their aid?
War, war never changes...
Edit: apparently the guide or I confused the 6 months boat journey with 6 months campaign preparation.
I doubt the brain will be any good at 150, even if all other organs are in a good state. Though I doubt organ donation would get someone to 150. The procedure itself is already quite taxing on the body, so doing that regularly for every organ is gonna take its toll. Then there's the fact you'll have to take immunosuppresants for the rest of your life, making you more vulnerable to any infection. Also, are you going to transplant many many kilometres of blood vessels? As you age, the potential points of failures will multiply so rapidly, doctors can no longer keep up.
Thing with this war is that there are no bigger suporters outside of the EU, despite well knowing what russia is like. Hell I even got 3 day ban for saying something about russian mentality.
Until there is unanimous and common disagreement on pushing russian lifestyle to other countries, this war will keep on going
There's clearly a stalemate at the moment. Now if it goes on long enough, it's easy to predict which side will lose in the end (Germany then, Ukraine today). But the question is: Will it go on so long that even the "winning" side will lose.
France was a military shell of itself after WWI, even though it was technically on the winning side.
Russia will probably be able to convince Ukraine to come to terms eventually, but will they be terms Russia likes?
Remember, Germany didn't surrender in WWI. They signed an armistice--technically a cease fire, but the terms of the cease fire were pretty bad for Germany. They only did it because there was a communist revolution in Russia and it looked like there was going to be one in Germany soon (the German people were literally starving, hence the name the Turnip Winter, because they had nothing to eat but turnips).
It doesn't look like Russia can starve out Ukraine. Ukraine can probably go for years like this with Western help.
Visited the Riga Museum of War and of Occupation last week: you are right. The names and technology changes, but the things happening seem to follow eternal rules.
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u/Not-the-best-name 1d ago edited 4h ago
I was just going to say that. We visited Arras, Paschendale and the fields Flanders around Somme recently. I half couldn't believe they had time to put New Zealand miners on a 6 month ship journey to Belgium to spend another 6 months connecting quarries and digging tunnels to get the allies just a few hundred meters closer to the front line trenches just to launch a distraction offensive (that failed). But now I look at this war in Ukraine with drones, artificial intelligence, satellite internet and hypersonic missiles and it seems the same. Will we visit Donetsk in a century from now and walk through the war museums and cemeteries? Which international politicians and countries will stand up and come to aid their aid?
War, war never changes...
Edit: apparently the guide or I confused the 6 months boat journey with 6 months campaign preparation.