SomeGuyNamedPaul

What's the typical ratio of regular rounds to tracers?

It's Russian, it might regularly look like that.

I have this dream that one day UA AF happens to have a few surprise F-22s on hand for revealing after the fact via intercepting most of the Russian strategic bomber fleet the next time they do a temper tantrum missile strike.

At first I read this as USPS delivered... I guess I need more coffee and less head cold.

I've seen enough anime to know that turning on the experimental fusion reactor in some Japanese prefecture is an event that doesn't end well.

Foreign influence operations exist because they work.

Speaking of 3D printed parts for Ukraine .. if you've got a printer then you can chip in https://drukarmy.org.ua/

He definitely attained terminal velocity.

It's more that they've been in a long demographic decline since the USSR broke up, particularly among ethnic Russians. Of course 300K dead soldiers plus all the people who fled the country altogether sure as heck isn't helping them either.

It's good to be the king.

Besides the other answers, it trivializes them while making you put forth the tiniest effort towards one you might care about while you can discard the rest. The trick with phones isn't in picking it up to look, but rather on putting it back down.

This is how you make terrorists. Using white phosphorus is how you inspire people to get really creative with killing whoever sent the stuff their way.