Have friend that has it in his cabin near alamosa… for day to day internet, it is nearly indistinguishable from cable. If you click around a bunch, you can see some latency.
Not identical, but I get service through an antenna on the roof of my building. Quality's been good, but it has outages at the same times as good ol' satellite TV (storms and the like).
I think the most likely thing is Russia amps up the firepower to attempt power Ukraine into submission. We are hearing reports of thermobaric weapons being used and that is a (large) step in that direction.
Yup multiple columns headed to Kyiv.
I’m okay with any Russian athlete that’s had ties or support of the Kremlin be deported.
Russia can and will probably increase its military efforts, but that strikes against the political objectives. The harder they fight, the harder the Ukrainians fight back, the more this is turning into Afganistan instead of just replacing the Kiev administration. And then what?
The sad part is I don’t think Putin will ever accept this loss and will just keep escalating to various forms of dirty warfare until he wins.
I could see this get ugly, Russia for the most part have ignored civilian population (that tank running over the bloke's car was disturbing though), but if the Ukraine army gets desperate enough, they're going to start to hide in apartment complexes, house, etc., just like how the Polish rebels did in the Warsaw Uprising during WWII. This will make Russia start turning and conduct bombing of these complexes regardless of if citizens are in there or not. Russia is supposedly sending in another troop division and have gotten two major airports around Kyiv. You're right that this can devolve into Afghanistan where the Ukrainian troops conduct "hit-and-run" tactics like the Taliban. That's much harder to fight because you got these huge convoys against quite effective small teams. Plus, it seems that a couple of countries including the United States gave Ukraine weaponry like anti-tank and anti-air rocket launchers.
Even Germany finally came to their senses:
I don't think Putin can do anything since Germany hasn't declared war at all (perhaps stop selling oil production to them, but then they can buy from Canada or the Middle East). A ton of countries have supplied others in the past without ever going to war. I know Soviets gave a ton of weapons to people in the Middle East (or the -stan region) to fight their governments in the past and USA did the same thing for southern Vietnam before they joined the war. Turkey also has setup ship blockades in the Black Sea to prevent Russia from conducting whatever tactics they want. However, if worse comes to worse, we're seeing the Western nations vs Russia and China. Russia/China have absurd manpower, but the NATO nations have way superior technology.
NATO countries have been arming Ukraine for years, and have continued to do so even after this further invasion (Russia has invaded Ukraine since 2014).
What you are describing are proxy wars. This happened often but this is wildly different.
Highly unlikely it would go nuclear… any sign of that would have massive international cooperation to shut it down immediately.
