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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by rtkwe on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:27PM (#15241145)
Even with a perfect screening process for the initial deliveries it's really easy for weapons to end up in unintended hands just as positions/territory are taken and lost by the various sides.
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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by zeep on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:01PM (#15241489)
> really easy

meaning more than 50% of weapons?

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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by rtkwe on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:47PM (#15251182)
If the chosen groups are crushed or loses a lot of territory yeah pretty easily.
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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by zeep on Thursday September 14, 2017 @04:54PM (#15252434)
at that point, they should have stopped sending anything (or probably much earlier)
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