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I read some stuff about Putin from a person (*) that is watching Russia for years. He's not living in the real world anymore, most likely believing in his own propaganda. It can end up in millions of victims or a nuclear war. Or both. Link (google translated)

The number of refugees getting into Poland should go over 1M today. One of my family members is driving right now with 4 of them towards western Poland.

(*) Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich, journalist, reporter, author of books about Russia, incl. repeatedly awarded "Head for the Kremlin Wall", biography of Putin "Vov, Volodya, Vladimir. The Secrets of Putin's Russia", author of documentaries about Chechnya, nominated in 2005 by Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I see more and more Ukraine flags going up and long may it continue. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't waste tiewraps on the invading tyrants forces!

Putin must be handing that stuff out to everyone 'cos that's the bullshit he's pushing!

I was surprised by the fact that London has sent no military aid to Ukraine and by the lack of sanctions versus other countries

I think catching a western POW in person or seeing a western soldier kill a Russian will be easier for Vlad to sell the war to the population. The only way Ukraine comes back in this war is by pushing the Russians back South. The north is on the Russian border so Ukraine can only push back so far there. That's why the South it the real battle.

I thought there was actually a sizeable number of Nazi sympathisers in Britain at least, not sure about France, although you would wonder. I think a lot of people felt that the treaty of Versailles was very unfair on the Germans.

Not Bayonet here, but the Bayraktar TB-2 is definitely a reusable drone. Depending on what is needed, it can operate either unarmed, if you just need to keep an area under surveillance or with a variety of different missile loadouts along four different hard points under the wing for an attack role. They use a regular piston engine and run on the same type of AvGas that the Cessnas at your local flying club would use. It can reach altitudes of up to 8000 meters, putting it out of range of many MANPADS, and it can remain on station for up to 27 hours, so it's quite the powerful system.

Except roubles. That you can use as toilet paper

Poor George and Bill must be the two busiest bucks on earth. Fixing elections, running paedophile rings, overthrowing countries, creating a man made virus and starting ww3.

When its too daft for fox to pin on them you know you've gone full retard.

Ah, a Musk fan, I see. Lol. It's amusing how polarising Mr. Musk can he, with many dissenters knowing little of his operations.

Personally, I think he's a bit of an idiot, especially regarding his Twitter trolling. However his companies, or rather his engineers, have been doing some pretty extraordinary things of late, especially at Spacex. His offer of utilising Starlink over Ukraine will be interesting if it works ( as long as the dishes don't act as "place missiles here.." neon signs. Also, with the withdrawal of Roscosmos from ISS operations and, by extention, the job of orbit adjusting of the ISS by the Soyuz, Spacex's Dragon will be taking its place, negating NASA's reliance on Russia.

Spacex's Raptor and Merlin engines will also be replacing the current Russian engines in use across the board.

Everyone has their good points and bad, I suppose.

If the convoy is unable to move it effectively is neutralised. No point risking an extremely important weapons system on it. I'd be fairly sure that they are "nibbling" away at those units every day.