They were also invaded by the Swedes in 1709, during the Great Northern War (Napoleon was reportedly reading a book about this campaign during his own invasion in 1812). The Swedes were defeated at the Battle of Poltava which, of course, is in Ukraine, not far (in Russian terms) from Kharkiv. 😊
He's not kidding anyone except himself.
@Dohnjoe - This is Adam Gabbatt taking over from Léonie Chao-Fong.
Sounds like a coup in China.
I'm hoping they televise the next Ukrainian ploughing championship.
Bit of a correction there. the F-16CM is just a regular F-16 and not specifically hardwired for the Wild Weasel/SEAD role. It can certainly do that role, it has the sensors & computers to handle it, but the Wild Weasel designation these days is more of a general term for US SEAD aircraft. Those two F-16s over Romania, Viper 51 & 52, seem to be flying CAP by the looks of it. Just surprised that their ADS-B transponders are still active, or rather, visible on flightradar24.
He is from the same line of many Communist Soviet leaders and earlier, don't minimize what he is, the savage past that he draws inspiration and example from.
The Germans were in the hapenny place compared.
Its horrendous - absolutely beyond Orwellian - they only hopeful thing i can say is if they are acting THAT FAST - They are worried
Think that's the second time I've heard that music accompanying one of these types of videos - anyone know what it is? It slaps!
Point is, there's plenty more to attempt it. Putin completely underestimated the level resistance, from all parts of society.
Wouldn't mind if that was the guards on O'Connell St every time they saw a gouger tho 😄
It's pretty terrifying and surreal that we witnessed the equivalent of a Nuremberg Rally in the year 2022. This poxy scum must be stopped somehow. Sickening stuff.
Nazis and commies are scumbags. The problem is it's perfectly acceptable to walk around student dorms with hammer & sickle or Stalin tshirt, but swastika is a no no.
Both ideologies are the rock bottom of humanity and contributed literally 100,000,000 deaths + combined
There's some kind of assumption that Hitler was worse than Stalin. It's a pretty tight call, both atrocious.
With bono giving Pelosi that poem yesterday, that link is giving me strong vibes of this
What clown would wear a Stalin t shirt? Depressing if true
rekt...or ЯЄҚҬ
I forget who it was, but some Labour tosspot in the UK had Stalin framed picture on his wall. Quite common to see hammer & sickle paraphernalia...
Corbyn was at an event a couple of years ago speaking with commie and Soviet flags all over. They marched military style down the streets with commie flags chanting Revolution is the solution.
The farming section of the Ukrainian version of DoneDeal will be very interesting in the future.
No one will beat Russian leaders for killing Russian and Ukrainian people, Hitler tried but a poor attempt.
Forgetting the human suffering for a second....hypothetically if you travel to Ukraine just now and manage to find an abandoned T72 or some SAM system....what do you reckon it's worth? I mean are we talking making enough money to justify the danger?
True enough you visit areas like Dordogne and you see all the beautiful towns/villages on hilltops all built around castles.
They have to thank the English for that.
Likewise all those cute white towns/villages often named la Frontera (the frontier) in Andalucia are due to the Moors.
Yes the Soviets - mainly Russia, but don't forget they were also from Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and all those multitude of Stans, lost anything above 20 million in the Great Patriotic War.
But don't forget Stalin let untold millions die of starvation, again including millions of Ukrainians, not to mention the millions ethnically clensed, purged, deported to certain death in Siberia or a Gulag in the Artic wastes.
They reckon the Soviets killed as many if not more than Hitler's invasion.
Life has always seemed precarious and cheap in Russia.
And I wholeheartedly agree Russian Empire went the way of Chinese and Ottomans where they became very insular.
They usually got awoken when they started getting their asses kicked in wars and their only solution was to throw men at it.
Autocratic state to full on totalitarianism in 3 short weeks.
A real man of the people by the people
Got to hand it to the Kremlin. They've made swift gains on the homefront and TV scheduling. Not so much in Ukraine though. Bogged down and losing tanks by the hour.
I can see things like this taking off as a demonstration of unity with Ukraine.
Yesterday, the Italian cabinet agreed to provide the resources to rebuild the Mariupol Theatre.
Today the Prime Minister of Greece announced that they are ready to rebuild the maternity hospital.
I believe it was John McDonnell
I'm surprised the Russians don't fire on the tractors even if not towing captured gear, seeing as loads are getting carted off by them
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