Finally, a model kit I can do justice to.
That is just part of an image of ships waiting to get through the Suez canal when the Ever Given got stuck last year. It's not a photo, but an image built using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) owned and operated by a US company - capellaspace.com. It would be safe to say the US military can do far better than that - with their own SAR satellites, but the resolution of SAR images taken using spy planes from far lower altitude, would be an order of magnitude or two better than that again.
SAR works through clouds and in the pitch black of night. It doesn't care.
The US Global Hawk spy plane has a SAR, as do multiple other US surveilance assets, and it would be safe to assume those have been monitoring Ukraine, the Black Sea, Bosphorus Straight, Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad, etc, etc - 24/7 since well before Russia invaded.
SAR is just one small slice of the electromagnetic spectrum the US conducts surveilance in. All this is besides the age old business of listening in to radio communications.
The idea that the US could have been wrong has never entered my mind, as I don't believe it's remotely possible.
There's a jeep in Clane that needs the same treatment.
reportedly another 50 or so were rescued by Turkey
R.I.H
Trump famoulsly let a small part of the cat out of the bag some years ago when he released classified imagery to the press. Feast your eyes on the sort of imagery and resolution the US are happy to release to the press: https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/satellite-images-show-extent-of-russia-buildup-on-ukraine-border/
I't would be fair to say they can do a lot better than that, so na.
Dog...bone
Don't forget the group of buildings in Dublin that ran out of heating oil that could do with an aerial deliviery of the stuff via high pressure hose.
Woof!
The commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Igor Osipov has been arrested.
Source?
Maybe this is the source -
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/u3de22/uncomfirmed_commander_of_the_black_sea_fleet/
Yeah, reddit, yeah no
Some Russians haven't even seen a toilet before coming to the Ukraine.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/u192o3/babushkas_from_a_liberated_village_near_kyiv_tell/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
Be great if they did, I mean you want an emotional response not a calculated one, it could be one more disaster for the Russians, siege of kyiv #2
Everyone in Russia seems well aware that the Moskva was sunk by Ukraine - nobody appears to believe the government line of an 'accident' for a moment (I'm seeing the same response from Russian speakers on social media).
Try Malta's bus station toilet or Moroccan toilets - damn a toilet seat would be the height of luxury, not sure where exactly you would put the toilet seat
A man of few words obviously
I cannot recommend highly enough the analysis of the conflict by historian, Mark Felton. His videos are excellent, especially the one on what would happen if Russia decided to attack Britain with cruise missiles. That one's a shocker.
This video is in the Ukrainian raids into Russia.
It's incredible to see him make "historical" videos on a current conflict. Him and Lazerpig ( who's treatments delivery on all things historical is quite the opposite to Feltons) are two that I would recommend, especially if you have an interest in military strategy and WW1 - WW2
https://youtu.be/TPUpuuP6rts
Was great to see Russia was never able to cut off power and comms in a widespread manner.
That's another big surprise in all this. They were able to cut off power and comms in Mariupol but not in other places. Their attacks on infrastructure have been equally lacklustre(thankfully). If the US had wanted to take Ukraine it would have been one of the first things they would have done The Russians explain, or explained this away as not wanting to destroy the country which we know is BS, so what gives? It should be relatively easy to take out power and civvie comms. They're pretty delicate systems. Do they not have the capacity to target infrastructure? If they do why didn't they use it?
With all the scuttlebutt around the Russians attacking and taking over two nuclear power plants in Ukraine, Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, one obvious and puzzling thing is they didn't turn off the power from the Zaporizhzhia plant. It's apparently still under Russian control and is still producing power as usual and it's beside the most heavily contested part of this war.
Autocrats and morons don't do irony.
I’m guessing the theme we’re seeing through all of this is that despite Russia’s strenghts on paper, there’s just so much stupid within their ranks. Enough stupid to give Ukraine a fighting chance.
It’s gotten to the stage where I’m not likely to totally dismiss the Russian claim that their warship was sank due to an accident. I think it is entirely within their gifts to blow up and sink their own flagship (named after the capital no less) in the middle of a war. I feel that they have plenty enough stupid going around for such a thing to happen.
Who were they handed over to?
So they decided to move their warships further from the coast because the risk of such accidents are much higher closer to Ukraine.
Also the Ukrainians were claiming the hit before Russia made mention of it.
I reckon the Pentagon got their info from their Russian informants who were fed the accident narrative. They don't want their seamen suddenly thinking their realistic targets in the conflict so that would be their own official internal narrative also.
It's hard not to love our Ukrainian friends. They are absolutely battering the Russians on the field through raw pride and winning in the modern information war. Humour being used very effectively to absolutely destroy the Russian image to one it may never recover from.
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