A very good read, not just what happened when Russian soldiers and Ukrainian civilians got to know each other but also the much wider things going on in Russian society.
Was looking at the map the other day and noticed that was the only route to far west bit of Ukraine without going via Moldova and that it seemed a bit vulnerable.
so then trump comes back and has macron killed or even Greta thunberg
Just nationalise it temporarily and be done with it. It's not like the Russians didn't nationalise several billion worth of jets they leased from Irish companies!
I would have my doubts that bauxite processing is particularly lucrative, particularly in a location with enormous energy costs. It reminds me a lot of Irish Steel in the sense of trying to build a heavy industry in a location that didn't have any of the resources to support it.
There would be job loses, but it's not necessarily going to be the case that those jobs weren't going to be lost anyway. From what I have read about the sector it's an extremely low margin business.
You can also run the small gas turbine power plant they have without operating the rest of it.
It would make more sense to get some high margin businesses to invest in the same location - Pharma, biopharma, medtech .. etc etc.
That's a lot of Irish jobs lost then. Plus, it's 80MW of reliable gas powered electricity to give up. Something that we're relying on at present, nevermind come winter time. Even Eamon Ryan couldn't be stupid enough to voluntarily shut it down.
Also, Odessa recieving lots of attention with the unusual sight of both an E-3A Sentry and E-8C within sight of each other ( one 3,000ft above the other). Both aircraft can monitor air and ground movements. There is also a Global Hawk just south of Sevastapol covering Crimea and Odessa.
The proverbial foot has not been let off the accelerator with regards to these flights. It must be costing hundreds of millions of dollars every week.
There are all kinds of chip-pan alternatives to get around anti assassination legislation, lol. This is a new thing on the battlefield Lethal Russian anti-tank mines spotted in Ukraine for the first time (msn.com)
The fibre would be fine, but the issue is the routers/switches which are typically just located in telephone exchange buildings and small data centres are electronic, or even where they're optical, they're still controlled by electronics. All that gear would be toast.
The FTTH wiring / distribution networks are PON (Passive Optical Networks) so there are no electronics in them - the splitters and all of those devices are purely optical.
There was a time in the past when telephone switching equipment in certain areas of the UK, US, France etc was in buildings that contained faraday cages or were placed underground in some cases. They are often still housed in nearly bunker-like concrete buildings in some countries.
I don't think we ever did much of that as the only threats were possibly domestic or from the Troubles and were not all that likely.
Any kind of EMP would wreak havoc on the mobile networks and more significantly the national grid and local distribution grids for electricity.
I still would think Russia's threats are just theatre for their domestic audience. There's a lot of nonsense and Dr Evil style threats that are more like comedy sci-fi.
However, I would be of the view that having made a threat like that on state television, diplomatic relationships with Ireland should be curtailed to the point of just bare minimum if not ended completely.
They're literally threatening our national security and our very existence in the case of those nuclear threats and they are being communicated through state owned channels, not some shock jock of on a rant. Those messages are quite obviously fully approved.
Threatening to annihilate a country should be red line in diplomacy!
At the very least a certain resident of Orwell Road should be called in to explain his government's messaging...
FYI..
Lots of surveillance activity near the Moldovan border. In this shot, an E3-8 Redeye (unhighlighted to the south) is visible with an unknown aircraft ( highlighted), possibly a drone as it originated in Sicily, but unlikely to be a Global Hawk as its only at 18000 feet. Also, to the North West, we can see a C-130H of the USAF.
Also, there is an unprecedented level of airtraffic coming in and out of Kaliningrad at the moment. In fact, it's been extraordinarily busy over the last few months with either the Swedish Airforce or USAF keeping an eye on the enclave. Today, its the turn of a Beechcraft SIGNIT aircraft. Kaliningrad is not featured much in the media at the moment, but I'd expect something major to eminate from the region soon, given the attention its getting from Russia.
He reminds me of the figure in "Another Brick in the Wall"
Excellent idea, the window has a metallic mesh which completes the "box", and the frame is earthed.
Fascinating read from one of the formerly occupied villages
https://t.co/I7xLJnejgz
Ethnic cleansing ? You mean sorta like what the Russian people are doing to the Ukrainians ?
Honestly don't care what happens to Russia they deserve all they get.
President Ford of the US, had legislation passed that forbade the US government from using assassinations as a foreign policy tool. Time for Biden to make moves to repeal that legislation as it seems to me an absolute necessity when you have a nuclear armed, mentally unhinged terrorist, piratical state that believes dishonesty is the cornerstone of faux diplomacy.
I genuinely think 'diplomacy' has not been an option with the Horde for some time and is unlikely to play a part in this unless they are facing complete defeat and haven't decided to take the nuclear suicide option first.
Biden should not have cancelled that Minuteman test, I think it wasn't deescalatory; more like emboldening; hey look, we can use nukes because they are too scared to and won't respond in kind, pussies.
They were and a few weeks ago Russia hit the factory where they were being assembled. I don't know if they moved manufacturing before that.
Bridge to Odesa destroyed https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart369/status/1521082181174673413?s=20&t=ke0ragIuZTzrhEIAJw-Zig
Update on the thieving bastards stealing Ukrainian farm machinery and tractors
Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership -- and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area.
Russian troops in the occupied city of Melitopol have stolen all the equipment from a farm equipment dealership -- and shipped it to Chechnya, according to a Ukrainian businessman in the area
But after a journey of more than 700 miles, the thieves were unable to use any of the equipment -- because it had been locked remotely.
😁
Aren't they assembling them under license in Ukraine ? Or did that not happen ?
" Russian ambassador to Israel has been summoned to the Israeli Foreign Ministry after the anti-Semitic statement of the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov that "Hitler had Jewish blood"
Jowl boy making even more friends. If Israel feel like killing some Orcs to blow off steam, I know a place...
A lot of information on Russia here. Worth a browse Misha Firer - Quora
Concerning Putin's successor (aged 70) she says -
"Meet, Nickolai Patrushev, the devil reincarnate whom Mr. Putin pledged as his successor after he steps down.
Petrushev is much, much worse that Putin, Mr. King. It’s fair to says that he’s the worst possible successor to the throne of all the options available.
It’s like IT coming back to terrorise the town of Derry’s children and your readers for an extra 5,000 pages in tiny font.
Where Putin was a KGB colonel, Mr. Patrushev is a KGB general. A much tougher, merciless man and Putin’s superior, he was taught to fight the West till the last Soviet citizen.
Where Putin just used nuclear sabre rattling to scare you, Mr. Patrushev has already ordered to build bunkers throughout the south, and secretly across the country because he won’t cry wolf, and will quietly do what you all fear the most.
Surprised, Mr. King? You didn’t think that evil exists only in your books, did you? Russian leaders will keep on waving around nukes until they are taken away from them."
Cargo ships sailing to Russia from our shores despite EU-wide sanctions (msn.com)
Aughinish Alumina
Just shut it down for God's sake, shut it down and be'done with it. If anything it will keep the Greens happy for the rest of the year.
Fantastic news, the fire sale I have been waiting for. Can't wait to put in my bid on one.
Congratulations sir, you have won the toilet brush from Suite 7.
Sounds like Ireland under Covid, to be honest.
Stick your phone in a microwave oven, a faraday cage by design. That's presuming you get any warning. Of course the phone masts the phone relies on would be a smoldering black stick, but your phone would be fine. I was pleasantly surprised that the optical fibre cable my house was connected with has no metal in it whatsover, so fully proofed against lightning and EMP, but the tranceiver and router would be toast, of course.
There was an image of one shot down recently with March manufacture date stamped on some of the parts inside.
I don't recall seeing footage from one for a while so it's quite possible they got a new shipment. I'd imagine that Turkish factory is flat out with orders.
Looks like Ukrainian forces are at edging ever closer to Kherson.
Better view
Update: I would say it has to do with this.
Top Gear did a thing years ago where they got an artificial lightning machine and had Richard Hammond sit in a car whilst it was struck by lightning.
Cars are incredibly good. But if I remember correctly, you'd want it powered off when it was struck otherwise it'd fry the electronics.
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