image is taken from a film....Death of Stalin
You are talking out of your backside ... and I explained why
That would explain a lot....Stalins medical team ( like a lot of his acquaintance's) did not generally have long life expectancy's ..... I guess you could say the same about the present incumbent....
Rumours another Russian warship has been hit by an anti ship missile.
This must be the one that was rumoured about yesterday
Would be really unfortunate if anything had happened to one of their new frigates..
Well if it's true Putin could be facing the business end of a different type of makarov.
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Cato the Younger is aging well. :-)
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That’s just brilliant, I hope they record those shows
Spot on. Good to see correct info. Heading to RIAT this year?
Simple just get secret service rangers to administer a tasty dose of opiates to half the surgeons and amphetamine to other half before the op
The more I read about Russia the more it sounds like some kind of dystopian nightmare of a place to live - brutality, authoritarianism, control and tacky, tasteless displays of wealth.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of being respected on the world stage too. Respect is earned by deeds and actions, not by making threats. There’s a huge difference between being respected, trusted and liked and just being feared because you’re irrational and have weapons.
Seems the European Parliament is bringing up the issue of the stolen aircraft. Russia is reregistering leased aircraft (many of which are Irish) in the Russian register. The total value across all leasing companies is over €10 billion (not all EU based)
Meanwhile Aeroflot seems to be planning to continue to fly to India and various other destinations. If they’re flying any stolen aircraft on those routes, I assume those countries will act? Or are they just going to ignore and facilitate?
Trying to escape Azovstal? https://twitter.com/Troubleless_/status/1522473920816951297?s=20&t=F_3Yop13rfCq9IoygXNerQ
Reminds me, I need to watch the second series of Motherland, Fort Salem.
Russia have had their turn at their major offensive of "phase 2". Ukraine look to be now starting some counteroffensives over the last few days. Causing an army to retreat hits their morale hard so hopefully they're much more proficient than the Russians were.
I wonder if they'll start calling drones "broomsticks".
I have seen a comment on Sky News that Putin wants badly are for those trapped in Mariupol to surrender so he can have them paraded to the media in Russia as part of some victory gig. Compleat dressed in pink boiler suits and hand ties. That could be why Russia is bombing the steelworks to the ground. The same commentator says any declaration of mass mobilisation of Russian conscripts back in Russia could backfire on Putin very badly as there is a lot of evidence on the ground that [young]people don't approve what's going on in Ukraine. There is also a great lack of SNR army leaders left to keep said recruits from going loco. Most of said SNR army guys are dead! They cant keep the promotions up as there are not enough qualified on the ground.
A lot of denial around this. https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1522390875879485441?s=20&t=nptixfWsVQWOFGWI_dl8nA
Changing Russia to America in the first sentence works too.
Not really. It’s a case of the click bait headline not matching the article. It appears that most people don’t read past headlines.
No, it doesn't.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable can add to this, but it strikes me that this is indicative of the sorry state of the Russian military. In times of high wastage of senior commanders, new and better leaders should emerge. The British and Americans sacked several commanders earlier in WW2. Stalin took it to the next level and shot them, but from all this emerged Zhukov, Koniev, Timoschenko, Bradley, Patton, Montgomery, etc. I won't count the Germans here because their staff training system had been producing a steady supply of competent commanders for some time. During the French Revolutionary Wars many generals went under the guillotine or were exiled - the Armee du Nord had twenty-four commanders in six years. But from that chaos emerged leaders like Davout, Lannes, Augereau, Massena and of course, Bonaparte, among many others. Where is the Russian talent that should be rising to the top?
Not lamenting its lack of course, just interested in the cause. :-)
I think this is being a bit pedantic, yes, from a technical terminology perspective we have no allies, but we are so deep in the The West, culturally, economically, and EVEN militarily (e.g. use of Shannon etc - not complaining or changing the subject, just saying) that our "Friendly Nations" would see an occupation of Ireland as a threat so inconceivable that they would not let it happen, whether we liked it or not.
I did read it “Two senior American officials said that Ukraine already had obtained the Moskva’s targeting data on its own, and that the United States provided only confirmation.”
They say that they only confirmed what the Ukrainians knew about the position of it. Click bait headline.
They already had the knowledge, and they had done the hard work, and so the US confirming was just a double check, and not helping sink the Moskva. I have no idea what they would have done without double checking with the US. No one here does. But I can say that if I were them I’d have taken a chance and fired ahead without the US positional confirmation, as it wouldn’t necessarily have been a very expensive operation for the size of the potential reward.
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The next time some fringe type claims that this war is stop the "expansion" of NATO, ask them why Russia is replacing Ukrainian road signs with Russian road signs
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