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I agree, but I think that Ukraine has one thing that Russia does not have, and that is a population that is willing to fight for their rights. Also, as we have seen there are many foreign fighters willing to sign up.

Amazing piece about the Ukrainians on the frontlines in Donbas

Several hours earlier, in a cafe in the city of Dnipro, Dima shows me an image on his phone. Four bodies lie in the dirt. The image is grainy, but their ragged outlines are clear. Just 20 or so metres away, their comrades sit and eat. “It’s incredible,” says Dima. “​They’re eating lunch right by the decomposing bodies of their friends.” He continues: “I don’t understand the Russians. Sometimes they just drop the bodies of their mates into trenches. We found a grave of 15 bodies. They’d thrown a bit of dirt on them, but that was it. They don’t even respect their own people.

I ask if he minds if I take photos of him. “Take as many photos as you want,” he replies. “I spit on these bastards.” He’s into his stride now. “Look at General Zhukov, the ‘Great Marshal’ who was just a butcher. The Russians are fighting like Zhukov. They send wave after wave but our guys figured out they fight just like Soviets. The tank commander is always in the first tank, so we shoot it. Once you shoot the first and last tanks, they’re immobilised.”

Nukes do not detonate in a nuclear fashion in an accident or if they are intercepted before triggering. They might make a mess, if blown apart, but you can clean up messes more easily than raise the dead.

If the Russians or US have trouble recovering lost warheads with their resources, I'm not even slightly concerned ISIS will have better success.

As mentioned previously, there was a few week gap with no indication the Ukrainians had any TB2s and all we got was footage from presumably modified heavy lift 6 rotor commercial drones dropping the printed fin modified anti-tank grenades from directly above, then suddenly they seemed to have them again, so I think they were down to one or two for a while before receiving a new shipment.

Interesting the secrecy around the big drones dropping the grenades, there seems to be an absolute information embargo on those, likely so the suppliers can continue selling a surprising number of them them to the new media company with the insatiable demand for drones that can heft large video cameras, without the Orcs asking their Asian friends to have a word with Shenzen Heavy Friend Drone Company to stop selling them to certain customers.

May require exercising some imagination until a more realistic likeness can be found, hopefully soon.

The concerning bit is how many Russian agents were part of that lot in order to further embed themselves in Europe and using this to gain a guise of legitimacy.

So there was a safety device and it worked. Typical left of PC BBC. One would hope that lessons were learned and that the current stuff that is fielded and comprise the relevant subject matter, are better engineered.

If Russians want out of Russia, they can go to Georgia, Armenia or Kazakhstan. Until this situation gets resolved, I don't think civilised Europe should be welcoming any more of them, no matter how well-intentioned they might seem to be. We (Europe) are not the level of being at war with Russia, exactly, but not far below it at all.

I have to disagree. I think if Natasha wanted to move to the EU, she and those like her should be welcome.

Perhaps some vetting would be in order so those who can show even an inkling of not being too happy with present day Russia should be exempted. All those arrested for protests, for example.

I'd be the opposite, welcome them, give them a voice (subject to security checks of course).

What a laughing stock...

We are past the 25K milestone.

Due to the sanctions and embargos, they can't make new tanks and probably a lot more materiel, besides those.