I suspect this is an able demonstration of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, but I would be delighted to be proved wrong!
I’m just a pale Irish imitation, the real specimen is much more impressive 😂
You remain, as always, a 4D-chess master strategist sir.
I-MLRS
His tweets are brilliant to be fair
Pretty sure the Russian people understand the word FUHRER well enough.
Apparently Russia is short of one more general
'Russian general is killed by US-donated missiles in Ukraine' as ANOTHER massive explosion hits | Daily Mail Online
Shoulda put it in low gear-
If nothing else, this conflict is proving an excellent test environment for systems. I wonder if the US will reexamine adopting a mobile gun platform. Is the German one based on the cancelled FCS from the early 2000s?
Who would buy Russian tech after this showing?
Hah! Love that the guy walking alongside the tank doesn’t skip a beat. Not the first time he has witnessed Russian incompetence.
Says you from your armchair. So if you were in his situation what then would you say and do?
Is Saltpeter still a thing?
It's carbon dust/charcoal mixed with sulphur isn't it?
Popular I believe from bishops pee..
LOL, that's the Russian way of dealing with trouble.
Guy Fawkes eat your heart out
I predicted this some time ago.
(But only in jest...bloody hell!)
Update: OK now I get it 😀
No *ar !!
Protesting against the war in Smolensk.
*Smolensk is on the main route from Moscow to the Belarusian capital and just about on the border between Russia and Belarus.
Saltpeter is potassium nitrate. It's an oxidiser and one of the constituents of old school gunpowder, which would be very basically a mix of charcoal, sulphur(fuel) and potassium nitrate(oxidiser).
Respect.
Interesting to see the locals' responses, from the enlightened to the ignorant to the reprehensible.
Funnily enough, I reckon anyone protesting the Iraq war in the USA in 2003 would have encountered similar reactions.
What? Sounds like you're asking me to empathise with someone who can't shut up about how scary and bad the EU are?
Well, I can't.
Looks like Putin be leaving Russia, hopefully someone makes a move while he’s out
They've had chances recently before. I think he visited a couple of the "'stans" for a summit. It's not impossible, but they need to get in gear and actually take one of these chances to ditch him.
Iran are going to supply Russia with 100s of drones so Russia can find the HIMARS causing all the damage behind the lines.
So we have ammo from Belarus, 60 year old T6x tanks from storage, prisoners from prison, and now drones from Iran
Yep sounds like something a great power would do to a claw a few more kilometres in its Three Day War against Europes poorest country
🤡
edit: yup
Putin is meeting Erdogan the President of Turkey in Iran as well. I do not think meeting the President of Iran is the main function of the visit.
This may be an attempt to establish a cease-fire. As well Turkey has impounded at least one grain ship heading for Syria.
Obviously he could not be seen to travel to Turkey if he was negotiating. A visit to Iran has not got the same significance. I somehow think the pressure is building within Russia for an exit from this war.
Regarding the antique tanks from Laos, seems like they've been in Russia since 2019, as part of a swap for more modern T72's.
Can't imagine they'd hold up long versus the weaponry currently in use in Ukraine, though.
Laos remains one of the 4 official Communist regimes in the world and is often overlooked. Cuba, PRC, NK, and Laos are it.
Death toll in Chasiv Yar increased to 46
S400 manufacturer previously boasted that one of the capabilities of system is defence against HIMARS missiles
and that turned out to be a lie
Good article here making a point that something must have been said to Russians as the daily nuclear rattling has stopped
Yeah the vaunted Russian Military Complex as some rvial to the US one is definitely taking some beatings with this war.
If you were a 3rd party in the market for new military gear, you'd probably be very much backing away from Russian weaponry.
Also, I'd wonder what's Erdogans reaction to the failure of the S-400 system against Himars, which on paper is meant to be a beast (and to an extent it is) all the arguments of Turkey buying Russian gear with probably be a non issue soon enough.
To-day Geoffrey Roberts (emeritus prof of history UCC) has a piece in the Irish Times advocating a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, which he says is unwinnable by Ukraine. A lot of what Roberts writes is quite shocking in my view. Read it here: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/07/13/ukraine-must-grasp-peace-from-jaws-of-unwinnable-war/
Roberts recently published a book on Stalin's library. Some of the reviews were quite critical. One, in the Guardian, has the following: "Roberts is startlingly forgiving towards Stalin, noting: “Given the scale of his misdeeds as Soviet ruler, it is natural to imagine him as a monster, to see him in the mind’s eye furiously denouncing opponents.” Instead he concludes that Stalin was “a dedicated idealist”, “no psychopath but an emotionally intelligent and feeling intellectual”. See: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/16/stalins-library-by-geoffrey-roberts-review-the-marks-of-a-leader
I wonder does Roberts have a similarly forgiving attitude to Putin?
And what's your Russian colleagues opinion of the raping, torturing and slaughtering of Ukranian civilians by his compatriots? Does he condemn that.?
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