He had to get back to his day-job as Teacher from Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall pt.II music video.
I'm glad we agree but my point is in reference to a post war scenario where you have ethnic russians in ukraine or ethnic ukrainians in russia. My point is, those people for the most part probably don't give a sh*t, they just want to get by. Perhaps whomever the political leadership is at the time, can take that into account and not hold ordinary, frankly poor, people responsible when they have very little autonomy.
Well NATO and allies have had at least 6 months to plan & prepare and Russia must be acutely aware of this. There's a lot of military planning and intelligence being directed at them. This is likely also unnerving their military bloggers now. Kaliningrad does seem to be important to Russia as is Sevastopol.
I'm quite sure much of the ordinary people are just busy surviving but it makes it easier to survive if you're not being looted, raped, starved, frozen, tortured & disappeared etc.
Some of my own OSINT sleuthing....
I have been tracking a helicopter over the baltic Sea, with invalid transponder data, that kept appearing and disappearing right along the imaginary " centreline" that denotes the international waters, very low at about 1000ft. msl.
Then, the correct data suddenly appeared before it decended and its transponder turned off. It turns out to be a US Navy Strike Hawk, normally seen on Amphibious assault ships.
Zooming out, you can see its proximity to Kaliningrad...
Now, I have speculated that, if Putin decided to " go rogue", Kaliningrad would be the first enclave to fall, as it is essentially a fixed aircraft carrier in the Baltic and a base for the Baltic Fleet. How would it fall? I hear you ask.
Well, an Amphibious assault task force would be an option. One that would have in its inventory our little friend, the Strike Hawk ( basically a Seahawk on steroids).
Some further delving into this hypothesis has uncovered this picture:
....taken on September 4th, it shows a US Navy dock ship plus a Portuguese navy ship as part of an Amphibious Task Force in the exact area where our rotary friend briefly appeared. Fancy that, eh.
A look at the deployment notices on an obscure Navy page tells us...In the Baltic Sea:
The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit is based in North Carolina and includes the command element; the aviation combat element, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron, 263 (Reinforced); the ground combat element, Battalion Landing Team 2/6; and the logistics combat element, Combat Logistics Battalion 26.
The Kearsarge ARG is commanded by Amphibious Squadron Six. Other Navy units in the ARG include Fleet Surgical Team 2, Tactical Air Control Squadron 22, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, Assault Craft Unit 2, Assault Craft Unit 4, Naval Beach Group 2 and Beach Master Unit 2.
It seems the chess pieces are being slowly and surely moved across the board, just in case.
The only chance of a deal would be a three way dialogue between Biden, Zelensky and Putin.
Scholz is little more than a bit part player, a bystander.
Perhaps he means Scholz is close to agreeing terms for Germanys (further) surrender
There's no such thing as a reformed Marxist 😂
Unless its a deal to do with German gas supplies or something then a "deal" is not in the offing as Scholz has no authority to do any such thing.
Do you guys honestly think that the majority of people in luhansk donbas or crimea give as much thought to ethnicity and politics as we do on this thread or that the propaganda would have us believe? It just seems unlikely to me that ordinary people getting by week to week care about anything other than peace, security and opportunity for their family. If it were up to the ordinary people of the world there would be no wars.
Putin and Scholz held a telephone conversation for the first time since May
a deal may be in the offing
Last I heard of him, he stole a plane in Russia, flew to Ukraine where he was arrested, and is now in a Ukrainian prison, studying Astrology Charts.
He had an avuncular meeting with the leader of Hamas yesterday in Moscow.
Content to throw Israeli relations overboard as well it appears. One that Russia will regret in time.
He's been given a visa to go to the UN in New York so I'm sure he'll be back on our screens real soon.
Lots of conflicting reports about Davydiv Brid, Kherson. Some say Ukraine broke through, others say nothing happening, others say Ukraine broke through but were counter attacked.
I speculated a few weeks back this area was a key point in the Russian defence. If it goes, then a large chunk of the northern part of the Russian occupied area may be cut from supply.
Or the boat or the tea or the door knob, or...when you open your mouth the wrong way a lot of common things suddenly become deadly.
There was an english journalist in Aleppo, Syria. Does this mean Syria is in UK hands?
Anyone seen Lavrov recently? It seems like it’s been ages since his vile mouth was ranting.
I'm going to come back to this particular comment in 48 hours...
How do you rid/relieve Russia of the 6,000 odd nuclear war heads it supposedly has. Even if there are question marks over their usefulness/ functionality the fact that they have WMD grade enriched uranium that could get into the hands of post Putin nutters means the place / resigme can never be trusted😡😡
So, trying to quell discontent with violence... Bit like trying to put out a fire by dousing it with petrol.
Explosion reported in Belgorod region
Another lad who needs to check his windows:-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11206191/Russian-war-correspondent-accidentally-reveals-catastrophic-losses-Ukraine-state-TV.html
Captured stuff-
You might not be well off for much longer with that attitude…
It has to drag on. That is until Russia is beaten, and completely destroyed militarily, so that it does not pose any threat to Ukraine ( or any other Country's either.) Putin started it, and until he finishes it, or its finished for him, yes, it will drag on.
Lol, oh the turntables
For years people have been equating Russian speaking to being actually Russian,it's completely false and the reason why Russia used the excuse of protecting Russian speakers from genocide.
I do wish people would stop equating the two. Especially in this country where the English speakers have no desire to rejoin the UK. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's an overlap, particularly if Russian speakers are filling their heads with RT but it's definitely incorrect to think that all the Russian speakers want to be part of Russia.
Russians left outside Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union rather resemble the French Pied-Noirs in Algeria. Ultimately, they'll have to get with the programme and reconcile themselves to life in their new reality or go back to Russia (excuse my Barney Gumbleism here). They are not culturally ascendent any more, and they need to start coping with the phantom pain of the lost Russian Empire.
Regretably, they have in Putin an anti-De Gaulle who is more concerned with enflaming and concocting Russian grievances for Kremlin ends' in the near-abroad rather than accepting things as they are.
And what's more, while France was France, and independant Algeria was pretty much a sh*tbox, Ukraine offered ethnic Russians a decent future in the path to European integration. That's actually what terrified Putin the most.
The issue isn't that Russian speaking people,the Russian population of Donbas only equates to a 39% minority, the absolute majority of people living the donbas region are Ukrainian ,
Even in Crimea the Russians barely had a majority, but yet 110% of the population voted to rejoin Russia despite large parts of the population were banned from voting in the sham referendum
Carlson needs to cut back on the Red Bull. Its giving him far to much wing!
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