And China getting the olympics considering their active genocide. But, Qatar getting the football world cup (how it did) shows that organisation open to corruption.
I'm not the one missing things here Mike 😉
Russian exports by revenue collapsing in August and now smaller than Ireland
China turned around and told Putin “we pay you half price, take it or lump it”
That’s before g7 and European price caps come in
India etc are looking on and will want same or better for them deals, no way will India pay more than their enemy
Blaming Ukraine for being a kleptocracy after being ruled by the chief kleptocratic country in the world for decades is the best laugh I got or will get today. Gas man! 👍👍👍
A vodka fueled mobilization maybe.
Regarding the condition of the Russian nuclear arsenal, I'd say you are right. As for the mass destruction capabilities of these weapons, way beyond my pay grade to voice an opinion either way on them, But Yes, I remember well all these atomic bomb test's, ( Bikini Island + others) and there is definitely something in what you say. The point is, these bomb tests would not have been anything as powerful as what's available now? Bombs that would massively outweigh ( in terms of destruction ) the two bombs dropped on Japan? Personally. i hope never to see any of them in action.
You missed the target. I said none any of that.
I was looking at this the other night, 11 minutes history of Modova in terms of tribes, invaders and rulers who have been through that area. What is interesting about it is the cultures and peoples who live in these areas are not static, there is always some empire passing through . . . the Russians and other tribes from the Russian hinterlands have been migrating in that direction for some time.
Mongols called, they want most of Russia back.
I wasn't really talking about eligibility to join the EU or how Ukraine ran Crimea - I was talking about whether Russia could reinvade at some point if they were to quit this current attempt. Russia is known for endemic corruption, itself, with its own oligarch class and people skimming the cream. I don't think anyone should take it as read that Russia will be able to address the corruption which plagues its military, for example, and become a fighting force capable of dominating a NATO-backed Ukraine, while Ukraine won't. Especially not where Russia is led by Putin, who helped foster that situation, while Ukraine is led by Zelenskyy, who at least has ambition to change things in Ukraine. And what country, at the end of the day, has more of an incentive to change its ways? Ukraine, who face a literal existential forfeit if they don't modernise, or Russia, who can just quit the war and remain a country?
FFS! Josip, I blame you for this 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Three days before the Ukraine war started, Putin rejected a peace deal that would have granted him his public demands from Ukraine.
Not completely my fault, I tried to include some subtle clues. eg the T-13s and the 'Islanders' (apologies to People from Iceland, part of Belfast and Samoa/Tonga/Fiji)
Damn... You were good...
Private Russian Telegram, reports of heavy fighting in Lyman. Lots of 200's on their side. Russian reinforcements arriving.
Putin was f@@ked when the fishermen from Castletownbere ran off his Navy. The game was up then he just did not have enough sense to realise it,,🤣🤣🤣
Lyman will be interesting. Ukraine have a strong foothold on the left bank of the Siversky Donets around there. But if the Russians were to reinforce Lyman, there's a slight risk they could be pushed back. A bit like Davydiv Brid down south for the past few months. So I would imagine that Ukraine would want to drive the Russians out of Lyman and give themselves their first major town on that side of the river. But if Lyman falls, where do the Russians retrench to?
Sure he did, which just goes to prove that it was just an excuse for him, and his plan to restore imperial Russia with him as the new Tzar.
Ukrainian aviation conducted 12 airstrikes at Russian troops, air defense shot down Su-25, Su-24M planes, one Mi-8 helicopter and a drone, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report
The only way Ukraine can ever be free from threat from the Orcs, is if they had a handfull of nuclear weapons. Giving them some would be the cheapest option for the west and is the only known working vaccine for the Orc problem. Nothing else can offer a permanent solution.
Can't see it ever happening tbh.
The Baltic states remain uninvaded by Russia, despite having no nukes of their own. They do, however, have NATO membership, which seems effective at making Russia think twice. I think, on balance, NATO would be more of a likelihood for Ukraine than getting a clutch of nukes.
They had them before.....
Apparently yesterday Kiev received written security guarantees from most of its nato neighbors...
It would only be right after 20+ years from discussions to join Nato they be brought into the fold once the orcs have. Been removed from inside their borders
If Lyman goes they'll probably have to pull back to Kremmina to defent the road / railway there. There's not much in the way of settlements between the two. Going back to Kremmina would probably bring the front back to Lysychansk which they I'm guessing they'll really want to avoid.
If a Kremmina line were to fall, then I think they've got only one more defensive line available before they are back at the Russian border. (Apart from the older 2014 trenches.)
Zelensky on the road!
While chief orc is currently hiding in a bunker somewhere.
A real leader of Men is meeting his troops at the front lines..
Zelensky wears a military patch Ukraine or Death (skull looks familiar)
Thanks for this. Really interesting stuff. Makes me wonder about a lot of things...not just in this conflict.
For example, I always dismissed the idea of a future outright conflict between the USA and China purely because they're both nuclear powers. This makes it seem like they actually could have a full on war where they both lob nuclear bombs at each other's cities without causing tens/hundreds of millions of deaths instantly.
Also: Wow Russia really are goosed. I mean the nuclear threat was their ace in the hole. If that's not really the massive trump card that their supporters would have you believe then they haven't got much left that they can do in this conflict.
Just for info....Chief Orc is meant to visit Uzbekistan sometime in the coming days... it will be interesting to see if it goes ahead... his pre-arrival party have already set up shop there
HAHA, good one.
great read, and something I was wondering too... considering how crap everything else has turned out to be...
Although very secretive, if you read between the lines on some of the comments in articles from the AWE (UK) and DOE (US) you get the gist that even though they have X amount of warheads, only Y are ever available for various reasons, and would need some time to be made available.
the American's regularly cycle their nukes in Europe, going by flight data, this was possibly done earlier in the year.
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