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You know, if you had asked me what was the most likely target in all of Europe for the Orcs to use their most powerful Tsar Bomba on, I'd have picked Dublin too.
With Wallace and Gromit having served their purpose, they have to be disposed of.
I miss the neutron bomb. Come back, all is forgiven.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Athlone or Monaghan are not a prime target for a Russian Nuclear attack right now.
FFS.
Would be a fantastic improvement to Athlone, though.
If USA orders their people to leave Russia surely we need to close our consulate and then demolish Orwell road ?
So now the russians have turned those Baltic gas pipelines into scrap is it fair game for the materials to be legally salvaged since they are in international waters and used to pipe gas to Europe from somewhere that is willing to send them gas rather than making up technical issues to have them switched off?
Kazakh man asks questions of two Russian men fleeing coscription. They respond there's questions we can answer on camera only in a certain way. He asks them about where they are in Kazakhstan. Officially it's in Kazakhstan was the reply. To which you can watch.
100,000 Russians crossed into Kazakhstan in the last 7 days.
Bus drivers union or something demanding the border be closed to Russians.
Space is at a premium in Kazakhstan.
When Putin dies we can return.
Why demolish it when you could repurpose the building as something to help Ukrainian refugees?
But only for a short moment, just our luck.
Please God tell me you didn't hit the red Button!!😲😱💀!!!
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It's not popular to say but it's true, they're not refugees, their country isn't under attack. Deny them entry to other states and let them cause trouble for russia domestically. They only time they ran is when they were in the spotlight, they didn't care about the genocidal war their country is waging in Ukraine.
Weight doesn’t have a direct correlation to floatation, it’s more a factor for load-bearing like bridges. As long as the weight can be sufficiently spread, you can travel on softer ground, it’s why off-roaders will lower their tyre pressures. A 45tonne T72 is about 0.9kg/cm2. An M1A2 at 69t is 1.08, a 63 tonne Leopard 2A5 is more like 0.83. So even though Leopard is a substantially heavier tank and that has ramifications on where it can drive and what can recover it, it will go places that the lighter T72 cannot without sinking. For comparison, a HMMWV at lowest operating setting for mud is about 2.1kg/cm2, so you can see the relative difference for tanks is reasonably academic.
Germany was the primary partner & financial benefactor for NS1&2. Germany has decided to ween itself off of Russian energy imports completely by 2024. This is the official long term policy. It has broad and robust support across all parties in Germany bar the far right (AfD) & far left (Linke) parties. Most of the other primary EU beneficiaries of LNG from the pipelines have adopted similar long term policy shifts. So what tangible motivation would there be for the US to sabotage them given the restructuring of energy policy & infrastructure already underway? The energy leverage the Kremlin has is short term and ever decreasing with time.
Polish ambassador was on RTE Radio this evening. She said don't let them in - as far as she is concerned, the vast bulk of them are Putin supporters and support the invasion.
Thats the whole idea,and perfect for sabotage for fhe russians since its not being used
I 80% agree with you. Putin needs to be taken down by his own people. That won't happen if the relief valve is there to flee across borders. There's talks the Kazakh border may already be closed to Russian military age males.
Lord knows it's complicated. Any country bordering Russia with Russian military age men knows the problems they can bring and justification by the Kremlin thereafter.
Their own on people fleeing in Ukraine. Russian Safari.
There will be alot of demands to buy HIMARS in the future,both US army,Taiwan are also looking to buy more,and i am sure alot of European customers would want it too,
So they are looking for ways to build more faster.
Yes i agree but russian autumn muds etc ligher soviet tanks mean lower weight and lower height advantage
Even better,and with more HIMARS in place,means more destroyed Russian equipment,ammo depots and command centres,bridges etc,
Dont know if ATACMS are part of it though as of yet.
Wouldn't put it past Putin to say to draft dodgers: "Come back to Russia or I'll stick your whole family in a gulag."
Rational thinking on who blew up the pipelines: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/28/2125767/-Nord-Stream-pipelines-were-sabotaged-and-the-best-suspect-is-the-nation-that-sabotaged-them-before
The whole road? Seems a bit harsh.
No mention of them at all, but if they take more towns and cities they should be able to make big progress without them ,34 HiMars along with the other MLRS systems gives them an advantage they didn't have a few months ago
I liked the videos of the Russian pundits talking Shiite as they grow more desperate. Used to see it posted in here quite often but must keep missing it lately.
Here is a Russian named Konstantin, who had to get out of Moscow in a hurry for reasons and fled to Tashkent. Describes his experience in the Airport waiting to clear passport control. He is originally from Rostov-on-Don, and worked for a number of years in the United States in the 90s, before returning to Russia and working with a company on electrical projects over the past 2 decades. (wind to start)
Big fire reportedly at Brylivka of Kherson region, possible gas pipeline on fire
If Greta Thurnberg was dead she would be rolling over in her grave at all the carbon being released into Europe now
Perhaps all these Russian refugees could be shipped to Ukraine and be put to work rebuilding all the damaged and destroyed stuff.
The Ukrainians I am sure, wouldn't want them or have the time or spare resources to devote to this at the moment, but if it could be done, I suspect the attitudes of most of those Russians would soon change. Having to deal first hand with what Russia has done would be educational, like nothing else could be.
They could easily have been laying charges to destroy these communication lines for years. And I'd be surprised if they didn't do this even before the war crimes against Ukraine started
Just like I'm pretty sure NATO have kill switches on lots of Russian fixed infrastructure when they can hide it
Yeah this is a massive worry to potential defectors who have family left behind.
The family of a 'traitor' are treated as traitors has been a 'motivating factor' since biblical times
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