Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Was looking for an old map of Ukraine when there was talk of Russia having some claim to Crimea historically and found this one posted again recently. It is dated from 1919 and as well as showing Crimea to be part of Ukraine it shows areas accepted to be part of Russia like Rostov on the river Don were at that time also part of Ukraine and it had a border with Georgia. The Ukrainians from what I can see are completely right to want to bring their borders back to where they were before the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 in spite of anything Elon Musk thinks about it.

Scanning through the Russian press, the blowing up of the Crimean bridge is a massive story in their media : way, way bigger than the sinking of the Moskva.

Lol we're back to talking about Tsar Bombs again. Russia are a country of bullshitters at this stage. Their military have been shown for what they are, rapists, torturers and murderers. Great against civilians absolutely useless against a determined & organised military force.

The Ukrainians have put it up to Putin and his junta here and if as I expect the Russians do nothing than just take it out on civilian targets the US should then supply ATACMS missiles for the HIMARS systems and other longer range weapons and give Ukraine the tools to expel the Russians quickly.

The problem is you can't stop the cooling process for years so the fact the reactors are actually shut down really makes no odds, particularly with spent fuel rods which will just heat up again after they were already cooled if you don't keep cooling them for a very long time.

Yeah I understand that NATO have revolutionised how the Ukrainian army operates but for them to do that and have it hold up in battle a mere 8 years later is nothing short of stunning (and a severe indictment of the RU). The Afghan army got twice as much time and a lot more resources and collapsed at the first sign of pressure. You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.

I don't think anyone is 'downplaying' such a weapon, just the idea that it would swamp Ireland and Britain in one go as Russian state TV boasted about. The numbers like wave height and travel distance aren't necessarily going to uniformly scale up as you increase the explosive yield, for one thing and if you detonate too close to shore to try and mitigate that, you don't have as much volume of water to move. To get an idea of what a nuclear torpedo of, say, 10MT could do, it might be a good idea to contrast the energy contained within to the surface energy of large tsunami-event earthquakes.

Yeah it's nothing new if you have been following the situation in Ukraine over the last 8+ year's,the Americans have been on the ground in Ukraine training forces right up until the invasion,last summer they had a joint exercise with the US Marines and the guys girls who defended Mariupol so valiantly

From the link

I chuckled

This is from last night (so before the Kerch bridge explosion)

If Solovyov was demanding the destruction of Ukrainian civil infrastructure before this morning's explosion I can't imagine what he will be demanding afterwards.

You watch to much tv

"We need to win the same way our grandfathers won during the years of the Great Patriotic War, with a wholehearted faith in the Motherland, in our commanders, and out commanders having faith in the soldiers".

Yeah.. lemme pull up the stats on Russian casualties in WW2, and remind everyone that in that war, the West was supplying Russia with equipment and munitions. Now it's the other way round.

Love the last line "And who needs the world if there is no Russia in it?". 😂

Solovyov's reaction on social media is to go all Goebbels 1943 and demand 'Total War' against Ukraine. Presumably he will be ranting about this on his TV show tonight.