Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I wouldn't agree with that. Waters was the brilliant lyricist and Gilmour could write great riffs. Gilmour has never been accused of being a good showman quite the opposite. Pink Floyd should have been buried after The Wall.

My best guess is the drip feed in the media of weapons going to help Ukraine is to just keep the russian scum occupying the territory of Ukraine guessing as to what they are going to face when the time suits Ukraine to take the offensive and remove the murdering genocidal invaders from their land.

I think there are different amounts of time required for pilot training depending on how much experience the trainee has so I can understand some variation in the information coming out publicly about this. It's my opinion that the airspace over Ukraine will be too filled with antiaircraft missiles from ground based launchers to make fighter aircraft very long lasting and missile and drone systems could be a more likely way the Ukrainians will be able to attack the russians when the time suits them.

HiMars targeting comes from outside ukraine to guarantee accurate strikes from limited ammunition,

I wonder via Rammstein or Poland .

I have suspected for a long time it's the yanks, they have insanely good intel on Russian positions and logistics

Allegedly divers from a Norwegian mine sweeper planted the charges, yet no Norwegian mine sweepers were near the area. The buoy allegedly dropped from a Norwegian plane, yet none was tracked during what was allegedy a routine flight (not a covert flight)

If Stormfront set up a TV station, there's no way it would be carried on any satellite service in Europe, and you know that well.

RT isn't banned. You can very easily stream it online. Takes about 2 seconds to find it with a Google search if you're so inclined. You may even have it bookmarked.

What did happen, and rightly so, is that it was prevented from illegitimately posing as a TV news channel.

Meanwhile the Mayor of Paris, who is currently visiting Kyiv to give them 10 power generators, is saying that Russian athletes should be banned from attending. I know whose side I am on.

Not sure what point you're trying to make here (I'm not sure if you know yourself), but I can access both stormfront.org (felt filthy even trying), and rt.com (again, felt filthy even trying).

If you're having problems (although I don't know why you'd want to access either), maybe have a chat with your mother? She might have upped the old filters on the broadband router on you. She's probably wishing it was just porn you were at on your own in your room.

Good Q&A here on the situation (and stunningly honest)

"Question: There is a lot of talk about the Russians preparing for a major offensive. What might be the Russians’ objectives and how do you rate their prospects of success? 

Answer: First of all, it’s extremely unlikely Russia will attempt another offensive on Kyiv from the north as in February 2022. The terrain is difficult and well-defended, but more importantly, Moscow has learnt its lesson from its disastrous first attempt, and decapitating Ukraine by taking its capital is no longer seen as realistic.

The same can be largely said about another offensive on Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million, though Kharkiv’s proximity to the border makes it a little more possible that Russia has it in its sights. What is much more likely is a continuation and expansion of the current push on Donetsk Oblast, with the best-case scenario (in Russia’s mind) being the capture of the oblast’s entire administrative territory, including the large strategic cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. 

It is quite likely that the main thrust of the attack will continue to be around Bakhmut, building on the recent advances of Wagner Group mercenary troops, and hoping to push further towards Kramatorsk. In order to spread Ukrainian defenses thin, Russia will likely attack in several other areas simultaneously, including Vuhledar in the south of the Donbas front line, Mariinka and Avdiivka near occupied Donetsk, and in the north of Donetsk Oblast back towards Lyman, which was already occupied and liberated once. 

On one hand, if well planned and executed, a large-scale Russian spring offensive in Donbas could threaten to take a significant amount of new territory and inflict painful damage on Ukrainian units already battered in the battles around Bakhmut. On the other, armored offensives against dug-in defensive lines are always extremely difficult and costly, and Ukraine is prepared. Even if they do make some gains, it is certainly very hard to imagine Russia successfully besieging and taking a city like Kramatorsk, over twice the size of Bakhmut. One thing to keep an eye out for will be the fighting performance in combined arms offensives of the hundreds of thousands of mobilized Russian troops, as recent Russian gains have all been made by Wagner forces, not the regular Russian army."

2nd army in Ukraine you mean 🤣

I wonder if any of our new arrivals watched Marjorie Taylor greene on RT the other night 🎈

Bakhmut still holding.

Hopefully the PM heeds the call. I hope Macron is thinking jet shaped thoughts.

The latest aircraft liked with Ukraine the RAF toucano T1 , which the UK as around 30 mothballed ,

We've gone from A10s ,F15s,F16s, Tornados and typhoons to tucanos .

Makes sense cheap, affordable capable of carrying light loads easy to fly