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Kamikaze Russian tank idiot gets lucky.

And a huge problem with the pyramid scheme they've been pushing the last 60 or 70yrs. Constant economic growth is not possible without constant population growth and neither is consistently possible, feasible or desirable for that matter. Its all going to hit the wall at some stage.

Maybe, but this attack came just after they raised the conscription to 30.

The Tories torpedoed it for themselves when both partners working turned from an option to a necessity. Add in the ridiculous cost of living, and the cost of property itself and you have a recipe for small families. And that's before you factor in childminding, which can't be provided by the state because that yould be (shock, horror) "socialism", and would close off a means for the private sector to screw money out of hard-working families.

As for Putin, well if Russia provided more services to its people and less profits to oligarchs, maybe more Russian women would be having babies.

Just shows what drones can do for tanks. It literally gave the Russian commander of that tank eyes in the sky, told them what direction enemy was coming from, how many vehicles, what types, it told him no other enemies in the vicinity other then them.The Russian tank really went at the Ukrainians there and came back for more, he didn't let up. Watching the video the Ukrainian vehicles bunched up they were lucky nó Russian helicopter picking them off, saying that the Russian tank done some serious damage there. Looking at the Ukrainian vehicles I wonder was there special forces etc in them as you see in a lot of videos them using these to get around Russian positions and attack it fast. Or were they newer recruits going into action for 1st time. Or maybe they weren't expecting 1 Russian tank to keep coming back and attacking them the way it did.

Maybe drones are harder to detect than missiles fired from a further distance.

A drone could be launched from within Moskow.

Even so I do wonder how effective the air defense systems are for the Capital.

Maybe they should keep a lookout for Chinese weather balloons ;-)

You don't believe the Kremlin are willing and able to attack their own people on the pretext to blame someone else?

History says otherwise.

The precedent has already been set for people to believe it they'll do it again and again.

Russians are slow. They'll resort to past tactics. And believe it'll be different this time.

Putin also wants himself and family not to end up like the royal family. Defending home turf from these "terrorists" might just do that. It worked for the man before. The terrorist is Putin but vatniks don't want to know that.

Of course it's possible and there is history but the Ukrainians themselves, including Zelensky today, have pretty much confirmed they are behind it.

It would be a master coup if ,at some stage Putin was able to organize a false flag that broke the resolve of Ukraine's allies to support it sufficiently.

He must know that those governments are on a much tighter leash wrt their electorates,whereas his own has been inoculated against being coerced and deceived at this stage(there are limits of course that it would be pleasant to witness if they are breached ,although Putin's replacement may not be so pleasant)

In that case you've already provided your own answer.

Also, good news

Looks like the Ukranians played the UNO reverse card on the Russians

It would be but I don't think the Russians are smart enough to do that and they don't exactly have much credibility in the bank

Genetically modified mosquitoes are being sent to Russia to chew down the trees.

Thats interesting. I could have sworn Francie earlier in the thread said they'd be keeping a close eye on this one. Presumably to update us on it. However since it seems like the Russian counter counter offensive is collapsing they've been quiet on the subject. I've little doubt that if the Russians had pushed the line forward another 5km they'd be the first one here to report it. And they'd be doing it with thinly veiled glee.

Russian channels saying Ukr are pushing even further forward. Heres hoping that theres some serious cracks showing and breakthroughs incoming.