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You seem kind of angry about what is going on in Gaza and Palestine more generally at the moment and I agree with you.
Would it be offensive to come out with a silly + reductive metaphor like Hamas went out and tugged the Israeli tiger's tail (or lit the tiger's tail on fire) to describe the situation I wonder? It would be IMO.
Ukraine has done nothing at all to Russia yet has been the subject of constant attacks and assults of different kinds from Russia since 2014 culminating in the invasion in 2022, and all people like you do is "both sides" it all and come out with rubbish like Ukraine poked the bear/"stuck it's arm into the tiger's cage"!
whatever level of corruption exists in Ukraine it CERTAINTLY did not ‘ pick it up off the ground’. So if that is the case , I wonder who was its mentor??????????
Or to put it more bluntly, it's Kremlin Crap!
This is mad stuff
Poo Tin!
The propaganda tune is changing!🙄
A guess all those Russian tanks were heading for a parade in Kiev and it was cancelled?
Both sides are at that in considerate numbers. I do wonder down the line will a lot of these drone operators who are operating the drones with the 1st vision helmets/goggles have PTSD as you are literally flying these drones up to the enemy and are literally seeing the last moments of this person alive before your drone detonated. You are literally seeing the person die. If your shooting at someone you might hit someone but are not seeing the last moments of their face etc. Also I can imagine both sides when this is all over that both sides soldiers will flinch when they hear or see a drone.
It happens in all wars. Hand to hand combat very personal. Reminds me of an interview with a US soldier who fought in WW2. He was asked did he kill anyone or see who he killed. He replied that he only remembered one for certain. It was a German soldier with a white flag who came out of his foxhole but as he came closer he believed he saw he had a grenade in one of his hands so he shot him.
True. It can even be harsh looking at them from one's own home many miles away from Ukraine.
The desperation is really starting to show now….. soon it will be. Well, you see we were on military manoeuvres, and we accidently took a wrong turn, and unexpectedly found ourselves in Ukraine. It was an honest mistake, really!
They know time isn’t on Russia side.
The penny is starting to drop.
Putin is apparently sacking four deputy defence minsters, and replacing them with his cousins.
Interesting move, to say the least
The whole Putin family will be in the Hague yet!
Dictator consolidation of power move. Getting more like NK with every passing day and that's not a good thing.
Yeah - accusations of “bribe taking” is classic FSB playbook - these guys will be found laying flat at the bottom of a tall building any day now. Putin knows how power works in Russia and what he needs to do to hold on to it - his days are numbered - “killing off” his opposition is his simple way of extending the day of his demise, keeping the chances of a coup or asasinatron even,small.
But I reckon his age and potential paranoia may start to take over now- there's definately people plotting his demise or at least planning the next leader
Busy night
So true😂
master strategist
Also drones,
Assuming that they live long enough to get to the Hague…. used to be a saying that the nearer you were to the boss, the nearer you were to the door….but with Putin it should read " nearer you are to Putin, the nearer you are to the grave"..
The 2024 version of the royal family being lined up for the chop.
Putin does love his Russian history.
Be an interesting one if others in Russia are playing Putin at chess and lining him up and now his family up for the chop.
The Sun has it that Putin is grooming his 9 year old son to take his place. Hey Kadyrov is doing it.
While he at it perhaps he can cast his gaze at whoever was meant to maintain his nuclear deterrence
Meanwhile
How to deal with the 9 NATO countries who aren’t pulling their weight ?
Probably no coincidence that the 9 who underpay are also geographically pretty secure. The likes of Spain, Luxembourg or Portugal probably aren’t worried about being invaded.
Whereas the larger investors are concentrated in Eastern Europe.
If you use the analogy of an insurance policy, maybe it’s normal that those at higher risk pay more
Just on the first one, those missing panels aren't structural. Those are anechoic hull panels, designed to make the submarine harder to detect, and it's far from unknown for submarines to lose a few of those over the course of a patrol. Here's a picture of the Royal Navy's HMS Triumph, a Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine, with quite a few panels missing from its sail:
There are certainly plenty of things to poke fun at with the Russian military, but that particular issue is not one of them… for a change…
The Twitter post doesn’t poke fun at structural issues but that these subs are easy to track underwater now due to this damage
Which you would think be highly undesirable for a strategic nuclear sub
Not the first time we seen bad maintenance in Russian navy, their coal powered aircraft carrier had to be towed and is now in dry dock
you will become a very rich person if you can contract into a defence company and come up with a way to permanently attach anechoic tiles.
🤣
that’s a good summary of last week:
“ A TWO-DAY peace summit in Switzerland has resulted in 180 nations advocating for a peace between Ukraine and Russia that sees Ukraine’s territorial integrity respected.
While this summit is clearly a waste of time, a rival summit attended by Vladimir Putin could be the breakthrough the world has desperately hoped for.
“Those 180 nations aren’t the only ones focused on peace, we had our own summit and after much challenging debate between myself and my cabinet who fear I’ll poison them for questioning me, the consensus is that peace is possible if Ukraine just changes its flag, gives Russia all its territory and get used to be being called ‘also Russia’,” Vladimir Putin, kidnapper of Ukrainian children, declared at the Russian conference.“
"the nearer you were to the boss, the nearer you were to the door"
Or the window?
Beyond pathetic. Donald Trump level of bullsh*t. The kind of people that if you played them back videos of them saying the exact opposite 6 months earlier they'd insist it's AI generated and fake.
The only positive: if the change of tune is being dictated from above it's a sign that even Putin and the military are starting to at least consider how they can end this thing while saving face
