Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

The Russian army is nothing short of devil worshipping goons who have been indoctrinated to think, act, and live just as they are. It's the hallmark of the deranged man in the kremlin.

maybe geo politics plays no part in Europe what with Germany being so on point with its energy policy nor their industry having any issues, onwards and upwards , the Wirtshaftswonder has another 50 years to go at least

You only have to look at how the war is operating to see the comparison.

Can you imagine if the US military did something like the Russian military are doing 3 times a week? A convoy of 2 dozen vehicles stumble into a minefield, half are lost immediately, more are picked off by FPV drones. Hundreds of men are killed and maimed/wounded. The retreating/surrendering men are then fired upon by their own mortars to disincentivize the rest.

Just try to imagine the **** storm in the US military high command and White house itself. They'd never survive such a public scandal. It would be a national day of mourning forevermore. But for Russia it's a Wednesday afternoon.

Ahh so ... As long as the "raping" is beneficial to yourself its okay..... got it

The US is just as bad as Russia, or even worse, the difference is the US uses the pre text of bringing democracy to start their illegal wars which unnescesary killed hundreds of thousands over the past decades ... their Indirect involvement cost millions of lives.... Ireland is just lucky that a lot of these so ca.led democracy bringers have Irish roots

Herbert Kickl, the hard-right Putin ally plotting ‘Fortress Austria has vowed to end the country’s support for Ukraine

Immigration was a much bigger issue that the war in the election; the recent cancellation of the Taylor Swift gigs in Vienna helped highlight the lack of control on immigration, and the other two large parties, being in a coalition, suffered as a consequence

Can't imagine Zelenskyy showed trump anything sensitive. Like, what would be the point

Give Trump fake battle plans and troop movements. Russia reinforces wrong areas lol

unfortunately, this time, it looks like the Ukrainians drones may have missed the ammunition depot 😢

still, three out of four depots ain’t bad.

I've a friend home from Canada who works with a Ukrainian. His parents are in Odessa. My pal said she is shown pictures and all sorts from the region and what we see/hear is only the tip of the iceberg as to whats happening on the ground over there. The amazing thing is, this lad and his parents squarely blame Zelenskyy for all this. Their line is he was a joke candidate who managed to win the presidency, then went on a spree of antogonising Russia and the Russian people living in Ukraine. And all this led to the invasion. I couldn't believe this horse manure

Cringe. Only N. Korea could do worse than this. (I'm not agreeing with the entire post, just that the cringe factor is awful.)

What are we not hearing about?

I presume the raping/bombing/murdering/looting that's happening which isn't widely reported here but would be all over the place in Ukraine in papers, radio, telegram, etc. We hear about the bombings and advances and the like, but all the small stuff that goes on doesn't be reported as much.

Remember, I'm hearing this from someone who works with this Ukrainian chap on the west coast of Canada but has family in Odesa so don't be shooting me. I just found it amazing that they lay the blame with Zelenskyy, not the invading forces there to wipe the country out. I didn't get into deep conversation about it cos it would boil my piss listening to such garbage

J-247 is a stored F-16A used for ground training….

Considering the F-16's (and now F-35's) do daily sorties from Volkel and Luwarden, I'm going to guess the whole thing maybe cost the price of a few lights, a band and few stage hands….

Economy breaking stuff

Don't know how many others are watching Willy OAM on Youtube but from his latest video it definitely seems like Vuhledar is unlikely to hold much longer:

While it's at great cost in terms of men and materiel, Russia do still seem to be slowly gaining more territory. The sooner the Russiam economy collapses the better imo as any negotiated settlement is likely to involve the Russians hanging on to some of the occupied territory.