Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Ireland hasn't had a fixing air search radar at sea since P31 or on land since Giraffe

Can you explain what a p31 and a giraffe are….?

That's important context and explains a lot.

I genuinely find it weird how these 'anti-imperialism' accounts are always fine with the most oppressive regimes around, just because they're against the West.

What's implausible is that the hundreds of military gendarmes guarding a nuclear sub base are such bad shots. All these military bases and no one can shoot straight.

Here's what would have been possibly one of the best and most convincing drone events from Estonia;

The drones appeared at 4:30 p.m. One was downed with an anti-drone rifle, Liis Vaksmann, Estonian Defense Forces Headquarters spokesperson, told Estonian outlet Postimees.

No details have been released regarding the model of the drones or whether U.S. forces played any role in shooting one down. Vaksmann told the press that the downed drone could not be located by Estonian authorities and had not been recovered.

Sounds convincing till the no wreckage found part.

It reminds me of that 1960's TV series, The Invaders, where very annoyingly for the lead character, every time he managed to kill an alien or it had a fatal accident, the body just dematerialised in seconds, leaving no evidence.

Report of a power cut in Belgorod due to putin's terrorists dropping a bomb on their own territory again. Just a reminder to everyone why being part of putin's terrorist state is not a good idea.

Also for the benefit of those that insist putin is now in control of the ruins and piles of rubble that was the town of Pokrovsk here is a screenshot from a video claimed to be recorded there yesterday.

A population of 60,000 before the all out invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have now been made mostly homeless for the cost to putin's terrorists of how many dead and injured?

Ukraine sending an early Christmas present to Russia

I'd be suspicious of the 'mass hysteria' theory. Have you heard of this? Ghost rockets - Wikipedia

The Germans got one near an airport, arrested the operator. Was apparently a hobbyist.

Apparent footage above Brussels airport

Some of them can also be misreported, police, officials, witnesses thinking they are seeing a drone but it being something else

Also a lot of this seems to happen at night which means footage is more difficult. Relatively easy to anyone with a decent drone to buzz an airport and get away with it.

Nigerian fathers try to have loads of children. It's a kind of thing with them. Studies show that the world can support 2bn 'comfortably'. We are now heading for 8bn. So…

I think EU and USA are delighted to see Russia slowly killing itself.

It may not go bankrupt but its' sovereign wealth fund will be used up in a couple of years.

If we targeted their "shadow fleet", they'd use it up faster.

Putin has ruined his own country for an unwinnable war.

The EU will be free of Russian oil and gas by 2027.

Russia and US officially getting closer, Europe is now the outcast:

Africa's population was quite stable until relatively recently. It's about double since the year 2000. There were more children born in Nigeria alone this year then the entire continent of Europe.

The West's constant "plans" the last 50 years using our money has resulted in population growth out of control. The past is the past but more European countries should do what Sweden did recently especially with money to help Ukraine becoming harder to get. Redirect billions in Africa money to the Ukrainian war effort .

When he says Russia was far less corrupt than Ukraine, that is ridiculous.

The only thing I agree with Don Jr on is about Spain only spending 2.2% on defence. That is a mistake.

As for it going bankrupt "not going to happen" it happened twice in the 20th century. I think Belgiums current obstruction is a disgrace. If the Ukrainian economy collapses, we will have another large refugee crisis, and the Russian pattern of attrocities we have already seen in Bucha and the East will spread across the country, if not the continent.

The Trumps have a very troubling foreign policy, reminscent of the isolationists pre-Pearl Harbour. I think Europe is going to have to realise that Trump means it. We need to invest in defence.

Also, there is a problem that most of what weapons Europe produces are exported, about half to the Middle East. NATO is running out of TNT because so much of it went to Israel to destroy Gaza.

Anthony Beevor the WW2 historian says on Sky News that Putin is "playing" Trump. He also says Russia sees "conspicuous cruelty" as a necessary part of war.

Czech President Petr Pavel warning that a Russian victory would be like the Munich Agreement 1938.

Echoes of Soviet "punishment by deprivation" in occupied Ukraine with water shortages.

The Centre for National Resistance - In a bizarre campaign labelled “anti-illegal water connections,” the occupation authorities launched mass raids across the region, ostensibly to sniff out unauthorised taps and temporary hoses.

The Center for National Resistance (CNR) reports that over 14,000 apartments, 5,000 private homes, and 1,000 commercial properties were subjected to inspections.

Officials apparently had quotas to meet for “detected violations,” turning a desperate attempt to survive days without running water into a criminal enterprise.

Temporary hoses, improvised backup connections and pipes rigged to survive multi-day outages were all logged, photographed and in many cases disconnected.

Even empty or “ownerless” homes were punished as if absentee residents were plotting rebellion.

Upper floors of apartment blocks that had not seen a drop of water for weeks were not spared. Families simply trying to secure a minimum of household water were targeted.

CNR analysts point out that these raids are a grotesque spectacle of the Russian occupation administration’s managerial incompetence.

Rather than repair crumbling infrastructure, the occupiers opt for intimidation, turning a basic necessity into a weapon of control.

In the USSR, The nomenklatura and politically reliable groups had access to:

• special shops (спецмагазины)
• closed distribution channels
• better food and imported goods
• better housing

This created a hierarchy of access tied to political obedience. Dissidents or politically suspect individuals could be:

• denied good jobs
• denied housing allocation
• denied ration cards
• placed at the back of waiting lists