Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

That's nearly as good as Elon Musk's SpaceX "Rapid unscheduled dissambly".

I think (at least in cases the article was describing) it's more serious than people buying big orders of parts (I imagine that would be 100s-1000s) from RS or Farnell and taking them to Russia.

If IRC the antenna for the drone that was example given in the article needs 4-8 of the chips. So for their Shahed/Geran production Russia could be importing 150k-300k a year. It also mentions literal tons (in weight) of components made by another company.

That amount is bulk orders from companies in China (Hong Kong probably) or Turkey or similar for supposedly civilian purposes that gets sent on to Russia's military companies, or it could even be (worst case) production diversions from outsourced factories in Asia that the Western companies find they cannot fully control.

That didn’t take long

Same! Remember when Trump said “Zelensky had no cards”

Hope they say thank you.

Putrid lost the plot some time ago and seems to be mentally incapable of acknowledging that he's not going to succeed in his aims, so we are probably not too far away from his last shot, which will be mobilisation.

Ukraine will have to do likewise. This seems to be generally accepted in Ukraine as inevitable, where the employment trends have lead to the ideal employee most sought after by many being a 60 year old male, because they wont be mobilised.

The Russian military command continues to operate in an alternate reality, setting wildly unrealistic deadlines that do not match Russia’s actual battlefield capabilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on March 2 that Russian military plans for 2025-2027 call for Russian forces to seize the remainder of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, continue advancing in Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, and advance into and seize all of Odesa Oblast.[11] The Russian military command‘s specific deadlines for completing these objectives within the three-year time period are unclear. Russia’s plans to continue attacks in southern Ukraine demonstrate the Kremlin’s disinterest in freezing the line in Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, and Russian objectives in Odesa Oblast demonstrate that the Kremlin maintains territorial ambitions beyond the five Ukrainian regions Russia has illegally annexed – as ISW has long assessed.[12] ISW continues to assess that Russian forces are highly unlikely to be able to advance to Odesa City, let alone seize the entire oblast.[13]

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-3-2026/

With Putrid clearly showing signs of mental decay and detachment from reality, things are only going to get worse for some time until the Orc economy implodes and deprives him of the tools he needs to continue this horrific stupidity.

I know the EU is trying to defuse Orbans re-election strategy, but this is really annoying.

Orban is Lavrov's 1st cousin.

Pretty impressive attack on an oil platform, the lads in Gulf better take note how the pros do it

I don't really drink hard liquor nor do I smoke. But I will take a day of annual leave and consume a whole bottle of Jack Daniels and a pack of cigars in celebration the day this odious f*cking scumbucket dies.

"We hope that one person in the EU will not block 90 billion or the first tranche of 90 billion and Ukrainian soldiers will have weapons. Otherwise, we will give the address of this person to our armed forces, our guys. Let them call him and communicate with him in their own language," Zelenskyy said, referring to the Hungarian politician.

Zelensky seems a bit annoyed by Orban.

Do the Hungarian voters realise the Orcs deliberately destroyed the Druzhba pipeline to create this Ukraine bashing platform, hoping they are too stupid to realise whats going on.

Orbans voter base is outside the Budapest in the rural and regional areas. State run TV & media are still the main sources of information which he controls, along with a good dose of pork-barrelling which is highly visible to the electorate. He has little support in Budapest and with the youth vote, so its going to probably go down to the regional towns & cities as the swing vote.

And of course Orban has altered electoral districts so that they drawn in a way that gives more weight to rural votes than urban ones. So the opposition needs a big win to unseat that stooge.

Trump also allowing India to buy Russian oil again, at least temporarily. For him and his regime this Iran war is the perfect excuse to damage Ukraine even more, and by extension the EU, which they also hate. They must be loving it.