Russia & Ukraine
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Yes, we all know you swallowed a grenade thrown by a Russian in Africa to avoid a hit on your housing deposit and that you shat out the shrapnel eight hours later. Or something like that. But…
Mess with me and you mess with the whole trailer park!
We’ll wear out your left ventricle, lightweight!
I report you to SETI, you yeti!
I suppose “Honest and fair” reporting has to give you credit for winning a photo contest with your wet lion. So you can’t be all that bad. Kudos for that.
Kennedy told Khrushchev that US navy would sink Russian ships unless they turn around and that would have been the start of WW3.
Ukraine is not winning.
Oh.. they are winning. Any reasonable person can see this.
The question now for the Ukraine government is if it is worth the civilian causality toll to retake Dondas and then Crimea.
It was the original WAP that lion. The thing that stung about the Russian who tried to frag me in my sleep was he was charming and handsome, spoke with very little accent as educated in Europe, in his 40 to early 50s.
So when the day after I met him and professionally wagged my finger at him for paying poachers I took the whole thing personally, it being sheer fluke I was in the kitchen a moment before. I did not see it coming.
Today I am showing a guy how to use an aviation CAD app to physics model modification of 20 and 30mm rounds. He kept making little changes to my designs and the result was basically trying to hammer in a nail with a pat of butter. It's been tiresome however he is learning so I do take time to explain shit but there is only so much energy.
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Things change.
Putin is fully invested in keeping Mariupol and the bridge down to Crimea now. You can't get him off of that without beating him down militarily enough to get him there.
Unless stopped, if you give it another ten days it will stretch to include Odesa.
Right now, he is following a strategy of de-populating the coastal area through genocide to pave the way for military action when additional troops arrive. There is no deal to be cut with him at this time. He needs more information about how bad off he is or is not after concentrating his troops in one area. Unfortunatey, unless ships go down and more Russian bodies pile up, he can't be dealt with. The early days of "you just stay in the donbass and crimea and be good and I will be good too" kind of agreement are longgg gone.
Also, he is going to kill all the people in any area he occupies so there will/would be civilian causualties continuing even if an agreement is reached.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/finland-sweden-nato-membership/index.html
A European official noted that Finland and Sweden, should they join, would both be "net contributors" to NATO, given their supply of advanced fighter jets. Finland already operates Boeing F/A-18s and has ordered 64 Lockheed Martin F-35s.
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"Just imagine in however many months going from a NATO alliance that is 30 to 32 members strong," another senior State Department official told reporters following the foreign ministerial in Brussels. "How this can be anything but a massive strategic blunder for Putin? That was a topic of conversation and multiple sessions over the past couple of days."
A European official noted that Finland and Sweden, should they join, would both be "net contributors" to NATO, given their supply of advanced fighter jets. Finland already operates Boeing F/A-18s and has ordered 64 Lockheed Martin F-35s.
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"Just imagine in however many months going from a NATO alliance that is 30 to 32 members strong," another senior State Department official told reporters following the foreign ministerial in Brussels. "How this can be anything but a massive strategic blunder for Putin? That was a topic of conversation and multiple sessions over the past couple of days."
Russians refuse to pick up their dead. Probably because they promised to pay something like $100K to each family of a dead soldier, and if they are MIA, they don't have to pay. So Ukrainians have to gather them and bury them for public health reasons.
Warning: rough video
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/697606667
Warning: rough video
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/697606667