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I'm going to the one place that hasn't been touched by NATO/Western imperialism/Nazism/whatever.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...s-lunar-orbit-in-preparation-for-moon-landing
SPACE!
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...s-lunar-orbit-in-preparation-for-moon-landing
SPACE!
Ukraine combat drone damages building in central Moscow, Russia says
Moscow’s mayor says Ukrainian drone shot down by air defence and debris falls on city’s Expo Center causing damage.
Can't help but feel this will either 'wake Russians up' (to borrow a phrase from the radio) to the realities of war, or harden resolve to continue it.
TBH, I'm actually betting the latter.
If Ukraine could meaningfully savage Russian cities it would do the latter, because it would make Ukraine feel like a very real threat to Russia and the population. That's a good reason why Ukraine shouldn't try to flatten bits of Russia. Dropping the odd bomb here and there probably isn't enough to generate a sense of threat that would motivate people to greater resolve, but tickles awareness and makes it harder to forget there's aCan't help but feel this will either 'wake Russians up' (to borrow a phrase from the radio) to the realities of war, or harden resolve to continue it.
TBH, I'm actually betting the latter.
But what Ukraine really needs is a major battlefield victory and recovery of territory. As we can see, it does not currently have the ability to do so against the very heavily prepared defenses Russia put up over the winter of 22/23. The reason it's probably most successfully pushed back around Bakhmut is that that's somewhere the Russians hadn't had time to beef up with a lot of defences.
No strictly speaking about Ukraine, but hampered due to isolation due to the invasion of Ukraine, whilst intended to show what they can do without help from the West:
www.theguardian.com
Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon
Craft spun into ‘unpredictable’ orbit before planned touchdown could take place, Russia’s state space corporation says
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In Kerbal Space Program, that's a successful lithobrake landing.No strictly speaking about Ukraine, but hampered due to isolation due to the invasion of Ukraine, whilst intended to show what they can do without help from the West:
Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon
Craft spun into ‘unpredictable’ orbit before planned touchdown could take place, Russia’s state space corporation says
Nothing to see here. It was clearly an impactor probe that was meant to do that. Putin is just executing his nine dimensional chess master plan to bring about global communism.. any day now..
The general history of strategic bombing suggests as much, particularly when the target is an authoritarian country where the population can't actually do anything to express their frustration.TBH, I'm actually betting the latter.
But there are often military, government or infrastructural targets inside cities which might be worth bombing simply because of the disruption it might cause to the war effort.
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I'm surprised they didn't just say it fell out of a window.No strictly speaking about Ukraine, but hampered due to isolation due to the invasion of Ukraine, whilst intended to show what they can do without help from the West:
Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon
Craft spun into ‘unpredictable’ orbit before planned touchdown could take place, Russia’s state space corporation says
Scratch 1 Russian Bomber. That's one of the nice ones too.
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Just waiting for the inevitable " Red Line #6284 has been crossed. Be afraid, Westiods" posturing from Russia.
Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber
An image shows a Tu-22M ablaze after an attack at an air base near St Petersburg.
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Just waiting for the inevitable " Red Line #6284 has been crossed. Be afraid, Westiods" posturing from Russia.
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Russia's Final WarningScratch 1 Russian Bomber. That's one of the nice ones too.
Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber
An image shows a Tu-22M ablaze after an attack at an air base near St Petersburg.
Just waiting for the inevitable " Red Line #6284 has been crossed. Be afraid, Westiods" posturing from Russia.
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To be fair they've shown a lot of patience so far, in front of all these ukrainian terrorists throwing buildings at their drones.
I love the Russian comment that the attack "damaged" a plane.
Going by the picture, that's not exactly just tightening a few screws and a fresh lick of paint required.
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Yet it's probably what they'll do before sending it back out there...
"The plane is fine, Anatoly. It never had a cockpit in the first place. Just hang on to the control stick tightly."
Personally I liked the description of it as a "terrorist" act. So they're saying that destruction of a purely military vehicle, of a country currently invading their own, is "terrorism". Term has lost the last vestige of meaning for those fucking clowns.
Yeah, I noticed that, but then how else are they supposed to spin it? Not like calling the enemy a terrorist is a new thing.
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"The patient has sustained injuries but is holding stable."
"Doctor, the patient was decapitated."
"And they're maintaining that status quite well."
I would call the Russian military a bunch of clowns, but clowns get better training. And better pay.
Noticed that trend as well.
But what could they do ? They go into prison if they call the war a war. They are officially totally at peace with the ukraine, only having some minor military operation against nazis and terrorists there. So obviously it must be a terrorist attack, not an act of warfare.
For the same reason they don't call the Ukrainian army an army, only a group of "militants".
A day after throwing out a video about being in Africa, the boss of Wagner is dead, if Russian sources are to be believed.
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If he's actually dead, anyone taking bets on accident versus assassination? I'm betting on the latter.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.
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If he's actually dead, anyone taking bets on accident versus assassination? I'm betting on the latter.