Is Ukraine about to have a war?
Any more on the Moscow situation, or was that false?
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Any more on the Moscow situation, or was that false?
One wonders what has, or will, happened to him…
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Film showing the surrender helpline and how they go about it, they appear to be getting a few freshly mobilised.
Rumours in the Twitterverse, unconfirmed, that Putin will declare War on Ukraine tomorrow. Might have something to do with him and the top team disappearing for the next few days. Perhaps they have taken up residence in the Führer bunker to avoid the fallout of whatever they do next.
Was the Nordstream pipeline attack the beginning of a tit-fer-tat ‘No more Mr Nice Man’ gloves-off infrastructure war where nothing is too holy? Were they even false flags?
Or is this a demo run to a heavier body-blow slugfest?
Putin could still declare that a land grab was never his aim, merely a sharp war of attrition to show Ukraine what Russia was capable of and that he did not enjoy having his bluff called. All he rest of the unpleasantness was the fault of the military leadership.
70th Birthday magnanimity?
“Special punitive strikes now ending!”
Or is this a demo run to a heavier body-blow slugfest?
Putin could still declare that a land grab was never his aim, merely a sharp war of attrition to show Ukraine what Russia was capable of and that he did not enjoy having his bluff called. All he rest of the unpleasantness was the fault of the military leadership.
70th Birthday magnanimity?
“Special punitive strikes now ending!”
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I see they have another General in charge in Ukraine, they have more stars than McDonalds.
This is for us...
"well, I do."
Sorry for interrupting bridge debate but another two Zuzana howitzers were delivered to Ukraine. Brand new from factory (photo from FB of Slovak minister of defence J. Naď).
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
A few months back, @TrentTelenko posted a great question (see below). The possible answer is somewhat unexpected – according to an L/DNR Telegram blogger, civilian vehicles are being used because all the military tires have been stolen and sold. A 🧵
Speculation that Russia sabotaged German railway network
https://www.focus.de/panorama/bahn-s...162148261.html
The rail network in N Germany was paralysed for half a day when two fibre-communication cables - hundreds of kilometres apart -were severed. The article speculates that this could be another Russian warning ( like Nordstream pipeline ) that lots of European infrastructure is vulnerable. This action obviously required a lot of technical knowledge and operatives over a significant area, so unlikely to be extremist weirdos.
The rail network in N Germany was paralysed for half a day when two fibre-communication cables - hundreds of kilometres apart -were severed. The article speculates that this could be another Russian warning ( like Nordstream pipeline ) that lots of European infrastructure is vulnerable. This action obviously required a lot of technical knowledge and operatives over a significant area, so unlikely to be extremist weirdos.
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Aviation content
In Rostov on 9th October a RuAF SU-24 made a forced landing, pilots ejected and safe.
Interesting bit is that the Russian media that reports it says that "Presumably, the emergency situation occurred due to the long service life of the aircraft, due to outdated characteristics and capacities, it did not reach the airfield."
Are the russkies really running out of spares and updated aircrafts? Was this some sort of soviet era storage piece although they are claiming long service life? And they are really saying all this out loud? Short article but what is unsaid makes it interesting.
https://rostovgazeta.ru/news/2022-10...yabrya-1632867
In Rostov on 9th October a RuAF SU-24 made a forced landing, pilots ejected and safe.
Interesting bit is that the Russian media that reports it says that "Presumably, the emergency situation occurred due to the long service life of the aircraft, due to outdated characteristics and capacities, it did not reach the airfield."
Are the russkies really running out of spares and updated aircrafts? Was this some sort of soviet era storage piece although they are claiming long service life? And they are really saying all this out loud? Short article but what is unsaid makes it interesting.
https://rostovgazeta.ru/news/2022-10...yabrya-1632867
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
The TV tower in Moscow is burning and it looks like Barad-Dur.
Those naughty smokers just seem to get everywhere.....
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One way of stopping people knowing what’s going on.
I assume smokers will be blamed?
I assume smokers will be blamed?
https://www.focus.de/panorama/bahn-s...162148261.html
The rail network in N Germany was paralysed for half a day when two fibre-communication cables - hundreds of kilometres apart -were severed. The article speculates that this could be another Russian warning ( like Nordstream pipeline ) that lots of European infrastructure is vulnerable. This action obviously required a lot of technical knowledge and operatives over a significant area, so unlikely to be extremist weirdos.
The rail network in N Germany was paralysed for half a day when two fibre-communication cables - hundreds of kilometres apart -were severed. The article speculates that this could be another Russian warning ( like Nordstream pipeline ) that lots of European infrastructure is vulnerable. This action obviously required a lot of technical knowledge and operatives over a significant area, so unlikely to be extremist weirdos.
Which thought does not encourage me to store photos on Cloud.
Keep folding money to hand, retain a telephone landline, a full tank of petrol. and back up to an external hard drive in a Faraday cage!
That said, one does hope that reasonable precautions are in hand: Germany was not an obvious target for wrath, given its less than enthusiastic support of Ukraine.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
While the cat’s away…..
Turkey is delivering NATO class armoured vehicles to Georgia
Russia views the transfer of modern weaponry to Georgia negatively and claims it threatens to destabilize the South Caucasus
Turkey is delivering NATO class armoured vehicles to Georgia
Russia views the transfer of modern weaponry to Georgia negatively and claims it threatens to destabilize the South Caucasus
I wonder when will Russia (namely the TV mouthpieces) finally fully realise how big they f***'ed up?!
Ho do you get to have a small Empire? By starting with a big one...