It's kind of telling that the russian Chief of the General Staff is making any claims at all about something so insignificant as this. It's not even a village, it's a double handful of homes along a minor road. This is the entire "village".
It's kind of telling that the russian Chief of the General Staff is making any claims at all about something so insignificant as this. It's not even a village, it's a double handful of homes along a minor road. This is the entire "village".
I of course want to protect Vance's bodily integrity. I don't want a large man named Joshua to insert dildos in all of his orifices at the same time. I also want the molestation to stop.
Yeah, just read up on it a little bit. Apparently the non-russian part of WoT ran a fundraiser for Ukraine, and that was used as an excuse to seize the russian parts.
So, they decided that the founders were extremists, and stole their companies?
Since I know almost nothing about quantum mechanics, I can say confidently that this is proof that we live in a simulation.
That is clearly not a cluster warhead, it's just one big explosion.
Wasn't there a strike against a bridge south of Odesa early in the war? But, yeah, judging by how it could apparently approach without taking any fire, the Ukrainians clearly weren't prepared for this kind of threat.
I think he's saying that ICE are criminals, and therefore it shouldn't surprise anyone that they are wearing masks?
Still a hundred times faster than russia's "advancing".
The current Oryx number is 3558 destroyed and captured, which I casually rounded to 4,000.
Is this the same department that he wants to rename to the Department of War?
This is how you do sanctions.
Can you imagine being the person going "I'm gonna add some music to this and put it on the internet."
Compared to the 4,000 tanks russia has lost in Ukraine, 219 is barely a rounding error.
Claiming that the Ukrainians are nazis is part of the propaganda russia uses to justify their invasion. So, are you trying to help Washington, or russia, or both?
Would be nice, but it is mostly intact. Those fuel tanks are definitely gone though. bsky.app/profile/maks...
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆
That hope and four dollars will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
From what I understand, most of the parts are just solid metal, so very hard to damage. Unlike in vehicle mounted artillery, where the vehicle itself has lots of vulnerable parts, and, crucially, a lot of stuff that can burn. And once it burns, it is almost guaranteed to be a complete write-off.
No, this is a different ERAM. It's an air-to-surface munition, some kind of hybrid between a cruise missile and a guided bomb, supposedly with a range of 400km. And while 3,350 units sounds great, that's likely gonna take several years to produce.
I wonder if any other European army than the Ukrainian one could have stopped this much armor? That's twelve THOUSAND vehicles. Along with the thousands of losses the Ukrainians have taken, this war has pretty much destroyed the entire Soviet armor legacy.
I'm kind of impressed how consistent the 1:2 tank:IFV losses have been throughout the war.
The art of the deal... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
It was trump who made the "deal" to withdraw those troops... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
Yes.
I'm sure they will be paid now though, shutting down production for a few weeks is sure to generate lots of money.
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The gall of mentioning the support EU has given to Ukraine, the support that they have consistently tried to block...
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That's one of the harshest burns I've ever seen in international politics.
That's a panel of judges, if ever I saw one. (And the childrens' table behind them.)
And I'm not sure exactly what the definition for "postal voting" is, but Sweden should be green as well I think. Everyone can go to a large number of polling stations for a few weeks before election day to cast our votes. If you do, you can still vote on election day, and your first vote is removed.
That's a new and exciting definition of "the only Country in the World"
Ukrainian tank moving through the southern parts of Torske, Donetsk, and firing from 48.987140, 37.972100.
Or were they?
xkcd.com/417/
I'm not holding my breath, but it would certainly be great if they could get rid of Orban the democratic way, even though he has rigged the entire system to the point that the EU classifes Hungary as a "partial democracy".
Makes it abundantly clear that this was never about making people use the toilets of their "birth gender", and all about making non-conforming people disappear completely. Because otherwise the reaction would have been "Oh, you're using the correct bathroom, very good!"
I think she means "independent" as in "says that I am great".
Definitely some kind of underground structure there, you can see how the explosion comes out of the ground some way off from the initial impact.
Even a blind clock will find a worm once a week.
I did nazi that coming.
Wait, it's the *buyer* that pays the tariffs? But trump said it was China that was paying them!
"Hello, I'm a representative of the Collective West, and I'd like to finance a terror attack."
Those are some crazy skills. Not just going in for a hit, but making sure it hits where the driver is.
Not gonna lie, that's a pretty professional looking setup. Why doesn't every European country have two of these factories, giving Ukraine so many drones that the only limitation is for them to find viable targets?
In two weeks. If pressured, it will turn out that, unfortunately, unlike for example tariffs, this is totally something that the president can't make decisions on, it is some other poor schmuck that is responsible for not releasing them.
Other way around. They need the EU. But it's becoming increasingly doubtful that the EU needs them. Hopefully they will get rid of Orban, but it's hard with the way he has rigged the election system.
Depends on whether you want peace around you, or if you want an excuse for forever war.
I mean, it's a valid approach, but you'd generally want to have a smidge more distance to the mine...
From their side, because they get lots and lots of money.
"forced conscription"? Is there any other kind? It's kind of implied in the whole concept, conscription is by definition not voluntary.
Racism AND sexism in one post. Stay classy, Medvedev. (von der Leyen specialised in women's health. I had no idea before this, but Medvedev cares so little about Europe that he knows every little detail, apparently.)
50 days. Such aggressive. Wow. How long did it take him to decide to bomb Iran?
Narrator: And thus continues the cycle of life and death in the russian army.
#russiaIsATerroristState
Both MAGA and GOP would collapse instantly if that happened. The infighting would be an epic experience, without trump to mesmerize the masses and force everyone into line.
I mean, "mass". It's, what, four or five vehicles? I'm old enough to remember when they used to send waves of full mechanized companies, to take Avdiivka. That's almost two years ago. Admittedly, they've "advanced" 30 kilometers in that time. Only 500 more to Kyiv!
cryptocurrency *gambling
What, no? In the final months, he assigned a lot of resources to Ukraine. Essentially everything that has been delivered since trump became president is actually from Biden. And it's the Biden weapons that Hegseth has been stopping several times.
"The list was written by Hillary Clinton and Obama and Biden anyway."
But trump has a letter with an MIT letterhead, from a very intelligent professor, so there!
Increasing the demand is going to increase the price, which will increase the amount of import taxes they can collect. I very much doubt lowering the tariffs is part of the plan here.
See? Antisemitism!
I bet it's because of the Israeli flag on there. Because any criticism of Israel, even imaginary, is antisemitism, apparently.
On the other hand, this way the lesser courts can continue to rule the way they used to, and if the trumpists have a problem with it, they will have to take it to the SC every time.
I mean, they've been without water for two years. That's stable, right?
Isn't the whole point of a supreme court that they should explain to the lesser courts how the laws should be interpreted?
The excuse will come in the future, when Israel has killed all democratic attempts in Syria, and some fanatics have taken power by blaming Israel for everything bad and attack them. Then Israel will say: "See! We knew it! Terrorists, all along!" It worked fine against Palestine.
Well, the Defense Ministry is probably a legitimate target in war. But since when is Israel at war with Syria? Then again, the US has shown that this is acceptable, if you have air superiority you can bomb other nations, and fully believe that you will get a Nobel Peace Prize for it...
Or, probably more likely, a combination. The Epstein file won't have things like "Senator Thisandthat of Importantstate had his unnatural ways with two 12 year old siamese twins", which is what they are expecting. Instead it's just long lists of famous people he has met, and he has met everyone.
That file must either be such a massive nothing-burger that nobody wants to catch the ire of those waiting for it, since they will claim that it was doctored; or so full of rich and famous people of all stripes that neither side dares release it.
I am confused, yet aroused.
Nah. These are reasonably cheap weapons, and a position like that won't be damaged by anything other than a direct hit. If it was some kind of command unit, even better.
So, 3 missiles per day? To stop several hundred Shahed drones per day? I know, this isn't the only system to be used, but quantity is also a quality, and one that we seem to have forgotten.
I'm reminded of @xkcd.com 's comments on advertising. If they spend that much money on politicians, it's because they expect those politicians to make decisions that give them at least that much money from somewhere else. xkcd.com/870/
russia could end the war in an instant, just by leaving Ukraine.
The cloaks are intended to reduce your infrared signature. They aren't perfect, and at close range they don't do much, but they most likely make it much harder to spot a soldier at long range.
Rescue workers having to wear body armor... #russiaIsATerroristState
The peaceful agricultural republic they have occupied parts of for 35 years...
The irony of moving to a country where you don't know the language and not learning it either, to get away from all the immigrants...
Yeah, he has graciously allowed EU to buy weapons from the US. Bigly Goodness.
According to Graham, the "plan" is to sell weapons to Europe, and then they can give them to Ukraine if they want. If that is the case, it would be better to spend the money to boost Ukrainian and European arms industries instead.
The best part about this story is that I have no idea if we're talking about Elmo, Elon, or both.
I instantly assumed it was Elon, and that he was blaming a night of ketamine fueled hate posting on being "hacked".
That thing really needs an IR camera.
The USgvardia?
I was actually not following them, didn't realize they had accounts here, so thanks for the heads up.
That's @warspotting.bsky.social and @rebel44cz.bsky.social if you're too lazy to search for them. =)
Yes, but every infantry soldier carries an assault rifle anyway. Issuing new ammunition is a lot easier than issuing new weapons.
So, they're hoping to sell weapons to Europe again, because it hurt the US economy when Europe decided it was maybe not a good idea to buy weapons from someone who threatens you. And trump needs a new excuse to impose tariffs on Brazil, India and China. Did I get that right?
It needs a coat of red paint, to make it go FASTA!
I doubt they have the agility to reliably hit air targets, and they don't have proximity fuses. Besides, they cost more than the drones they would be fired at.
So, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden wrote the Epstein files (exactly when did these three work together?), but they didn't think to include ANYTHING that could hurt MAGA?
Only if this wasn't the desired outcome.
That's a feedback loop if ever I saw one...
But somehow its hard to impose sanctions on russia?
Gotta love that he uses the exact same letter as he's sent to other countries, but has added a paragraph at the top about this being all about the "Witch Hunt", which turns the rest of the letter even more meaningless.