Yes, but I hear it’s like $300 for a simple oil change.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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To steal a line from Russian propaganda-if Russia is winning why do they need all of the tanks?
And good luck to building tanks now when you struggled to before all the sanctions.
And good luck to building tanks now when you struggled to before all the sanctions.
The low end of all the numbers are amazing, and indicate that Russia is taking some lumps.I'm thinking the Kyiv Independent might be a tad biased in their reporting
If the Russians actually lost that many tanks I don't think there'd be much talk of a Russian offensive.
Wait-the Germans are bringing the Panther back? (A new tank of course.) The original was a beautiful machine.
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It should also be kept in mind that something like an ICBM isn't the type of weapon you can just use once you've acquired it. It's not like some uneducated Taliban leader could obtain an old Russian missile and come up with a way to fire it. Now, breaking down its components to make dirty bombs, etc., is possible. But the technical expertise and complex systems to utilize nukes against another country isn't something the vast majority of even other countries have at their disposal, let alone warlords/terrorists etc.
David Gilmour > Roger Waters
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I presume both fellas' brains are kinda mushy from all the acid and other drugs. Not going to pay much attention to their geopolitical takes in 2023, lol.
I felt this way since discovering Pink Floyd as a teenager in the 80s. Waters never gave Gilmour his due for the guitar work and singing and how important both were to their greatest songs. Waters basically thought he was the only reason Pink Floyd was so huge because he wrote the lyrics and sang most of the songs. Gilmour was as big a reason though.
"Putting a Ukrainian sapper on alert neutralizing a MON-50 directed-effect anti-personnel mine with an MUV-2 fuse. don't confuse speed and haste, there are far too many mistakes in approach and technique!"
"Usurping Wagner could be a sign that the Kremlin is keen to clip Prigozhin’s wings amid increasing signs of tensions between the men who could one day replace Putin. Wagner will continue to play a key role, but stripping them of the ability to use prison recruits removes one of their greatest strengths.
The move to officially allow convicts into the army also shows the problems the Kremlin is having with its recruitment drive almost one year into the increasingly unpopular war in Ukraine. Romanova said prisoners, who started signing up on Sunday, have been told they will be freed after six months of fighting.
“It looks like Putin’s goal is to fill up Ukraine’s trenches with dead Russians, so he tries to recruit thousands of his prisoners—there are more than 400,000 Russians behind bars,” she said. “But it does not look like the mobilization is not going as well as Putin expected.”
Saint Petersburg local deputy Boris Vishnevsky said the move was another step towards creating a dehumanized and violent Russia.
“A human life is not worth anything in Russia today; and criminals can go free unpunished if they go to war—a murderer knows he can kill and then just go to war and be freed six months later,” he told The Daily Beast. Vishnevsky is a mathematician and he also taught Russian history at the Free University in Moscow. “The difference between the World War II recruitment and Putin era is that back then even prisoners were eager to defend their motherland for free.”
Thinking out loud-is it a coincidence SpaceX took away Ukraine's ability to use the service to guide their drones just as the Russian offensive started.
"What is Ukraine alternative to Starlink?
One of the alternative partners Ukraine is already working with is ICEYE, a Finnish firm which has been helping the country with its remote satellite imaging capabilities.Nov 3, 2022"
"What is Ukraine alternative to Starlink?
One of the alternative partners Ukraine is already working with is ICEYE, a Finnish firm which has been helping the country with its remote satellite imaging capabilities.Nov 3, 2022"
Slovakia has been considering this for months but it looks like they and Poland have come to an agreement.
"Slovakia at the European Union summit in Brussels promised to supply Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters, — Tasr. According to preliminary data, we are talking about maybe 11 or 12 planes that are currently in"
https://www.ft.com/content/04660e5a-8253-41de-a4a5-b25fac30a69d
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy extracted promises from the leaders of Poland and Slovakia to send fighter jets to Ukraine at an EU summit where he sought to cajole allies to step up their military aid. Since receiving pledges of battle tanks last month, Zelenskyy has made modern fighter jets his key request from western partners to help Ukrainian troops against Russia’s invasion. But many capitals are wary of such a step, given threats from Moscow it would see such a move as escalatory. Eduard Heger, prime minister of Slovakia, told Zelenskyy: “You can count on our help”, in response to his request for fighter jets, according to a recording of the conversation seen by the Financial Times. “It is in the interest of Slovak but also European security to help you. We will take this request that you asked for and work on it. You can count on our help because you are important to us and we want you to succeed,” Heger said. Slovakia has previously said it could hand over 11 Soviet-built MiG-29s to Ukraine but would need other Nato countries to provide air cover until the arrival of an order of US-made F-16, expected early next year. Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki also signalled Warsaw’s willingness to send Ukraine jets in his meetings with Zelenskyy, according to three people briefed on the discussions. Poland, too has MiG-29 aircraft, and is awaiting delivery of advanced US fighters.
"Slovakia at the European Union summit in Brussels promised to supply Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters, — Tasr. According to preliminary data, we are talking about maybe 11 or 12 planes that are currently in"
https://www.ft.com/content/04660e5a-8253-41de-a4a5-b25fac30a69d
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy extracted promises from the leaders of Poland and Slovakia to send fighter jets to Ukraine at an EU summit where he sought to cajole allies to step up their military aid. Since receiving pledges of battle tanks last month, Zelenskyy has made modern fighter jets his key request from western partners to help Ukrainian troops against Russia’s invasion. But many capitals are wary of such a step, given threats from Moscow it would see such a move as escalatory. Eduard Heger, prime minister of Slovakia, told Zelenskyy: “You can count on our help”, in response to his request for fighter jets, according to a recording of the conversation seen by the Financial Times. “It is in the interest of Slovak but also European security to help you. We will take this request that you asked for and work on it. You can count on our help because you are important to us and we want you to succeed,” Heger said. Slovakia has previously said it could hand over 11 Soviet-built MiG-29s to Ukraine but would need other Nato countries to provide air cover until the arrival of an order of US-made F-16, expected early next year. Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki also signalled Warsaw’s willingness to send Ukraine jets in his meetings with Zelenskyy, according to three people briefed on the discussions. Poland, too has MiG-29 aircraft, and is awaiting delivery of advanced US fighters.
And that's gonna be "infighting", not targeting the West. They'll nuke themselves.
Bumping this to get it back on page one where it belongs.
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Time for the US to step up, if needed. We have F-16s in Italy and Germany. We have jets forward deployed to Poland and Romania that I think came from the Lakenheath in the UK, and probably the US. I'm not an expert, but supposedly we have F-22s forward deployed, and I thought most of them are deployed on US territory?
Whatever, we can provide an umbrella if needed. It is important to be prudent, but the Russians are not going to incur over Slovakian airspace, or Polish airspace. They'd get effed up.
