This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Ah yes, 1066 was a momentous year for England. The death of the elderly English king, Edward the Confessor, on 5 January set off a chain of events that would lead, on 14 October, to the Battle of Hastings.*
*straight copy and paste from Google
Looks like Ukraine (or at least Kiev) is well protected against those drones now. I have major concerns about the SAMs that Iran is supplying, which apparently there are no defenses for. That would be a major escalation if they use those to blow up power plants and dams. What does the world do then?*
*edited to question whether there are no such air defense systems, or whether they are just not in Ukraine. Not sure if the Patriot system, or the new NASAMS we are giving them will do the trick.
Looks like nothing has happened on the missiles yet.
I would be kind of surprised that Iran would sell them instead of keep stockpiling for their own Armageddon with Israel:
On Monday a senior US defense official said they didn’t have any information to provide on the suggestion Iran is preparing to send missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine.
On Tuesday a Pentagon spokesman said the US has “concerns” that Russia may “seek to acquire additional advanced munition capabilities from Iran,” Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday.
“We do have concerns that Russia may also seek to acquire additional advanced munition capabilities from Iran, for example surface-to-surface missiles, to use in Ukraine,” Ryder said.
Desperate Russian Draftees Have a New Battle Strategy—Pretend to Be Dead
STRINGER/ReutersThe military draft announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin sent hordes of fearful fighting-age men fleeing for the border, but even they couldn’t have appreciated the true horror of what those unlucky enough to be mobilized and sent to the frontline in Ukraine are having to...
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Is that a military grade Toyota Helix in the pic? Good looking ride!
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Wonder how many ICBMs you get in exchange for "a significant number" of artillery shells....
How bad does your military have to be when your best options are weapons from North Korea and Iran.
I don't think anyone is going to be using SAM's to target power plants or dams.
It's pretty embarrassing. And the thing is, even if Russia is "successful" in blowing up dams and power stations in parts of the country, those civilians would just temporarily immigrate within Ukraine's borders to a place with good missile protection (Kiev, ostensibly), or outside of Ukraine's borders. But, that wouldn't result in a Russian land grab because the well-supplied Ukrainian fighters aren't going anywhere.
Big ol' FWIW. If everything's true that's been written about his health the POS is battling like 5 different cancers, Parkinson's, and probably AIDs.
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-ne...r/news-story/78df638b69d47c9fccbff3f102b45237
Leaked Kremlin documents claim Russian President Vladimir Putin is secretly battling Parkinson's disease and pancreatic cancer
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-ne...r/news-story/78df638b69d47c9fccbff3f102b45237
Saw it pointed out that this could be a good lie on Belarus's part, some sort of pretext to keep their forces at home instead of northern Ukraine.
Source, as always, seems super legit too. Regardless:
https://english.nv.ua/nation/belarus-kgb-claims-us-may-invade-belarus-from-poland-news-50280887.html
Source, as always, seems super legit too. Regardless:
Belarus’ KGB claims US “may invade Belarus from Poland”
https://english.nv.ua/nation/belarus-kgb-claims-us-may-invade-belarus-from-poland-news-50280887.html
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Big ol' FWIW. If everything's true that's been written about his health the POS is battling like 5 different cancers, Parkinson's, and probably AIDs.
Leaked Kremlin documents claim Russian President Vladimir Putin is secretly battling Parkinson's disease and pancreatic cancer
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-ne...r/news-story/78df638b69d47c9fccbff3f102b45237
Pancreatic cancer, Parkinson's and Pee-tapes....
That dude is really really sick.
Well......tank turrets aren't either!........ (oh.....wait😳)
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One thing this war taught me that I'd never really thought about before --- bridges are SUPER HARD to blow up!
I guess in my mind I figured blowing up bridges was relatively easy with modern weaponry. Clearly, they are not.
I think these continued actions are on pontoon bridges running along the permanent bridge. I would add that if there was proper (i.e., our) airpower being applied, all of the permanent bridges we chose to erase would be erased.
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Belarus doesn't offer much. They have less than 50,000 active troops and they're probably as bad and ill equiped as the Russians. They'd also suffer moral issues if put into combat. Combine that with general discontent with lukashenko within Belarus and you have a pretty wimpy threat from the north. Putin should be reluctant to lean on Belarus; if Belarus gets involved and then gets routed, Putin is even worse off than he was.
That's the cliffs notes version of the attached article.
I know it's Aljazeere but they're pretty good with international news.
www.aljazeera.com
Belarus doesn't offer much. They have less than 50,000 active troops and they're probably as bad and ill equiped as the Russians. They'd also suffer moral issues if put into combat. Combine that with general discontent with lukashenko within Belarus and you have a pretty wimpy threat from the north. Putin should be reluctant to lean on Belarus; if Belarus gets involved and then gets routed, Putin is even worse off than he was.
That's the cliffs notes version of the attached article.
I know it's Aljazeere but they're pretty good with international news.
Belarus joining the war in Ukraine could be risky, even for Putin
The mobilisation and deployment of Belarusian troops to fight in Ukraine could destabilise the regime in Minsk.
Truth. I've been very impressed with the bridges. (Or underwhelmed by the munitions??)
Incorrect, why and how would Ukraine even begin to try and calculate “missing” Russian soldiers? This makes no sense.
He meant SSMs, but Russian SAMs like the S-300 can be fired at land targets.
https://eurasiantimes.com/russia-us...missiles-to-attack-ground-targets-in-ukraine/
I would ignore the soldiers column. Just WAG piled on WAG for months.
More indicative (and reliably verifiable) are the lost vehicles.
