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It was bold of me to assume this thread hadn't been full of fighting, spiting and backbiting up to this evening when I dipped in
You can do as much special operating as you like, though.
Familiar to me as well. 1980s, arms factory-those of us who worked on the shop floor nicked a little bit of whatever we could without it flagging up. Managers and foremen used to be spotted by security (who always said fuck all) loading all sorts of materials and equipment into their cars. It was why they were working late.I thought this was interesting:
Ukraine Update: Putin didn't have the army he thought he had, because of corruption he allowed
I’ve linked to this thread several times because it is amazing from top to bottom. But let me home in on these two sections: Exit defense minister who fought crony oligarch arms dealers, enter guy who knew how to “get along.” As a result, Kamil Galeev...www.dailykos.com
Talks about the corruption in Russian weapons manufacture:
Not sure whether that last sentence is right, but it does remind me of when I worked for a company selling computers in the mid 70s. On Russian contracts they always used to send out a gross of screwdrivers with any system on the principle that flooding the market would mean there there was at least a couple for the actual work. Looks like not a lot has changed
plus a nice little snippet from bellingcat
Poland!
Any more news on this, or did it simply become the World's Longest Military Vehicle Museum?That huge convoy, they’re speculating it’s about laying siege to the capital now.
Vast Russian military convoy may be harbinger of a siege of Kyiv
Analysis: convoy estimated to be 40 miles long raises fears of siege tactics and escalating civilian casualtieswww.theguardian.com
its classic Russian army doctrine apparently. You launch a failed attack on purpose so your opponents get their morale boosted and capture a load of your equipment. Then you park most of your army in the mud for a week. Its what zhukov did at kursk apparently .
There was a decent video by some American ex-forces guy someone posted a few pages back explaining what they were doing and what the Russian tactics were, and that the convoy and slow progress fitted this plan. Try and find that if you can. They do appear to be setting up bases to launch the attack from, the distance they have stopped at is the range of their artillery and missiles, expect a salvo when they’re good and ready.
A small issue, but I wonder why Sky thought 'let's get that posted up, it's great footage - oh, but let's remove the bad language, people could be offended!'Flipping crikey, some SKY journalists had a very, very close call here. Scary as fuck. I know journos get a hard time, sometimes justified, but some of them are really sticking their necks on the line to get information out.
CW: they were under accurate fire, no deaths/serious injuries.
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week
On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.news.sky.com
Even in the shadow of nuclear war, people still get offended. The offence taken is more important than nuclear incineration. Apparently.
Oh,fuck OFF. And that's you on ignore, because I don't want a thread ban before you get one, and you are contributing nothing.
Get a grip.
I'd quite like to, if it shut you the fuck up.
Get a grip. It's only an opposing opinion.
But PRC does relish the idea of anything that feeds positively into their claims over Taiwan. Russia invading and seizing Ukraine's territory as its own is kind of precedent setting insofar as China's claims over Taiwan go.
He means Ukraine could fall, which would mean the end of his career. Europe won't 'fall.'
Perhaps a bit of both? Not uncommon. He was nicely placed, after all, before Russia intervened. Proper riches beckoned.
A lot of people in the former Eastern Bloc are worried by this. Easy to say 'Europe won't fall' from the western half of the continent.
As I said, we're not naive, are we?
Not everyone is motivated to enter politics to get rich. You have a go at others for not looking at bigger pictures, but you yourself are stupidly reductionist.
