It's been reclaimed I think. Although I'm not entirely sure what it means (a catch all for LGBT+?)
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Aye. For queer/gay people, not straight blokes like me. I would never dream of calling my gay friends queer. It may be different for the youngers but am 51 so not quite sure how it’s panning out with them.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Fez909
toilet expert
It looks weak to be making nuclear threats like this:
Russia's Medvedev: We'd have to use a nuclear weapon if Ukrainian offensive was a success
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has sometimes raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict over Ukraine, said on Sunday that Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if Kyiv's ongoing counter-offensive was a success. Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, a...
strung out
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The problem with Russia is that they're so strong that fighting back would be pointless, and also so weak that they'd better not be embarrassed in case they let off a nuke.It looks weak to be making nuclear threats like this:
Russia's Medvedev: We'd have to use a nuclear weapon if Ukrainian offensive was a success
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has sometimes raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict over Ukraine, said on Sunday that Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if Kyiv's ongoing counter-offensive was a success. Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, a...news.yahoo.com
Probably better off for everyone* if they just get left alone to complete their special military operation, in the name of global stability of course.
*except the rape, genocide, torture and mutilation victims in Ukraine of course.
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likesfish
You can't park here sir
Thing is they are not that strong this isn't WW2 where you can drag peaseants into factory no2 and start churning out t34s or start turning out mosquitos in piano factories. you fight with what you already have. Russia did have vast stockpiles of stuff
If your firing antiship missiles at city's it's because you don't have anything else left you can shoot unfortunately they have loads of "carrier killers"
If your firing antiship missiles at city's it's because you don't have anything else left you can shoot unfortunately they have loads of "carrier killers"
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
That only follows if your mind follows the most pedestrian arguments. For example Ukraine seems to have intercepted lots of kalibr missiles but anti-ship missiles with their lower flight altitude might be more likely to arrive. And anyway it seems the Ukrainians are saying you're wrong Russians produce dozens of Kalibr missiles per month - DIU
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Oh and the russians didn't produce a single mosquito in ww2
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Nor were they produced by peasants. It was designed to take advantage of the skilled labour that already existed.
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
Lukashenko taunts Poland again over Wagner troops near border
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday taunted Poland over the presence of Russian Wagner mercenaries near the NATO country's border, saying Warsaw should thank him for keeping them in check.
Poland is a member of NATO so could get a bit interesting if the Wagner group or Belarus attack
Cid
Proper break this time
Something vaguely plausible might be border raids targeting overland grain movements. Fits with Putin's current strategy, is very deniable.
It's er... not very likely, and I haven't thought it through at all. But I'm not sure anyone is thinking much through these days, so who knows?
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Yeah from what I've been reading Poland has one of the most powerful militaries in Europe now. Armed to the teeth and long memories. Would be unwise.
Lukashenko playing up for domestic audience and keeping Uncle Vlad sweet.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Itching to avenge Katyn Forest.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
They are still asking Ukraine for permission to recover the bodies from the Volhynian massacres
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I'd think the chances of a conventional military attack on Poland, by Wagner acting on behalf of the Russian state are about zero - but sub-threshold, little green men, terrorist type stuff? Yeah, I can see that.
I rather doubt Lukashenko is remotely interested though - he's a man with his eyes on the future, and one thing he's good at is talking billy big bollocks with Big Vlad in order to get political/security/economic support for his dodgy government, while doing absolutely nothing that would seriously antagonise the NATO eastern states.
He's no fool. He can see that the tea leaves are somewhat muddied - he's pretty unlikely to throw the very delicate political balancing act that keeps him in power onto the fire for someone who may not be there is 6 months.
I rather doubt Lukashenko is remotely interested though - he's a man with his eyes on the future, and one thing he's good at is talking billy big bollocks with Big Vlad in order to get political/security/economic support for his dodgy government, while doing absolutely nothing that would seriously antagonise the NATO eastern states.
He's no fool. He can see that the tea leaves are somewhat muddied - he's pretty unlikely to throw the very delicate political balancing act that keeps him in power onto the fire for someone who may not be there is 6 months.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Well quite, so you can see why they’re so keen to stomp on any pricks who want a return to Soviet times.
Flavour
hang the bankers
My mate's Dad has made it out of Russian-occupied Ukraine after living under military occupation for a year and a half in the Kherson region.
He walked, literally, all the way to Tblisi, Georgia, and got a flight to Italy from there. Suffering from PTSD and drinking a fuck of a lot but to be expected. Didn't think he'd make it.
He walked, literally, all the way to Tblisi, Georgia, and got a flight to Italy from there. Suffering from PTSD and drinking a fuck of a lot but to be expected. Didn't think he'd make it.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Hope he can get the help & support that he'll need ...
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Never turn your back on mother earth
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Are they warming us up for the unfortunate necessity of giving Ukraine Agent Orange?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And they've now hit an oil tanker that was supplying fuel to the Russian army.
teqniq
DisMembered
Thread here:
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Major supplier of jet fuel to the Russian forces in Syria. I will shed no tears whatsoever.
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hiraethified
This is awful. Fucking war criminal scum
www.independent.co.uk
Inside Russia’s torture chambers as investigators warn Kherson ‘tip of iceberg’
Similarities in accounts from different Ukrainian regions ‘expose deeper concerns that Russia is using torture as a strategy’, UN special rapporteur tells The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It just shouldn't be possible for countries - any countries - to behave like this and not bear the full consequences.This is awful. Fucking war criminal scum
Inside Russia’s torture chambers as investigators warn Kherson ‘tip of iceberg’
Similarities in accounts from different Ukrainian regions ‘expose deeper concerns that Russia is using torture as a strategy’, UN special rapporteur tells The Independent
likesfish
You can't park here sir
That only really works if the "polite fiction" is people your attacking can't really do much about it.
for example Argentina even after the falklands war tried various covert landings sub visits and harrassing flights etc if they'd actually got caught it would have been an act of war and resulted in immediate violence.
wagnar trying that on Poland retaliates with 100 leopards Belarous military and a threat of Russian support isn't much of a threat.
Best Wagnar can do is look suspicious on the Polish border cross it and Poland goes to war. It's not like the Poles are going to look for any other actors is it?
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
The Poles look over those borders very carefully anyway, they have every right to be suspicious of their neighbours.
History has shown that up very clearly.
They won't be about to let their guard down anytime soon, and wagner personnel being present will only encourage that point of view.
History has shown that up very clearly.
They won't be about to let their guard down anytime soon, and wagner personnel being present will only encourage that point of view.
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