War in Ukraine

Careful, he gets a bonus for causing people to make comments like that. His handlers don't understand western sarcasm. He's going to be eating borscht with real meat and potatoes tonight.

 

I thought he was a bad-guy character in a Tom Clancy novel. He sounds even worse with your description.

 

No, that was Bob Ritter. And he was only a bad guy in the movie Clear and Present Danger. In the novels, he was not a particularly awful human for a career intelligence officer.

 

F-16's scheduled to go into combat in Ukraine in July (a half dozen of them, anyway). Russians may want to hurry to get this war over with before then. Time for a desperate charge of the light brigade (times 10,000), to find out how many bullets that Ukraine really has.

Ukraine ready to deploy F-16 fighter jets ‘as soon as July’

 

Also from the above article, Ukraine is now shooting down Russian drones with $40k Cold War-era missiles instead of much more expensive modern missiles. This is due to the use of the U.S. APKWS system, which adds fins and laser guidance to the old missiles and makes them more accurate. They use the U.S.-supplied VAMPIRE launch pad system as well.

 

Pope calls for Zelenskyy to wave the white flag of surrender, and Moscow's foreign ministry immediately interprets it as that the West should "put aside its ambitions and admit that it was wrong." (Also from the above article.) Hilarious.

 

I would imagine that Ukraine's response is to tell the pope where he can put that suggestion.

 

It makes me physically ill to realize that half of Congress is sticking their fingers in their ears and claiming that this war is irrelevant to the U.S. Pure ignorance and jackassery of the highest order.

 

Russia's bribery and bullying of smaller nations pays off: the U.N. just gave Russia ownership of most of the Arctic Ocean seabed, including the North Pole.

The new Cold War has arrived, and it's colder than ever! Seriously, it's freezing cold. On the downside, Russia plans to cancel Christmas after it turns the elves and reindeer into sausage. Happy, republicans?!!!

The US should stand firm in the Arctic, as Russia lays claim to own the North Pole

 

Here:s the video Oeant to post for chemgstor. Russia did not initiate the conflict in Georgia, Putin won't invade the Balkans. No evidence Putin killed any journalist. Journalists died at a faster rate under your beloved Yeltsin. And more

 

On this board Losing is the new Winning.

 

Strong post.

 

Damn, the pope is a genius. We can have world peace of we all just surrender to Russia. Idiot.

 

The U.S. will be sneaking a $400 million aid package past the Cowardly Traitors of Congress to Ukraine. The money came from credits refunded to the Pentagon from recent purchases. The package is expected to include "artillery".

US preparing new weapons package for Ukraine, officials say

 

I’d prefer Congress just passed the aid package, but I’ll take creative solutions, too. Biden also needs to be taking more provocative steps with our armed forces to send Congress a message: I can either keep pressure on Russia by sending Ukraine stuff, or I can use my lawful authority as Commander in Chief to put the armed forces in positions of increasing concern to Russia to cause that pressure. Which would the people’s representatives prefer?

 

Those " people's representatives" will get back to us after they kiss the orange ass and get their marching orders from him.

 

Yep. Got it. They say their primary concern is not escalating tensions with Russia, though. If the only alternative you give them is the far more escalatory move of pushing the U.S. armed forces in tighter and calling Putin’s bluff, then maybe sending Ukraine munitions does not appear to be as risky.

 

another russian oil depot up in flames.

Strike on oil depot in Oryol, Russia: 60 people and train fight fire (msn.com)

Afire broke out after a strike on an oil depot on the night of March 12 in Oryol. Sixty people and a fire train are working to extinguish the fire, according to the Telegram channel TASS and the governor of the Oryol region, Andrey Klychkov.

A government representative of the Oryol region reported that as a result of a drone strike on an oil depot in the regional center, one of the reservoirs caught fire.

 

Trump reportedly told Hungary's leader he "wouldn't give a penny" to Ukraine if he were reelected...

Hungary's leader claims Trump told him he would cut off U.S. military aid to Ukraine (nbcnews.com)

 

Thanks gop. Uncle Vlad would love that.