War in Ukraine

A Canadian chef is working with Ukraine's drone pilots, and he recently got his first kill of a Russian Lancet missile. That missile got cooked.

How a Canadian chef-turned-drone pilot scored his first air-to-air kill against a deadly Russian Lancet drone

 

For those who insist that history began 2/24/22

ECHR Finds Ukraine Responsible for Odessa Massacre

 

Russia warns against U.S. strike on Iran nuclear sites: "Catastrophic"

 

Trump's threat sparks calls for Iran nuclear weapon

 

Another 160k for the meat grinder

Putin launches largest military draft in years despite ceasefire talks

Putin's order, effective April 1 through July 15, calls up Russian citizens aged 18 to 30 for military service, according to state news agency TASS.
The spring conscription campaign will not only add fresh troops but also replace conscripts who have completed their service.

 

Glad to hear it. Forcing another round of conscription has been part of Ukraine’s strategy for about a year. There’s risk in that, of course. From flash to bang, for such an act to start showing military effect in the field can be anywhere from four to six months. But what it does to the domestic temperature inside Russia is anyone’s guess, especially when Russia has no meaningful victories in the field since they were going to take Kharkiv and Pokrovsk “any day now” this time last year.

 

Everyone should take the time to read this entire article. I'm assuming that the Biden NatSec team decided to talk to the NYTimes and give them the behind the scenes story of the conflict, along with Z4.

 

For those who have no actual sense of true history, here’s an article that accurately describes the last 1000 years in Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine: the tangled history that connects—and divides—them

Of course, Ukraine became an independent nation, AGAIN, in 1991, but good ole Dugger doesn’t like to go back even that far.

 

where they pull them from and how many they actually get will be interesting to follow. This will make labor shortages worse wherever they are pulled from. This tells me that Putin has no intention of locking the lines and calling it good. I thought he would thank his stars that Trump was in, give him all the glory of making a bad peace, and lock the lines. Forget about the rest of Ukraine, live out what is left of your life getting Russia back in good graces using your boy trump to weasel back into western financial markets with Crimea and east Ukraine now consider Russian forever. Nope, he doubled down.

 

Britain was the bloodiest sector on the planet for a millinnium. Some historians argue that that it was the primary belligerent in both world wars. So of course it’s at the heart of a Western proxy war against Russia …

It's Official: Ukraine Conflict is British 'Proxy War'

 

So if we are going with that article, can we all agree Russian casualties are over 700k?

 

Key moment being the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century. Prior to that, there were several Kievan Principalities with Kiev and Novgorod being two of the largest. Mongols completely shattered that and in time partnered with a po-dunk town called Moscow to be their henchman/tax collector over the rest of the Rus Principalities.

Eventually the Mongols too weakened, and the Moscovites took over their role and started attacking anyone who could potentially be a threat (whether they were being threatening or not). Go look up what happened to Novgorod, at one point the richest of those Principalities, and play that forward 600 years. Yep. Good ole Russia. The country who never stops whining about their "sacrifice" in WWII that they could have easily avoided by standing up to the Germans in 1939. But, just couldn't resist taking half of Poland. . . and just being who they truly are.

 

Russia didn’t just not stand up to Germany, they CONSPIRED with Germany, and split portions of Poland. Russia committed some of the War’s worst atrocities there. But, we all digress.

Suffice it to say, the tired Duggers refrain of when history started is silly in context with actual history.

(Meanwhile, the Vikings sequel is a fun watch to see the early days of Rus)

 

Again. Russia being Russia. They simply can't help themselves.

Don't tell that last part to Putin and his simps (DD). According to them that never happened. Always Slavs. Always Russians. Which, again, just shows us who they really are. Paranoid psychopaths. Doesn't make you any less Russian than it made Normandy less French, England less English or Southern Italy and Sicily less Italian/Sicilian. One thing about the Vikings/Normans is that they tend to adopt the culture and language of those they invaded within a generation or so.

 

Also used armed force to take parts of Finland and Romania, then the three Baltic states as a whole. But, yeah, poor Russia …

 

President Trump is handling it pretty well right now by giving Zelenskyy just enough rope with which to hang himself. This buys us time to secure financial terms that are weighted towards the U.S. interests and for Russia to establish a firmer grip on the four oblasts which have voted by referendum to no longer be part of Ukraine.

 

This argument proceeds with a faulty assumption that Russia's latest round of conscription was "forced." It is just as likely that it was done to strengthen Russia's hand at the bargaining table. "Hey, we can keep this going if you really just want to." In terms of domestic temperature inside Russia, lol. You still haven't offered a plausible explanation why there would be a noticeable shift in temperature inside of Russia now that the leader of the free world is sympathetic to many of Putin's arguments and has without warning already suspended military aid to Ukraine. If anything, Russians are feeling much better about this war than they did a year ago. When do you let go of these tired narratives and make the best of reality?

 

keep moving those goal posts homer.

 

Why insult me?