Ukraine - Take two

[brutal]

I was a molybdenum miner!

Long Story; I got to ride in the jump seat of a mine dumper truck for a few laps around the inside of Henderson mine.

[Doc45]

No doubt on my end that the Russians did it. Fuck Putin and all his supporters, my hate for him/his evil empire knows no bounds. I hope the rumors of him having cancer are true and that he suffers a slow painful death.

[BushMasterBoy]

United States Space Force received a 40% increase in the budget allocation.

There is a Space Symposium going on at the Broadmoor Hotel right now. They will have some really interesting exhibits on display to the public. If you are interested in space technology, it really is a must see and it is a free admission. Best place to park is in the multistory car park and get a valet in a golf cart to take you the entrance.

https://www.spacesymposium.org/

[FoxtArt]

It is even confirmed with satellite telemetry. The bodies were there with the russians. Russians moved out, bodies photographed correlate with locations on telemetry. But nevertheless, some gravitate towards believing the virtually impossible / fabricate conspiracies instead of having to acknowledge that both sides of the isle could actually agree on something.

[BushMasterBoy]

My two cents is this war is for the military-industrial complex to use new weapons and tactics in a real life scenario. Some of the high tech small weapons such as the "Switchblade" are producing impressive results. The latest news is that the Rus are bringing out the "retired reserve" to help replace the conscripted losses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade

[Mtneer]

Wolverines!!

https://www.military.com/off-duty/mo...-fighters.html

[Martinjmpr]

Continuing my thought: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - the "Baltic Republics" that were once a very important part of Russia's "buffer" against the West - are now in NATO, as are Poland and Hungary.

So, as much of an asshole as Putin is, he doesn't seem to be willing to cross the NATO line.

[Aloha_Shooter]

"Ukraine's beating down" ???? You mean how he lost about a quarter of his total armored forces and nearly 22,000 troops so far? You say they achieve their strategic objective if Ukraine doesn't even consider joining NATO but they offered that early in the attack and Russia persisted. It's pretty clear to me and others that their strategic objective was to take Kyiv and install a puppet government like they have in Belarus. They have failed to do that despite 2 months of "military action". If you look at the logistics the Russian forces had lined up, they had very clearly thought they'd be in Kyiv in 2-3 days, 5 on the outside.

This "beat down" you reference has Sweden and Switzerland openly and seriously considering joining NATO -- something that wasn't even a theoretical possibility 3 months ago.

It's one thing to question how much risk or expense America should take in supporting Ukraine. The fact they are even raising the threat of nuclear weapons shows how desperate they are regardless of whether you take their threat seriously. It's a whole other thing (and frankly delusional in my opinion) to claim the Russians aren't losing given the losses they have suffered so far.

[FoxtArt]

I like those observations. That would be logical, most likely, and what someone of sound mind would conclude.

But as the saying goes, find all possibilities, eliminate the most likely, and what remains utterly impossible is probably true. So, it's probably Pfizer that started the war, honestly. To distract everyone from bad press so they won't notice the next vaccine they are delivering has a chip that'll send everyone's thoughts to Google for improved product ads.

It's not like the Russians have been trying to cram propaganda down captured Ukrainians gullets to the effect that "Ukraine never existed, it was always Russia". And it's not like they have plans to take over Maldova. We don't know what they are doing, the Russians probably have the worlds best interests at heart and simply want to kill Nazi's and bring the world into balance out of the goodness of their little, blessed, commie hearts.

[DDT951]

and what remains utterly impossible is probably true. <<SNIP>> they are delivering has a chip that'll send everyone's thoughts to Google for improved product ads.

Do you not think google is not working on something like that? Why did you put that as utterly impossible?