Seems Putin just explained the who and why of the explosions.
Seems Putin just explained the who and why of the explosions.
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Russia unilaterally withdraws from Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper.
I find that thing Russian's do where they act out the moment the decision is made in front of cameras a bit odd. No odder than some western political conventions probably look to people not used to them, but still.
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Also, Kirill Stremousov, the Moscow-appointed head of the Kherson region, has died in a car crash. He had previously commented on chance of Kherson returning under Ukrainian control using the phrase "over my dead body". There are some things that the Russians do manage to get done as planned, apparently.Originally Posted by Steely Glint
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Seems like they're making the US withdraw from Afghanistan look organised and well thought though.
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yikes
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The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
The scary part is, I doubt the response will be powerful enough.
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It's not confirmed they were Russian yet.
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I'd be really surprised if they turn out not to be; the Polish/Ukrainian border regions are relatively peaceful, so there are no targets for the Ukrainians to fire missiles at. I believe the real question is - was the Polish territory struck as a result of piss-poor targeting or missile malfunction, or was the missile damaged/deviated from the intended target by Ukrainian attempts to intercept it.
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It's quite possible that they were Ukrainian S-300 missiles trying to defend Lviv from a Russian cruise missile attack. If they were launched from a site somewhere to the south of the city, there's a plausible flight path to the impact site in Poland.
Also, earlier I watched the BBC headline change from 'Reports: Poland struck by Russian missiles' to 'Missiles land in Poland', which indicates some backpaddling is being done.
Last edited by Steely Glint; 11-16-2022 at 12:00 AM.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Yeah, that appears to be the most likely version as of this morning.
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A new tidbit on Russia's air-ineffectiveness early on. They had to massively scale back their EW efforts (which meant they couldn't do much to protect their aircraft) because it was hampering their own forces even worse than it was the Ukrainians.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
ok the wagners are fighting the other russians now
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Oh, are we going to see a coup attempt next?
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everyone's on tender hooks
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
I sincerely hope that this actually happens, but no actual shots fired as of yet.
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depends on who you believe
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
The video of the "base destroyed by Russian army rocket strike" looks kinda staged. The only other claim I've heard is one of a downed army helicopter, and that one comes from Prigozhin, too. Nothing from other sources as far as I've seen.
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Lost in the coverage of the lolcoup: Blumenthal and Graham pitch bipartisan resolution to invoke NATO art. 5 in the event of nuclear plant shenanigans:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528936...uclear-threats
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At this point, the US is threatening to invade more NATO members than Russia.
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The art of the deal by Donald Chamberlain Trump; offer Capitulation when your opponent is getting into real trouble. I blame European leaders for sitting on their hands for way too long, but what the US administration is doing is effectively ending NATO.
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Considering President Elon is firing a bunch of people in the nuclear safety agency and gutting the CDC, I don't think we have to worry about the consequences of NATO's destruction. We'll all die from something far more preventable.
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It's remarkable how Trump keeps repeating that Ukraine started the war. I'm starting to think he disapproves of the break up of the Soviet Union.
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Agent Trump has been anti-NATO and pro-Russia since the 1980s.
He's no different to Agent Corbyn and otherusefulidiots across the West.
If the reports are accurate, Ukraine just destroyed about 1/3rd of the Russian strategic bomber fleet doing themselves and everyone else in Europe what is known as a 'massive solid'
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Apparently from deep within Russian territory no less. Would pay to see the looks on everyone's faces as they sit around the negotiating table
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It would certainly give them something to think about, I imagine they'd happily spaff soldiers and old cold war crap up the wall for as long as needed to get some sort of concession out of Ukraine but the majority of their bomber fleet is long out of production and effectively irreplaceable, and they're strategic assets which would become relevant in a hypothetical conflict with NATO. If they really have taken 40 of them off the board* that's a huge blow, and also implies a serious and real cost for continuing the in war, since there is no guarantee that Ukraine won't do something similar at some point in the future.
* To be clear, Ukraine is claiming to have hit 40 which doesn't necessarily mean destroyed - however, given that two of three types of bombers Russia uses are no longer produced, they may not have the replacement parts to make them flyable again leading to the damaged planes being taken out of service and cannibalised for parts, or they are repaired and it, again, eats into the finite supply of parts for those planes, thus lowering the life-span of the existing fleet, either way, very nasty for Russia
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
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