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I’d suggest Putin’s approach is rather unique to him.
There are reports from within Russia that even his inner circle was surprised by the war declaration.
Recognising and absorbing Donetsk and Luhansk and dissuading NATO from admitting Ukraine would have been their goal.
Putin’s KGB personality profile apparently identified his chief weakness as being willing to take risks.
Thus far that’s worked out for him (Crimea and now Ukraine) because W. Europe has played directly into his hands by not matching his military expansion and surrendering their energy independence.
🙂 …. 🙂
Security footage captures sweet playtime between dog & owner
https://rumble.com/embed/vt8fqf/?pub=5f67r
BOM reckons we’ve had 34mm in 24 hours.
Like fuck. add 150, according to my gauge.
“I asked yesterday if Russian foreign policy towards Ukraine, and its periphery, would be any different without Putin?
I doubt very much that it wouldn’t be any different.
As I wrote yesterday, the conceit of Western elites is imagining that at heart everyone is a rootless liberal democrat made in their image.
Cf. Merkel’s (and she is responsible for much of this) response to Putin taking Crimea: “You just can’t do that!”
sultry especially in the middle of the day
grey, still and humid?- like that in Vicco today. Hat that weather
Well, had any disturbing behaviour been overlooked earlier in his career?
Some have claimed others in the SAS were jealous of his medals, but is that true?
Let’s say some Footballer who had been suspended multiple times for kicking heads, gouging eyes, squirrel gripping anyone within range and biting an ear or 2 off, was awarded the Brownlow Medal.
Do you think there might be a bit of opposition to the award that wasn’t motivated by jealousy?
Firesaga should have won 2020 ;), and an Oscar!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamELF1MyN0
Hang around to the end.
A succinct summary of comprehensively failed policy.
One of the drivers for Putin’s early ‘outreach’ to Kyiv must surely be to preserve as much as possible of Ukraine as a going concern – and:
• Heap ashes on the West’s failures, and show the US the door;
• Preserve the Ukrainian energy infrastructure from ‘fuck you, all of you, nothing left to lose’ sabotage;
• Avoid Afghanistan 2.0;
• Bring pointless Western sanctions to a brisk (and bitterly divisive) end.
Dick Ed
Come on man, don’t tease us, spill all the (potentially defamatory) beans. Show us your Spook credentials.
No. Think this through.
Even if he loses, he has defended his reputation.
His accusers look like whining girlie men and prevericating liars. He’s been consistent with his testimony. There is no way he could be successfully prosecuted now.
Via Instapundit here’s a perfect Ukraine tweet. Trollmaster level: 9th Dan with oakleaf cluster.
https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1497216168137936896
I’m not saying what they would do in every instance is the same, rather that their attitude to their periphery would be more or less aligned and that their actions would be explicable in those terms. Even the goal you cite was unacceptable to most Western commentators but is explicable to most Russians.
I’m no botanist – looks a little like a giant spear or gymea lily, but the variegated leaves don’t match either of those?
“2dogs says:
February 26, 2022 at 10:17 am
Putin just cucked, he called for negotiations with Zelensky.
Forcing the other side into negotiations was always his goal. He doesn’t want to keep Western Ukraine.
Why would Putin want degenerates such as these as Russian citizens?”
***
hee hee, the comments there are fun, e.g.
Seth Sith
Thank God for Russia and the Eastern Orthodoxy…. [thumbs up]
Jono Roscoe
Looks like Putins about to be doxxed and cancelled [laugh]
Robert Ward
Theyre so strong and brave, guess its time for them to head to the front line and defend themselves.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=631163071589877
I heard on The Duran that that tweet doing the rounds yesterday of a Ukrainian unit of some 13 men on an island in Black Sea being asked to surrender by a Russian naval unit and defiantly telling them to FO and subsequently dying actually surrendered. I hope this is true.
Yes, but the willingness to express that attitude in actions as aggressively as Putin has done is something else. I also think there is more diversity of opinion in the Russia populace than we might think and that Putin allows for.
That was my husband’s experience this morning too.
A friend (recovering from chemo) said she would possibly wear one at the supermarket if it was crowded. I’ve given her a pass. 🙂
Both?
Variegated Yucca gloriosa variegata (Century Plant).
It will cark it after flowering. Should be lots of “pups” at the base to start again. Also the seeds are very viable.
I like the phrase front bar urgers that gets tossed around here.
What have effete “west” or our international chattering classes, been to Ukraine if not that exact thing for the last 8 years.
Translated their gay speak to Ukraine was roughly:
“Yeah mate we’ve got ya, tell him he’s a fuckwit, just go up and talk to Nato, she said she likes you, who cares about him? Yeah she was involved with him before and they’ve got a messy past, and he’s big, but he’s a pussy dude. Go on do it mate go on he won’t do shit he’s a pussy and we’ll help ya smash the c… if he does.”.
2am old mate is lying unconscious in the carpark with a fractured eye socket and concussion and newly minted slightly crazed sworn enemy for the rest of his life, and we’re comfortably tucked up asleep in bed.
As I said before he
1. Hopes to re-establish the Tsarist Russian Empire
2. Is getting old
Whilst I have a certain romanticism towards the glory that was
RomeByzantiumthe Holy Roman EmpireRussia of Cathy the Great and her favorite horse, it is pretty hard on the locals who get empired.Indeed. Common sense.
As soon as Palaszcuk announced the lifting of the mask mandate up here the ABC had an “expert” on call to say it was a bad idea because covid can be a death sentence for the the immuno-compromised so we should all wear masks indefinitely. But people in that situation are used to taking common sense precautions.
While it’s a Good Thing that WW3 hasn’t broken out over a poorly considered stouch over a corrupt relic of the Soviet Union, the Biden Administration has underlined that the US defence strategy is dependable, as in it wears Depends.
The immediate upshot is likely to be pressure on US allies to develop their own independent nuclear deterrent capability.
The Koreans are gagging for nukes, apparently.
The Japanese PM has just made very clear that, while Japan is committing to developing long range strike capabilities, its Constitution is firmly non-nuclear. So, absolutely no chance of a quick nuke-in-the-basement that just happens to fit on top of a Beijing-bound missile.
Absolutely none.
They aren’t his Accusers.
They’re witnesses for the Defence.
Channel 9s main problem is they’re dependent on Federal Government goodwill and the Federal Government doesn’t want it’d Hero impeached form PR reasons.
This saga has been bubbling away since 2011.
Defence is proud of never having been forced to backdown in it’s history, so they’ll make every other bloke who was in the SAS to walk the plank before they throw the Big Guy overboard.
It’s over for Vlad the Terrible.
Roger
As soon as Palaszcuk announced the lifting of the mask mandate up here the ABC had an “expert” on call
I trust that Their ABC’s “expert” was wearing a mask at all times during the interview?
I’m no botanist – looks a little like a giant spear or gymea lily, but the variegated leaves don’t match either of those?
No idea what it is other than a succulent been there for 20 years I just keep trimming the lowest fronds so I don’t walk into it .. very, very spikey beast .. never flowered or shown signs of flowering .. that centre piece gotta be fairly new as I’ve never noticed it before .. two others, tho slightly smaller, showing no signs of a centre growth ….
Impressive. And some fine examples of Icelandic knitting too. Even one with steeking.
A chorus of wholesome, happy Gretas.
He may or may not have been part of a group of soldiers imprisoned in military jails for heinous crimes, and who was recruited for a top-secret suicide mission vital to the war effort by a maverick officer, and whose motley group bonded in an unlikely manner and then completed that mission, and who was one of the only survivors.
snork!
That was a great laugh KD, thanks.
“lotocotisays:
February 26, 2022 at 11:24 am
It’s over for Vlad the Terrible.”
LOL…thanks. I remember back in 2019 when Vlad the Terrible called out the west’s fawning over the ghoulish Greta the Gruesome. He could see right through her and her false prophesies.
Dick Ed
Still not willing to favour us with your inside knowledge? Or don’t you actually have any? Are you (shock, horror) all hat and no cows?
Poland doesn’t go to the club much anymore, but if he did he would have probably warned Ukraine about those anglo guys in the corner who like setting people like them up to get bashed by the guy everyone avoids when he’s on one.
”Snake Island: Ukraine says soldiers killed after refusing to surrender”
AgitProp from the BBC.
Here’s the background to that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_Delimitation_in_the_Black_Sea_case
The recently published US Indo-Pacific Strategy does expect allied middle powers in the region to step up their defence spending so they can act in a truly multilateral way with US forces. But having nuclear weapons would be the only effective deterrent to Chinese aggression if the US were to slowly – or not so slowly – recede from the western Pacific.
As I said earlier, it isn’t called the Century Plant for nothing. The great spike comes up almost overnight and flowers in great profusion. A hormone release inside the plant says, “you’re all grown up now”.
So it then goes into reproductive mode, produce alluring bells irresistible to pollinators of all sorts. Once the entire spike is pollinated, the fruits appear – they are a hard, leathery capsule and drop off and take root. Meanwhile, the parent plant dies off, its rotting corpse supplying nutrient for the babies.
A Triffid without the whip.
Robert Malone’s comment on the intention of the WEF minions to introduce a digitised social credit system :
She wasn’t in the photo.
If anyone wants a warmer earth it would be the Russians. Brrrrrrr.
Yep…that’s how war works. Is this news?
Something like a 40 Year Orchid?
You tell me Sherlock
You tell me Sherlock
As far as i know BRS hasn’t won a brownlow and that was a shit analogy
In the local shops carpark yesterday, every single person was wearing a mask.
I can only assume they felt obliged to put one on inside the shops and didn’t want to touch their faces with hands fresh from shopping trolleys.
This is South Australia though …
So it then goes into reproductive mode, produce alluring bells irresistible to pollinators of all sorts. Once the entire spike is pollinated, the fruits appear – they are a hard, leathery capsule and drop off and take root. Meanwhile, the parent plant dies off, its rotting corpse supplying nutrient for the babies.
She’s now on notice .. I’m watching! .. LOL!
Apparently telling the Russian Navy to get fucked before they turn you into *flying mince is “ÿou go girllll jísm”
*h/t Billy Connolly
I think we won.
Even with a large number of people rolling over for a beer…the QR code stuff was not taken on happily.
The chances of everyone going along with the digital identity is low. They’re best if they try and do it slowly. I hope to high heaven it never becomes law. The idea that the “Liberal” party is the government of the day pushing this through Parliament is horrifying but no longer surprising.
The BBC thought it was.
The more likely scenario is the 13 soldiers surrendered, just like tens of thousands of others
He may or may not have been part of a group of soldiers imprisoned in military jails for heinous crimes, and who was recruited for a top-secret suicide mission vital to the war effort by a maverick officer, and whose motley group bonded in an unlikely manner and then completed that mission, and who was one of the only survivors.
Wow! I’m impressed! .. imagine .. serving alongside, LEE MARVIN, ERNEST BORGNINE & CHARLES BRONSON & the rest of the DIRTY DOZEN .. leg-end- ary stuff!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061578/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Shatterzz @ 11.26
Yes I have the exact same thing happening at the moment with a big succulent adjacent to “my” (common property) driveway.
It ain’t over, and so far, we’re losing.
No one goes to the pub for a beer anymore, perhaps remove your head from Sociology textbooks and have a look around you.
That is the one I say upthread involved an actual surrender. And, again, I hope this is actually the case.
The BBC also says:
I guess we will eventually know the truth from the agitprop.
The trouble, Ed, is that Ukrainians viscerally hate Russians and Russians hate Ukrainians. So it’s totally plausible that when a Russian destroyer rocks up to a rock with 13 Ukrainian soldiers on it that they would say “fuck off” when told to surrender. After all that’s what the 101st Airborne did. And it would be totally plausible after they told the Russian captain to do something physiologically impossible that he’d tell his guys to erase the Ukrainians. It’s a testosterone thing, coupled with a century of mutual loathing.
Having said that I hope like Dover that they did surrender. I suspect though they all had a rush of blood to the head.
This is from RT:
https://www.rt.com/russia/550603-snake-island-border-guards/
Russia says the entire 82 man garrison surrendered.
No no no.
According to a lot of internet twinkle toes it wasn’t war, but a war crime.
The Ruskies were supposed to be so awed by such bravado,
that they aborted the mission, dipped their colours and returned to home waters.
Yes, indeed.
In which case they’ll be more than a little embarrassed as Zelensky has named them ‘Heroes of Ukraine’.
That’s more of your bullshit, Bruce.
They. are. the. same. fucking. people.
China, India & UAE abstain from the UN resolution.
Russia obviously vetoes it.
UAE also places order for Chinese planes.
They will be simultaneously buying from the US & China.
Anyone know if any other countries are doing this?
I could tell you more about the sex life of plants but this is a family blog.
Why?
The Russians offered them safe passage home in return for a pledge not to take up arms against Russian Forces.
It sounds like an honourable deal.
Haha.
Genetically so are Hutus and Tutsis, Israelis and Palis. Or so lefties keep saying.
I suspect the Ukrainian kulaks would disagree with you too.
Except they’re all dead.
I read that 1/3 of Ukrainians speak Russian as a first language and 1/6 are ethnically Russian.
Ukrainian garrison at Snake Island surrenders to Russian Armed Forces — Defense Ministry
Possibly all bullshit.
But odd behaviour to turn a ‘fog of war’ incident into an outright and easily disproved lie.
Er…because they were presumed to have been killed rather than captured/surrendered, Ed.
If you believe the Russian version of events, you are nuts.
If you believe the Ukrainian version of events, you are nuts.
Kulaks are a class targeted by Soviets not Russians and died whether they were Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Khazak, whathaveyou.
I’ve changed my mind. Ed’s right. He was right about everything.
Hang on. It smells like almonds out here.
Why does my arm hurt?
Haha. Good joke.
Getting zero coverage in Australian media (is there a tour coming up).
Pakistan being vocal about its support for the Russia.
Having nukes means you say whatever you want.
Thanks Bruce. You had me reading up in “Easy Company”. Wow.
The fitting end was drinking Adolph’s champagne in Berchtesgarten. Good stuff.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/25/snake-island-captured-after-defiant-last-stand-by-ukrainian-soldiers/
Ed:
Also Ed, earlier:
Also Ed:
Ed:
Many of them – 700 000+ reportedly – are now newly minted Russian citizens.
BaffleGab.
Dover – It’s very well known that there’s a schism between the western ethnic Ukrainian part of Ukraine and the culturally Russian eastern part. Unfortunately there’s a winner-takes-all ethic in Ukrainian elections, which is why the western voters booted Yanukovych – who was close to Putin (and corrupt as, which in Ukraine isn’t unusual of course).
There’s a lot going for the idea that a nation and its boundaries should be culturally and/or demographically identified. Hungary tends in that direction. The Left hates the idea, hence bringing in hordes of country shoppers to denature cultural and demographic identity. Israel is stuck on the fence, irreconcilably divided between the Israeli Arab community and the Israeli Jewish community. I see a crack up in the future for that country.
Yeah, Breitbart is Controlled Opposition too.
So is Tucker Carlson, he cucked over Ukraine last night.
FMD, this place is hilarious.
Just when you thought the Cat was getting it’s act together after most contributors lost their shit over Covid and the original Cat closure along comes a Russian to make them lose their minds again.
History supports that – ‘artificial’ countries drawn with a pen generally fall apart over time: Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the old Greater India…
… Australia…
Our passports have already long used facial recognition and our voice is our ID with Govt Services etc.
We are well on the way.
While the world was making a noise about Canada ‘going there’, we’d already long ago ‘landed our advanced fleets’.
The Kulaks weren’t a race or ethnic group.
Voice recognition is unlikely secure anymore because of technology like Lyre Bird.
Elvis, how have some lost their minds?
Mine is present and accounted for, but I can’t speak for others.
Sadly, yes, we started with a unified country and spent the last 50 years Balkanising it.
As a (former) military officer, I have a question ‘ – If diversity is a strength, what are uniforms for?
Ukrainian kulaks were Ukrainian kulaks. Not for no reason that wheat cracked 900 yesterday.
The breadbasket is being fought over.
Seventy nine years ago the Russian tanks arrived in Kiev to force the Germans out. When they get back to Kiev this time maybe they should use their old T34s and call it a historical reenactment.
Liberation Memorial (T-34/85 Tank) Kiev
Not all.
Some got out with their families but yeah, they didn’t think much of the Commie Russians, especially after fighting with White Russians against them, so, while Westerners love to paint solidly racist pictures of Eastern Europeans, like all peoples everywhere, there are the good, bad, idiots & wise amongst them and the good & wise don’t take to being painted into black & white racist corners.
The Kulaks were just any peasant who’d worked hard and managed to acquire better tools or more horses than the others. Off to the wastes of Siberia with you, capitalist!
Indeed. How?
One for Eyrie.
AeroSHARK thin film reduces drag on airplanes (Phys.org, 25 Feb)
Sounds like great idea for sailplanes.
I haven’t lost my mind.
and,
If you believe Western(?) anonymous bloggers (who are still pushing WEF Covid BS), version of events, you are an imbecile.
This.
No, it’s not.
Commodities usually rise on rumors of War.
The State department deposed the elected Government and spent 8 years sending Arms to Ukraine which in turn shelled the Donbass for 8 years.
Now Germany has cancelled certification of Nordstream 2 and are back to buying Oil/Gas from the US.
Discounting all the lives lost in the Donbass since 2014, it’s been a win for the White House.
LOL.
Environmental impact of hand-sanitizing practices during the COVID-19 pandemic (25 Feb)
I suspect Gaia isn’t the only being who hates hand sanitizer, especially the ones that make you smell like a ponce.
Yep. The last time ‘Kiev’/EU/US Globalist monsters bombed the shit out of innocent Ukrainians for having the gall to live in the areas they wanted to carve up amongst themselves, half a million Ukrainians escaped straight into Russia where they were welcomed, and safe from their fellow countrymen.
Toxic Masculinity that feminists won’t complain about
It’s fairly normal to shell invaders of one’s country Ed. Who I might add shelled the Luhansk power station three days ago, without waiting for Vlad to give the H Hour go ahead.
Black Smoke Rises From Power Plant Hit by Shelling in Ukraine’s Luhansk Region (23 Feb)
Been saying it for two years.
Been tested for VAIDS yet?
What a guy.
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-ukraine-military-operation/31719680.html
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, who has in the past pursued close ties with Putin, also criticized Russia’s move against its smaller neighbor. “Together with our European Union and NATO allies, we condemn Russia’s military action,” he said in a video on Facebook.
Orban, whose anti-migrant policies have put him at odds with the EU, also said that the number of Ukrainian refugees approaching Hungary’s borders was likely to grow. He added that Hungary was “prepared to care for them and will be able to meet this challenge quickly and effectively.”
I’m glad to know if I go to the pub I won’t be bumping into Ed.
Struth, when I grow up I want t0 be an amalgam of Driller and yourself. You’re my heroes.
Just seems to be a fair proportion who have rolled over with the MSM depiction of Russia and the absolute black and white state of affairs as portrayed by the media.
I find that funny after all that has happened and been exposed over the last two years in particular.
Never, ever, hire a lawyer who has childish, foot stomping, school girl hissy fits.
Ed Casesays:
February 26, 2022 at 12:02 pm
The trouble, Ed, is that Ukrainians viscerally hate Russians and Russians hate Ukrainians
That’s more of your bullshit, Bruce.
They. are. the. same. fucking. people.
Ed, I’m seriously willing to pay your travel costs to the Donbass region right now so you can tell them all that.
welcome to 1986.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Riblets.html
Dot, I rarely agree wit you, but you nailed that one.
Bruce, Ukraine gave an undertaking to withdraw artillery from within range of Donetsk and Luhansk back in 2015 in an agreement sponsored by France and Germany after the original cease fire agreement of 2014 failed.
They’ve never honoured it.
They’re not the unsullied good guys portrayed by Western media.
And l’ve been saying it for 10…….. guns, gold n bitcoin…
Most of the commentary / insights / information posted here are pretty damn good
I like this one.
Stone age revolution gets Tanzania moving (24 Feb)
The bridges are pretty too, as well as being built from local stone. Victorian era engineers would be happy with them, I think, and in the future they’ll become fine tourist sites.
If you’re the big fucking dick in room, scare the shit out of the others by acting just a little on the crazy side.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/trump-talks-threatening-putin-mocking-merkel-at-mar-a-lago/
They’re not the unsullied good guys portrayed by Western media.
Wait, what?!?
It’s not just a land of happy farming folk with a unicorn fart powered factory for churning out hot euro blondes for the Wests consumption?!?
Yes you have, and no, Struth didn’t link to one of his old posts, but to Joe Rogan getting an education recently –
Maajid ??? ?????
@MaajidNawaz
STAY ON TARGET.
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1497347465053302789
If only to counter the disgusting pro Putin vomit that gets posted here.
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/putin-drawing-up-kill-list-of-gay-and-ethnic-minority-ukrainians-ahead-of-possible-invasion-us-claims/230697
A Malmo moment.
What say you, Ed?
Remember the the Mal-mo.
JC scoffing his way to complete irrelevence.
One thing I have noted is the information drying up, even on SM. Footage seems to be recycled from the opening day. I think both sides are trying to weave a narrative. Seen lots of footage of destroyed Russian equipment and a few POW’s but very little on the Ukrainian side whose loses IMO would be substantial especially with equipment which with the air superiority Russia enjoys would be very vulnerable.
Offensive on Kiev has just begun by the sounds, heavy gunfire heard round zoo, which is not far from the centre of the city. Wonder where the Ukrainian President is holed up? Hopefully away from Kiev.
Ed Casesays:
February 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm
This is from RT:
https://www.rt.com/russia/550603-snake-island-border-guards/
Russia says the entire 82 man garrison surrendered.
ROFLMAO! A completely unbiassed source! What do your Spook contacts tell you Dick?
I could tell you more about the sex life of plants…
Is that a pistil in your pocket?
Yeah, looks like Zelensky has fled the country, still talking tough while mercenaries[?] move missile batteries into the suburbs of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/550657-zelensky-video-message-kiev/ Comments are a hoot too.
Dick Ed
That’s more of your bullshit, Bruce.
They. are. the. same. fucking. people.
You don’t know any Ukrainians, do you?
Explains why Trump and Maladroit Blight Trumble Esq. never quite hit it off.
Ah yes, Russian Toady.
Yeah, not much anyone can do about that. I saw a couple stories that CNN have been doing on the ground reports, if so good on them. That’s what they used to be excellent at before they went into woke/TDS meltdown. But at present the signal to noise ratio everywhere is extremely low.
On the other hand anything from RT, TASS or the Chinese official news sites certainly isn’t going to resemble reality. You can bet your frilly panties on that.
Ed Casesays:
February 26, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Yeah, Breitbart is Controlled Opposition too.
So is Tucker Carlson, he cucked over Ukraine last night.
They’re all Spooks, aren’t they, Dick?
Here’s some o’ that Dottian reality:
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-dreadful-but-he-is-not-the-wests-biggest-threat-gb-news-nigel-farage-tells-cpac/235238
Yeah, Nigel Farage just cucked too.
Putin is [titter] “dreadful” but China is the real Baddie.
Only have the first of the three……….
Ukraine & Russia – Empires, countries, states, borders. Welcome to Europen history yesterday today tomorrow and something roughly the same the day after and after.
One of my grandfathers from a Tatra mountains village south of Krakow was killed at Rovno in 1915 at one of the battles by the Austro-Hungarian forces to keep Russia out of Ukraine – the eastern front of the Great War that isn’t talked about much in Australia.
SE Queensland.
Catchments saturated.
Road and rail links torn up.
Dams spilling.
System producing heavy rain parked overhead for the next 24+.
Will nobody think of Eurovision: Australia Decides?
However, as a client I reserve this right.
Was the ADF stumping up for Gender Reassignment Surgery when you exited, SpongeBob?
Or did you have to pay for it yourself?
See also:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/russian-military-takes-control-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant/
Putin is [titter] “dreadful” but China is the real Baddie.
All is clear now, Dick Ed is a Chyneze Spook!
On the accurate news problem, Rosie pointed out a good one this morning. It’s been widely reported that a “Russian tank” deliberately ran over a car. Rosie’s link to a StillGray tweet shows it was actually a Ukrainian APC that swerved and ran over the car. But what hasn’t been mentioned is that in the footage the APC has clearly been hit by a RPG just before it swerved. And a second RPG passes across the front of the vehicle an instant later. Who fired the RPGs? I have no idea. But being in an APC hit by one is no joke, and crossing the double yellow lines into oncoming traffic is understandable in such circumstances.
Ed Casesays:
February 26, 2022 at 1:38 pm
Was the ADF stumping up for Gender Reassignment Surgery when you exited, SpongeBob?
Or did you have to pay for it yourself?
It that the absolute best insult you can come up with Dick? Sad, low energy, try again.
How much gypsum did you snort this morning, Grigory?
Your ‘tarding is off the scale today.
The Russians and Chinese are as bad as each other, and you are a stooge.
guns, gold n bitcoin…
Missing last one. 🙁
and their opera.
“O Solanumio ….”
Bruce I have studiously kept away from MSM sources though the CNN footage wasn’t too bad. I was going on normal peoples tweets, videos which have dried up as the intensity of the conflict builds which is understandable.
Missiles surgically hitting installations and military equipment that are a lower threat to the public is a much different can of worms to a soldier within effective range of his IW with an itch trigger finger after being briefed that his enemy has armed every person from 16-60… Reckon most would be keeping heads well down.
A couple of “hot” rumours from the region:
The one and only An-225 super-heavy-lift aircraft has been reportedly either damaged or destroyed by a Russian attack, and
Radiation levels around Pripyat / Chernobyl are allegedly rising.
If some over-enthusiastic clown has dropped something nasty on the containment “shroud”, the “prevailing winds will distribute whatever gets out.
The “been there, done that” T-shirt to have, used to be, “Kiev was a Blast, 1986”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chernobyl/comments/bzi7n9/shirts_sold_in_86_after_chernobyl/
Could be re-issued with the current date.
We really don’t know what it is going on:
This.
No, they didn’t.
Solanum. O Sole Mio
geddit?
I find the war hawks promoting a ‘no fly zone’ over Ukraine particularly galling.
do you make your own Mong Bean juice or do you buy on the internet?
cheez
Gibberin’ McKibberin knows what to do about Vlad.
This headline, its real, its now, its 100% pure mong.
This is how we defeat Putin and other petrostate autocrats
Bill McKibben
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables
Russia has a pathetic economy – you can verify that for yourself by looking around your house and seeing how many of the things you use were made within its borders. Today, 60% of its exports are oil and gas; they supply the money that powers the country’s military machine.
And, alongside that military machine, control of oil and gas supplies is Russia’s main weapon. They have, time and again, threatened to turn off the flow of hydrocarbons to western Europe. When the Germans finally this week stopped the planned Nordstream 2 pipeline, Putin’s predecessor, Dmitry Medvedev , said, “Welcome to the new world where Europeans will soon have to pay 2,000 euros ($2,270) per thousand cubic meters!” His not very subtle notion: if the price of keeping houses warm doubles, Europe will have no choice but to fold.
Today, 60% of Russia’s exports are oil and gas. Control of oil and gas supplies is Russia’s main weapon
Finally, even the Biden administration – which has been playing its hand wisely in the lead up to the invasion – is constrained by oil and gas.
Imagine a UK, which instead of starting to ramp up war production instead shut down its factories producing war goods.
That effectively what the EU/US have done with their insane bans on exploiting their own energy resources.
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Imagine* a Europe that ran on solar and wind power: whose cars ran on locally provided electricity, and whose homes were heated by electric air-source heat pumps. That Europe would not be funding Putin’s Russia, and it would be far less scared of Putin’s Russia – it could impose every kind of sanction, and keep them in place until the country buckled. Imagine an America where the cost of gas was not a political tripwire, because if people had to have a pickup to make them feel sufficiently manly, that pickup would run on electricity that came from the sun and wind. It would take an evil-er genius than Vladimir Putin to figure out how to embargo the sun.
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Here he goes faster than the speed of Mong- achieving mongnitude of extraordinary purity and power.
But, here again, the example of the second world war is helpful – with the Axis in control of commodities like rubber, we quickly figured out how to mass produce substitutes.
*Hes an xpert in imagining.
Read the whole thing…. Its just so stupid.
You know what’s disgusting?
Being Pro-Biden & Clinton-still-have-them-by-the-balls, EU suckholing, ‘Kiev’ Govt that bombed the shit out fellow Ukrainians because that’s what suits the evil foreign arseholes who still run that shit show.
What’s even more disgusting is hiding behind the Western MSM demands that everyone hate Putin (BECAUSE he doesn’t want kids groomed into sexually active toddlers with UN CSE brainwashing), in order to keep pumping out propaganda in support of that den of snakes installed in ‘Ukrainian’ Govt.
Yeah, we all remember when the West’s Left/Current Govts all LOVED Putin UNTIL he stood up to the deviants after the children.
the joint’s completely Flannerated
Has Timmy or Al Gore visited QLD recently?
Putin doesn’t care about morals. He cares about the birthrate. He will kill you if you get in the way.
Haha, “Weepy” Bill McKibben has been in the forefront of this silly stuff for at least 15 years of my experience. This one a few days ago was fun though:
350.org Outed As White Supremacists (22 Feb)
Ouch, I need popcorn.
No, we don’t remember that, no one does.
Putin is a chap who will kill people to achieve his political outcomes.
That makes him a bad guy.
Whatever chaff is thrown around about goodies/baddies you can cling to “Will he order people killed to get an outcome he wants”.
Nah we do dot.
And it was also the moment fake libertarians like you suddenly became Putin deranged too.
Happened right before the winter Olympics there.
Just a few thoughts on the Russia/Ukraine situation:
I suspect Putin has moved to send a message to two different groups. Firstly, the Ukrainians. Putin has repeatedly expressed his wish that the countries that border Russia are friendly (Belarus) or at a minimum neutral (Ukraine). The Baltics do not seem to be a threat despite their EU membership, possibly because there is not a large Russian minority there. When I visited Tallinn in 2017, all signs were in English, Russian and Estonian. My then-husband and I entertained ourselves identifying buildings according to how they were built – the Soviet era ones were easy for him to spot. They were exactly the same as the ones in his adopted hometown of Kholmsk in the Russian Far East.
The Ukrainian cosying up to NATO has been an irritant to Putin for a long time and Western meddling in Ukrainian politics (Maidan 2014) has exacerbated the issue. I believe this will not be a protracted conflict but something short and sharp to remind the Ukrainians how easily Russia can roll through at any time. And rebuilding their now-destroyed infrastructure will probably occupy Ukrainian minds for a bit.
The second group these actions are directed at is obviously the West. Putin, I believe, feels he has played by the rules long enough for no result. He also knows the West has no stomach for a fight and, due to the irredeemably corrupt and stupid Biden administration, is somewhat dependent on Russian oil. Didn’t Blinken just announce that despite the invasion, America would continue to buy Russian oil?
And for those who say that Ukrainians and Russians are the same people, that is just ignorance of the highest order. Yes, they are all Slavs but it would be similar to saying that the Dutch and the Germans are one people. And nobody would seriously put that comment forward.
I don’t have a dog in this fight. My sons are half-Russian but do not feel any loyalty to the country of their father’s birth. They love the food, children’s cartoons they grew up with and Tchaikovsky. But that’s it. I just think of the people who were alive a few days ago and now are not, whether Russian or Ukrainian. War is a terrible thing.
Russians are not Western in their political thought or traditions. They went from the tsars to the communists to the oligarchs. They just have never had a system of liberal democracy. I am not sure why they have been put into the position of Western nemesis when China really does represent more of a threat on so many levels.
As to the kulaks, my ex-husband’s grandfather was a kulak from Pskov, west of Moscow. He saw the writing on the wall and moved to Siberia before being relocated forcibly, taking his wife and seven children with him. When she died, he married a woman who already had four of her own and proceeded to have four more, the youngest of whom became my mother-in-law. The poverty was so intense that they didn’t have enough warm clothing and footwear for all the children so they set up a system where some of the children went to school in the morning, came home, handed over the winter clothing and the second lot went to school for the afternoon. They often went hungry.
By the time my mother-in-law was born in 1949, her two eldest half-brothers had already perished in a tank battle in Lvov. They were in the same tank together and in the same company as their father who, despite his age, volunteered to fight in WWII. He witnessed their deaths.
Kiev live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ayv7DmYbOg
It’s 50 years old, but Phillip Knightley’s The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo is an invaluable backgrounder at times like this.
Basically, you can’t believe a damn thing the media reports about wars and rumours of wars, and sensible people never have, especially when conflicts are only just in their early stages.
What I’m waiting to see is an account of how the State Department’s Ivy League smarties thought they were doing just great when a pro-Moscow president got the shove and they went all gung-ho to get Ukraine into NATO and cock a snook at Putin. That, of course, would need to be put in context of the nexus of corruption binding Ukraine and Democrats, especially top Democrats’ kids.
But we’ll have to wait for the MSM to get around to that. Wait a long, long time.
WTF are you talking about you idiot?
I have never liked Putin.
You are living in a fantasy world.
11,500 US Troops into Poland by 5/2/22, and ready to deploy, no doubt more on the way.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-send-3000-additional-troops-poland-officials-say-2022-02-11/
Historical parallels?
No, can’t think of any?
Gorgeous spot on God’s earth, Dover, and an excellent contemplation for us. Thank you.
Areff, I came into this knowing absolutely zero about the tensions and pros and cons of the conflict.
But I did know rumours of the close ties between the Dems and Ukraine. About which the corrupt MSM has told me nothing substantial. That has informed my thinking like nothing else.
Someone asked, if Putin had an enemy killed, does that make him a “bad guy”? I think we may say the same about some of the movers and shakers in the land of the free also.
Is it okay to not “like” any of them?
Me.
Okaaaay
Lol
No Calli.
You cannot think for yourself. Pick Airstrip One or Eurasia!
What he said.
Caulfield racing. If your horse is leading with 500 to go, get in the queue.
However, as a client I reserve this right. 6 times.
Oh course!
Everyone has the right to chose to throw away their money, their business, their home, access to their children, whatever.
However, it would pay to keep in mind how many cats here would choose thusly, before choosing to trust any advice such cats keep insisting others take as gospel.
You can always be like Dot and shill for Zelensky.
Anyway
As much as the 2003 Gulf War was really about encircling Syria and Iran; this war and intervention in Syria are/were really about encircling Turkey.
You ridiculous, pathetic, delusional fucking scrag, USSR. You don’t have to be pro-Hiden nor Crooked to be anti-Putin. You really are a poisonous bush pig.
Spotted JC on his new motorbike.
Luzu,
thank you for your insight. Extremely informative and great to have some one with actual “dogs in the fight”, so to speak. Local knowledge. Thanks again. Sorry for your obviously recent marital bust-up. I empathise.
Most commenters were/are cautiously supportive of the Vaccines.
Those that weren’t are a tiny minority.
Similarly, most are cautiously supportive of US Foreign Policy, those that aren’t are a tiny minority.
Like having a rainbow flag over American embassies around the world?
Great post Luzu- thank you.
I am not sure why they have been put into the position of Western nemesis when China really does represent more of a threat on so many levels.
laziness, dishonesty, fear
Most commenters were/are cautiously supportive of the Vaccines.
Those that weren’t are a tiny minority.
Similarly, most are cautiously supportive of US Foreign Policy, those that aren’t are a tiny minority.
Remember kids.
Jenkim, not even once.
Sorry, Ed, but being from a common ethnic origin does not make Russians and Ukrainians one people. Maybe you’d like to say the same of the Germanic countries, say the Dutch and the Germans as per my example? I speak Russian as a second language so would expect Ukrainian to be difficult for me to understand. But it is the same for native Russian speakers such as my ex-husband.
Come on, Ed. You can do it. Given they’re all from Germanic origins, tell us again how the Germans, the Dutch and perhaps the Flemish are all one people. Because they are as closely linguistically and culturally linked as Ukrainians and Russians.
Thank you Luzu. Great post.
A question for all the amateur detectives here.
How big an entry wound does a shank make when it pierces the heart and the person ends up with cardiac tamponade?
Take your time. You have three minutes before the heart stops. Plenty of time.
Supplementary question:
How big an entry wound did Trotsky have when he met his end with an ice pick?
Sorry, peoples! I got suckered in by Head Cheese. It won’t happen again.
No.
Like deposing the elected Government of Ukraine in 2014, then funding and supplying an undeclared war on the Donbass for 8 years.
That US State Department Foreign Policy.
I love Tchaikovsky too
Ukraine and Russia Officials Negotiating a Meeting – Biden Administration Tells Zelenskyy to Stop, Only U.S. Permitted to Negotiate With Russia
February 25, 2022 | sundance | 130 Comments
Amid an intense conflict continuing, the government of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin are in negotiations for a meeting. However, the U.S. State Department does not want Zelenskyy and Putin to negotiate an end to hostilities.
Reuters – “Ukraine and Russia are discussing a place and time for talks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s spokesman said on social media on Friday. “Ukraine was and remains ready to talk about a ceasefire and peace,” spokesman Sergii Nykyforov added. (link)
Unfortunately for Zelenskyy an end to the fighting would be against the interests of the Biden administration. Highlighting the point, the U.S. State Department does not want Zelenskyy and Putin to meet. The Biden administration conveys a very telling message; from their perspective saying only United States is permitted to negotiate with Russia on behalf of Ukraine. Zelenskyy needs to stay out of it.
WASHINGTON: Russia’s offer for talks with Ukraine is an attempt to conduct diplomacy “at the barrel of a gun”, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Friday (Feb 25), saying Russia must stop its bombing in Ukraine if it is serious about diplomacy.
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/25/ukraine-and-russia-officials-negotiating-a-meeting-biden-administration-tells-zelenskyy-to-stop-only-u-s-permitted-to-negotiate-with-russia/
Thanks for posting Luzu.
How big was Trotsky’s head wound?
Look for yourself.
“The arrogance and controlling attitude by the U.S. State Dept tells us all we need to know really.
The Biden administration has created this crisis between Russia and Ukraine for a convenient purpose, and the White House is not about to let Zelenskyy screw it up and create peace.
The U.S. wants President Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine so the State Department can take full control over the narrative. Zelensky is refusing to leave.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/25/ukraine-and-russia-officials-negotiating-a-meeting-biden-administration-tells-zelenskyy-to-stop-only-u-s-permitted-to-negotiate-with-russia/
Groogs has really got it turned up to 11 today. I think he does it to impress his handlers when he’s on Saturday rates. Or too much mutton watching the Brittany tapes.
How sobering was this post???? Put simply, factually…..the essence of the tragedy that is the recent history of Russia and her neighbours.
One for Eyrie.
AeroSHARK thin film reduces drag on airplanes (Phys.org, 25 Feb)
Sounds like great idea for sailplanes.
welcome to 1986.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Riblets.html
Yeah, I bought some made by 3M in 1987 after the America’s Cup. I still have it. It never caught on back then.
May be difficult to clean and maybe on a sailplane the flow changes direction as the angle of attack changes due pilot inputs or turbulence perhaps resulting in more drag rather than less overall.
I note the latest iteration claims far more modest gains than the 1980’s NASA puff piece although a 1.1% reduction in drag adds up and the designers would probably sell their grandmothers for that. A jet airliner spends a lot of time in cruise at a known nearly constant angle of attack so the grooves may indeed help.
China’s corrupt military.
Two retweets from Poso –
Bow Group Patron Dr David Starkey with Mark Steyn
https://twitter.com/bowgroup/status/1497328417645203460
Tucker Carlson
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1497396638180069379
Indolent:
Excellent article.
This Canadian former Chief Justice shows very well where our governments are going wrong.
She wants Rights to be determined by Government and for them to supersede the Rights given to us by God.
The mental gymnastics she goes through shows just how dangerous her thinking is.
The post talked about events from 100 years ago [The Peasants War] to 1945 as if that has any relevance to what has happened the last 2 days.
I love Russian arts and crafts. The width and depth and breadth of talent there is breathtaking.
I doesn’t make me love Putin, or any other individual Russian.
Beertruk:
A copy of the book – less teeth marks – available here.