Русский корабль - иди нахуй

[Vintner 27]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Need to get this guy on BlueSky because fuck Twitter and Twitter embeds are absolute shit these days

On a road in the Zaporizhzhia region— the region where Russia continues to hold a nuclear power plant hostage — a Russian FPV drone attacked an @iaeaorg convoy tasked with ensuring nuclear safety worldwide. The strike targeted one of the convoy’s vehicles. Fortunately, there were no casualties or injuries.
This attack clearly demonstrated how Russia treats anything related to international law, global institutions, and safety. The Russians could not have been unaware of their target; they knew exactly what they were doing and acted deliberately.

This attack demands a clear and decisive response, both from the IAEA and from other international partners. Silence or inaction will only embolden further violations.

I just sold our Land Cruiser. Maybe that was a mistake given how well this one held up? 

[Parliament 14479]

1 hour ago, Vintner said:

I just sold our Land Cruiser. Maybe that was a mistake given how well this one held up? 

Holds up better than a Russian T90.  Japanese technology.  Glad they're on our side.

[Nivek 17290]

Why would they not strike the launchers?  Biden is out soon and their aid will be cut-off.  

[KYHorn 17483]

Ruble back on track to failure

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[Parliament 14479]

Too the moon!

[tx 3 putt 78273]

lulz ‘suicide’ is never the answer

 

 

[NorthLoop 14397]

That's a weird video - I can see the shadow but don't see him actually falling. 

[MissingInAction 25426]

20 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

That's a weird video - I can see the shadow but don't see him actually falling. 

He hits the roof on the left.

[Parliament 14479]

Is that what killed him?

[Saint Austin 756]

Looked like an already-dead body being shoved out of the window.

[InkaUtexas 26712]

And they just happened to have cameras ready.

[Chopper 17410]

On 12/8/2024 at 4:32 PM, Bevo said:

 

What did Tom Cruise take over besides Monica Barbaro and Jennifer Connelly?

Adding: Oprah's sofa.

[Pescado_Rojo 19530]

3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Is that what killed him?

I think the 9mm hole in the back of his head is what killed him

[General Specific 3419]

That sudden deceleration after the fall didn’t help!

[Eskimohorn 5663]

lulz ‘suicide’ is never the answer
 
 

He didnt slip on his tea, did he?

[KYHorn 17483]

Russian Telegram channels publish news that a senior official responsible for developing missiles and drones used to attack Ukraine was allegedly shot dead in Moscow.

Mikhail Shatsky was a deputy director of Russia's Mars design bureau and was involved in modernizing guided missiles from Kh-59 to Kh-69 and developing new drones.

Russian journalist Aleksandr Nevzorov claims Ukraine's military intelligence conducted the operation and an assassinator fled the crime scene.

Edited 3 hours ago by KYHorn

[Bevo 13776]

Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think

Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard10 December 2024 3:45pm GMT

 

Vladimir Putin’s loss of a key regional ally in Bashar al-Assad has weakened Moscow at a crucial moment Credit: VALERY SHARIFULIN/AFP

Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a roughly equal pace. The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a high-intensity war and nobody will lend Vladimir Putin a kopeck.

Russia’s overheated, military-Keynesian war economy looks much like the dysfunctional German war economy of late 1917, which had run out of skilled manpower and was holed below the waterline after three years of Allied blockade – as the logistical failures of the Ludendorff offensive would later reveal.

Putin’s strategic victory in Ukraine was far from inevitable a fortnight ago and it is less inevitable now after the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards, shattering Putin’s credibility in the Middle East and the Sahel. He could do nothing to save his sole state ally in the Arab world.

“The limits of Russian military power have been revealed,” said Tim Ash, a regional expert at Bluebay Asset Management and a Chatham House fellow.

Turkey is now master of the region. Turkish forces had to step in to rescue stranded Russian generals. Even if Putin succeeds in holding on to his naval base at Tartus – a big if – this concession will be on Ottoman terms and sufferance. “Putin now goes into Ukraine peace talks from a position of weakness,” said Mr Ash.

When Trump won the US elections in 2016, corks of Golubitskoe Villa Romanov popped at the Kremlin. There were no illusions this time. Anton Barbashin from Riddle Russia says Donald Trump imposed 40 rounds of sanctions on Russia, belying his bonhomie with Putin before the cameras. He has since warned that Putin will not get all of the four annexed (but unconquered) oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.

The Kremlin had banked on a contested election outcome in the US, followed by months of disarray that would discredit US democracy across the world. The polite interregnum has been a cruel disappointment.

Barbashin says Russia’s leaders expect Trump to issue ultimatums to both Kyiv and Moscow: if Volodymyr Zelensky balks at peace terms, the US will sever all military aid; if Putin drags his feet, the US will up the military ante and carpet-bomb the Russian economy.

That economy held up well for two years but this third year has become harder. The central bank has raised interest rates to 21pc to choke off an inflation spiral. “The economy cannot exist like this for long. It’s a colossal challenge for business and banks,” said German Gref, Sberbank’s chief executive.