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Blow up the whole freaking Kremlin. If that despot is going to keep targeting civilians in Kyiv then get all of your active folks in the field to light that place up like the 4th of July. Nothing and no one in that country should feel safe.

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9 minutes ago, Parliament said:

You wonder how good the Kremlin’s air defenses REALLY are…

Considering how Ukraine is getting drones in pretty easily... I'm guessing not great. 

Hell, there's a legendary Cold War story of a West German student that flew his single engine plane straight into the Kremlin and landed on Red Square. Their organizational efficiency is so dog shit they're a nationalized swiss cheese failure model

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15 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

"Brisketexan stopping at merely marrying and occasionally pleasing his wife before he seduced Sela Ward, Hayley Atwell, Elizabeth Hurley, and Susanna Hoffs is a pretty big concession by Brisketexan."

You're fucking old

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14 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Russia has a huge supply of manpower to force to the front.  

I wouldn’t count on Putin running out of gas he will continue to throw everything they have at it and their economy isn’t as close to collapsing as we would all like it to be. 

Counterpoint: Russia is out of armor, their logistics are as bad as ever, the men they push to the front are still untrained and moving from tree line to tree line on scooters, and they still can’t conduct night operations. F16s are now being used offensively near the front, Russia just lost a 264,000 ton ammunition depot near Moscow, Ukraine has started using a longer range USV with torpedoes and SAMs increasing their dominance of the Black Sea, Saudi is about to produce more oil further driving down prices. If we’d just sell Ukraine the patriot batteries they want to buy, Russia would have basically no success to point to. 

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17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

"Brisketexan stopping at merely marrying and occasionally pleasing his wife before he seduced Sela Ward, Hayley Atwell, Elizabeth Hurley, and Susanna Hoffs is a pretty big concession by Brisketexan."

You certainly have a type.

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7 hours ago, Parliament said:

You wonder how good the Kremlin’s air defenses REALLY are…

7 hours ago, Captainant said:

Considering how Ukraine is getting drones in pretty easily... I'm guessing not great. 

Hell, there's a legendary Cold War story of a West German student that flew his single engine plane straight into the Kremlin and landed on Red Square. Their organizational efficiency is so dog shit they're a nationalized swiss cheese failure model

The Kremlin's air defenses are probably really good at this piont....at the expense of the rest of Russia, which is why Ukraine is lighting up plenty of places deep into Russia.

It's when they get the drone thing down in regard to flying under the radar (literally), or when they can overwhelm the air defenses, that it gets interesting.

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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

It's when they get the drone thing down in regard to flying under the radar (literally), or when they can overwhelm the air defenses, that it gets interesting.

I watched a recent bit of journalism from one of the drone shops in Lviv that's churning out thousands of kamikaze FPV drones every month - they've got new tech running on the drones that allows a pilot to "mark" a target or the thing they're trying to hit so the drone will keep tracking even if EW severs the link to the pilot.

 

Along those lines it doesn't seem like a stretch to program some visual/intertial guidance for a swarm of drones to fly in at 100 AGL. Lord knows the topography data is available and definitely fits onto an SD card

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Gee, ya think?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/world/europe/trump-pope-francis-funeral.html?smid=url-share

President Trump met privately with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday in Vatican City, the first time the two leaders have met since their televised argument in late February in the Oval Office exacerbated the deep breach between the two countries.

The meeting took place in St. Peter’s Basilica, the two men perched on metal chairs, deep in conversation for several minutes as they waited for the funeral for Pope Francis to begin. A White House spokesman, Stephen Cheung, called it a “very productive discussion,” but gave no details.

It came at a critical moment. The United States has presented Ukraine with a plan for a cease-fire in its war with Russia, leading to a postwar plan that would give Russia de facto control over all of the lands it has illegally seized since the invasion began three years ago. The proposal also includes a major reversal of American policy: a formal recognition by the United States that Crimea, seized by Moscow in 2014, is now Russian territory.

Mr. Zelensky said this past week that Ukraine would never make that concession, noting that it would violate Ukraine’s Constitution; most of the other nations in Europe would almost agree with Mr. Zelensky’s view. But the Ukrainian leader has a counterproposal of his own, Ukrainian officials said, one that would end the conflict on far less generous terms for Russia, and would include billions of dollars in reparations for Ukraine, paid by Russia.

The White House did not respond to queries about the specifics of the meeting in Vatican City. But it was a remarkable scene: an impromptu meeting between two men who have made no secret of their deep dislike and distrust for each other. In the minutes after they last saw each other, Mr. Zelensky was essentially evicted from the White House, a lunch for the two men left uneaten and an economic accord allowing the United States to help exploit much of Ukraine’s minerals left unsigned.

President Trump, left, sits in a red and gold chair across from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, also sitting in a red and gold chair.

The meeting at the Vatican came just as Mr. Trump was trying to push Mr. Zelensky and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia into direct talks. “They are very close to a deal,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social late Friday, after landing in Rome. “The two sides should now meet, at very high levels, to ‘finish it off.’”

His enthusiasm may be premature. The proposal turned out by the Trump administration and Mr. Zelensky’s alternative showed a huge gap even on the question of what the Russians should be offered. And neither of the proposals meet several of Mr. Putin’s demands, including that the size of Ukraine’s military be sharply limited.

Mr. Zelensky posted a positive-sounding description of the meeting on X that made clear that he had learned one lesson from his Oval Office encounter: Always show gratitude, even if he and Mr. Trump differ significantly on the terms for ending the war.

“Good meeting,” he wrote, saying that among the points covered were “full and unconditional ceasefire,” and a “reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out.” The last was particularly important: Mr. Trump’s proposal has only vague security guarantees for Ukraine. The Ukrainian proposal is far more specific, calling for a European peacekeeping force with the U.S. providing backup.

“Very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results,” he wrote, careful to use the word “potential.” He ended with: “Thank you @POTUS.”

Since his inauguration, Mr. Trump has made clear that he wanted his first trip overseas in this term to be to the Middle East, starting with Saudi Arabia, the site of his initial visit during his first term in office. But on Saturday morning, he was in Europe, making his way to Vatican City to pay his respects at the pontiff’s funeral.

As the ceremonies began, Mr. Trump was surrounded by European leaders he has been denouncing as freeloaders unwilling to pay their share of the continent’s defense, and leaders of the European Union, which he said was “formed in order to screw the United States.”

On his way to Italy on Friday, Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he was attending the funeral “out of respect” for Francis, noting, “I won the Catholic vote.”

The seating plan released by the Vatican had guests seated in their group in alphabetical order based on their country’s name in French. That put Mr. Trump in the front row between the leaders of Finland and Estonia — two countries deeply worried about Russia’s “shadow war” against their countries — and just down from President Emmanuel Macron of France. Mr. Trump, Mr. Macron and Mr. Zelensky all chatted briefly before the services began.

Mr. Trump’s every handshake and conversation at the funeral was watched for meaning. He briefly greeted Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, who was sitting a few chairs down from Mr. Trump. White House reporters traveling with the president, but kept at a considerable distance, reported that the two appeared to chat, funereal protocols aside. In the past three months, Ms. von der Leyen was conspicuously absent from the leaders visiting the White House.

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https://www.threads.com/@_nickmelnick/post/DI6fPkWoWxJ?xmt=AQGz1bPMpCWHLqN5-5JnIyqnPT4dqhQ0LFND5qVCh7IX8Q

The Russians sent a captured American M113 APC, taken from the Ukrainian army, 9,000 kilometers to Komsomolsk-on-Amur to display it at an exhibition and showcase their fake "greatness."
🤯While a four-year-old boy was examining the vehicle, the rear hatch of the APC fell off and killed the child. His body was simply covered with a plastic lid.
The quintessence of modern Russia.

 

https://www.threads.com/@kyivindependent_official/post/DI6RhH_IWRa?xmt=AQGz1bPMpCWHLqN5-5JnIyqnPT4dqhQ0LFND5qVCh7IX8Q

️ Interpol investigates Russian company for human trafficking over African workers in Tatarstan drone factory.
Interpol in Botswana began investigating Alabuga Start, billed in Africa as a work-study program in Russia for "ambitious young women" but linked to the production of military drones, for possible involvement with human trafficking, Bloomberg reported on April 25.

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