Africa: Cameroon and 2 other countries?

Seen several occurrences of Somalians fighting for the Russia.

In year 2000 Ukraine knew there will never be a war in Ukraine. In 2013 it still knew the same.

In 2013 Ukraine knew perfectly well that Poland will never attack it. Nor Hungary or Slovakia or Romania. And the most ridiculous thought was that Moldova would attack. Heh.

In 2013 Ukraine knew that if it was ever attacked by the aforementioned countries, the Russia would come for help.
In 2013 Ukrainians knew that the Russia has a powerful army.

Because they knew this, their army was a joke. They had tanks, but everything inside the tanks was stolen and sold on black market. “Military training” consisted of building huge “summer cottages” for the highest ranking officers. This made sense because there was no war to be seen. The only war there would ever be would be some Russian expeditional war, and the worse Ukrainian soldiers perform, the less likely they are to ever be sent to one of them. It became a virtue for the army to be bad.

There was no need to prepare for a war, therefore they didn’t.

And then the Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. It could do that because there was nobody to oppose it (except far-right extremists funded by the Russia itself, which is otherwise a hilarious turn of events, but made less comfortable by the fact that far-right extremists are a very bad thing in the long run)

But yeah. It’s good that Sweden has now decided not to be Ukraine of 2013, after all.

I don’t think he does thinking as complex as you describe.

I actually can.

The thing is, Vance is the same but without being a complete fecking moron. And if Trump dies, Vance will be POTUS. The same will continue, but in a way that is consequent. And horrible for the west.

I don’t think he said U.S. would back them up.

What he said was that it’s okay to do something bad to the Russia. I don’t think he has said anything like that since year 2019 or 2020.

He’ll flip-flop from it anyway, but like a curve that goes up and down and up and down but still has a rising trend, this also means that the lowest downs will be a bit higher up, and the highest ups will be a bit higher up as well.

It’s a promising trend. And still: The wave will soon reach another bottom. That’s how it goes with Trump.

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I wonder why he says that?

The Kursk operation made a huge difference in the Russia’s diplomatic position.
Without that, they could have done “an act of goodwill” and “agree to” a ceasefire with the front line as a de facto international border, then gather their strength for a year or two and attack Ukraine for good.

This would have enabled Trump to drive home a “peace” in under 100 days, at least if he had gotten Germany and France to join the plan. And there was a high likelihood that they would have done that, “in the name of peace.”

They couldn’t do that when part of the front was inside the territory of the Russian Federation.

I always understood the Kursk operation as the most crucial part of Ukraine’s front because it tied Putin’s hands diplomatically, making it impossible for the Russia to convince the west to stop arming Ukraine claiming that would be “in the name of peace”.

Now Trump has been president long enough that the momentum of “I’ll get them to make peace within 100 days or at least only a bit more” is gone, it’s not so important to have pieces of the Russia under Ukrainian rule.

Although, there’s also a secondary reason why that territory was good to have:
While the Russia did use its inhumane tactics of obliterating people’s homes even in Sudža, the intensity of that tactic was very visibly lesser than in Ukrainian villages. That meant, the Russia had to expend more soldiers in the fight than they would have expended in Ukraine. And then, when they do obliterate parts of a village, it’s a thousand times better that it’s a village in the Russia, not an Ukrainian village. They do that obliteration with all available resources and all resources spent for obliterating homes in the Russia are away from doing the same to Ukrainian homes.

I believe Zalužnyj has political reasons for saying it cost too much.

A container container container? Obviously, the planet Earth is a container for the oceans.

Or, to be more specific, a container container.

(Yeah. Just let the buffalo buffalo. Whatever.)

You still can ;)

It also contains containers!

Actually it’s Euros to a barrel.

It does take a while to join all the communities you were subscribed to from your old instance, but I don’t think it took close to an hour. Of course, my new instance accepting my application did take its time. And I think that was several hours. But still: You give a few details today and continue tomorrow by subscribing to a bunch of communities.

I mostly agree with your comment, but want to nitpick about this part:

Fediverse is what it is because the people running the servers choose to do things a certain way.

This one is something I must disagree with. I’m using the instances (servers) I am precisely because the people running those servers choose to do things in a certain way. If they did them in a different way, I would be on a different server. In the Fediverse it is extremely easy to vote with your feet. The admins have very free reign over their instances, but that doesn’t mean that they have a free reign over the users of their instances.

This is only a booster part of the missile, not the whole missile. It is full of fuel, until the fuel is all spent. Then the part is dropped away so that it wouldn’t be unnecessary extra weight.

The Russia has had a tradition of telling about drones hitting targets as “shot down” and being quiet about drones shot down, because they don’t want to show how many drones really attacked.

I don’t really know why they have elected to tell the amount of targets succesfully hit as “shot down”, but maybe they think we won’t notice?

Here goes one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW

I’d really like to read more about this. Nobody is telling how this regional train caught fire. There are mentions of a substation being burned, so did this train just end up stopping next to the substation and caught fire? Somebody on Supernova+ was saying:

Там пожар прямо на ж/д на карте НАСА чуть севернеее Стародеревянской и Каневской

So, they’re saying that a little bit nortwards of the train there’s a fire right next to the railway. That suggests this train rode into a fire that had ignited earlier. What is the precise location where this train was caught on this video?

At the same time when Ukraine is gaining village after village from the Russia? I think I know a reason why the Russia wants to make such claims as the one referred to in this post :)

This needs to be fixed. For example by adding a random waiting time before making the request.