The bird in the Bentley certainly floats my boat.
Ukraine Crisis
He's quite safe.Trundle around China to Vladivostok at a leisurely 80kmh max. What the hell is Putin doing aligning himself with a recognised global nutcase? How desperate do you have to be to seek out a relationship with the World's biggest looney?
The reason the train is crawling, it's not the heavy armour that the North Koreans would have you believe, it's the amount of food loaded onto it to sustain the fat git.
700 miles of track to plant a bomb.
Cheers, I'll put that on my list for a night when there's bugger-all to trade.Kai wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:24 amYeah, The Interview was a fun watch years ago: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/
Incremental escalation init, the timings have to be right to minimize risk of further escalation, like a delicately balanced tug of war.
British Storm Shadow missiles have been wreaking havoc almost daily now, hitting targets like submarines and major HQ's in recent days, absolutely remarkable. But the slower the conflict the bigger the damage to the Russian war machine long term, they could take decades to recover from these losses.
How I imagine Putin's routine every morning
A year ago they were worried about getting dragged into a war with Russia. Those worries have probably disappeared now.
As Holly says, dunno, the damage report computer's been damaged.Kai wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:29 amIncremental escalation init, the timings have to be right to minimize risk of further escalation, like a delicately balanced tug of war.
British Storm Shadow missiles have been wreaking havoc almost daily now, hitting targets like submarines and major HQ's in recent days, absolutely remarkable. But the slower the conflict the bigger the damage to the Russian war machine long term, they could take decades to recover from these losses.
How I imagine Putin's routine every morning
Not sure it was worth it a year ago, would've cost too much political capital for minimal battlefield bottom line
I'm relatively content with the situation overall, Ukraine complaining they never get enough support is a good de-escalating narrative, and so is Elon Musk playing devil's advocate and giving Russia some hope for "peace" but all they do is send their army into the giant killzone that is Ukraine where it's being systematically destroyed by superior weaponry, even their equipment inside Russia is no longer safe