Originally Posted by
ORAC
Video….💥🔥 In Moscow, the premises of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, where Su series aircraft are developed, are on fire.
I guess that they will, in an act of revenge, set fire to Boeing HQ and Airbus HQ.
Originally Posted by
ORAC
In our audit of the DoD’s revaluation of support provided to #Ukraine, we found that the DoD did not comply with federal law and overvalued defense articles provided to Ukraine by $1.9 billion. To learn more, read our report here:
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking some real money!
At least the supply of irony is unlimited in Russia.
"This is the last peaceful proposal from our side".
...golly. Russian MIR at work.
I am glad to see you back since I'd not "seen" you for a bit. As you are old I was afraid that maybe you had become dead; am most pleased that this is not the case.
There's another way to read this.
That they intend to ratchet it up to WMD (first gas...)
I am not sure, but that is one way to see the signal they are sending.
It also might be bluster.
Putin made first public ceasefire proposal to Ukraine/NATO1. must withdraw from Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhya and Kherson
2. Ukraine’s refusal to join NATO
3. Nuclear-free status of Ukraine
4. All sanctioned on Russia lifted
5. New territories and Crimea are forever with the Russian Federation
I think that this is called "an opening position" in a negotiation.
Remember how many years the Paris Peace Talks went on (over Viet Nam) and how many positions were offered and taken down?
(FWIW, have you ever been involved in a labor/management dispute? Similar tactics are used ...)