Not sure any of them are capable of running a McDonalds, irrespective of how many stars they have. It wont be long before they have to put a general in charge, that was a corporal at the start of the special operation. :}

kind of sad that Chester's magnificent song now sounds like a lament for this disaster of hubris over substance, to our inability to stop the depravity of a single sociopath, all because the UN declines to do their damned job.

This is for us...

"well, I do."

Sorry for interrupting bridge debate but another two Zuzana howitzers were delivered to Ukraine. Brand new from factory (photo from FB of Slovak minister of defence J. Naď).


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:E

A few months back, @TrentTelenko posted a great question (see below). The possible answer is somewhat unexpected – according to an L/DNR Telegram blogger, civilian vehicles are being used because all the military tires have been stolen and sold. A 🧵

Speculation that Russia sabotaged German railway network
 

https://www.focus.de/panorama/bahn-s...162148261.html

The rail network in N Germany was paralysed for half a day when two fibre-communication cables - hundreds of kilometres apart -were severed. The article speculates that this could be another Russian warning ( like Nordstream pipeline ) that lots of European infrastructure is vulnerable. This action obviously required a lot of technical knowledge and operatives over a significant area, so unlikely to be extremist weirdos.

Aviation content
In Rostov on 9th October a RuAF SU-24 made a forced landing, pilots ejected and safe.

Interesting bit is that the Russian media that reports it says that "Presumably, the emergency situation occurred due to the long service life of the aircraft, due to outdated characteristics and capacities, it did not reach the airfield."

Are the russkies really running out of spares and updated aircrafts? Was this some sort of soviet era storage piece although they are claiming long service life? And they are really saying all this out loud? Short article but what is unsaid makes it interesting.

https://rostovgazeta.ru/news/2022-10...yabrya-1632867

The TV tower in Moscow is burning and it looks like Barad-Dur.


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Those naughty smokers just seem to get everywhere.....:E

One way of stopping people knowing what’s going on.

I assume smokers will be blamed?

Agreed. there is however astonishing resilience in 20th and 21st century advanced countries. A major example of this was the substantial functioning of Germany in 1944 and 1945, despite the necessity to fight on three fronts and with a homeland pounded from the air.
Which thought does not encourage me to store photos on Cloud.
Keep folding money to hand, retain a telephone landline, a full tank of petrol. and back up to an external hard drive in a Faraday cage!

That said, one does hope that reasonable precautions are in hand: Germany was not an obvious target for wrath, given its less than enthusiastic support of Ukraine.

Ostakino Tower -27 August 2000

YS

While the cat’s away…..

Turkey is delivering NATO class armoured vehicles to Georgia

Russia views the transfer of modern weaponry to Georgia negatively and claims it threatens to destabilize the South Caucasus

Tough luck!
I wonder when will Russia (namely the TV mouthpieces) finally fully realise how big they f***'ed up?!
Ho do you get to have a small Empire? By starting with a big one...

Putin appears to not realize that he has done wonders to cause fragmentation of his "PutterReich" through the abuse of his subordinate states, destruction of the Russian military, and the global presentation of the quality of Russian strategic and tactical management, excellence in logistics, and the fine design of Russian military hardware. Eritrea seems to remain a sole impressed acolyte state. And North Korea, where at least their leader hasn't gone bald yet. :}

Empires
 

That is the most aviation related matter that has been posted since late February...! And it alludes to military adventurism, and they have an airforce, they had an airforce, so it is on topic! Kudos!:ok:

:sad:

Things are getting grim when you have to use video from a Trump rally to back up your case.... I suspect the Russkies have no clue how most Americans view Trump's spewage. These Russkie talk shows are both terrifying and humorous. fdr, do Russians really believe this stuff?

:}

I have no idea, however, they are heading towards the following symptoms across the whole Gulag Archepelago

Have you suffered from:

• Feeling uncomfortable before doing something or making a decision?
• Trying to justify or rationalize a decision you've made or action you have taken?
• Feeling embarrassed or ashamed about something you've done and trying to hide your actions from other people?
• Experiencing guilt or regret about something you've done in the past?
• Doing things because of social pressure or a fear of missing out (FOMO), even if it wasn't something you wanted to do?
• Are there new Lada's lining the street of your village?
• Is your undertaker driving a late model Range Rover?
• Are the contents of your toilet looking better than the offerings at the supermarket?
• Are there any 18-65 year old males in your Oblast?
• Is the Mighty Russian Army absent from your state?

If so, you may be suffering from the Russian plague of Cognitive Dissonance, "do you believe Putin or your lyin' eyes?"

IMHO

The Russians I worked with were very happy to relocate their family and themselves to locations outside of Russia. One or two remained in Russia, and I hope their sons did not stay. One's daughter spoke 10 different languages, and was delightful. I hope she is in any other country that she could talk their language. She could go anywhere though, and speak like a native in a day or two. My Russian friends are very quiet now, and that is the way it has to be, they have a vindictive pathological government, and have had for centuries. They do have vodka though.

P.S.: While it is easy to demonise Russia, there are some true, visionary, patriots who understand the damage that the junta of Putin is imposing on Russia. The history of totalitarianism with the attendant violence towards it's own people have subjugated much of Russia and the client states to cattle, as the former Colonel in this video said to the police when they were picking up protesters against the incarceration of Alexi Navalny once again on 2nd February 2021. At least 100 Protesters were carted off for an intimate education of the benevolence of the Putin regime.

Navalny had more than 30% of the population in Moscow vote for him, in spite of Putin and his repugnant fascho-criminal regime. There are heroes within Russia, but they have to act in unison to bring down the man who has single handedly brought Russia to this time and place in their current condition.

Looks like it is the Oktod Tower, not the Shukhov Tower. That is deffo an own goal, there is just no way the Ukrainians got a semi truck up there by themselves. It may be the antenna coupler couldn't stand the BS any more and committed electrical seppuku. Hopefully it took Vladimir Solovyov off air... The tortology that he employs suggests that he never had a cat called Schrodinger!

Lightning strike? §25. 581, §25.1316? [barely aviation content]

IMHO :}

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