Originally Posted by fdr (Post 11310725)

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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.

Originally Posted by fdr (Post 11310730)

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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Originally Posted by fdr (Post 11310725)

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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.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1578893319119450112

Originally Posted by MarcK (Post 11310765)

I don't know which tower was burning, but it certainly doesn't look like this one.

Originally Posted by ORAC (Post 11310633)

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


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Originally Posted by MarcK (Post 11310775)

I didn't see that picture. I was thinking of this one. Are all of Moscow's TV towers subject to self-immolation?

Originally Posted by Gargleblaster (Post 11310839)

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/he...af-stroemsvigt (in Danish):

The power supply, via sub-sea cable from Sweden to the Danish island of Bornholm was ruptured this morning. Sabotage ? If so, guess by whom...

Originally Posted by MarcK (Post 11310775)

I didn't see that picture. I was thinking of this one. Are all of Moscow's TV towers subject to self-immolation?

Originally Posted by Beamr (Post 11310877)

if turns out to be sabotage against Danish power grid by the usual suspects, Stoltenberg has already announced NATOs stance towards attacks against critical infrastructure.This should be interesting.

Originally Posted by ORAC (Post 11310901)

This has major implications, I would suggest Poland and the Baltic states may well take some sort of action - closing their borders being the least.

BREAKING: Russia and Belarus agreed to deploy a joint "regional group of troops"

Originally Posted by TWT (Post 11310927)

Timing is a bit suspicious of course but subsea cables, whether optical or HV or hybrids of
both do break on a regular basis around the world due to many causes
(subsea avalanches, ships dragging anchors etc..) so might be a bit premature
to jump to conclusions at this stage.