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Crowd funding to buy ex British Spartans for Ukraine... they raised the money to buy all 60 in 1.5 days!
In just nine hours, the Prytula Foundation raised $5.5m from private donors to buy 50 FV103 Spartans used by the British Army |
Missing Moskva sailors declared dead by a Sevastopol court.
Wonder how that will go down in the Kremlin… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...468833794.html |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11325342)
Slightly related.
Sounds like ideal Russian troop accommodation… Poland seizes ‘completely devastated’ complex rented by Russian embassy ‘The Russians have destroyed everything, even cables are torn from the walls,’ a Polish official says. Expect that no one is going to be offering Russia any real estate any time soon given their attitude to other peoples property, including the property of Ukraine. Russia has gone out of it's way to behave badly, and then they wonder why they are considered to be a bunch of hooligans led by a criminal. |
https://wartranslated.com/russian-re...axes-in-blood/
Russian regions pay their taxes in blood Summary of Dmitry Oreshkin (Russian political scientist) interview on Populiarnaia Politika – a discussion on Putin’s nuclear blackmail, shifting responsibility to the regions and Ksenia Sobchak (Putin’s goddaughter who became a suspect in a criminal case of extortion of money and left Russia)….. Excerpt….. End of the federation and return to the feudalism The Russian economy is in shambles and now the financing of the regions is being cut dramatically, with the regions expected to pay taxes to the federal fund and solve all their own problems. Of 85 regions only 20 are profitable or at least do not require constant subsidies to run the local economy and social program. In the Russian “federal” system the regions don’t have a say in the funding assignment and money re-distribution. The Russian system is indeed transitioning from pseudo-federal to a fully feudal system – rich regions are paying taxes in money that is then distributed between Kremlin and Putin’s favourite vassals, e.g. Kadyrov. At the same time the poor regions, such as Tuva or Buryatiya pay their taxes to Moscow in blood – sending men to the war with Ukraine. “This is not federalization, but an attempt to return to what is called a dual political regime in terms of medieval chiefdoms” At the same time while federal funding is cut to the minimum regional governors need not only to find funds to keep the lights on, to compensate for inflation, sanctions and mass removal of the workforce (either through mobilization or people fleeing Russia) but also to fulfil newly assigned “rebuilding” of the annexed territories. Each region of Russia and the large city was obligated to chip in and fund the “reconstruction” of cities destroyed by the Russian army, such as Mariupol. This brutal system of economic and social injustice can lead people from Bashkiria or Dagestan to start asking themselves a question: “do Why we get no money from the federal budget for our region, yet we are the first to be sent to die on the frontlines…… |
The disintegration of Russia itself will be the bigger war coming up. The regions will want to keep their own raw material incomes which ends the central governments income and power and so on.
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Dugin says it is a holy war and I agree..
Their plan was full of holes Their supply lines are full of holes Their army manning is full of holes Their tactics are full of holes A lot of their troops are now full of holes A lot of their armour, ships and aircraft are now full of holes A Holy war it is!! |
Nutloose re your burning ship above with 600 cars, and the Japanese doing nothing to help, do you have any further links? It sounds very uncharacteristic, and I can find nothing to back up this story.
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Originally Posted by jolihokistix
(Post 11325425)
Nutloose re your burning ship above with 600 cars, and the Japanese doing nothing to help, do you have any further links? It sounds very uncharacteristic, and I can find nothing to back up this story.
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Less Hair, that looks like it. Many thanks.
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Originally Posted by Timmy Tomkins
(Post 11325295)
I will second that
It is always disturbing to me to read analysts stating Kherson will be taken by XYZ because the RF is suffering.It is not a small city and what citizens remain are suffering a lot more than russian soldiers. My friend there managed to get out , she had stayed there to look after her elderly parents, but one day 2 FSB officers and 3 troopers knocked on her door not so politely seeking 'information' ( Her name was on a list because of her job) so she decided to run after they beat her up. It took her 5 days to reach Zaporizhia via Melitopol . This was a few days before all crossing points to Ukraine territory were closed on 28 September. She had to spend 4 weeks in hospital, ( mainly from preexisting conditions not treated for 6 months, but she still has pain from the broken fingers) but she is safe now. There are many people left who never had the resources or wit to leave the city and they suffer more and more every day. Interesting point that she brought up , that I did not see mentioned anywhere, clearly she went through many many checkpoints to reach safety. At only the checkpoints manned by Buryats and Kalmiks people's dogs were being confiscated, as she said to be eaten. |
Kitting out the Ukrainian trainees, nice to see we are looking at 19000 now with almost 9000 have been through the system already.. It makes you proud of the MOD doing this and all the other countries participating in their training.
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Surprised the captured T90M is in service with Ukraine, One would have thought it would have been shipped elsewhere for examination.
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Ha ha! Last time we had snow like that we all got the day off school :-)
Edit: At least we'll still be able to afford clothes... |
Impressive…..
US approve another military package for Ukraine worth 400 million USD. It includes: - 250 units of M1117 - 1100 units of Phoenix Ghost drones - MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems - 40 armored boats - 45 T-72 MBTs The Pentagon says today that US is paying for the Czech defense industry to refurbish 45 T-72 tanks to be delivered to Ukraine and Netherlands is paying for another 45. Those 90 tanks will "the most advanced on the battlefield" dept. press secretary Sabrina Singh says |
Originally Posted by pasta
(Post 11325499)
Ha ha! Last time we had snow like that we all got the day off school :-)
Edit: At least we'll still be able to afford clothes... Meanwhile his cooker will have packed up long ago due to the lack of Western spares to pump the gas from the refinery, and his Internet will be cut off from the West forcing him too listen to Margarita Simonyan on the only radio station still permitted, telling them all they will be better dead than happy. |
Gen Ben Hodges talks to Jake Broe ( YouTuber ) about the whole war
45 minutes of very interesting insight from the former commander of US troops in Europe. |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11325487)
Surprised the captured T90M is in service with Ukraine, One would have thought it would have been shipped elsewhere for examination.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status...DRsavW3IssAAAA |
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