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This is the end my friend!
You idiot just activated South Korea and possibly Japan too!…

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....85291adad.jpeg
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That's a natural for a forthcoming caption competition....

The relationship of Viet-Nam with other countries is a fascinating study of a country that has pride in being an independent state. I would imagine that Vlad wasted the remaining LLPs on his ride to drop into Hanoi.

The Viet constitution that was introduced by HCM is a veritable copy & paste of the US Constitution... and they appear to be able to read it slightly better than many in the US Capitol. VN never sat well with the other communist block countries, HCM was after aid from the US against the continued colonial land grab of France at the end of Round II, and that sadly led to the 30,000 days of sadness and a lot of trauma. VN has nothing much to gain from Russia, they are an energy exporting nation, they have issues with China's continuing lunacy in the SCS and arbitrary land grabs that Russia has zero leverage to assist with, Russia is in fact also likely to be conceding turf to China which is around 200 years late (not an Alaskan or Louisiana land sale like event).

VN is a commercially oriented nation of entrepreneurs, and it prefers development towards a western like system rather than the 16th century bog dwelling desires of the Kremlin which looks cck fondly to the age of empires pre sanitation, to which Vlad has at least assisted Russia achieving a similar sanitary standard as they had in the dark ages, a little less in the land grab departments.

Doubt that Vlad has anything that interests VN. The news this week that the MYS PM suggests joining BRIC is of greater curiosity, something must be off in the rendang there, or too much durian in the air. If anyone can explain how that assists MYS in any manner please PM me (my MYS friends are just shaking their heads in confusion on that one).

NK signing a pact with the Tzar will open up responses from the Blue House in Seoul and the National Diet in Tokyo, and apart from increasing the amount of mud churning that will occur in the criminally occupied lands in eastern Ukraine, will hasten the next collapse of NK. NK is not a friend of China, and China has its own manner of dealing with the problem child of its creation on its border, while dealing with a major Japan 80's style bubble burst in progress.

Not dull, but NK is no winner in this and Vlad doesn't delay the inevitable collapse of the RF by more than minutes by gaining rusty timex offerings from Kim's house of ill repute.

Not dull at all.

24 FEB 2022.

UNC §51 made it one on that day, the preamble of the charter spells out the intent of the UN membership to be morally obliged to support a nation under aggression from another, the fact that the UNSG apparent cal only pass water sitting down and the members of the UNSC need HRT or al least a re-read of §27(3) such would stop the sillyness of Vlad's 3 day SMO kabuki theatre.

Vlad has clarified the point that the Russian bear was not in good shape, their army is the 2nd best in Belgorod, Crimea, Donbas and Donetsk; they have gone from energy exporting to domestic rationing; their economy has gone from vibrant to parlous; demographics which were happy are now an existential threat to their population. All before morning polonium tea time. The bears air defence system makes great targets for Ukraines planners, their AEWC aircraft get shot down, their navy got beaten by an army, didn't need a navy to add artificial reefs to the Black Sea diving sites.

On the plus side, Vlad has helped the meme community substantially, and the sunflowers will bloom better over time.

When Russia finally collapses, it will be as fast as last time, and that appears to be approaching at a pretty good clip. When the banks shut down the exchange is suspended, the population starts to get pretty vocal. Vlad is playing Russian roulette with an auto, but is too preoccupied with his mounting calamities to do more than threaten his own people.

Since the start of the SMO, Russia has lost over 3000 BMP's. As this number is visually confirmed losses, the actual losses are much higher.
This is a good morning.

A remarkable story of how the Russians "treated" a Russian soldier after being wounded.

On the first video:
Vladimir Samarzhiev, a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces from the 272nd Motorized Rifle Regiment, wounded in Ukraine, complained from the hospital that he was not granted leave. He was told he would be soon but was taken back to the war in Ukraine.

He made a second video about it.
It turned out that there were people with disabilities in his squad. Two of the group can move only on crutches. The soldiers say that in case of battle, they will not last long because they cannot shoot or walk normally.

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Gee, you are going to spoil Vlads next years Mayday parade if he reads your comments. there are still a few T-34's kicking around parade grounds that haven't been impressed to the front line yet. Drone dropped RPG rounds may relieve some of their utility.

It sure sounds like Putler is all-in on Ukraine.
As he sees defeat in Ukraine as the end of Russia, so how far is he willing to go? NBC? MAD?
Whatever it is, Russia must lose, as if they win in Ukraine it just makes them want more and escalate until they are stopped, killing millions in the process. More than half a million casualties are already counted for.

The faster russkies are taken care of the less innocent people will suffer.

More on the same theme.

Russian AD is very efficiently defending Ukrainian airspace from Russian military aircrafts.

Wow, that’s ripe!
 

Putrid not keen on the possibility of a change in stance from S Korea. Let’s hope that his grovelling to the Glorious Leader in the north gets him lots more dud ammunition resulting in more self-annihilation for the orcs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ee8x221lno

Putin is reportedly in NK to gain supplies to help him fight Ukraine, if true, how on earth is he going to carry out his claim that Moscow is willing to arm Pyongyang if the US and its allies continue supplying Ukraine with weapons.

This interview with Greg Bagwell is required viewing! He has plenty to say about recent Russian air force performance. It's 53 minutes but it's all gold.

OK, I'll confess - I turned on the 'puter before I'd put the specs on, and all my blurred vision saw was "Air Marshall Ba***ll"! My wife came in to see what had set off my incandescence THIS time... I wholeheartedly apologise to her, our impressionable young black Labs and any neighbours in earshot.

Thouroughly enjoyed listening - maybe there is some merit in these new-fangled podcast thingies after all :ok:

Glad you liked it! I reckon it deserves to be seen much more widely. Only 2400 views since it was published in March. Where else can you get such reliable info? Greg knows deep info from the sharp end and reveals a great deal with some measured plain speaking.

https://kyivindependent.com/drones-t...media-reports/

Drones target military airfield in Krasnodar Krai, Russian media reports

Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated.

Drones attacked the Yeysk military airfield in Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the early hours of June 21, the Russian Telegram news channel Astra claimed.

Residents reported that a fire broke out due to the attack. Local authorities have not commented on the details of the attack.

The Krasnodar Krai Operations Center officially reported that several districts in the region, including Yeysk, had come under a massive attack overnight. The other targeted areas are the Severskaya and Temryuk districts.….

Video🇺🇦 Ukraine unveils ST-1, an autonomous mine-detecting drone that scans 1 hectare in 4 hours—4x faster than humans.

Flying at 70cm with dual metal detector coils, it overcomes self-interference for accurate ground scanning, says Dmytro Titov, AILAND SYSTEMS CEO.

Not battlefield weapons per se.
Russia has already supplied DPRK with all of those advanced systems we see on TV parading in front of the Dear Leader, hypersonics etc. Kim swore to his father that he would pursue the nuclear path unflinchingly. They now want certain key ICBM missile systems and technological refinements to bring NK up to parity with China, Russia and the US. Since Kim came to Vladivostok, Putin may have been feeling uncomfortable pressure to reveal some of these in exchange for help with supplies of ammo etc..

A recently circulated African Proverb comes to mind -"Sheep spend their lives fearing the Wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd"