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Four Turks and a Georgian? Sounds like a really bad 80s sitcom.
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With all that coke, it could be.
Four Turks and a Georgian...but which Georgian?! Watch as our favorite fall guy with the imaginary talking car changes which Georgian he is at any second!
[FoxNews] Jewayne Price was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol
A South Carolina judge set a $25,000 bond for a suspect in a mall shooting on Saturday that left 14 people injured, according to the Columbia Police Department. So, name the judge, the prosecutor, and their respective political parties
Jewayne Price, 22, will be on house arrest but allowed to travel to and from work while wearing an ankle monitor if he posts bond.
He was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol and could face additional charges after the prosecutor reviews evidence.
Price is one of three people who were detained by law enforcement following the shooting. The other two adults males were released after police determined they weren't involved.
"We don’t believe this was random," Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook said at a news conference. "We believe they knew each other and something led to the gunfire."
Evidence collected at the scene indicates at least three people displayed guns and two firearms were used, according to police.
Price was previously arrested in June 2018 and charged with accessory before the fact following the shooting death of 17-year-old Amon Rice in Hopkins, South Carolina. The outcome of that is unclear.
"We catch people, they serve a little bit of time, they get out and they get right back doing what they normally do and that’s commit crimes," Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said at a recent press conference. "The criminal justice system needs to do better."
Price's attorney, South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford, claims that his client acted in self-defense.
"It was unprovoked by him. He called the police, turned himself in, turned over the firearm that was used in this, and gave a statement to the Columbia Police Department," Rutherford said after the bond hearing, according to WIS. "That is why he got a $25,000 bond."
The 14 victims range in age from 15 to 73. At least nine of them suffered gunshot wounds, while the other five were injured while trying to flee the chaos.
The 73-year-old victim is still being treated at a local hospital, while the other 13 victims have been released.
#2
Glad we kept the guy who stole a Capitol coat rack and everybody else who walked into Pelosiland under lock and key for a year while this guy turns a lounge into a 1st person shooter game and bonds out with an ankle bracelet. I anticipate some awkwardness at work: “So, how was your Easter?”
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"We catch people, they serve a little bit of time, they get out and they get right back doing what they normally do and that’s commit crimes,"
Crime seems to be one of those things with a Pareto distribution - roughly speaking, 20% of the criminals commit 80% of the crime. Yes, locking someone up in prison is mean, but it does take them out of circulation for a while.
TW: Big difference between Thug vs Thug and Thug shooting innocent bystanders in my and many others books.
But I should also state I am NOT suggesting Vigilante justice.
As ALL persons are innocent until convicted.
But 14 counts of Aggravated Assault with a deadly weapon should get him at least 20 years. Which the taxpayers will cover his room, feeding, dental, clothing, TV, medical, education and etc.. Likely costing SC Taxpayers $750K to $1.2 Million over that period.
#3
^ I'm sure your country would've done a much better job assimilating and pacifying proportional hordes of immigrants -- many penniless, ignorant, traumatized -- from three continents... while winning three world wars and containing five monstruous totalitarianisms, each of which would've happily nuked or otherwise wrecked half the planet if we hadn't stood in their way, and each of which made a pretty good run at doing so anyhow. [big green lady rolls eyes]
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From a foreigners perspective this seems like just another day in the USA.
I like to call the USA a 'first world third world country'.
America is the better part of a continent, and the population is not homogenous throughout. Some areas/communities/neighbourhoods choose to be less orderly and prosperous than others. But we see that elsewhere, too: there are so-called No Go areas throughout the EU and Britain, where the residents hew to a different culture, and firemen, for instance, can only go in with an armed police escort. The French suburbs, Molenbeek in Brussels, Malmo in Sweden... the list is long.
#7
/\ We are instructed to celebrate the diversity of those who have strayed from their assigned pens, but deny certain DNA and genetic realities related to former pen survival.
Although highly advertised and applauded by academia and media, cultural assimilation through cross-breeding has met with limited success, as has the legalization of mind altering drugs. One of the more recent solutions of government and science appears to be Genetically modification, or treating humans as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) such as plants.
We appear to have deviated from the intent of nature. Will the Muruwari people of New South Wales become the new diamond cutters of Antwerp? Will flooding the troubled, crime ridden urban zones with millions of more compliant migrants be the answer? Can assimilation and human harmony be achieved through artificially produced 'Gain of Function?'
Yesterday's celebration is very likely the intended solution, but we are in denial there as well. I am not hopeful. I reckon we'll just have to see how it goes.
#8
Our local rag had it as: It is likely Saturday’s shooting was an isolated incident and was a result of an on-going conflict, police said.
So, gangs
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Ain't it funny. Here's a tribe that feels maximum force is the appropriate response to the mildest slight, down to an imaginary one. But, OTOH, they don't feel any po-lice should ever stop them from driving erratically in a stolen car, put a hand on them during an arrest, etc.
Swillary says "it takes a village." Well, many of these were raised much more by a village than by their single parent, and here's what the village raised up.
But don't you go judgin' it, whitey...
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Some areas/communities/neighbourhoods choose to be less orderly and prosperous than others.
#13
Since the start of Obama 3.0 (the current Puppet Show) there has been an endless effort to appease in financial, social and media terms the sense of victim-hood among minorities. Creating class/racial divides and defining mainstream societal structure and norms as "white supremacist", they create the perception in ignorant minds of permission and justification. Until we abandon terms like African-American and People of Color and just describe all of us as American, this continues. America is hugely successful because of the genius of our founders and the wealth of what they created. It is our heritage and beliefs that are superior to other systems in the history of the world, not because they are "white" but because they are inspired by an understanding of fundamental human character and freedom.
The massive inundation of our nation, abetted by one political party as a means to power, has swamped our ability to assimilate and educate those who come here to the heritage, expectations and obligations they receive. Coming here illegally abrogates all of that, sadly by design of those holding the doors open.
Divide and conquer has been a known tactic for millennia, and serves an enemy well. The cabal running the White House has allegiances, motives and objectives that serve those elsewhere....
Ready for a second round, Nero? Or would you prefer to stay on the canvas?
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So, gangs
I believe it is Aspiring Troubadours in the parlance of Daily Mail Hypesters. You can tell by the usage of "a ta" as Middle English premature spellcheckulation. Diversity!
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[Korrespondent] 08:40 Kiev metro from April 18 will carry passengers from 06:30 to 20:00, ground transport - from 07:00 to 21:00, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
08:36 The police of the Kiev region, while cleaning up the territories liberated from Russian invaders, found secret documents of the special forces of SOBR, OMON and the National Guard, among which was a detailed plan for the capture of Kiev.
Andrey Nebitov, head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kiev region, said that the police also found chemical protection suits - apparently, the Russian military believed in the Kremlin's fakes about biological laboratories. According to Nebitov, the costumes were packed in World War II pouches, and the overalls consisted of "fishing boots" and a raincoat "from museums."
08:29 In the morning, the invaders launched missile attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, 60% of the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian air defense, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said.
08:05 The Russians fired at the building of the patrol police in Lisichansk, as a result, six employees were hospitalized, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Sergei Gaidai.
He also said that the occupiers hit the recently rebuilt Olimp sports complex in Kremennaya, where representatives of the Ukrainian Olympic team used to train. The fire area is 2400 sq. m. Rescuers are trying to localize the flame, near the forest.
Artillery shelling of Kremennaya continued on April 17 and became more frequent and powerful at night. Seven residential buildings, outbuildings, and forest litter caught fire. Residential areas in Rubizhne were also damaged - seven local residents were evacuated from the rubble of three houses, two injured were taken to the hospital.
07:44 More than 140 cases are being investigated in Germany to approve Russia's war against Ukraine - most of the open cases involve the use of the letter Z, DW reports, citing the Redaktionsnetzwerks Deutschland group of publications.
07:13 The General Staff expects that the enemy will continue to conduct hostilities to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region. In total, 87 enemy BTGs were involved in the groupings to carry out combat missions on the territory of Ukraine.
07:11 In the East, the enemy is restoring combat capability and replenishing supplies. He is trying to improve the tactical position of his units and intensify the fighting. Russian occupiers continue shelling N. p. Seversk and Pokrovskoye, according to the General Staff.
The main efforts of the enemy were concentrated in the areas of the settlement. Liman, Kremennaya, Popasnaya and Rubizhne, tried to establish full control over Mariupol. He carried out offensive operations in the Severodonetsk, Popasnyansky and Zaporozhye directions.
Also, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to gain a foothold in the areas of the settlement. Kremennaya and Rubezhnoye. They tried to storm in the areas of the settlement. Novotoshkovskoe, Popasnaya, Avdeevka and Maryinka. There was also no success.
07:06 In order to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River and create conditions for the operational deployment of troops, the Russians conducted reconnaissance in combat in the areas of the settlement. Factories, Dmitrovka and Dibrovnoe. They had no luck, they suffered losses and retreated, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
06:50 OSINTtechnical researchers released the first photos of the cruiser Moskva after the shell hit. The author of the public admits that he cannot confirm the authenticity, "but this is a Glory-class cruiser, and I do not think that any of them were destroyed in this way."
06:17 Civilians, including women and children, are hiding on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. People are hiding from shelling in the plant's storage facilities, they have no medicine, food or water, said Mikhail Vershinin, head of the city's patrol police.
06:01 At night, the Russians fired at the outskirts of the Krivoy Rog district from the territory of the Kherson region, one person died, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk.
03:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt another blow to the invaders in Chernobaevka, Arestovich said.
02:40 Arestovich said that Medvedchuk was already giving evidence to law enforcement officers. In addition to him, people who were detained together with Medvedchuk began to be interrogated. When asked about the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk, Arestovich replied that he "hadn't told everything yet."
02:12 Ukrzaliznytsia said that to cross the border with the EU countries, you must have a passport. Exceptions are possible at the discretion of the border guards in the presence of other identification documents and the presence of hostilities in the region from which the passenger left.
UZ reported that it had not received warnings from the State Border Service about changes in the rules for crossing the border by citizens of Ukraine and expected "more clear explanations from colleagues to prevent refugees without international passports."
This photo set at the link have been making the rounds in Russian socialist media purportedly showing the aftermath of the attack on the RFS Moskva.
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Приблизно так від удару української крилатої ракети загинув крейсер «Москва», саме так під ударами української армії загине російська імперія! pic.twitter.com/UZildWVdg7
I don't think that's Moskva in the twitter video, at least not all the way through. If you freeze-frame it at the 0:13 mark, that's a former USN DDG (missile destroyer) on the wrong end of a SINKEX. If you look from left to right where the water is coming up the deck, you see an armored box launcher for USN's ASROC anti-sub missile, and aft of the deckouse is unmistakably a USN Mk42 'frog eye' 5" gun turret.
Mike
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Looks like a hit aft of the missile launchers. I don’t think a cruise middle hit into the launcher would have ended as well unless the launcher box is all armor.
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Says Russian military correspondent Boris Rozhin: Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited:
Damage is visible in the central part of the ship and the ongoing fire in the interior.
To the versions - anti-ship missiles, mines, safety violations, today there was also added a version of the spontaneous launch of one of the S-300 air defense missiles, which led to the detonation of a part of the BC in the central part of the ship.
We are waiting for the conclusions of the commission on the reasons for the death of the ship.
#13
I spent a lot of time looking at the actual photos and I think one of the missiles hit the forward superstructure, probably at the aft end of it, and that's why it looked like a lot of the electronics were blown off of it.
'How the hell did you allow the Moskva to be sunk?': TV anchor dubbed 'Putin's voice' rages at Russian navy over flagship's loss as Kremlin still refuses to say how many sailors died
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Concur w/#5&6: another fun fact; early on in thevideo a part of the aircraft filming the sinkex is visible and it sure looks loe theaft end of the landing gear sponson of a SH-3H helicopter. Dont think we exported any of those to Russia or Ukraine.
#17
It's sunk. I leave it to those tasked / interested to sort the details. I like the bottom line.
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For comparison, and since we haven't had many cruiser sinkings lately, here is the pretty well-known photo of the IJN Mikuma after getting pasted by US carrier planes at Midway. 5 or 6 bomb hits.
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Yes, everything is bad news for the US. Russia's failure is especially bad news for the nation that has ruled the oceans since WWII.
(Never mind that Russia has never really been a naval power.)
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This brings the question: Which is worse, Arab "ensha'Allah and sell the parts via my uncle" maintenance or Russian "divert funds to buy my own dacha and stock it with booze and mistress" maintenance?
They asked, was I proud? I said, nyet!
I drank and I whored and I bet...
But small portion I spend
On munitions and men...
And this waste I sincerely regret.
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Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer says that #Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has his “own war logic” and believes he is winning the war he launched against #Ukraine.https://t.co/kroXsDDczz
A series of strikes in #Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the war-scarred country have left at least five dead and 13 injured, a regional health official says.https://t.co/dbGcxOPxZi
Russia has material in place but has not organized battalions into attack configuration.
Ukraine has made some small advances near Kharkiv. If the Russian occupation north of Donbas collapses, it would threaten the logistics of future Russian efforts.
Russia has only a few dozen city blocks from completing the conquest of Mariupol (which they surrounded on 2 March and in which they have a lot of troops working and a lot of troops dying).
Russia will claim the conquest of Mariupol as a victory but it will likely go down as a hollow victory for Russia and a symbol of Russian brutality.
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The main event has not started but there seems to be a lot of practice fighting going on.
Mariupol may be a hollow victory in the media wars, but it is a necessary part of the land corridor to Crimea.
#2
Mariupol may have chewed up some valuable Russian infantry but it (1) cleared the land route to Sevastapol, and (2) frees up the rear of any subsequent northern push in the Donbas.
I am expecting a Pincer Attack on the Donbas Salient with the supporting attack coming from the south at Donetsk (troops that were fighting at Mariupol) and a strong northern thrust from Izium (troops that were concentrated from the abortive Kiev attacks). Mostly the Russians waiting for the ground to get better and concentrating things for a good, old fashioned "stop us if you can" WW2 Soviet armor and artillery thrust from Izium. It has taken them, so far, from Day 33 to rearrange their troops and get their logistical house in order -- one central push at a time may be all they can efficiently supply.
The #1 stated objective of the war was to prevent NATO from using Ukraine as a bulwark ("demilitarize"). The completion of the land bridge to Crimea has extinguished that possibility.
The #2 objective was to destroy the Azov Battalion and other neonazis regiments that had terrified the Russian-speaking Donbas for 8 years. That too is about to be completed in Mariupol.
The third (unstated) objective has been to devastate Ukraine and make it even poorer than it was before the war -- to reduce it to subsistence status so that it will be dependent on foreign aid for another 30-40 years. In process.
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[RIA Novosti] Representatives of the Donetsk People's Republic in the JCCC and employees of the investigative committee of the Russian Federation visited the hospital in Mariupol at the forefront, where several dozen civilians were killed, Major General Ruslan Yakubov, head of the DPR representative office in the JCCC, told RIA Novosti.
"The JCCC , together with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, is recording the crimes of the Ukrainian regime against civilians. We are located near the city hospital number four of the city of Mariupol . At the moment, we have already recorded more than twenty corpses, there may be more - work continues," he said.
According to him, the main task now is to collect as much evidence as possible in order to then conduct an investigation.
The representative office clarified that they are directly cooperating with the Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee of Donbass , in particular, joint "field" work of military experts of the JCCC and investigators of the TFR has been organized.
Russia shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29s over the Kharkiv region
Investigators of the UK used a quadcopter to survey the area near the city hospital and search for bodies. Due to the close proximity to the front line, it was necessary to notify the units of the armies of the DPR and Russia so that the drone would not be shot down, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and have already completed the main tasks of the first stage - they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the military department was called the liberation of Donbass .
A British ‘mercenary’ captured in Mariupol has been told by the Russians that his Ukrainian commanders wanted him to be killed as he fled a factory hideout - so he would be seen as an anti-Putin hero by the outside world.
There was “not much time to think,” said Pinner.
After this, his words were subtitled in Russian but his original speech was not audible.
According to the subtitles, Pinner said: “It was very dark. We took the injured with us.
“Mortar and artillery shelling began, military aviation worked. Panic began.
“Everyone started running in different directions.
“My commander seems to have disappeared.
“I still don’t know what happened to those who were there with me.”
#2
Not so Happy Days: 2nd British War Tourist surrenders in Mariupol - 'Yep that's 'I'm! I know those tattoos!' says disconsolate Mum
Aiden Aslin, professional moron / veteran war tourist (Syria, Mariupol), one of about 400 foreign war tourists, surrenders with Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion in Mariupol
#4
Lib media: "Why couldn't he be the guy who did the last 10 mass shootings here?"
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Mariupol is the home base of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. The dead Enders in the stell factory are the last few Azov Battalion remaining in Mariupol; the Russians have killed many thousands of Azov already. They will exterminate the remaining vermin in short order.
"One of the most instrumental groups for the recapture of Mariupol was the Azov Battalion, an Ukrainian neonazi volunteer militia.[49] By September 2014 Azov was integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine, and set Mariupol as their headquarters.[50] As one of Vladimir Putin's stated goals for the war is the "denazification" of Ukraine, Mariupol represents an important ideological target for the Russian forces.[51][52]
#11
Re #8: I believe it was the Brits who bombed Dresden. And the Red Army only took half of Germany. Of course, if Ike had let Patton do what he wanted, the US would have taken more.
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The assumption is that Patton could have done what he said. If he'd been allowed and failed, history would have been a lot different.
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Imagine Truman as Boosh democratizing the bolsheviks. Who would have been his Paul Bremer?
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About 3,500 Azov Battalion vermin have been exterminated. The remaining 500 or so (plus about 590 Ukrainian Marines) are scurrying about, rat-like, in the rathskelleren network of tunnels beneath the AzovStal Steelworks.
Firebombing AzovStal will accomplish three goals at once: cripple Ukraine's steel industry, destroy oligarch Rinat Akhmerov's wealth, and incinerate the last remaining outpost of the Mariupol base of Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion.
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Firebombing AzovStal will accomplish three goals at once: cripple Ukraine's steel industry, destroy oligarch Rinat Akhmerov's wealth, and incinerate the last remaining outpost of the Mariupol base of Ukraine's Nazi Azov Battalion.
More in common with the strategic firebombing of Hamburg in 1943.
True that AzovStal with its Azov "dead-enders" (nice!) is a fat juicy strategic target. Won't be hard to level it.
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I believe it was the Brits who bombed Dresden.
We know it was not the Germans. They were too busy bombing Pearl Harbor.
#19
Leadership Team For "Build Back Better - East," a $1.5 trillion joint initiative of the Biden Administration, the EU, the EBRD, and the World Bank, with embezzlement funds management conducted by George Soros, the Clinton Foundation and Bill Browder:
Jimmy Biden - will supervise the $50 billion reconstruction of Ukraine's iron ore and steel industries
Hunter Biden - will spearhead natural gas exploration efforts with a focus on prospecting in various Odessa bars and nightclubs
Dr Jill Biden - will head up a new $10 billion Mental Health Initiative patterned on Charlene McCray's stunningly successful initiative in Bill DeBlaio's NY City
Ashley Biden - Influencer At Large helping wayward Ukrainian girls to achieve wellness, attain sobriety and adopt positive body images
#22
About 3,500 Azov Battalion vermin have been exterminated. The remaining 500 or so (plus about 590 Ukrainian Marines) are scurrying about, rat-like, in the rathskelleren network of tunnels beneath the AzovStal Steelworks.
Take a page out of the IDF playbook and collapse the tunnel exits. The Russians must have a good map of the AzovStal tunnel network.
Wouldn't take more than an hour or two of bombing to seal the rats inside their crypt.
#26
^ They've learned a ton about advanced urban warfare techniques in Syria. MITRE concluded in 2020:
"The fighting in Syria has allowed Russia to test
a range of new weapons and new concepts and has trained a number of leaders in contemporary warfare outside its borders, making it much different than the earlier, more localized fight in Chechnya. New methods of employing Spetsnaz forces and new ways of utilizing private military companies were explored.
"The Syrian experience has refocused Russia’s military on urban warfare and the difficulty of extracting enemy fighters from buildings while trying simultaneously not to harm the local population and to find humanitarian corridors for their extraction from the combat zone.
Russia’s use of robotics and unmanned vehicles in urban operations, learning ways to use radio-electronic equipment or information technologies to disorganize enemy signals, and defending bases from UAV attacks were other lessons learned.
"Finally, the Russian military is in the process of incorporating these lessons learned through conferences, round tables, and new manuals. Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Syrian experience than before it."
- from " RUSSIAN LESSONS LEARNED IN SYRIA: AN ASSESSMENT" by Timothy Thomas, MITRE Center for Technology and National Security, June 2020
#29
There's great admiration for Israel in Russia. Netanyahu and Putin developed a strong relationship. Israel is seen as an honest broker. Netanyahu to Putin in 2018:
“Mr. President, we are wholeheartedly grateful to you for your personal friendship, for your position and for the position of Russia, which shares these values with Israel,” Netanyahu told Putin in response. “We would like to express our gratitude to the Russian Defense Ministry and the Russian army. We will never forget their contribution, which will go down in history."
#30
Russia has learned an enormous amount from both the Syrian war and the Russo-Ukrainian War. This experience will spur reform and modernization of the Russian Army, clear out the hacks and incompetents in the senior officer ranks, and enable promotion of a new class of young, tough, battle-tested junior officers.
Same kind of reform and strengthening that happened in the US military after the Vietnam War debacle. Also happened in China with the reform of the PLA after the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979.
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#26 "Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Syrian experience than before it."
Exactly. Same is true of the current war. Russia’s military will undoubtedly be a stronger adversary after their Ukrainian experience than before it.
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All over but the shouting
Bunker busters will bring this to a conclusion
Russians Drop Bunker-Busters on Holdout Mariupol Steel Plant
Published 27 mins ago on April 18, 2022
By Associated Press
#33
#20 Dozens of people died in the hospital of Mariupol
Sounds like my local hospital.
Statistically speaking, it's rather odd how many people die in hospitals compared to any randomly chosen building in the city. It's like they are all cursed or built over Indian burial grounds or something.
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The Ukes will be so grateful the attrition to Putin's invading Commie Troops will make Afghanistan seem like a walk in the park
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#36
Putin loves the Juice. Right.
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#30 Russia has learned an enormous amount from both the Syrian war and the Russo-Ukrainian War. This experience will spur reform and modernization of the Russian Army, clear out the hacks and incompetents in the senior officer ranks, and enable promotion of a new class of young, tough, battle-tested junior officers.
Orrrrr..as is usual in a Communist dictatorship, they'll execute the ones who were bad along with the ones who were good but were inadequately supplied, like our trolls
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The resident moron's getting agitated. Yes, Putin is the most pro-Israel leader Russia's ever had. Also the leader who has done more than any in Russian history to overcome tgat nation's traditional suspicions of and hostility toward its Jewish citizens. Ties between Israel and Russia are closer under Putin even than the historic ties between Russia and the Arabs. Putin has gone out of his way to encourage religious tolerance in Russia and has been praised repeatedly by Israeli and American Jewish leaders for his consistent efforts over two decades inthis regard.
#41
Yes, Putin is the most pro-Israel leader Russia's ever had.
Oh, it’s true, although there was a brief period when Socialist USSR was happy to support brand new, labour socialist Israel to annoy America, allowing Czechoslovakia to arm the new country. Nowadays, like many Western nationalists, President Putin admires Israel’s willingness to fight for its existence as its people’s nation state against both the Muslim world and Progressive ire. And of course there’s Israel’s technological cleverness — everybody wants a piece of that — and so many of Israel’s new technologists are former Soviet Jews he hopes have sentimental ties that will benefit the Ould Sod.
Poor Mother Russia finds herself trying to balance as long as possible between her traditional regional client, Syria; her partner in confounding America, Iran; and Israel. But RealPolitik suggests that in the end it won’t be Israel Russia stands with, no matter President Putin’s fellow feeling.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:26 The head of Chechnya Kadyrov announced the start of a "concrete" special operation in Ukraine. “Now a specific special operation is starting, now there will be a specific result, they themselves asked for it, so to speak, the Ukrainians. If suddenly someone could not escape - run, leave your positions. Run to where the federal troops are: you will be received, fed and watered,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel. 21:07 Operational-tactical aviation destroyed 44 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: in the Avdiivka area, two command posts and a locator for illumination and targeting of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system; in the areas of Zavgorodnee and Protopopovka, three depots of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed; in the districts of Krasny Liman, Novoselovka, Rubizhne, Vuhledar, Popasnaya, Prishib and Gusarovka there are 23 places of concentration of personnel and Ukrainian military equipment.
21:05 Missile troops and artillery defeated 113 objects, including: four command posts, four artillery batteries, two depots of fuel and lubricants and 103 strongholds and areas of concentration of enemy manpower.
21:03 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 136 aircraft, 471 unmanned aerial vehicles, 249 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,308 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 998 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,171 units of special military vehicles.
20:01 Russian air defense systems in the area of the settlements of Fedorovka and Plants in the Kharkiv region shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the air.
20:01 A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near the village of Preobrazhenskoye, Pavlograd region.
20:00 During the day, high-precision air-based missiles in the area of the settlements of Barvenkovo and Dobropolye destroyed storages of fuels and lubricants and ammunition.
19:41 APU will fight for Donbass - Zelensky. The President of Ukraine, in an interview with CNN, said that Ukraine does not want to give up its territories in the eastern part of the country in order to end the war with Russia.
19:41 The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, expressed the opinion that now in Ukraine there is no one to negotiate with, it is necessary to form a new vertical of power.
18:56 In the Kherson region, a referendum is being prepared on the creation of the "Kherson People's Republic" - Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova: "According to witnesses, the printing house of the city of Novaya Kakhovka is already printing ballots for the referendum," she said. According to her, the referendum will be held in early May.
18:55 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case on the demolition of the monument to Marshal Zhukov in Kharkov.
17:43 Today, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the building of a slate plant in Kramatorsk.
16:51 A group of British journalists has been working in the vicinity of Chernihiv and nearby settlements for a week now. After a not very successful propaganda campaign about the deaths of civilians in Bucha and Kramatorsk, the leadership of British news agencies demanded "quality material" from their employees. In the future, it is planned to submit it to the UK Parliament and the UN. For this reason, the journalists went to the Chernihiv region, where units of the RF Armed Forces were operating.
16:09 In Lviv, the symbols of the Great Patriotic War are being dismantled on the territory of the Hill of Glory memorial complex.
16:09 The Indian Air Force refused to buy Mi-17V5 helicopters from Russia.
16:07 In Bulgaria, a ban on the entry of Russian ships into the ports of the country has come into force.
15:26 According to the UN, 4.8 million people have left Ukraine since February 24.
14:11 Russia sees risks of unintended clashes with NATO in Arctic latitudes - Russian Foreign Ministry.
13:06 A bust of Marshal Zhukov was dismantled in Kharkiv.
13:03 Kyiv City Hall reduced the curfew by two hours. Now it will last from 22:00 to 05:00.
12:15 Russian aviation destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers overnight.
12:11 Kyiv has attracted about 7,000 foreign mercenaries to Ukraine.
11:58 In Kyiv, they decided not to open humanitarian corridors on Sunday.
11:55 Foreign mercenaries are waiting for a long term in prison, the Defense Ministry said.
11:05 Russian Defense Ministry: Air-launched high-precision missiles destroyed an ammunition factory in the Kiev region.
10:57 Up to 400 foreign mercenaries are blocked on the territory of Azovstal.
10:56 The Russian Armed Forces released the hostages held by the militants in the mosque of Mariupol.
10:29 Russian forces destroyed 68 Ukrainian military facilities.
10:23 Russian military destroyed 1,035 mercenaries in Ukraine.
10:10 Russian air defense systems shot down ten more Ukrainian drones.
08:53 The Security Service of Ukraine left a sabotage group in Kherson to carry out provocations in the territories liberated by Russia.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:18 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 25 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol: - men: 1984, 1977, 1997, 1956, 1982, 1950, 1954, 1939, 1970, 1962, 1958, 1955, 1995, 1966, 1977 years of birth;
- women: born in 1946, 1991, 1973, 1956, 1980, 1939.
n.p. Vladimirovka: - a child, a boy born in 2017.
n.p. Dawn: - a woman born in 1959.
n.p. Evgenovka: - male born in 1975.
n.p. Ukrainian: - man born in 1964.
21:35 Two servicemen of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic died over the past day, more than ten were injured, Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, said in a statement. 20:44 On the night of April 11-12, a group of servicemen of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to break out of the blocked plant named after. Ilyich, Mariupol.
The special purpose unit of the Donetsk People's Republic prevented this breakthrough. During the battle, up to 50 servicemen were destroyed, of which five were senior officers of the brigade, another 42 surrendered. During the inspection of the site of the clash, the body of the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Colonel Vladimir Anatolyevich Baranyuk, his personal belongings and weapons were found among the dead.
19:25 Under the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, five employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR were injured by the Ukrainian Nazis.
19:24 Kiev militants fired on Horlivka and Shirokaya Balka in the DPR. They fired 14 mines at them with a caliber of 120mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
19:23 The air defense forces of the DPR intercepted a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile over Khartsyzsk. Its wreckage damaged 20 houses.
18:28 Ukrainian militants in Mariupol refused to lay down their arms. The Russian Defense Ministry offered them from 0600 hrs on April 17 to cease fire and save their lives.
18:27 Kiev Nazis fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR from the Grad MLRS and 152mm artillery. Information about the victims and destruction continues.
18:26 Ukrainian punishers fired at Staromikhaylovka in the DPR. They fired five 120mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:37 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, using artillery with a caliber of 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:36 Kiev militants fired ten shells of 122mm caliber at Gorlovka and Ozeryanovka (DPR). Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:35 Russian sappers announced the completion of the demining of the thermal power plant in Shchastya (LPR).
16:12 Ukrainian punishers fired three rockets at Yasinovataya from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:11 Under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, two residents of Pervomaisk (LPR) were injured.
15:15 Ukrainian Nazis fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing eight shells at her from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:14 Kiev militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:13 The village of Donetsk in the LPR again came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They fired eight 152mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:07 Ukrainian troops fired five more rockets from the Grad MLRS at Yasinovataya in the DPR.
13:02 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Panteleymonovka in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:01 Kiev militants fired on Dolya and Yasinovataya from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:01 A civilian from Khartsyzsk (DPR) was wounded under fire from the Kiev Nazis.
13:00 Ukrainian punishers fired seven shells of 152mm caliber at Pervomaisk (LPR). Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:07 Kiev Nazis fired at Golmovsky in the DPR, firing six 82mm bullets at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:06 AFU fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing ten rockets from the Grad MLRS into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:05 Ukrainian punishers opened fire on Gorlovka in the DPR, firing eight shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:02 Kiev Nazis fired at Donetsk twice in the LPR in the morning. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:02 Ukrainian fighters fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Six shells were fired at him, caliber 122mm. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:01 Kyiv banned the Nazis from Azov, blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol, from negotiating surrender. Anyone wishing to surrender was ordered to be shot.
11:01 About 400 foreign mercenaries were surrounded in Azovstal in Mariupol.
10:23 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the LPR destroyed 30 Ukrainian Nazis, so, two armored personnel carriers, five cars.
09:41 Over the past day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of Russian troops, destroyed 61 Ukrainian nationalists, one 122mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 "Gvozdika," one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers and a truck. One tank and two infantry fighting vehicles were captured.
09:41 During the day, 526 people, including 64 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the DPR.
09:14 Kiev Nazis opened fire on the territory of the DPR 42 times in a day, firing 338 shells at it. A total of 11 civilians were injured under shelling.
08:48 A peaceful resident of Yasinovataya (DPR) is wounded under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
08:29 Ukrainian security forces opened fire on the territory of the LPR twice in a day. Under fire were Pervomaisk and the village of Donetsk. The militants used artillery guns with a caliber of 122mm and 152mm.
#8
Good snark, Thing! Of course the Rooshuns were only game hunting when they crossed the border, of course. (Be vewwy, vewwy qwiet. I am hunting Nazis! --Elmer Fudd voice)
#9
Actually they have killed thousands of Azov Battalion neonazis and are in process of exterminating the 1,000 or so remaining Azov neonazis cowering in the steel factory in Mariupol
#Ukraine is not prepared to give up its territories and is ready, if needed, to fight with #Russia “for ten years,” the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.https://t.co/OygJyghPss
#4
Now Putin's done it! Bloody wanker's pissed off the English mum of Aiden Aslin, winner of latest round of Britain's Got Idiots. Mum identifies junior by his tattoos and says, "I now hold Putin to terms of the Geneva War Convention!"
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Lib media: "Why couldn't he be the guy who did the last 10 mass shootings here?"
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Let's not be too hard on Zel. He is the star of his own movie.
One one hand, it is a fish-out-of-water comedy about an actor/comedian who becomes president of a corrupt Eastern European country.
On the other, it is the story of the plucky, handsome leader of a small country under attack who flies around the world pleading for help against his larger foe. His moving speeches have been well-received except in Israel where his references to the Holocaust bombed. (no pun intended)
With the right backers, this could be a long-running hit show.
#8
Karzai Arcanum went twelve seasons. Even got a cameo as "Potential Talibanistan President" in Neocon: Generations Episode 1: Transitions - "In this episode the loose ends of closing the Afghanistan Campaign get cut while an emerging threat in the Ukraine Banking System makes itself visible.
#12
Tamarian allegories should be all the rage on twitter someday.
Don't know if the current folks there could handle it, though. That might be considered “cultural appropriation” and that would be icky.
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I suspect he'll give up certain areas in order to get a peace treaty. I also suspect, like the Palestinians, he'll support constant agitation to reclaim the areas 'eventually'.
[Aljazeera] Ukraine has surprised the world by bringing Russia’s invasion to a standstill. Most of the world was aghast when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to attack its neighbour in late February. The new professional Russian army was expected to make sweeping advances, its reputation for effectiveness not yet earned but assumed.
However, Ukrainian resistance was much stronger than anticipated and Russian armoured columns were not only halted but in many cases destroyed as Ukraine leveraged what weapons it had to the greatest effect, its commitment to defend itself with great energy, surprising Russia and the world. Since then, Ukraine has seen a flood of arms as weapons pour in from Europe and the United States.
#1
I watched a youtube video of an upgraded A-10. I think that the Ukrainians would make good use of some of the older 'warthogs' since our Air Force doesn't want them. I bet we could get pilots to fly them too. shades of Gen Chenault.
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Congress has ground USAF's nose in the A-10 for so long that anything short of scrapping is not going to make the brass happy. They might like the idea of seeing them shot down. More importantly, we have no business supplying this war. At all.
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^^^^ agreed
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I will be at AMARC when the last A-10 is scrapped. Looking forward to it.
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[NATION.PK] Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... ’s "tactical nukes", state media said Sunday, capping days of celebrations surrounding the birthday of the country’s founding leader.
The launch was the latest in an unprecedented blitz of sanctions-busting weapons-tests this year, which included firing an intercontinental ballistic missile at full range for the first time since 2017.
It also came just ahead of US-South Korea military training exercises — which have always infuriated Pyongyang — that were due to begin on Monday.
The "new-type tactical guided weapon... is of great significance in drastically improving the firepower of the frontline long-range artillery units and enhancing the efficiency in the operation of tactical nukes," the North’s official KCNA news agency reported.
It said the test was successful, but did not specify when or where it took place.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected two projectiles fired late on Saturday, which flew 110 kilometres (68 miles) at an altitude of 25 kilometres, travelling at speeds of around Mach 4. The United States was "aware of the North Korean statement that they conducted a test of a long range artillery system", a Pentagon spokesperson said, adding it was monitoring.
Analysts had widely expected Pyongyang could conduct a nuclear test as part of events to celebrate Friday’s anniversary of the 110th birthday of North Korea’s founding leader — and Kim’s grandfather — Kim Il Sung.
Expectations were heightened because of indications that Pyongyang had restarted work at one of its known nuclear testing sites. Analysts said the weapon tested over the weekend appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile — but no less significant.
"This is North Korea’s first tactical nuclear weapon delivery system, it would seem," said Ankit Panda, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "You don’t have to be particularly imaginative to put this two and two together."
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There are two Falcon Heavy and two Delta IV Heavy NROL launches scheduled this year. Incompetence in DC aside, there's some heavy intel recon infrastructure going up.
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Good thing once again the "analyst" will let everyone in the world know what it is.
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the "analyst" will let everyone in the world know what it is.
Well. They will claim to know...
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#5
The analyst probably got his info from the Chinese.
#6
SpaceX has launched so many satellites for NRO the hobbyist watchers know the process by heart. Basically SpaceX will provide live data about the launch up until first stage separation, then they just follow the boosters to their landing. Supposedly the timing and duration of the second stage burn would give away the satellites orbit.
But let's be honest -- China and Russia likely have radars watching and know the satellites orbit when the second stage cuts off.
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Hell, I bet the Kerbals know before end of 1st stage.
[NATION.PK] Myanmar’s junta said it will release more than 1,600 prisoners from jails across the country on Sunday to mark the Buddhist new year, without specifying whether those being pardoned were protesters or common criminals.
The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government was ousted last year in a military coup, which sparked huge protests and a deadly crackdown.
State television announced that 1,619 prisoners, including 42 foreigners had been “pardoned” and will be released to mark the new year.
It was unclear whether anti-junta protesters or journalists jailed for covering the coup will be among those freed.
On Sunday morning, more than 100 people gathered outside Yangon’s Insein prison hoping to be reunited with loved ones, AFP correspondents said.
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