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It’s amazing how stable Britain has been compared to almost everywhere else.
Breeding, old chap.
Britain is just england and wales
Great britain includes Scotland and the scottish islands
United kingdom includes NI and some of the other islands ( but not all of them)
🙂
did you watch the video Bruce?
Have we done the Ukrainian drone attack on international airport in Moscow overnight? I am intrigued to see / understand what the aim of this is.
That had passed me by. Just had a read about it, thanks for the heads up. It seems more than 1 of Moscow's 4 airports were hit, maybe even all of them? Although the reporting is very confused. All flights in and out of Moscow were stopped for a while. One report said military transport aircraft were targeted, which would be legit. However there are also reports of residential blocks being hit which is not so good. Though impossible to know if they were targeted (hopefully not) or hit by falling debris from drones downed by AD units?
My guess is that the attacks on Moscow airports are more about morale than actual military usefulness. Show the Russian people that they too are not immune from the war and to make them fearful / oppose the war and to boost the morale of the Ukrainians? Just my guess
A fair guess too. Putin has boasted how safe Moscow is many times. So many drones getting through, shows how weak the city's air defences are. If the regime can't protect the capital from balsa wood planes with 2 stroke moped engines, its a major embarrassment for the Kremlin.
Show the Russian people that they too are not immune from the war and to make them fearful / oppose the war and to boost the morale of the Ukrainians?
More than likely do the opposite and feed a drive for more people to join up. Patriotism being what it is.
Moscovites don't volunteer to fight at the front lines. They leave the dying for Putin stuff to conscripts from the colonies.
More than likely do the opposite and feed a drive for more people to join up. Patriotism being what it is.
I tend to agree if (big if) it's just targeting Moscow per se. Aerial bombardment of cities usually just steels the resolve of those on the receiving end. However if they are attacking military aircraft or facilities adjacent to the airports, then that's different.
I think the recruitment strategy has changed recently- signing on bonus, pay massively increased and sizeable payment to family if you are KIA.
did you watch the video Bruce?
I did. tbf, it did seem very stable between around 1707 and 1921.
But then for most of that period so was Portugal. In fact, Portugal's borders changed very little from around 1250 onwards (being in a union with Spain in the 1500s and then Napoleon doing his thing being the exceptions).
sizeable payment to family if you are KIA.
Lada with metallic paint promised but not actually delivered?
This popped up in my feed yesterday.
. Quite interesting re (some of) the discussion above - it's an interview with a recently contracted and then captured Russian soldier (they claim all OK re the Geneva Convention but I digress). Confirms that they're being promised what he seems to think is good money, but he hasn't seen much of that promised. Neither did they keep their promise that he would be a driver, but sent him to the front line with minimal training. Says most of the soldiers are old 40s..50s. ie us. Most interestingly with the discussion re Putin above he says he voted for the first time recently....for Putin. Fears a return to the chaos of the 90s so he wants Putin to stay regardless. That said, he also wants to stay a Ukranian PoW for the time being as he thinks he'll just get sent back to the front with a Russian machine gun at his back if he's exchanged.
Link?
Seems like David Lammy has finally convinced Americans to allow Ukraine to use US weapons in Russia
Especially important in light of new Iranian deliveries of ballistic missiles to Russia
This is very significant if true. I've scoured my usual news sources and can't see mention of it?
It's also worth noting that hitting Moscow airports could be the Ukrainians trying to force Russia to move air defense equipment to those locations, away from protecting sites of higher materiel value to Ukraine to protect sites that are of political value to Putin.
I’ve scoured my usual news sources and can’t see mention of it?
Media interview in the US with House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (Rep)
He says that he's repeating a conversation with Antony Blinken, who is currently in the UK and later in Ukraine and then Poland
Antony Blinken hasn't mentioned it; I'll believe it when I see it, massive security breach if true
X with others ^^
Link?
I quite admire Lammy, he's said some things in the past that I don't nesessarily get behind, but also a lot that I can. One things for sure, I think he's very sincere and belives in what he says, and that counts for a lot.
Thanks all, a bit speculative atm then. Hopefully that speculation is proved accurate when Blinken and Lammy meet Zelensky.
However there are also reports of residential blocks being hit which is not so good.
Quite a few videos from different perspectives on reddit forums of something hitting into what look like residential tower blocks.
Stray drone? Intentional?
No idea.
Probably prevented from hitting its intended target by a GPS jammer or other piece of ECM equipment, but unfortunately when you do that, you have no control over where the disabled drone lands.
Stray drone? Intentional?
No idea.
Fog of war, innit.
We know russia have been systematically hitting civilain targets in Ukraine on multitudes of occasions... the capital city for a start, so even if it was true, it couldn't really considered to be an issue.
Ukraine are fighting with both hands tied behind thier backs, whilst russia gets to do what ever it wants? NAhh...not any more..
TBH, at this point I couldn't care less if half of Moscow burns due to a stray drone or missile.
Interesting X thread on Ukrainian innovations with the tactical use of drones. Some really clever stuff.
https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1833585894202479096?t=Gg0eK6QWGpnoz3ScjDATcw&s=09
looks like those rumours about long range missiles being allowed has reached the bigger news channels. the rumours seem to be more about the uk/french storm shadow that ukraines already been using alot.
Read this the other week, giving some suggestions about why the US is getting a vote on how a uk/french missile gets to be be used: https://archive.is/xQRWH
(tldr; this guy says that in order to be effective storm shadow needs to be sent with a few other missiles and things as decoys as storm shadow itself can be intercepted. the other stuff that goes with it is US made.)
Antony Blinken hasn’t mentioned it; I’ll believe it when I see it, massive security breach if true
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have arrived in Kyiv
Sounds like Russian counteroffensive in Kursk has been quite succesful & costly for Ukranians
lifting those weapons restrictions could be very helpful right about now
^^ reports about that https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kursk-counteroffensive-ukraine-1951986
It's looking more likely that restrictions on the use of Storm Shadow will be removed. US will possibly follow suit, announcement expected tomorrow
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/12/ukraine-war-briefing-major-russian-counter-offensive-reported-in-kursk
Sounds like Russian counteroffensive in Kursk has been quite succesful & costly for Ukranians
lifting those weapons restrictions could be very helpful right about now
Michael Weiss has a good analysis of the situation in Kursk on TwitterX. Bottom line is a bit more hopeful than media might suggest
Michael Weiss has a good analysis of the situation in Kursk on TwitterX.
This one?
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1834265541512470794?t=UC3aHhMcdPEt4scW0tsf5g&s=19
watched on tv a very interesting documentry on the english volunteer, Chris, who was evacuating civilains in ukraine last night. well worth a watch. rip.
I’m not a political expert, but please, now with a new threat of bringing in the Chinese / war vs NATO, and the increasing death count, surely there’s some sort of Special Forces that can get rid of Putin and his chronies?
I know it’s not as simple as that but wanted to shout it at my iPad due to lack of any other intelligent output I can’t provide.
I've been hoping this would happen since Feb 22....
Russia is expelling some British diplomats, which the media are linking to the Starman/Biden meeting later today to discuss which weapons can be used inside Russia.
If that's the level of response we get we'll be fine
Michael Weiss has a good analysis of the situation in Kursk on TwitterX.
For those of us who don’t have an account with mad Musk for access to his X cesspit, what are the main points in the analysis?
Extract from Steve Rosenberg in Russia:
"He (putin) claimed that, for missile launches into Russia, Ukraine would require data from Western satellites and that only servicemen from Nato member states would be able to “input flight missions into these missile systems”.
How much of this is accurate? Maybe someone (BUTR..) could say how close this is to the real situation or not... The Ukranians have shown themselves to be fast on the uptake .