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It is just my opinion, but it is weird the secrecy and brush it under the carpet style of the few information that is out there. Pushing investigtion is good. Despite being russia piçushing it, most likely PR stunt
When will Russia understand that it's not a threat but a welcome offer which would benefit the rest of Germany if they take the burden that Berlin today is from us
Everything going to plan.
Imagine how russian propagandists and news channel would react, if Europe would host concerts with Nato flag over Kremlin lyrics. The hypocracy has no limits over there.
Similar tactic as in 2016 when Russian troll farms created fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook to promote Trump by creating ideological schisms between different factions of Republicans, as well as between Dems and Rs.
It's just bizarre, so bizarre that this is 2023
Putin has turned the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) into a cult so it’s not surprising that they are playing on this imagery. It’s a history without the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the subsequent occupation and atrocities in Eastern Poland and the Baltics, and also a history where Russia (not even the USSR) won the war on its own without any help from the US or UK. The level of knowledge about WWII in Russia is abysmal.
Reminds me of a trump rally to be honest
Honestly, I hope that Wagner and the Russian MOD will sabotage each other to levels similar to what was reported between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy during WW2.
Bottom left looks like tasty enchiladas.
Some information about the Russia economy in there. Basically, they are holding on even though people hope they will go down eventually, but who knows? etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/business/russia-economy-ukraine-anniversary/index.html
Go Canada.
This conversation.
This could be one of the reasons why they have recently slowed their offensives across the front. Long may it continue.
Permission
Asking for permission sounded probably like this: "Don't throw your shit on Kiev in the next 24h, if you don't want apocalypse in return. Thanks."
The fact they're parroting they didnt start the war always does my head in.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials
Prigozhin is starting to sound desperate.
Saab, the makers claim it has terrain avoidance and show it making long sweeping movements around hillsides. Maybe that's a degree of hype but they seem to claim quite a long glide time / range with the added wings
To avoid getting detected by ground based radars it would need to cruise at very low alititudes, in a flat country like Ukraine probably as low as 90 - 150 feet or just over the tree tops. I don't think it would be able to glide at those altitudes for any major distance without any propulsion.
My guess is that the best way to avoid interceptions for a weapon like this is to have it glide to the target mid course at the highest altitude possible and then let it dive at the target to gain as high speed as possible in the terminal phase, this also gives the added benefit of a higher kinetic force upon impact. Very similar to a normal ballistic trajectory but with an added gliding phase mid course. Since it is guided it will probably have pre programed evasive maneuvers to for added protection.
This sounded fake to me, especially because it implies that "Democracy" and "Fascist dictatorship" are the same on this subject. They are not. They are definitely not the same.
Anyway, I am still not sure if this is fake or not. Certainly, he did not say anything like this "at the Nuremberg trials" so, this part is definitely incorrect.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fac...-them-appears-to-be-inauthentic-idUSL1N2LM23W
“The intended link between COVID-19 measures and any ‘Nazi ways’ of ‘scaring’ and ‘enslaving’ people is complete nonsense,” Paulmichl said. “The quote is fake and - in my opinion - it is very likely that whoever invented it did this on purpose.”
Peter Fritzsche, a professor of history and Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (here), also told Reuters via email that Goering did not say this at Nuremberg, and described the posts’ implicit links to the novel coronavirus as “tendentious and silly.”
Good to see Canada taking the lead on this part. Shove it, Vlad!
Xi Jinping will do it, unfortunately. The guy is like WIlhelm II while his predecessors were kinda like Bismarck. People with enough familiarity with German history in the 19th century up to 1914 will recognize the pattern, especially the part where Wilhelm II did everything hisway and without heeding the words from all of those who had been there and done that before him.
China Reportedly Negotiating with Russia To Supply Kamikaze Drones
The U.S. and Germany have warned China not to deliver weapons to Russia. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, however, Beijing and Moscow are said to be negotiating the purchase of 100 strike drones, which could be delivered as soon as April.
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa..._ecid=soci_upd_KsBF0AFjflf0DZCxpPYDCQgO1dEMph
The U.S. and Germany have warned China not to deliver weapons to Russia. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, however, Beijing and Moscow are said to be negotiating the purchase of 100 strike drones, which could be delivered as soon as April.
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa..._ecid=soci_upd_KsBF0AFjflf0DZCxpPYDCQgO1dEMph
I’m old enough to remember when we couldn’t criticize or wish ill on the Russian soldiers on here…
The exact quote from Nuremberg Diary, pp 255-256
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering
shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk
his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to
come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common
people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor
in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is under-
stood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who de-
termine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag
the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dic-
tatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy
the people have some say in the matter through their elected
representatives, and in the United States only Congress can
declare war."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any
country."