I hear the Zuck will wipe the floor with him, being younger and extensively training actual martial arts.
Terminator versus Jabba the Hutt.
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I hear the Zuck will wipe the floor with him, being younger and extensively training actual martial arts.
Terminator versus Jabba the Hutt.
I did say this was going to end in a mutiny.
I was just off by a year.
We still speak German; as for Japanese ...
If you're looking at it from the cost accounting view, that Russian language market is probably dead until sanctions are lifted, and the Russian economy...
I figured that Christmas Twenty Twenty Two was about as low as the second hand market (for the higher end) would go, so that December I tasked my brother to get one for me.
Thirty Eighty Tie was...
The Gulf War didn't help Bush Senior.
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Rescued Bucha cat with thousand yard stare.
United Nations sanctioned peace keeping intervention and no fly zone.
Russia will automatically be ousted from it's Security seat.
To be fair, it's a lot more complex than I illustrated.
A lot of Russians both aspire to Western life style and resent that the West caused the implosion of the greatest and most powerful country...
1. Jokes aside, if Russia was a better neighbour, no one would be rushing to join NATO the moment they have the opportunity.
2. The best examples are Finland and Sweden, who have for decades at...
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Would it kill you to be...
1. So, it's the nineteenth of April.
2. The Battle of Donbas has officially begun.
3. Within the tenth to twentieth April window I had forecast.
4. I'm not saying it was the smartest move by...
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1. I heard it was likely Murphy's Law.
2. Or Axiom.
3. Their operational pattern became predictable.
1. Kirov battlecruisers.
2. Arguably, Kiev class heavy aviation cruisers.
3. Kuznetsov.
4. None of which are still operational in the Russian navy, except Peter the Great.
5. And...
1. No one, who lived under Soviet, or Russian, oppression wanted to remain under it if given a chance to bolt.
2. There's a reason there were so many Baltic and Ukrainian collaborators, and that...
1. Now, if I understand Russian psychology exactly, at least on this aspect, it has an identity issue.
2. Whether they are Slavs, or Rus, or Mongolians.
3. Whether they are a European country....
1. All Quiet On The Eastern Front.
2. Attrition continues on forward based Russian vehicles and personnel.
3. I suspect the new Russian commander, will go nowhere near the front.
4. Analysis...
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Either with the boat, or in it.
Luckily, tankers have no such tradition.
Considering with what's currently...
1. Happy Easter, or whatever you prefer celebrating.
2. I suspect a big part of the problem is the seasonal climate.
3. One reason you may have had four widely spread out axis of approach is...
1. Mayday countdown twenty three days.
2. Mariupol still seems to be holding out.
3. Looks like it will rain for the next week.
4. Tanks are going to be unhappy.
5. There's an opinion...
1. You're watching national and international power dynamics t play.
2. In real time.
3. The Greens have become pragmatic.
4. And the centre of gravity appears to have shifted to...
1. The Ukrainians have a nearly completed copy of the Slava class.
2. Reportedly, the Russians offered to take it off their hands for free.
3. I think our perception of Ukraine has evolved over...
A lot of people are going to start being interested in cheap anti missile and anti drone defences.
1. Traditionally, the Tugboat Arm is the most reliable branch of the Russian Navy.
2. Russian sailors feel more reassured when one or more accompanies their warships.
3. For the Moskva, opinion...
1. Did the Ukrainians/Soviets use a lot of asbestos in their buildings?
2. Coughing indicates anyone doing intensive urban combat who survives, is looking at some lung damage.
3....
1. Mariupol may be personal.
2. Putin may resent having been ejected seven years ago.
3. Revenge is a tea best served cold, and tasted by others first.
4. The Ukrainians appear to have...
1. The problem with America, like Rome, special interests.
2. Thank god Forty Five turned out to be an incompetent populist.
3. Putin is an oriental despot.
4. Stalin had actual plans, not...
1. Russia.
2. To the Moon!
3. Economy will shrink between ten to twenty five percent.
4. Luckily there are openings in the Ukraine special operations for the poor, Siberians, the unemployed,...
Roads, tracks and air routes can complement each other, as a rule of thumb, dependent on distance and traffic.
Problem with high speed rail on the Mainland is, it's become shorthand for...
1. The petrodollar was meant to keep international demand for the greenback, otherwise you go back to bartering.
2. There's a sort of basic trust the value will remain in line with inflation, and...
1. Only hyper powers can afford to engage in the full ranged multi dimensional warfare spectrum.
2. In terms of armoured warfare, you either buy a tank that is fully equipped to survive the modern...
1. I think we can sagely say that Schroder sold himself to Putin.
2. Merkel is likely to have a tarnished legacy, but I think she was a cat herder.
3. Her handling of the German ship of state...
1. While this may seem strange, the Easter Offensive might actually become a life or death struggle for the Russian army.
2. Despite what seems a clear line of retreat, they may not be able to...
1. Estonian Intelligence says that Putin will declare victory at Mayday Parade.
2. Will he take his ball(s) and go home?
3. Zelensky might have gotten some more ball(s) from NATO and might want...
Reportedly, graphic card prices still dropping.
In theory, would wait for the current generation to hit seventy five percent of recommended retail price.
In practice, who knows whether this...
1. For the children.
2. To the children.
3. I believe that all Russian and Belarusian trucks are now banned in Europe.
4. Easter onwards.
5. Wonder how long Russian war criminals, after...
Imported cars from Europe and Japan may be replaced with Chinese and Indian models, according to Anton Shaparin, a vice president of the National Automobile Union.
"Many people are saying that our...
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We can do without butter, but, despite all...
1. Russians are booby trapping bags of potatoes to tempt starving Ukrainian civilians.
2. Sacrilege.
3. To all potato loving peoples.
4. If I were a Russian, and told to garrison Chernobyl,...
1. It appears that the Russians hacked into the Ukrainian cell network, and identified several telephone numbers they had marked leaving British special forces facilities.
2. That's why they had...
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Using Chinese logic, the Poles have a claim to a hefty piece of Russia.