If the Russian state media started showing clips of Friday Night Dinner and passing it off as some sort of fly on the wall documentary then my heart would probably explode with joy.
Red or grey? Seems more patriotic to eat red squirrel, best of British and all that, but then greys need to be obliterated to save the reds and so is it more patriotic to eat greys? I think we need an LBC phone in to find out what the nation thinks.
Have you ever tried eating something the feeds almost exclusively on pine trees? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm retsina flavoured tree rat.
The Russian delegation at the UN called for a discussion on Russophobia. There were very pleased that one of the speakers was the US historian Timothy Snyder. Now Snyder's short, but very good, treatise (AKA a thinly disguised 'attack/account' on the rise of MAGA Republicanism and Trumpism) On Tyranny is often held up by those anti-US/'West' (especially by Russian nationalists) as, a sort of, 'All That's Wrong With Western Democracies'. Unfotunately, Snyder didn't stick to what the Russian delegation thought was 'the script'. Here are his closing statements when questioned on his speech by the head of the Russian delegation:
I hope Snyder doesn't live near any place of historical interest that any on-leave FSB agents may want to visit...
So the Russians saw a historian with a proven track record of speaking truth to power, thought "yep, that's our man", and were then surprised when he spoke the truth they keep trying to deny to power? Beyond hilarious.
The US has released footage of this drone incident today. Will be interesting to see what the Russians say now after adamantly denying it only yesterday.
The MIG must have hit the drone quite 'hard' judging by the damage done to the Reaper's prop blades (ISTR them being made of some sort of unobtainium type material). Russians' reply: https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1636217218282209282
A simple 'yes' would have sufficed. I now know why nobody likes you. The RAF Museum has the Reaper's smaller baby brother on display - and that's mahoosive... https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/general-atomics-mq-1b-predator/
Does anyone know if Stone Island is the uniform? Putin recruits football thugs to fight in Ukraine with formation of hooligan ‘battalion'
The UK's representative at the UN made a very good statement at the session: https://twitter.com/ivanastradner/status/1636010590580666368
Slovakia sending 13 MiG-19 jets to Ukraine Don't get me wrong, I'm all for countries sending arms to defend against the invasion but nearly $1 billion for 13 planes (that don't even have air to air missiles) made over 50 years ago?!
The thing is, they are airframes that the UkAF ground crews are familiar with and they have the skills, equipment and parts to maintain. Also, all of these 'old' MiGs (and SU's @Moose) form NATO countries have been modified to carry NATO standard coms, targetting systems and weapons (even if it's guns & bombs for a CAS role). They are not emptying out museums.
That does seem pretty dodgy. Though air to ground, they would still be effective. Air to air combat, they would likely come off second best. What will be even dodgier will be the inevitable Hollywood movie featuring a load of over 80 year olds, Clint Eastwood etc, wheeled out as the only badasses on the planet still capable of fly by wire combat.
It’s a filthy business war. The UK is providing shells with depleted uranium to Ukraine. Russia protested about the use of weapons with a ‘nuclear component’ and received a rebuff that this was ‘disinformation’, which it is. Depleted uranium is not a ‘nuclear’ weapon. It simply adds a heavy element to a shell, making armour piercing more effective. But this isn’t a great response itself. Depleted uranium is a dirty weapon, leaving behind vaporised uranium, mildly radioactive and highly toxic. They did great damage in Iraq and are linked with infant abnormalities. Winning a war against a foe like the Russians isn’t going to be pretty, but is it going to be necessary to destroy Ukraine to save it? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...k-supplies-depleted-uranium-shells-to-ukraine
The possibility of cyber-warfare are really being stretched by the Ukrainians... https://twitter.com/GicAriana/status/1640917137135943681
Seeing the damage done to some regions through indiscriminate bombing and hearing about the number of land mines placed, there will be some regions of Ukraine which won’t be liveable in for a very long time. Hopefully Ukraine are smart about where they use the shells and they end the war sooner, or they’ll be much worse destruction.
Finland joins NATO forming a huge new border where NATO and Russia meet. Russian threatens unspecific ‘counter measures’ which, given Russia’s slow progress in Ukraine are likely to be to undermine Finland’s security and borders rather than offer any real threat right now.
There's a new Russian abhorrent war crime doing the rounds - bear in mind those Russians who manage to get their sane voices heard: My Only Regret Is Failing to Convince People of the Danger Putin Posed Ahead of a verdict expected next week, outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been put on trial for treason in Moscow for his outspoken anti-war comments, gave the following address to the court on Monday.
