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  • RenaudaR Offline
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    Renauda
    wrote on last edited by
    #2816

    Said the spider to the fly…

    negotiate with us not Washington…

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/30/kremlin-to-ukraine-negotiate-with-us-not-washington-a88930

    Elbows up!

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    • jon-nycJ Offline
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      jon-nyc
      wrote last edited by
      #2817

      Hope it’s true and durable.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      • RenaudaR Offline
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        Renauda
        wrote last edited by
        #2818

        Big holiday week throughout Russia this week celebrating 9 May, Victory Day. I doubt whether the mayhem will be sustained much past the weekend.

        Elbows up!

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        • jon-nycJ Offline
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          jon-nyc
          wrote last edited by jon-nyc
          #2819

          Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own.

          Only non-witches get due process.

          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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          • RenaudaR Offline
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            Renauda
            wrote last edited by
            #2820

            Face palm

            Elbows up!

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            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

              Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own.

              taiwan_girlT Offline
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              taiwan_girl
              wrote last edited by
              #2821

              @jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

              Amateur hour continues. He uses a Russian interpreter instead of bringing his own

              I read about that. That is just crazy!!!

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              • RenaudaR Offline
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                Renauda
                wrote last edited by
                #2822

                No better way to tell the Kremlin that not only are you not willing to play any of the cards you can play, but you have never been the least bit serious about the diplomatic initiative you have launched from the onset. A clown show.

                Elbows up!

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                • W Offline
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                  Wim
                  wrote last edited by
                  #2823

                  Medvedev speaking bluntly:

                  https://www.yahoo.com/news/moscow-rejects-kievs-peace-plan-152431680.html

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                  • RenaudaR Offline
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                    Renauda
                    wrote last edited by Renauda
                    #2824

                    No surprise. Further proof that Kremlin is not serious about peace talks with Ukraine. In absence of Putin at least send the obnoxious foreign minister, Lavrov to meet with the Ukrainians for the meeting Putin ordered in the first place. Zelenskyi and a couple of his ministers will be there tomorrow and Friday. Word has it that so will Rubio.

                    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqe9g0vn57o

                    And here:

                    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/14/putin-taps-kremlin-aide-medinsky-to-lead-new-istanbul-talks-with-ukraine-a89086

                    Like Republican Senator Kennedy of Louisiana pointed out a couple weeks back, Putin is playing the US (read: Trump Administration) for a bunch of chumps.

                    Elbows up!

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                    • RenaudaR Renauda

                      Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                      Tom-KT Offline
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                      wrote last edited by
                      #2825

                      @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                      Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                      For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

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                      • Tom-KT Tom-K

                        @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                        Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                        For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

                        HoraceH Offline
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                        Horace
                        wrote last edited by
                        #2826

                        @Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

                        @Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

                        Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.

                        For all his, "awe shuks" and "yes" and "no ma'am" he's the smartest guy in the Senate.

                        I'm sure he loves it when people underestimate him.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • RenaudaR Offline
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                          Renauda
                          wrote last edited by Renauda
                          #2827

                          Well at least Russia has moved past some its medieval mythology to justify the war. It’s now moved on to early modern history lessons from the time Peter the Great:

                          “The Great Northern War with Sweden lasted 21 years. Twenty-one years. But just a few years after it began, Peter the Great offered peace to the Swedes… What did the Swedes say? ‘No, we will fight to the last Swede’,” Medinsky said in an interview with pro-Kremlin TV host Yevgeny Popov.

                          https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/16/kremlin-negotiator-invokes-peter-the-greats-21-year-war-with-sweden-in-ukraine-talks-a89109

                          Still, the Russians get the history of the war with Sweden wrong and lay a back handed insult to all members of NATO at the same time. But that is only to be expected of an aggressor state.

                          Kremlin is not interested in any terms short of Ukraine’s total capitulation.

                          Elbows up!

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                          • KlausK Klaus

                            Any idea what kind of weapon causes an explosion like this?

                            HoraceH Offline
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                            Horace
                            wrote last edited by
                            #2828

                            @Klaus said in The Ukraine war thread:

                            Any idea what kind of weapon causes an explosion like this?

                            Hi Klaus, sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you on this. No, I don't know what sort of weapon might cause an explosion like that.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                            • RenaudaR Offline
                              RenaudaR Offline
                              Renauda
                              wrote last edited by
                              #2829

                              I can’t see what or when Klaus posted it.

                              Elbows up!

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                              • MikM Offline
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                                Mik
                                wrote last edited by
                                #2830

                                It still has Twitter as the site, so probably old.

                                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                  Renauda
                                  wrote last edited by Renauda
                                  #2831

                                  I can only guess - possibly a thermobaric rocket mortar. Nasty for sure, but effective and permissible as an anti-infantry weapon. Sucks the O2 out of the blast area. Russians have used them regularly since the 2022 invasion.

                                  Elbows up!

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                                  • AxtremusA Offline
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                                    Axtremus
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                                    #2832

                                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/23/ukraine-russia-drones-fiberoptic-jamming/

                                    Fiber optic drones -- drones that fly tethered to a fiber optic strand; not susceptible to wireless signal jammers. The article says something about "12 miles" range and risk of cable entanglements. Hard for me to imagine a flying object going 12 miles tethered to a cable, much less a swarm of those going at the same time. 🤷

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                                    • jon-nycJ Offline
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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote last edited by
                                      #2833

                                      "Trump felt that he knew Putin and that the Russian leader would end the war as a personal favor."

                                      https://archive.ph/GX4bM#selection-3179.9-3179.105

                                      Only non-witches get due process.

                                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                      • 89th8 Offline
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                                        89th
                                        wrote last edited by
                                        #2834

                                        Delusional.

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                                        • RenaudaR Offline
                                          RenaudaR Offline
                                          Renauda
                                          wrote last edited by Renauda
                                          #2835

                                          Nothing happened to Putin, he is what he always has been. A KGB hood.

                                          Trump is only beginning to come to terms that Putin has all along been playing him for the political Muggins he really is. The latter is not the least bit serious of agreeing to any peace deal short of the total capitulation of Ukraine to Russia’s stated objectives.

                                          Yesterday’s comment from the Kremlin that Trump is merely experiencing “emotional overload” is a patronising insult designed to show the total disregard Putin himself holds towards Trump as a leader and person.

                                          Elbows up!

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