The Ukraine war thread
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 04:20 last edited by Renauda
Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.
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wrote on 28 Apr 2025, 12:52 last edited by
@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:
Kennedy gets it, in fact, he got it all along.
Will Trump listen?
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wrote 29 days ago last edited by
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
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Big holiday week throughout Russia this week celebrating 9 May, Victory Day. I doubt whether the mayhem will be sustained much past the weekend.
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wrote 19 days ago last edited by jon-nyc 5 Oct 2025, 15:09
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Face palm
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wrote 18 days ago last edited by
@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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wrote 18 days ago last edited by
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.
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wrote 18 days ago last edited by
Medvedev speaking bluntly:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moscow-rejects-kievs-peace-plan-152431680.html
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wrote 15 days ago last edited by Renauda
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:
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.
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wrote 14 days ago last edited by
@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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@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.
wrote 14 days ago last edited by@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.
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wrote 13 days ago last edited by Renauda
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.
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.
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@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.
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I can’t see what or when Klaus posted it.
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It still has Twitter as the site, so probably old.
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wrote 12 days ago last edited by Renauda
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.
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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.
