Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 1)

I object. Heard Island is an area critical to breeding seabirds of a variety of species including different species of albatross and burrowing petrels. These birds are of much greater value to us than Putin.

Perhaps drop him off at North Sentinel Island?

Or go with precedent and send him to St. Helena.

Realistically, if there is a change of government, Putin will be dispatched without any help from non-Russians. There’s a lot of high windows in Moscow.

They most certainly don’t want him. Why risk infecting them with something?

How about a small fenced area at Chernobyl, which he can’t get out of? Put it in the area where Russian troops disturbed the soil.

Most likely; and the best way to take care of it. It’s their problem, they oughtta fix it.

Russia preparing to down-size its diplomatic presence in the West.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that there is “no point” in maintaining the country’s current level of diplomatic presence in the West, according to the country’s state media RIA Novosti.

Sounds like somebody is going to take their ball and go home. Good riddance!

But then all the assholes can claim that Putin successfully invaded Ukraine.

I say we make him live under the smoking remains of the Crimean Bridge he was so proud of.

It seems Long Range Acoustic Devices LRADs are being included in the next U.S. aid package to Ukraine. I wonder what the intended use is. “Surrender and Live” announcements or something more offensive in nature?

" These devices vary in appearance and size, but every model has the same two capabilities. In one mode, the LRAD acts as an amplifier, projecting a human voice or recording across thousands of meters; in the other, it emits a “deterrent tone” so loud it can cause permanent hearing loss."

If you weren’t expecting it, I imagine one of these things could disorient infantry.

they did when bombing the azovstal plant

Pretty legendary tweet by Lithuania’s Foreign Minister:

That is pretty legendary indeed. I love it.

The Russians are evacuating non-military from Kherson. (CNN)

The commander also revealed Russia’s impossible war aim:

No, I mean they’re not going to take aircraft away from the strategic mission to bomb stuff, if they don’t have enough planes to fulfill the former mission. They may use the Tu-22 bombers to bomb stuff, but not at the expense of their strategic nuclear mission.

A US analogy might be that when we’ve used B-1 or B-52 bombers in the past to drop conventional bombs on places, we didn’t take them away from the squadrons/groups that were assigned to the strategic nuclear role.

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At the risk of turning the thread political, can Biden lock in some sort of Lend-Lease bill that will assure, say, $50 billion in un-revoke-able weaponry for Ukraine over the next two years regardless of whether Republicans take Congress in the midterms?

Are Republicans voting against Ukrainian aid packages? I thought they were all essentially unanimous.

Wow, I wonder what has endeared Russia to Ukrainians more: conducting air strikes on clearly marked civilian shelters housing scores of children or unlawfully abducting a million+ Ukrainian citizens. Friendly indeed.

https: //www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/house-republicans-ukraine-mccarthy/

NO!

Do not bring politics in.

You knew better, and still did it. Don’t do so again.

Link out to a new thread

The bombings and killings will continue until you love us!

NATO will send ‘hundreds’ of signal-jammers to Ukraine to counter Russia’s onslaught of explosive Iranian-made suicide drones

NATO must have read my post. :slight_smile:

It’s time for Ukraine to go after Russia’s electrical grid with special ops troops.