Additionally, Belarusian helicopters violated Polish airspace a couple of days ago.
Meanwhile, menacing Belarusian troops also seek to intimidate:
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1687612354215763968
I’ve seen better board breaking by 10-year-old karate students.
good O.S.Intel on the tanker thats was sent out of commissión y’day/today
interesting thoughts … about RU oil business winding down through the black sea - for insurance reasons
it seems that UKR has potentially “parked” many of those small boats/bombs and they can be activated quickly to strike and are pretty much undetectable → loitering ordnance
seems the RU are (again) being outsmarted playing their own game
Dmitry Medvedev has threatened to hand Ukraine an “ecological catastrophe” in response to the tanker attack. What could it be? Another dam burst? Nuclear plant meltdown?
I’m not sure a week has passed since last February where Medvedev hasn’t threatened someone with nuclear annihilation.
At some point, you stop paying attention to a yapping dog, even if it never loses its teeth.
hand him a big bottle and he will be busy (and quiet) for a couple of hours …
works.every.time
2 (unrelated or not???) pieces of news:
- russia withdrew their air-assets from belorus
- russia fired cruise missiles tonight from belorus into UKR
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(I don’t have a good feeling about this)
4 posts were split to a new topic: Hunch: Putin will try to muddy the waters of his vanity war by push-shoving Belorus into the war
I think it’s time NATO started pouring troops into Poland.for some good old fashion training exercises.
Moderating:
Please drop the non-news conjecture. One comment is one thing, but this is now a hijack. I will try to spin this off to an IMHO thread.
An examination of Russia’s shift in tactics since the invasion. They tried using Spetsnaz as infantry, for example, in the beginning, but now they’re saving those troops for counterattacks and putting convicts in less-pressured areas.
the damaged ship propped up by other ships …
(reminds me of the comedy where they pretend to have a good time with a guy who died over a weekend - proping him up for photos,etc… name escapes me)
The guy’s name was Bernie Lomax, at whose place the protagonists spent a weekend.
Boy, that looks like a great target in its own right.
Tough to hit with a surface drone at this point, because that part of the Novorossiysk harbour is completely enclosed by a gated sea wall:
Even if Ukraine doesn’t target those ships, though, they’re still out of action right now. It’s standard military doctrine that it’s better to wound the enemy than to kill them, because it ties up more enemy troops to deal with the wounded. This is the naval equivalent, I guess.