Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

[FD2]

The Daily Wail's shite start with: Vladimir Putin's attack dog

You mean he didn't say those thing and it was all some CGI or other trickery?

[Undried Plum]

No callsign confusion.

Veep trumps Duchess. At least it does West of 40°W.

Eastwards, it seems that the callsign has to change.

Royalty has always been a bit local, y'know.

[FD2]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... ds-bottle/

Watch: Brave Ukrainians defuse giant Russian bomb with two hands and bottle of water

The two men have been hailed worldwide for their 'mind-boggling bravery' and ‘nerves of steel’
By Verity Bowman 10 March 2022 • 1:10pm



A video showing the hair-raising moment two bomb disposal personnel defused a Russian bomb with their own hands and a bottle of water has gone viral.

More than two million people have watched the 31-second clip from Ukraine, which shows one man pouring the bottle over the end of the bomb while the other twists the seal out of it.

The men are equipped with only the water and a pair of gloves, with no helmets. The defusing process would ordinarily be performed remotely.

Experts say that the water was used to reduce friction in the fuse well, where explosive residue can get into the screw's threading. All it would take to set the bomb off is heat, shock and friction.

"The water is to prevent static discharge. Steady hands, nerves of steel,” said Nick Stylianou, a Sky News journalist.

Charles Lister, senior fellow and the director of the countering terrorism and extremism programs at the Middle East Institute, posted the video to Twitter.

He said the two men showed “mind-boggling bravery”.

“This Russia-dropped bomb would flatten a building — and yet these Ukraine EODs defuse it with 2 hands and a bottle of water, while shells audibly land nearby,” Mr Lister said.

The clip was shared by the Ukrainian news outlet NEXTA TV.

It was shared shortly after Russia admitted to using thermobaric rockets in Ukraine that have the capability to “rupture lungs”.

“The Russian MoD has confirmed the use of the TOS-1A weapon system in Ukraine. The TOS-1A uses thermobaric rockets, creating incendiary and blast effects,” said the Ministery of Defence.

Thermobaric bombs suck in oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion, typically producing a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than that of a conventional explosive.

They are the modern equivalents of flame-throwers and napalm dispensers.

Fired as missiles, on impact with a target the rockets spread a fuel-air cloud that detonates a fraction of a second later.

The resultant supersonic blast destroys buildings with a devastating pressure wave that can crush human bodies even if they are not in the immediate vicinity of the strike.


Dear Verity - calm down! That's their job. I wouldn't like the work but they know what they are doing. No helmets? Would they help if the bomb exploded? 'With their own hands' - better control than using someone else's hands!

'Rupture lungs' - is that worse than being blown apart by an old fashioned conventional bomb? You die in either case.

The depth of the crater in the hospital grounds that Russia probably never attacked is very impressive. Big bomb tovarich - that will teach them.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Time to kill the Russians again... blood and urine...

How I hate them... the bastards...

[Undried Plum]

Time to kill the Russians again... blood and urine...

How I hate them... the bastards...

How very Zarth Evrigan!

No wonder The New American Century selected those refined racist borstards to represent the cause.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Time to kill the Russians again... blood and urine...

How I hate them... the bastards...

How very Zarth Evrigan!

No wonder The New American Century selected those refined racist borstards to represent the cause.

A poes, who has just been shot, is still a poes!

[AtomKraft]

The Russkis have picked this fight- clearly under a series of misapprehensions.

We must ensure they lose this now, because if we don't- they will continue on a series of similar escapades.

They started this, but neither NATO or Putin can afford to lose it.

[Undried Plum]

We must ensure they lose this now, because if we don't- they will continue on a series of similar escapades.

Only on to Georgia.

Then NATO has 'won'.

Other than the next big'un ..... China.

By which time, the dollar will be a busted flush and The Empire will be openly buggered.

[TheGreenGoblin]

We must ensure they lose this now, because if we don't- they will continue on a series of similar escapades.

Only on to Georgia.

Then NATO has 'won'.

Other than the next big'un ..... China.

By which time, the dollar will be a busted flush and The Empire will be openly buggered.

Taken out to the rock, and quietly shot!

[FD2]

Look what the Ukrainians did to their homeland. It would have been so much worse if it had been the Russians wot done it, but we have their word they didn't invade so it must be a false flag thing

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... iupol.html

[Boac]

What is particularly worrying is that they have sworn they will not invade Poland - where have I heard that before?

[FD2]

I hope they use these to good effect. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ayer_click

[FD2]

What is particularly worrying is that they have sworn they will not invade Poland - where have I heard that before?

We know we can rely on them when they give their 'word'. They're very reliable that way.

[barkingmad]

The 'nutty professor' has come under fire for predicting the Ukraine shambles now turning to tragedy;

---:Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago is the man who, way back in 2015, said the following:

The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked … What we’re doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We’re encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they ultimately will become part of the West … And of course the Ukrainians are playing along with this, and the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy. Well as I said to you before, if they do that their country is going to get wrecked.

Quite a prophetic remark, you might say. Indeed, predicting that Ukraine would “get wrecked” seven years in advance would seem to suggest that Mearsheimer has a good understanding – that he’s worth listening to. (Note: Mearsheimer did not think Russia would launch a full-scale invasion, so he wasn’t 100% right.)

With the Ukraine crisis still dominating the headlines, Mearsheimer must be the golden boy of his department, right? Actually, no. A group of students recently circulated a letter denouncing him for “propagating Putinism” and claiming his actions are “extremely detrimental for our country”.

The students take issue with several statements from Mearsheimer’s 2015 lecture (which is the source of the quotation above). For example, they characterise his use of the word “coup” to describe the toppling of Viktor Yanukovych as “ideological rather than academic”. (They prefer the more heroic-sounding “revolution”.)

The students end their missive by demanding “public disclosure” of all Russian funding received by Professor Mearsheimer, as well as a “statement from the university community at large that it does not condone anti-Ukraine ideology on campus”. They also claim that, if left unaddressed, the problem could “tarnish the reputation of our beloved University”.

Apparently there are no articles suggesting that the university took action in response to the letter. So the students’ campaign appears to have failed. Good.

And it’s of course absurd to suggest that Mearsheimer holds an “anti-Ukraine ideology”. Indeed, much of his 2015 lecture (which the students probably just skimmed through while searching for ‘incriminating’ statements) is concerned with how to prevent Ukraine from “getting wrecked”.

Mearsheimer’s proposal comprised three elements: ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine; funding an economic rescue plan, together with Russia and the IMF; and insisting that Ukraine respect minority rights, especially minority language rights.

It seems plausible that if we’d followed this proposal, we wouldn’t be in the situation we are today, with Russian troops advancing on Kiev, and the West powerless to intervene for fear of sparking World War III. So far, Mearsheimer is a far better friend to Ukraine than the people who dismissed his warnings:---

Reassuringly many modern uni students continue to have a firm grasp of the non-essentials, apart from a fierce determination to seek out 'micro-aggressions' and any other crap which they, in their wisdom, feel is important. I doubt even if a good dose of conscription would solve this problem.

[Undried Plum]

"Not an inch beyond reunified Germany" was the promise.

If you ever have an opportunity, and an inclination, to travel to the MidWest to such places as New Mexico and Arizona, I very strongly commend that you visit some of the 'reservations' and that you talk to the elders of the tribes there. They will tell you a thing or two about how much you should rely upon USG promises.

[Seenenough]

Time to kill the Russians again... blood and urine...

How I hate them... the bastards...

How very Zarth Evrigan!

No wonder The New American Century selected those refined racist borstards to represent the cause.

A poes, who has just been shot, is still a poes!

poesnoun
The female genitalia.=Etymology: From the Afrikaans slang for “vagina”.

poesnoun
A disliked person.

Etymology: From the Afrikaans slang for “vagina”.

Is this how 'Little Moscow On The Hill"taught you to speak,Gob?

[FD2]

"Not an inch beyond reunified Germany" was the promise.

If you ever have an opportunity, and an inclination, to travel to the MidWest to such places as New Mexico and Arizona, I very strongly commend that you visit some of the 'reservations' and that you talk to the elders of the tribes there. They will tell you a thing or two about how much you should rely upon USG promises.

White men spoke with forked tongue UP? Not exactly a secret. When was that exactly?

[Undried Plum]

Air Force Two, using callsign SAM526, has landed in Bucharest from Warsaw. I guess Kamel Harris has been sent there by Sleepy to sort out the false flag ****** and source some blue and yellow paint to sclabber on some Romanian MiGs.

[admin2]

Plum - I'm surprised you hadn't noticed, but it has been decided that some words are not acceptable here any more and word censorship has been increased. However, your continuing attempts to evade the system are getting tedious. So far I have merely been playing with your dangly bit, but if you wish to have major surgery we have a dedicated team here to help.

Work on the premise that if you need to resort to swearing to make your point you probably don't have a point?

[Undried Plum]

"Not an inch beyond reunified Germany" was the promise.

White men spoke with forked tongue UP? Not exactly a secret. When was that exactly?

Bush41, in a meeting with Gorby in Malta in December 1989, promised that NATO would not expand Eastwards beyond a unified Germany "not one inch". Since then he and every succeeding POTUS has reneged on that promise and has ripped up arms Treaties and other major international agreements.

That habit goes way back to the formation of the fascist Empire in the days when its imperial expansion was Westwards, not Eastwards.