Russian marines and paratroopers

Apparently these are elite troops as well.

Yeah, I was just thinking “is KLM not working, or what”?

Rescue planes are usually for places where commercial air traffic has broken down and there is no safe way out of the country.

It’s explicitly a war crime, whether or not it was “targeted”.

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/

Yes it is, and not because of whether the attacks were targeted.

“It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.”

This is a US West Point essay BTW.

Nobody ever accused voters of being smart. That said, Harris lost a lot of Biden’s 2020 voters, so this is the exact good time to go super critical on her campaign.

So the North Koreans didn’t even send weapons with those troops? Sounds a bit weird, why train the troops with new gear? NK gear should be compatible enough that they can keep them supplied with older Russian ammo, right?

I also don’t think it will be that drastic, but I can totally see the Russians pushing inexperienced North Korean troops in the thick of the fighting.

If there are any significant changes in direction from the election, that should take effect in February next year, right? The current admin could still sign over the whole army to Ukraine next month, even if the Russians got literally all the votes in the current US election.

The Swedish furniture company

You mean the Dutch charity that pays almost no taxes?

Thank you very much!

Don’t get me wrong, I was not advocating for nazism. I know you by reputation to be knowledgeable about history, so if you could recommend some literature into it, I’d love that.

What I’m saying is more a kind of fear I have instead of a statement, I just saw that nazi regimes seemed like able to channel economic productivity into some societal goal - even though that goal was utterly despicable and evil, like a war - instead of just having the economy grow as a cancer.

I guess that’s my point, the economy should be a means to societal progress, and I feel a lot of people pretend it works the other way around.

Corporations should be slaves to bettering our lives, instead of our lives being slaved to bettering corporations.

I would really love to have a conversation about how the Nazis had a great economy, capable of going from rebuilding from WWI to starting WWII in 20 years.

I feel like worshipping the economy, and having it be the sole measure of society, inevitably leads us to the far-right. China is not going to magically crumble, and economic prosperity is achievable without societal progress.

We need to have societal progress as the goal, not some magic by-product of line go up.

Details: […] Geolocated footage suggests that Russian forces may have previously regained positions east of Novy Put, while Ukrainian forces appear to hold positions southeast of the settlement. The front line in Kursk Oblast remains unchanged.

This is another “Russians captured another hedgerow, lost another platoon” article.

I wonder if they like Sabaton.

Still a deadlock at the frontline
Where the soldiers die in mud
roads and houses since long gone
still no glory has been won
know that many men have suffered
know that many men have died

Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone
And as the men crawled, the general called
And the killing carried on and on
And on
What’s the purpose of it all?
What’s the price of a mile?

Do they also have this thing where boomers vote for this one party out of force of habit, and the main effort of the one party is to make other parties seem worse instead of actually governing? Or is that only Eastern Europe?

The image really illustrates the gains well, when one of those “offensive arrows” that usually span regions or even continents spans the area of like 15 parking spaces in a mid-sized car park.

I would just like to point out this paragraph from Wikipedia about Levadne:

According to the 1989 Ukrainian SSR census, the settlement had a population of 19, consisting of fourteen women and five men.[3] In the 2001 census, the settlement’s population would drop to only one person,[4] who spoke Ukrainian.[5]

And from the article about Shakhtarske:

At that time, Russian forces attacked the settlement near Shakhtarske using armoured vehicles and infantry. “In the afternoon, a convoy of eight armoured vehicles reached the village [of Shakhtarske] and attempted to break through towards Velyka Novosilka. One armoured combat vehicle was hit, forcing the rest to pull back. By evening, a larger convoy of over 15 armoured vehicles arrived and split at Zolota Nyva. Part of the convoy again tried to advance towards Velyka Novosilka, but after the lead vehicle was hit, they decided to retreat. The fate of the remaining vehicles in the convoy is unknown.”

So the news is: Russians captured another Ukrainian farmshed at Levadne, and were turned back twice at Shakhtarske after losing another two combat vehicles.

It’s a loan that the Russians are forced to repay with the profits of their assets.

In a way it’s better than just giving them money, because instead of letting Ukraine get Russia’s bank account, they let them get some credit cards out in Russia’s name and go wild.

For the people equating Hungary to this, there was another rally 80 metres away filling streets and squares, chanting “Russkies go home”.

It was way bigger than this one that Orbán filled up artificially by mandating waterworks workers attend by force.

Orbán’s days are numbered. It will not leave the EU, and it will get back on its feet. All it needed was for the EU to stop financing Orbán.

Yet you are two weeks away from electing a Russian intelligence asset.