:3jörn

Is it Cricket's avengers?

I don't know, but if I had to do it, I'd try to smuggle them to the Mediterranean either by ship or by truck.

It is... interesting... to see Russians who believe that the only reason for their failure is that they aren't war-crimeing hard enough.

While you're probably correct, shouldn't it be about time for them to add an additional significant digit to the serial number relatively soon?

Yeah, although I doubt that'll change the attitude of the hawks at all. But it should wake up the billionaire cadre, the isolationists and the congressmen worried about their reelection chances.

And then the great jockeying for Trump's attention begins...

My prediction is that Trump will continue to wait for his oil tanker while Israel keeps preventing that by assassinating anyone who could negotiate on behalf of Iran, and all while the people around him goad him into further escalation.

And the only "plan" is from those who wish for indefinite war.

Then he's surrounded by people who clearly had other plans, like Lindsey Graham and Netanyahu who strive for the complete eradication of Iran, or Hegseth who's just really horny for violence. I believe they've convinced him he'll look extra tough if he goes all out (not a hard sell).

After his bait-and-switch with Venezuela, I believe Trump's plan was just to bully the Iranian government into signing a "deal" where they get to grovel a bit and send him a monthly oil tanker in tribute, and he gets to strut around and claim he settled yet another war.

Huh, so the Russian word for "friendly fire" is just straight up "frendlifayr".

The first time I read about evangelical Christianity being a doomsday cult, I thought they surely must be exaggerating...

Let's wrap this up!

SAM munitions, on virtue of being made to protect what's on the ground, usually have some self-destruct built in if they miss their target, and you can see quite a lot of that happen in this video. There's a flash at 00:21 which I think is the misfire self-destructing.

*anti invasion account seemingly wrote pro invasion post* Skinner, looking scrupulously: "Am I missing something?" Skinner, having made up his mind: "No, obviously they were bigots all along"

*nuance

One thing you'll notice when following Darth for a while is that he neither attacks the "target never deserves it" not the "target always deserves it" crowds this way, because while they lack moral nuisance, at least they're intellectually consistent.

OP never cheered the invasion; be careful when reading between lines because you might misread.

Darth is taking the arguments off people who claimed Russia's invasion was justified (or at least inevitable), and apply them to new conflicts to expose intellectual dishonesty, which is rife.

I mean, he probably saw them as a good excuse to attack, since few people are willing to throw their support behind the Iranian regime after their massacres.

But it is true that he only cares about their well-being insofar that they're more useful to him dead than alive...

Thanks! I already got one, though.

However, since my combined total should be $200 now, would it be possible to upgrade it to Sky Patron?
(Previous donation was here: bsky.app/profile/bear...)

Here's a commemoration of 4 years of heroic defense of life and democracy. Let's go for goal.

Hmm, I wonder if those terrorist threats refer to HRU recruitment of Russians to perform petty sabotage? I doubt that's their primary reason for cracking down on Telegram, though.

Looking closer at the video, I realise that the loss-of-feed effect has been edited in, but I don't think they deceptively edited a complete miss. Mostly because I've seen Ukranian units post near misses before...

Unfortunately, I think the drone targeting the Malakhit radar ran into a small tree (3-4m high) just in front of it. The distance is hard to tell, but I estimate maybe 10-20m ahead of the radar.

The tree is easier to see if you manually move between the video frames at 0:39.

I don't think it flew past, since there was a loss of feed, but it might have hit the end or top of this barrier, in which case the amount of damage to the Pantsir itself is unclear.

Flag planting! Decades of strategy gaming has told me that houses with flags on them produce soldiers and resources, so sneaking into enemy controlled towns to plant a flag is absolutely brilliant and well worth repeatedly losing platoons over!

You mentioned on the stream that you had to drop one of your sources because of them turning from reputable to AI slop. How much does that factor into the total count, you think?

Thats a 23% reduction in outages since last week. Has the weather improved significantly over western Russia, or do you see any other explanations for the sharp drop (e.g. new priorities, or underreporting)?

This means you have to try to execute your superiors' orders, can't be too egregious with the embezzlement, and need to build alliances with other powerful men that can back you up when someone challenges you.

In this appears a status quo where orders and requests still move between top and bottom

One answer is that the infighting serves as a limiter to the corruption. Everyone is looking for evidence of disloyalty among their enemies that they can present upwards in a bid for more personal power.

Connecting dots while prez disconnects them, and the great status quo is preserved once more.

Reality was swept up in the first round of deportations.