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If a horse dies of a twist in the large intestine, it will bloat within a day. And can pop on the crane of the DAT truck. Off to take another shower... I'm sorry to hear about the horse :( The fourth in 4 months. Not counting the 1 that I managed to save after some fight. They say at one point, you...

If a horse dies of a twist in the large intestine, it will bloat within a day. And can pop on the crane of the DAT truck.

Off to take another shower...

Also - a null magic field would also certainly interrupt those magical defenses, right? So.. Moot point?

There is only one uncertain ally - the US. Everyone else is rallying. With sputtering engines, but they are on the right path.

By the way, there is light on the ammo horizon... Chechia has found a source of ammunition that only needs to be paid... So there is a way to use those frozen Russian assets while the EU/NATO keeps upping their capacity. https://english.radio.cz/president-pavel-czechia-has-found-possible-sources-amm...

I'm a bit mixed about the loss of avdiivka, but it wasn't really a win for Russia, if you are looking at the facts. A town under siege since 2014. Even at the begin of these 4 months, the city was already surrounded on 3 sides, and the supply lines were the shortest Russia could dream of. 4 months o...

Mild shock...
Navalni has died while taking a walk at the camp.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ja ... 024-02-16/

One loose end tied. A message sent. The two other loose ends will most likely face charges (or accidents) after the election.

Um-'recommended' sounds like it isn't really mandatory. Is there an actual 'wording' on how much NATO members are supposed to pay? Nope, just a recommendation. They kinda were spending these 2% before 2000, but that was just the way things were. The actual official 2% number was a reaction to the 2...

The Senate passed the Military aid bill (sans the border bill) with 70-29... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/senate-ukraine-aid.html Let's see how this goes in the house - this had a lot of bipartisan support, includes aid for Israel (which is something Johnson really wants), and as o...

You could. That's one way to create one. But that again needs a machine to roll/crimp the tube, and a _lot_ of welders to keep up with the output of that machine, as welding takes a lot more time than the tube forming. You see, that tube press could probably put out as many as one shell per second i...

It's more of an issue with different philosopy in production processes. The West is lackign "heavy industry" in the traditional sense. Shells can't be 3D printed, and CNC machining them out of stock is -while precise, VERY time-consuming. From my own experience, turning a shell shaped obje...

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2024-02-10 12:41pm How many votes is losing Ukraine going to cost them?

We were talking about green energy investments.

Which is a controversial topic among pretty much every demographic, especially if you start raising cost of living and still have to raise taxes to implement your plans.

Zaune wrote: ↑2024-02-09 08:51pm As with a great many other public works projects, the question we should really be asking is, "What's not doing this going to cost us?"

Politicians do not tally expenses, they tally votes.

If any action will cost them votes, they won't do it.

Yeah, long wars tend to do that. This war is going on for 2 years now. Everybody is tired of it, Stockpiles are dwindling. At least Europe is slowly waking up that they need to ramp up production. China is also getting cold feet... Banks are pulling out russian business. https://www.newsweek.com/chi...

This raises the question- how do you defeat such fortifications without suffering enormous casualties? :?: That's the big question nobody is able/willing to answer. It is a multi layer problem. You have the trenches with infantry, which can only reliably cleared with infantry going in and securing ...

Oh, and predictably...

There were clerical errors which sadly exclude ANOTHER candidate from the russian elections...
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ru ... 024-02-02/

The progress in Avdiivka is slow, but recently the Russians have pushed another 40k men into that combat zone. That usually means that they are going to throw more men into the field, hoping defenders run out of bullets and have to fall back. Very costly, but effective, as seen in Bakhmuth. Right no...

There is some quarrel going on about the Ukrainian top command. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/31/europe/zaluzhny-oust-ukraine-army-zelensky-intl/index.html It seems that there are moves to dismiss Zaluzhny for either the current commander of the ground forces, or a younger general. Not sure if it ...

The T14 was a still-birth, using the engine of the TIGER 1 tank, of all things, and not even working properly on parades. How are people still quoting this shit... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUp-qGkQvNo&ab_channel=TheChieftain Even if it was developed from an older engine, that's how every ...

https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies/ongoing-emergencies UNHCR is handling multiple emergencies that are absolutely comparable to the current Gaza situation. And they do so with local relief workers, just the same. Nobody in his right mind would think that the UNHCR would kick out all local workers and...

On the Ukraine is losing badly front: Russian S400 'shot down' a drone, which then continued flying for half an hour, and crashed (funny coincident) into an oil refinery... https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/31/drone-crashes-into-st-petersburg-oil-refinery-a83920 Russia's enlistment office attac...

3) Russia is in trouble because their unemployment rate is 3%, so they have to import workers? OH NOES! Try reading comprehension - job VACANCIES are 6.8% which means roughly 5 million jobs are open, at the same time unemployment is down to 3%. Which means that they have a lack of qualified workers...

"Citation please" is a well known trolling tacting to derail a thread - now there's a citation for you. Asking for evidence is a troll thing? Nope, but doing it the way he did is. This text was clearly an opinion piece. I made no claim that would not have been known to anybody following t...

"Citation please" is a well known trolling tacting to derail a thread - now there's a citation for you. I don't have to cite my opinion, and all the things I said in there have already been said in the thread or are well known facts. But since you are obviously not up to date to this confl...

Pure ad hominem, with no explanation why the palestinian refugees are so unique that they need their own UN refugee organization, while EVERY other crisis can be handled by UNHCR.