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  1. “It’s not the Hunt for Red October, it’s the Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic”
  2. Remember back in the 1970s and 1980s when NATO forces would practice taking off and landing on highways turned into makeshift airstrips?
  3. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
  4. Russia gonna keep on showing the world that they are just fucking animals. Fucking brilliant - just as Ukraine is asking for Tomahawks, Russia helps justify the case for them. UN CONVOY CAME UNDER ATTACK WHILE DELIVERING AID TO A FRONT-LINE COMMUNITY IN THE KHERSON REGION | United Nations in Ukraine Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson Region. Humanitarian workers, including from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ukraine and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine, were on a mission to provide humanitarian aid to a heavily war-impacted community that had not received assistance for months. When the aid workers were on site, intensive artillery fire started, and later, during offloading, two clearly marked trucks of the World Food Programme were targeted by first-person-view drones. Fortunately, the humanitarian workers were not injured, but two trucks were damaged and set on fire. Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked. Civilians remaining in front-line areas are heavily reliant on humanitarian assistance, and aid workers should be able to deliver life-saving assistance safely. Deliberately targeting humanitarians and humanitarian assets is a gross violation of international humanitarian law and might amount to a war crime.
  5. Trump is riding high with his peacemaker mindset and knows that Russia clowned him, and that Russia looks weak. He hates weakness.
  6. Posted by Zelenskyy this afternoon The Ukrainian delegation has departed for the United States: Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and several representatives of the diplomatic sector. They will hold a number of meetings. I will also have the opportunity to come to Washington and meet with President Trump on Friday. I believe we will discuss a series of steps that I intend to propose. I am grateful to President Trump for our dialogue and his support. There will be several other important meetings – with defense companies, and possibly with senators and members of Congress. I will also meet with energy companies. This is necessary – it was President Trump’s proposal – and I will meet with these companies because there are pressing needs linked to various formats of attacks, not even the attacks that Russia has already carried out. In any case, we must be prepared. So, it will be helpful. Therefore, the main focus of the visit is air defense and our long-range capabilities aimed at exerting pressure on Russia for the sake of peace. ———- I am going to guess that if Trump thinks hitting refineries will end the war, he will supply Tomahawks. As dense he can be about this topic, even he understands refineries going up in flames and long gas lines.
  7. From earlier this month, speaking of navigation systems
  8. I’ll find it later when I’m at my laptop, but there is a whole thing in Russia about pilots having to go back to paper charts because navigation systems are either down or providing inaccurate information on purpose.
  9. Don’t look at me, I tuned out of his speech when he declared the Holy Land was at peace and that he had ended 8 wars in 8 months. I do not know, even with a surge of Arab/Muslim peacekeepers and humanitarian aid, how we can call it ended without some amount of time in the rear view mirror - this is not a pickup basketball game where somebody gets bumped and we say “no harm, no foul”. Homes and lives were destroyed by the IDF. I think Hamas might be a little/lot more careful because if there are tens of thousands of peacekeepers keeping an eye on things and Hamas is out there killing collaborators, it could blow back on them. Plenty of the peacekeepers could easily drop a dime on Hamas and let the IDF or other Palestinian groups know where they going, etc. as most of these countries would like to see Hamas knocked down a few notches for various reasons. And they could create safe havens for the Palestinians to work out of against Hamas, but I feel like that’s asking too much. I question how many of the peacekeepers want to get involved and how many just want to serve their time and go home. i do think a lesson was learned by anybody wanting to do something like this in the future - take a lot of prisoners. I also think there are thousands, probably tens or even hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, who hate Israel with a all their being and who might be willing to sacrifice themselves to kill Israelis, because they lost everything, including relatives and friends. They are extremely easy to radicalize against Israel because it was Israeli forces who fucked up their shit. Our friends in Israel are concerned about this going forward. I haven’t talked to them in a few weeks though, but even a massive surge in humanitarian aid can’t easily paper over that anger and resentment, and feeling so powerless.
  10. @Brisketexan get a plane ticket EU to fund tribunal for Putin — Kyiv to receive first millions for war crimes investigation Kaja Kallas has announced the allocation of €10 million to establish an international tribunal to investigate Russia’s crimes against Ukraine. Another €6 million will go toward helping Ukrainian children deported by Russia and victims of sexual violence. In addition, the EU is preparing an extra €100 million package to support Ukraine through the winter.
  11. G7 countries are preparing an oil strike against the Kremlin — Russia could lose half of its oil revenues (around $80 billion a year). According to Reuters, G7 finance ministers are drafting new measures aimed at draining Moscow’s war budget — including additional tariffs on countries that continue to buy Russian oil. If the plan works, Russia’s oil revenues could drop nearly by half — from 7.3 to 5 million barrels per day — leading to losses of about $76 billion annually. The G7 is also urging Saudi Arabia and the UAE to boost production while pushing India and Turkey to reduce imports of Russian oil. Experts believe that coordinated pressure could severely weaken Russia’s economy — and might even force Putin to halt the war. But the question remains: can they actually make it happen?
  12. Rainbow spotted over the still burning Feodosia fuel terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea this afternoon. The facility, one of the largest fuel dumps in Crimea, a region already facing a critical gas shortage, suffered a catastrophic fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone strike
  13. NASA satellite over the Black Sea
  14. Hitting production, hitting pipelines, hitting stored fuel. Keeping it up day after day. Gonna be some long lines in Crimea and a lot of black market profits. Also doesn’t bode well for Russians in Crimea if air defenses aren’t shutting this stuff down.
  15. Would help if it stopped them from procreating.
  16. One of Trump’s “spiritual advisors”, one of the major ones. This stuff is good (not the destruction but the talk of it being evil, Biblical, etc.). It pushes back against the narrative some push about Russia being the good guys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Burns_(pastor) This morning, we were once again reminded of the unrelenting cruelty being unleashed on the innocent people of Ukraine. At 10:39 a.m. on October 11, a Russian warplane dropped a guided KAB-250 bomb directly onto the town of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The explosion struck Svobody Avenue. Two lives were lost, and four others wounded. Among the severely wounded was a devoted priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He was inside the St. Job of Pochaiv Church, offering shelter to a 4-year-old child whose mother had just died and was buried near the church days prior. The sanctuary itself, a place meant to protect life and offer peace, was damaged in the blast. This is not just an act of war. It is an act of evil. It is a strike against innocence, faith, and the very idea of sanctuary. A priest, a grieving child, a house of God, violently attacked in one brutal moment. As a Spiritual Diplomat, I cannot stay silent. This is not just a military crisis. It is a moral one. Russia’s war machine is not only destroying homes, it is desecrating sacred spaces and tearing at the very soul of humanity. To all people of faith and conscience: I urge you to speak out. Share this story. Let the world know what is happening. Let policymakers, interfaith leaders, and every spiritual diplomat across the globe rise up and demand justice. We must not grow numb. We must not let darkness have the final word.
  17. https://nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/meet-propagandist-alexandra-jost
  18. We maybe decades removed from the Soviet Union, but damned if the apparatchiks aren't still around, toadying up to whoever is in power.
  19. Paul Blart and Reacher crossover?
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