I mean the game “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” predicted the Russian-Georgian-war of 2008. The first mission even takes place in “South Ossetia”. It’s as if Putin was thinking to himself: I’m gonna make myself a Tom Clany-villain.

The Pope: Please show white flag-courage

Petr Pavel: Here’s some 155mm courage

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Sounds like China realized that they don’t have any combat experience and now some people are volunteered to gain some experience for the invasion of an unspecified island…

Does anyone have a link to the news story? Can’t find anything unfortunately.

Russia withdrawing from the 2+4 treaty would be another dog whistle to the German right. In the 2+4 treaty, Germany dropped its claims on its former eastern territories in Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia. Thus Russia would signal towards the German far right: “We got your back when you want to have your former territories back. All you have to do is accept our claims in eastern Europe.”

Yeah, it’s just another step in the playbook from “Foundations of Geopolitics”.

In case anyone wondered: Phalcon is short for Phallus Container.

PC30

This means RS30 and it might be a Russian designation for Multiple Rocket launchers, not 100% sure about this.

ВСУ is actually VSU (or WSU for Germans), but it does mean Armed Forces of Ukraine

Are there not valuable targets closer to Ukrainian territory?

This would allow the Russians to concentrate their air defense close to Ukraine. Striking targets far beyond the front forces the Russians not only to spread their air defense thin, but they also have to decide which sites they leave undefended. Pulling their air defense away from the front, it also means that Ukrainian F-16s and other planes will have more freedom to operate in the region.

And the strategic reason has already been mentioned: Striking targets like refineries makes the war more costly to the Russians, it deprives them of income, they possibly can’t repair them because of sanctions, a.s.o. And obviously you want to bring the war to your enemy’s territory because the enemy is already creating lots of destruction in your country.

It’s a pre-series Ka-60 Kasatka with inflight-refueling capability.

Wow, designing a WW1-tank during the WW2-era is kind of like using a T-55 in a modern war!

When I joined Lemmy it felt so nice. It felt like the early Internet; all the bullshit I got used to on Reddit, it wasn’t here. It was like feeling at home.

Nowadays, whenever I see toxic bullshit and sedition disguised as leftism, it’s someone from lemmy.ml; my Lemmy-experience got a lot better after blocking the lemmy.ml-instance. But I will start blocking more aggressively and I hope things get better after the US-elections.

How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?

It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.

Russia is so lame… This is like those Twitter users who post something and then reply to themselves agreeing but forgot to login as their alt-account.

John Oliver: Today the German Navy shot down a Houthi-drone with one missile, except it wasn’t a Houthi-drone, but it was an American drone, except the drone wasn’t shot down because the missile failed, except it wasn’t one missile that failed, but it was two missiles that failed!

But instead he spent his time talking about a perverse Russian history that some how blames Poland for Hitler’s aggression.

This was a message towards German fascists; he’s dangling the Königsberg-carrot (and other former German territories in the east) in front of them. He’d really like Germany to be on his side.

It becomes more clear what Russian strategy is when you consider Medvedev’s interview where he speaks about Lviv and he mentions how Poland could support an Ukrainian remnant with Lviv as its capitol. Complete and utter bullshit, the message is simply “Poland and Lviv”.

And I’m betting that Putin promised Orban he gets the south-western parts of Ukraine.

That’s not a dog, that’s a viper… which makes this a snake under a plane.

Can someone explain to me why this shootdown is even news instead of a statistic?

It’s a military airplane shot down in a shooting war. Does Russia now call the UN security council when Ukraine destroys a transport truck? Why is the media constantly falling for Russia’s bullshit behaviour?

The Tu-22M is a completely different plane from the Tu-22, despite the name. The Tu-22M flew first in 1969 according to Wikipedia.

Because a tank factory is a strategic target which you would use ballistic/“hypersonic” missiles for. Well aside from the propaganda value that a German tank factory was destroyed. You can safely assume that the Russians are going to use their better stuff for that factory instead of firing at civilian buildings or train stations with refugees.