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BTW for anyone interested Check out his responses via clicking his ID on the forum. He has one supporter who has interesting views on Steve... I seem to remember that person having a similar debating style...

This little mini documentary shows how lucky Wittmann was. Excellent work by the tank museum!!!!

Hmmm I wonder if the limited drones they have had up to this point had other more important targets on the actual front line.... Russia has had trouble even hitting stationary targets. Ukraine has only just had the manufacturing capacity and capabilities to hit Russian oil facilities these things take time to develop, test and then manufacture in quantity. It will no doubt happen at some stage but to say it should have been done already is a bit naive... I have had clients like you and I just smile... If it was easy it would have been done already... Humans you gotta love them...

What's your point? What have you added? Humans you gotta love them...

So why do it and then expect no response!!! Defence doesn't include mass murder of innocents. I'll just leave it there...

You said it... But keep barking up the wrong tree...

That Russia is suffering a shortage of fast response armed units as they have been busy elsewhere. That decent command and control staff are busy elsewhere (if even alive). Ukraine is going to be blamed for anything bad happening in Russia whether or not it can be tied back to Ukraine or the evil 3rd party (British, CIA, FBI, America) depending on the whimsy of the Russian elite at the time... It really doesn't matter what Russia thinks, it's what the real world thinks... Russia already lives in a Fantasyland so who cares how they spin it...

Lot's of folk here not very happy with this either.... I am all for sending Ukraine everything we can from the Uk. No point in having it sat here in warehouses when we have a fire to put out in Europe. I will be writing to my MP, not that I expect it will do much but it's something I can do. Europe has realised that we shouldn't be dependent on foreign countries for energy and key commodities so we are on a trajectory to remove the strangle hold of OPEC and Russia. If Ukraine can produce it's own weapon systems with European help, American Aid will become less important. We need to keep you in the fight this year.... Ukraine needs to work out how to recruit folk to keep the front lines manned...

If America could only ween itself off Oil... There is a pathway but too many on the right are against anything "green". A topic not for this thread but it would help the world and stop Americans being held hostage to oil price pressure. I wonder if Ukraine will listen to this advice from Biden or will take the Israeli position. Europe really needs to up it's involvement as I despair of some Americans who hold power.

Looks like the AD did a good job if true? Hopefully it didn't disturb our friends in Ukraine?

This chap is doing fairly decent videos trying to explain attacks and the context of them. His content on the incursion into Russia has been useful for me to understand exactly where the videos have been taken. His analysis is not military grade but by adding maps and context it is useful, to me anyway... Looks like Russia might have lost some long range bombers?

I am hoping this will be the case and the Western Powers can't stop Ukraine from using home grown weapons doing whatever they wish.. In fact I think Macron might even be fully behind this now to end the war quickly... As I keep asking "ARE WE THERE YET!!!!" God do I hope so....

Ok as we are talking about Elections PR Stunts this popped up and worth a read... https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/05/putins-human-rights-council-accidentally-posts-real-crimean-election-results-only-15-voted-for-annexation/amp/ The article is from May 2014. I know I know going back a bit but when did the war start... So for those thinking there was mass support for the annexation the actual figures don't back that up... Anyway all a moot point as any Russian election is just a PR attempt to dupe the world...

This struck me at the start of the article.. So they make more from the crude and Ukraine is not targeting that production. Certainly Russia is going to see more fuel shortages for its internal market but it is not clear cut that the drone attacks will do enough to shut down the energy market for Russia. As the author says (he wrote article I guess before the 26th Jan) we will have to see how effective the repairs are. I am hoping they are not as effective as Ukraine was in recovering from the attacks on their power grid. It could be the smartest use of drones by Ukraine so far and perhaps have the biggest payback. (And Ukraine is already at genius level for use with the ships sunk...) Fingers Crossed...

As a wise man has already mentioned we (all of us outside of the Kremlin) have no idea what the real turn out was... But we can clearly see that it wasn't an election. It was a PR exercise...

False Flag... New HD web cam perfectly framed helo with broken window, fueled to make a bigger bang. Clearly not flown in ages... Done in day light, no easy to identify drone, could be anything that destroyed it. My money on a False Flag, let's see what else happens....

Latest Perun video and nothing we don't know, Russian Arms Exports are in the toilet being flushed down the swanny... Quite a good analysis and some detail about the deals with India and China.

BBC had a page on Macron and his volt face... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68575251

This really helped me understand the Russian pyramid problem. Also touched on why Ukraine is protecting its younger generation from recruitment. Imo worth the 30 minutes watching as he explains the issues really well. Ties into Russian increase of invalids...

For those interested in listening in on two world leaders talk about Ukraine before the war. More to follow....

Hmmm unless they have a way to get it past the dogs in the manger they could promise anything and it ain't going?

It could be that to protect the bridge they need the ships out patrolling... Who wants to bet that Ukraine has more Drones than Russia has ships...

Well then I suggest that those Germans who are reading this, and want Ukraine to be supported get involved and get in touch with their elected representative.