Harmon Rabb

Going by that description it sounds like Prigozhin was living the Scarface lifestyle, complete with a lot of "blow" in his office. I mean it could be true but Putin, seems to have a tendency of calling people who he does not like drug addicts. Edit: Some new footage of the AFU from Crimea.

Update regarding air defence pledges.

Meanwhile in Bizarro World or is that Russian World? Same thing really these days.

More unfortunately unsurprising barbarism.

AFU Leo tank going in the sunshine.

Exclusive: US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine (CNN) Not the first time I have heard of the AFU ending up with Iranian weapons and ammo during the war, but the first time I have heard of the United States sending those over.

Russia Accidentally Reveals Addresses of Putin's Secret Service (Newsweek) Looks like General Budanov may have some more reading to do.

For some reason they would use "Anglo-Protestants" on Russian propaganda shows. I did not get why they used it either. Putin hints at holy war in Ukraine with 'Anglo-Protestant' backing Best example I could fined quickly of the term being used. I used to hear it all the time when listening to Russian propagandists in 2022 using Francis Scarr's clips to understand the rhetoric they are using. But frankly I cannot stomach listening to that garbage anymore, so I am not sure if the term is still used on a daily basis in 2023.

We all know Slovakia's real problems are the "Anglo-Protestant" occupiers. Unfortunately my friend, I did not expect anything less from this guy.

Here we go again, where have I heard all of this before?

Absolutely brilliant video. Personally I enjoy cooking, I know how to make a pretty damn good steak. But when you go to cooking instruction videos on YouTube you don't generally see comments like this, because most people can admit they don't know everything there is to know about cooking. When it comes to anything to do with the military/war, in my experience those videos attract a certain internet tough guy type, who being an internet tough guy knows everything their is to know about warfare. Because maybe he played Call of Duty or even watched Black Hawk Down 10 years ago. I'm not even talking about the obvious paid Russian trolls here. Thank goodness for resources like this forum, where informed people can actually help people understand the situation on the battlefield. And this is coming from someone who the closest they came to war was playing DCS and Arma on my PC.

Slovakia elections: Populist party leads as most votes counted (BBC) Very disappointing if true. Alright I think I'm going to get some sleep. Maybe we will get a clearer picture of all of this later.

Yeah, due to some of the news from the political front on our side of the pond, I wanted to post something positive. In other news from central Europe. Personally I'm a big fan of CZ firearms.

Slovakia elections: Liberals win against pro-Moscow party - exit polls Does not look like Robert Fico is going to win in Slovakia. But the election was too tight for my liking. Last thing the European Union needs is a second Viktor Orban type, especially during this war.

What should we expect when this clown runs "X"? Seriously. I know the situation at the US-Mexico Border is not perfect. But comparing it to a genocidal war is just absurd. If this clown keeps this up I will just delete my "X" account and find another place to follow this war.

Checked with AP this is legit. Russia hosts the Taliban for talks on regional threats and says it will keep funding Afghanistan (AP) Is Russia still interested in getting kit from Afghanistan or has the Afghanistan exhausted it's stockpiles to sell to others? I mean not that long ago Russia was asking North Korea for ammo. It was a gentleman who went by the username @Combatintman, who knew a lot about Afghanistan due to his trade, who said On October 5th 2022 on this very forum.

In the information war Ukraine was not the only one who messed up this week. Kind of an amusing story that I think our Polish friends may appreciate. It was Oscar Wilde who said Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I already checked it is indeed in Poland, that big church kind of gives it away.

Just to get some clarification about yesterdays video which turned out to be a fake, or maybe I misunderstood what Mr.Kovalenko is saying. So were the folks in the video unfortunately Surrendering AFU members or was the whole video fake created by Russia?

Good riddance.

Thanks for sharing Dan. Regarding quite a few of the artworks of the books mentioned in the thread. I have seen a few of them posted in placed like Steam and social media sites by tankie types. Now I know where they come from. As someone who has consumed quite a few alternate history and techno-thriller books in my lifetime, I doubt any of these will be on my reading list anytime soon.

Neat.

That's a shame if true. I thought it was legit because it was posted by an official Ukrainian MoD Twitter account. I guess I have to keep in mind that the Ukrainian MoD also uses propaganda. Edit: Ukrainian MoD deleted the Tweet. Looks like it was just a mistake on their part. We all make them.

Looks like the Russian military took a page out of Otto Skorzeny's Operation Greif, by changing into Ukrainian uniforms to cause confusion.

NATO’s secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine (AP)

Germany Stalls Delivery of Long-Range Cruise Missiles to Ukraine (wsj.com) I know someone else is going to post this eventually so I will just do it. My main question would be is this decision set in stone or is Scholz waiting for the United States to officially announce ATACMS. Like he waited for the United States to announce sending Abrams tanks. I would be interested in hearing from our German friends who understand German politics more. Please no Germany bashing day, I think we have had enough of that here.