Letter from Prague

Leonardo Da Vinci made one of these I think.
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Turtle-tank %)

I'm sure they launched 15 naval drones from the same five person pleasure yacht they run the huge and complicated operation to destroy NordStream from 😁
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Anyway, as for the resources. I have heard that a few times (mostly about natural gas, EV minerals are a new one) and I'm confused how it's supposed to work. There are barely places in occupied Ukraine that are further than 100 km from the front line. Most are closer.
Are Russians going to start building new mines and refineries (or gas drills or whatever) there? Full of new, expensive machinery? How long are they going to stay unexploded, considering Ukraine is now blowing up oil refineries hundreds of kilometers inside Russia?
If there was a ceasefire, maybe. But Ukraine doesn't seem to want one, and neither does Russia for that matter.

The West is watching...

With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky’s options look bad or worse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/06/ukraine-war-zelensky-options/
Where are these articles coming from? Is the war worsening? In what way?

Next Russian assault group was delivered to Berdychi on BMP-1M... and all they remained there
 

I don't think so.
Actual Ukrainians correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that lot of the far right in Ukraine traces its history to "the Nazis have treated us (or our ancestors) better than the Russians have", and meanwhile Russian Nazis might be white supremacists globally, but between white people they are definitely Russian-supremacists.
So they might look similar if you look at their opinions on LBGT or economic policy they might look the same, the history and goals are quite different so of course they fight.

"Denazification" is and always has been a total lie insofar as the idea that it is a legitimate justification for invasion.
On the other hand, it's no secret that there are right-wing extremists in Ukraine.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-doubled-imports-of-an-explosives-ingredientwith-western-help-fd8d18bc
 
 

Oftentimes the reactions are very predictable and pretty obviously the goal of the attackers.  The Shoe Bomber and the Underwear Bomber are examples of that.  The two guys who got caught trying to blow things up may have thought that they were going to damage something and kill a bunch of people, but whoever set them up wasn't expecting that.  Neither one of them was going to damage anything - they were set up to get caught hiding explosives in ways that would cause the US and much of the world to inflict all sorts of disruption on itself.  Had they actually blown up the aircraft over ocean it's likely that the root cause would have never been found. But by under-arming them and making sure they got caught, they gave the DHS another thing to freak out over and add ineffective disruptions to try to mitigate.  That would have failed the goals of whoever set them up.  The reaction to both of those was entirely predictable and we still disrupt our air travel to try to detect copycats to this day.

He was named Alexander Lukashenko. The World will remember him by another name...POTATOFACE. 😄
 

Oh, this is why Putin's relationship with Kadyrov is so good.

Oh, this is why Putin's relationship with Kadyrov is so good.

Oh, this is why Putin's relationship with Kadyrov is so good.

It's because they are all familiar with the default Combat Mission UI and think that rifles should be green. They are probably wondering if it turns yellow when the owner is injured.

Is that not a Batman movie plot point?
Man, life does imitate art.

I'm just thinking. It seems that Russia started the info-op of trying to blame Ukraine for the attack in full.
It might be interesting to watch Western media to see which are co-opted by Russia - just like we've seen who is a puppet when we say various German newspapers come with the nonsense about Ukraine blowing up Nordstream. Who will be the first to offer "investigative journalism" on how Ukraine might have been involved I wonder.

Russia's actions are intended for western consumption. The west is being shown that 1. Russia is inexhaustible, thru constant offensives, 2. Russia retains capabilities to inflict terror on all of Ukraine, 3. Russia's terror is emerging, ala war crimes and breakdown of prior standards.
This is designed to both demotivate western civilians and policymakers to abandon Ukraine.
AND ITS WORKING. The Speaker of the House should be fired. The cowardly Republican House deserves to lose in November on the mere basis that while the majority of Americans support Ukraine, majority of Republicans support Ukraine, majority of Senate Rs support Ukraine, they themselves support Ukraine, we have endured months and months of delays for no good reason.

What happens when ISIS gets mad that no one wants to believe it was them and keeps blaming Russia/Ukraine? 

I think there is also a spectrum between false flag and real attack:
You know something specific is going to happen, and you let it happen as you can benefit Grooming potential actors (FBI specialty) Mobilization focused on Muslims is an interesting idea, but on the other hand that might backfire too… does Russia have the capability to put down a full-blown secession in Dagestan right now?

The choice of target in Moscow suggests that ideology is at least as important as money.  Today I read an article in FT about Opus Dei - worth checking out and if you need a link let me know,

People on reddit are claiming it was fake:
 
 

I don't think this is reliable information, because I don't think Medvedev is ever not this drunk and high.

I don't think this is reliable information, because I don't think Medvedev is ever not this drunk and high.