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'Purification of the national blood' - now where have I read that before?

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:09 pm Biggest asparagus I've ever seen.

It's next left.*


*gratuitous HMHB reference, m'Lud.

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:59 pm Er, Obie. Defender's ability to launch a counter -offensive doesn't rely on attackers doing badly.

See Ardennes December 1944 for details.

But it Frequently does: See Isandlwana January 1879.

I'll see your Isandlhwana and raise you a Battle of Mortain 1944.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:34 pm Meanwhile Putin is calling for purges of the disloyal.

Yebbut western imperialist hegemony

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:01 am I'll see your Isandlhwana and raise you a Battle of Mortain 1944.

I will admit that examples where each side has tanks are more relevant to the current war.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:11 am

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:34 pm Meanwhile Putin is calling for purges of the disloyal.

Yebbut western imperialist hegemony

The Americans are making Putin act like a repressive, autocratic, ruthless prick. Don't you see?????

Plus, as we all know, it's long been an American dream to ensure each and every Russian lives in fear. Right? RIGHT????

Meanwhile, in Russia...



Bayraktar.

Who is this 'Jimmy' geezer?

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:38 pm 'Purification of the national blood' - now where have I read that before?

A Dacre penned editorial?

RT has had its UK broadcast licence revoked with immediate effect.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60791734

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe ... gn=KARANGA

Mad Vlad finally lets his demands be known.

From the BBC article Obie linked above

Ukraine would have to undergo a disarmament process to ensure it wasn't a threat to Russia.

Ukraine has never been a threat to Russia. Russia is a constant threat to Ukraine.


Those who melt their swords into ploughshares end up doing the ploughing for those who kept their swords.

This was always going to be Putin's approach to negotiations, have pie-in-the-sky demands that no nation could reasonably accept and then when the inevitable refusal comes in, posture it as "We tried to parlay but they are not interested in peace" and then carry on launching artillery at defenseless citizens hiding in makeshift bunkers.

Letter from Ukraine, by the author Andrey Kurkov.

Have a listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015jjq

The Russian Rouble has been recovering somewhat over the past week, now at £1 = ₽138.

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from ... UB&view=1M

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-s ... arzenegger

Ahnald has earned the Kremlin's ire.

Looks like Arnie's off Vadim's chat show list. There's always Steven Seagull and Oliver Stone. No word from Chuck Norris, is he still a 'kick the Russkies' ass' Republican?

“That face is the cover page of American imperialism and colonialism,” TV host Vadim Gigin declared on state TV show Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovievon

A line in the sand drawn before a steep cliff.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-p ... -1.6396247

Putin with a casual bit of population transfer.

What a terrible fate to befall those 400,000 people.