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What comes next in Chechnya will be the same as the rest of the Third World. Kadyrov's trying to line his sons up for the leadership, but he likely won't last long enough, so he will look for putin to control the actual leader till they are old enough. However, one dark night, his sons will all fall...

Must be using Benedictine monks driving an electric van.

Dunno what to make of this.
Kadyrov is quite possibly on some drug or other.
I don't see how the Russians have the forces to take Kharkiv, and Odesa is right out.
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112400409299894104

Concrete and steel don't burn, fuel trains and ammo trucks do. I note that whenever there's an air alert anywhere in Crimea, they shut the Bridge. The Ukrainians didn't damage the bridge directly last time, but blew up a truck whilst a fuel train was passing. I shouldn't think the Russians have conf...

putin's spooked, then, with all that BS rhetoric. But as Ukrainian Intelligence said in response: "So far, we don’t see anything new, except for the disinformation effect and statements. Nuclear blackmail is a common practice of the Putin regime. There is no epoch-making news here." Speaking of dron...

His performances as King Theoden of the Rohorrim in The Lord of the Rings were excellent. It isn't every actor who can deliver just a few simple words and generate enduring quotes across multiple media. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSYAHDKtvM ..and of course he got to lead the greatest char...

A case for Tulsi Gabbard to be Trump's running mate. https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/03/six-reasons-why-tulsi-gabbard-is-donald-trumps-best-choice-as-a-running-mate/ Some good points. I think she's in the top 3. Tim Scott is a strong contender also. I think Trump'll choose whichever will bring him t...

..and longer!
However, those on the receiving end are just as dead?

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https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112387939005748188

Local Russian Telegram channels are reporting that the limestone quarry that got the ATACMS strike I mentioned was hiding Iskander SSBM launchers.
Sounds like a good strike, as it's a very capable system.

From my Canadian bank...

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It would appear that you are in Mexico to help

Media is dead.
Now they are so incestuous they have media interviewing media about artificial media that will speak to media.

First dawn through the new east windows I fitted yesterday.
They need cleaning, but there's a fair bit more light than the old ones.
And having swapped sash windows for big fixed pane ones, the scots pines in the middle distance are now framed like a picture, it's lovely.

Do pilots ever get pushed deliberately to their capacity limit to see what happens? Once I got all the handling and mouth music sorted whilst learning spinning in the RAF, my instructor then asked me to start counting backwards in 17s from 243 as well whilst doing the next one. Being pushed to one'...

We had a playback facility on the Tornado F3 sim 35 years ago. I can't recall a single occasion when it was used for the direct benefit of the crew.* Of course, the sim instructors were keeping notes, so in the debriefs an instructor was able to answer immediately questions like; "How low did our ai...

My first TV (CRT) was a Toshiba, lasted 18 years and I only binned it because the power switch had gone (stuck on ON, fortunately) and I was emigrating. Current TV 59", great for movies (I only watch from DVDs also). Quite fancy an 4K HDR screen next, but plan on having it behind a retractable decor...

Small Russian assault - tank with two BMPs advance. Russian tank fires at (possible) Ukrainian position. I'm guessing this is just standard fire-at-anywhere-that-might-hide-an-ATGM-team. However, the smoke from the barrel and surrounding dust stirred up makes the Russian tank obvious. Ukrainian tank...

Big ATACMS strike north of Yevpatoria, Crimea. The NASA IR satellite is showing a huge fire here https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@33.73,45.45,14.00z (zoom out for general location. Also note that the hotspot on the edge of the military airfield to the south appears to be an industr...

..and has some interesting information about the Clintons......

The down-ticket Republicans getting elected in marginals was one of the questionable things. There were, in some marginal districts, large numbers of late-counted votes that only had Biden ticked, not anyone down downticket. And this was not at all like the votes earlier, or the districts where late...