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Since you’re the only one here who supports Putin’s occupation you’re really the only person here who is bloodthirsty enough to approve of all that death. Not just that, you support the rapes, you support the rampant torture, you support the deliberate murder of countless civilians unlucky enough to Live in the occupied territories.

Why? It won’t stop you supporting Putin’s occupation, so in what sense do you actually care?

You made the distinction that executive pay comes out of their pockets. Are you somehow under the impression that there are two completely different pots of money in any given corporation? One for things that shareholders do vote for and one for things they don’t? I mean hell - if pay for union members does not come out of the pockets of shareholders then why on earth shouldn’t they get paid more?

Funnily enough this is possibly the worst day for the Russian Navy since the entire Pacific fleet leadership was killed in a plane crash on the way back to Vladivostok from a high command conference. The accident was caused by improper weight and balance - the generals had packed it full of the good booze and household luxuries that just weren't available in the outskirts of the Soviet Union and then bullied the pilot into taking off anyway with threats of the Siberian Gulag for insubordination. So both catastrophes were self inflicted.

They're really dead because mad Tsar Putin decided he wanted to invade and subjugate a neighbouring country, and to murder anyone remotely in opposition to him in the territory he's seized, and you have steadfastly supported him in that goal. You want him to retain control of occupied Ukraine, despite knowing how many people will die as a result. Shame on you. Yeah, and it'll work too. We both know there's nothing the Kremlin loves more than a good old purge of disloyal officers - whether they exist or not. So the Ukrainian strike on BSF HQ will end up hobbling Russian command and control even more than the number of high ranking casualties already has.

I’m not sure that you can buttress a smoking ruin.

Oh that’s a keeper. Maybe check the poll numbers before predicting things in future? Under the current polling, Labour is still on course to win seats in parts of England where it has always been a distant spectator, such as both Bournemouth constituencies in Dorset, Southend East in Essex, Macclesfield in Cheshire, and Bromley and Chislehurst in south east London. If an election was held on the 2019 boundaries, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan-Smith, and the new defence secretary, Grant Shapps, are amongst some of the leading political figures who would lose their seats to Labour. Why are they in this position? Because over the last decade in power they’ve screwed up everything. They trashed the economy last year for absolutely no reason whatsoever. One of the biggest self inflicted wounds in the history of politics. Brexit is an ongoing disaster. By sleepwalking from one hardline immigration policy catastrophe to another they can’t even do xenophobia right at the moment. They are the last people on earth you want on your side in an argument right now, because when they’re so demonstrably wrong about everything else, what are the chances they’re right about this?

I heard one analyst talking about the Kerch bridge saying that unfortunately it's unrealistic to hope that cruise missiles or ATACAMS alone will destroy the Kerch bridge because it's simply a type of structure that is very tolerant of having lots of holes blown in it. The number of missiles it would take to guarantee long term closure of the bridge would be better used elsewhere. That said, now that Ukraine has knocked out enough of Russia's high quality air defenses south of Kherson and along the west coast of Crimea up to Sevastopol, they'll be able to do a damn good job of making Crimea uninhabitable for Russian warships, commanders and supply dumps. Somewhat amusing that the Russians initially claimed only one serviceperson was killed in the HQ strike, and later downgraded that to just 'missing'. Now it appears that the commander of the fleet may have been killed, with two more Generals in the ICU / comas. I wonder how much they're being deceived by their own misinformation.

And especially don't re-elect it. Looks like a big chunk of the bribery cash was in honest to god gold bars. That is a total baller move and will 100% make him the coolest guy in his wing of the jail, but was there much of a plan there? Surely it's a lot harder to launder gold that you're not supposed to have than cash you're not supposed to have. What are you supposed to do, smuggle it back to Switzerland?

That’s not exactly how polar regions work.

He’s the President. Duh. Have you ever paid any attention to how your own country works?

So let me just check this logic - Clinton won three out of the first four Primaries and this shows she was handpicked by the DNC machine. Biden lost three out of the first four Primaries and this shows he was handpicked by the DNC machine. Is there anything that could possibly have happened that you wouldn’t think was evidence of Democrat nominees being handpicked in advance? BTW, after SC Buttigieg may have had two wins, but from that he was sitting on 26 delegates and poll numbers that were falling like a fat man on ice. Biden had 48 and was rising just as fast. And not everyone bailed, since Bernie was still leading the delegate count for some time after that.

Yes indeed, handpicked by the delegates just like every other nominee. BTW, interesting to see that when your 'evidence' is demolished you simply fall back on 'because I said so'. Does that ever work?

Obama endorsed Clinton the Thursday after she’d won enough Primaries to have a majority of delegates. It’s more than a little amusing that you’ve decided to demonstrate your complete and total ignorance of this process on the same day you told someone else to learn civics.

Are there any Ekranoplans left on the Caspian they could bring over? Totally useless but kinda cool, and blowing them up would be nice payback for the An-225.

Rolling Stone founder has his Dilbert moment Wenner’s interviews in his book The Masters offered the perspectives of musicians such as Bono, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townshend – all of whom are white men. He told the Times that the selection “was not a deliberate selection … insofar as the women (and Black artists), just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level”. Sure. To be fair I bet it is real hard to find a woman or black person as intellectually articulate as Mick Jagger.

"After being ejected from the show last Sunday, she asked an usher 'Do you know who I am?' and gave a staffer the finger." Bet she wishes no-one recognised her now.

One thing I hadn’t quite grasped is that the Black Sea is completely cut off now, with no warships permitted through the Bosporous. So everything the Russians lose there is gone for the duration of the conflict, there’s no way of replacing those vessels. Also, even before the 2014 invasion the Black Sea fleet was based at Sevastopol under a controversial lease agreement. Another way that Russia will emerge from this war in a much, much weaker position than it started from.

Right? Even without the book deals etc he’s a boomer who’s been part of a two professional salary household for 50 years. How could he not be a millionaire?

Let's hope there's much more to come - though the problem with Storm Shadow / Scalp and Germany's Taurus is just that there aren't many available and MBDA isn't geared up to produce them very quickly either. They can't afford to risk very many of them on missions like this where they might get shot down.

I read the other day that Comer of the oversight committee had been crowing about having established that Hunter Biden had been in Ukraine with his Burisma partner, phoned someone in Washington, then the next day Biden suddenly took a meeting with a Ukrainian official... but his own evidence showed the meeting had been scheduled weeks in advance. Like their other big win finding out Hunter had been emailed a copy of Biden's VP business schedule so they must have been doing something shady... when it was the schedule relating to the weekend of the first anniversary of Beau Biden's death. They were coordinating a family gathering to mourn a son and a brother and the fucking Republican vultures are trying to beat them over the head with it.

That’s our Windsor - on a constant quest to demonstrate he is both the most eloquent and least informed contributor here. He may only be succeeding at one of those things, though. Anyone think he’ll give even the slightest hint at where he thinks Biden’s income discrepancies can be identified?

How does that affect the reality of what is being supplied and what is being refused? Of course it is political leadership making major DoD weapons supply decisions. I’m pretty sure that’s why Ukraine still doesn’t have the ability to carry out heavy bombardment of Crimea.

It absolutely has, by refusing to provide the capability to attack it. Capability that Ukrainians are begging for. That’s no different to Musk’s refusal to open Starlink access in and around Crimea. (Note, the initial report that it was available and he turned it off appears to be false)

Two points - first, by all accounts the US and Europe started paying for Ukraine's Starlink this year. The incident in question was last year. Like most things, contracts generally go forwards in time, not back. Second, what makes you think the DoD would have done anything different? Ukraine is begging the US for their stockpiles of weapons that could let them bombard Crimea, the DoD continues to refuse. Ukraine asked Musk to enable Starlink for an attack on Sevastopol, Musk refused. What's the difference? To be clear, I think they're both wrong in refusing more help with offensive operations. But it doesn't make sense to focus all the outrage on the man child, he isn't the one whose decisions are doing the most damage.