What do you expect when people falling out of windows becomes normalized?

No probably not.

Second night in a row that targets in Crimea are being pounded.

Blinken trying to change the administrations (and UK, France, Germany) stance on use of weapons outside of territory:

https://x.com/.../1793448311954813048

Maurice

Well, if Russia can use Iranian and N. Korean weapons outside Russian territory so should Ukraine. Fair is fair.

Biden and the West have pussy-footed around so long that it's turned this war into a more costly, more deadly war of attrition that could go on for years. They squandered the early chance Ukraine may have had to oust the Russians. Putin outplayed them with his nuclear sabre rattling.

Ridiculous that Ukraine apparently just had to largely sit and watch the troop build up for this new Kharkiv offensive rather than strike them with western weapons.

 
This should be watched by every MAGA “useful idiot.”

A troubling report:

Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims
https://www.cnn.com/...-intl-cmd/index.html


I guess the evil is spreading far, far beyond putin. It is interesting, in such a gay obsessed culture (traditional russians greatly fear and despise gay people), that there is now such focus on same sex sexual torture.

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I expect there are worse things that they are doing. They are reaching Taliban levels of depravity.

On this line of discussion, increasing reports that Russia's jamming capabilities have dramatically improved over the last year and HIMARS and some other "smart" munitions are near useless.

The U.S. has better tech but, sorry to say, I don't support giving it to Ukraine given China is surely sitting back taking notes on every single recordable piece of data on U.S. equipment in Ukraine. We want that stuff to have a good chance of working for a while if we ever really need it.

I believe most of that stuff going to Ukraine is older and is often sold to other countries. For example, if the Chinese or Russians want to take a look at an F-16, they can go to Egypt and pay somebody off.

Yeah, that's exactly my point. Though we also don't give Egypt the best stuff equipment packages for their F-16s for the same reason I pointed out that you want to keep a "holdout piece" hidden under your pantleg for if the shit really hits the fan.

I would guess most modern equipment is not going to Ukraine or being sold to anyone other than our closest allies. For example, we backed out of the F-35 deal with Turkey because we couldn't trust them.

And there is plenty of stuff that the public isn't even aware of, like when the F-117 was kept secret. Somewhere between 5-10% of the military budget goes to black projects.

Just a reminder of what kind of state Russia is.

https://www.cnn.com/...-pow-intl/index.html

Not surprised. Same pictures as from Serb concentration camps in Bosnia.

Well crap. Breaks your heart to see, but yeah not surprised.

Now that's a fire. Oil refinery in Rostov took a real pounding last night.

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