I think last year there were demonstrations against a mosque in Moscow. The Czechens were not amused and published a video threatening action against Moscow.

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I mean the game “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” predicted the Russian-Georgian-war of 2008. The first mission even takes place in “South Ossetia”. It’s as if Putin was thinking to himself: I’m gonna make myself a Tom Clany-villain.

Good luck and have some fun! I have to say that upgrading a guitar is somehow more rewarding than using it after the upgrade; though I have to admit that I’m using my upgraded Mex-Strat more often than my American Strat.

A little bit of luck is needed. I’ve upgraded the tuners for two of my guitars without problem. Then I wanted to upgrade the tuners on my Squier Telecaster: The small holes for the pins on the underside were in the wrong place. I thought, ok, let’s drill new holes. Unfortunately I needed to drill the new holes right beside the old holes; which meant that my drill kept slipping into the old hole and I don’t have the necessary equipment to fix everything, so those shiny expensive tuners are still waiting for their day.

Oder den Einsatz von biologischen Waffen im NATO-Partnerland UK oder den Sprengstoffanschlag im NATO-Partnerland Tschechien bestrafen.

The Pope: Please show white flag-courage

Petr Pavel: Here’s some 155mm courage

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Sounds like China realized that they don’t have any combat experience and now some people are volunteered to gain some experience for the invasion of an unspecified island…

Does anyone have a link to the news story? Can’t find anything unfortunately.

Russia withdrawing from the 2+4 treaty would be another dog whistle to the German right. In the 2+4 treaty, Germany dropped its claims on its former eastern territories in Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia. Thus Russia would signal towards the German far right: “We got your back when you want to have your former territories back. All you have to do is accept our claims in eastern Europe.”

Yeah, it’s just another step in the playbook from “Foundations of Geopolitics”.

In case anyone wondered: Phalcon is short for Phallus Container.

PC30

This means RS30 and it might be a Russian designation for Multiple Rocket launchers, not 100% sure about this.

ВСУ is actually VSU (or WSU for Germans), but it does mean Armed Forces of Ukraine

Are there not valuable targets closer to Ukrainian territory?

This would allow the Russians to concentrate their air defense close to Ukraine. Striking targets far beyond the front forces the Russians not only to spread their air defense thin, but they also have to decide which sites they leave undefended. Pulling their air defense away from the front, it also means that Ukrainian F-16s and other planes will have more freedom to operate in the region.

And the strategic reason has already been mentioned: Striking targets like refineries makes the war more costly to the Russians, it deprives them of income, they possibly can’t repair them because of sanctions, a.s.o. And obviously you want to bring the war to your enemy’s territory because the enemy is already creating lots of destruction in your country.

Gegenüber der Presse äußerte sich de Maizière in Moskau geradezu euphorisch: “Unsere Beziehungen zu Russland sind nicht gut.”

Ah!

“Sie sind sehr gut!”

Oh…

I’m a lyrical Gungstah!

It’s a pre-series Ka-60 Kasatka with inflight-refueling capability.

From the article:

Most recently, on Wednesday, a “congress of deputies of all levels” convened in Tiraspol, Transnistria’s nominal capital, and passed a resolution to ask Russia for protection in the face of “increasing pressure” and the “economic war” unleashed by Moldova.

Vadim Krasnoselsky, the “president” of Transnistria and Sheriff’s former head of security, accused the authorities in Chisinau of “genocide” against the people of Transnistria.

I’m disappointed by Russian propaganda. They should have thrown in the word Apartheid and accused Moldova of illegal settlements. Are the Russians even trying? Common, you can do better exploiting the suffering of other people!

Es gibt tatsächlich “Naivität” als Ausrede, nennt sich Verbotsirrtum, aber “niemals strafbar” ist hier nicht korrekt.

Ich schätze in diesem spezifischen Fall dürfte Naivität als Ausrede zählen, da WebEx in Ministerien verwendet wird und dann dürfte der Offizier die Schuld auf den Admin schieben. Dazu kommt, dass Singapur kein feindliches Land ist, sondern ein Rüstungspartner, d.h. ein BW-Offizier in Singapur dienstlich unterwegs ist absolut legitim.

Wow, designing a WW1-tank during the WW2-era is kind of like using a T-55 in a modern war!