Russia's War Against Ukraine

[Uberhaus]

Apparently, Russia has destroyed its CW stockpiles as of September 2017 according to OPCW. 

[GDS_Starfury]

loving the farmer who tows an abandoned Gecko SAM vehicle with his tractor back to his farm. 

[solops]

At least a BBC expert has stated that there is no movement in Russian strategic readiness.

  Right.  US Intell also reportedly sees no particular change in Russian nuke postures, but who knows, maybe they just relax some restrictions on their go codes or something, to
vritually quote Slim Pickens AKA Major Kong in Doctor Strangelove:

Major Kong!!! "Nukular combat toe-to-toe with the Rooskies."

[SirAndrewD]

Combat Mission Black Sea went on sale today on Steam...

Too soon?

[Con]

I would wait for the new DLC.  Ruski paper tigerski

[GDS_Starfury]

Combat Mission: The Tigers of Kiev

[JasonPratt]

Mom briefly saw some kind of notice on Fox News (before Tucker's show started) that Russia had finally dropped (or maybe thrown) a thermobaric bomb -- I had to explain what a FOAB is.

I have found exactly no confirmation of this at all, after +30 minutes poking around on the net, and Mom gave up waiting for Fox to provide some actual detail about this -- as I noticed, the footage they were showing certainly wasn't thermobaric damage.

I post this in passing simply in case this turns out to be something other than an intern at Fox having run across a click-baity video about the oil fire yesterday being something other than a missile strike against Uk infrastructure support.

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, the Epic Economist's episode today examines the strategic implications of the US and allies dropping the SWIFT bomb, so to speak, on Russia's banking system.

[GDS_Starfury]

google fuel air explosives

[solops]

Apparently, Russia has destroyed its CW stockpiles as of September 2017 according to OPCW.

And I beleeeeve them!

[JasonPratt]

google fuel air explosives

I did, but there was no news confirming Putin had dropped one either today. (Again, aside from click-baity things from 1-4 days ago.) Still nothing like that on google a minute ago either.

The footage shown looked more like cluster bomb results, footage from which has been shown the past day or so, where Putin has evidently started dropping them in civilian areas. If I hadn't heard someone talking about Putin dropping a FOAB, I would have thought the text was a chyron error -- a stressed intern doing live news clicked a text already set up for when-if-ever Putin does it, thinking it was file 82348 instead (or whatever), and the director didn't catch it. That might still be something like the explanation.  ::)

Nothing on BBC about it either, checking a few minutes ago. Did see some footage about (apparent) cluster bomb deployments landing near an apartment building, but still obviously not a thermobaric drop.

[Crossroads]

google fuel air explosives

I did, but there was no news confirming Putin had dropped one either today. (Again, aside from click-baity things from 1-4 days ago.) Still nothing like that on google a minute ago either.

The footage shown looked more like cluster bomb results, footage from which has been shown the past day or so, where Putin has evidently started dropping them in civilian areas. If I hadn't heard someone talking about Putin dropping a FOAB, I would have thought the text was a chyron error -- a stressed intern doing live news clicked a text already set up for when-if-ever Putin does it, thinking it was file 82348 instead (or whatever), and the director didn't catch it. That might still be something like the explanation.  ::)

Nothing on BBC about it either, checking a few minutes ago. Did see some footage about (apparent) cluster bomb deployments landing near an apartment building, but still obviously not a thermobaric drop.

I believe the suspected thermobar strike was a hit at a ammo depot instead, during nightime.

This will get uglier by the minute, unfortunately.

[Anguille]

This will get uglier by the minute, unfortunately.

Yeah. Putin's frustration will turn into more and more violence (like he did it Tschechenia).

[MengJiao]

At least a BBC expert has stated that there is no movement in Russian strategic readiness.

  Right.  US Intell also reportedly sees no particular change in Russian nuke postures, but who knows, maybe they just relax some restrictions on their go codes or something, to
vritually quote Slim Pickens AKA Major Kong in Doctor Strangelove:

Major Kong!!! "Nukular combat toe-to-toe with the Rooskies."

  Where the hell's Major Kong?

"Economic wars quite often turn into real ones," former Russian President Medvedev says
From CNN's Vasco Cotovio in Moscow and Xiaofei Xu in Paris

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has lashed out against remarks by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who earlier said that France was waging an economic war against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

"Watch your tongue, gentlemen," Medvedev, who is the current deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council tweeted on Tuesday. "Don't forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones."
Earlier on Monday, Le Maire said in an interview with French broadcaster FranceInfo that his country and the EU would "launch total economic and financial war against Russia."

I thought there was a real war going on already?  (You have to wonder how to parce "real"...I guess real war for the Russians is nuking France for cutting them out of the banking system.
But if you blow up the banking system along with everything else...is that helpful?  Is that constructive?  Maybe not.
   )

[ArizonaTank]

Ukrainian pilots arrive in Poland to pick up EU provided fighters.

Sounds like: 28 MiG-29s from Poland, and 12 from Slovakia

Apparently the Ukrainians thought they would get 16 Mig 29s and 14 Su 25s from Bulgaria, but it sounds like the Bulgarian Prime Minister quashed the donation.

Hopefully the Poles will throw in some goodies on the pylons before turning them over.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-pilots-arrive-in-poland-to-pick-up-donated-fighter-jets/ar-AAUraGd?ocid=msedgntp