Ellia Plissken

I don’t know why, but the clause, “according to 11 Indian and European government and defence industry officials…” seems very funny to me. like, why eleven?

I have to guess it has something to do with being harder to eavesdrop on

the leather is incredibly durable.

I mean this isn’t surprising to anybody. plenty of luxury cars stolen over here to get shipped to the middle east

finally a fucking headline that mentions the problem

what an interestingly worded headline.

“dies”

tiktok was somehow the only platform carrying the trend?

I know we made a big show about leaving afghanistan, but I haven’t heard about Iraq in ages. are we still fighting over there?

that’s why cruise missiles like the Storm Shadow have stealth technology, because they can be targeted by standard anti-aircraft systems, be the ground or air-based

I’ve been playing a lot of Space Invaders lately

some head shops have return bins for recycling

is this the one that Cuba had like 10 years ago?

*edit - I’m being serious

I bet it has something to do with a crew member saying “hey, this is too dangerous” and a billionaire saying, “do it or you’re going to lose your job”. like when Virgin Galactic got its FAA whatever revoked for Branson’s behavior on their first space flight

meh

so there’s a hole in the market and I can make a lot of money?

it’s not just the attrition aspect, it’s the fact that those resources are being pulled away from the other fronts. this would succeed even if all the stuff that Russia sent to Kursk came back intact

we need to stop calling everything we don’t like nazism. Russia will need to be de-Putin’d

I’ve seen Preston Stewart covering it on his various platforms, although he hasn’t given the sort of breakdown op is asking for

this has to be something designed to pull forces away from other places. I don’t think Ukraine is planning on holding it for any length of time.

we saw video come out about 200 miles from the front in Kursk showing military transport trucks that had been struck by Ukraine as they were going to reinforce the region, which means Ukraine has dedicated deep strike capabilities to this part of the battlefield.

I think the intention is to kill and destroy as much Russian personnel and materiel as they can while it’s being transported. like they’ve mapped out all of the travel lines in to and out of Kursk, and they have dedicated weapons platforms prepared to destroy anything that comes up those roads. they’ll be able to blitz a whole bunch of Russian equipment without even having to engage them on the ground, if those trucks were full (there were stacked bodies in the video), that’s 300 casualties without having to put any of your infantry in danger.