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Those little girls didn't stand a chance!

Yes, but do they know how to mine the minerals and oil needed for manufacturing?

As a similar example, indeed

The computer mouse is one of the simplest and most useful bits of modern tech, but there is no one person on Earth who knows how to construct every single bit of it or get all the component materials.

Also, I think its one thing to get hold of tech, its another to replicate it - Russia's high tech industry is steadily declining so can imagine they couldn't easily reverse engineer it, they'd have to develop it themselves from scratch

When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why my grandparents had a hatred towards Germany when the war had been over for decades at that point. However, I think it's going to take decades (and the death of Putin and everyone involved on the Russian side in this war) before my hatred of Russia fades

If that had been any bigger I would have said it was a small nuclear explosion

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

Meanwhile, the local government officials on the scene...

Looks increasingly like Russian air defences are heavily depleted..

He's panicking and running away

a cartoon dog is covering his mouth with his hand while smiling . ALT: a cartoon dog is covering his mouth with his hand while smiling .

That looks expensive...

Do you get the feeling that Russian air defences may not be operating at 100% anymore...?

Orban is a Hungarian Quisling..

He would love Russia taking over Hungary as Putin would install him as his puppet dictator for life

Good, the Baltic countries will need these en-masse as well. While the longer range artillery such as Archer are excellent, they are so expensive that each country bordering Russia / Belarus will need a larger quantity of affordable artillery to deal with Russia's meatwave assaults

Because they've got no one else? Russia and China may suck as allies, but if there are no options then better to have a poor ally than none at all.

Someone negotiated a good deal!

Isn't this the set up to Mad Max?

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

I'm so glad I filled up my car last week..

In #Kharkiv, Russians killed two children along with their mothers.

During a nighttime attack on the city, a primary school teacher and her son, a second-grade student, were killed in their home. Also, an eighth-grade student from Lyceum No. 16 was killed along with her mother.

Can Russia's frigates actually travel any distance upriver?

Hartog Levie, seven years old when he was brutally murdered by German Nazis - one of an estimated 1.5 million children that fell victim to the Holocaust. 🕯️

🇺🇸❗️🇮🇷 U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed ​their investigation, — Reuters.

Hungarian authorities in Budapest have taken seven Ukrainian citizens, employees of the state-owned Oschadbank, hostage and seized money and valuables.

It's protocol if invited to participate in a naval event by a foreign government for the participating ship to be unarmed. The US was also invited to participate and pulled out at the last minute as the war in Iran started

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 The United States joined Russia, China, and ‌Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a threat to nuclear safety, - Reuters

I'm not mad, but the attack seemed unnecessary - it was far from the warzone, participating in an event hosted by the Indian government (and it appears now was unarmed) and no threat at all.

Actually, it turns out it wasn't armed - it had been invited to participate in an event (alongside the US) hosted by India and as per protocol the ship was not carrying any ammunition. This would have been known by the US Government.

And now Armenia, Azerbaijan and all the other russian neighbouring states are now seeing how useless and impotent Russia is in providing support and protection. The US can now step in with a good offer and they know Russia won't do anything to stop them