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Roger A. Shrubber

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Fire is always scary in the mountains. Glad to hear they are making headway. Hope you guys get more rain, less wind.

We had a really big fire 20 miles south of us (but only 2 miles from BIL's farm) a couple three weeks ago. It looked like it was going to hang around for weeks, but then we got 10 inches of rain, so it's no longer a threat.
it's an unfortunate coincidence, but the driest part of the year here is also the time we get the worst winds. that's what caused the Gatlinburg fire 5 years ago, it was originally a small fire in an isolated area, but the high winds fanned it, then blew it all over hell, same thing this year.
they used to do prescribed burns in the winter, but the tourist industry complained about it, i'm not even sure why, and since they're the primary source of income for the county, they listened. now i hear that they are perhaps more in favor of the prescribed burns....fucking rich idiots...
 
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DIY-HP-LED

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I see this is proving to be highly embarrassing to the Kremlin Pskov, Vlad's buddy was whining about it. Keep hitting the fuckers, if they use MLRS from Russian territory, then attack them too, along with artillery, just don't use NATO stuff to do it, except night vision, that can be obtained privately in the west, volunteers recently sent them a bunch of night vision stuff and Canada supplied military stuff too. I don't think the Russians can stop drone and helicopter attacks on their territory, it's the price they pay for attacking another country in a conventional war. Vlad will need to respond and if he does what I think he will do, the Ukrainians will suck him into expending his AA missiles. His AWACS planes have to stay outside SAM 3 range inside Russia or risk getting shot down.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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BudmanTX

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That is often caused by radioactive poisoning, they give iodine as a preventative, to keep the radioactive stuff out. Was Vlad, as part of his KGB duties ever in Chernobyl in the past? Or other hot nuclear sites? The guys digging those trenches will be given it, but it's probably too late.
i dunno buddy...good question
 

DIY-HP-LED

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oh russian defectors, bring your weapons or war to us.......
That American and EU aid being used smart with lot's money and the good life in the west, enough to temp Jesus, much less an expendable Russian who was lied to and treated like shit by his country. Good terms of surrender temp cut off troops to surrender en mass, when their commanders are killed by drone attacks first. It's cheaper than killing them, if ya add up the cost and they present a real problem for Vlad and those that want to go back can be used to get Ukrainian civilian hostages back. Raids into Russia and marching back a hundred thousand civilians would do it too.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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Iran offers Russia measures to avoid US sanctions
Deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran Karimi: Tehran offered Moscow measures to avoid US sanctions
The Iranian authorities have offered Russia steps to counter US sanctions and cooperate in the current environment, Mohsen Karimi, deputy head of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic for international affairs, told RIA Novosti.



Russia and Belarus plan to completely abolish roaming by June 1
Ambassador Gryzlov: Russia and Belarus plan to completely abolish roaming by June 1
Russian Ambassador to Minsk Boris Gryzlov confirmed that Russia and Belarus plan to cancel roaming between the two countries by early summer.

Gryzlov noted that Minsk and Moscow are going through an important period of building the Union State. He recalled that in November 2021, the Supreme State Council adopted 28 sectoral programs for economic integration, which the parties are now successfully implementing.


Building up the mini USSR.


Putin signed a decree on the transfer of payments for the purchase and leasing of foreign aircraft into rubles
Russian firms will be able to pay for planes to foreign creditors in rubles

they may be able to hang on to what they have now, and claim they're doing it legally, but you see if any plane manufactureres will EVER sell them another plane without payment up front, in full, in anything but rubles...and good luck getting any parts for the ones you have now...what is the expected service life of a jet engine? 2, maybe 3 years without major service?...

you would think Iran would know better...whose is going to offer them any kind of lifeline when the sanctions get extended to include them? who the fuck needs them? they aren't cooperating with oil production, the only fucking thing they have to contribute...so fuck Iran, they can go fuck themselves, they picked their side
 

DIY-HP-LED

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they may be able to hang on to what they have now, and claim they're doing it legally, but you see if any plane manufactureres will EVER sell them another plane without payment up front, in full, in anything but rubles...and good luck getting any parts for the ones you have now...what is the expected service life of a jet engine? 2, maybe 3 years without major service?...

you would think Iran would know better...whose is going to offer them any kind of lifeline when the sanctions get extended to include them? who the fuck needs them? they aren't cooperating with oil production, the only fucking thing they have to contribute...so fuck Iran, they can go fuck themselves, they picked their side
The EU and the state department are working over Iran and dangling the end of sanctions. The only thing the Russian have they want would be nukes and it would be suicide for Russia to give them any, they are a lot closer to Russia than we are. Same for Venezuela, they want to bring both of them online again and the EU has better relations to both than Uncle Sam. So it could be a bargaining ploy by the Iranians to get a better deal.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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i'm not either......think it's a false flag op.....
it could be, but i don't see the motivation. putin is already fucking crazy, he doesn't need any real provocation to do whatever he wants. they've already bombed thousands of civilian targets, schools, civilian shelters, hospitals, even nuclear facilities...if he wants to use chemical weapons, does he really need a reason? and would a legitimate strike on a military target with conventional weapons be such justification? maybe to him, but not to the rest of the world who is watching...i tend to think it was a legitimate Ukrainian mission, and they don't want to admit it yet, so they can pull off some more before the russians get wise to them and reinforce their defenses
 

BudmanTX

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it could be, but i don't see the motivation. putin is already fucking crazy, he doesn't need any real provocation to do whatever he wants. they've already bombed thousands of civilian targets, schools, civilian shelters, hospitals, even nuclear facilities...if he wants to use chemical weapons, does he really need a reason? and would a legitimate strike on a military target with conventional weapons be such justification? maybe to him, but not to the rest of the world who is watching...i tend to think it was a legitimate Ukrainian mission, and they don't want to admit it yet, so they can pull off some more before the russians get wise to them and reinforce their defenses
if he looking for a reason to stay in it that would be it...js.....

i tend to look at it this way:

1: false flag op to keep them in the war (suspect)(simply if u look at the vid, no insignia visable or number plates visable keep in mind it's also night)

2: russian disidents or defectors took it out and went to UA to defect

3: Black op by UA, hit fuel depots, arm depots etc
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I'll bet you could cut a lot of highway bridges in the enemy rear with those big agi drones that can lift 70 or 80 lbs. They can carry large linear shaped charges 6 feet long and set them down pretty accurately across the center of a bridge and they could use three or for of them across the road going off at once in the middle of the night, it would cut the span or damage it enough that a tank would collapse it. These shaped charges can cut through feet of concrete or steel with a hypersonic knife of metal. They might be able to set them down accurately enough and orientated correctly using GPS, it doesn't need to be perfect. They can also be placed in an aluminum or even plastic channel and use a copper or steel angled plate that forms the knife. It is detonated from the rear and they use small circular ones attached to cardboard to punch through walls and steel for rescue work.

Cutting bridges 10 or twenty miles to the enemy rear at night can cut off supplies, reinforcements and makes retreat difficult.

Here's what I mean and the drones can carry 70 or 80 pounds over many miles and land them on a target within a half a meter or less using GPS, then fly away to another location to land automatically and be picked up later after the enemy is defeated in the area, if they can't make it back to the point of launch.

 

printer

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Zelensky: Two Ukrainian generals dismissed for being ‘traitors’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that two of his country’s top security officials had been dismissed from their roles as generals for being “traitors.”

“Regarding antiheroes. Now, I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished,” Zelensky said in a speech.
“That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine Naumov Andriy Olehovych and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals,” he said.

Zelensky did not elaborate on what had led to the two officials being dismissed, though he noted that under the Ukrainian army’s disciplinary statute officers who “have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people as regards the protection of our state, its freedom and independence” would “inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks.”

During his speech, Zelensky shared that he had spoken with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has sought to act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky indicated that Turkey had offered to act as a guarantor for Ukraine’s security in the ongoing negotiations.

Zelensky also touched on the ongoing situation in Ukraine’s south and the Donbas region, which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Conditions in those areas remain “extremely difficult,” according to the Ukrainian president.
“The invaders are allocating their sick creativity to the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region. They are trying to organize some of their incomprehensible structures there, they are trying to figure out how to consolidate their presence there,” said Zelensky.

“Of course, this is hopeless for them. The more active they are there, the more substantial the losses of Russia itself will be in the end. The losses of Russians themselves. Because who else will pay for the occupation of a foreign land?”
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Zelensky: Two Ukrainian generals dismissed for being ‘traitors’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that two of his country’s top security officials had been dismissed from their roles as generals for being “traitors.”

“Regarding antiheroes. Now, I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished,” Zelensky said in a speech.
“That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine Naumov Andriy Olehovych and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals,” he said.

Zelensky did not elaborate on what had led to the two officials being dismissed, though he noted that under the Ukrainian army’s disciplinary statute officers who “have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people as regards the protection of our state, its freedom and independence” would “inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks.”

During his speech, Zelensky shared that he had spoken with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has sought to act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky indicated that Turkey had offered to act as a guarantor for Ukraine’s security in the ongoing negotiations.

Zelensky also touched on the ongoing situation in Ukraine’s south and the Donbas region, which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Conditions in those areas remain “extremely difficult,” according to the Ukrainian president.
“The invaders are allocating their sick creativity to the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region. They are trying to organize some of their incomprehensible structures there, they are trying to figure out how to consolidate their presence there,” said Zelensky.

“Of course, this is hopeless for them. The more active they are there, the more substantial the losses of Russia itself will be in the end. The losses of Russians themselves. Because who else will pay for the occupation of a foreign land?”
If it was outright treason in war they could be shot, however a trial could revel secret sources and methods in a liberal democracy, especially American involvement say. Just him announcing it would mean they would have to be in protective custody. The country is full of heavily armed pissed off people, who don't need a trial, Zelenskiy's word is good enough for them.
 

CCGNZ

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They lost two columns of troops over it who started panicking when they got sick and had to go back to Belarus, that's why they evacuated, they had to.
Wow,have the Russians ever heard of a geiger counter,the ineptness of their preparedness just gets more and more astonishing,20 yr. old troop rations,improper dress for cold,no fuel,talking on cell phones in war zone due to no functioning encryption communication radios,and occupying the most radiated place in the world w/nothing to measure dosages, this is approaching a 3 Stooges invade Ukraine episode.
 
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