"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

https://x.com/tendar/status/1693238607417676133

It’s gonna be at least a week for that ‘damaged’ bomber to get back on the line.

Looks like they got them.



https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1693296153322779097?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Giant Military Cats is a fun account to follow.

Whoops! It looks like Ukraine is getting all 42 of their F-16s.



https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1693334700276752851?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

That’s the war, then, isn’t it? They got the magic number (42, the secret to life, the universe, and everything), so it’s just a question of when the Russians surrender, not if.

Looks like it was something of option C, except it was in a perilune-lowering burn, not strictly the capture burn. Too much thrust, and the orbit intersected the moon. Then so did the spacecraft, at about 5000 kph.

This is the one area where I wanted Russia to succeed
(Unless, of course, they premier another banger of a symphony. They could use another Tschaikovsky.)

Russian woes continue, this time due to climate change. One of the longest train routes in the world has had significant portions washed out due to a dam that was overwhelmed by rain water. This is a major thoroughfare to the mineral rich resources to the east.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-dam-flooding-buryatia-billions-rubles-1821120

Domino’s Pizza will close all 142 stores in Russia

Seems to me Domino's is actually doing Russia a favour...

https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1693687761436299707?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...troyed-russian-tanks-central-kyiv-2023-08-21/



https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...deo-since-mutiny-hints-hes-africa-2023-08-21/

Russia appears to be using 'teenagers' to build Iranian drones

Guess who else is building those same drones?

China replicates Iran's 'Shahed-136' kamikaze drone

Russian general who ran Ukraine war fired - report

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66590916

One of Russia's leading military figures, Gen Sergei Surovikin, has reportedly lost his job as air force chief after weeks of speculation about his disappearance from public view.

Ria Novosti agency said he had been relieved of his post, citing a source.

For several months Gen Surovikin was in charge of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine but he has not been seen since the Wagner mutiny in June.

Observers believe his removal dates back to the botched rebellion.

One Russian report quoted a defence ministry source as saying he had been dismissed because of a transfer to a new job and he was now on a short vacation.

His role as head of aerospace forces has been taken on by air force chief of staff, Gen Viktor Afzalov, Ria Novosti adds.

Guy's nickname was General Armageddon for his usage of themobaric weapons in Syria against population centers. He was a Prizghozin ally.

Wagner boss dead in totally unforeseen accident completely unconnected to the attempted coup, we pinkie-swear Comrade:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66599733

Fucking hell. How are they going to keep a straight face after this one?

EDIT: There's a video on Twitter of the aircraft going down, and Wagner sources say it was shot down. To me, the video appears to support that.

It'll be the Henry Blake moment of the pro-Wagner commentators.

This was completely unpredictable.

Was he so arrogant as to think himself safe on a small plane in Russia or not likely conscious when put on the plane?

Why did he go back to Moscow?

Oh no! Predator killed Alien!

A day or so ago, there was a report of him being in Africa. Curiouser and curiouser.

https://x.com/zelenskyyua/status/1694406158461636740?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Dmitry Utkin (Wagner second in command and Nazi fan) was reportedly also on board.

Prigozhin shot out of the sky exactly two months *to the day* that Prigozhin announced his "March of Fairness," on June 23.

https://x.com/juliaioffe/status/1694398971437814073

What a strange coincidence!

I wonder if he was actually on the plane. Hard to imagine he would be dumb enough to fly into or out of Moscow under his own name, but if he was desperate enough to go to Moscow for some reason in the first place (can't imagine under what other circumstances he'd go), maybe he wasn't thinking straight enough to take sufficient security measures.

Russian Helicopter Pilot Defects in Astonishing Saga Worthy of Hollywood

It seems that the pilot had previously ensured that his family was safely out of Russia before he did this, and he didn't tell anyone in the crew what was happening.

Slowdown there a minute, cowboy. Things just got interesting again.



https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1694412082333020323?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ