Maybe I missed something – I thought they pulled out because it’s being produced in Russia, not because the author’s Russian. (That, and they had yet to go along with Russia’s demand that they carry propaganda channels.)
9 Likes
True. But we couldn’t even get decent masks to people for two years.
17 Likes
I heard something today. Someone said that they are unable to believe and accept the narrative of a ruthless leader who is responsible for a war, and more, because this is exactly the narrative of “Wir haben ja nichts gewusst” after the Nazi reign. There must thousands, maybe even millions who support the current system.
9 Likes
Niantic joins major game publishers—including Take-Two, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, and CD Projekt Red—as well as all major game console makers in preventing new players from obtaining their games and products in Russia during the ongoing invasion
Niantic, though, is taking the extra step of cutting access to its games in Russia. That covers Pokemon Go —which wasn’t officially available in Russia until late 2018—and newer titles like Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Pikmin Bloom .
7 Likes
Not forgotten, just weeding through the morasse of interwebs. Most of my older FMs are packed away. I was hoping to just take a picture but maybe another day.
The link you provided shows the structure post-transformation after the establishment of an NCO corps and the officer to NCO ratio looks very similar to a US mechanized infantry company.
Back in the '90s in Bosnia it was rare to run into a Russian NCO even though we shared the same base. The officers made up 40% of the armed forces then.
11 Likes
Maybe Pokemon Go could be used in Ukraine to lure Russian soldiers into ambushes.
13 Likes
Back by popular demand:
Competing with Costco
9 Likes
delicious
19 Likes
16 Likes
That’s been a gasoline additive for a long long time.
In the first Gulf War, roughly 300 brave Americans lost their lives. Assuming that each of these soldiers shed an average of eight pints of blood, that works out to roughly a pint of American blood shed per 60 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude saved from the clutches of Saddam. If you ask me, that’s a pretty darn good deal.
11 Likes
I suppose it is impolitic to point out that the Jewish population of Poland on the even of WWII was around 3.5 million, and it has only risen back to around 10-20,000 today. That’s a lot of room for refugees. They are welcome to my great-grandparents apartment in Warsaw, if they can find it.
4 Likes
It’s good to have emergency supplies- but a month or two weeks will get you through most emergency situations. A 10lb bag of par boiled rice, beans, oatmeal - spice an a few small cans of sauce will do that for $50 at the store. Coupled with what you already have in hand.
Don’t forget coffee and alcohol!
17 Likes
I understood that tweet as referring to the capacity to meet refugees’ immediate needs. I’d be surprised if anyone is even thinking about permanent resettlement yet. In any case, Warsaw does not have three million empty apartments.
ETA:
7 Likes
9 Likes
Right now the refugees’ immediate need is to go somewhere that is not being shelled. It is far easier for the rest of us to get food and blankets to Poland than to Ukraine.
I’m not really a big fan of “no room at the inn” as a reason to keep people out, especially when a big chunk of that inn was illicitly seized from people like my forebears. But at least there should be room in the stables.
In any event, the tweet is gone so hopefully the report was mistaken.
1 Like
Are they being cheap with their armaments or do they just not care where their bombs fall?
6 Likes
18 Likes
15 Likes
john cole, of the baloon juice blog, had a tweet this evening that asked if putin had gotten to the "if i can’t have you, no one else will"stage of his relationship with ukraine 
. . . maybe?
11 Likes
