After Liz Truss and the lettuce, Putin and the watermelon. The Kherson region is famous for watermelons.
Probable translation: “Russia sold us one or two.”
May they work as well as the rest of the Russian equipment we’ve seen recently.
The threat is keeping folks up at night in both Jerusalem and Washington. Reports say Iran hasn’t yet tested any hypersonic weapons.
Wow, that sound like it’s a very big dumpy. Hope the freezer is big enough.
This is off-topic, but I don’t see the payoff for Iran in a single-strike (or even a multi-strike) attack using hypersonic missiles. I get that Israel isn’t safe, but I wonder if the dynamics of power make Iran much less of a threat than it would have been even a decade ago.
How are they not safe, though? What happened the last time another regional actor sought to build nukes and other weapons while being highly bellicose towards the Israelis? They just bombed their program… I don’t find the argument that Israel is under threat from other regional actors convincing anymore, in part because they have the Saudis to fight their war for them. Their alliance is all but formal, if you ask me. It’s clear they are putting their thumb on the scale in that cold war there in favor of the Saudis. And no one is going to stage an active invasion of the country - not even Iran.
They are also the only nuclear power in the region. 
Well, missiles are fired at Israel all the time. That’s “not safe.” Neighbors have sworn to destroy them. Definitely not safe, whether or not that threat is immediately existential.
Mainly from Gaza, by people living in an open air prison, firing technologically inferior weapons that mostly get caught by Iron dome. More Palestinians are killed on a regular basis by the IDF.
And that’s slowly, but surely been changing since the Camp David Accords.
Far more safer than almost any Palestinian, though. And at this point, the Israeli hold 99.9% of the cards, and are the ones continuing to refuse to come to the table for peace.
The Palestinians are a different subject, though. But I can modify.
I get that Israel is not-safe (in many respects due to their own treatment of Palestinians).
And that’s slowly, but surely been changing since the Camp David Accords.
Yes, that’s my point.
Anyway, this is off-topic for this thread. So I’ll leave it at that.
Iran is tangentially part of this war. Close enough.
Carry on.
You can hear the rusty gears clanking in the skull of that bootlicker as he sounds it out.
What he doesn’t know is that there’s a good chance he’ll now get dinged on both laws for that minute’s worth of airtime and end up in the gulag anyhow.
Juxtaposed with this:
As many as 40,000 Ukrainian civilians and “well over” 100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since Moscow’s invasion less than nine months ago, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says.
The estimate from Army Gen. Mark Milley came shortly before the Russian Defense Ministry announced Thursday that its troops had begun withdrawing from Kherson, the crucial Ukrainian port city and only regional capital Russia had seized in the conflict.
Milley, who estimated Ukraine’s casualties also run into the six figures, said Russia had amassed up to 30,000 troops in Kherson. A full retreat, he said, could take several weeks. via usatoday
