And way too many people react to this with what essentially boils down to “it’s because Ukraine doesn’t know when to quit, they should just give up already”…
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Ukraine is using HIMARS to strike Russian ammunition dumps. If it doesn’t want all its ammunition to go boom, Russia will have to store it 100 km behind the front line and rely on trucks to deliver it to units on the front, which will reduce the quantity of ammunition that can be supplied.
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He probably still thinks he has a choice, too. He doesn’t. He is entirely Putin’s now, to do with as he pleases.
ETA I see @tigerberry beat me to pretty much the same sentiments.
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Russian forces have occupied around 22% of Ukraine’s arable land, according to NASA’s Harvest mission.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NASA has been focusing on the impact of the war on the global food system. Its findings have revealed that Ukrainian fields where 28% of winter and 18% of spring crops are sown are under Russian occupation.
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Because a two-front war is such a good idea. /sl
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This is 100% irrelevant noisemaking. Don’t bother with it.
Even the stuff about invading Lithuania, for example, is 98% outrage-generation and bullshitting. Russia has its hands more than full with Ukraine.
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That dancing bear will growl anything his master tells him to. All he does is set the tone for lesser toadies, like the Duma Dummies mentioned in the article posted by @Jesse13927 . Pathetic wastes of oxygen, the lot of them.
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They’ve been threatening with nukes since pretty much day one. Far be it from me to downplay the threat of any nuclear strike (especially since I’m way too close to any primary targets), and I generally advise against doing so, but also, these threats should be understood within context.
What they’re doing is basically following the good old Soviet negotiation strategy, which is basically 1. start with threats turned up to eleven, 2. keep it at eleven, no matter what. This will inevitably sow discord among your enemies: even if not all of them are going to take your threats at face value, you’ll definitely manage to scare at least some of them, resulting in slower decision-making, more cautious/less hardline approach… also, in this case, it pushes the agenda of those who pressure Ukraine and its supporters to just give Russia what they want, and “be done with it” so it can be peace again. (Conveniently forgetting what happened last time we let Russia have what they wanted, ie. Crimea.)
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Erstaz Fanta is an appropriate tribute to its origins.
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Are these idiots that desperate for an ass beating?
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This banner is erected by local auto trailer company named “Alaska”. It isn’t official city business.
Source: I live in Krasnoyarsk.
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I find myself wondering how BoJo would have reacted had 
been defeated by Blitzkrieg as planned. 
After all, the marginally more competent 
government of the time reacted to the 2014 Annexation of Crimea by being “deeply concerned”, and Prince Edward boycotted the 2014 Paralympics.
I think BoJo has been a bit of a disappointment for 
… a bad investment?
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Nah, they got Brexit. That was the game at the time.
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Where did we stash that receipt?
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