They’re liberating Ukrainians from Ukrainian tyranny.
Speaking to envoys at an Arab League summit in Cairo on Sunday, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said Moscow is determined to help Ukrainians “liberate themselves from the burden of this absolutely unacceptable regime”.
I wonder if Lavrov has gotten tired of people rolling their eyes at his every pronunciation.
Per my work colleagues, there have been numerous practical and pure research papers put out by Russian scientists involving metallurgy, many quite brilliant. (The same goes for their welding technology, which I’ll get to in a moment.). In both areas, there seems to be problems when applying the science. On welding: A couple of our structural test engineers had a chance to examine RD-180 engines here in the US, purchased for use on ATLAS V. Said engineers reported that the engine weld joints were poor and grossly misaligned (some by 1/4"). There’s Russia’s academia, but then there’s the entrenched corruption outside in “the real world”. Note: Our engineers also reported that they had met and conferred with the visiting Energomash (RD-180 maker) engineers who, apparently, had been drinking.
OK, so … since “races” aren’t real, and have always “mingled,” maybe he should stop babbling about “nations” and get back to running the country he’s supposed to be in charge of 
I’d rather he didn’t. Definitely time for him to fuck off into the sunset.
The russian declaration is worded in a way that sounds more like “AFTER 2024” instead of “BY 2024”, so basically they haven’t said yet when they are going to leave the ISS. Realisticly, plans are to maintain the station until 2030, then be it replaced by smaller stations (with modules provided by commercial enterprises), and currently, even with the declaration, nothing indicates that russia has changed that date (their own stations are not ready, and after the war there is no assurance there will be money to build a proper one).
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Ukraine’s presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Twitter Wednesday that “occupiers should learn how to swim across” the Dnieper River or “leave Kherson while it is still possible.” “There may not be a third warning,” Podolyak tweeted.
I posted it before, but Timothy Snyder recently said that Medvedev and others daring to pontificate about the future of Ukraine is a sign that Putin is losing control. Messages on such a crucial subject should only come from the boss.
Fucking Grauniad! There was no reason to deadname her, but the TERs cant stop themselves.
Point taken.
I noticed that “Odessa” has been changed to “Odesa” and “Kiev” to “Kyiv”, which is jarring because, first, the article is about the impact of Soviet rule on the city and, second, Morris calls Odes(s)a “the second city of Russia”, the internal geography of the USSR notwithstanding.
So Poland gave weapons to Ukraine and then ordered South Korean weapons systems in the largest deal of it’s kind in korean history that also bolstered the south korean defense industry putting both Russia and North Korea further on edge while also boosting the polish military by an amount that makes Russia nervous. A pretty big brain play i’d say haha.
This is going to be a hard winter for everyone in one way or another, courtesy of Putin. I hope everyone is bracing themselves now to power through it and leave him in a weakened state once spring arrives.
