2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 3)

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BBC News - At least 27 die in inferno at petrol station in Dagestan southern Russia

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Mercator projection looks pretty weird like that:

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NERD TRAP!!! RUN!!1!!1 :scream:

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Miami cops: ‘We should hold a gun buyback. Maybe we should destroy them after we’re done.’

Conservatives: ‘You can’t do that. They should be given to brave patriots who would use them to defend their home instead.’

Miami cops: ‘You know what? That’s a great idea…’

Conservatives: 'MOTHER FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCC…"

https://suspilne.media/551601-irpinski-pravoohoronci-otrimali-konfiskovanu-zbrou-z-maami/

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Having known a few Floridians, I imagine that there are like two, maybe three, Miami residents who are super annoyed about the dent that this has put into their collections.

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tl;dr They’re not falling back to prepared defences because they don’t need to. Minefields with covering fire are enough to stop armoured assaults, and they avoid headlines about Russia losing territory. Instead the narrative is that the Ukrainian offensive is failing.

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Well that went over quite smoothly for an eastern european audience

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After the song, Flowers addressed the incident to further boos from concertgoers. “You can’t recognise if someone’s your brother? He’s not your brother?” he asked. “We all separate on the borders of our countries? … Am I not your brother, being from America?”

Unfettered idealism meets cold hard reality.

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Russian Airborne Forces tested an air-mobile church in 2013 which was air-dropped from aircraft during exercises. The facility came in the form of an inflatable tent and contained church features made of crash-proof materials. The churches were manned by a team of “flying priests” – former paratroopers, who were specially trained at Ryazan Higher Airborne School south-east of Moscow – in preparation for parachuting into areas of conflict.

From 2012:

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