"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

Have fun looking around.

That's a lot of planes...or props that look like planes.

It was easy, because fundamentally, it's 1970's technology. She may have been updated in the ensuing years, but that's been not much more than polishing a turd. She was sunk, because she's was outdated, pure and simple.

This is also gonna be the political epitaph for Sarah Palin's new grab for attention.

A Ukrainian tank hit a Russian BMP firing through a building, somewhere in Luhansk Oblast. : CombatFootage (reddit.com)

In his memoirs, Grant talks about fighting house-to-house in Mexico City and the horrible beating that his troops took as they fought their way across the city. When he linked up with another American force, he noted, wryly, that the other commanding officer hadn't attempted to move in the open through the city, as Grant and his men had done, but simply punched a hole in the side of a house, moved through it, punched a hole through the opposite side, and repeated the process at the next house.

Concealment is not cover.

Lavarov says Russia will not deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/19/world/russia-lavrov-nuclear-weapons-ukraine/

Oh shit. Mariupol is about to get nuked.

Putin keeps pissing off the oligarchs. We'll see if anything happens, but this is a huge hit to his wealthiest supporters. He's delisting all Russian companies from foreign stock exchanges.

https://markets.businessinsider.com...listings-ukraine-2022-4?utm_source=reddit.com

Valeri: "Hello, Dmitri Pavlovich! You see news?"

Dimitri: "I saw, Valeri Borisovich! Removed from stock exchanges! We are completely fucked in mouth!"

Valeri: "Last month my yacht. Then my wife bitching we not go to Switzerland. Now losing billions."

Dimitri: "For me is same."

Valeri: "But...Vladimir Vladimirovich says we need special operation to exterminate Nazis in Ukraine."

Dimitri (dejected): "Da."

Valeri: "And Vladimir Vladimirovich says we must not let NATO bully us."

Dimitri: "well,...da."

Valeri: "And Vladimir Vladimirovich says we must defend our Russian culture against Western imperialism."

Dimitri: "...da..."

Valeri: "So, I was thinking..."

Dimitri: "Da?"

Valeri; "Understand, this only idea of spit-ball..."

Dimitri: "Da, da?"

Valeri: "What if Vladimir Vladimirovich stopped saying shit?"

Dimitri: "O-ho!"

This is why you don't loot electronics.

@K. I know you are busy, but I would appreciate your perspective on this.

That one's gonna hurt.