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The ammo explosion in Russia was probably very significant. It was Russia's newest and a very large store, over 100 "nuclear bomb proof". Bunkers capacity total 30 000 tons. I lt was a major logistics hub for the Ukraine war and satellite photos showed it was in constant use, with blmost b...

Is this a separate incident or are you simply misidentifying obsolete forms of communication technology? The pagers were purchased by Hesbolah primarily for their own use, although inevitably a significant number of civilians will have been injured or killed as well. EDIT Yes these are additional ex...

UndercoverElephant wrote: ↑18 Sep 2024, 13:56

Ralphw2 wrote: ↑18 Sep 2024, 12:55 Putin is clearly praying for a Trump re-election.

I'd sooner bet that Trump will be dead before the election than President after it.

If the next shooter fails to miss, I fear that Vance would be elected and that would be a bigger disaster than an Trump re-election.

no sign of the US relenting on ;ong range missiles into Russia. Russia withdrew its glide bomb fleet of bombers out of range of stormshadow anyway. ALso most of its navy further out of range of Ukrainian missiles and drones as well Russia has begun a counter attack in Kursk, successfully relieving t...

The rumour is that the attack was planned to occur immediately before an Israeli attack into Lebanon to sow confusion. However, someone in Hezbollah discovered the pagers had been tampered with so Israel chose to blow them anyway, and not waste the chance to kill people.

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On current form 4 is outcome I think Biden understands. He is a child of the cold war are I don't think he can see a future where Russia is not the enemy. It is certainly the outcome the MIC wants. However, it is not sustainable, Russia still has huge energy resources and has the political control t...

The proposed new coal mine in Yorkshire has been turned down by the high court on the basis that it was incompatible with the govenrments legal duty to work towards zero carbon. Expect further legal chanllenges...

The RUssian advance on Povrosk has completely stalled for over 10 days now. Kursk incursion has largely stalled with just minor advances in some areas. No sign of significant Russian counter attacks. The going rate for new Russian sign up bonuses into the army is now 5 years average wages. The Russi...

UK EV sales in August were a record 23% of the market. Too many models chasing the market led to heavy discounting to or below petrol car prices, as manufacturers were desperate to meet the mandated 22% of the market share to avoid government penalties on the way to 100% in 2030/5.

Preti Patel out of the race.

There are signs that UKraine has finally committed some reserves to the defense of Povrosk. The Russian forces are coming up to the last line of prepared defenses a few miles short of the city boundary. In the last few days at least 3 armoured attacks of 5 -12 vehicles across the front lines have be...

Although the post communist (pragmatically speaking) leadship in China, has shown signs of understanding the concept and needs for ecocivilisation, the current leader has cemented his power base in the system to be point that he is effectively an old style autocratic dictator, with military pretensi...

Let's be clear. The current manpower problems for Ukraine stem from the nine month delay that the government sat on the military request for the next round of mobilisation. This led to raw conscripts being sent to the front lines to plug the gaps after only 6 weeks training. Without the punishment b...

Population is one of Russia's big weaknesses. They have a rapidly declining population, in part due to the emancipationof women, and the terrible economics of the end of communism, their birth rate crashed and remains well below replacement like most nations. Also, state sanctioned alcoholism , the ...