The country can sleep peacefully

Check out this Washington Post article.

U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal

The thing I most want to point out is that map. It shows Ukraine’s advances over the past two months of the offensive. Any real mapheads in here won’t be surprised by it but I think this is the first time I"m seeing a map like this in a western publication like the WP. The map itself is from the Institute from the Study of War, the one run by the sister-in-law of Victoria Nuland the current acting United States Deputy Secretary of State.

Just the map: https://i.imgur.com/pTOHBxi.png

It really does feel like the US media establishment is slowly laying the groundwork for hanging Ukraine out to dry. I just wish they would do it faster.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/BoltzmannBooty/status/1691874377413832857

I’m not an expert but I’ve played a good amount of KSP. It looks like India is using a periapsis kick. Instead of one burn at periapsis (bottom of the orbit) it uses a bunch, once for each orbit. This lets them use a weaker engine which lets them save weight. You want to do most of your burns at the periapsis because that’s when the spacecraft is moving fastest and that makes burns more efficient because of the Oberth Effect. Burning only at periapsis is what makes orbits shaped like that, when you do an orbital burn the shape of the orbit near where you’re burning barely changes and the biggest change is 180 degrees from where you are.

When the probe is orbiting the moon it does the same process in reverse. Repeated burns at periapsis to lower the apoapsis (highest part of the orbit) until the orbit is low enough to do a single burn to land the probe.

1,000 investigations into collaboration had been filed by the end of June, though only 50 sentences have been handed down so far

If you get an actual investigation conducted by a prosecutor then you might be OK. I’m more worried about all the “collaborators” that are punished outside the court system. If one of the paramilitaries decides that you’re a collaborator that could be an immediate death sentence.

Soviet anti-tank dogs but robots this time.

Some of the Leopard 2s might have survived for a bit longer if they had added proper cope cages on top. The armor on top in front of the turret is absurdly weak.

Challenger 2s have finally been spotted on near the frontlines. They’ve been equipped with some shoddy looking cope cages. I believe both the Challengers and Strykers are being deployed near Robotyne. This is probably from the 82nd Air Assault Brigade that Ukraine has been keeping in reserve in order to exploit a breakthrough in the Russian lines. They’re instead being deployed to try and breakthrough the first Russian line of defense. I think that Robotyne is the first and currently only place that Ukrainians have actually gotten within sight of a dragon’s tooth.

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1691543627439185920

Edit: German Marder IFVs have also been spotted and there’s video of a Stryker being hit.

Edit2: Forbes - Ukraine’s Powerful 82nd Brigade, Once Held In Reserve, Has Finally Joined The Counteroffensive

Why would they need to do anything? They already win Hawaii with huge margins.

Yes, and Fauci had recently authorized gain-of-function research.

It’s her turn!

Sure, but the majority of cease-fire violations on the separatist side were in response to being attacked by Kyiv military or paramilitary forces. It doesn’t count as breaking a ceasefire if the other side hasn’t ceased fire.

Ukraine could have stopped their war against Donbas at any time. In fact they were legally obligated to according to the Minsk agreements that they signed. Ukraine had no legal or moral right to continue attacking Donbas after they signed a ceasefire.

Not a lot of people went to western Ukraine. Most people went to either Russia or other parts of eastern Ukraine. Western Ukraine is pretty far away from the conflict.

I think Turkey is western-aligned but not western. I think if you ask most americans if Turks are western they’ll say no.

I mean if you’re getting shelled from enemy territory then the way you stop it is by shooting at the enemy artillery in enemy territory. Do you not support the right of Ukrainians in Donbas to defend themselves?

I think he’s talking about two youtube films. “Fortress” and “The Last Day of War”. Here they both are in one youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRapsbwhqE

Edit: Here are better versions by the original guy and in the original Russian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKmZnIHzldk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05z4Qj6DH64

NATO actually started the sanctions before the invasion. People were back then were actually saying “Wait, if we threatened Russia with sanctions if they invaded and then sanctioned them anyway, what is stopping Russia from invading?”.

The biggest sanction on Russia is probably being cut of from the Swift network and that was put in place after the invasion. Along with the foreign reserves being seized.

Possibly if Russia had either annexed Donbas immediately or allowed them to join the Russian Federation. Crimea managed to avoid being shelled by being part of Russia.

The problem with that from Russia’s perspective is that Russia was significantly more vulnerable to sanctions in 2014. Russia spent the past 8 years on hardening itself against western sanctions. Ukraine and NATO spent the last 8 years on ideologically hardening Kyiv’s army and government to fight to the death. Russia managed to avoid being destroyed by sanctions and NATO managed to avoid a repeat of the Georgian war.

That’s Ron Desantis’s face imposed the famous painting “Saturn Devouring his Son”. The son has been replaced with pudding to reference the time Ron ate a cup of pudding with his fingers.

Probably not this time, a big part of why Japanese-Americans were put into interment camps was because Californians wanted their farms.