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Ukraine invasion turning into protracted war that Russia will win, experts warn

https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-invasion … 22818.html

Russia is set to switch off the gas for work on a key pipeline — and Germany fears the worst

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/05/germany … -good.html

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Soviet 2B9 Vasilek 82mm Gun-Mortar was spotted in use by Ukrainian forces
https://funker530.com/video/this-soviet … -wishlist/

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What an idiot

Vyacheslav Volodin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of the country's legislature, issued a stark warning Wednesday that Russia has something to reclaim from the U.S.: the state of Alaska. Volodin is not the only Russian figure who has spoken about the prospect of Russia taking Alaska back from the U.S.

Russia threatens the US to take Alaska away. "This is the land of our ancestors".

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-vya … ka-1722342

Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin  is a Russian politician who has served as the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 5 October 2016.
He is a former aide to President Vladimir Putin. The former Secretary-General of the United Russia party, he was a deputy in the State Duma from 1999 until 2011 and from 2016 to present day. From 2010 until 2012, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/

Russian Ruble Drops 17% Amid Falling Exports, Rumored Intervention
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/ … ion-a78224

FPSRussia...Kyle Lamar Myers is an American podcaster and former YouTuber known under the stage name FPSRussia. His YouTube channel features Myers portraying the fictional role of Dimitri Potapoff, a heavily accented "professional Russian" from Moscow, Russia. His videos center around the usage of large amounts of firearms and explosives.

Russian Soldiers Conduct Proper Impression of FPS Russia
https://funker530.com/video/russian-sol … ps-russia/
'We're not exactly sure what the Russians were trying to do with this video. The only logical conclusion is they were doing their best impression of FPS Russia.'

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Russian ground-based laser to dazzle imaging satellites
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4416/1

permanent blindness. Optics burnt?

Satellites spot construction of Russian anti-satellite laser facility: report
https://www.space.com/russia-anti-satel … ite-photos

Canada announces new Russia sanctions targeting disinformation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada … -1.6514422

100s of Ukrainian recruits start training in UK to help fight against Russians
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5737434/re … p-britain/

Multiple Russian soldiers detained for refusing to fight in Putin's war
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-russi … ar-1722915

We had much discussion on personality type and politics and morality for Mars, here is something from a scifi fantasy game

In Syria, Putin acted like a cold-blooded calculator who reached his objective to save his ally Bashar Assad, skillfully avoiding to trigger a direct confrontation with USA and Turkey, so I don't think he will invade other countries.

What would scifi fantasy writers think of that old Chess game gone in space?

Moral Alignment Test
https://www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignment/test.php
Originating with the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game

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Trying to reverse time back to early 1900's when Russia was great it would seem.
Seems the long haul is the continual resupply of weapons to keep the war going without other nations sending in fighting forces seems to be the stalemate the world is set on.

A nation that wanted the Russians in it to solve its problems now may be regretting it.
NW Syria fears 'catastrophe' as Russia blocks cross-border aid

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Lavrov walks out of G20 talks after denying Russia is causing food crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … ood-crisis

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Film of crooked cops in Ukraine? Kharkov, police officers demanded money from drivers at a checkpoint, but just at that moment the military drove by arrested the corrupted police

https://youtu.be/4Ta3xKcqgUM

the Ukrainian military isn’t in the mood to take any nonsense

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nato espansion as The Royal Air Force has deployed Typhoon FGR4 and F-35B Lightning jets to Finland, and Typhoon FGR4 jets to Sweden, for integrated fighter aircraft training

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I saw recently that planes may be heading to the Ukraine to make use of. With each upping of the type of weapon used we are getting valuable data for performance and how to make use of them that we would otherwise would not be getting.

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Everything is Artillery in Ukraine - SPG-9 Volley Towards Russian Forces
https://funker530.com/video/everything- … an-forces/

Russian Nuclear Missile Submarine Seen With Ukraine Invasion 'Z' - Naval News
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 … nvasion-z/

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Multiple Rocket Launch system and self-propelled Howitzer, Gepard tanks, Anti Aircraft missile system.

Germany delivers M270 and PzH2000 to Ukraine
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ … d-100.html

Destruction not just of important victims and innocent
but of the Environment

'Russian Forces Fire Incendiary MLRS'
https://funker530.com/video/russian-for … iary-mlrs/
Footage shows Russian or Donetsk Peoples Republic forces firing BM-21 Grad rockets at Ukrainian positions, including a barrage of incendiary munitions in the area of Avdiivka. The use of incendiary munitions in this instance is likely meant to be a defoliant, stripping trees of there vegetation and taking away the enemies ability to operate under concealment.

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Trench warfare was a type of land fighting using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. Trench warfare became associated with World War I

The new era of WW2 seen new armoured warfare and new combined arms tactics permitted static lines to be bypassed

However now there are moving robot machines that are tank killer, improvised drone birds are printed and built and these little machines take out the big tanks

With MBT's not as tough and invincible as they used to be Trench Warefare returns, "Lions led by donkeys" is a phrase popularly used to describe the British infantry of the First World War and to blame the generals who led them the European old "trench warfare" idea almost had a oppressive psychological element to its description in old books and magazine it became a byword for stalemate, bloody attrition, almost endless sieges, and futility of battle with no true end in conflict.

Ukraine Looks More and More Like World War One Every Day
https://funker530.com/video/ukraine-loo … every-day/
video
Footage recorded on the Eastern Front of the conflict in Ukraine shows Ukrainian Soldiers firing machine guns from their trench lines towards Russian positions.

Almost Normal Everyday Life continues as normal for people in the region?

'Life in Donetsk - Security Camera Footage From a Convenience Store'

https://funker530.com/video/life-in-don … nce-store/

Footage recorded inside of a Donetsk convenience store shows how life continues to go on in parts of Ukraine that are most impacted by the war between Russia and Ukraine.
If you went to Iraq or Afghanistan, then you're already familiar with the look on the civilian's faces in this video. Humans are incredibly adaptable creatures. In fact, it's what makes us the most dominant species on the planet.
Regardless of the circumstances we find ourselves in, we can adapt and overcome. This video gives us a bit of insight into the daily lives of civilians in the Donetsk region. It shows shoppers and shopkeepers going about their day as bombs continuously impact outside of the shop they're inside of.

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Trench warfare is the only kind of warfare that Russia and Ukraine can engage in using the weapons they have, which is why it's so brutal and drawn-out.  Russia has plenty of modern weapons to use to kill unarmed civilians, but zero experience actually fighting a modern war.

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Drone explosion hits Russia's Black Sea Fleet HQ

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai … b5cd77f25d

Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed

Ukraine denies connection, or perhaps a new imported drone or local manufactured drone resistance.

'Civilian Cannonball Runs Through Firefight Between Russian and Ukrainian Forces'

https://funker530.com/video/civilian-ca … an-forces/

One day prior to this video being recorded, there is a high chance that the person driving this vehicle had absolutely zero expectation of the war between Ukraine and Russia coming to fruition. For months and months prior to the actual invasion there was posturing and sabre rattling from Russia, but no action. For many civilians in Ukraine, by the time the invasion kicked off, the thought of it actually occurring was becoming nothing more than a minor disturbance in their every day lives.

Imagine waking up one day and this is your new reality. Imagine now, five months later, this is still your new reality every single day.

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It appears that it was a homemade drone that did the damage to the Russian fleet in the black sea

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North Korea Offers Russia 100,000 ‘Volunteers’ for War on Ukraine

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/nor … te-tv-says

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3 more grain ship have been able to leave the Ukraine with cargo.

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Thermal Cam: Attack Helo Rocket Launch With Impacts
https://funker530.com/video/thermal-cam … h-impacts/

Interesting footage filmed through a thermal scope shows a Russian attack helicopter "lofting" unguided rockets toward Ukrainian positions.

The technique is significantly less effective than aiming directly at enemy targets, but it allows the aircraft to stay out of range of MANPADS and air defense artillery. This video is especially interesting because it shows the impacts of the rockets, giving the viewer an idea the effectiveness of the technique. Essentially the rockets are being used like a BM-21 Grad MLRS rocket barrage, although the helos rockets are much less powerful. While lofting rockets may be useless against point targets like individual vehicles, it can be useful for terrain denial and vehicle staging areas.

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An imperialist war Destroying future generations of innocent kids

Ukraine war: Russia 'using landmines that maim children who mistake them for toys'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ … tes-putin/

5 of Turkey's banks have adopted Russia's payment system, and Western officials are concerned it could be used to skirt sanctions
https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/5-tur … 39367.html

As inequality grows, so too does South Africa's Communist Party
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article … st-party-0

Brazil, India, and China's rush to buy Russian energy shows Putin still has strong allies who can prop up Russia's economy
https://www.businessinsider.com/brazil- … ies-2022-7

ASEAN-plus-3 foreign ministers begin talks, focus on Ukraine war
https://japantoday.com/category/politic … kraine-war

US sanctions Putin 'girlfriend,' more oligarchs for 'complicity' in Ukraine war
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-sanctions- … 39508.html

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Actor Steven Seagal is best known as an American action film star who practiced 'Akido' in all of his films, he has since gone religious said he became a reincarnation of an Asian Buddha deity and his movies have now become B-Movie productions. He moved from Japan back to the US setting up in Los Angeles, California, area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. Later films include Under Siege, he is a musician and tv producer where he played a real life role of some bounty hunter cop role Steven Seagal: Lawman, is a reality series, in which one Seagal follows Jefferson Parish sheriff in Louisiana in his activities as a replacement.  In almost every film Seagal plays a soldier or police officer.

His comedy roles have been described as Awful and The reportedly is Banned From SNL

He has been nominated for 'Razzie Awards' as worst actor.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000219/

'Steven Seagal appears in Ukraine, serving as a Russian spokesperson'

https://news.yahoo.com/steven-seagal-ap … 43451.html

Putin loses his 100th colonel as US says 80,000 Russian troops have been either killed or wounded during invasion of Ukraine

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … unded.html

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Appears that crimea has had fuel plus airfield and other location exploding as caused by Ukrainians.

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Ukraine war: Crimea airbase badly damaged, satellite images show

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62500560

Russian Airbase Crushed By Massive Explosions In Crimea

https://funker530.com/video/russian-air … in-crimea/

A Russian tourist couple film themselves trying to leave, the 'official' version is cigarette/accident explosion, they are checked at control point to open the trunks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCW6jOBftQ

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Helmet Cam: Ukrainian International Legion Assaults Russian Fortifications

https://funker530.com/video/helmet-cam- … fications/

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At least 9 Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea strikes, Ukraine says

https://globalnews.ca/news/9049694/ukra … a-strikes/

Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said that the Ukrainian forces could have struck the Russian air base with a Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missile that has a range of about 200 kilometres and could have been adapted for use against ground targets and could be fired from Ukrainian positions near Mykolaiv northwest of Crimea.

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More activity in Crimea as At least six explosions hit Crimea air base in nearly an hour