Mines. The answer is mines. Mass amounts that cost money, manpower and time to clear.
FYI the BLU44 or PFM types are probably the perfect mass area denial mine ever produced.
While Russia is not ready to sue for peace on Europe’s terms, it could still either seek a ceasefire in Ukraine or try escalation.
Brussels needs to prepare for both and prioritize that preparation over normative discussions, argues @KadriLiik.
https://t.co/tP5AmX63Xg
🧵Recently, I was given another lecture by another utterly predictable virtue-signaling member of “Euro-intelligentsia” about the end of America, Trump, America racism etc etc etc. Full disclosure: My entire professional career I have worked to strengthen transatlantic ties. 1/8
1/ Nikolai Patrushev, a key adviser to Vladimir Putin, says that Russia is fighting a pan-European neo-Nazi alliance, and advocates Russian naval action in the English Channel. He warns the Baltic states of "the end of ... peaceful, carefree life and sovereignty." ⬇️
2013: I messaged @suzanne_moore and said, "Trouble at mill, sister". 'Why', she asked? "Julie Burchill has defended us in the Observer and all hell is going to break loose!" Guess what happened next? https://t.co/CqM9nfTDSP
🧵I've been in Europe for 2 months (Poland, Estonia, France, next Hungary, Belgium, Germany). I'd like to share a few observations before @NATO summit in Ankara. BLUF: Most of Euro policy elites don't understand current US politics--and often refuse to understand their own. 1/11
"Russia's attacks on civilians serve no purpose."
Oh, but they do. They are an integral part of Russia's genocidal objective in its war of extermination against Ukraine.
That is exactly why so many of us (Civil Rights lawyers) are pushing back. This type of situation was never meant to be a protected class. Once you allow any “feeling” to be protected, then all other genuine protections are meaningless. And it is shocking, frankly, that so many academics who should know better are willing to sell their souls to support something that undermines absolutely everything they believe in.
@PeeterEspak@paivootele Sotsid käisid Madise välja ja nüüd sotside "palgaline klähvits" nimetab endi poolt välja käidud kandidaati veiderdajaks?! See on juba uus tase sotside käitumises.
@paivootele Te ütlete iseenda kohta "palgaline klähvits" niimoodi otse? Leian siiski, et antud kontekstis pole teil küll põhjust ennast defineerida või esitleda "palgalise klähvitsana" - te oskate sellist juttu ajada ka täiesti iseenda loomusest tulenevana.
The decision that moved into action such geopolitical repercussions that we are feeling them and will continue to do so for many years to come. Reading Obama's comments after a decade makes me particularly exhausted from their sheer pretentiousness and arrogance.
Российский военный Даниил Туленков, откровенно написал о том, как его командир пытал гражданских в Бердянске. Людей насиловали при их детях.
Это не украинская пропаганда, не ИПСО. Это пишет реальный российский участник «СВО», который уже успел стать писателем и написать книгу “Шторм Z” про свой опыт на войне.
Фильм «Груз 200», который многие считали какой-то адской чернухой - на самом деле просто детский мультик, в сравнении с тем, что в реальности творят российские выродки.
Все это никогда нельзя забывать. Каждое такое признание очень важно запоминать и документировать. Чтобы никто потом не сказал, что этого не было.
The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:
“It’s like feudalism,” a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a “disgrace.” https://t.co/DWUnu3Wz3C
Ragozin now writing for American Conservative, which also publishes Quincy- and Valdai-affiliated mouthpieces like Mark Episkopos and Ted Snider and Orban creatures like Phil Pilkington.🔽