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#89001
Today Kiev is 1543 years old. This is what Moscow looked like 1543 years ago.

 

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    AUS-97HORN

    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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    InkaUtexas

    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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#89002
And now he's maybe on our side.  Lete us allow it.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.
#89003

In fact the more I ponder on it we know tfg is a giant bully/coward. So I expect there will be a lot of this kind of "Putin is crazy!" talk with zero use of the great economic and military might of the US to back it up. He’s too focused on staunching internal opposition without any real meaningful cares about external actions that don’t bring him or his family immediate recompense.

#89004
45 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

In fact the more I ponder on it we know tfg is a giant bully/coward. So I expect there will be a lot of this kind of "Putin is crazy!" talk with zero use of the great economic and military might of the US to back it up. He’s too focused on staunching internal opposition without any real meaningful cares about external actions that don’t bring him or his family immediate recompense.

I, perhaps falsely, like think at some point the egomaniacal aspect of his personality will out weigh is bully aspects. That, should it occur, his own most important goal will start to take priority over his need to be a vindictive ass in internal US affairs and Europe, that goal being his legacy as "the best president ever".

I think the turning point will be if the Maga minion finally start to see not engaging Putin as "un-American" or far worse for Trump, as cowardly.

Putin will continue to push, his ego will, I hope, at some point push him to belittle Trump. 

If that happens, I firmly believe, things change rapidly. 

But hope in one hand shit in the other.

 

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#89005
I, perhaps falsely, like think at some point the egomaniacal aspect of his personality will out weigh is bully aspects. That, should it occur, his own most important goal will start to take priority over his need to be a vindictive ass in internal US affairs and Europe, that goal being his legacy as "the best president ever".
I think the turning point will be if the Maga minion finally start to see not engaging Putin as "un-American" or far worse for Trump, as cowardly.
Putin will continue to push, his ego will, I hope, at some point push him to belittle Trump. 
If that happens, I firmly believe, things change rapidly. 
But hope in one hand shit in the other.
 

You gonna have a stinky hand, brosef.
#89006
I, perhaps falsely, like think at some point the egomaniacal aspect of his personality will out weigh is bully aspects. That, should it occur, his own most important goal will start to take priority over his need to be a vindictive ass in internal US affairs and Europe, that goal being his legacy as "the best president ever".
I think the turning point will be if the Maga minion finally start to see not engaging Putin as "un-American" or far worse for Trump, as cowardly.
Putin will continue to push, his ego will, I hope, at some point push him to belittle Trump. 
If that happens, I firmly believe, things change rapidly. 
But hope in one hand shit in the other.
 

A concerted campaign, mostly of the whisper, just at the surface-type, that him not confronting Putin is because he’s a coward, has an actually decent chance of succeeding.
#89007
11 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:
❗️🇩🇪German Chancellor Merz: We will do everything we can to continue to support Ukraine. This also means that there are no longer any restrictions on the range of the weapons we supply. Ukraine can now also defend itself by attacking military positions in Russia.

Now, give them the Taurus 

(It might be happening: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-enhanced-missile-range-ukraine-would-be-dangerous-2025-05-26/ )

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#89011

Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say
US and German officials will discuss the next phase of Ukrainian support and Russian sanctions during meetings in Washington this week, including lifting range restrictions on interdiction in Russia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53404 

#89012
2 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say
US and German officials will discuss the next phase of Ukrainian support and Russian sanctions during meetings in Washington this week, including lifting range restrictions on interdiction in Russia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53404 

I think I we go to full scale war in Europe pretty soon. 

#89013
2 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say
US and German officials will discuss the next phase of Ukrainian support and Russian sanctions during meetings in Washington this week, including lifting range restrictions on interdiction in Russia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53404 

WTF “considering”?

DO IT last month you dense fuck!

#89014

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nuclear-zaporizhzhia.html

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Russia is building power lines in occupied southeastern Ukraine to link to its own grid a major nuclear plant it has captured, according to a new Greenpeace report. It is the clearest evidence yet of Moscow’s intent to restart and exploit the offline facility, despite the risks and calls to address the plant’s status in peace talks.

The facility, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, was seized by Russia early in the war in a move widely condemned by the international community. Its proximity to frontline fighting has raised fears of a potential nuclear disaster, and experts have warned against any attempt to restart the plant under current conditions.

The Greenpeace report, which was shared with The New York Times, includes satellite images showing that, since early February, Russia has been building more than 50 miles of electricity lines and pylons between the occupied Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Berdyansk, along the coast of the Azov Sea. The satellite images were verified by The Times.

Based on the location and direction of the work, Greenpeace said the project aimed to link the new power lines to a large substation near Mariupol that was connected to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, about 140 miles farther west.

“Putin’s plan for restarting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant depends on securing new electricity transmission lines — this is the first physical evidence of those plans,” Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist at Greenpeace Ukraine, said in an interview.

Moscow’s exact plans remain unclear. There are questions about whether it seeks to run the plant in a postwar Ukraine or to do so while fighting is still underway. In either case, experts note, Russia would need to build several more lines to connect the Zaporizhzhia plant to its own grid, a process that would take time.

Olga Kosharna, an independent Ukrainian nuclear expert, said linking the plant to its own grid has been a longtime goal for Moscow, as expressed in official statements throughout the war.

It would be the first time a warring nation seized another country’s nuclear facility and then used it for its own energy needs. And it would go against recent efforts by the Trump administration to discuss the fate of the plant as part of possible peace talks.

Mr. Trump has expressed interest in the United States taking control of Ukrainian nuclear plants, citing safety concerns and their economic potential. Last month, the White House presented a peace plan to Kyiv and its allies calling for Russia to return the plant to Ukraine, but under U.S. management. Under that plan, the facility would supply electricity to Ukraine and Russia.

Russia has flatly rejected the idea, with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov telling CBS News that the Zaporizhzhia plant was being run by the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom and that he did not think “any change is conceivable.” Rosatom and Russia’s energy ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the building of new power lines.

The recent power line construction suggests that Russia is not aiming just to hold onto the plant, but also wants to harness it to power its own grid.

Built during the Soviet era, the Zaporizhzhia facility is Europe’s largest nuclear power complex. Its six reactors can generate up to six gigawatts of electricity — enough to power all of Portugal — and they supplied nearly a quarter of Ukraine’s electricity before the war began in 2022.

The plant sits in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, dangerously close to the front lines, making safe operation impossible. All six reactors were gradually shut down after Russia seized the site, with the last one closing in 2023.

Russia has signaled its intent to power it back up, at one point citing 2024 as the target year to bring it online.

“Everyone is living with the dream of restarting the plant,” Rosatom’s director general, Alexei Likhachev, said last week, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. A plan had been developed to return the Zaporizhzhia facility to full capacity, he said.

One of the main challenges to restarting the plant, Mr. Likhachev noted, was the need to “replace the power grid.”

Indeed, of the four 750-kilovolt lines that once connected the plant to Ukraine’s grid, two pass through Ukrainian-held territory. The other two, on Russian-occupied land, have been damaged by the fighting and only one may have been repaired, according to Ms. Kosharna, the nuclear expert.

That leaves Russia without enough lines to fully tap the plant’s generation capacity. “They need to build more of them,” Mr. Burnie, of Greenpeace, said.

Mr. Burnie said one possible goal for Moscow was to eventually connect the Zaporizhzhia plant to the power grid in Russia’s Rostov region, which borders occupied areas of eastern Ukraine.

Satellite images obtained by Greenpeace show new power lines being built across fields near Mariupol, as well as the distinctive triangular shape of transmission towers. The latest imagery, from May 11 to May 22, shows these lines expanding east of the village of Shevchenko, about seven miles from a substation linked to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

Restarting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant would carry significant risks, energy experts say.

After more than three years of war, critical equipment remains unreplaced and many experienced Ukrainian staff members have fled. The 2023 destruction of a nearby dam on the Dnipro River, probably by Russia, also deprived the plant of the main water source needed to cool its reactors and its spent fuel rods.

Herman Galushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, said in a statement that “any attempts by Russian representatives to restart power units could lead to unpredictable consequences.”

 

 

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#89015
3 hours ago, Parliament said:

The plain old Ferd Terus was the #1 car in America for quite some time.  You don't get there w/o being good at...something.

good at....getting every major rental car company to make the Taurus the bulk of their rental fleet.  There was a good window of time there where if you rented a car, there was a 75% chance it was gonna be a Taurus.  And the utterly generic nature of the rental car experience actually ended up harming the brand.  When people thought "Taurus," they thought "cheapest car Hertz offers at Love Field."

#89016
Just now, Brisketexan said:

good at....getting every major rental car company to make the Taurus the bulk of their rental fleet.  There was a good window of time there where if you rented a car, there was a 75% chance it was gonna be a Taurus.  And the utterly generic nature of the rental car experience actually ended up harming the brand.  When people thought "Taurus," they thought "cheapest car Hertz offers at Love Field."

Now tell me about windows.

#89017
Just now, InkaUtexas said:

Now tell me about windows.

You should stay away from them if you are involved in military decisionmaking with the Putin regime.

#89018
17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You should stay away from them if you are involved in military decision making with the Putin regime.

Or trying to use outlook.

#89019
3 hours ago, KYHorn said:

Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say
US and German officials will discuss the next phase of Ukrainian support and Russian sanctions during meetings in Washington this week, including lifting range restrictions on interdiction in Russia

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53404 

 

3 hours ago, Armybrat said:

WTF “considering”?

DO IT last month you dense fuck!

As fun as it is to be an ahole about it, we don’t have the privilege.  We got a war to win and every thing we do needs to be to that end.  So.  Grit your teeth and say it with me:

”Excellent idea, Sir.  You’re 100% right.  We all agree with you and wait for your orders.”

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#89021
36 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Maybe DJT should think about why Lincoln fired McClellan and Burnside.

 

#89022

 

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is “seriously considering” lifting all Biden-era restrictions placed on the Ukrainian Armed Forces and their ability to strike at military bases and other targets deep inside Russia, using precision-guided munitions provided by and/or produced by…

Buckle Up Caitlyn Jenner GIF by South Park

 

#89023
37 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 

U.S. President Donald J. Trump is “seriously considering” lifting all Biden-era restrictions placed on the Ukrainian Armed Forces and their ability to strike at military bases and other targets deep inside Russia, using precision-guided munitions provided by and/or produced by…

Buckle Up Caitlyn Jenner GIF by South Park

 

So we’re gonna give them a bunch more cool shit?  I want to believe.

#89024
10 minutes ago, Parliament said:

So we’re gonna give them a bunch more cool shit?  I want to believe.

We might.

But Mexico is gonna have to pay for it.

#89029
5 hours ago, Parliament said:

So we’re gonna give them a bunch more cool shit?  I want to believe.

Only if the defense industry lobbyists are getting their calls returned. 

#89030
3 hours ago, Party_Taco said:


My mom had two of them… that 5 speed V8 hauled ass!

Fucking sleeper that was fun as fuck back in the day. 

#89031
7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Only if the defense industry lobbyists are getting their calls returned. 

Well let's hope.  At the very least we can sell our old stuff to Europe to give to the effort.

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#89037

https://www.threads.com/@_nickmelnick/post/DKPoMf0Iweh?xmt=AQF0qSyyG9djmxDeHEw-NN4rNW6bUnkc9zuJIzFJfx3eLQ

️In Stavropol, a Russian Armed Forces major who oversaw the bombings of Mariupol has been eliminated.
In the courtyard of a residential building, a man approached the war criminal and detonated 300 grams of C4. Both were killed in the explosion.
Zaur Gurtziev was in charge of the air operations during the battle for Mariupol in the Donetsk region, during which thousands of Ukrainians were killed. Russian propaganda claims that Gurtziev “improved the technology for missile targeting.”

 

https://www.threads.com/@amakukha/post/DKPm01buWcs?xmt=AQF0qSyyG9djmxDeHEw-NN4rNW6bUnkc9zuJIzFJfx3eLQ

 

A Ukrainian DJI drone was used to cut a Russian FPV drone from its fiber optic control link.
DroneWarfare

#89038
On 5/26/2025 at 3:46 PM, Brisketexan said:


A concerted campaign, mostly of the whisper, just at the surface-type, that him not confronting Putin is because he’s a coward, has an actually decent chance of succeeding.

Absolutely prescient. Hoping that somewhere someone is creating a Putin + 🌮 meme that is ready to go viral. 

#89039
45 minutes ago, Vintner said:

Absolutely prescient. Hoping that somewhere someone is creating a Putin + 🌮 meme that is ready to go viral. 

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#89044
11 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

It should be a chicken soft taco.  

 

You mean chicken fajita?

#89045

Ooops.

A massive tranche of over 2 million documents found in a public database sheds light on Russia’s expansion and modernization of its highly sensitive nuclear weapons complex, the Danish investigative outlet Danwatch and Germany’s Der Spiegel reported Wednesday.

The files include detailed blueprints of the Strategic Missile Forces bases near the Orenburg region town of Yasny. The two bases are equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, one of Russia’s most advanced nuclear delivery systems.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/28/russias-vast-nuclear-modernization-exposed-in-unprecedented-security-breach-der-spiegel-a89262

#89047
1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Ooops.

A massive tranche of over 2 million documents found in a public database sheds light on Russia’s expansion and modernization of its highly sensitive nuclear weapons complex, the Danish investigative outlet Danwatch and Germany’s Der Spiegel reported Wednesday.

The files include detailed blueprints of the Strategic Missile Forces bases near the Orenburg region town of Yasny. The two bases are equipped with the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, one of Russia’s most advanced nuclear delivery systems.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/28/russias-vast-nuclear-modernization-exposed-in-unprecedented-security-breach-der-spiegel-a89262

This is hilarious. Someone has likely been sitting on this for a while and, for whatever reason, decided now was a good time to release it.

It's like a big "Fuck You" middle finger to Putin.

My guess is that it's the current US regime wanting to piss of Putin for not playing along.

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#89048
On 5/19/2025 at 10:03 PM, choripan said:

Okay, I am going to split this into parts and put each part under a Spoiler so it's not super TLDR.

First part, a sort of overall review:

As for the travel:

More to come later but it's time to get ready for bed:

  • Impressions of Kyiv/Russian Aggression
  • Impressions of Ukrainians
  • Volunteering
  • Bonus Krakow Content

Okay, onto impressions of Kyiv/Russian Aggression. Under a spoiler so it's not a super long post.

Spoiler

Kyiv reminds more of Buenos Aires than any other city I can think of. It is a grand dame with wide boulevards, beautiful architecture at large scale, and greenery abounds. It has that city smell and honking of horns that reminds me of Buenos or Mexico City. I’d describe it as a not completely combusted fuel smell mixed with the aromas of street/restaurant food and the random passerby’s cigarette. I love it. 😊 However, you can tell that, like Buenos, it’s a place of fading grandeur. Things like unrepaired sidewalks or buildings with chunks of plaster or paint falling off, that kind of stuff. No big deal to me – in fact, I’d argue it adds a bit of character because it hasn’t overwhelmed the city – but I could see a fussy or stuck-up traveler being turned off.

 

And then, of course, there are the random buildings that have been hit. Below are pics of a tower and some buildings near it that got hit near my apartment before I got there (not surprising, they were near a power or steam plant looking complex).

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And about a hundred feet from my balcony is a building that my neighbor told me was hit by debris from a Shahed drone like a month earlier, and which is in the process of being renovated back.

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Getting around Kyiv is very easy. Where I was staying in the Shevchenkivskyi District was pretty centrally located to most things, and I did a lot of walking. When I had to go to farther out places, I took the metro and it’s super easy. You can just pay with your phone with Apple/Google Pay on your way through the turnstile and the signage is prominent and in both Cyrillic and Latin letters. The stations are deep, and Kyiv had the deepest metro station in the world for decades.

 

One thing that I didn’t consider going into the trip is that with all the electronic warfare stuff, GPS is absolute shit. After a day or so, I mostly gave up on using it except for very general location. Instead, I relied on old fashioned (predownloaded digital) map-and-street-signs method to figure out where the hell I was and to navigate. It worked fine.

Also interesting is that you see a lot of civilian vehicles repainted into olive greens or camo patterns. A few people mentioned that it’s all-hands-on-deck for vehicles same as people, given the limited resources in country, and you can tell.

 

Also, my ex and I had a litmus test for gauging the safety of cities we visited: "Can a woman walk alone after dark safely?" That’s a resounding “yes” in Kyiv, though it does fail the less-common “are kamikaze drones or ballistic missiles en route every night?” test. Speaking of which, most locals I talked to are sort of grimly resolved to ignore the air alerts best they can, with the most common approach being to go back to sleep if it’s Shaheds/UAVs, since they don’t do as much damage and are usually intercepted. What happens is the air alert app goes off kind of like an emergency/amber alert (loud and annoying!) and then you check the Ukrainian Air Force and “monitor”  Telegram channels that are really popular and tell you what kind of attack is coming to your location, so you can respond as you wish.

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In contrast to the Shaheds/UAVs, it was about 50/50 if they seek shelter when glide bombs/missiles are en route, since a lot of times they arrive before you can even get to shelter, anyway, if shelter is not in your building’s basement or something super close. The approach I settled on after the second night was to move my mattress to a place in my apartment with “two walls” of protection (https://www.google.com/search?q=two+walls+rule) and to delete the air alert app from my phone, put in my earbuds with white noise, and (hopefully) not hear the sirens or occasional explosions.

 

It worked, I slept through it most nights, I lived. One night they woke me up at like 4am with 5 minutes or so left in the Pistons-Knicks game, so I got to see my Pistons flame out. Here’s the sirens, btw. They sounded like tornado sirens, but louder.

 

Overall, I'd say that I saw many of the highlights of Kyiv. I'd characterize it as a large city that functions pretty well, even in spite of nightly orc attacks. Given my general wanderlust and desire to see new places, it's probably not worth another visit without volunteering again, or having another reason to go, but it was nice.

 

Edited by choripan

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#89049
One of Ukraine’s most successful strikes deep inside Russia might be happening right now. New footage reportedly shows Olenya Air Base with Russian Tu-bombers burning after drone hits. More visuals are surfacing—this looks really big.
#89050
14 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
One of Ukraine’s most successful strikes deep inside Russia might be happening right now. New footage reportedly shows Olenya Air Base with Russian Tu-bombers burning after drone hits. More visuals are surfacing—this looks really big.

Measuring distance on Google Maps, that base is 1,164 miles from the closest piece of Ukrainian dirt, far to the south. That is some seriously impressive range.

Edit: Of course, the Ukrainians may have also been able to sneak over and launch drones from a closer point, I suppose.

Edited by bolverk

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