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Thanks! :bighug:

There are a couple of equally terrific jokes in the thread.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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...Trump is more of a fascist than Putin and Americans are stupid
Well, he's half right. He'd be 100% correct if trump wasn't an idiot.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Volkonski wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:42 pm :snippity:
Sarah Palin, it is said, can see Russia from her front porch. So if Alaska is Russian, it's true.

Also consider that see went to school in Moscow,

I see a pattern here.
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Top Russian Generals Arrested, Investigated for 'Abuse of Power'
Russian law enforcement detained three top Russian generals, including an aide to the head of the country's interior ministry, on charges of abuse of power, officials said Wednesday.

Lieutenant-General Sergei Umnov, the assistant to the head of Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, was detained alongside Major General Alexei Semyonov, head of St. Petersburg's traffic police, and Major General Ivan Abakumov, as the country's invasion of Ukraine rages on.

Between 2016 and 2020, the three top Russian generals allegedly misappropriated funds from the Program Assistance Fund for the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region's Main Department of Internal Affairs, and purchased property "for personal use," Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.
https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-ge ... er-1722166

Perhaps as punishment they'll now be sent to Ukraine.
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Notaperson wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 4:17 pm Top Russian Generals Arrested, Investigated for 'Abuse of Power'
Between 2016 and 2020, the three top Russian generals allegedly misappropriated funds from the Program Assistance Fund for the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region's Main Department of Internal Affairs, and purchased property "for personal use," Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.
https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-ge ... er-1722166
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Russia says it will build it's own space station.

Seems like funding and technology access could be a problem.
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/russian- ... government

Whoah.
Russian National Charged with Conspiring to Have U.S. Citizens Act as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government
An indictment was unsealed today in Tampa, Florida, charging a Russian national, working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), with allegedly orchestrating a years-long foreign malign influence campaign that used various U.S. political groups to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.

As alleged in the indictment, from at least December 2014 until March 2022, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, together with at least three Russian officials, engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States. Ionov is the founder and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), an organization headquartered in Moscow and funded by the Russian government. Ionov utilized AGMR to carry out Russia’s influence campaign.

“Ionov allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Department of Justice will not allow Russia to unlawfully sow division and spread misinformation inside the United States.”

According to the indictment, Ionov — working under the supervision of the FSB and with the Russian government’s support — recruited political groups within the United States, including U.S. Political Group 1 in Florida, U.S. Political Group 2 in Georgia, and U.S. Political Group 3 in California, and exercised direction or control over them on behalf of the FSB. Specifically, Ionov provided financial support to these groups, directed them to publish pro-Russian propaganda, coordinated and funded direct action by these groups within the United States intended to further Russian interests, and coordinated coverage of this activity in Russian media outlets. Ionov also relayed detailed information about this influence campaign to three FSB officials.
Edit: Moar: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local ... 66feade59b
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No matter what the Kremlin says, the sanctions against Russia are working and 'catastrophically crippling' its economy: study
Five months into the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's economy is imploding from sweeping international sanctions and a corporate exodus, a Yale University analysis has found. The analysis, released July 20, was led by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management.

The study's findings stand in contrast to studies of Russia's economy that show it's holding up better than expected. Many of those analyses, forecasts, and projections draw from Russian government economic releases, which are becoming "increasingly cherry-picked; partial, and incomplete, selectively tossing out unfavorable statistics while keeping favorable statistics," the Yale team wrote. "Indeed, the Kremlin has a long history of fudging official economic statistics, even prior to the invasion."

Russia's economy has not rebounded and is in fact "reeling," the Yale authors found. They used private Russian-language data sources and sources like high-frequency consumer data for their analysis.

"From our analysis, it becomes clear: business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy," the authors wrote.
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Does Putin know? :think:
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Couple who lived quietly in Hawaii for years were actually Russian spies, US alleges
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) - A couple living quietly in Hawaii for years were actually Russian spies, federal agents with the state Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service allege.

Walter Glenn Primose, also known as Bobby Edward Fort, and Gwynn Darle Morrison, aka Julie Lyn Montague, were arrested in a raid Friday morning, HawaiiNewsNow reported.

Government records said the couple assumed the identities of dead babies from Texas in the 1980s, then used those identities to obtain Social Security cards, passports and driver’s licenses. Both are charged with identity theft, lying on their passport applications and conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States.
After retiring from the Coast Guard in 2016, Primrose was working as a U.S. Department of Defense contractor until his arrest Friday.

“It’s absolutely staggering to me the amount of time and effort the Russians put into this particular project,” Simon said, referring to the criminal allegations. “This was not a quick hit to steal some records to get back. This was decades in the making.”
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Time to go back and rewatch The Americans, although the last season was dulled by trump's real Russian shenanigans.
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Hubby asked me to post this article. He is fascinated by the enormity of the two pipelines and whether Dark Biden did it in the Baltic Sea with a mini sub and explosives.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy ... 022-09-27/
Gas leaks from Russian pipelines to Europe raise sabotage fears

Sweden's Maritime Authority issued a warning about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline the day after a leak on the nearby Nord Stream 2 pipeline was discovered that prompted Denmark to restrict shipping and impose a small no fly zone.

Denmark's armed forces released a video showing bubbles boiling up to the surface of the sea. The largest gas leak had caused a surface disturbance of well over 1 km (0.6 mile) in diameter, the armed forces said. read more

"Today we faced an act of sabotage, we don't know all the details of what happened, but we see clearly that it's an act of sabotage, related to the next step of escalation of the situation in Ukraine," Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the opening of a new pipeline between Norway and Poland.

Seismologists in Denmark and Sweden registered powerful blasts in the areas of the leaks on Monday, Sweden's National Seismology Centre told public broadcaster SVT. German geological research centre GFZ also said a seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm had twice recorded spikes on Monday.
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I thought this thread was interesting. It basically says that yes, Russia does have new technology. But no, their armed forces are not using that technology. If the new technology has been passed to the soldiers, they've thrown it out because they were never taught how to use it, so it was useless to the. Or it wastes away in warehouses.

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I suppose they couldn't afford the economy of scale necessary to train every soldier like they trained world famous boxer Ivan Drago.
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Yes, Russia has developed some advanced and innovative weapons systems but deployment..... Well, that's a thing....

Take as an example a truly fascinating rifle they developed, the AN-94. It was developed to replace the AK-74 (not 47) and featured a true engineering breakthrough to allow the weapon to fire 2 rounds so quickly that the recoil didn't arrive, and move the point of aim, until the second round had left the barrel.

For those of us who shoot you know in rapid fire you will never get the second round even close to the same point of impact until you recover from the recoil, reset your sight image, aim and fire.

Really remarkable engineering, the problem is it involves a massively complex set of internal components, field stripping takes about 10 minutes and leaves you with a number of small, easily lost in the dark components and has a wheel, a cable and a muzzle device that is nigh on impossible to clean properly as it is convoluted like a snail shell.

You can imagine the manual of arms for this puppy is long and detailed and would take a significant amount of training to get to muscle memory level......

Got dropped for general use although still on the books.... Possibly used by evil senior sergeants as a punishment tool... "What do you mean you can't strip this piece of fine Russian equipment..... Time for punishment drills"
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Mr brolin wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:28 pm :snippity:

Really remarkable engineering, the problem is it involves a massively complex set of internal components, field stripping takes about 10 minutes and leaves you with a number of small, easily lost in the dark components and has a wheel, a cable and a muzzle device that is nigh on impossible to clean properly as it is convoluted like a snail shell.

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Also a real problem when your army is vastly made up of conscripts rather than professional soldiers....


Hell...all these decades later [all both of them] I can still field strip an M-16...
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