Stuart Galbraith

Well it made me laugh.

Russian propaganda film about Mariupol, supposedly a wagner recruitment film.

Particularly like this one.

And waiting for you to stop posting like a prig, and start posting references so I can inform myself. You are the expert seemingly, so share the knowledge and stop posting like a constipated Gandalf.

There is a very fine book by Anna Funder called 'Stasiland' that is worth reading on East Germans attitudes to the DDR. The most repeated refrain from the DDR was 'it was possible to live a perfectly normal life.' Although for East Germans, considering they hadnt ever known anything different, makes them perhaps not really the best people to judge. When you read about how many people were Stasi informers, you have to ask what their barometer for normal was. I gather the DDR did a very successful campaign to make out that it was the West Germans (Munich in particular) that were responsible for foisting Nazism on Germany, so perhaps there is not as much feeling of responsiblity as there is in the West. That it wasnt as strongly studied as in West Germany as a means to educate Germans not to go down that road again may be one more reason they might feel like giving it a go.

I played it when it was still called Project Stealth Fighter.

200g, and you are still going to struggle to shorehorn that into the vast majority of civilian spec drones that are now available. Which is primarily most of what Russia is using. If you are in a position to recommend good reading material on this subject in English, im game.

Its pretty self evident what has gone on in the East for anyone vaguely familiar with German History. East Germany industrialised far more than it had historically (most of German industry was in the Ruhr). With the wall coming down, that all went away because it was uneconomic (anyone want a Trabant?) So lacking jobs for life, feeling neglected, feeling all kinds of hurt and pissed off, they vote for the nearest they have to an authoritarian party they grew up with. And lets face it, there isnt all that much difference between left or right when they start getting all shouty or authoritarian. Only the flags and the slogans are different. These are not things that are hard to understand. One way or another you have been seeing it all across the west in different measures over the last 50 years. The problem is the refusal to recognise that extremists are very good at playing games with problems, but pissing useless at doing anything about them. Witness the Brexiteers. Britain should be booming right now, right?

Im perfectly capable of conceding my knowledge is less than comprehensive. And yet the evidence that RF interference can cause problems with electronics is widely understood and much diseminated. https://blog.enconnex.com/what-is-rf-interference-what-causes-it-how-to-block-it#:~:text=Radio frequency (RF) interference can be problematic for,causes RF interference%2C %26 how to stop it. I submit its one thing to put shielding on a microwave oven which sits on your worktop for its entire working life, and another to shield something that has to fly and still have enough payload capacity to do something useful whilst doing it.

Thanks. Aesthetically I like it very much. Perhaps its because it reminds me of WW2 German halftracks.

That isnt culture war. Thats British folk expressing dislike of dickheads and fascists. This too was not culture war. You being an expert on all things British, you recognise the guy being manhandled im sure.

Im always amused by these, they are dead ringers for the Morris J4 vans I remember from my childhood.

He also said that North Koreas denuclearization was its only acceptable future. 8 years on its got more nuclear weapons than ever, more long range delivery systems than ever, and absolutely nothing has changed. Under such circumstances, why should the Iranians take him seriously, when he was after all the man that kicked over the JCPOA and replace it with nothing but allowing the Iranians to do what they wanted? Ill give the guy credit, he got all the women out of Gaza, Ill give him full praise on that. But he is distracted, easily moved from his chosen goals, and the best example of that is the rest of the hostages are still in Gaza with absolutely no indication he is putting any pressure on Netahyahu to do a deal and get them out.

Its probably one of those portable shield generators they used to hide Bidens decrepitude. For me the clincher was when they started upping them on youtube, and 9 times out of 10 what they were showing was airliners coming into land through a low cloud base. I am sure there have been SOME drones flying over US airbases and secure installations. There were reports about that going back years, long before these reports became fashionable. But it doesnt seem to anything serious enough to have created this furore, which to me looks like media hype and overavailablity of mobile phones plus infinite public credulity. I shouldnt be surprised, I remember listening to the Art Bell show back in 1999 and they were already back then talking about chemtrails. It took less than 20 for that to become public discourse.