Then what is a pancake? Same batter, but different cooking method.

Toad in a hole in the UK is a vastly different dish of sausages baked into a Yorkshire pudding

I find it hard to believe that they will be receiving anyone larger than a glorified PT boat. Certainly nothing larger than a frigate.

Of which there are plenty of that class up and down the Danube.

There are other ways into the Black Sea…

Edit: rather than just downvoting, why not consider that the Danube exists and is plenty of patrol boats/frigates based up and down it by Ukraine friendly nations.

Have you been paying attention in the past 5 years?

Didn’t happen in a vacuum though, did it.

Do not confuse me saying that with sympathising with Hamas. It is possible to recognise that both sides have bloody hands, and have done for decades.

Yes. This is a inflammatory headline purely to try and push an agenda.

There was literally a poll a couple of months ago that showed something like 80% of Ukrainians were in favour of not having elections.

Not to even mention that Ukraine is under Marshall Law, and per their laws disallows elections. And don’t even get me started on the entire premise of running elections in a country where a quarter of the landmass is under enemy occupation and the logistics of getting votes from 100s of thousands of deployed troops and the serious security concerns of the election itself from Russian attacks.

In my opinion Newsweek have just outed themselves here and the question is for who?

Awww how sad.

The autumn in Ukraine this year has been unusually dry from the reports that I’ve heard, so it depends entirely on whether that continues through to and throughout the winter.

This is something that I’ve been thinking about and came to the realisation of the last couple of months.

And this is exactly what Russia’s objective was after the disaster of last year. Politically and strategically is the best they can hope for. Drag it out and Ukraine’s allies and the world will get tired and stop caring. They’ll stop supplying weapons, and sanctions will soften, maybe even start leaning towards supporting or feeling sorry for Russia. Something that were already seeing with Slovakia cutting all aid to Ukraine and taking a ‘war is bad, negotiate peace’ stance that is a blatant and thinly veiled Russian supportive line. Which is funny since their new govt is Russia leaning.

US are also starting to waver recently with the whole House Speaker débâcle. And Poland/Ukraine relations are a little frosty at the minute too.

That’s before you even talk about the Russian strikes on the Ukrainian/Romanian border that are being almost ignored in relation to their severity. Or the Russian mining of the Black Sea. Or Russian missiles flying paths over Maldova on their way to Ukraine. It’s a piss take. And only a matter of time unless the world pulls its finger out.

I would like to think I would be some kind of PMC trying to survive in a quarantined zone after mass evacuation. The Russian government has cordoned off the area as a result of some kind of conspiracy by a secretive ‘Umbrella Corp’ style mega corp and has stranded the Russian and Western PMCs that were caught in the area when it closed.

But in reality I would be a Scav and almost immediately killed by some lvl70 Kappa chad.

Both can be true. That Israel has been terrorising Palestinians, and that HAMAS is terrorising Israel.

Man, Putin sure showed everyone by refusing to renew the Black Sea Grain Deal, eh.

It would really put pressure on the world and Ukraine if they no longer ‘ensured security’ of Ukrainian shipping out of the Back Sea.

Oh wait. Seems that the Black Sea fleet has been shown up to be the wet armpit it always was by checks notes a bunch of remote controlled speed boats and flying explosives.

Pfft. Sounds like free cars to me.

Would have been nice if they had left the keys…I think I would have considered it if I knew I wasn’t coming back. But those all look like they were driven by the rich.

Hopefully the local authority do something interesting with them when they get ownership. Donating Ukraine for example. I’d imagine that even if they are too difficult to get keys for they, the more common/utilitarian vehicles can break for important spares.

That said, I’m sure then cars pictured are likely indicative of the whole range that has been left, so probably not.

If my airforce was comprised in bulk of early to mid era cold war museum pieces with a (very) small handful of late cold war era jets as my flagship units then I would be impressed with anything developed after 1991 as well.

I mean, that’s fair enough in itself. There’s plenty of nations out there still rocking their Falcons, Flankers, Frogfoots, Frogger, Tornados, Mirages etc etc completely respectedly. But they also allow their pilots more stick time in half a year than the vast majority of NK’s pilots get in half a decade.

No, no. It’s millennial’s fault for not buying the right stuff.

In the same vein, ‘long weekend’ is another that can drop dead as well.

To the point where I’ve started calling a ‘normal’ weekend a ‘short weekend’.

This didn’t happen before their sons, brothers, fathers, friends, boyfriends and husbands starting coming back missing body parts, with PTSD, dead or not even at all.

Then suddenly explosives started falling out the sky on your doorstep after the above started happening and Ukrainian flags started randomly popping up places.

I know it won’t convince all, propaganda is strong with the uneducated and those the regime directly made. But there are plenty who aren’t thick or have any particular loyalty to Putin.

Is that it?

Honest at this point I wouldn’t even blink if Prigozhin popped up in the future to tell us they faked their deaths.

To be clear, I believe that he’s dead (and that it was probably an assassination by Putin), but so many other outrageous things have happened already little surprises me.