O/T:- Ukraine [Incorporating 'Congrats to Russia' thread]

[upthemaggies]

"During the course of the Ukraine War, there has been growing conflict between the Russian Ministry of Defence and the Wagner Group which has also been fighting in Ukraine. After taking Bakhmut, a city in Eastern Ukraine with heavy casualties, Wagner rotated to the rear. As they were withdrawing from the front they claimed that their path had been mined by Russian MoD forces. Bomb disposal engineers they sent to deal with this came under fire. Wagner returned fire and eventually detained a Russian army colonel who they beat up and recorded apologising.
The point is there has been a growing and increasingly kinetic conflict between a mercenary unit and the Russian MoD.
Last night Wagner claimed its positions had been attacked with air strikes launched by the Russian Ministry of Defence and in response began moving towards Moscow in order to "detain and execute" Defence Minister Shoigu and Head of the General Staff Gerasimov.
Vladimir Putin, who has not commented on this conflict for months has finally stepped up and declared this an armed mutiny. In the meantime, Wagner has seized control of a major city (Rostov-on-Don) and shot down several Russian MoD helicopters.
The situation is ongoing." KK

[upthemaggies]

No idea how this might play out but.....

2021 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2022 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2023 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

[queenslandpie]

No idea how this might play out but.....

2021 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2022 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2023 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

Glad I live in regional Australia I suppose.

[upthemaggies]

Glad I live in regional Australia I suppose.

The more realistic threat at this stage is probably a Chernobyl II type disaster at Zaporizhzhia, another good reason to be out of the way.

[drillerpie]

Kadryov has apparently just sent his forces to Rostov.

He is the lunatic who controls the Chechen fiefdom, sorry Republic, whose troops were used as blocking units (ie kill anyone from your own side who tries to retreat) in the early part of the war. They were also responsible for a lot of the atrocities carried out in the early part of the invasion.

So now we have the prospect of three factions of Russian psychopaths killing each other and destroying each other's stuff on Russian soil. Excellent.

[BanjoPie]

No idea how this might play out but.....

2021 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2022 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

2023 - Russia has the most nuclear warheads in the world

Yes but have they had all their deadly vaccine jabs - if so, no need to worry then!

[SwalePie]

Yes but have they had all their deadly vaccine jabs - if so, no need to worry then!

Excellent!

[upthemaggies]

Yes but have they had all their deadly vaccine jabs - if so, no need to worry then!

Russia used a different type of vaccine. No idea if it will turn out to be any more or less safe. Like us they had no long term data for an emergency roll out of new technology. I think theirs might be considered a more traditional vaccine than Pfizer, but I stand to be corrected on that.

I wouldn't have brought this subject into the thread, so don't blame me.

[Old_pie]

Russia used a different type of vaccine. No idea if it will turn out to be any more or less safe. Like us they had no long term data for an emergency roll out of new technology. I think theirs might be considered a more traditional vaccine than Pfizer, but I stand to be corrected on that.

I wouldn't have brought this subject into the thread, so don't blame me.

I think we can safely say that the evidence shows whatever vaccine the Russian's have used as gone to their heads.