Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They have a bit of a history of doing that sort of thing. Shortwave had some popularity before the internet. I used to listen to BBC's Top Of the Pops from Australia.

Speaking of which, apparently the Ukrainians have been jamming Russias attempts to communicate with their aircraft via SW by blasting out their national anthem on the same frequencies.

It happens and nobody should whitewash it. Let's agree the people who commit these crimes should not be part of any functioning democracy (post war).

The Nazi brigades are certainly not welcome in Europe. Whether they are Ukrainian, Russian or other. Just because they fight on "our" side does not mean carte blanche.

If the Russians are underperforming so far in their invasion of Ukraine, it makes me wonder how much worse the Belarussians would be. I can imagine a group of them driving toward the front in a WW2-era open top military car, honking a silly-sounding horn and they're all sat facing the wrong direction. And then they get stuck in mud later on, and one of them is screaming 'Put it in H! Put it in H!'.

I read some stuff about Putin from a person (*) that is watching Russia for years. He's not living in the real world anymore, most likely believing in his own propaganda. It can end up in millions of victims or a nuclear war. Or both. Link (google translated)

The number of refugees getting into Poland should go over 1M today. One of my family members is driving right now with 4 of them towards western Poland.

(*) Krystyna Kurczab-Redlich, journalist, reporter, author of books about Russia, incl. repeatedly awarded "Head for the Kremlin Wall", biography of Putin "Vov, Volodya, Vladimir. The Secrets of Putin's Russia", author of documentaries about Chechnya, nominated in 2005 by Amnesty International and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.

I see more and more Ukraine flags going up and long may it continue. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't waste tiewraps on the invading tyrants forces!

Putin must be handing that stuff out to everyone 'cos that's the bullshit he's pushing!

I was surprised by the fact that London has sent no military aid to Ukraine and by the lack of sanctions versus other countries

I think catching a western POW in person or seeing a western soldier kill a Russian will be easier for Vlad to sell the war to the population. The only way Ukraine comes back in this war is by pushing the Russians back South. The north is on the Russian border so Ukraine can only push back so far there. That's why the South it the real battle.

I thought there was actually a sizeable number of Nazi sympathisers in Britain at least, not sure about France, although you would wonder. I think a lot of people felt that the treaty of Versailles was very unfair on the Germans.

Not Bayonet here, but the Bayraktar TB-2 is definitely a reusable drone. Depending on what is needed, it can operate either unarmed, if you just need to keep an area under surveillance or with a variety of different missile loadouts along four different hard points under the wing for an attack role. They use a regular piston engine and run on the same type of AvGas that the Cessnas at your local flying club would use. It can reach altitudes of up to 8000 meters, putting it out of range of many MANPADS, and it can remain on station for up to 27 hours, so it's quite the powerful system.