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Also there was reports last week that Ukraine have destroyed a number of bridges close to the border of Belarus. So if they do try to invade they will slowed by this.

The British pilots discovered that they could fly alongside them with the wing of the Spitfire just over the wing of the missile and flip it over with air turbulence..

My friend's partner was over here for dinner at the weekend and I now have a cool stamp of my own:

You'd better hope he doesn't read boards.ie or he might not take to kindly to you inviting his new missus over for dinner and stamps

Yeah how could you pull a 'surprise' like that in an era of satellite surveillance etc.

And yet the useful idiots continue to demand that Ukraine “negotiate” with Putin.

Putin’s reliance on Iran will surely raise questions about Russia’s still strong ties with Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, all of whom are sworn enemies of the Islamic Republic.

Tehran is using Kiev as target practice

The Iranian government are exhibiting the same levels of strategic stupidity as their counterparts in Moscow.

So, let's see we're isolated on the world stage, our economy in ruins from sanctions and our population is restless. Ah yes, let's hand over a bunch of drones to murder Ukrainian civilians...that'll fix things.

Ah yes, this old trope... Putin planning to take over Europe and re-create the old USSR.

Meanwhile, we're being told how useless Russia's military is, and how weak modern Russia is. How these things manage to compute in people's brain is quite bizarre really.

I've noticed early talk of a new iron curtain, has been replaced in recent weeks with talk of nuclear Armageddon. Most likely because the western propaganda spin merchants realise that they've failed to convince enough people about the coming red wave across Europe... and so now have to terrify people in ever more creative ways. Anything to keep fear and uncertainty at the requisite levels, to maintain support for permanent war!

As Julian Assange very succinctly put it regarding war in the middle east: “The goal is an endless war, not a successful war!”  In other words, follow the money. Another man they've tried to destroy for knowing too much, and speaking the truth.

I suppose Putin should be rolling the tanks into every bordering CIS country soon. Yet he was in the Kazakhstan capital Astana, for the central Asia summit. No tanks or artillery in sight. Also seemed to have some constructive dialogue with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Far from having desires on taking over Europe, Putin seems to be determined to cut ties with the west and disentangle his country from our financial matrix. One that is looking increasingly fragile with many of these sanctions backfiring spectacularly on our own economies. This conflict is accelerating the process that he had already started many years ago.

Some very good questions in his press conference, covering a range of topics, for anyone who is interested in watching.

I wouldn't dismiss Perun as "the gamer". Yes, he was making gamer videos before but really that's all people know about him as he doesn't tend to disclose any information about himself (at least not in the videos that I have watched anyway). His work speaks for itself though. His military content is well respected, so much so that he had General Ben Hodges on a previous episode doing a detailed Q & A.

He also bends over backwards to qualify all of his statements - to an extent that is rare. Youtube is full of commentators who will bluff and bluster or try and fill in the gaps. Prerun is not one of those.

He deals in facts and figures and if there is uncertainty in those, he will make that explicitly clear. He doesn't tend to make broad predictions. Even his presentation style is more like an academic lecture than a regular YouTube video.

Sounds like a very reasonable conclusion. Russia has an advantage in air defence, for now, hence why Ukraine is sourcing lots of it and getting it from allies.

Russia really is a terrorist nation.