ElHexo

I would add that D-Day involved what, 200k soldiers? While the eastern offensive at that time involved 3.5 million soldiers.

Ukraine has what, a couple hundred thousand Russian soldiers? Blunting the initial offensive and signing a peace treaty was always the best option for Ukraine itself.

Ukraine will not receive F-16 fighter jets from its allies this year as hoped, a spokesman for the country’s Air Force said late Wednesday, confirming that, as expected, the advanced planes won’t play a role in the current counteroffensive.

However, American officials have said that Ukraine has identified only eight combat pilots — less than a single squadron — who speak English well enough to start a period of training expected to last at least a year.

If D-Day was reliant on eight fighters being operational in June 1945, I don't think the chances of success would be very high.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/world/europe/ukraine-f16-jets-nato.html

The oligarchs declared war on the oligarchs, but rest assured the oligarchs will win.

Actor Volodymyr Zelensky stormed to the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 on a wave of public anger against the country’s political class, including previous leaders who used secret companies to stash their wealth overseas.

Now, leaked documents prove that Zelensky and his inner circle have had their own network of offshore companies. Two belonging to the president’s partners were used to buy expensive property in London.

The revelations come from documents in the Pandora Papers, millions of files from 14 offshore service providers leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with partners around the world including OCCRP.

The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle

The Soviets were the last to land on the moon (other than China).

NASA has been too busy pissing money into the Shuttle and SLS industry subsidy programs. I think they have a couple micro lander projects on the go though, slated for next year or the year after.

It's disappointing particularly because it would have been the first landing on the south pole.

It's also a bit silly because NASA hasn't exactly being doing so well since their last moon landing more than half a century ago.

We all became Prigozhin posters

Just bring up China's Chang'e success

They can just collapse the PPB emoji thread

They all got shot down

https://www.businessinsider.com/turkeys-bayraktar-tb2-drones-ineffective-ukraine-war-2023-5

I didn’t come from entrenched wealth

Other than not being born in the slums of an exploited country, right?

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• Cook on low heat for ages
• Salt to taste
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