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Europe under extreme duress

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
I leave for Prague Mondaу

Stay away from taxi services with no lisence number on driver's door. The most tricky motherfuckers in East Europe: quite could take you to neighbour street at a price of trip from Prague to Vienna:) Otherwise very nice place, beer is cheaper than Coca-cola and advise to walk over Vltava river by the bridges
 
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Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
The only time that fucking Baltiysk (former German Pillau) main naval base was to offer the berth to aircraft carrier, the VSTOL Kyiv in 1983, the ship, despite being skippered by Capt Pykov, probably the best surface ship skipper in Soviet Navy, stood outside the harbor having just 4 meters of water under her keel. Baltic Sea is extremely shallow pool of nearly fresh water with no notable tidal flows, no strong currents, no place to operate the ships larger than mere frigate
 

wink

War Hoover NFO.
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On more entertaining news, the Czechs apparently started a joke where they've magically annexed Kaliningrad and renamed it Královec. The joke has now escaped their borders and it's taking over the Internet. The US Embassy in Prague is offering to sell them aircraft carriers for their new warm water port.
Significantly, the Czechs have held onto "annexed" Kaliningrad for longer than the Russians maintained control of their recently annexed Ukrainian territories. Moreover, new international development money is pouring in. Recently, BeerStream II was proposed between Kralovec and Prague.
 

jmcquate

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It would be redundant to quote RDML Joshua Painter again but yeah, a cornered rat will do desperate things...
"I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon. I didn't realize how much serious damage the previous administration did to our foreign policy."

It was a political dig at Trump at a fundraising event. The great Cornpop vanquisher, didn't realized the waters he was wading into.
 

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Now all those rich Russians are going to have to find another way home from their beach vacays.

Railways ceased the ticket sells both ways to Crimea and back, airports closed from Feb 24th, so the only way to\from Crimea now is through seized Ukranian south by regional roads. Nearly all of them are within HIMARS range at least partially. The way back home for them will be kinda old good frontier stagecoach story.

Though it is unclear has the bridge been hit or this is just accident since the truck reportedly exploded on the bridge while enroute Crimean direction was with RU number plates from the city of Krasnodar, with cargo of tomatoes. Which kind of tomatoes that may break the bridge apart is not reported
 

Flash

SEVAL/ECMO
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"I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon. I didn't realize how much serious damage the previous administration did to our foreign policy."

It was a political dig at Trump at a fundraising event. The great Cornpop vanquisher, didn't realized the waters he was wading into.

That wasn't idle partisan political talk, and he isn't wrong either.
 

ChuckMK23

FERS and TSP contributor!
pilot
So in October 2022, whats the view of probable end-game? Stalemate? Will there be a political and military collapse in Russia? Are we seeing another 1991?Is the Russian Federation seeing Stage IV of a disease?
 

taxi1

Well-Known Member
pilot
So in October 2022, whats the view of probable end-game?
I've been thinking about best case, worst case, and most likely case.

Best case: palace coup with Putin sleeping with the fishes, replacement figures out some face-saving move worked back channel with Ukraine
Worst case: Tactical nukes fly, and who knows where that goes.
Most Likely case: Somewhere between hot war and Korean DMZ level of eternal conflict

Just spitballing.
 

sevenhelmet

Low calorie attack from the Heartland
pilot
Yeah.... Second pair of Koreas, second Israel/Arab states, but this time for several years only: until West will create something more powerful and undeniable than nukes.
Like what? Space lasers? Antimatter bombs?

Not sure what breaks this conflict. Putin being replaced isn't very likely to result in more reasonable Russian leadership.
 

Max the Mad Russian

Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Like what? Space lasers? Antimatter bombs?

Not sure what breaks this conflict. Putin being replaced isn't very likely to result in more reasonable Russian leadership.
Rather something chemical or biological. And next kremlin occupant will be more crazy and unstable. That is why sooner or later there will be war defeat, since this breed is unable to adjust to modern world.
 
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