Plenty of blame to go around. Where is Gerhard Schroder these days?

Shock and awe, and a demonstration that they do infact have operational nukes, can deliver them and are prepared to use them. Brinkmanship.

Unfortunately, they have been making territorial gains this year. They pay for each metre with horrendous manpower losses, but life is cheap in Russia and they have demonstrated they are more than willing to keep this up.

Naïve take.

Almost certainly an RS-26 then, first use of an ICBM on a civilian target (whether you call that ICBM or IRBM is semantics).

And Putin hasn’t been seen in public in almost two weeks. 🤔

Ok, thanks for sharing.

Until it explodes, you don’t.

There’s still a few steps left on the escalation ladder.

Conceivably I can see them detonating a nuke somewhere over the blacksea at a high enough altitude to minimise fallout as a demonstration that they are serious and have the capability.

Video of impacts (supposedly)

https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1859531040517206497

I suspect the use of an RS-26 was meant to serve as a provocation/response to the recent ATACMs strikes.

What a weird cause to champion.

Does anyone know what chemical weapons are being used? It can’t be nerve agents surely?

Edit: Chloropicrin

“Your cheque is in the mail Comrade, trust me.”

Most of the blame for SpaceX’s dominance can be laid at the feet of Boeing.

Credit where credit is due, that device was sublime in it’s ingenuity. It took the CIA almost 20 years to build their own!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Easy_Chair

Depending on how much explosives went up, it could be in the running for one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions.

Yes, thank you for the polite discourse.

That’s true I suppose. His motivation does not appear to be altruistic but if it was a case of diverting limited funds, I can see his excuse not to fund this being reasonable.

I mean I’m not doubting the minister is a bit of a homophobe but I don’t think it’s wrong to focus aid on the disabled.

“As far as Ukraine is concerned, the humanitarian aid side has focused more on the disabled, the elderly and so on. It’s a question of focus,” the minister said.

That sounds…reasonable?