Prediction Thread: When Will Ukraine Conquer Russia

[Dinner]

A good explanation of why Russia bombed its own city. It is not just Russians are stupid.

https://youtube.com/shorts/vluz-KDEyxc?feature=share

[Dinner]

Ok, ok... I already know he will be butt hurt about that so maybe he can get behind this.

https://youtu.be/cQ6bb3jG5os

[Dinner]

I feel bad for Serb, he has so little to hang his hat upon, and I want him to be happy.b He is still profoundly wrong but here is a song to make him happy.

https://youtu.be/G136GODWKhc

[Dinner]

https://youtu.be/T0kALyOOZu0

[Berzerker]

i hope I am misunderstanding. Do you really assume that you can recognize a 'meritocracy' by the absence of "women, black people, lesbians, transgenders, gays and so on"?

I'd recognize the absence of a meritocracy if thats how people were picked

[Uncle Sparky]

Obviously false flag... was really Azov legion. Hunter Biden was the pilot.

[BeBMan]

The statement could be much improved. "Accidentally discharged aircraft ordnance" should read "successfully completed the deployment of special military payload to save Russia from upcoming NATO aggression."

[Dauphin]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65344370

Ukraine war: Russian warplane accidentally bombs own city

I know friendly fire is a thing, but this is truly impressive.

[Dauphin]

i hope I am misunderstanding. Do you really assume that you can recognize a 'meritocracy' by the absence of "women, black people, lesbians, transgenders, gays and so on"?

My reading was different to yours, but these statements usually have a subtext which may be why you read it that way (and I can't say that subtext is not there). At face value and accounting for poor phrasing I read it as 'Pick based on the criteria of merit, and not on a criteria of diversity characteristics to meet a diversity target', given afterwards he says that if a person ticks the diversity box it is fine but should not be the reason they are selected for the role.

[Geronimo]

Why can't you just pick professionals, instead women, black people, lesbians, transgenders, gays and so on?

Meritocracy always beats a ****ocracy you have!
If a black transgender is more professionl in his job - fine!
But it should be his merit, what makes his leader to pick him-up for his team, not a simple fact that he is black transgender.

That is such a simple thing for any leader!!!

i hope I am misunderstanding. Do you really assume that you can recognize a 'meritocracy' by the absence of "women, black people, lesbians, transgenders, gays and so on"?

[N35t0r]

Let's hope Medvedev doesn't threaten to use nukes on Russia in retaliation...

This was the retaliation for the S300 strike on Belgorod (launched also from Belgorod) last August

[N35t0r]

Aaaaaany second now!

[BeBMan]

Let's hope Medvedev doesn't threaten to use nukes on Russia in retaliation...

[Broken_Erika]

Ukraine war: Russian warplane 'accidentally bombs own city'

The defence ministry in Moscow says a Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.

Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast had left a huge crater about 20 metres (60 ft) wide in the city centre.

Two women were injured and several buildings were damaged, he said.

A Su-34 fighter-bomber jet accidentally discharged aircraft ordnance, the ministry said.

The incident took place at 22:15 local time (19:15 GMT) on Thursday, Russian news agencies said. An investigation is under way.

Photos and videos on social media show apartments damaged by the blast, while one image appears to a show a car on the roof of a building.

Belgorod - a city of 370,000 - is around 25 miles (40 km) from the Ukrainian border. It lies just north of Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, and people there have been living in fear of Ukrainian shelling since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year.

Russian jets also regularly fly over the city on their way to Ukraine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65344370

[Dinner]

Exactly. It was literally a 1080's Soviet era prototype of an extended T-80 with cardboard covering it. The turret didn't even work.