*Update*

In a surprise move, the combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and other large UAVs which I had expected were for the nearby Type-076 assault carrier have instead been loaded onto the converted merchant ship which has missiles, CIWS and radars in shipping containers. China....

Can’t help but remember the times when foreigners, and even many Finns, laughed at the Finnish Army’s stubborn refusal to end the training of and preparations for trench and fortification building.

Those rapidly deployable prefabricated fortification elements must be looking pretty neat now,
eh?

American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine:

"The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Summary of the significant evidence that the B-2s currently airborne are a strike package heading directly for Iran:

1. Immediate refuelling after departing from Whiteman Air Force Base indicates that the aircraft are carry close to their maximum payload.

Good morning.

With the addition of 4 tankers out of New Jersey, there are now at least 32 tankers observed in the overnight group.

A considerable portion went to Morón Air Base in Spain, with others on to UK, Germany, Italy and 1 to Estonia. A few pressed on to CENTCOM AOR.

“Russia’s undeclared war against the West is already underway, and the stubborn refusal to acknowledge this fact by most Western leaders makes the West’s defeat only a matter of time.” Unless of course we decide to do something about Russia…
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