Indeed, it looks like when the vehicle (tank it is not) rocks back and forth over the terrain, the stress on the turret will prove too much and it'll simply snap off.
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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)
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Indeed, it looks like when the vehicle (tank it is not) rocks back and forth over the terrain, the stress on the turret will prove too much and it'll simply snap off.
It looks like it’s been made on Blue Peter out of a toilet roll tube and egg box
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'What's that on the horizon? It's a Ukrainian tank, about to blow the turret off our Russian tank. Boom! Wheee! There it goes!
That's it - use your two fingers running across the table to represent the tank driver running for his life. Leg it Sergei.
'Chug-a-chug'. What's that noise? It's a Ukrainian farmer in his tractor, coming to tow the tank away and hide it in his barn.
'Absolutely fantastic!' - John Noakes.
'Well, I hope you all enjoyed our Blue Peter contribution to the Ukrainian war.
Please remember to ask your parents' permission to use the scissors to cut the sticky back plastic' - Valerie Singleton.
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Nobby Cybergoat
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Where did these weapons originate from?
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What you’re not acknowledging is that arms trading under controlled conditions is a universal practice. If Britain sell a load of old munitions - and they frequently do - to other countries, it doesn’t justify them being used however the owners please.
This is why armament is such a huge issue. NATO aren’t “at war” with Russia officially, but Ukraine is being armed by countries within NATO and Russia is armed by China and a few other allies.
Johnny RoastBeef
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China Is not arming Russia, even the US acknowledge that the only support China has offered is non lethal aid.
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Dubious.
Nobby
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Bit like here really.
Albion in the north
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Syria.
That's a win for those who want to reduce Russian weapons and ammunition in Syria.
Turkey might be in that group.
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The latest video from 1420 seems more balanced than ever. Other than the odd soviet loving Babushka, the majority of opinions are war weary, bordering on being openly anti Putin.
What, under 70?
SeagullinExile
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You say that, but supplies we’re running perilously low! Admiral Sir John Woodward admitted that if the conflict lasted another week the outcome may well of been different, saying that UK forces were on their “last legs” due to ammo and ration shortages, as well as heavy losses.
Struggling to make sense of this. Are these people fleeing Georgia Russians who are genuinely scared of living in a western style democracy, or are they Russian 'plants' put into Georgia by Putin in the same way as Russians were put into Donbass as basically fifth columnists, and they're getting out because they've been rumbled/it isn't working?
Or - more worryingly - is it because they've been tipped off that Georgia is about to be shelled to ruination?
Or - more worryingly - is it because they've been tipped off that Georgia is about to be shelled to ruination?
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Exactly - the battle for Mount Tumbledown, for instance, apparantly was ended with hand to hand fighting with bayonets fixed. To coin a phrase, young Argentine conscripts, who probably never expected to have to face well trained and well lead troops in serious close quarters fighting, 'didn't like it up 'em' (and who can blame them!)
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It's beginning to kick off.
OK, it's probably a tad early to say 'and so it begins', but I would have thought that if the disintegration of the Russian Federation is going to start anywhere, it's going to start in the Caucasus. The whole place is a tinderbox.
A Georgian uprising would be unwelcome by Russia. Georgia wants Ossetia and Abkhazia back, and Abkhazia is next door to Sochi, while Chechnya and Dagestan are just across the border inside Russia. Armenia, and Azerbaijan, nominally independent nations, have their own conflicts.
OK, it's probably a tad early to say 'and so it begins', but I would have thought that if the disintegration of the Russian Federation is going to start anywhere, it's going to start in the Caucasus. The whole place is a tinderbox.
A Georgian uprising would be unwelcome by Russia. Georgia wants Ossetia and Abkhazia back, and Abkhazia is next door to Sochi, while Chechnya and Dagestan are just across the border inside Russia. Armenia, and Azerbaijan, nominally independent nations, have their own conflicts.