I mean the game “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon” predicted the Russian-Georgian-war of 2008. The first mission even takes place in “South Ossetia”. It’s as if Putin was thinking to himself: I’m gonna make myself a Tom Clany-villain.

The Pope: Please show white flag-courage

Petr Pavel: Here’s some 155mm courage

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Sounds like China realized that they don’t have any combat experience and now some people are volunteered to gain some experience for the invasion of an unspecified island…

Does anyone have a link to the news story? Can’t find anything unfortunately.

Russia withdrawing from the 2+4 treaty would be another dog whistle to the German right. In the 2+4 treaty, Germany dropped its claims on its former eastern territories in Silesia, Pommerania and Prussia. Thus Russia would signal towards the German far right: “We got your back when you want to have your former territories back. All you have to do is accept our claims in eastern Europe.”

Yeah, it’s just another step in the playbook from “Foundations of Geopolitics”.

In case anyone wondered: Phalcon is short for Phallus Container.

PC30

This means RS30 and it might be a Russian designation for Multiple Rocket launchers, not 100% sure about this.

ВСУ is actually VSU (or WSU for Germans), but it does mean Armed Forces of Ukraine

Are there not valuable targets closer to Ukrainian territory?

This would allow the Russians to concentrate their air defense close to Ukraine. Striking targets far beyond the front forces the Russians not only to spread their air defense thin, but they also have to decide which sites they leave undefended. Pulling their air defense away from the front, it also means that Ukrainian F-16s and other planes will have more freedom to operate in the region.

And the strategic reason has already been mentioned: Striking targets like refineries makes the war more costly to the Russians, it deprives them of income, they possibly can’t repair them because of sanctions, a.s.o. And obviously you want to bring the war to your enemy’s territory because the enemy is already creating lots of destruction in your country.

It’s a pre-series Ka-60 Kasatka with inflight-refueling capability.

Wow, designing a WW1-tank during the WW2-era is kind of like using a T-55 in a modern war!

How deep underground is safe to protect against a modern nuclear blast?

It depends if you live in St. Petersburg or in some bunker in the Urals. If you’re in St. Petersburg, then it doesn’t matter; but you should be pretty safe in the Urals.

Russia is so lame… This is like those Twitter users who post something and then reply to themselves agreeing but forgot to login as their alt-account.

John Oliver: Today the German Navy shot down a Houthi-drone with one missile, except it wasn’t a Houthi-drone, but it was an American drone, except the drone wasn’t shot down because the missile failed, except it wasn’t one missile that failed, but it was two missiles that failed!

But instead he spent his time talking about a perverse Russian history that some how blames Poland for Hitler’s aggression.

This was a message towards German fascists; he’s dangling the Königsberg-carrot (and other former German territories in the east) in front of them. He’d really like Germany to be on his side.

It becomes more clear what Russian strategy is when you consider Medvedev’s interview where he speaks about Lviv and he mentions how Poland could support an Ukrainian remnant with Lviv as its capitol. Complete and utter bullshit, the message is simply “Poland and Lviv”.

And I’m betting that Putin promised Orban he gets the south-western parts of Ukraine.

I’m currently A+ rank and have yet to get a win. I only play a few races per day usually, though. I got 2nd place in a grand prix yesterday, so maybe I’m not too far off from a win.

Getting a 2nd place in a GP now is a major achievement!

If you only race a few races per day, then you obviously want to crash out less, which is a sufficient strategy to get high placements in a GP. I’ve read that players have won GPs without having a single race win overall. In my opinion, a 2nd place in a GP is worth more than having won a race, but unfortunately you don’t get a badge for this. For many pilots who want wins, it’s “make or break” and they crash out while trying to go for first.

I started out playing as Blue Falcon, but I’ve switched to the wild goose, as it just feels easier to do well with it. I think the nature of the game having so many players, it’s beneficial to be able to freely attack them without much consequence. Especially in the Grand Prix, getting early KOs feels like a huge advantage.

Yep, the only bad thing is the randomness when depending on KOs (which is a similar problem for the Falcon when your strategy depends on perfectly timed skylanes). Also, I don’t know how it is for Goose-players, but when I get a few KOs with my Falcon I become a bit overconfident with my energy, meaning I crash out of GPs early because I risked too much.

But it sounds like you’re on a good path to get your first win, so good luck!

Some more bumper advice:

• watch out for blue bumpers in the pit lane! If a blue bumper manages to spin attack in the pit lane, your race is over. Best way is to use skyway if you have it. Otherwise defend your self with spin attack, but it will slow you down considerably
• lagging blue bumpers: if you see a blue bumper in front of you lagging, take immediate avoiding action (best is skyway). You may not see the bumper, but it is in front of you and it will attack you. it completely wrecked my race because I was attacked in the slip zone in White Land I
• if there are red bumpers in the jumping section of White Land I, consider staying on the ground. I was in first place and there were two red bumpers. I avoided the first one, but because of this I crashed into the second bumper in the air, which send me into the first bumper in the air. Yes, I managed to hit two red bumpers in the air in the same jump.

Big congrats! Your first win is also worth more because of the brutal competition nowadays!

Which track?

And next stop: Mini Prix!

If I were Nintendo, I’d announce that a successor to FZeroGX is in development. I’d also announce that FZero99 will be expanded beyond the original content. I myself don’t really care about FZeroGX, FZero99 is a childhood dream becoming true, without knowing that this was my childhood dream, so I hope that we’ll be able to play 99 for a while.

That’s great, keep on getting those 2nd places because at some point that S+ driver will crash out in the last corner driving into a red bumper. That driver might be me… I’ve gotten this way a few freak wins, but I also threw away many wins…

A good way to get your first win is team battle. S+ drivers won’t participate in those, as they want that S2 or S3 or higher ranking and team battle gives you no rivals. It’s also good way to chill out.

If you really want your first win, then practice Silence. A lot of people choke on Silence and the front runners are usually chill because the championship is decided by that point. Practice getting clean laps on Silence, meaning always hitting that jump (and avoiding the mines), and not bouncing into the barrier (touching the barrier in corners is ok). Usually 3 practice runs on Silence is enough for the Grand Prix.