Tuesday 27th June 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[frog222]

Morning refit

Ain't checked the latest 'news ' so no idea if Prigozhin is still living !

In Hypothesis Country of course it's highly unlikely that Belarus would officially declare war on UKR, but what's been bugging me is that P and his gangstas would do cross-border attacks from there as those other Russians have been carrying out recently from UKR into RU itself .

UKR Belarus is one long border ?

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First tweeter of the day is deepti, the first one I followed -



If infections gave immunity she and my primary teacher neighbour would of course be immune instead of chronically a bit sick from contact with the little dears ... the teacher for several decades which hasn't done any good to her immune system.

Anecdote is that teachers all over are quitting with repeated exposures being one reason , among others .

Perhaps the Japanese do it better, probable but to be checked !

[refitman]

That's the Pope's chances of standing for Labour scuppered

[frog222]

That's the Pope's chances of standing for Labour scuppered

He's a pedophile sympathiser as well as an antisemite ..

The real thing, but far fewer than in the Thirties when there were mass rallies -

[frog222]

I check both sides of the 10m of overgrown fence quite often now, so far extremely disappointing .

Today good numbers of tiny wasps , and this --



Only about the fifth I've seen this year ...

Very few larger wasps about. One nest was on a lawn last year, gone perhaps because of the heavy Spring rains ? (@Sky hypothesis) Another on the near-vertical bank up to the field was destroyed by some larger creature digging it out, with the nest-combs exposed . Somebody after the grubs google suggests .

[RogerOThornhill]

The most disturbing thing about this is that I agree with Lord Pickles...

[frog222]

Ukraine is so big i had to check this distance, at first sight on some maps it appears small,

but ..

" The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is the state border between Belarus and Ukraine with a length of about 1,084 km (674 mi). It starts from the triple junction with Poland[1] to the west and stretches to the triple junction with Russia[2] to the east. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus%E ... ine_border

Prig and some of his gang cd have fun there .

If he's still alive , and of course not off to safety in Africa, perhaps with Dmitry Utkin .

[AnatolyKasparov]

There's a reason Putin hasn't tried it already though - and that's a lot of the border territory being far from conducive to large scale military operations.

And in any case, we don't even *know^ that most Wagner fighters are actually going to Belarus yet.

[frog222]

There's a reason Putin hasn't tried it already though - and that's a lot of the border territory being far from conducive to large scale military operations.
And in any case, we don't even *know^ that most Wagner fighters are actually going to Belarus yet.

Silly me, I must have imagined the serious battles north of Kiev beginning last February .

[frog222]

Calgary GP and prof -

( For the mom it's far worse there and in OZ and Japan than it is in FR )





We have the same extreme ignorance, for example --

6weeks ago I had to do an in-theatre coronary scan and my cardio gave me the choice of Rennes or Caen, but the former was an overnight stay so I opted for Caen . Anyway I know the back road by heart

Then the hospital categorically forbade me to drive afterwards, so I had an ambulance-taxi . The unmasked driver -
"You don't need that."
"It's only an hour's drive."
"I've been vaccinated."

[AnatolyKasparov]

Well firstly, that was famously a total failure - and secondly, it hasn't been tried since then and there are reasons for that.

Generally - and this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, on here or elsewhere - we really need to shed this "everything that happens in Russia is brilliant multi dimensional chess" mindset. What happened at the weekend was chaotic, and showed Putin's underlying weakness not his strength.

[RogerOThornhill]

There seems to be something missing here...I'm loathe to go all Rolf on you but can you see what it is yet?

[frog222]

THE BOATS !

[frog222]

Well firstly, that was famously a total failure - and secondly, it hasn't been tried since then and there are reasons for that.

Generally - and this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, on here or elsewhere - we really need to shed this "everything that happens in Russia is brilliant multi dimensional chess" mindset. What happened at the weekend was chaotic, and showed Putin's underlying weakness not his strength.

Very lucky also that the Kiev assault failed, down to details such as the Chechen murder squads being caught and someone realising rather late ???, that even more flooding of the Irpin river banks with water from the higher up Kiev Reservoir would save Moshchun ( after a LOT of very hard fighting) and make the RU troops swim for it .

I'm still waiting for more to come out over the weekend's excitement ... been giving it a rest today, working outside instead !

Saw a bumblebee tonight, but was it the same one ?

[frog222]

Quick one !

[AnatolyKasparov]

There is always an element of luck in wars.

That does not alter the fact that Putin genuinely expected a cakewalk, that the "hated" Zelensky and his fellow "Nazis" would flee - and his troops would almost universally be greeted as liberators. There is an argument that the Russian state has still never really got over the shock of that not happening.

[frog222]

There is always an element of luck in wars.

That does not alter the fact that Putin genuinely expected a cakewalk, that the "hated" Zelensky and his fellow "Nazis" would flee - and his troops would almost universally be greeted as liberators. There is an argument that the Russian state has still never really got over the shock of that not happening.

Agreed on Putin being completely misinformed by his advisors , crazy wasn't it ?

But he chose them .

PS Had a bit of that Inquiry in the background, fair amount of coughing .

No chance of that at Davos !

Those guys ain't stoopid .