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About using an aluminum can as a spacer. If you find the thickness to be a little too much you can easily reduce the thickness using a sheet of very fine sandpaper. It's relatively easy to take a piece of thin aluminum down in thickness using the sandpaper working carefully on a flat surface. It...

The consolidation of the southern land corridor is obviously one of the major goals of the invasion. One question is how long a corridor it is likely to be. The recent comments https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61188943 about linking up with Transnistria I believe would be a step too far for...

Tom, I think you're missing the core concept of "ignoring". Don't read, don't discuss, don't think about them ... and you'll be a much happier guy.

Next tranche of US weapons transfers ... Going well beyond the 18 155mm howitzers with 40K rounds of ammunition in the previous package the new one includes 72 howitzers and 144K rounds plus the tactical vehicles to tow the big guns. Another interesting part of the package is a new drone...

You really don't want to be messing with a PO'd reindeer, they can be foul tempered and come with lots of friends. The Finish Defence Forces are a very impressive and well regarded military concentrating on (as the name suggests) the defence of their homeland. Not unlike the Ukrainian military...

A few lighter comments on the "military situation". With the news that Finland is more interested in becoming a NATO member the Russians have sent warnings to Finland and started to position troops closer to the border. The Finish response has been to move large numbers of farm tractors to the...

My guess is yes they have, well mostly. In the east the supply lines in the Donbas area come under the protection of air cover from local and Russian based systems. So it shouldn't be hard to reliably bring supplies by rail into the border region and break them down onto trucks for transport to...

No question the supply lines had become a huge issue for the Russians, particularly those north of Kyiv. The Ukrainians had become very good at picking off the supply trucks (there are even pics of some trucks being locally "up armored" to help ward off small arms fire). Seriously, it's...

Well there are some kernels of truth in the Russian story. It likely did actually sink because of being towed in rough seas. I'll bet they knew it was a lost cause but didn't want the Moskva to go down in full view at the wharf - plus you don't want a cruisier full of fuel and ammunition...

Should have an image of Moskva on the bottom with a fish or two swimming by and the title "Black Sea Cruise 2022" or something like that. I'll bet it would make a good T-shirt. And maybe with a thought balloon from one of the fish - Idi na khuy

The Ukrainian fishermen didn't even get a chance at it ... BBC is reporting that Moskva has sunk while it was being towed. That cheering you hear will likely go on well into the early morning. edit: Interestingly it was Russian state media who first reported the sinking.

It's war, it's never as it seems. I'd be shocked ("shocked I tell you" with respect to Casablanca :) ) if there weren't plenty of American and German "advisors" on the ground in Ukraine. I'd also be shocked if there weren't a variety of "strings attached" to the ongoing military support ...

With the possible (ok, likely) attack on the Moskva I have an idea for another cartoon. Small Ukrainian fishing boats towing burnt out Russian navy vessels.

It's usually ok because many of the announcements (and the corresponding news articles) are actually published multiple days after the actual movement of the materials. The shipments also appear to be very spread out time and location wise and many tend to not look to be military in content...

For the Star Trek fans ... https://theweek.com/political-satire/1012459/the-generals-new-shirt

Of course they can "target" these shipments by heavy truck or train ... they've already struck a number of stationary military targets in western Ukraine with precision weapons (air launched cruise missiles or land based ballistic missiles). What they don't seem to have is the real time...

Careful, the simplistic statement about a suspected "chemical" attack can have a lot of nuance in the reality of what happened. There's still a lot to be learned about the incident but it's definitely different than the commonly thought about chemical weapon attacks on civilians in Syria, Iraq...

Lots of pics with tractors pulling tanks and such but I liked the simplicity of this image. Plus if I'm not mistaken that may actually be a DIY ebike. Interesting juxtaposition of a simple ebike riding past the burnt out symbol of oppression ... and perhaps the idea of who would ultimately...

It's interesting (especially considering the topic of this thread) that some of the most relaxing big open spaces with great places to ride are ex or rehabilitated military spaces. When I lived in Colorado I used to enjoy a ride at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal (which used to house some seriously...

What did you wear? It looks that the most fun comes from the more animal/alien like you appear.