Need to color in square nr. 8 I suppose:

Nice! I’ve never seen anything like this before. You can really tell where all the contentious peoples liked to content.

Nice. Thank you for summarizing it!

Fedorov on the conflict with Syrsky: It’s not personal, but a difference in worldview

Former Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says that during his tenure, the Ministry of Defense did not block a single decision made by the General Staff and then-Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, and he denies having a “personal” conflict with the general.

Ah, you’re right, I misunderstood. A different article makes it a bit clearer that your interpretation is correct:

an open domestic auction in Moscow on September 9 for natural diamonds weighing 10.8 carats (2.16 grams) or more.

Although the wording is not that different… I just misread, I guess.

10.8 carats worth of diamonds is almost nothing for a state. Half a million USD if it was all one single stone, but probably in the tens of thousands USD for multiple stones, I believe.

the LITAVR interceptor drone could lock onto a target by itself during the final stage of flight

Sounds like a classic ramming. I think drones are still too battery-constrained to become reusable.

E’s not dead! Just pinin’ for the fjords, you see!

CDC should never have taken their eyes off Jr… I knew he was gonna cause something.

That orbital photo seems to be a photoshop of a Mount Etna eruption: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-etna-smoke-seen-from-space-169274368.html

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Taiwan, by contrast, has treated its defense as something to be supplied rather than constructed.

That wouldn’t make much economic sense. It’d be like using heroin to cut cocaine (I’m trying to say something similarly priced, not sure if my example fits).

I hate that alcohol, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don’t even question it… Your link makes it worse!

Imagine, the rapist preaching empathy to his victim… You really are shameless.

I don’t understand what empathy you believe is justified here. Empathy for a supporter of the invaders? Empathy for a settler probably stealing a home from someone? Does that make sense to you?

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That’s exactly what they’ve been doing the past while actually, bending Ukrainian drone trajectories into European countries… https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-can-falsify-gps-signals-deep-into-europe-lithuania-says-2026-05-26/

Thank you. The text was cut off halfway in the article by a pop-up, and I’d thought that was all of it.

Number of zebras EVER blown up by drones: 0

The science speaks for itself.

To Russia, with love.