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jon357   
11 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1019]

They're getting closer to that every day.

Fortunately the mid terms and the next presidential election will calm things down.

And meanwhile, they'll keep on shooting each other, like that YouTube guy yesterday.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [437]

Better to stick some allspice in the bottle for a few days. The flavour takes far quicker than juniper and it has a Christmassy taste.

But dilute vodka? Never.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

How is this non-relevant?
Ukraine possesses eye-watering electronic capabilities - far

More obfuscation, straight out of the Putler playbook.

r*SSia did this, and there is no credible doubt. They did this for several reasons:

First: To test NATO's red lines and Trup's response.

Second: To create an an atmosphere of fear in Central Europe. Terror and the threat of war always breed political extremism. Extreme political parties, who openly or covertly sympathise with m*sc*w, could potentially gain an opportunity to strengthen their positions.

Third: The Kremlin hopes that the more Europeans discuss the need to strengthen their own armies and develop defence industry, the louder the appeasing voices calling to reduce aid to Ukraine will become.

Fourth: To attempt to fuel anti-Ukrainian sentiment. The Kremlin wants Ukrainians to be seen as a burden, not as allies in the fight against r*SSian aggression.

Finally: To prepare for larger-scale aggressive actions. In m*sc*w or in whichever of his several bunkers Putler is currently hiding,, scenarios for the next stage of the war are likely being calculated based on NATO's and Trump's' reactions. If NATO's response to the strike on Poland proves weak, Putler will see it as an invitation.

This is exactly how Nazi Germany, step by step, tested the world's readiness to respond - first in the Rhineland, then in the Sudetenland, then in Prague. Each time the free world convinced itself that "this is not yet war," that "this can still be endured". Putler wants appeasers. The appeasers must not prevail.

It all stinks

Of Lenin's mouldy corpse.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [153]

Just like they did with the Pearl Harbour, 9/11 and others.

Surely you aren't trying to suggest that they were 'false flag' operations?

That is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Well.. what if the US actually wants to go ahead with the

They don't get to choose.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [153]

But the rocket that killed two farmers in Przewodów was Ukrainian after all and not Russian as everyone thought at first.

r*SSia was however entirely to blame.

As with this.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

Less than an hour later a fighter jet shot down the drone and the debris hit their house while the man was watching news on TV about drones flying into Poland

That's quite postmodern really.

Follow the money.

If you're trying to obfuscate by suggesting this is some sort of 'false flag', you won't succeed.

Ukraine have always behaved impeccably since the illegal and unprovoked invasion.

r**SSia however have carried out all sorts of confirmed provocations, fires, attacks, murders.

Don't try and pull the wool over people's eyes.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [153]

denies

They always do.

Even when they're caught red handed they deny and try to confuse.

it's the potato fuhrer

Is stupid, yet not so stupid as to launch UAVs into Polish and NATO airspace without the say so of his putrid boss.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Polish-Russian war? Drones entering Polish airspace. [153]

You would be punishing those who don't necessarily agree with the putinist government, as well as their children who are in Polish education system.

They can always go to Ukraine, or perhaps Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania.

And those are not RuSSian oligarchs, so I don't see why Kremlin would care.

It's a gesture.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

It's horrific that they did that and no amount of orc bluster suggesting that it was Belarus or whoever will alter the fact that Putler ordered this. It's an appalling crime.

My grandma could have not survived such damage like the one that happened to that house in Wyryki :( Thank God noone got killed or injured:

Nor could my mum if her living room collapsed like that. Her grandparents were both murdered in the WW2 blitzkrieg due to fascist bombs.

Thank God nobody was killed in Wyriki this time.

This was an escalation, and the next attack is sadly likely to be worse.
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1019]

A lot in the media about the USA wanting to dominate AI with ChatGOT and others.

Better than China, however could Poland and Europe develop a better one?
jon357   
10 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [437]

I'd be happier to see 30%. For health reasons since costs of treatment are paid by everyone.

And it's all watered down anyway. Schweppes or Britvic could make a slightly more concentrated slimline tonic.

One thing puzzles me though. What the hell is 0% Gin. Is it just water with juniper in? Why bother with ir?
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

Anywhere near Tricity perhaps?

It's a nice place though North Yorkshire beckons. Depends on two people though not one and the times for both being right and both wanting it rather than just going along with it, The other party favours Spain or Portugal.
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

I am cruising towards retirement - only 19 years left, can't wait. :)

I'm a few years less but may finish early for personal/fam8ly reasons and also due to having had enough. There'll be 1 job more at most after this one ends and then maybe running a nice B&B by the seaside.
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

time to read more is scarce. I'm lucky to get an hour of personal reading time a day. One of the things that make me ponder early retirement.

Same.

I get downtime travelling and also don't watch TV which does help. There's so much on the list to read though.

not everything done is for military terms-there's also political terms.

Basically hoping to lower morale and cause social/political instability. Part of r*SSia's playbook as we can see right now with their antics in France.
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

time to read more is scarce. I'm lucky to get an hour of personal reading time a day. One of the things that make me ponder early retirement.

Same.

I get downtime travelling and also don't watch TV which does help. There's so much on the list to read though.

not everything done is for military terms-there's also political terms.

Basically hoping to lower morale and cause social instability. Part of r*SSia's playbook as we can see right now with their antics in France.
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

A lot of people are crazy about her work. Doesn't do much for

The only three female American authors that I've seriously read are Carson McCullers, Annie Proulx and Donna Tart. All good, Proulx especially. Perhaps it's time to read more.

I wouldn't say their victory is near

r*SSia are at a stalemate now, Without the North Koreans they'd be in an even worse situation. Hence the heavy strikes on civilian targets which in military terms achieve nothing,
jon357   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [195]

the pronoun he

Transgender is not always visible, however there's a thread for those who spend time thinking about it.

Edith Wharton is one on my list. Fairly near the top.