Mamoulian War

Some ATACMs were already donated last year. UA hit with them a few Airfields and destroyed more than 15 helicopters. German opposition asked Sunak to make pressure on Scholz, as UK is donating biggest weapon package to the fight since WW2. AFAIK, they already met, but I have no clue yet, if Taurus was a topic.

From every single note from France stance, I have not seen a single note about French Troops engaging in active combat (for now). Therefore it is to me still similar to West Berlin. And NATO and Russia already fought against each other in through their proxy wars in North Korea, Vietnam and Sahel, and it did not turned into nuclear holocaust.

Here is a pretty good explanation, what would most likely happen, if some contry would sent their troops to Russia, and why it is not sucha big problem for an average Joe/Jacques/Jaszek. We already had not long ago similar situation with NATO troops in West Berlin, which Russia wanted really bad.

Not talked officially yet, but French does this all the time with their Foreign Legion in Sahel. They soldiers were attacked a lot by ISIS and similar bunch, and they never invoked Article 5. And some "analytics" are cautiously speaking about similar scenario. Also, there are already troops from NATO countries in Ukraine, but always just as advisors or trainers. Not in combat duties.

NYT has a story behind it. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/21/7452278/

It was about time. In Slovakia, due to our government is incompetent and on their way to Greece with their spending, a non-government company has started a funding campaing to funf the Czech artillery shell initiative. People have raised 1 million Eur in 47 hours

Ukraine will be able to use Norwegian F16s to hit targets deep in Russia, if they desire so. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/15/7451323/

A poll conducted in France, before Macron’s remarks about French troops in UA says that 51% of French youth are ready to defend French interests in Ukraine, if needs emerge. 62% of them are in favour to reintroduce the compulsory military service. Study was published in Le Parisien. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/14/7451168/ For the french speaking, link in the article above.

Well, Star Wars fan completely died in me with the latest trilogy (I liked part 7 and Rogue One though). IMHO Disney started an excellent idea with the Stormtrooper clone gaining free will, and could have done a lot to expand that idea, but they turned him into a non-entity and completely buried his plot. Seems like their Chinese audience were not to fond of black main protagonist So no, nostalgia is kicking only when I launch GOG launcher and see KOTOR 1 and 2 on my "digital shelf".

Oh god, Star Wars by Ubisoft... Will this be another checkpoint simulator with towers but this time in Space?

Well, this is anecdotal, but from my experience almost everyone, who supports nationalist parties in our country does not believe that Russia commits atrocities, and on the other hand, they believe that Israel commits them. So the answer to @BruceVC question from the Slovakian PoV is simple. It is mix of Russophilia and antisemitism which is dear to these people. These people always believe what they want to believe, and even if they provide then 100% factual proof about the opposite, they immediately deny it

Certainly piqued my interest as well. I'll see how the impressions end up. And it is scheduled to release on GOG as well. https://www.gog.com/en/game/new_arc_line

Actually, that's what I call a good in-game shop. No need to buy anything from it to not spoil my game, but if there is anyone who for whatever reason wants to throw his money out of the window, who am I to judge, if it does not impair my experience from the game. Bamco has such microtransactions in som of their games as well. You could buy XP and money, but I have never ever felt in any of their Tales of games, that the balance of the game was skewed to force people to buy this ****

Well, looking at their current DLC policy, it is quite possible, that this possible outcome, would end as a positive thing for the fans

In what game? They had at some point inferior version of later Hitman, but after they found out how it sucks, theynremoved it from catalogue. Don’t remeber any other such case.

I have solved the "Mystery" in the Nashville station in Encased. The game has really a lot of text, but I got used to it. The story has taken a very interesting turn there. And I am now hyped, what to expect next. Even without the knowledge of the game, I am still able to move forward without attacking anyone. But it was already twice very close to fail at Nashville

Dwarven city managerial game available for free on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/hammerting

A little bit more thoughts about the “theater incident” Budanov words, https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03/27/7448459/ and William Spaniel explanation, who also suggest that Rosgvardia is to busy in and around UA as well.

If you start to think, Russia can’t provide more comedy, youtube recommends you this

Well they are still holding/fighting in Kozinka, Glotovo and Gorkovskyi villages. And Russian army destroyed almost every house in the Kozinka. And tens of thousands people had to be evacuated from Grayvoron and even Belgorod. So yes for some it might be considered as not much, but it has still shown a weakness at russian borders. If they cannot guard even borders with a state with which they are at war, how good do you think, will their other borders will be guarded? And as you have seen ISIS did not needed any artillery to get to Moscow, unlike Prigozhin

I was 100% sure you have been talking about Darkest Dungeons 2 until other people started to post again about Dragon's Dogma 2

Rosgvardia is currently also mostly in occupied territories going after partizans. And Russia is crazy big country. You can see once in a while how 20% for that big country is enough, whenever the "Russian Volunteer Corps" decide to heat up the pot a little bit Russia is currently all-in after Ukraine, hoping, that no one is brave enough to attack Russia. And this might have changed with the release of these videos Only time will tell...

The ISIS "officials" has already responded to the Russian videos of torture. They have announced they will avenge their "warriors" and will be going after Russian officials, as they view them as "anti-muslim nationalists". From the historic point of view, it will interesting to see how the Russia will fight against enemy, which has as much disregard for human life, as they do. Especially, when 80+% of their forces are currently in Ukraine and their borders have more holes than a collection of Swiss cheese.

If they want to form the two above mentioned armies, as Shoigu said, they need to mobilize people from original muscovite regions as well, as they are running out of non-slavic "economic slaves", and they do not want to risk revolt. Some dead "pure russians" would lean the population to be more acceptable to general mobilization. Similar thing happened in Beslan school very shortly before their previous SMO. The FSB rhetorics about the involvement of Ukraine in the attack is already pushed out hard.

Kind of goal nr 5 - March 23, 23:45 It did not took long, and I had a chance to see the second “ending” in Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG from GOG. It was much easier to spot than the first one, so the only reason, why I have went for it, was my curiosity, if there will be achievement for this demise as well. And there was .