Mamoulian War

Are you seriously comparing the dam in Syria with a pond? 🤦‍♂️

And more “anniversary” gifts to UA have been announced today.

All negotiations starts with few options which goals are “over the top” so they could be “discounted” during the process. 🤷‍♂️

And first Leopard 2s just arrived in Ukraine, just in time for the 1st “anniversary”. https://www.dw.com/en/poland-delivers-first-leopard-tanks-to-ukraine/a-64809432 Edit: and 2 more Billion by USA, mainly focused on UAVs and HIMARS.

Unfortunately, the main goal of this as I see it, is to overshadow the Ukrainian 10 point peace proposal in the eyes of many partially supporting or neutral countries, to start more pressure on UA to negotiate and probably cease some territories. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/28/what-is-zelenskyys-10-point-peace-plan

It was statement of a Russian official giving interview to FT. It picked this statement, because it sound ridiculous, but this just shows how some people around Pootin see the difference between the two, and even if they oppose the war, they are still out of touch with reality 🤷‍♂️

Financial Times has published a new article about the beginning of war. And how big blunder it was for Putin. Unfortunately it is behind a paywall, but I have found up some shortened version of the article on Ukrainskaya Pravda. But I do not know, if there is sum of everything, or something is missing. FT link: https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49 UP link: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/23/7390670/ "Stalin was a villain, but a good manager, because he couldn’t be lied to. But nobody can tell Putin the truth," says one. "People who don't trust anyone start trusting a very small number of people who lie to them."

I have arrived in Tales of Arise into Niez - capital of Wind region. And the game gave me another unexpected surprise. I hesitate to write here a little bit more about it, so I would not spoil it for the few people, who are still interested in playing this game, and are avoiding spoilers at all costs, but I am enjoying the game more the more I play it. Also, I have found first Artifact in the game, and Kisara gave me first fishing rod, so I have played little bit with it as well 😛 The Hunts for Gigant Zeugles are pretty merciless, and I have burned through most of my consumables, so now, I am trying to save little bit, and avoid them for now. The price of gels in this game is crazy, compared to previous titles, and the money is as hard to earn as in previous Tales of ... games. And I think it was to force some people to buy money DLCs This is my only negative experience with the game. Although, if I would not go against these Hunts, I would not need any extra money for consumables at all, and would be able to sell some of them to earn some extra cash. The sale price of gels is very high as well.

More Tales of Arise. I have restored order in Elde Menancia and two more members joined my team. The mood of the game changed completely after entering the region, but will probably go back into the old ways in the next one. I have to say, I am happy, that I have avoided all of the spoilers last two years, the game surprised me few times, with unexpected plot twists 😀 I am enjoying the game and the story much more than Final Fantasy XV.

We'll see, Ukrainian sources are speaking at least about retreat from eastern side of Bakhmutka river since autumn. And the soldier still hold. But I do not believe it is holdable for few more months... Although the spring Rasputica will help more the defenders than attackers...

If you have 1 hour and 10 minutes of time, this is an excellent presentation, which talks about the situation, in which Putin forced Russia, and how it is affecting it now and in the future, even if they would win tomorrow. By Perun.

Well, the difference is, that the people falling asleep at the Biden’s speech, can still accept the invite to a tea party without commiting “self-defenestration” afterwards 😉

Few exclusive photos from Putin’s speech 😄

Follow up is already out 🤔

It didn’t take to long, and head of the FSB already denied this claim 🤷‍♂️ https://t.me/rusbrief/94669

Japan promised help worth 5.5 billion USD to Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/02/20/7390143/

Would not be the first time, when Russia launched their missiles against Kyiv during the day 🤷‍♂️

The follow up of this will be surely interesting. 🤔

The sirens seemed theatric, but from the morning Russia was starting all day long Mig-31K s in Belarus, which can hold Kinjal missiles. It would be more surprising to me, to not hear sirens at all during his visit 🤷‍♂️ And yes, it was most likely due to 500M and 1 year "anniversary". Oh and Biden is on his way to Poland as well...

Biden in Kyiv.

This one popped up today on my YT recommendations and it was on of the most savage pieces, which describes some shortcomings of RuAF in communication on frontline, I’ve watched this year.🔥

And another giveaway on GOG. Just keep in mind, this one is NSFW 😄 https://www.gog.com/game/biing_sex_intrigue_and_scalpels?source=news

Today Tales of Symphonia Remastered arrived in my mailbox 😄 I bet I will not be able to play it next few years, before cutting enough through my backlog 😄

No clue 😄 AFAIK, this one is remake/reboot of the Alien Breed games from Amiga era, by Team 17. So I do not expect this to have much common with Japanese tentacles 😄

Slovakia has passed in the parliament the resolution to recognize Russia as state sponsor of terrorism.