Malcador

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/soils-war-toxic-legacy-ukraines-breadbasket-2023-03-01/ Reuters worker real proud of the wordplay in that title. "At a former World War One battlefield near Verdun, France, some pre-war grain fields and pastures have gone unfarmed for more than a century due to craters and unexploded shells, a 2008 paper by Remi de Matos-Machado and Hupy said."

Yep, my eyesight's so poor I can't make much out of it, but figured it'd be interesting for people here.

If the US were in a situation where they needed men like Russia does, would be by income level rather than ethnicity. Probably would be a useful thing to include in the graphic, as well as the ethnic break downs of the part of the map. But Russia is evil, etc. etc.

OSINT types on the A-50's damage.

Hit a wall in Chaos Gate Daemonhunters, unfortunately means I have to grind through these torturous, tedious missions. Once again, not knowing what I'm doing has come to bite me in the ass. The boss fights were fun, I liked the fight where the boss regenerates, spawns adds the best. The idea that the way we win the crusade was from a daemon mentioning Drago was a good bit of humour.

Goes well with mushroom clouds

They had already sent humanitarian aid last year, I had thought. https://www.reuters.com/world/saudi-arabia-announces-400-mln-humanitarian-aid-ukraine-2022-10-14/ Well, amounts match, hm. They're getting better with their drones. Croatian parking lots can rest easy

Sounds like the edgelord in Hatred.

Well, all the death and misery is still made available for you to consume, albeit with crappy German metal or other inappropriate soundtracks for stuff like ATGM strikes or artillery.

Tongue in cheek joke about standards, I guess. Reading Bakhmut is still contested, Ukrainians counterattacking. Although the sources are the guys who will say stuff like Democracy gives you special fighting powers, so.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history-00083757 Suggest using Reader mode, modern website design is truly terrible, but it was an interesting read, even with a lot of fluff. Although not sure that moron Truss really was worth talking to.

Strange to have price controls on Russian oil as a peace condition. But I guess lots of other non starters there, anyway

Surprised Picard's not been cancelled, all I ever see is how much it sucks

And I thought the crappy metal/techno soundtrack to the propaganda was bad

Found out Adam Dembski Bowden wrote Chaos Gate Daemonhunters. That explains the waifu Inquisitor

Made it to a Morbus mission in Chaos Gate, most tedious crap ever, just getting buried in randomly spawning enemies. Glad I got this game for free

Just a guess based off the change in tone - Zelensky was fairly bombastic about it a couple weeks ago, and if you're going to start soft selling a withdrawal you should be halfway done it. And something to have a little snicker about to start the day This Twitter user is about as useless as Warmonitor3 but the clip is genuine

She has an illness now which has made her effectively mute. Cruel hand to be dealt.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-will-defend-bakhmut-within-reason-russia-2023-02-20/ I guess this means the withdrawal's nearly done.

Well, seems to be standing room only, so they may get a bang on the head. Just is surprising people make a big deal out of them - local media covering it live here for some reason. I guess it does allow the staff to take a break

All these speeches are nothing burgers, so to speak. Biden's current one in Poland seems to be same.

When I was very young I thought those were the hard disks people were talking about.

That's talking about security guarantees not notification in advance, which the US themselves said they gave. Easy line to draw from giving that to the Russians knowing to lay off Kiev at the time, I'd say. Always curious how those calls play out, wording is probably tightly controlled I guess

Russia no longer being part of New START is interesting to note. Ah, not participating, not withdrawing - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-russia-suspends-participation-last-remaining-nuclear-treaty-with-us-2023-02-21/