4094

Seems like they might be abandoning their narrative about what they are doing in Ukraine? This sounds like they’re no longer pretending that they feel like Ukraine should be, you know, a nation. Unless it’s just a translation thing.

4095
4096

Quite likely the “NUTS!” riposte of this century.

RIP.

4097

Thanks for this, very informative.

4098

Looks like this TB2 footage is from right after the strike on the Buk. Looks like the wreckage at the end is the Buk.

Just look at that whole paralyzed column of targets.

4099
4100

Reasonable take on the status of the fighting - Ukraine is fighting hard and inflicting losses, but Russians are gaining strategically. Hard decisions will need to be made about where/what to defend:

4101

Has anyone seen any word from Turkey with regards to aid? If the west won’t supply drones has Erdogan shown any willingness to supply more TB2’s?

4102

They’ve been flying transports into Poland, and there are 2 Turkish transports still sitting at an airfield next to Kiev from landing there right before the fight started.

4103

When someone tells you who they are, listen. And the Ukrainians have been telling us who they are since the days of Mehmed II, very loudly and full of profanity.

4104

Not true. Personally I have been disappointed in Vindman’s coverage - he’s posted a couple of things like this that were subsequently shown to be false. I’d wait for more confirmation before posting anything as significant as this.

4105

Yes, I agree. Vindman has been posting / retweeting a lot of stuff that looks questionable and turns out to be wrong.

4106

Looks like you were correct and he was exaggerating.

4107

That’s adorable.

4108

How does this work? It appears to be hovering in mid air rather than flying. Are the rockets coming from it or another source? It must be quite high in the air (even though it looks like it’s very close) otherwise the Russians would be trying to shoot it down.

4109

I believe it’s just that the camera is pointed at a target and stabilized in such a way to keep the image still like that. The drone itself would still be flying like you’re imagining.

This is probably a good and accurate take, but I still want to believe based on how little territory the Russians have taken so far and with now something like 2/3 of their amasses forces committed that the Ukrainians could still pull off a miracle.

4110

Uggh, will keep that in mind.

4111

Its the rotating camera. If you pay attention you can see perspective shift and what is going on is the drone is circling the area while the camera is gimbal locked to that location.

4112

It’s actually quite high up in the air and is relatively small and quite slow moving compared to a typical plane. That image is massively zoomed, so you have to consider traversing the sky at the relatively low speed of a drone doesn’t make as much of an impact on the viewing angle as one might think

4113

Yeah, not your fault. I thought he would be a good source given his background and experience, but I think he is letting his natural bias influence him too much.