Russia on fire

[Ishmael]

Maybe the Ukraine thread and this one will start to merge. We could always start a new one, or resurrect the Putin/Ukraine thread that AJ fucked over so badly. Or not.

 

[Ishmael]

 

[WhoaTed]

It’s all pops and buzzes here, can’t understand a word.

 

[Ishmael]

It’s all pops and buzzes here, can’t understand a word.

I hear both newscasters saying the same words at roughly the same time. I can't understand a word either, it's in Russian.

 

[WhoaTed]

Thread hijack engage: Phil Hartmann’s genius and Sting as Billy Idol for starters:

 

[Ishmael]

 

[Ishmael]

 

[kent_island_sailor]

So this is like the neutral zone of many a science fiction book where there is no law nor government?
These guys may move in:

 

[ShortForBob]

Forest fires are now burning out of control in Siberia. In different circumstances, other countries might have volunteered firefighters and equipment to help Russia. Not anymore.

A Canadian forest scientist was interviewed by CBC today about the fires in Siberia, which are more extensive and further north than ever and causing huge amounts of carbon to be released into the atmosphere. When asked whether the world should try to help she said "I'm more worried about the children in Ukraine than about forests in Russia" even though they are her life's work.

I disagree. Wars are temporary and short term and people no matter how loved, are temporary.
Climate change and it's effects will kill more children than any war.
Unpopular opinion? no doubt. But someone has to be pragmatic.

 

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Yes, a forest fire releases a lot of carbon but that carbon was only sequestered a.century or so ago and would have been released again when the trees died, also relatively soon. The new forest which will soon grow sequesters carbon more rapidly than the old, established forest. The climate change cost of war is more directoy related to the impact of making the weapnns and using them.

 

[Ishmael]

 

[Ishmael]

 

[Ishmael]

 

[Ishmael]

Shit's getting real.

 

[Steam Flyer]

I wonder if this is how it ends; similar to WW1 when the Russian Army pretty much just dissolved in place and the soldiers joined in the tremendous civil upheaval of the Revolution.

 

[billy backstay]

I wonder if this is how it ends; similar to WW1 when the Russian Army pretty much just dissolved in place and the soldiers joined in the tremendous civil upheaval of the Revolution.

I wonder what the red duct tape on their thighs signifies??

 

[Steam Flyer]

I wonder what the red duct tape on their thighs signifies??

Dunno. Can't even think of a good reason... hold their catheter tubes in place?

 

[Ishmael]

Dunno. Can't even think of a good reason... hold their catheter tubes in place?

Got a picture? I know the Russians in Ukraine have white bands, and the Ukrainians have blue or yellow so you know who you are trying to kill without getting close enough to see their ID patch.

 

[Ishmael]

This is working well...

 

[Steam Flyer]

Got a picture? I know the Russians in Ukraine have white bands, and the Ukrainians have blue or yellow so you know who you are trying to kill without getting close enough to see their ID patch.

It was in the video from yesterday... not every soldier in the group, but the majority, had what looked like red duck tape around their left thighs.