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[Noisy noise annoys]

Anti Americanism is more widespread than you might imagine,unlike the US itself and the Nato alliance huge parts of the world see American foreign policy as the real danger to world peace. They have this odd idea that an army is to protect your country's borders and not to roam around the planet using force to change governments for economic and ideological reasons.

Everyone knows this ffs

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

It’s all about to kick off in Kosovo. Serbs talking seriously about war. NATO KFOR on high alert.

Is this something orchestrated by Moscow to divert NATO attention from Ukraine?

 

[Deleted member 48881]

It’s all about to kick off in Kosovo. Serbs talking seriously about war. NATO KFOR on high alert.

Is this something orchestrated by Moscow to divert NATO attention from Ukraine?

It has calmed down now after Kosovo's backtracking

Kosovo delays plan for volatile north as tensions rise near Serbian border

Protesters set up roadblocks and shots were fired after Pristina brought in rules that would mean Serbs in Kosovo must use Kosovo licence plates

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

TBF with regards to that strike on the prison, there is a decent chance that it was a Ukrainian strike but aimed at something other than its own POWs, like a suspected ammunition dump. There have been so many attacks on those lately that the Russians (as any army would) must surely have started hiding them better or putting them in places that aren't going to be so easily hit.

I’ve just seen a video of the aftermath. I won’t post it on here but it’s obvious that the structure housing the POW’s is intact and shows significant fire damage on the inside. The metal bunk bed frames are all still intact.

That tells me that this was not an artillery round or a GMLRS rocket as the building would have been totalled, but rather a device that exploded inside the building causing massive incendiary damage to the internal structure only.

A lot of people are saying it was a shoulder launched thermobaric weapon (Schmel RPO-A) that did this.

 

[davids]

Putin’s New Police State

In the shadow of war, the FSB embraces Stalin’s methods.

www.foreignaffairs.com

Anything like the Gitmo model?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I’ve just seen a video of the aftermath. I won’t post it on here but it’s obvious that the structure housing the POW’s is intact and shows significant fire damage on the inside. The metal bunk bed frames are all still intact.

That tells me that this was not an artillery round or a GMLRS rocket as the building would have been totalled, but rather a device that exploded inside the building causing massive incendiary damage to the internal structure only.

A lot of people are saying it was a shoulder launched thermobaric weapon (Schmel RPO-A) that did this.

Seems a few reports now suggesting it was a thermobaric weapon. Horrible way to go if so.

Also, tubers contain about 25% dry matter, including 10 to 23% starch!

 

[PhilM]

It’s all about to kick off in Kosovo. Serbs talking seriously about war. NATO KFOR on high alert.

Is this something orchestrated by Moscow to divert NATO attention from Ukraine?

Unlikely - it'll be the usual Serb, Albanian and Bosniak disputes that'll cause them to fire rounds into the air and spit their usual dogma at each other.

It's nominally to do with registration plates and the significance for the Serbs, but it's a longer running dispute of the Serbs disliking Kosovan independence.

The Carabinieri have been having a few issues around Vushtri as this straddles the main road from Pristina to Mitrovica. It's been a hotbed since 2000.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Unlikely - it'll be the usual Serb, Albanian and Bosniak disputes that'll cause them to fire rounds into the air and spit their usual dogma at each other.

It's nominally to do with registration plates and the significance for the Serbs, but it's a longer running dispute of the Serbs disliking Kosovan independence.

The Carabinieri have been having a few issues around Vushtri as this straddles the main road from Pristina to Mitrovica. It's been a hotbed since 2000.

Maybe we should stick James Blunt?‍ in a tank and send him out there to save the world again.

 

[peteblue]

Unlikely - it'll be the usual Serb, Albanian and Bosniak disputes that'll cause them to fire rounds into the air and spit their usual dogma at each other.

It's nominally to do with registration plates and the significance for the Serbs, but it's a longer running dispute of the Serbs disliking Kosovan independence.

The Carabinieri have been having a few issues around Vushtri as this straddles the main road from Pristina to Mitrovica. It's been a hotbed since 2000.

Terrible part of the world, caused no end of misery and death in Europe…..

 

[PhilM]

Terrible part of the world, caused no end of misery and death in Europe…..

It’s a lovely part of the world and from my experience the people, in isolation, are great. They just have centuries of hate for each other.

 

[devogue]

Terrible part of the world, caused no end of misery and death in Europe…..

Blame Serbia

 

[tsubaki]

Putin’s New Police State

In the shadow of war, the FSB embraces Stalin’s methods.

www.foreignaffairs.com

TBF they are not "Stalin's methods" as anyone even remotely familiar with what Stalin did would recognise.

 

[Yarrgh]

Terrible part of the world, caused no end of misery and death in Europe…..

Unfortunately this is very true.

 

[Yarrgh]

Blame Serbia

Stop blaming everyone else would be a great way forward in that patch of the world. They hold more grudges than a scorned Scouse lass.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

TBF they are not "Stalin's methods" as anyone even remotely familiar with what Stalin did would recognise.

Aye, the sub heading and the link to Lefortovo are lazy but the sad state of the nation under Putin is more the thrust of the piece.