The Goat Pen

MiG 29s in the Ukrainian battlespace

Remember when Trump refused weapons to Ukraine until they dug up dirt on Hunter? That was funny.

This is not so funny. Russians have captured what is now the "ruins" of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ukr ... sion-zone/

Hopefully in the fighting, they didn't break the seal covering what is the "encasement" of the reactor. If it does crack, we are right back where things started in 1986 because radioactive dust could (once again) creep all over Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

Ukrainians shot down a Russian KA-52 helicopter

Ukrainian columns of military trucks convoying without air cover, destroyed by Russians

I hope they aren't planning on growing crops there.

I think Putin gets taken out from the inside. He's biting off way more than he can chew and the people will be quick to turn once sanctions hit. They don't want to go backwards. Biden really doesn't need to do anything but protect our friends borders. Y'all think he's sleeping right now but I guarantee he's ready to pounce like your Grandpa smacking your ass for sassing him.

Rat, as far as Biden goes, I don't know what to think. He's the least of my concerns at the moment.

I forgot. Where's the latest porn case?

Russia strategy (at the onset) appears to be go for the Ukrainian air strips. That appears to be their strategy.

Fierce fighting at Antonov airport and Hostomel airport





As of right now, both are still in Ukranian hands. That could change at any moment

When I read your posts, which is rarely, I hear them in the voice of one of those robo-readers...

you are free to scroll hedge



I am wondering if the Russian air cavalry commander was blasting Ride of the Valkyries on reel-to-reel from his command chopper and demanding that they surf that beach? There, did you hear a robo-reader narrating that, or did you hear Robert Duvall?

There must be hundreds (thousands) of independent, freelance "journalists" reporting on the ground and uploading this shit. I mean, fuck, this is vastly superior to CNN.

I've noticed a lack of flyovers around here the past week or so.

Lets hope the peace protests in Russia makes Putin and the Russian federal government come to their senses. This is stupid. They can't honestly believe that there is even ONE NATION on this planet that is on their side. I can't even imagine the ChiComs are happy about what Putin has done in the last 24 hours.

If this war goes on for (say?) two or three weeks, Eastern Europe is going to see what REAL REFUGEES are, for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union



Women, children, and old people, Ukrainians all. All of them desperate for refuge to get the fuck out of Dodge and stay alive until the shooting stops.

The "refugees" Southern and Eastern Europe saw in 2015 from Syria, Egypt, and Libya, those were economic migrants looking for jobs and money. When the people looking for "refuge" are all men, aged 17 to 54, they are not refugees.

Kiev will be overtaken tomorrow.

Spoke with a Financial Times editor today at a conference who spent years in Soviet Union before and after collapse. She hears that there will probably be a coup in Russia because Vlad has gone a little senile.

I have no doubt they're coming for him.