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Moby > Morby

With all due respect mate, I am British, I do understand the toll of the Blitz. I’m just conscious of the fact that Ukraine has basically been suffering the same conditions for far longer, as pointed out by the other reply. That isn’t an attempt to downplay what Britain suffered, but rather to properly recognise the severity of what Ukraine is suffering. I’m sure I don’t need to send photos of the damage done by Russia.

For what it’s worth, Britain probably didn’t suffer as much as Ukraine has. The actual island of Great Britain was more or less secured after the aerial battle of Britain was won, and that took less than a year. Military casualties would go on to be comparable to the war in Ukraine, of course, and there was the ongoing difficulty of feeding everyone, but Britain at least had the sea and a massive navy standing between it and the enemy and civilian casualties were “only” about 70,000

Largest army in Europe that’s not already fighting in Ukraine. This would be a lot of weight behind a peacekeeping force

If you accept a lack of gears, a belt drive instead of a chain probably simplifies the most difficult part of actually making it. Best pick somewhere with good roads though, since you’re definitely not making pneumatic tyres or a pump to fill them with

I haven’t checked all of them, but I looked up the first three receivers listed by Eutelsat Oneweb for “land mobility” usage. One was made in the US and UK, one was South Korean, and the one intended for military usage is Spanish. I guess South Korea is not NATO, but that’s about the NATO-est non-NATO country there is

Categories of traditional Scottish dances (and maybe other traditions, but I only know the Scottish ones)

I remember the first time my then-girlfriend, who was American, heard God Save the Queen while here in the UK. It was an instrumental version and she had no idea why they were playing My Country 'tis of Thee in a situation where you would expect a national anthem

If you’re in Scotland when you do this people will sing along with you

It gives an example of two British engines right after that, and the UK’s jet engines were both independent of Germany’s and better than them by the end of the war

“Wehrwolf” would make for an incredible semi-comedy horror movie. It howls at the moon because it’s the one white thing in a black night sky. It definitely dies when someone breaks a WWII tank out of storage and shoots it with a silver tank shell

As a fan of the odd bit of black metal, I would appreciate the 20% being dealt with

Tellurian is less obvious, but I much prefer the sound of it

Department of Gratuitous Elonery

I don’t think this is being framed as inspirational in the article, it’s just a depiction of grim determination in the face of an awful situation. I do think that the Ukrainian instances are more “honourable”, for whatever is worth, because Ukraine didn’t start this and also doesn’t have the same option to just stop it that Russia does, but honour isn’t really the point

Regarding the guy in the first photo, Sgt Rubliuk: he’s in a training role now. He’s a officer, the photos are described as being in training situations, and in the second photo of him he seems to be correcting someone else’s posture with a gun. He probably does have quite a lot of experience that he can share with trainees, and he doesn’t need to be able to pull a trigger to do that

Rubliuk rejoined the special forces last spring as a senior sergeant in the Artan intelligence unit, training new soldiers and monitoring enemy drones

oh no not 0.4% of Slovakia’s GDP the country is ruined