Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed.

Satellite photos of airfields in Siberia and Russia’s far north show extensive damage from the attacks, with several aircraft completely burnt out, although there are conflicting versions of the total number destroyed or damaged.

The United States assesses that up to 20 warplanes were hit - around half the number estimated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy - and around 10 were destroyed, two U.S. officials told Reuters.

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      Soldier: Sir, Donkey 1 released! But the target is moving!

      Did the carrot targeting system get installed on the target?

      Soldier: Installed? I mean I put the carrots in the back of the trunk sir, as you told me!

      Well done! Our work here is…bang!!!..shit, what did you do with the other carrots?

      Soldier:…

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      You mean continue as it has been for the last few hundreds of years, got it.

      Really, looking at world history I can’t really find a time of which I think: oh, it would’ve been nice to be Russian back then!

      Being Russia(n) is just one giant cluster fuck and has been for a very long time. Or maybe not one giant, but several very big ones with small breaks of a few years in between.

      So I’m happy I live in NL.

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          HE SAID THOSE RUSSIAN TANKIE COWARDS GOT B.T.F.O, MOTHERFUCKER! LOOK AT THAT PIC! PIXEL, CHEF’S-KISS, PERFECT! RUSSIDIOTS ON SUICIDE WATCH, FULLY ADDICTED TO COPENSEETHEN! HAHA COMRADE CARDIAC ARREST ON DUTY! UKRAINE IS PUTIN ON THE RITZ! SENT 'EM BACK TO THE REKT CENTER(MOSCOW)! KEK XD 👌👌🤣🤣💯💯💥

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    Wouldn’t it be funny if all these various nations just did a reverse uno and like 20 different nations started invading Russia and slicing it up for territorial gain?

    Russia is so weak right now.

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      My dream is a united EU assault on Moscow to dethrone Putin and the Oligarchs and, hopefully, return the nation to a less corrupt state.

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        At this point, it could easily be done, except that Putin would nuke Europe (and probably everybody else) before going down. That is literally the ONLY reason it hasn’t been done.

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        My dream is for wars to end, not to make new ones, but you do you I guess

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            You said “my dream is”. So if dreams are comming true, I’m not dreaming of an assault on Russia, I’m dreaming of an end to all wars and sufferring.

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            Reality is there won’t be a unified assault on Moscow either, unless they do something really stupid. And they have done plenty of stupid things already and that hasn’t made anyone do much. People haven’t learned and are trying to appease all over again.

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      If I learned anything playing Risk, is that you are fucked if you are in the lead… And especially fucked if you go on an offensive.

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      1 million saiga antelopes is already invading russia, to eat thier crops.

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      This is going to happen. The European age verification and messenger surveillance are preparations to control any remaining opposition for that war.

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          Why else would it be introduced? If they don’t plan to lock down the entire internet, the age verification is useless. It could be security theater but it receives full media attention. So it is important. What else but war could be so important that it demands so much power over civil liberty?

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            My theory? To fight Nintendo switch 2 scalpers. It makes more sense than your theory if you could think about it.

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              It could be. So you agree that the surveillance laws don’t make much sense?

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                Do you remember how pirating was in the headlines for a long time, how governments actually banned piratebay and various other sites?

                Remember how that did jack shit against piracy?

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                  So the laws won’t protect the children. Then why do those laws exist?

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                I haven’t said anything about those laws making sense or not, I’ve only implied your reasoning doesn’t make sense.

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                  By presenting an arbitrary other motivation, which implies that there is no obvious motivation.

                  Yet why does my reasoning not make sense? We fought in Libya. Everybody hates Russia and would be eager to fight if Russia didn’t have nuclear bombs. Remove the critical voices and we are ready to go.

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        Yes, with all those old soviet nukes that sre surely still around and not rusting away in old bunkers. I’m sure they fly just fine.

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          If only a handful deploy successfully, it’s a major problem.

          I do hope a few blow up in the silos, and render vast swathes of Russia uninhabitable for centuries.

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              Hopefully, but not guaranteed. The rockets aren’t all coming out of silos in Russian territory. A launch from a sub off a coastal target like DC, NYC, LA, SF, etc. might reach its target long before a missile defense weapon could target the threat.

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              Meant as you only need a few to get through. You seriously gonna tempt fate relying on a missile defence system? Only tens of millions dead on the line. Bunch of 14 year old very badasses on this site.

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        It may be the safest bet at dismantling this constant threat for good. Oftentimes the only way the bully learns is when they’re pushed back twice as hard.

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          Other than that, an Eastern European country really has no business having as much territory in Central and East Asia as Russia does. It’s like if Britain never lost its colonial empire; the whole thing should be torn down so woke shit like the right to self-determination can come to Russia.

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          russia still has lots of nukes at their disposal which acts as nuclear deterrent and many millions would die trying to slice up russia (getting downvoted because of facts, what a joke some people are)

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    Dear Russia and Putin, I wish to extend a few words of sympathy to you in these trying times:

    LOL! Get fucked, you deserve everything you are getting.

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    There are 20+ visual confirmations, so 40 might be close to the real number.

    Slava Ukraine!

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    The US says it’s 20, and in their new capacity as an official mouthpiece for the government of Russia, you can be sure that means it’s 40. Maybe more.

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      What’s fun, is that’s not AI. He was singing “where is thumbkin” which then goes down each finger “where is Pointer… where is Tallman….”

      I’m the video, that smile comes on as he says “Here is Tallman”, knowing what the gesture was.

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          yeah. I saw it the other day when looking for someone dropping a bird with both hands, as a reply to some of this shit. Had to check, because… you know. Mr Rogers would never… (oh he did.)(with a smile!)

          here’s the full song, if you were curious about the context.