Who could have guessed that Germany setting up US nuclear missiles aimed at Russia would provoke an equal response from Putin
And Ukraine seems to have completely given up trying to mobilise men for the front in anything near the numbers required. Those still fighting are being pushed out of the last remaining defence lines before the Dnipro river. Many commentators are warning that if they don't organise a staged retreat to behind the river soon many thousands will be overrun and caught on the wrong side.
Meanwhile Zelensky looking for mediation help from China, the Vatican and now India is getting no help because he still demands, completely irrationally, that Russia should exit all the old Ukraine territories which is just never going to happen.
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Putin's Russia celebrated "Navy Day" with pomp today. But this is what the real state of affairs in the Red Banner Black Sea looks like - and this was done by a country that does not have its own navy at all.
By the way, the Red Banner is no longer in the Black Sea either - it is currently busy hiding in Abkhazia.
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