‘to house, to store and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage’
It does seem like a really, really important place for a sniper nest though … that cemetery looks very dangerous and it looks like they could pick off those pesky reflecting pool vandals too.
…im no military strategist…but…im just gonna throw a wild guess out and say that it would be better if no one knew where your snipers were situated… @Magnus to maybe confirm whether revealing the location of your snipers is a good thing to do though?,
on the flipside, from a budgetory aspect, probably dont need as large a quantity of ‘sniper ammunition’ now either…
given you have an education in history, did you actually know that the triumphal arch itself, was planned ‘since’ the Civil War Era (good use of capitals btw) in the exact era of ‘many years ago’
what i like about this part of the tweet is that he understands that by just mentioning the ‘Civil War Era’ it may confuse many readers to the time period of that episode in history, so he clarifys that it was, indeed, ‘many years ago’
then we get to the top 59 cities in the world statement…why 59?, what is the significance?, and i do wonder where Sydney or Melbourne came in this probably undeniably definitive and comprehensive list of great cities, as neither have an Arch to speak of… so im imagining maybe we came somewhere in the mid 60s of this prestigeous list of ‘top cities and capital’
Yes, the war Ukrainian are fighting defensively is making worse the problems caused by Trump’s elective war. Ukraine are definitely the ones who should stop
On the other hand, so does unfortunately Russia. Imo, best possible outcome would be if Russia agreed to not target economic targets (obviously Ukraine would agree, it only bombs these in retaliation after all).
Example: https://x.com/RALee85/status/2101621317564797084
The situation is bad (catastrophical). Ukraine fully relies on the European logistical system set up to support it, to at all function.
Unfortunately, we are not at a point where Russia would agree to even such a limited deescalation of it’s war effort, since that goes contrary to it’s strategy to win.
Ballarat has Australia covered for Triumphal Arches …
The world’s most significant arches are displayed at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and Ballarat’s Arch of Victory has its place amongst those world arches.
Trump knows that the country still has far more deference to the office of president than he has for it. So if he wants to do something he cannot otherwise get away with he will just make some national security/military needs rationale and bank on the powers that be treating him like a normal president with the attitude that if the president is saying that then we must respect that.
Should be quite an interesting conversation between the two tomorrow in NY. I think we’re probably approaching the point where Zelensky just tells him to go get fucked.