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  • I think they’re engine units, yeah. “Booster” implies there’s some sort of second stage, so that’s not really the right word.

    But yeah, these were NOT shot down, they’re just the engine units that fall to the ground somewhere behind the target after delivering it’s payload.

    If these had been shot down, they’d look a lot more like the Stormshadow above, ripped to pieces (and probably with the warhead attached)

    Edit: actually, a Stormshadow/Scalp in hard-target mode might also look like this, since most of the rear end would just kinda smack ‘harmlessly’ into the hard target after delivering the penetrator and follow-up separately.

    The nose section isn’t shown, which is what would be present on an intercepted missile.













  • parties that have been against the war from the start

    Nice historical revision there, but those far right parties, who all have close ties with Russia and/Putin personally, have been very in favour of the Russia invasion of Ukraine right up to the point where they stopped winning.

    as it becomes clear that the war is a debacle that’s now collapsing European standard of living.

    Huh? What collapse? I certainly haven’t noticed it, and the tiny drops of aid to Ukraine certainly haven’t been the cause of it. In fact, the most-opposed countries have given less than a tenth of a percent of their GDP.




  • In several European countries, people who have favorable views of right-wing populist parties are less likely to have a positive view of Zelenskyy. In Germany, for example, supporters of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are about half as likely as those who do not support AfD to express confidence in the Ukrainian leader (31% vs. 61%). In some cases, the pattern is reversed: Spanish supporters of the right-wing populist party Vox are more confident in Zelenskyy than nonsupporters

    Gee, I wonder why.