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Saturday quiz
Well, this week a firm victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored a modest 3/10, which was trumped by my 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, and 7 and, though I had an idea about question 3, did not get the name.
Tweets seen
[“Ukraine: the video embarrassing Kiev, filmed by Swedish television itself A few seconds before SVT’s live broadcast from central Kiev, Bengt Norborg’s team’s camera captures a scene to say the least brutal: several men pounce on a Ukrainian and forcibly bundle him into a van. The most embarrassing thing for Kiev? It’s not an anonymous video from Telegram.
It’s Swedish public television that filmed the scene.
It’s their own correspondent who notes that a man has just been arrested to be mobilized.
And SVT itself describes a hunt conducted day and night in Ukrainian streets. (SVT Nyheter) According to SVT, up to two million men are trying to evade mobilization within the country, while recruitment service and police patrols continue to search for them.“]
To be forcibly “recruited” by the goons of the Kiev regime is as good as a death sentence. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men per day on its crumbling front lines.
Meanwhile, the recent ballistic missile attacks on Kiev have (as predicted on the blog some time ago) made the point that Russia will not tolerate the daily escalation by the Kiev side in attacks on Russian civilian areas. Russian patience is now wearing very thin, I think.
Neither side should be directly targeting civilians. The Russian side has hit Ukrainian civilians mostly as collateral damage (not that that makes it any the more bearable for the victims) but the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting Russian civilians; their homes, hospitals, warehouses, school buses etc.
So the Kiev regime is currently sending about 350 drones every day, and that is only to the Moscow region.
[“It has become clear why the video of the victims was blurred in Ukraine, following the Iskander strike with a cluster munition component on trucks near Kyiv in Boryspil.
In the photos taken inside the burned-out trucks, you can see transport and launch systems for long-range drones, specifically the FP-2.”]
15 million (mostly) untermenschen have flooded into Germany in recent years. Mad.
Germany, like the UK, is a fake “democracy”. The facade is democratic, but that soon morphs into tyranny, when stressed.
Talking point
Ha ha! I had better say nothing…
More tweets
[“Pointless looking at individual polls which are out of whack with all the others. Look at the weekly poll of polls. Labour’s at 26 – a crushing loss that would leave them with 220-260 seats – and Reform’s at 25. It’s fractionally better in the Andy Honeymoon phase but still disastrous and likely to get worse not better. Still disastrous for the Tories too. The complacency from everyone is stunning. Reform are a mess but still polling at 25. Nobody’s found the antidote. Hence #Moderates!“]
Leaving aside that lady’s own fantasy political party, the “Moderates”, I agree with the rest of that. Reform are a disaster in every way but one, i.e. that they will be (continue to be) voted for as a default attack on the old System parties. People see nothing good in those old parties; to get rid of them, they have to vote Reform despite its poor policy offering. People are voting against, rather than for, and that has been the case for several years now.
(((Typical)))?
Ian Robert Millard 