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We live in interesting times. 

Turkey has dropped its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO. Russia has manifested its worst nightmare. 

Ukraine has been able to go from destroying 0-9 tanks a day to 20 or over thanks to US weaponry: U.S. Army’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARARS). The numbers will likely increase now hat Ukraine has a super-accurate strike system able to hit remote targets up to 50 miles away. It is truck-mounted and highly mobile. 


Ukraine just released a video of a soldier using British, short-range, surface-to-air missile system called Starstreak to down a Russian Ka-52 "alligator" or helicopter, in one shot. In a fit of bad timing, just hours later Russia released a video trying to brag about it's Ka-52s. 


Ukraine also posed a video of it's "Kraken" unit blowing up a Russian headquarter and another blowing up a Russian anti-aircraft system on Snake Island.

As a demonstration of life being weird, a 43 year old grdener, Kolomiets,  living in Kharkiv took a video of  himself shaving ... next to an unexploded Russian rocket in his bathroom. The video is an apology to his godfather. His godfather sent him a picture of a missile that hit his home at the beginning of the war. He didn't believe the picture. He thought it seemed doctored.