Quote from: paxmao on Today at 06:50:55 PM

Quote from: BADecker on May 24, 2025, 02:10:31 PM

@paxmao. You seem to love playing with strategical ideas rather than confirm what is really happening.

Russia is making strong advances on the ground in Ukraine.

Kiev attacked Russia with more than a thousand drones, and Russia responded with a major attack on Kiev that Kiev couldn't resist.

A French vessel in a port of Odessa, which was carrying all kinds of war materials for Ukraine, was destroyed by a new kind of Russian drone.

Russian command has informed Ukraine that they will take no NATO or Nazi prisoners, but that they will take Ukraine prisoners as appropriate for circumstances. The prisoner exchange that was agreed on between Russian and Ukrainian delegates in Istanbul is taking place.

Cool

That is false information. Ruzzia has been making very minor advances during the last two years. I published the maps a few posts ago, but you just seem to evade any proof, while claiming there is no proof and then actually claiming stuff without providing one.

Wonderwaffe is nothing. There are new kinds of drones being tested everyday and your claim does not have any evidence attached, so what you call "confirmation" equals zero.

What however is being discussed is that Ruzzia intends to send to the front anyone that obtains Ruzzian citizenship. That smells of recruiting issues.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-27/russia-has-sent-around-10-000-immigrants-to-front-in-ukraine

Lol. As usual you ignore the most important part... The Black Sea Corridor (BSC). Ukraine is gradually falling further back from the BSC. Sure, it is slow. If Russia wanted to do it fast, they would have used Oreshnik. Whatever their plan, they are doing it slowly to give Ukraine every chance to change their mind. Why? Because Ukraine is essentially Russian, anyway.

In addition, Ukraine drones that are attacking Russia are doing far less damage to Russia than the Russian drones and missiles are doing to Ukraine... including the Russia attacks in the Western side of Ukraine. Even the US is agreeing that Russia has the strength to continue its advancing for at least two more years.

The war is going so well for Russia that they have time and energy to make other moves in the world besides the ones in Ukraine.

China signs deal with Russia to build a power plant on the moon — potentially leaving the US in the dust

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/china-signs-deal-with-russia-to-build-a-power-plant-on-the-moon-potentially-leaving-the-us-in-the-dust
A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.

Russia has signed a deal with China to build a nuclear power plant on the moon.

The Russian reactor will be used to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, and should be completed by 2036, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed by the two nations.

The announcement comes just after NASA revealed a 2026 budget proposal that would axe the agency's plans for an orbital lunar base.

The construction of the Chinese-Russian reactor will likely be carried out autonomously "without the presence of humans," according to a 2024 interview with Yury Borisov, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, on the Russian state-owned news site TASS. While details of how this can be achieved remain unclear, Borisov added that the technological steps are "almost ready."

"The station will conduct fundamental space research and test technology for long-term uncrewed operations of the ILRS, with the prospect of a human being's presence on the Moon," Roscosmos wrote in a May 8 announcement following the signing of the memorandum.

The new research station, a permanent, manned lunar base located on the moon's south pole, has so far attracted 17 countries to join the program — including Egypt, Pakistan, Venezuela, Thailand and South Africa. Its groundwork will be laid by China's 2028 Chang'e-8 mission, which will be the nation's first time landing an astronaut on the lunar surface.

The roadmap for the ILRS was first unveiled in June 2021, with China and Russia announcing they would loft the pieces for a robotic moon base using five super heavy-lift rocket launches from 2030 to 2035.

Once these basic pieces are established, China plans additional launches that will extend the base further, connecting it to a space station orbiting the moon and two nodes located at the moon's equator and its far side, Wu Yanhua, the chief designer of China's deep exploration project, said at a 2024 media conference, according to state media outlet Xinhua.

This extended model, laying the foundations for manned landings on Mars, should be completed by 2050. It "will be powered by solar, radioisotope and nuclear generators," Wu said. "It will also include lunar-Earth and high-speed lunar surface communication networks, as well as lunar vehicles like a hopper, an unmanned long-range vehicle, and pressurized and unpressurized manned rovers."
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