British counterterrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted a bomb in a parcel that caught fire at a delivery warehouse after arriving on a plane to the United Kingdom.
Fire crews and staff tackled the blaze on July 22 at the DHL warehouse in Minworth, near Birmingham.
No-one is thought to have been injured in the incident first reported by The Guardian and German broadcasters.
The package – said to contain an incendiary device – is believed to have arrived at the DHL warehouse by air but further details about the plane and its flight path are unknown.
A similar incident reportedly took place in Germany in the same month and investigators are looking at links between the two.
The Russians have been hinting for awhile that they are at war with the West. We should take them at their word.
In this war, we have the New Axis of Evil: Russia, Iran and North Korea. The only reason that China hasn't formally joined the Axis is because of the risk to their economy. North Korea, besides sending old military stock, is now sending troops. They are the equivalent of the "little green men" that Russia sent to fight in Ukraine in 2014.
This is important because the Republicans are running a candidate who seeks to join the Axis. Neville Chamberlain may not have been eager to go to war, but he knew, at least, who the enemy was. But, as in the late 1930s and early 1940s, we have a good amount of a political party which identifies with our enemies. They seek, as do the Russians and the Chinese, to make the world safe for another global conflict.
Oh, they say different, but anyone with six functioning brain cells recognizes that not doing everything possible to stop Russia now risks a wider war. Just as it did when the Western Europeans and, yes, the Americans, failed to do what could have been done in 1936 to stop Nazi Germany from igniting another world war.
Russia is not going to stop with Ukraine. Anyone who has paid a smidgen's worth of attention to Putin's rhetoric knows that.
Failing to stop the Russians in Ukraine will effectively greenlight a PRC invasion of Taiwan.
If we don't outlast and stop the Russians now, then by the end of this decade, if not sooner, we will be fighting Russia and possibly China. If you have kids who are between the ages of ten and twenty, now, they will be drafted into the Army to fight the Third World War.
And we will be damned lucky if it doesn't end with the flight of a few thousand ICBMs and SLBMs.
Save the planet. Save civilization. Stop Russia. Whatever it takes.
And, for all that is holy, do not vote for a Republican in this election.
Save the planet!!!
ReplyDeleteGive BILLIONS to Ukraine so the they can launder them back to Democrat and Republican politicians....or there might be war later.
Ah, more bullshit from the usual source. You ignore that the munitions are largely made and bought right here.
DeleteBut you do you.
It is generally believed that apx 3/4's of Russia's nukes won't work because of decayed tritium, without which they cannot detonate. However, that still leaves roughly 1400 operational, which is plenty to ruin one's day.
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced we need to stand up and call Russia out for their hostility. This behind the scenes stuff is worse than annoying. Do they really want a war, because that's what they will get if they keep screwing around like this? I'm pretty sure it would scare the pants off of them to get called out in plain language, just as sure as I am that no American will speak to them so. The only thing they understand is power. Sanctions are working but crushing an economy that big is taking too long. Diplomacy and all but we aren't carrying a big stick yet.
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Indeed. And we need to keep hyping that the military aid to Ukraine means jobs here. Other countries earlier gave them MiG-29s, but those got or are being replaced with F-16s, which are made here. Artillery: Made here. APCs and tanks? Made here. Ammunition? Made here. Missiles? Made here.
DeleteGive them the tool they need and let them finish the job. Or we will have to.
1936 - Stalin had just finished genociding 5 million Ukrainians by then. Some people thought the next big war would be against the communists, and Hitler was anti-communist, so if we go easy on him, he'll be on our side in the war.
ReplyDeleteThey were wrong, but their thinking was reasonable. (The Nazis turned out to be so evil that the majority of Ukrainians ended up thinking Stalin was the lesser evil. That took some doing.)
Nowadays - where's the modern-day Stalin that makes Putin seem like the reasonable option to right-wingers?
Hillary Clinton? Emmanuel Macron? It can't be Xi Jinping, he's allied with Putin.
DeleteFeel free to prove me wrong. All those billions are untraceable. And mostly in CASH.
ReplyDeleteIf it were all materiel aid, I'd believe that it was being used to fight.
But it isn't and it isn't. You can't tell me where it all went., or even that most of it was used to buy fighting items, or even fuel or food.
No one knows.
That's not how it works, here. You made the allegation that billions in cash are going to Ukraine and being funneled back as bribes to both parties.
DeleteIt's not my task to disprove your (so far) unsubstantiated bullshit. You made the allegation, you show that it's true.
I remember reading how, when the United States entered World War I, Black Jack Pershing, seeing the abandon with which British and French generals squandered their own troops, refused to put American soldiers under their command, fearing that they would be used with even less thought to their welfare. I think the North Koreans should have learned a lesson from that. Well, at least one good thing might come out of the Russian war of aggression: a pointless degradation of North Korean military capacity.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know, NK soldiers have not had any meaningful combat experience since 1953. Kim may be taking the opportunity for some real-world training. And no doubt the rental fee the Russians are paying in foodstuffs and fuel is helpful. Plus maybe some tech assist visits for his rocket and nuclear programs.
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