PING
TLDR: Russia is of course still winning. No change there. The Ukrainians don’t seem to be able to reach the power plant. Interesting theory that Russia may have asked Lloyd Austen about the attack rumors in advance. Ukraine has heavy losses and defenses are crumbling in some areas, moving or retreating in others. Russia took some prisoners, some Ukrainian, one Polish mercenary. The main battle lines are not in Kursk, but other areas where Russia is advancing in Donbas.
Oh, and Russia’s Group Of Forces North (brigade?) quoted Bismark in their update: “Make alliances with anyone, start any kind of war, but never touch the Russians.”
The other group of news sources only mention the Ukrainian successes such as HQs bombed, bombers shot down, more territory taken and Russian forces captured.
I thought alternate universes were supposed to be completely isolated from one another.
quoted Bismark in their update: “Make alliances with anyone, start any kind of war, but never touch the Russians.”
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Alittle off of topic, interesting to note Bismarck and his government persecuted Christians, especially Catholics.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8670
“ In a popular cartoon of 1875, the French artist and writer Felix Regamey lampooned the powerful Chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck. In the cartoon, the Chancellor tries to pull a rope attached to St. Peter’s Basilica and declares to Satan that he intends to destroy the papacy. Satan replies, “I have been trying to do it all my life. If you manage it, I shall give you full marks.
Regamey’s cartoon was a humorous but biting expression of Catholic resentment and anger across Europe for one of the most forgotten events of the 19th century: the persecution and oppression of the Church at the hands of the German government under Kaiser Wilhelm I and his “Iron Chancellor” Bismarck. For a period of nearly 20 years, from 1871 to 1890, Catholics in the German Empire, especially in the German states of Prussia, Bavaria, Hesse, Baden, and occupied Poland, faced legal disabilities, imprisonment, and exile, all in the name of German national pride and unity. For their part, Catholics and Germans of good will fought for their rights, defended the Catholic faith and institutions, and above all, refused to allow a secular government to trample on the Holy See and their beloved pontiff Bl. Pius IX.…..much more.