Posted on 03/11/2025 8:53:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin said the number of drones shot down over the Moscow region last night is evidence its air defence system "worked well". But not everyone we spoke to in Vidnoye shared that optimism.
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This was just one of nearly 100 drones shot down over the Moscow region, which the Kremlin said was evidence that Moscow's air defence system "worked well". But not everyone we spoke to in Vidnoye shared that optimism.
"The very fact that it was missed is unpleasant," said Oganes, 30, suggesting the scale of Ukraine's overall attack, which saw Russia shoot down 337 drones in total, should have been detected long before it was launched.
"I understand that it's impossible to react to every single small attack and so on, but I'm sorry, this is 300 drones," he said.
Moscow has cast the attacks as terrorism, accusing Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians. Kyiv denies the accusations, saying it only aims to hit war-related infrastructure, and that the attacks are in response to Russia's bombing of Ukraine.
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Just wait until Ukraine sends thousands of drones at once.
I don’t get your tag line.
At least for men, they will go to extreme lengths for love.
If one uses manipulation, gaslighting and other underhanded and unfair methods to get “love” — is that true love, how you treat someone you truly love? Just because people do these things to get “love” doesn’t mean they understand what real love is or have ever practiced real love.
I don’t think the amusing saying by the romance novelist was meant to be so ugly as all that, does war also fall under that?
1. Not by a romance novelIst, sorry.
2. It’s clear you’ve never been in a war. If you had, you’d understand.
Yes, the line is attributed to a romance novel, you gave your brutal interpretation of it about love but not the part about war, what is the problem with the old saying from that romance novel?
What romance novel? Link or you made it up.
Again, if you’ve never been in a war, you won’t get it. And there’s no explaining it to you.
It’s your tag line, it seems to be a romance novel involving a witty student, if you can’t explain what it means to you in the way that you use it that’s OK, I was just asking.
“The proverb “All is fair in love and war” has been attributed to Lyly’s Euphues.”
“Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit a didactic romance written by John Lyly”
“Lyly adopted the name from Roger Ascham’s The Scholemaster, which describes Euphues as a type of student who is “apte by goodness of witte, and appliable by readiness of will, to learning, hauving all other qualities of the mind and parts of the body, that must an other day serue learning, not troubled, mangled, and halfed, but sound, whole, full & able to do their office”. Lyly’s mannered style is characterized by parallel arrangements and periphrases.
The style of these novels gave rise to the term euphuism. The proverb “All is fair in love and war” has been attributed to Lyly’s Euphues.”
“All’s fair in love and war” is a well-worn saying. So it came from a 16th-century romance.
My tagline has not appeared in any romance novel — whether old Elizabethan or newfangled Harlequin. My tagline disagrees with the original saying, obviously, calls it out for the nonsense it is.
It appears you agree with Lyly’s “romance novel” original. You curiously call my explanation of why I disagree with it as “brutal”. Hmm.
****It appears you agree with Lyly’s “romance novel” original. You curiously call my explanation of why I disagree with it as “brutal”.****
I didn’t get that at all, what was the original meaning of it? What am I agreeing with? and what is it that you are disagreeing with Lyly about? and what about the war part?
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