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Blasts reported at Engels air base deep inside Russia - online media
Reuters MSN ^ | 12/25/2022 | Reuters

Posted on 12/25/2022 5:01:39 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Blasts were heard at Russia's Engels air base, hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the frontlines in Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian media outlets reported early on Monday.

There was no immediate official confirmation of the blasts and Reuters was not able to independently verify the reports.

The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported that two explosions took place.

The Russian news outlet Baza reported, citing local residents, that air raid sirens were wailing and an explosion was heard.

The air base, near the city of Saratov, about 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, was hit on Dec. 5 in what Russia said was Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian air bases that day.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; communistpropaganda; cuba; engels; englels2; goodwillgesture; iran; maximumtrolling; northkorea; notourwar; putin; russia; ukrainetruththread; venezuela
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To: Jim Noble

—> Why all this “Putin”, “Putinista” business?

It’s their way of coming out for gay pride month


41 posted on 12/25/2022 7:24:33 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: marcusmaximus
"Tell your Putin to leave Ukraine."

Mr. Soros, is that you?

42 posted on 12/25/2022 7:25:37 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: for-q-clinton

Stuxnet?


43 posted on 12/25/2022 7:25:44 PM PST by buckalfa (Kilroy was there, but who was he?)
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To: DoodleBob

—> Putin is also a fraud, with the Cross in his hand and the devil in his divorced heart.

Better to promote gay, trans, pedos and be anti Christian??


44 posted on 12/25/2022 7:25:54 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: marcusmaximus

More news not to believe.


45 posted on 12/25/2022 7:26:31 PM PST by The Duke (Never Retreat, Never Surrender!)
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To: DoodleBob

Yes that’s a big part of it.
Unfortunately they’ve taken their fear/ hatred of the left and globalism, and channeled it into a belief that Russia is an opponent of both.

It’s not helping that Biden is president, and they view him (rightfully so) on the side of globalists and leftists.

They refuse to recognize the United States has legitimate security concerns in Europe, whether the president is Trump or a tool like Biden.

Also, how naive are they to not realize Russia, China, Iran, Syria and North Korea are working on their own “New World Order” in which the United States is defeated or severely set back?

What kind of world do they think Putin and Xi have planned, and how could their authoritarian help possibly support “traditional conservative values”?

China, for God’s sake, is godless communism. Neither country would ever allow Freedoms of Speech, Press, Association. Nor will they allow gun ownership. China of course will stamp out religion. Both countries are ruthlessly corrupt.

So there is no way an infatuation with Putin can lead to anything but disaster.


46 posted on 12/25/2022 7:40:13 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
You're forgetting one very important fact...neither you nor I made up The Rules.

It doesn't matter if the Commandment-breaker is left, right, straight, gay, trans, pro-2nd Amendment, good, bad, nice, or mean. They all go to hell.

An unrepentant Putin will, ironically, wind up in the same lake of fire.

You're implying a theology that isn't God's.

47 posted on 12/25/2022 7:49:58 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: marcusmaximus

Hit Dec 5th? This was a few weeks ago...!?!


48 posted on 12/25/2022 7:57:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob
An unrepentant Putin will, ironically, wind up in the same lake of fire.

Yes, as all who do not entrust themselves to Christ...

But apart from heaven, I do not see how the west pushing every sexual perversion on the world in it's war on the family and Christianity is any worse than Putin.

49 posted on 12/25/2022 8:06:58 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: DCBryan1

Would the US sit idly by if a foreign power did take out 2 or 3 B2 Spirit bombers at Whiteman, a couple of B1s at Dyaess, and a few B52s at Minot?


50 posted on 12/25/2022 8:23:50 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
We are in agreement that these sinners are equal in the eyes of God, and that they are in need of repentance lest their souls shall not enter Paradise.

I would never claim that one group is better or worse than the other, from the perspective of being in a state of grace. Hell is hell, and it doesn't matter if the guilty party is straight or not or if they violate the 10th or 4th Commandments.

51 posted on 12/25/2022 8:27:05 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Hit today. Was also hit 3 weeks ago.


52 posted on 12/25/2022 8:52:49 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Williams

You will find that most of them are QAnon followers, too. Not necessarily those who question our taking sides, but those who are outright Putin fans. Putin is a hero to them that they have wrapped into their convoluted QAnon theories.


53 posted on 12/25/2022 9:00:10 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Williams

“So there is no way an infatuation with Putin can lead to anything but disaster.”

Putin is their Christian nationalist savior who will usher in a political utopia just as their version of Jesus was too weak to save them. QAnonism is a religion, just like Wokeism is.


54 posted on 12/25/2022 9:07:53 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Rus MOD:

⚡️❗️ Air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle at low altitude while approaching the military airfield “Engels” in the Saratov region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Three Russian soldiers were fatally injured due to falling debris.

Aviation equipment at the airfield was not damaged.


55 posted on 12/25/2022 9:19:13 PM PST by Cathi
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To: marcusmaximus

With unlimited dollars gifted to them after being borrowed from taxpayers yet to be born, they should be able to deploy weapons gifted to them after being bought using money borrowed from taxpayers yet to be born, in all sorts of creative ways.


56 posted on 12/25/2022 10:08:59 PM PST by webheart
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To: grey_whiskers

All of the treaties made with the Russians assumed that they had only as many nuclear weapons as we did. We also assume that Iran has not already made nuclear weapons in the decades since they first started their nuclear weapons programs. These assumptions are naive and foolish. I don’t think waging a nuclear war with Russia so that the corruption in Washington stays unrevealed is a good thing for those of us who didn’t get high paying jobs consulting for Ukrainian companies.


57 posted on 12/25/2022 10:14:00 PM PST by webheart
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To: DoodleBob

Putin being in a lake of fire in a mythological afterworld is not going to be much of a consolation for those who will have to endure the aftermath of a nuclear war in this world.


58 posted on 12/25/2022 10:17:52 PM PST by webheart
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To: Cathi

Ahhahahahah. Nice try. “Russian MOD reports…”

Clownery.


59 posted on 12/25/2022 10:23:03 PM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: DoodleBob
Then I recalled, I read that during the Cold War, some conservatives privately envied the Soviets' ability to suppress dissent. I can't find any documentation nowadays.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is under fire for his poor handling of his country’s anti-mandate protests, praised China’s dictatorship in a resurfaced video from 2013.

At a women’s night town hall in November 2013, then-Liberal Party Leader Trudeau was asked, “Which nation, besides Canada, which nation’s administration do you most admire and why?”

“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Trudeau responded. “Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and saying ‘We need to go greenest fastest, we need to start, you know, investing in solar.'”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/15/watch-justin-trudeau-expresses-admiration-for-china-in-resurfaced-video/

No need to speculate about LIBERAL politicians!

Regards,

60 posted on 12/26/2022 12:29:11 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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