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Absolute carnage at the Russian post in Melitopol. At least six GMLRS struck it. I’m pretty sure that Russians lost dozens if not far more men in this strike alone, but we will know more in the morning. #Melitopol
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Video doing the rounds its pretty grusesome
 
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Jokester said:
Cape of Good Hope can be really dangerous for cargo ships this time of year.
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Been round there a few times on LNG carriers, and when it’s bad, it’s bad. Rolling 25° to 25°, everybody’s a sleep deprived zombie because you get flung out of bed, where you can’t sleep anyway because you’re just gripping onto the edges of the mattress for dear life, while during the day all you can really do is hold on, and just hope nothing major breaks, because how the **** are you supposed carry out major repairs when it’s like that? You can’t lift anything with chain blocks or move parts around with cranes or the elevator, and anything you can lift manually, like injectors for the generators, are just broken bones waiting to happen.
 
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After the news today that Morocco became the first known African country to be sending supplies to Ukraine; there is also news that South Africa may be supplying the Russians.

The suspicion is because a sanctioned Russian ship that usually moved around military equipment and weapons for Russia was spotted by locals docked in Simonstown with its transponder turned off; opposition MPs have questioned the government but received no info. What makes this more dodgy is that the ship prior to sailing had logged a travel route that meant it should have been nowhere near Southern Africa

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/south-africa-suspected-of-selling-weapons-to-russia/
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I suspect russia/china are pandering to SA to maintain a strategic point for shipping and for mining..
 
From UK Intelligence: Russia is increasing its military spending from 9% of annual government spending in 2022 to 30% of spending in 2023, representing a more than tripling of cost to tax payers for the war, nominally this is an extra $110 billion going to military spending next year and this money will come from cutting spending on other parts of the economy and services.
 
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From UK Intelligence: Russia is increasing its military spending from 9% of annual government spending in 2022 to 30% of spending in 2023, representing a more than tripling of cost to tax payers for the war, nominally this is an extra $110 billion going to military spending next year and this money will come from cutting spending on other parts of the economy and services.
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So we will see next year how Russia is standing.
 
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From UK Intelligence: Russia is increasing its military spending from 9% of annual government spending in 2022 to 30% of spending in 2023, representing a more than tripling of cost to tax payers for the war, nominally this is an extra $110 billion going to military spending next year and this money will come from cutting spending on other parts of the economy and services.
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this is quite a steep increase, total commitment like. Unfortunate is though, so many billions and no villas to buy!!!
 
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From UK Intelligence: Russia is increasing its military spending from 9% of annual government spending in 2022 to 30% of spending in 2023, representing a more than tripling of cost to tax payers for the war, nominally this is an extra $110 billion going to military spending next year and this money will come from cutting spending on other parts of the economy and services.
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Would be interesting to know what things their going to be cutting back on to afford this
 
Does Russia have the Industrial and technical ability to use that 30%? Smart weapons and modern tanks take time to make.
 
I wonder if the extra spending is genuinely new or just the money required to keep the current war effort afloat.
 
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