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The "Australian" meat pies on sale at Tops are from Lady Pie which I think originates in Phuket. I tried one. In Australia they'd be pushing to get a 1 out of ten and that would be being generous. Bakeries are everywhere in Aus with fantastic products. In fact food in Australia is top shelf as is the beer and the wine.

Show me where I said I know the battle field plans. I've pointed out to you over and over again that live war maps give a fairly accurate indication of what's going on in the war. Nothing at all to do with knowing actual battlefield strategy. I've never claimed to know the actual battlefield strategy of either side but you can clearly see it happening on the maps. You can see Russian troops employing pincer movements which is something they've been employing a lot and continue to as they push west. Exactly what benefit did Putin get from a couple of days of Trump pulling support and intel. I said it had little to no influence on the war. This is the case. Kursk was well on the way to collapse before this and the Russian troops on Ukraine's eastern front didn't suddenly over run Ukrainian troops. This huge front has been slowly crumbling for Ukraine and continues to. As for Kursk what I said was likely to happen, and this was based on what was happening, happened. It wasn't a "guess". It was based on what was happening on the ground as shown in live war maps and analytics i.e. huge amounts of territory being recaptured by Russian forces and supply lines being either completely taken or coming under direct line of sight for reconnaissance and line of fire along with coming into the range of FPV drones which are not affected by electronic warfare defence systems. The writings been on the wall for a while.

Could be it's difficult to see. Colour saturation isn't good in the OP's snap and there is no clear view of either head or tail. If it's a Gonyosoma oxycephalum it should have a red tail hence the name red tailed green rat snake.

Golden tree snake by the looks of it. Not sure colour quality isn't that good. Beautiful snakes. Chrysopelea ornata

Nice one. You got me but my guess is your fishing target was more like this catch from Trump.

No you haven't. All you keep saying is hindsight, inaccuracies and speculation. You haven't shown a single example by way of a direct quote. Why don't you do this? I'd love to see. As I said if I was wrong I'll put my hands up to it. Direct quotes please.

That is simply absurd. Do you you think that maps are made before the the troops move. The war maps are adjusted daily from collecting intel from multiple sources. The analysts then come out with their maps on a usually daily basis. Do you think there's some sort of instant map? Not all maps will be exactly the same, however, as there can be some bias but overall a picture can be gained. You really have no idea how these things work and my guess is you've never looked at a live war map. They're called live war maps because they're as up to date as possible not because it's somehow some instant live map upload from the battlefield. As for coming to a conclusion before something has happened that's how conclusions are come to. Look at facts, evidence, trends etc. and then formulate a conclusion. Yes this is speculation but it's not pure speculation or guess work. There is a basis of rationality and critical thinking to speculation whereas pure speculation has no basis of rationality or critical thinking. It's purely a guess. I didn't guess Kursk would collapse.

Just how do you think the male population in Ukraine is going?

Ridiculous. The FACT is Kursk is collapsing. The FACT is Russian troops continue to move west. This is not speculation. Keep trying but your pushing the proverbial sht uphill. You still haven't posted my "inaccurate comments" which now seemed to have changed to speculative comment's. Of course in situations of fluidity on a battlefield certainty is often a misplaced belief.

It's hindsight then that saying a couple of weeks back that the Kursk salient is in danger and then following that up by saying it's in trouble and following that up by saying it's looking like it's been cut in half and looking like it's going to collapse and following that up saying it's collapsing all before MSM start reporting on a collapse in Kursk IS NOT hindsight. It's being able to use rational thought processes to come to a possible, and as it turns out correct, conclusion. Kursk is collapsing. Coming to a conclusion BEFORE the fact IS NOT hindsight.

By battle strategy do you actually mean battle tactics? Obviously the live war maps do not and cannot deal with this with sometimes only a matter of tens of metres being lost or captured or recaptured. There's a lot of this in this war that is gains and losses measured in metres. They analyze the overall movement of troops, battles, ground taken, ground lost etc. From this one can extrapolate "guess" if you like but a rational guess what the direction the battle, be it in one area or overall, is looking like. As for me posting inaccurate comments I'd love for you to share some of these. If they were inaccurate I'll say I was wrong. If you can't then you should apologise. I'm not saying I haven't been wrong as I did say I thought the ceasefire would happen quickly. So far no ceasefire but Trump and Putin meet today so let's see what comes out of that. Not a ceasefire I wouldn't think. There will be no ceasefire until the Kursk salient has been totally brought back under Russian control. How long this will be is hard to say but it won't been long the way things are going.

Ok. Thought I had it wrong. Cheers. Not as wrong though as some of the idiots on here that would argue 'til their blue in the face that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. They seem to have completely lost touch with reality.

That's why I typed NOT in caps. As it is he's got about 20%. Maybe we're at cross purposes on this one.

Sad you need to go for the personal attack. The maps are usually updated daily. As for my "imaginary grasp of battle" it's not about commenting on the tactics on the battlefield it's more about analysing the direction of battle. Again a couple of wks ago I posted the Kursk salient was looking like it was shaky, last week I posted it was in trouble and a few days ago I said it was collapsing. Say what you like but this assessment was correct.

This is an example of completely denying reality. All war maps show Kursk collapsing. As for the telegram bit that's from one soldier in Sudzha who is posting to his account. Can't see how this is unreliable. Indeed Sudzha will likely come back under full Russian control this week as they are already moving in as "Volodymyr" posted "Ukrainian troops are trying to leave – columns of troops and equipment. Some of them are burned by Russian drones on the road. It is impossible to leave during the day," As for Russian disinformation are you saying the BBC is disseminating Russian disinformation? As I say a complete denial of reality.

My "armchair commentary" about Kursk was correct. Apart from that one doesn't need to be on the ground to keep up with analysis/war maps which continue to show a westward movement of Russian troops albeit slowly and the collapse of the Kursk salient. As for the withdrawal of support and intel this would have made little to no difference overall. It was only a couple of days before Zelensky came back tail between legs and support and intel was restored. As for the overall strategy only those running the show know this but I am confident in saying that Putin's strategic goal is NOT to take all of Ukraine.

Rubbish. You have mistaken rational thinking and following what's happening (not from MSM) as some sort of dictator worship and just to say "told you so" That's simply deluded. It's been obvious for quite some time the Kursk salient was in trouble and it's also obvious that Russian forces continue to move west. This has nothing to do with being a Putin fanboy or simply wanting Russia to win so one can say "I told you so" It's reality. It's fact. It's happening.

You can bet your bottom dollar that war crimes and atrocities have been carried out by both sides. It's a bloody war of attrition. The rule book tends to get thrown out in battle.

3 negative emoji replies to a previous post of mine by 3 posters whose grasp on reality has obviously left them and are too gutless to actually post a comment contradicting my post. The above article supports my post and what I've been posting for quite some time about the Kursk salient. Of course I got the standard emoji replies to these also. How about all you posters who replied with negative emojis to my posts apologise. I was right. Kursk is all but gone and going into Kursk was a huge mistake. More idiots responded with the standard emojis to this post also. Indeed all my posts regarding Ukraine/Russia war. Rubbish. Absolute and complete rubbish. Blue is where Ukrainian forces are. Grey is territory recaptured by Russian forces in the previous 24 hrs. This is in Kursk. https://deepstatemap.live/en#11/51.1237818/35.2990723 2 1 2

Rubbish. The reason it hasn't collapsed sooner is that Russia didn't pour troops into the region. As for diverting Russian troops from the eastern front all it did, as I stated above, was divert Ukrainian troops, and highly trained ones at that, away from the front where they were needed most. As for taking Kursk as being strategic for negotiations I agree but Kursk has collapsed. That strategy has failed and is no longer a negotiating chip. It has also resulted in the death/capture/surrender of top line troops and weaponry. There's no putting any icing on this cake. The Kursk salient has collapsed and it's a complete disaster for Zelenky.

I'm not sure about sweeping the elections indeed I doubt but it's something they need to do. Question is can they?

Rubbish. The reason it hasn't collapsed sooner is that Russia didn't pour troops into the region. As for diverting Russian troops from the eastern front all it did, as I stated above, was divert Ukrainian troops, and highly trained ones at that, away from the front where they were needed most. As for taking Kursk as being strategic for negotiations I agree but Kursk has collapsed. That strategy has failed and is no longer a negotiating chip. It has also resulted in the death/capture/surrender of top line troops and weaponry. There's no putting any icing on this cake. The Kursk salient has collapsed and it's a complete disaster for Zelensky. Dmytro said. On March 14, his final message was bleak: "Everything is finished in the Kursk region... the operation was not successful."

I posted a couple of weeks (maybe a few wks.) ago that the Kursk salient was on the verge of collapse. Got the obligatory laughing and confused emojis from the gutless posters who didn't have the balls to contradict me. Zelensky should never have gone in. A huge strategic blunder. What started out as capturing >1000 km2 is probably now <300 km2. The salient is split in two and Russia has control of all supply routes be it captured or under line of fire/drones. All the highly trained troops and top flight weaponry sent into Kursk should have been focused on Ukraine's eastern front which continues to move west..

Harris would be great. Guaranteed Republican victory. The woman's an idiot.