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[Urwumpe]

And more fun: The Felicity Ace, A cargo ship transporting Volkswagen and Porsche cars, caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic.

A cargo ship full of luxury cars is on fire and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic

An abandoned cargo ship packed with cars is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, after a rapidly-spreading fire on board forced the crew to escape.

edition.cnn.com

 

[N_Molson]

A cargo ship transporting Volkswagen and Porsche cars

Ouch the insurance companies are not going to be happy... ?

 

[Urwumpe]

Ouch the insurance companies are not going to be happy... ?

Yeah, THAT could be one hell of an expensive cargo. The Volkswagens are mostly Audis and Lamborghinis.

 

[steph]

I hate internet outages. Damn router 'box' is probably malfunctioning at work (it's 9 years old ). IP conflict, but I'm not sure what causes it Since there's a 'pro assistance' contract at work, a ' depanneur' was supposed to arrive this morning. Got instead a call from him to 'walk me through' (wtf). Had to physically check the whole network again, just to make sure all is well. 30 minutes into the call, he keeps telling me that he 'sees' I have internet, then surprise, turns out he was seeing some other unkown router. Sotomorrow morning it's off to the ISP, router in hand and all ( they require that you use their own). Next stop , complaint or suing, not sure. It's unacceptable.

In other news, here's a BlackHawk doing a pickup on the Polish-Ukrainian border . i know, I know, RT, but seems like they're the only ones with the vid on youtube

 

[Urwumpe]

Well, the polish special forces use Blackhawks, so it must not be a US helicopter.

 

[N_Molson]

I hate internet outages. Damn router 'box' is probably malfunctioning at work (it's 9 years old ).

Orange, Free or SFR ? In any case, good luck, yeah sometimes it takes a lot of patience to get the Mighty Repairman ? ...

 

[clipper]

It was an US Army MEDEVAC actually (HH-60M), and it could even be tracked online:

Official word is one of the Marines assigned to US embassy in Kyiv (already moved to Lviv at that point) had a medical emergency and had to be transported urgently to Poland but they didn't want to enter Ukrainian airspace due to an unspecified reason so they picked em up right at the border crossing instead.

 

[Linguofreak]

Sotomorrow morning it's off to the ISP, router in hand and all ( they require that you use their own).

Lucky you. Here it's almost impossible to get the ISP to let you use your own router, and firmware bugs abound in the CPE routers that they force you to use (and charge you a monthly rental fee for). Of course, you can always set up your own router behind theirs, which at least keeps your LAN sane.

 

[N_Molson]

What happened, some bad cargo on a truck? Luckily all made it into the lifeboats, I hope they are already ashore.

So, sadly, it seems that there are people missing, probably 11, maybe more as there were probably clandestine passengers. ? It really looks bad, the fire was completely out of control.

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bid'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea.

 

[Urwumpe]

German citizens are urgently ordered to leave Ukraine now.

Ukraine: Reise- und Sicherheitshinweise - Auswärtiges Amt

Letzte Änderungen: Sicherheit – Innenpolitische Lage

www.auswaertiges-amt.de

Looks like the last optimists in the German department of state are giving up hope, that Russia could refrain from an attack.

 

[clipper]

We all need a bit of Scholz in our lives; that one person that is seemingly nowhere to be found and then pops out in the middle of a category 5 sh*tstorm to tell us that there's yet hope to be found.

Kremlin has signalled it is open to dialogue - Germany's Scholz

There are "important indications" that a Russian attack on Ukraine can be avoided through diplomacy given the Kremlin's apparent interest in negotiations on its security demands, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

 

[N_Molson]

Currently Zelensky is speaking in Munich.

Meanwhile it seems that artillery strikes are intensifying. ?

Ukraine conflict: Rebels declare general mobilisation as fighting grows

The breakaway territories go on a war footing amid fears Russia will use them as a pretext to invade.

www.bbc.com

Lake Donuzlav, Crimea :

 

[clipper]

Meanwhile an E-8C shows up for the first time above Kyiv (at least on public trackers):

This is a battle management and ground vehicle surveillance platform; its presence pretty much means that US expects sh*t to hit the fan at any moment now.

 

[Urwumpe]

Meanwhile an E-8C shows up for the first time above Kyiv (at least on public trackers):
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This is a battle management and ground vehicle surveillance platform; its presence pretty much means that US expects sh*t to hit the fan at any moment now.

Especially, it is a side scanning radar, that it employs. Now pay attention at the ground track. It only could observe the region from Belgorod westwards, the Donbas would be outside the +/- 60° cone possible for a SAR radar.

 

[jedidia]

Tomorrow the olympics end... Let's hope we don't get any fireworks.

 

[Urwumpe]

Tomorrow the olympics end... Let's hope we don't get any fireworks.

The foreign minister of China just said in Munich, that territorial integrity and sovereignty of countries has to be respected, and Ukraine is no exception. I would say, this statement alone cooled things down a lot - Russia can't rely on China backing any military action up. Considering the "One china" politics of China, this of course raises some more questions, I NEVER really expected China to say things that clear.

Looks like a war in Ukraine is considered bad for the Chinese business and the proposed law of the Russian Duma to annex the Luhansk and Donezk oblasts had been a major concern there.

 

[N_Molson]

France now asks french citizens to leave Ukraine.

 

[clipper]

The foreign minister of China just said in Munich, that territorial integrity and sovereignty of countries has to be respected, and Ukraine is no exception.

Indeed he did, but it's important to note that China has been blaming NATO and the US almost exclusively in the last few weeks for 'interference' in Ukraine:

Because of the repeated incitements by the US and NATO, it is possible a large-scale civil war may break out in Ukraine, Li said.

Ukraine affairs should be left to the Ukrainians, but the external forces, especially the US and the NATO, have interfered in Ukraine's internal affairs, said Li.

Instead of treating Ukraine as a country worthy of respect, the US has exploited the country as a pawn in its geopolitical competition with Russia. This is the root cause of the tragedy in Ukraine, experts noted.

Straight out of CCP's Global Times report on this speech:

Chinese FM Wang Yi calls for diplomatic solution, not hyping war over Ukraine issue - Global Times

www.globaltimes.cn

I don't expect China to outright support any Russian use of force but I highly doubt they'd do more than express some of that good ole concern when all is said and done, and that's good enough for Russia.

 

[jedidia]

Straight out of CCP

I assume you mean CPC, because the SSR is long gone...

 

[clipper]

I assume you mean CPC, because the SSR is long gone...

most resources in the English language go with the informal CCP rather than the official CPC

Chinese Communist Party - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) | History & Party Structure | Britannica

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a political party of China. Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the CCP has been in sole control of that country’s government.

www.britannica.com

The Chinese Communist Party | Council on Foreign Relations

Under the command of Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party faces a host of domestic and international challenges as it aims to bolster China’s great-power status.

www.cfr.org