In a bizarre repeat of previous denials, the Russian Ministry of Defense again claimed that no direct hits occurred, attributing all damage to fallen Ukrainian drone debris.
All the other issues here aside, I think that you guys are long overdue to find a fresh cover-up strategy. I mean, the “our soldiers were smoking and it exploded” thing was better than this. At least with smoking, there’s the potential to stop the problem in the future, but if air defenses are having the “debris” destroy the targets that they’re aiming at, then the air defenses intrinsically can’t be very effective even when they work.
Speak out against it and now we know you are a dissident!
Ukrainian drones are apparently made out of antimatter or something.
So, I was thinking more about the fact that the air defenses should be destroying an incoming weapon before it’s over the target, but yeah, on penetrative power, for this particular attack, it’s even harder for Russia to make the case.
Dmitry Bulgakov, then a deputy defence minister, told RIA in 2018 that the facility could defend weapons from missiles and even a small nuclear attack. Bulgakov was arrested earlier this year on corruption charges, which he denies.
“It (the concrete facilities) ensures their reliable and safe storage, protects them from air and missile strikes and even from the damaging factors of a nuclear explosion,” RIA quoted Bulgakov as saying at the time.
Like, if the Ministry of Defense is moving from “it can stand up to a nuke” to “falling Ukrainian drone debris blew the thing up”, that’s one heck of a shift.
Love seeing the Ukrainian home grown dildo of consequences absolutely fucking up logistics like this. Those depots looked like the flippin’ moon afterwards there were so many craters.
The kabooms were also very satisfying to watch.
I am going to steal the phrase “dildo of consequences”
Lets hope they choke on the dildo of consequences.
The full phrase is usually “the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed”. I don’t know who coined it, but it’s been around for some years.
EDIT: Using Google search by date, one of the earlier hits that Google indexed is this one, from 2017:
https://daily-devops.tumblr.com/post/161621189597/best-quote-about-the-elections-ever-the-dildo
That was June 9, 2017, and apparently talking about the British general election of 2017, so it goes back at least as far as that.
It looks like Google may try to infer date of post in some cases from websites, so date search finds some earlier ones, but nothing that appears to be reliably prior to that. They’re apparently quoting someone, so I doubt that that’s the first time it was used.
Ah tbh I stole it from elsewhere so steal away :D It’s a good one!
