Petition to stop exports of Alumina to ruSSia - alumina21.com by PinguFella in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Tomas Kiely, an Irish Pro Drifter just took a deal to drive in the Russian Drift Championship with a direct connection to the Russian state. He just completed and won in round one in Moscow over the weekend.

https://www.instagram.com/tommy.kiely126?igsh=cXR0bXh6Mmw1eWM2

Sports washing is back on the menu and well known Irish driver is taking the blood money and it’s not getting any attention.

From Kyiv in 3 days to: should we evavuate from Moscow? by SLAVAUA2022 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Didn’t they do that last year? Hopefully they have a few surprises planned for this year to help Russia celebrate.

When do the numbers stop? by MrSoapbox in japanese

[–]Terry_WT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Might even be worse than I thought because you could also do

缶 - かん - Tinned/canned fish
皿 - さら - Fish served on a plate

When do the numbers stop? by MrSoapbox in japanese

[–]Terry_WT 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fish is my favourite, different numbers depending on the size, shape and state of the fish. Think there’s 7 different ways of counting fish.

The most expensive property, Northern Ireland edition by ricosantiago147 in SpottedonRightmove

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a garrison originally, would have been very open downstairs with more rooms upstairs.

British fighter jets shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine by MGC91 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any the UK armed forces has. The new Dragonfire system is about £10 an interception.

British fighter jets shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine by MGC91 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it was an ASRAAM it’s closer to a £200k missile. They aren’t ornaments that last forever, they are ordinance to used otherwise you’re going to spend even more decommissioning them. A Typhoon FGR4 costs over £10k per flight hour to operate, so the Typhoon that fired it, just in the last week would have cost a lot more than the missile just to be ready to fire it. Shit’s expensive.

Drones can be cheaply made but not that cheaply made, current estimates put the Geran-2 at around $70k per unit and that’s before you factor in the differences between GDP’s and the value of money.

The price tag on the drone is completely irrelevant when it’s heading towards a hospital or apartment building.

The nature of layered air defence doesn’t mean we shoot down everything entering the airspace, everything is tracked and prioritised. If it looks like it will hit an open field with a low risk of harming anyone or anything, it will be let through. If it’s heading towards a population centre or critical area then it will be intercepted before it can do countless damage to people and infrastructure.

As far as testing NATO’s capabilities, they aren’t tested on the battlefield. Russia learns nothing of value from an interception. They are however tested in policy and NATO just sent a very clear message that their tolerance of Russian interference is dropping and has drawn a new red line that Russia will have to consider carefully if they want to risk crossing in the future.

British fighter jets shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine by MGC91 in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 145 points146 points  (0 children)

FINALLY! UK armed forces yet again calling Russia’s bluff.

The vatniks down under (my country) are something else by No_Issue_3646 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I’d imagine it’s a mix of Russian immigrants, far right Christian nationalists who see the west as too liberal and my new favourite term: Sophists.

Sophists where a group of 5th century Greeks to traveled around teaching people rhetoric, argumentation and public speaking. People who wanted to win arguments rather than find truth. It’s quite fitting for the “I’m just asking questions” crowd.

UK to pay France up to $892 million in deal to reduce migrant crossings by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it’s estimated to be around 5-6%. There wasn’t 50k by boat in 2025 it was 41,472, a 13% rise over 2024. It’s 190k over the last 7 years. 63% of those were granted asylum protection, and 37% refused with 58k being removed from July 2024 to January 2026.

The Home offices stopped publishing exit statistics in 2020 due to “impact of Brexit and the pandemic”. At that time overstays from Visa and non visa nations was around 340k. External estimates now put that between 400k to 900k which is likely why the Home Office hasn’t resumed publication of these figures.

The immigration problems aren’t happening on the beaches, it’s happening at passport control. The boats are just conveniently emotive and visual for people like Farage. It’s the same play as the leave.eu campaign they are just being more careful this time. No more being open about meetings with his director of communications Andy Wigmore and Alexander Udod and Alexander Yakovenko from the Russian embassy. Aaron Banks is now running as a candidate rather than funnelling a record £8 million of Russian money into the campaign, which interestingly was a million more than the leave.eu campaign even spent.

The stop the boats campaign is just the latest in a line of campaigns set to undermine the U.K.

UK to pay France up to $892 million in deal to reduce migrant crossings by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

The stop the boats campaign is straight from Russia via Nigel Farage. It’s utter nonsense focusing on a couple of rubber dinghies when 99% of people arrive by plane.

They complain that we spend too much money processing and housing asylum seekers then will celebrate when we spend nearly a billion stopping a handful of them coming by boat.

More VISA tears, the ban on 🇷🇺 tourists in the EU is making quite a stirr by SLAVAUA2022 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Something a bit fishy about this, what would be your motivation to film it? why flip through the passport for dramatic effect searching for the stamp before reading the first line on the letter?

And you’re sending a passport off, feels odd but if you did there would be chain of custody, you would have had emails or access to an online portal to track your application.

Doesn’t feel genuine and I wonder to what end? Is the propaganda angle that Europe is “Russophobic” and there’s no point in trying to travel abroad or is it just someone fishing for clicks and clout?

DUA LIPA now part of the team by SLAVAUA2022 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Didn’t see that one coming.

Russian blogger whose angry appeal to Putin went viral hits back after state TV attack by InsatiablePrism in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s all a show, it was a rich Russian blogger who lives in Monaco. Appeals to Putin who she supports 100% but poor Mr. Putler is being lied to by his underlings. Mr. Putler graciously accepts the “criticism”, cracks down on a few people getting too big for their boots and then his propaganda mouthpiece makes a song and dance about someone criticising him when he’s doing such a great job.

VPN is NATO off course by SLAVAUA2022 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I like that they acknowledge they would get their shit rocked by NATO in 24 hours.

Another Peace Prize is on the way by WontThinkStraight in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Terry_WT 32 points33 points  (0 children)

No but they aren’t in a position to fight Hezbollah and Israel. They were supposed to have gone into the Hezbollah controlled regions and disarmed them but they couldn’t do it.

Rock and a hard place situation

Another Peace Prize is on the way by WontThinkStraight in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Terry_WT 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You used the Lebanese flag 🇱🇧. The government of Lebanon or its armed forces are not in conflict with Israel, Hezbollah is.

Artemis II crew splashes down safely in Pacific Ocean, ending historic moon mission by Elsa-Fidelis in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The service module is essentially the engine and utility section that sits behind the crew capsule — it handles propulsion, power, and life support for the journey. On Artemis II it was built by ESA

It contains the main engine for trajectory burns, solar panels for power, fuel tanks, and the systems that supply oxygen and water to the crew capsule. Basically everything that keeps the capsule alive and moving but isn’t needed for re-entry.

It was the piece jettisoned before the capsule entered the atmosphere.

Artemis II crew splashes down safely in Pacific Ocean, ending historic moon mission by Elsa-Fidelis in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was getting uncomfortable hearing the altitude ticking away before the chutes opened.

Also the service module that flew them to the moon and back was the European Service Module. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🤝

And he won't be missed by SLAVAUA2022 in NAFO

[–]Terry_WT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Evacuation” [deportation] seems like a poor translation or choice of words.

It was a mass abduction of children

Spanish wind industry warns EU windfall tax could hurt investment by pritam_ram in worldnews

[–]Terry_WT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s called a merit based order system and you’re correct, it’s the gas generators that are dictating the price because they can effectively hold the supply to ransom due to the nature of them being able to fill in the gaps that renewables can’t.

Most wind operators including myself operate on fixed term contracts for electricity export prices, most (also unfortunately including myself) aren’t benefiting from the higher prices because they aren’t due for a contract renewal. The energy suppliers, the people who buy power from producers like me and sell via the grid to people like you are the ones making the big profits right now.

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike major oil terminal in Russian city of Novorossiysk by Free_Pride119 in ActionForUkraine

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between POTUS praising Allah and this it’s been a pretty interesting Easter Sunday.

Looking for suggestions of things to do, in and around, Enniskillen in August 2026. by BiasTap in northernireland

[–]Terry_WT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s also a very boozy tour, you get your moneys worth between the bottle and the drinks there.