Comments on: Ukrainian troops are using Latvian-built electric scooters

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:42:31 +0000

Freddo: “Someone tell Zelensky he should ask for solar panels rather than Tomahawk missiles.”

Who?

By: Freddo

Freddo — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:30:38 +0000

Someone tell Zelensky he should ask for solar panels rather than Tomahawk missiles.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:46:35 +0000

Freddo: “As a consequence the civilian electrical grid is a more valid war target. You win some, you lose some.”

Solar panels more or less completely remove the need for an “electrical grid”, let alone a “civilian electrical grid”.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:15:03 +0000

Bruce, it is a fiction that the war is between Ukraine and Russia. The war is between the US and Russia. The Ukrainians are just the extras, or the chorus line if you like, there to provide the blood and suffering. “The success of an ally.” Hah.

By: Freddo

Freddo — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:05:43 +0000

As a consequence the civilian electrical grid is a more valid war target. You win some, you lose some.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:10:35 +0000

Quality of life would significantly improve for everyone if electric scooters like this were the only permissible ordinary short-range mode of travel.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 03:55:04 +0000

That scooter looks extremely fucking cool. I want one.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 03:54:07 +0000

Bruce: “The world would be a better place if the Ukraine conflict was over.”

For whom? The United State is very pleased to expend the Ukrainians down to the very last man, woman, and child, and the Ukrainian state’s balls are so thoroughly in the United State’s purse that that is just what will happen.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:29:53 +0000

Motorcycles were predicted.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:45:09 +0000

Michael van der Riet:

It is proper for Americans to applaud the success of an ally.

The world would be a better place if the Ukraine conflict was over. As Salvador Madariaga wrote:

‘What is a conflict? It is a problem that has become poisonous. What is a problem? It is a question that has become neglected. What is a question? It is an everyday matter that needs our attention. If therefore we want to avoid wars, it is very little use waiting to avoid our ordinary, humdrum matters until, unattended, neglected, poisoned, they become conflicts.’

To seriously end this war, the conflict needs to be dialed down step by step, to a problem, a question, an everyday matter that needs our attention. Won’t be easy,