You'd think Trump would start to get mad at all this manipulation and Witkoff repeatedly making him look like an old fool.
Apparently though Trump would rather spin things than not actually be made a laughingstock to begin with... what a strange choice.

Christ. A just peace will have justice, and the aggressor's illegal actions should not bear profit.

If russia gains *anything* then it's not a just peace.

Sorry, forgot to qualify 'manifestly illegal'. They've greywashed the situation off Venezuela's shores to the point there's no determination of legality (at least in the military context, I'm fairly sure the UN has now stated the actions aren't legal).

The chain of command cannot confer an order that would be illegal. COC might not be prosecuted for the order, but he couldn't get it delivered either. Something like ordering a surprise attack on Greenland... nobody's going to deliver that, nobody will execute.

It doesn't look hard to bypass, but there's never usually a bridge laid just for the hell of it. Given the amount of extra support the utility poles nearby have, and the elevated road bed, I'd assume that's super-swampy ground and any heavy vehicle wandering off will be up to it's frame in moments.

Looks to be 20 bars if you extrapolate to the entire sweep, so 300-320khz?
If it's not ringing, and it's not piggybacked on an internal signal (scope it out), the only external source I can find documented is fluorescent ballast harmonics.

This has the advantage of, albeit slowly, taking out the engine AND every single car attached to a train that finds an affected line.

Not sure how many usable axles russia has stockpiled, but it won't be enough.

If they push it, they ruin the rails as well.

What would be smartest is developing a carbide 'nubbin' that can be attached to a rail... something not large enough to be really noticeable, but that would scar up the rolling stock of anything that rolled across it deeply enough to ruin them.

Russian trains would still run... briefly.

Every tank was filled to the brim and they would have been at or near full throttle, even if a wing tank didn't rupture that brief moment before the pumps can be cut off is spewing a ludicrous amount of fuel straight into the fire.

Last report I heard they had almost a full fuel load, 250k pounds.

Stuck in a lost cause... thrust loss and immediate control issues on rotation with no clear runoff area, the only possible result was a crash.

FOD ingestion. Can't feed bits of engine to your engine, that's how you get engine-rich exhaust.

There are three mostly redundant hydraulic systems in an MD-11, and after AA191 there are supposed to be a mechanism that keep the slats from retracting if hydraulics are lost to the wing.

Doesn't help much when there's a fire in the wing structure hot enough to let the spars start warping.

Or it rolled itself... it would have still been at running rpm when it departed, bearing drag and the fixed stators would have moved the torque from the shafts into the engine shell.

1 - Starlink launches so many satellites because they're designed to lose orbit very quickly and *not* clutter up that orbit, so there is a lot of rollover
2 - Delyagin can get f**ked. Gravel... let's call that what it is; a declaration of war, responded directly to his doorstep.

Which means a heavy strike on production ends attacks almost immediately.
Then we find how recoverable that industry is and watch the input logistics closely, because somewhere there's going to be a single point of failure to exploit.

The lights were all affected by the notorious Oontz virus.

You know... oontz, oontz, oontz, oontz. Closely related to the 'boots and pants' trojan of 2018.

Probably automatic but misadjusted. One comes on, the one next to it comes on, first one shuts off, third one kills the second, first pops back on, fourth one shuts three, second comes back, first goes off, etc.
Overhead would probably show waves of lights chasing themselves around on and off.

Even if they're not a few people can pool some cash to get a print shop to run off a few dozen really good signs. It doesn't take a mass coordinated effort to look good, just takes someone artistic and enough people to make a batch job affordable.

Put the .ELF on the shelf?