This jibes with the experience of a mixed race kid I know who got a place there as a late entrant around the same time, was pretty badly bullied by his peers and basically written off by the staff (they had a pretty classic 'good at games' sort of attitude).

Per my son (who went to a nearby comp, but had opportunities to use some of the facilities at Dulwich via their community outreach programme) the culture was still pretty ugly there a few years ago.

Going for the 'Andrew Tate' wrt his weak chin, a solid opening move that is undermined by opting for the Mega-Potter specs in a doomed attempt to look intellectual.

A strong Himmler vibe tho', so bonus points for truth in advertising.

Although it's Bastille before guillotine ofc.

Tell me you haven't read 'Declare' without telling me you haven't read 'Declare'

They got the union flags the right way up. But the saltire on the right is upside down and they shouldn't be flying the lion rampant above the union flag... 6/10, try harder flaggers.

A happy warrior is a sight to behold. More of them please.

Subhead is a peach.

At least the main obeys the rule that any question posed in a headline can be safely answered by 'No'.

How's that working out for you?

Also Dressage

Well that's my point, the same launch infrastructure is part of why people adopt the artillery frame, thus they think of ATACMS as a long-ranged system.

The people saying 'actually no, these are a short-ranged system' are adopting a missile/airpower frame.

I'm not saying either frame is correct.

Which is it - a puny provocation or an act of war by a nuclear state?

Try and keep your talking points consistent across different posts tovarich.

Paradoxically so would Russia. The best outcome for the Russians once Vladimir's Big Adventure was actually launched would have been a defeat in autumn '22.

It's Russia so they'd probably draw the wrong lessons from a Suez-style humiliation, but that's the narrow path to an optimistic outcome.

The Russians were pretty much potless going in to this and they have been spending down what seedcorn they had to keep the war going long enough that the Donald can pull their nuts out of the fire come January.

There's going to be hell to pay. And because this is Russia it can always get worse.

It took the UK decades to work off the ramifications of the WW2 maximum effort and we had an empire we could mortgage to the Yanks while that was going down.

Russia is utterly fucked. That doesn't mean they can't win the current fight but they've been red-lining their economy for over 24 months now and there are warning lights blinking all over the stats that we can see.

If Russia wins this the fighting won't stop, the conflict will transition to an insurgency and far more Ukrainians will die in the decades-long ugliness that follows.

It will be Gaza/West Bank on steroids.

It's because people filter ATACMS and similar systems into the 'artillery' bucket of their mental models rather than the 'air power' bucket. They are long ranged for artillery but short ranged for tac-air (*really* short for strategic air).

Rome is an eminently walkable city so I think you should look a little outside the centre. When I took my family there (some years ago mind) we stayed in Trastavere which was pretty reasonable.