Recent content by Phil Sayers

Deeper and deeper: Two (spectacularly) for the price of one: Just two of a great, great many (well over half of the total tanks Russia had in service when the war started): As DB9 says above though, the enormous and continual destruction of Russian military equipment is not preventing...

Bignall was truly dreadful (albeit not here long due to an injury). I seem to recall at Stevenage that their keeper Julian was inexplicably not red-carded (this was before the double-jeopardy change) for bringing him down when clean through on the opening day of the season. Uproar at the time...

The original Hamas statement last night implied that the terms of a ceasefire had been agreed and indeed that statement then prompted celebrations in Gaza by people believing that a ceasefire had been agreed. It then rapidly materialised that Hamas did not mean that they had agreed to the...

Unfortunately, it seems this may be a game being played by Hamas because Israeli officials are claiming that the deal that Hamas have just announced they have agreed to is not the same deal that Israel previously announced they accepted. In other words it has been unilaterally amended by Hamas...

Apparently a Gaza ceasefire has just been agreed: Good news if the reporting is accurate which it seems to be.

I suspect the reason for that is that the Qatari government provide a lot of Al Jazeera's funding (in exchange for them abiding by stringent editorial 'guidelines' no doubt) and Israel is rather unhappy that Doha hosts Hamas's senior leadership.

New drone attack on Black Sea Fleet vessels alongside in port - one hit on a small ship moored at a jetty shown in the first video and the second video shows a Russian helicopter destroying a further drone (apparently after the drone had fired a missile at it):

If this lot were transferred to Ukraine (along with the missile stocks) it would go a very long way towards having a 'shield' over all of Ukraine: Time to see what leverage the US has with Israel. The latter have adamantly refused to supply pretty much any of their own equipment to Ukraine...

What really takes the **** with regards Russia and the UN is that they are buying ballistic missiles from North Korea while being a permanent veto-wielding member of the very same USNC whose resolutions prohibit North Korea from developing, let alone selling, ballistic missiles.

Russians dumping cluster munitions on Odessa's city centre (two civilians died, RIP):

Yes, a good article indeed although it is important to keep in mind that while increasing defence spending to 1980s levels (over 4% of GDP throughout the decade) would cost vast sums of money, that is not something anyone is calling for and nor will it be remotely on the cards unless the...

This is actually a really good speech - just the right mix of humour and seriousness: No idea whether it is true but I have read a few times that Trump hates Obama and decided to run for President because of Obama skewering his fragile ego in one of these speeches.

Back to the Future - Biggles takes to the air once more:

It can be sad when you are not quite as eternal as the eternal leader and not quite as dear as the dear leader (but almost!) so heart-warming to have your people show they really adore you by nailing K-Pop like this: