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The Kerch Bridge is on Fire
@KyleWOrton ^ | 107/2022 | Kyle Orton

Posted on 10/07/2022 8:57:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Breaking: The Kerch Bridge, which connects occupied Crimea to Russia, is on fire.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


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To: dfwgator
NATO watching the show from Romanian coast.


61 posted on 10/07/2022 11:05:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: libh8er

[“ This is a belated birthday present Putin won’t soon forget.”

He can help rebuild the bridge with the tractor he got.]


ROFL


62 posted on 10/07/2022 11:06:14 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Zhang Fei

History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of men
Godzilla


63 posted on 10/07/2022 11:07:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Putin fears the Reaper


64 posted on 10/07/2022 11:07:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Bridges on Flame With Rock and Roll.

(It’s BOC Night!)


65 posted on 10/07/2022 11:08:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Dr.Deth
The unconnected roadway there has collapsed as well, so unless fire can melt concrete, and steel, and do it from distance across a body of water, I’m not buying the “accident” thing. It’s like NordStream, it was done knowing it’s beyond Ukraine capabilities but well within NATO’s.

This appears to have been done on the Ukrainian West side of the bridge. If so, only Ukraine has the right to object to any explosions there under international law, since the rest of the world doesn't recognize this as a Russian bridge. No, this probably wasn't an accident, although with a bridge this long, engineering problems are possible.
66 posted on 10/07/2022 11:08:44 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

67 posted on 10/07/2022 11:11:55 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Fai Mao

Yeah, they don’t have EV’s.


68 posted on 10/07/2022 11:13:27 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Dr. Franklin


69 posted on 10/07/2022 11:15:26 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
"Musk is Kompromised."

That looks like a possibility and not one that I want to believe. Maybe we'll find out as to whether or not.

70 posted on 10/07/2022 11:17:19 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: gleeaikin; Dr. Franklin; AZJeep; marcusmaximus; pierrem15; dennisw; UMCRevMom@aol.com; PIF; ...
I still think the chance of Ukraine regaining Crimea is pretty low, but I don't think they will be willing to negotiate until Russia is pushed back to the Feb 23 line or close to it. Putin is clearly trying the huff and puff into negotiations now. I have relatives in Europe and read the French, German and Polish papers every day (the last in translation). People are complaining about the high prices but no one is freezing or starving and are unlikely to do so. No mass layoffs yet, although some gas-dependent industries are clearly suffering like fertilizer production and glass making.

The only real credible military threat is if Putin reconstitutes a working army in Belarus and attacks Kyiv again to relieve pressure in the East and South. But I don't see how he can arm and train a large enough force. The Ukrainian army is now much better trained and equipped than it was, and if Putin tries that, I don't think they will hesitate to use artillery and rockets against Russian bases in Belarus. I also think Lukashenko is delicately trying to extricate himself from Putin's war.

71 posted on 10/07/2022 11:20:41 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: gleeaikin

Yup. The impact and explosions would have stripped just about all the insulation off the steel. I think the architect stated he was amazed the buildings didn’t come down right away.


72 posted on 10/07/2022 11:24:07 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: marcusmaximus
Video, purportedly of dash camera of the strike:https://youtu.be/Zi_wEUtC9D4?t=37

There was a sound audible before the explosion, possibly the sound of a incoming rocket or missile.

Railway one fire and one one bridge span collapsed, that's a lot of damage for a single weapon hit.

73 posted on 10/07/2022 11:26:22 PM PDT by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: Widget Jr

It is a fake video. There is a CCTV available indicating a terrorist act by using a rigged truck.


74 posted on 10/07/2022 11:30:15 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Widget Jr

I think that’s the one they showed on Agenda-Free TV.


75 posted on 10/07/2022 11:30:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 21twelve

Lol.


76 posted on 10/07/2022 11:32:44 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Can’t really see enough from the images to tell you what took the lower part of the bridge down. The decking for the lanes closest to the upper burning deck are still intact, but the outer lanes further away from the upper burning deck are down.

So it looks like something separate did the shot on the lower lanes that are down, but I can’t see from enough clear and close perspectives to know much.

Could have been engineers on the footings and columns or accurate missiles from above. Don’t know yet. I’m guessing missiles because of the burning oil cars, but that could possibly have been an engineer job, too (rigged elsewhere, command detonation).


77 posted on 10/07/2022 11:34:36 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: NorseViking

To me that video doesn’t look like the truck was the source of the explosion.


78 posted on 10/07/2022 11:36:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Zhang Fei
This is a belated birthday present Putin won’t soon forget.

"Candygram for Mongo!"

79 posted on 10/07/2022 11:40:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Monterrosa-24; UMCRevMom@aol.com; PIF; ought-six; Timber Rattler; MalPearce; BeauBo; ...

If I were Ukraine, I would want to destroy the bridge enough to prevent Russia from using it in the war, but where it would be relatively easy to fix if Ukraine gets Crimea back. Partisans and Russian freedom fighters know how to push a railroad rail out of allignment and a join enough to cause the train to derail. If the train was carrying inflammables they could be set afire. These methods were shown on line yesterday in detail. Also reports that this has been done 80 times to troop and armament trains.


80 posted on 10/07/2022 11:42:12 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority! .)
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