Ukraine Always Get What You Want

This is all Sabre rattling, but nice just the same.

Hockey Hall of Famer Dominik Hasek has called for the NHL to "immediately suspend contracts for all Russian players" amidst Russia's deadly invasion of Ukraine.
The 57-year-old Czech also had some choice words for Washington Capitals' Russian-born star Alex Ovechkin, a supporter of President Vladimir Putin.
Hasek, who played in the NHL for 16-seasons and is widely considered one of the best goaltenders of all time, called Ovechkin an "alibist," a "liar" and a "chicken (expletive)" after Ovechkin failed to publicly denounce Putin and his country's aggression.

 

Imagine the tension on the International Space Station about now.

 

Ukraine establishing foreign legion for volunteers from abroad - President

Ukraine creates foreign legion as volunteers from abroad join the fight

How can I join the Ukraine foreign legion?

“Foreigners willing to defend Ukraine and world order as part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, I invite you to contact foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine in your respective countries," said Kuleba.

This will be a separate volunteer unit made from all international volunteers.

 

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Strains International Space Station Partnership

Roscosmos did not respond to a request for comment. But in a series of tweets on Thursday afternoon, Roscosmos’s director general Dmitry Rogozin mocked the sanctions as foolhardy, adding that “if [the U.S.] blocks cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled descent out of orbit and a fall on the United States or Europe?” Despite its threatening implications, Rogozin’s statement is, in some respects, reflective of simple facts: Russia’s Progress resupply spacecraft are currently responsible for periodically boosting the space station’s altitude, which decreases over time because of atmospheric drag. (A U.S.-built Cygnus cargo spacecraft presently docked at the station is scheduled to perform a test boost in April to demonstrate an independent capability to maintain the ISS’s altitude.)

Such comments are not terribly out of character for Rogozin, a Putin appointee. “He’s a bit of, you know, a personality,” says Asif Siddiqi, a historian at Fordham University, who specializes in Russian space activities.

 

Sanctions explainer from the Atlantic:

Hitting Putin Where It Hurts

 

Russia is already pulling out of the ISS, and the thing is supposed to come down in a few years, anyway.

 

We are not allowed to discuss critical space theory

 

Snapshot
CNN: Pundits talking about Ukraine.
MSNBC: Video it was showing this time yesterday.
BBC News: On the ground reporting at Poland border, talking to Ukrainians.

I'm beginning to think America gets the coverage deserves, which is sucky.

 

FWIW Putin's apparently in a meeting right now where he's dictated that Russia put nuclear deterrence forces on high alert after aggressive statements by NATO members. He may just want to drop the f****** bombs.

 

Just reported by the BBC: Putin has put Russia’s nuclear forces on alert.

 

Surely there has to be some Russian general willing to put down a mad dog.