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[The Year Of The Fox]

 

[NJFox]

Curious for our one of our GTA FoxesTalk members to chime in about the weather. Amazing that everyone came off the plane alive.

[Jattdogg]

28 minutes ago, NJFox said:

Curious for our one of our GTA FoxesTalk members to chime in about the weather. Amazing that everyone came off the plane alive.

I live 20 minutes drive down the 401 from Pearson. Planes fly over our house as it lines up with the runway approach and it's so odd to not hear/see them. I see blue skies outside,  some clouds.

 

We had a crazy snow storm this past weekend.  The wind today has been intense,  snow blowing all over the place. My kitchen exhaust fan won't stfu.

 

Glad everyone survived!

 

 

Edited 17 February by Jattdogg

[spacemunky]

1 hour ago, NJFox said:

Curious for our one of our GTA FoxesTalk members to chime in about the weather. Amazing that everyone came off the plane alive.

It's been a crazy couple days with snow and today high winds. 

 

The visibility must have been horrible.

 

Heard there's 3 people in critical condition 

[Jattdogg]

Contains swearing. Video of a passenger as he exits the plane cursing and in disbelief.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGMEswSp9Vk/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

[Sly]

It’s crazy that the plane hasn’t broken up when tipping over.

 

I’ve never seen anything like that.

 

It is a minor miracle that everyone is still alive.

 

It feels like we are having a lot more aeroplane accidents this year. 

[Sly]

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1891642525917520315?s=46

[Sly]

I’m going to guess and say that the amount of snow on the ground has actually stopped this being a more tragic accident. 
 

Looking at that video, whilst it’s been filmed on a potato, it looks like it’s tried to land, then rolled? 
 

Has the cold conditions, then slid it down the runway, cooling it down, flipping it over? Difficult to tell from that video. 

[LCFCJohn]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

It’s crazy that the plane hasn’t broken up when tipping over.

 

I’ve never seen anything like that.

 

It is a minor miracle that everyone is still alive.

 

It feels like we are having a lot more aeroplane accidents this year. 

Amazing like you say. How has that happened?

 

And is that 4 commercial ones already?

 

The one with suspicious circumstances around Russia, was it in Kazahkstan?

 

The Korean one. Washington DC and now this.

 

And that’s just bigger commercial ones, obviously smaller ones like that one in Philly a couple of days after the DC one.

 

Not wanting to make me air travel any time soon to be fair!

[Jattdogg]

 

[Dunge]

1 hour ago, Jattdogg said:

 

I’d be interested to know what people make of that. It looks like the pilot just didn’t pull up in time.

[BKLFox]

1 hour ago, Jattdogg said:

 

that looks like a heavy landing with landing gear collapsing directly on impact as flames appear almost instantly, right wing then comes down, slides along ground (probably hits something) snaps off, left is now top heavy & no stability on right which then causes the roll?

[Lionator]

Zelensky throwing a strop probably isn’t going to convince Trump that restoring relations with Russia is a bad thing. He needs to play the cool and patient game.

[Zear0]

3 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Zelensky throwing a strop probably isn’t going to convince Trump that restoring relations with Russia is a bad thing. He needs to play the cool and patient game.

Nothing will convince Trump to continue the support.  He has a personal vendetta against Ukraine due to him being impeached for coercion and the imminent removal of sanctions on Russia, which will provide them massive increase in wealth for their war industry, and the likely complete cessation of military aid to Ukraine by the US is game over for them.

 

Hard to be cool and patient when your enemy who's objective is the complete destruction of your state and your most influential "ally" are signing your death sentence in Saudi Arabia.

[Sampson]

24 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Zelensky throwing a strop probably isn’t going to convince Trump that restoring relations with Russia is a bad thing. He needs to play the cool and patient game.

“Throwing a strop”?! He’s having his entire country being sold down the road. Trump is not going to be convinced about anything he’s been extremely open about his “America first” and lack of support for Ukraine ideals from the off, this is what he said would happen and that everyone knew would happen.This kind of spin is depressing 
 

Said on here in early January that I give til February until Trump starts claiming Zelensky is the villain for not signing some peace treaty. Still thinks it looks likely 

Edited 18 February by Sampson

[Salisbury Fox]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

Said on here in early January that I give til February until Trump starts claiming Zelensky is the villain for not signing some peace treaty. Still thinks it looks likely 

Well Trump is seemingly making the victim of aggression pay reparations for having the temerity of wanting to be a sovereign nation, more so than what was imposed on Germany after WW1 if what I have read about the deal presented to Zelensky for 50% of Ukraine’s resources is true. Burnt rapidly through any goodwill from the support given before. I don’t see anyone foolish enough to trust the US in the near to medium future.
 

Shame Europe don’t seem able or in some cases willing to step up which will no doubt come back to bite us.

[leicsmac]

9 minutes ago, Salisbury Fox said:

Well Trump is seemingly making the victim of aggression pay reparations for having the temerity of wanting to be a sovereign nation, more so than what was imposed on Germany after WW1 if what I have read about the deal presented to Zelensky for 50% of Ukraine’s resources is true. Burnt rapidly through any goodwill from the support given before. I don’t see anyone foolish enough to trust the US in the near to medium future.
 

Shame Europe don’t seem able or in some cases willing to step up which will no doubt come back to bite us.

Two European nations possess nuclear weapons. That might give the bigger fish at least a moments pause before trying to throw their weight around too much.

 

And to think I advocated for the UK to give up theirs around a decade ago because I never thought the US and Russia would become ideologically aligned in the cause of strongman repressive autocracy. How wrong I was there.

Edited 18 February by leicsmac

[Lionator]

3 hours ago, Sampson said:

“Throwing a strop”?! He’s having his entire country being sold down the road. Trump is not going to be convinced about anything he’s been extremely open about his “America first” and lack of support for Ukraine ideals from the off, this is what he said would happen and that everyone knew would happen.This kind of spin is depressing 
 

Said on here in early January that I give til February until Trump starts claiming Zelensky is the villain for not signing some peace treaty. Still thinks it looks likely 

Aside from Hitler the second (Putin), I’d be far more annoyed with Biden and the European morons promising the world while having absolutely no balls to follow through with it.

[fox_up_north]

Annnnnd back to the Ruud thread I go

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Aside from Hitler the second (Putin), I’d be far more annoyed with Biden and the European morons promising the world while having absolutely no balls to follow through with it.

I'm curious to know exactly what they could have done more that would have stopped the current situation occurring, short of being much more effective at neutralising Trump.

[LCFCCHRIS]

Amazing speech that sums up my feelings on the current state of the US. Democrats need to get their heads screwed on and get back on track. Alienating most of their potential voters was always a losing strategy. Yes you can support minorities but you’ve also got to show your majority that you care. 

[urban.spaceman]

NOW THEIR TORTURIN ARE TOMMEH

 

[ozleicester]

20 minutes ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

Amazing speech that sums up my feelings on the current state of the US. Democrats need to get their heads screwed on and get back on track. Alienating most of their potential voters was always a losing strategy. Yes you can support minorities but you’ve also got to show your majority that you care. 

What a different world we would live in today, if the Dems had selected Bernie in 2015

[Sly]

Trumps way of stopping the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is basically to cut funding and force Ukraine to concede defeat. 
 

It very much feels like it is one bully in Trump, supporting another bully in Putin to win. 
 

Do we foresee the collapse of NATO under Trump this time? 
 

Historically the British have a lot of blood on their hands in terms of how we generated the British empire, or even back to the crusades even. However in a modern world, which should be forward thinking, 

 

It may be a bit extreme, however I’m not sure we should be partnered or associated with any nation that won’t stand up for justice.

 

He’s becoming more like a Dictator himself, with his irrational threats of taking Greenland, Panama, Canada, Mexico etc. It’s a shame Europe can’t stand on its own toe feet and cut off imports from the states to push back to his tactics. 
 

This is one of the challenges of the UK largely becoming a warehouse state. We rely so much on others now. 

[LCFCCHRIS]

4 minutes ago, Sly said:

Trumps way of stopping the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is basically to cut funding and force Ukraine to concede defeat. 
 

It very much feels like it is one bully in Trump, supporting another bully in Putin to win. 
 

Do we foresee the collapse of NATO under Trump this time? 
 

Historically the British have a lot of blood on their hands in terms of how we generated the British empire, or even back to the crusades even. However in a modern world, which should be forward thinking, 

 

It may be a bit extreme, however I’m not sure we should be partnered or associated with any nation that won’t stand up for justice.

 

He’s becoming more like a Dictator himself, with his irrational threats of taking Greenland, Panama, Canada, Mexico etc. It’s a shame Europe can’t stand on its own toe feet and cut off imports from the states to push back to his tactics. 
 

This is one of the challenges of the UK largely becoming a warehouse state. We rely so much on others now. 

I also wonder if this is Trump’s way of forcing Europe to up its defence spending. 

 

Regardless we need to lead the way as Poland have and increase defence spending to 4% minimum imo. It will be tough but not as tough as having to come good on our article 5 promises when Putin or similar tries again somewhere else.