When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Crazier

[ichkeria]

Combat mosquitoes

https://news.yahoo.com/combat-mosquitoes-dirty-bomb-russian-151700522.html

[Peter Pedant]

I was gonna say that the Japanese were more intrusive with experiments on American POWs
Info traded with the CIA so that the war crims would not DDDDIIEEEEE as they were interested in how grunts would fare in bacteria warfare.

and what do i read?
This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread bubonic plague.

so that is where the Russians got the idea from.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

only the strongest should read this. Staking Americans out in a field and blowing smallpox over them is a mere started to what they did to the prisoners....Dutch and English werent used I think because there were so few

[ichkeria]

Admiral Makarov's superstructure significantly damaged.
And its radar equipment.
No one knows exactly what happened, but this appears to have been a coordinated attack on a significant scale. In that sense probably more important than the Moskva.
No wonder Russia is peeved, and worried too I should think.

[Old_Geezer]

I trust the mosquitoes were given maps of the Russian territory and clear instructions where to fly.

If Ukraine can take out the Black Sea Fleet then might Russia have little say on what foodstuff gets exported the world over ? Or might that be wishful thinking ?

[sandyRoe]

The Russians have said they can no longer guarantee safe passage for the grain boats. That will effectively stop them. It would be impossible to get insurance for a start.

[jno]

PP as I recall they used to catapult plague-ridden corpses into besieged cites when getting medieval on their asses. There's also some evidence that they gave Red Injuns blankets infected with smallpox though i think no evidence that it worked.

[ichkeria]

“If Ukraine can take out the Black Sea Fleet then might Russia have little say on what foodstuff gets exported the world over ?”

Well the Black Sea Fleet had only recently ventured back to Sevastopol. This must make them think again. They rely on ships like these not only for some of their murderous attacks on Ukraine but also more importantly for air defence of Crimea.
If they can’t provide that then their Air Force will also be exposed and Crimea will ultimately be very exposed to ground attack from Ukrainian forces.

[ichkeria]

Russia has blocked Telegram tonight.

Interesting.
Too much bad war news on there …

[Peter Pedant]

hi jno
yes in both cases - it might be Dubrovnick
no Caffa
that the Mongol army hurled plague-infected cadavers into the besieged Crimean city of Caffa, thereby transmitting the disease to the inhabitants; and that fleeing survivors of the siege spread plague from Caffa to the Mediterranean Basin. 1346

now it is poss - the fleas er flee from a cooling corpse and seek warmer climes...

and in an early Ducky-man from uncle part - David McCallum plays an English Officer in The Indian War - who has just done that. Films may not be true
and it is here
https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets#:~:text=North%20American%20colonists'%20warfare%20against,and%20linens%20contaminated%20with%20smallpox.

but may not be true - smallpox is spread by fomites ( er linen and blankets)

Siege of Athens 300BC - Spartans led everyone go INTO the city, knowing the overcrowding would promote disease - which it did
Purpura - so badly described ( went purple and popped) that we cant make out what it was.

[ichkeria]

Sevastopol hit again tonight we believe

[Peter Pedant]

You can do an isochrone map for Plague in Europe in 1340s
and it starts in 1342 north of Azov ( which is a place as well as a sea)
here

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1346-1353_spread_of_the_Black_Death_in_Europe_map.svg

The Russians tried the Japanese of Unit 731 see above for war crimes and one was .... the flea plague bomb

so I suppose it is in the Russian subconscious

[Peter Pedant]

Is that good or bad?
the russians dont seem to mind the Ukrainians sort of fighting in the streets of Kherson
but get mighty possed off by bombing the kerch bridge

didnt moe men die from typhoid and cholera during the siege of Sebastopol 1856?

[ichkeria]

I don’t think Ukrainians much care about making the Russians cross.
And nor should they

[ZebuSanctuary]

// didnt moe men die from typhoid and cholera during the siege of Sebastopol 1856? //

Indeed. Tolstoy wrote about it. A harrowing read to say the least!

It wasn't until the mid to late 1940s, penicillin became widely available to the general public.

Up until then, a seemingly harmless scratch could turn gangrenous, resulting in amputation or more likely... Death. The horrors of war don't bear thinking about.

[ZebuSanctuary]

// indeed, they were found to serve no porpoise.//

You Orca know better than to say that.

[Spicerack]

You can't trust anyone nowadays. Looks like Ichkeria was taken in by Russian disinformation.
Or was he?

[ichkeria]

Yesterday was said to be the highest day of the war so far for Russian deaths in action, mainly in the Donetesk area: 950.
Crazy.

[ichkeria]

"If Ukraine can take out the Black Sea Fleet then might Russia have little say on what foodstuff gets exported the world over ? Or might that be wishful thinking ? "

Your question may be being answered at this moment OG: 12 ships heading from Odesa to Istanbul and there doesn't appear to be anything the ruzzians can do about it.
Basically, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN have decided to ignore them it would seem.

[ichkeria]

And guess what now they’ve backed down completely.
Stand up to Putin properly and he backs off. A lesson to NATO and to Biden