Thanks Scrumps.   It is so unlike me to get less than a 6.  


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They didn't take Ukraine seriously is the basic answer. Ukraine had been preparing since the 2014 Little Green Men - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrainian_war)

Corruption in Russia is rife. It starts with the kleptocracy right at the top and filters down everywhere including the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Kleptocracy - a bit about a book on that.

Maintenance gets logged as being done but isn't and the money pocketed. Bullet proof vests turn out to be stuffed with cardboard, explosive armour on tanks is only egg cartons. All the equipment is shite and their troops get just a few days training. The only purpose of most soldiers is to exhaust Ukrainian ammo by advancing towards Ukranian positions and getting shelled or shot. Putin though Ukraine would run out of shells and bullets before he ran out of cannon fodder. Seems he was wrong. Currently more are being killed or seriously wounded than he can replace each day and the Russian economy is bankrupt.

Oh - when we were kids it was the USSR which was a whole different bunch and more powerful than current Russia. They went bust and collapsed economically. Remember the Berlin Wall? Russia inherited the ruins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

Sunshine ... I must water my garden.. bone dry..

They had to get Maureen out of the cellar
The pubs being closed-but didn't tell her
She was doing a roaring trade
Cash in hand- everyone paid

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Russia and Ukraine..!!

It's always puzzled me why it was never a 'walk over' for Putin..
 Russia has always been seen as a country not to meddle with..
Even as kids we (feared) her.. 

Wordle 1,766 6/6

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April 20, 2026, 09:42:40 AM

Quote from: Mups on April 19, 2026, 08:55:10 PM     BEAT THIS THEN !!!!!!     

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WELL DONE MUPS... 

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I've never scored a 1 in Wordle. I have had my regular first word appear in both Quordal and Octordal though. I've had a two a small number of times but don't recall if that was my regular second word or if my first was close enough to allow a guess.