It seems the Azeris have been instructed to open the second front in the Caucasus in the attempt to over-extend Russia by their paymasters.
Such scenes, and their publication, are a deliberate attempt to provoke.
This chain of events were initiated by the arrest of an Azeri criminal gang in Russia. The Russian authorities had been trying to take them down for twenty years, and all the gang members held Russian citizenship btw!
This escalation can only end in tears.
We saw EU flags back on the streets of Tbilisi the other day, and Pashinyan going after church leaders in Armenia.
The second front is now a thing!

There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 Peter 2

christian.org.uk/news/i-was-thick-welby-regrets-trusting-bible-on-sexual-ethics

Good job we got more admirals then ships eh?
The navy still has standards? Wow! I'm impressed
https://news.sky.com/story/former-head-of-royal-navy-sacked-13391552

Today, 2050 became nearer than 2000.

2025 Man dreamily laments the receding-away of the last millennium

Few things are as absurd as being the only customer in a breakfast café in the Kölner Südstadt with a goateed autochthonous thirtysomething behind the bar, and being treated to the amplified rhythmic declaration:

“I is a nigger, I is a pimp …”

The krar is Ethiopia's profane lyre, never used for praising God (that's done with the begena).

The Derg régime banned it—Marxists though they were (or perhaps because they were), they didn't want ladies being serenaded with such abandon.

youtube.com/watch?v=JKVK1q2GXLA

Got a Dutch spam call tantalising me with having been selected for some good thing:

Je bent aangenomen en ik nodig je graag uit …

Apple helpfully transcribed this voicemail for me as:

“You've been asking Norman and ignoring if he felt left out …”

I have a genuine Q: where is the money going? I was in the RAF through the 80s and 90s; at under 2% of GDP the UK armed forces were well up to strength, and really well equipped. As far as I can see now the manning is less than a shadow of before, and it is largely a drone force. My best pal is ex east-German army and his contacts tell him that effectively Germany has a Dad's Army level of manning and firepower. So where are they going to spend 5% of GDP? I seem to recall that such questions occupied Parliament and the front pages almost constantly.

— And that becomes today’s limerick contest:

The Riddle of the Five Percent

But since Tyro was asking a serious and informed question, I’ll have a stab at answering it in that vein this evening.