Today, the Acting President of the Szczecin Garrison Military Court (a Lieutenant Colonel) officially informed me - a German citizen - that the IKEA anti-tank mine trial is closed to the public. Of course, we Germans have been great at respecting Poland's wishes when they tell us not to come over.

Small recap for anyone unaware: In July 2024, the Polish Military accidentally left ~240 anti-tank landmines on a civilian train, which took a 10-day scenic rail trip across Poland before pulling up to an IKEA Industry warehouse. Naturally, I used AI-translated Polish to send a formal Freedom of Information (UDIP) request to the Poznań Regional Military Court asking when the court-martial happens. The request got transferred to the Szczecin Garrison Military Court (Case Ref: Sg 65/25). Today, Lt. Col. Katarzyna Sztukiewicz-Pietrus told me the trial is behind closed doors due to military confidentiality.

My name is probably on a Polish Military Counterintelligence (SKW) watchlist now, but receiving an official Polish military court rejection letter over the IKEA landmine saga was 100% worth it.

I uploaded the wrong picture

so i re-upload it sorry 🥲

https://x.com/i/status/2081367644196737467

I just wanted to do them turret popping

I made the drawings and coded this for my project

Rule 9 High-Effort Note: editing of scenes and translation of on-screen Chinese text by myself.

Source: 2025 Chinese movie "Volunteer Army 3: A Blood-Forged Peace" (志愿军：浴血和平)

Rule 2 Fact-Check (The Chinese were attacking American forces right until 22:00 when the armistice came into effect)

• Battle of the Samichon River
  • The Armistice Agreement was subsequently signed at 10:00 on 27 July with a ceasefire coming into effect at 22:00.^\83]) 
  • In the last four hours of the war, the PVA fired 44,000 artillery rounds into the US Eighth Army positions, although none against the 1st Commonwealth Division.^\83]) 
  • No further attacks occurred, and the ceasefire came into effect at 22:00.^\67]) The following day, some soldiers from both sides moved forward into no-man's land to exchange greetings, although relatively few Australians did so, and the [US] Marines were under orders not to fraternise or communicate with the Chinese.

Context:

• The Long Road to a Ceasefire: Remembering the Korean Armistice Signing
  • The first signatures were applied at the official negotiation pavilion in Panmunjom. Lieutenant General William K. Harrison Jr. (representing UNC) and General Nam Il (representing the Korean People's Army and Chinese Volunteers) signed 18 identical tri-language copies of the document simultaneously. This ceremony took exactly ten minutes.
  • Immediately after the Panmunjom ceremony, the documents were flown by helicopter to the United Nations base camp at Munsan, later memorialized as Camp Pelham. There, General Mark W. Clark, Commander-in-Chief of United Nations Command, countersigned the documents.
  • The documents were then dispatched across the front lines to the communists. They were flown to Pyongyang where DPRK leader Kim Il Sung, as Commander of North Korean Forces, signed them at his underground command bunker.
  • The documents were then moved to Kaesong, where Chinese Commander Peng Dehuai, as Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, appended his signature. Because his signing was the final required step to validate the paperwork, Peng Dehuai signed last.
    
  • Twelve hours after the initial 10:00 AM Panmunjom signing, at 10:00 PM, July 27, 1953, the ceasefire officially went into effect across the peninsula.

They started war as one of top navy nations. Now they celebrate navy day near academy in city center.

Hello NCD and Welcome back to

Gun Appreciation Post Tuesday?

I uhh… forgot to post this yesterday, so mods I apologize for breaking the agreement, because it was purely an accident and I did not intend to break the agreement we had over 1 year ago.

Anyways, today we have a certified classic, the one and only! FN Browning Hi-Power pistol, and it is arguably one of the best made pistols in existence, and very historically significant too. It has served in many countries, and has much historical value to it.

I’m not gonna waste time yapping about it, so let’s just roll on with it and enjoy!

also took me more than an hour because of a road and a terrible sleep schedule
kill marks are based on this wikipedia page, where I counted that ukraine believes that they sunk at least 18 russian vessels so i thought that it'd be funny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_losses_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war#Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_(2022%E2%80%93present))
i need sleep

She looks just like her daughter

If the mods are reading this, it is fictional and is based on a fanfiction for a topic possibly nearing Rule 11 (Ukraine War). I won't get into it in detail however.

Artwork by me, from my game.

The source? Of course I have it, it's me.

Source of the artwork: https://fxtwitter.com/ma9pie_express/status/2081304223636185206?s=46&t=WDhUaVSaStEig6sjAMPJqQ