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kEiThZ said:
I have doubts that PAC-3 is on offer. Most likely PAC-2.
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The West has taken this war as an opportunity to use up older and soon to expire weapon systems. It’s a great way to justify getting new kit. Ex-General Hillier was saying this very thing, that Canada should send most of our MBTs and LAVs to Ukraine so we could order new stuff for the CAF. Likely not new MBTs, mind.

If the US has any Patriots that are close to their use by date, some will be in Ukraine soon. The latest PAC-3 won’t be.
 
Ukraine’s minister of defence.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

Russia's defeat is the top global priority for 2023

Ensuring that the Russian invasion of Ukraine ends in defeat is vital for the international security system and must be the strategic priority for 2023, writes Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.
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lenaitch said:
"I got a Russian advent calendar for Christmas.
When you open a window, an oligarch falls out."
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The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.

From link.

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day 'tropical' or 'solar' year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun.
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There were two reasons to establish the Gregorian calendar. First, the Julian calendar assumed incorrectly that the average solar year is exactly 365.25 days long, an overestimate of a little under one day per century, and thus has a leap year every four years without exception. The Gregorian reform shortened the average (calendar) year by 0.0075 days to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes. Second, in the years since the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, the excess leap days introduced by the Julian algorithm had caused the calendar to drift such that the (Northern) spring equinox was occurring well before its nominal 21 March date. This date was important to the Christian churches because it is fundamental to the calculation of the date of Easter. To reinstate the association, the reform advanced the date by 10 days: Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582. In addition, the reform also altered the lunar cycle used by the Church to calculate the date for Easter, because astronomical new moons were occurring four days before the calculated dates. It is notable that whilst the reform introduced minor changes, the calendar continued to be fundamentally based on the same geocentric theory as its predecessor.

The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe and their overseas possessions. Over the next three centuries, the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox countries also moved to what they called the Improved calendar, with Greece being the last European country to adopt the calendar (for civil use only) in 1923. To unambiguously specify a date during the transition period (in contemporary documents or in history texts), both notations were given, tagged as 'Old Style' or 'New Style' as appropriate. During the 20th century, most non-Western countries also adopted the calendar, at least for civil purposes.
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W. K. Lis said:
The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.

From link.
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I'm aware. I had an Eastern Orthodox colleague (Ukrainian as it turns out; Russia claims a lot of things).

It was a funny. Go with it.
 
lenaitch said:
I'm aware. I had an Eastern Orthodox colleague (Ukrainian as it turns out; Russia claims a lot of things).

It was a funny. Go with it.
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Darn. January 7th is a Saturday this year, 2023. Wonder if I can get the 6th or 9th off as a floating "religious holiday"?
 
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