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Is it me or anyone else proud of our nation time and again.

@DoctorLemma It's great that you bring these stories to us. Incredible.

If you thought the story of Leonard Casley, the Australian wheat farmer who declared his farm an independent country (the one I posted earlier), was bizarre, you haven’t heard of the Soviet pilot who stole his country’s most secretive fighter jet and flew it straight to the enemy. His name was Viktor Belenko. He was a 29-year-old lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force, stationed at a remote air base near Vladivostok in the far east of the Soviet Union. He had become disillusioned with communism, his marriage was failing, and he had been quietly planning his escape for months. The plane he flew was the MiG-25 Foxbat. At the time, the West knew almost nothing about it except that it could fly faster than any other fighter on earth. The United States had spent years and billions of dollars designing the F-15 fighter purely to counter it. American military intelligence considered the Foxbat the single biggest mystery in Soviet military aviation. On the 6th of September 1976, Belenko took off on what was supposed to be a routine training flight. Twenty minutes in, he broke away from his formation, dropped his altitude to evade Soviet radar, and flew east toward the ocean. He didn’t stop. He flew over 400 miles into Japanese airspace and landed at a small civilian airport on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The runway was too short for a MiG-25. He overshot it by about 240 metres, hit some equipment, and skidded to a stop just before a fence. He climbed out, fired two warning shots from his pistol into the air to keep curious bystanders away from the plane, and asked for political asylum in the United States. He had brought the pilot’s manual with him. The next six weeks were the largest intelligence operation of the Cold War. The Americans dismantled the plane bolt by bolt and discovered the West had been wrong about almost everything. The Foxbat was fast, but heavy and poorly armed. It couldn’t manoeuvre. The F-15, designed in panic to counter it, was vastly better. Years of Western military planning had been built around a phantom. The Soviets demanded their plane back. The Japanese said yes, eventually. They returned it disassembled in 30 wooden crates and sent it home on a cargo ship. Japan sent the Soviet Union a bill for 40,000 US dollars for storage and the damage Belenko had done to the airport. The Soviets sent Japan a bill for 10 million US dollars for the damage the Americans had done to the plane. Neither bill was ever paid. Viktor Belenko was given asylum, American citizenship, and a quiet life. He changed his last name to Schmidt and worked for years as a consultant for the US military. He passed away in 2023 at a nursing home in the American state of Illinois, aged 76. The Soviet Union had spread rumours throughout his life that he had been killed, returned home, or executed. None of it was true. He had simply lived. A book about his defection, called MiG Pilot, was published in 1980 with his cooperation.

@gat_ex_machina @DoctorLemma That's great insight.

Bonus: After Belenko's defection the Soviet airforce greatly limited the amount of fuel pilots received for their missions in order to avoid further cases like his. In 1983, when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 passenger plane entered Soviet airspace by mistake, this proved fatal: The dwindling fuel reserves of the fighter plane sent to investigate the unidentified intruder meant that the Soviets had to decide in a hurry whether to shoot it down or not. They decide to fire at the jet, causing it to crash and killing all 269 people aboard.

@GuGi263 My theory is the puppies want milk and their teeth at this stage are very sharp and when they suck the nipples of the mama dog, it leaves the scar and it's painful. The puppies are ganging up to drink the milk & the pain multiplies so mama dog is scolding to stop it. Thats it.

How an experienced dog mother teaches her 8 weeks old puppies to be calm.

“One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces." ~William Shakespeare

Cutest passenger

Bro just petting his dog 😭 absolutely no urgency

Salvó a 30 niños de una serpiente venenosa… y murió. Chester era un perro callejero, de esos que aparecen en cualquier aula sin que nadie sepa exactamente de dónde vienen. Entraba, salía, se quedaba un rato… y ya era parte del lugar. Los niños lo conocían, lo dejaban estar, y él simplemente acompañaba. Ese día, todo parecía normal. Los alumnos estaban en clase cuando, de pronto, Chester se levantó inquieto. Miraba hacia la puerta, tenso, como si hubiera notado algo que nadie más podía ver. Sin pensarlo, salió y comenzó a ladrar con fuerza. Los niños, confundidos, se acercaron a la puerta para ver qué pasaba. Ahí estaba. Una serpiente venenosa, justo afuera, en posición de ataque. Antes de que alguien pudiera reaccionar, Chester se interpuso. Se colocó en el marco de la puerta, bloqueando el paso. La serpiente avanzó… y él no retrocedió. El enfrentamiento fue directo. Chester ladraba, se lanzaba, mordía… intentando mantenerla lejos. Pero la serpiente también atacaba. Logró morderlo una vez… y luego otra. Aun así, el perro no se apartó. Siguió enfrentándola, resistiendo, evitando que cruzara hacia donde estaban los niños. Finalmente, logró detenerla. Pero el veneno ya había hecho efecto. Chester comenzó a debilitarse hasta que, poco después, murió. La historia se difundió rápidamente. Lo que había hecho no pasó desapercibido. En el pueblo decidieron rendirle un homenaje: lo llevaron por las calles, rodeado de personas que lo reconocían no como un perro más… sino como quien decidió quedarse cuando todos estaban en peligro. Un guardián inesperado. Un héroe silencioso. Nota: Este contenido se presenta con fines narrativos e informativos. Algunos detalles pueden variar según las fuentes disponibles. La interpretación queda a criterio del espectador. Además, ciertas imágenes o representaciones pueden haber sido recreadas o generadas con inteligencia artificial.

They both fell in love ❤️

This is Fred. He's got Kennel Cough, so he's feeling a little down. Get well soon Fred!

This is Diesel 💔 A life of pain written all over his body… A rope wound cutting deep into his neck, a damaged tail, severe dehydration, ticks and fleas covering him… and even an additional opening from an old untreated wound. This is what the streets do. This is what survival looks like. No care. No treatment. No mercy. He kept walking, kept suffering, kept surviving… until he reached us. Now Diesel is safe, but his healing has just begun. His treatment will be long, intensive, and very costly. If anyone can sponsor his treatment, you can truly save his life. Street life is not life… it is slow suffering. And there are so many like him still out there, waiting for help that may never come. Please stand with Diesel. Help us give him the care he desperately needs and help us save others like him. Even £5 and a share can make a miracle happen. 💳 PayPal: paypal.me/TAWFUK ❤️ Construction GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/tawf-sanctua… 🔗 Linktree: linktr.ee/tahiraanimalwe…

#Thread Expose : As Pakistan’s Information Minister @TararAttaullah and the @ForeignOfficePk claim Pakistan has “nothing to do” with terror activities in India. We are going to expose how, inside Pakistan’s terror ecosystem, terrorists are not just protected, they are rewarded, promoted and institutionalised. A key example is @MuftiAbidShb now the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Jamia-ud-Dawa seminary in Muridke, which has been under the control of the Government of Pakistan since 2019. (1/n)

A man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly trying to drown a dog in the ocean near Miami Beach, arrest documents said. Yerko Ivan Mendoza-Patino, 37, is currently facing several charges, including animal cruelty with the intent to injure or kill, providing false identification to law enforcement, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, WFOR reported. According to the arrest documents, Miami Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards notified Miami Beach Police and Fire Rescue around 3:25 p.m. of a man seen drowning a dog in the area of the 300 block of the beach. Once officers arrived, they saw the man - later identified as Mendoza-Patino - dragging a white pit bull into the ocean, putting the dog's head underwater "several times" as he walked deeper into the water. Credit: ABC News.

Animal fHarmers are animal abusers👺When you eat animals or their products you are an animal abuser too #LiveVegan stop your abuse 🙏

This is unconditional love ❤️

Immobilised, forced to inhale toxic substances and seen as nothing but a number. Governments must set a clear, time-bound plan to end all experiments on animals. Photo from the recent @AnimalAid exposé. #WDAIL

A stray mother dog trusts a woman with her babies and they all find a loving home 🐶💞

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Anyone who can harm a helpless dog is a danger to society. This cruelty is sickening. Hope the innocent pup is rescued, safe, and finds a loving forever home. Justice must follow. 🐾💔 #BeKind

We lit up SeaWorld’s 5K route so everyone saw what’s really inside those gates. The orcas and other dolphins trapped in misery in tiny tanks want to run away!

I'll be there with you every step of the way..❤️ Dog helps a baby friend learn to walk..🐶🐾👶😊