|
Antigravitas posted:So… I think, at least from what I've seen, is that Putin has been inside his echo chamber for so long, surrounded by his hand picked yes men, that he is basically projecting everything about himself at this point. Its no wonder he's an alt-right darling.
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 20:13 |
|
|
Antigravitas posted:So… yeah, they always have, its just they also believe their own insane poo poo. the right has gone loving insane in the last few decades, like even more then usual.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:50
|
|
|
Antigravitas posted:So… Just because this senile boomer wears suits that fit doesn't mean he is any brighter than Trump
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:51
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/StuartKLau/status/1506989193850933250 On that note: https://twitter.com/dikaioslin/status/1507227307886272517
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:56
|
|
|
cinci zoo sniper posted:Maybe it's an inept attempt to bond with Poland over burning Harry Potter books. Maybe I'm out of the loop but what's wrong with Harry Potter *from their perspective*? Wasn't it written by a known transphobe or whatever? Why would they take offense to it, wizards and poo poo?
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:57
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1507331935319826437?s=20&t=BNhV4RyWicHS5Usuxb4o5g purely out of curiosity, are there any movies focusing on the western front made by the russian film industry? i know some of the russian ww2 films get pretty loving bonkers and i'd like to see something just utterly gonzo like this that isn't some low budget indie thing or a weird vanity project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyxhuzPgJI
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:57
|
|
|
mistake... lease delete
Luitpold fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:57
|
|
|
cinci zoo sniper posted:Maybe it's an inept attempt to bond with Poland over burning Harry Potter books. Hey, that dude also burned "Twilight". For more context about 3 years ago some priest has put a call to his parish to bring all the things from their homes that give out bad influence, meaning other superstitions, new age crystals, horoscopes etc. So people grabbed some stuff, probably from their kids, and then they put it in a pile and burned them. There were also some Osho books, Hello Kitty umbrella, African style wooden mask, and a bunch of other random stuff.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:58
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:Obviously that sucks. But given its distance from LNR/DNR it was, of course, likely to be a focus of the Russian offensive. If nothing else, the week or two after Mariupol falls are going to be tense while we wait for the freed Russian formations to make their appearance elsewhere, and to see whether they’re capable of making much impact. The eastern front seems precarious enough as it is. I kind of wonder if the Ukrainian strategy is to, not necessarily destroy, but just logistically hobble the units around Kyiv to the point that corresponding Ukrainian forces can be redeployed to stabilize the east.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:58
|
|
|
Putin: And why would Voldemort make Harry Potter his horcrux and not just some random grain of sand??? It makes no sense!!!
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 14:59
|
|
|
no, sorry...
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:00
|
|
|
Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:purely out of curiosity, are there any movies focusing on the western front made by the russian film industry? i know some of the russian ww2 films get pretty loving bonkers and i'd like to see something just utterly gonzo like this that isn't some low budget indie thing or a weird vanity project Have some hardbass (not really an answer, just funny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObnDd9XkpiM
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:00
|
|
|
Snake Island guys free it seems? I wonder if we will see interviews with them retelling the story. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/snake-island-sailors-prisoner-exchange-b2043690.html
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:02
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1507333553448800309 This was the Harry Potter thing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:03
|
|
|
Quick question, is it possible whether via fire support missions, SSM, or ATGM attacks, whether the land bridge can be “closed?”
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:04
|
|
|
Doctor Spaceman posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1507333553448800309 This is especially funny given that JK Rowling is now effectively poison among progressives for her anti-trans views. I guess that's his point: she's getting cancelled like Russia? Marshal Prolapse posted:Quick question, is it possible whether via fire support missions, SSM, or ATGM attacks, whether the land bridge can be “closed?” Russia logistics, even in the South, is still pretty hosed. The offensive against Mauripol is being largely supplied by the sea, and the Landing Ship that blew up was being used to transport and disembark logistics. If Ukraine can get those under fire and cut Kherson as a logistical crossorads, it could significantly cut the ability of Russia to even consider an offensive against Odessa and hurt their ability to break out, especially if Ukraine can make good in Kherson and threaten to cut off Russian forces moving north from logistics in the South or the East. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:04
|
|
|
Gros Tarla posted:Maybe I'm out of the loop but what's wrong with Harry Potter *from their perspective*? Wasn't it written by a known transphobe or whatever? Why would they take offense to it, wizards and poo poo? Witchcraft is Satanic and they are Christofascists. e: To be clear I mean the ruling party not all of Poland
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:07
|
|
|
Marshal Prolapse posted:Quick question, is it possible whether via fire support missions, SSM, or ATGM attacks, whether the land bridge can be “closed?” Ukraine doesn't need to physically occupy space, it just needs to make it impossible to move supply convoys through the region. That seems to be their main tactic in the "counteroffensives." Rather than physically drive the Russians out, get them to abandon their positions due to lack of fuel/ammo/food.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:10
|
|
|
with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Snake Island guys free it seems? I wonder if we will see interviews with them retelling the story. That’s not the the Snake Island guys, those are other people there.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:12
|
|
|
TulliusCicero posted:1. Caleb Maupin is actual Russian state Affiliated Media I don't believe it, I'm asking for rundowns on stuff like this because there's a million insane conspiracies that blossom out of the seed of something that's usually pretty innocuous or less sexy than people would like to believe, so I'm trying to get some idea of the truth behind this stuff.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:16
|
|
|
Gros Tarla posted:Maybe I'm out of the loop but what's wrong with Harry Potter *from their perspective*? Wasn't it written by a known transphobe or whatever? Why would they take offense to it, wizards and poo poo? Dumbledore is gay and the racist eugenicists/supremisists are the bad guys.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:17
|
|
|
with a rebel yell she QQd posted:Snake Island guys free it seems? I wonder if we will see interviews with them retelling the story. I thought this was the case earlier then found out otherwise while I was away from the forums, but remained confident this would have already been addressed "We would never cancel anyone in this country? How could you imagine that happening here"
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:18
|
|
|
Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:purely out of curiosity, are there any movies focusing on the western front made by the russian film industry? i know some of the russian ww2 films get pretty loving bonkers and i'd like to see something just utterly gonzo like this that isn't some low budget indie thing or a weird vanity project Why would they spend a big movie budget on silly skirmishes irrelevant to the outcome of The Great Patriotic War, when the self-centered Hollywood does not even make movies about the glorious battle of the USSR against Imperialist Japan? More seriously, the US is seen as a vulture swooping in and grabbing western and southern Europe after the Soviets had sacrificed everything to defeat the Nazis, and with the only help being useless American Sherman tanks and a few jeeps. The impact of lend-lease and US/UK battles in the European theatre are just not recognized as impactful to the final outcome. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dday-anniversary-russia-idUSKCN1T620J
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:20
|
|
|
Doctor Spaceman posted:https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1507333553448800309 I decided on a whim to check out JK Rowling's Twitter feed (as of the moment, she hasn't tweeted at all about Putin's comments.) But I do wonder how someone like her (who is very much a Centrist who believes they are the hero in their own story) will take on board someone like Putin comparing themselves to her.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:21
|
|
|
The Question IRL posted:I decided on a whim to check out JK Rowling's Twitter feed (as of the moment, she hasn't tweeted at all about Putin's comments.) She will either ignore it or condemn Putin, what else do you expect?
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:22
|
|
|
Honj Steak posted:She will either ignore it or condemn Putin, what else do you expect? She is super dumb and conceited so I could see her trying to thread the needle about why her transphobia is in support of Ukraine or whatever
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:24
|
|
|
I think she already expressed her support for Ukraine. They might agree on the trans issues but I doubt they'd get along otherwise.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:25
|
|
|
Deteriorata posted:Ukraine doesn't need to physically occupy space, it just needs to make it impossible to move supply convoys through the region. That seems to be their main tactic in the "counteroffensives." Rather than physically drive the Russians out, get them to abandon their positions due to lack of fuel/ammo/food. This guy has some good maps that talk about this: https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1507211542986735617 Particularly interesting is the area east of Kyiv: https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1507212331926925312 It might be that the Russians are trying to reinforce the Sumy area with troops taken from the Kharkiv area: https://twitter.com/JominiW/status/1507212660621946883 There are more interesting maps in that thread. Impossible to tell how accurate any of it is, of course, and it's largely based on Ukrainian sources so there are large and obvious caveats. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:25
|
|
|
PederP posted:Why would they spend a big movie budget on silly skirmishes irrelevant to the outcome of The Great Patriotic War, when the self-centered Hollywood does not even make movies about the glorious battle of the USSR against Imperialist Japan? Taking this more seriously than it was intended, you could probably make a pretty rad series about some soldiers who were at Khalkhin Gol, got sent to defend Moscow, then got sent back East for August Storm, showcasing how the Soviet military went from a shambles to a terrifying war machine over the course of six years, if such soldiers actually exist. You could follow Zhukov, except that he wasn't there for August Storm, and you can't follow the other two Khalkhin Gol generals since they were both executed in purges. Gort fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Mar 25, 2022 |
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:27
|
|
|
gay picnic defence posted:Yeah it’s Russia’s logistics that have holding them back more than anything else. Unless they magically unfuck that I don’t see how they’ll suddenly be able to drive through the heart of the country. Given the troops besieging Mariupol are mostly being supplied by sea I’m not sure that the city being taken frees up much logistical capacity for elsewhere. Logistics, and a shitload of other problems. They have no real air support because of the danger of AA, something that a lot of modern armies don't need to worry about when they're just bombing much smaller nations. Most of their helicopters and planes just stomp on the accelerator and pump-and-dump their ammunition on cities. Their weird Afghanistan-era (1980s) battalion system is heavy on firepower, but low on infantry power. If they can get within artillery distance of a city, they can shell it, but their system is designed to avoid prolonged urban combat (and any prolonged combat, really) as much as possible.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:28
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:This is especially funny given that JK Rowling is now effectively poison among progressives for her anti-trans views. I guess that's his point: she's getting cancelled like Russia? Putin and I have very different views on being canceled. Putin has ‘canceled’ most of Russia’s hard and soft power himself. In fact, I would put it more like Putin has decided to commit a long murder suicide. He truly seems to have decided “I will walk the path of Hitler,” and somehow has deluded himself that “this time it will be different.”
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:31
|
|
|
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAsf6dsq3rQVice News dispatch from Kharkiv.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:33
|
|
|
Charlotte Hornets posted:
What's in it?
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:34
|
|
|
Gort posted:Taking this more seriously than it was intended, you could probably make a pretty rad series about some soldiers who were at Khalkhin Gol, got sent to defend Moscow, then got sent back East for August Storm, showcasing how the Soviet military went from a shambles to a terrifying war machine over the course of six years, if such soldiers actually exist. You'd have quite the cast turnout considering staggering casualty numbers those soldiers would see from late 1941 desperate counterattacks, Rzhev bloodbath, and then subsequent operations. But considering the scale I guess someone could find an unit that went through that kind of journey and not needed to be reformed 2 times due to being completely obliterated especially if instead of a group of people you track one. Just have the main hero dude get wounded every couple months for a couple slow episodes, maybe some officer school stuff. Maybe short "behind enemy lines with partisans" too.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:36
|
|
|
khwarezm posted:I don't believe it, I'm asking for rundowns on stuff like this because there's a million insane conspiracies that blossom out of the seed of something that's usually pretty innocuous or less sexy than people would like to believe, so I'm trying to get some idea of the truth behind this stuff. the pentagon has a program which provides supplemental funding to biological labs to do things like testing for the presence of old soviet bioweapons which may be kicking around former soviet russia. its like keeping an eye out for conventional weapons getting sold out of vans or guys breaking into scrapped medical scanners and carrying dangerous isotopes around. if for some reason some anthrax starts popping up somewhere you'd really rather know sooner and not later https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/...-IN-UKRAINE.PDF these labs are ukrainian, they just get some extra funding from america to make sure they have the capability of identifying the effects of old biological weapons. of course, whether or not you believe the pentagon about this program which has been public knowledge for two decades depends on how much your mind can break free of the cycle of perpetual brainwashing that we are all subject to as part of the closed media ecosystem of the western imperialist powers. for example, did you know that amerikkka helps fund the so called 'containment' facility at chernobyl? what are they really researching there, i wonder? it is the perfect place to develop new weapons, and you won't hear a peep about this from the mainstream media
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:38
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/IrisovaOlga/status/1507252961122078756?s=20&t=jDqWnlyVNq5j9J8-b0fPag Of course they have. We cannot have a cadre of academics teaching students to think critically about the organization of society or the power structures imbedded in society. In case anyone is wondering, this is a step that the Soviet Union refused to take. In fact, there were a lot of very good Soviet sociologists. Edit Fixed the link.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:39
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1507360792500449300 i can possibly believe it maybe. take Mariupol and then declare victory. i just don't think putin will fully go for it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:40
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/ArielliNir/status/1507312742339862559
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:40
|
|
|
Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1507360792500449300 Yeah, again, Ukraine is gonna go "Oh that's nice, you've stopped fighting. We haven't" https://twitter.com/marcbennetts1/status/1507317719091318786?s=20&t=BNhV4RyWicHS5Usuxb4o5g
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 20:13 |
|
|
Antigravitas posted:So… Do they? Like I can easily believe putin believes it and I can easily believe he really doesn't give a drat and he just thinks it's good propaganda. Or you know a bit of a mix of the two. With the amount of random bullshit the russian government is putting out at the moment honestly it pretty much seems pretty much a fools errand to look any deeper then the broadest of strokes and what they're actually doing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 25, 2022 15:42
|
|
