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https://twitter.com/EUvsDisinfo/status/1545084899144744961 https://twitter.com/EUvsDisinfo/status/1544946246477045761 facts vs disinfo folks No sign of operational pause, just operational ineffectiveness https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1545185444807053313 FishBulbia fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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"Kommersant warns that this will make Russia far more dependent on Poland." lmao https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1545035997473300480
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Alaska is actually a trailer https://twitter.com/ABarbashin/status/1545085506169495553
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Jul 8, 2022 06:26
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Becoming more dependent on a country who hates the poo poo out of them moreso than any baltic state in order to own the libs. Go for it, Putin.
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Jul 8, 2022 06:28
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I am all for Russia making themselves more dependent on the one state in Europe that hates them as much as Ukraine.
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Here's to hoping Poland now cuts off access to Kaliningrad! (probably wont happen though)
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Ah, I wonder how Mr. Putin would have treated, say, an Russian-surrounded EU exclave out near the Sea of Okhotst? Of course such a thing is an impossibility. They would have invaded it long ago. e: no wait. A Polish exclave. That would be better.
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The price of gas has been dumping the last couple of days. It's purely speculation on my part, but this is probably going to make paying for the war much harder, especially with all of the economic friction that the sanctions caused. I personally thought that gas would be expensive at least until the fall. I wonder how long Russia can live off of that fabled supply of gold and foreign currency they have. This is not financial advice
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How would this even work, in practice? It's not like goods in transit through a Baltic state signpost they've been moved through them specifically, right? They're just marked as having been in transit through the Union's customs territory? So functionally I don't see how Russia can enforce such a transit ban, unless cargo documents specifically state that the goods were moved through a Baltic port or something?
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Chill Monster posted:The price of gas has been dumping the last couple of days. It's purely speculation on my part, but this is probably going to make paying for the war much harder, especially with all of the economic friction that the sanctions caused. I personally thought that gas would be expensive at least until the fall. I actually suspect this is going to hit Russia even more, because the cheaper India/China can get gas from the west (as they're not sanctioned), the more leverage they have on Russia to lower prices even further.
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notwithoutmyanus posted:I actually suspect this is going to hit Russia even more, because the cheaper India/China can get gas from the west (as they're not sanctioned), the more leverage they have on Russia to lower prices even further. They already are getting oil at about 33% off, it will eat into profit margins, but I imagine break even point for the Russian oilfields will be around 30$ per barrel.
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Ikasuhito posted:Yeah, that's been a pretty consistent reaction by volunteers up to this point. It's really hard to predict how one would react to being bombed. In some combat exercises we had little bomblets around the training area that the instructors would detonate at different points, and the sound and feel of even a fairly small explosion is quite intense. And that when you know that no one is trying to kill you. I don't know how I would respond to a 500 kg bomb exploding somewhere nearby, knowing that more may follow, but I doubt that I would just calmly shake dust off my clothes and carry on.
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Deltasquid posted:How would this even work, in practice? It's not like goods in transit through a Baltic state signpost they've been moved through them specifically, right? They're just marked as having been in transit through the Union's customs territory? So functionally I don't see how Russia can enforce such a transit ban, unless cargo documents specifically state that the goods were moved through a Baltic port or something? Maybe by putting restrictions to border stations so that trucks will have to go through Belarus? I dunno, it's such an obvious own goal to add to transport costs at this point when imported goods are becoming more and more expensive for Russians already.
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the popes toes posted:One might call it a pause but the past 24 hr view from NASA FIRMS might call it a conflagration. You know a war is bad stuff when you can clearly determine the front from space. Oh god that gas platform still is on fire, peep that dot in the sea bottom left
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I used to work with a Bulgarian guy who said the fires from the Yugoslav wars caused horrific acid rain where he was from, if that's true I gotta imagine this will be way worse
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Nenonen posted:It's really hard to predict how one would react to being bombed. In some combat exercises we had little bomblets around the training area that the instructors would detonate at different points, and the sound and feel of even a fairly small explosion is quite intense. And that when you know that no one is trying to kill you. I don't know how I would respond to a 500 kg bomb exploding somewhere nearby, knowing that more may follow, but I doubt that I would just calmly shake dust off my clothes and carry on. I was going through some old videos from Syria recently and there were a number that were from people very close to the business end of artillery/rocket artillery strikes. They're horrifying and give some idea why anyone able to leave is leaving. content warning: extremely close range artillery and MLRS barrages on civilians in populated areas. Nothing graphic is visible. If you're sensitive to sounds of war, probably don't click: lots of sounds of incoming artillery and MLRS barrages, also some gunfire in the background  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf1Cw1ZaA30https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uC3-fvdZyQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlaG7y4S1Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbVEBVzqk4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYoQRW8uJAAlso makes me appreciate living somewhere where you don't get shelled simply for having the audacity to protest a dictator
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1545145656930705415 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/07/07/new-laws-in-russia-people-can-be-imprisoned-for-almost-anything/?sh=45033fa62209 Article goes over various new laws/proposed laws that makes Russia more totalitarian. quote:Limiting Freedom For Businesses: “[A] draft law on supplying the armed forces of Russia during operations outside the country was adopted,” reports The Insider, an independent online Russian newspaper headquartered in Latvia. “The government will be able to ‘reactivate mobilization capacities and facilities’ and establish ‘conditions of overtime work for individual organizations and enterprises’ during night, on weekends and holidays. If such measures are taken, legal entities ‘regardless of their organizational and legal forms of ownership’ will not be able to back out of agreements and contracts on delivery of goods and rendering of services for the army. In such cases, the Defense Ministry will be able to change the terms of a contract even after it has been signed.” quote:Prison Time For Transmitting “State Secrets” Or Displaying A Facebook Logo: Given the Russian government is the sole authority to determine what is “extremist,” new criminal penalties put individuals and businesses at significant risk. “Now the ‘repeated propaganda or public demonstration of symbols of Nazism and extremist organizations’ will be punished under a criminal article; a violator could face up to four years in prison,” according to The Insider report. “Notably, the company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, as well as the ‘Smart Voting’ symbols are also considered extremist in Russia.” quote:Under a new law, individuals can be imprisoned for up to 20 years if they “defect to the side of the enemy during an armed conflict or hostilities.” Human rights advocate Ivan Pavlov told The Insider, “Political officers will be explaining individually and collectively and will say: 'Now you cannot surrender and will fight to the last man, and those who are taken prisoner will, as before, be welcomed at home with a criminal case.”
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aphid_licker posted:Oh god that gas platform still is on fire, peep that dot in the sea bottom left It takes some effort to put out an oil/gas well fire. I would not want to be the well control/fire firefighters sent to do that in an active war zone. What is with all the red dots east of the Kerch straight?
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Nenonen posted:Maybe by putting restrictions to border stations so that trucks will have to go through Belarus? I dunno, it's such an obvious own goal to add to transport costs at this point when imported goods are becoming more and more expensive for Russians already. Also on reflection it's an extremely petty "no, you!" move because: 1) doing this doesn't blockade the Baltic states, and 2) I imagine the "transit of foreign goods to Russia" economy in the Baltics is very small to begin with: probably a few transport companies that do not necessarily employ Baltic nationals and could reroute their transport via Poland
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Chill Monster posted:The price of gas has been dumping the last couple of days. It's purely speculation on my part, but this is probably going to make paying for the war much harder, especially with all of the economic friction that the sanctions caused. I personally thought that gas would be expensive at least until the fall. Unfortunately we’ve paid them enough for fuels this year that their current problem is spending that legally, not scrounging drawers for cash. It didn’t compensate for, e.g., sanctions hit on their foreign reserves, but that’s hardly a great compromise, when writing was on the wall since 2014 for Germany and everyone else. Deltasquid posted:How would this even work, in practice? It's not like goods in transit through a Baltic state signpost they've been moved through them specifically, right? They're just marked as having been in transit through the Union's customs territory? So functionally I don't see how Russia can enforce such a transit ban, unless cargo documents specifically state that the goods were moved through a Baltic port or something? I assume they would simply close the land border with Baltics. Dick Ripple posted:What is with all the red dots east of the Kerch straight? Maybe they’re smoking the bridge for their drills again? Deltasquid posted:Also on reflection it's an extremely petty "no, you!" move because: Our transit sector was ~7% of our GDP (2020), but I’m not sure what of it is remaining, and what proportion of it fell onto account of forwarding imports to Russia. Edit: https://twitter.com/kremlinpool_ria/status/1545340126645178368 Totally doesn’t search for his name on Twitter on the reg. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1545366266927407104 https://ukrainetoday.org/2022/07/08...ency-committee/
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A municipal official in Moscow has been sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony for calling “special military operation” a war. https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62090629
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Kchama posted:I'm pretty sure it's more that they're glory hounds and were just expecting, well, If the quoted dude is a glory hound why hasn’t he left like so many others?
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Atreiden posted:https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1545366266927407104 Like with previous withdrawal from the taxation CIS agreement, it's because it's obsolete, and there are parallel extra-CIS agreements in place. Russia has also withdrawn from a bunch of CIS agreements for the same reason.
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CIS cancelling from Wokekazastan, what next? Trans-Siberia becomes LGTBQIA+Siberia? I say this has gone too far! 
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Nenonen posted:CIS cancelling from Wokekazastan, what next? Trans-Siberia becomes LGTBQIA+Siberia? I say this has gone too far! https://twitter.com/WhimsicalVR/status/1545075413277450242?s=20&t=dciToJ83HBMsaIDOqprnxw
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Cable Guy posted:Lot of arms go missing in the Russian military....
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cinci zoo sniper posted:A municipal official in Moscow has been sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony for calling “special military operation” a war. But if he can clear mines, he doesn't actually have to do any time at all!
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Who holds the camera and walks in front of the penal minesweepers?
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https://twitter.com/maria_shagina/status/1545313754761641984 Edit: https://twitter.com/alanoszka/status/1545224241364312065 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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My wife worked the EMV machine at a card making factory and when I told her this she laughed and said "that just doesn't work, the chip gets unreadable"
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Oh, Germany... "Protecting hard industrial assets? Oh hell yeah please do that, whoever wins this annoying political....shootey shootey.... dust-up thing, someone from some country will still need to run the factories. Helping the people? lol gently caress you" Rigel fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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Lambrecht is a national laughing stock and famous for having no idea what she's talking about, nor any ambition to find out. e: not saying that she's the only problem with our weapons deliveries but having no idea what a Gepard does and trying to bullshit her way out would be very on brand for her
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It's just another case of Twitter users being incomprehensibly stupid. Yes, SPAAGs are for protecting objects from aerial assault. That's their role. They aren't slugging it out on the front line. That's why Ukraine wants them, because they are good at that job. The problem is that Twitter users don't know anything, so this dipshit gets irate because the role of a SPAAG - which is protecting objects - does not fit into the role they think they should fill - 720° noscoping targets on the front line. Lambrecht is completely correct on what the role of the Gepard is, by the way.
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Antigravitas posted:It's just another case of Twitter users being incomprehensibly stupid. Pretty sure the complaint is about Lambrecht leaving an impression that Germany is against Gepards participating in any combat at all, e.g., guarding forward operating bases.
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Well, good thing she didn't then. It's called Objektschutz. It schützes the Objekte.
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Antigravitas posted:Well, good thing she didn't then. It's called Objektschutz. It schützes the Objekte. The entire video is her speaking exclusively about infrastructure though, but admittedly my German is really bad. What are those Gerpards will be doing there, shooting at cruise missiles? Does that even work?
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Germany will provide Ukraine with vehicles. The vehicles will have a governor that only lets them go 3kM/Hr and will self destruct if within 700KM of the Russian border
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The entire video is her speaking exclusively about infrastructure though, but admittedly my German is really bad. What are those Gerpards will be doing there, shooting at cruise missiles? Does that even work? The "zum Beispiel" at the beginning is quite important. Like, Lambrecht is a moron, but she's absolutely correct that given the number of vehicles and the ammunition available, Ukraine isn't going to equip armoured brigades with Gepards. They'll use them where it makes the most sense, and that's securing infrastructure against cruise missiles and other aerial targets, which the platform absolutely can do. It's still mindboggling that the thing was phased out just as drone warfare was picking up. It's really good at tracking and engaging drones, despite its old tech.
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Antigravitas posted:Well, good thing she didn't then. It's called Objektschutz. Eet schützes ze Objekte. ftfy
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