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Business Insider is reporting that Musk spoke with Putin before posting those polls. However. Musk denies he spoke directly with Putin. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spoke-vladimir-putin-before-ukraine-peace-plan-report-2022-10 quote:Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin before pitching his Ukraine peace plan on Twitter that repeated Kremlin talking points, political scientist says
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2022 21:36 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:57 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:I am assuming the mean "met with" in an indirect sense. I dint think Putin is expecting a lot of foreign visitors these days and it would be kind if obvious, if Musk took a sudden trip to Moscow.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2022 21:49 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:I meant the article itself. But yeah, I can totally see Musk going "I didn't meet Putin. *wink*"
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2022 21:53 |
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Brave New World posted:Most Americans here are likely well acquainted with this concept already, thanks primarily to a certain outlet you forgot to mention: The BBC. We also get DW and the Japanese NHK on our esoteric PBS stations.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 20:15 |
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I remember a few months ago when some UAF spokespeople were saying that we’d be seeing lots of Switchblade videos soon but I think I’ve only seen two or three. I also read on Telegram that they were difficult to control so that limited their effectiveness. UAF soldiers found off the shelf drones to be easier to use.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 23:10 |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63280523quote:Ukraine war: Multiple explosions in Kyiv as Ukraine reports kamikaze drone strikes Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Oct 17, 2022 |
# ¿ Oct 17, 2022 05:23 |
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The Iranian drones seem more like the WW2 German V1 Buzzbombs where they're programmed with a preset course and then released and there's no way to change it or control them once they're released.cinci zoo sniper posted:Would like a rain check on something from the thread. Would there be interest in me doing more structure structured, regular summaries of the ongoing discourse? Say, around my morning coffee time, and a follow-up in the evening on the days when I have time for that?
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2022 13:24 |
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Nenonen posted:Not really, V-1's were just given a direction and flight time after which they would crash down and explode. Germans never knew what they would hit, if anything, unless they did a recon flight over London. These loitering munitions require the operator to control them until they see a target they want to hit. After it's locked to a target the drone goes into automatic mode to make radio jamming ineffective.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2022 14:47 |
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Dunite posted:Dropping of a missile from a wing pylon would be described as a weapon release. "Weapon release" is how the BBC describes it. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63327999 quote:Russian jet released missile near RAF aircraft over Black Sea
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2022 15:59 |
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They left the lifting eyelets on them. Someone with a Jeep and a rope with a hook can probably remove them.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2022 00:41 |
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Could the Ukrainians use anti-tank missiles from a distance to take out the dragon’s teeth? Not a Javelin in NLAW, but something simple and cheaper like a M72.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2022 04:55 |
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looks like Germany is finally sending tanks It’s a prop from a local WW2 historical reenactor group. It’s based off of an artillery towing vehicle. https://twitter.com/justcake556/status/1584191362270101511
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2022 20:47 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Were drones going into Ukraine being made at that base? I assume you're talking about this Israeli strike:
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 15:40 |
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Saladman posted:Sorry for a kind of OT post, but probably other people have this issue: why do Twitter links show up with a full preview in my phone browser, but on my Mac they just show up as a bunch of bare hyperlinks? I’d have to independently click if I wanted to read them, which is inevitably a hassle and makes the thread way harder to read. I did some google searches and it turned up nothing, admittedly I couldn’t think of a good search term.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2022 23:02 |
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The multiple camera angles were pretty funny. Obviously they weren't too concerned about detection. It looks like there helicopters were in a storage facility and had minimal security.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 22:50 |
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Has there been any more news on the two Russian ships that Ukraine attacked with the remote control boats? I figured that if the damage to them was minimal to non-existent, Russia would be showing them off to counter the Ukrainian claims.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 05:46 |
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FishBulbia posted:It's good. Officially, Poland views the killing of Poles in Galicia as an act of genocide and the UPA as a genocidal organization on the same level as Soviets and Nazis in terms of treatment of symbology, which has always created issues for some Ukrainians' free use of such symbols. Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Nov 12, 2022 |
# ¿ Nov 12, 2022 23:05 |
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Hasn't Russia and/or China gotten their hands on an export version of the Abrams via Iraq already?
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2022 19:24 |
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Russia’s response to losing Kherson: cruise missile barrage at Kyiv. https://twitter.com/elintnews/status/1592504576888172544?s=46&t=UCKcI7NF8aRcIUp7oflOAA
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2022 14:36 |
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I think you’d have to get pretty deep into Clancychat territory to come up with a scenario where NATO decides it’s had enough and conducts direct strikes against Russia. NATO will issue angry statements, increase military readiness, etc. but that’ll be it. Deteriorata posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1592733434182787073
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2022 06:03 |
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Wrong thread. Sorry about that.
Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Nov 18, 2022 |
# ¿ Nov 18, 2022 04:41 |
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WarpedLichen posted:I do wonder how people can buy the idea that Euromaidan was a western backed coup. It really did seem to me that if Russia's response hadn't been so heavy handed from the start this ball really wouldn't have started rolling at all.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2022 08:52 |
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mllaneza posted:That channel is a pro follow on YouTube, but oh my god Ryan, take a speaking class or something. With the amount of off the shelf and specialized drones being used in this war, I imagine that all new military vehicles will have to have some sort of counter drone technology or may even have their own drones that they can launch. Will drones reduce the role of “in person” forward observers or reconnaissance groups? Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Nov 24, 2022 |
# ¿ Nov 24, 2022 06:06 |
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Here's another security camera from an apartment block near Engels. At 0:15 you can hear the roar of a rocket or low flying jet engine. At 1:01 you hear the explosion. https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1599655782617751552?s=20&t=gyRqhfxe3BKYWmLDabgt2Q
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2022 15:02 |
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Der Kyhe posted:Is it possible to fleece money or construction materials out of this Russian government project by making them hollow? Listen to your heart, you know the answer.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 19:14 |
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A new Russian propaganda targeting those who fed Russia to avoid mobilization. "The boys have left but the men have stayed." It looks all those people leaving had an effect if the government felt that they had to address it. https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1600487963783270400?s=20&t=KxP59n59gpxeDanqj1bDTw
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2022 20:51 |
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CNN is reporting it now too. They don't say anything new but just reiterate that the trip might still be cancelled for security reasons and it probably won't be confirmed until the last possible minute. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/politics/volodymyr-zelensky-washington-dc-visit/index.html
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2022 00:32 |
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Gervasius posted:I guess he's travelling on US government plane from Poland and that would be REALLY BAD IDEA to gently caress with, especially over NATO member territory. Not even Putin is that dumb. https://www.flightradar24.com/2e9bdc45
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2022 16:35 |
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Volodymyr Yezhov, one of the developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, was killed in Bakhmut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=696zMTbrAFM
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2022 06:59 |
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Apparently Finland and Poland have both said they are prepared to send some of their Leopard 2s to Ukraine if the EU approves it. Both countries have the 2A4 variant as their most numerous version. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/07/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-ceasefire-fighting-vehicles/ quote:Poland joins Finland in backing sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2023 21:23 |
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Pook Good Mook posted:I thought the US just left all its Abrams in Iraq rather than ship them back stateside.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 22:02 |
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The German Vice Chancellor says that Germany should not block other countries from distributing German technology to Ukraine. https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-leopard-tank-ukraine-war-germany-vice-chancellor-robert-habeck/amp/ quote:Germany should not stand in the way if Poland decides to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said Thursday, seemingly putting the ball in Warsaw’s court on supplying Kyiv with Western tanks. quote:“There is a difference between making a decision for oneself and preventing the decision of others,” said the vice chancellor, who also oversees arms export controls as economy minister. “And accordingly, Germany should not stand in the way when other countries make decisions to support Ukraine, regardless of what decision Germany makes.”
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 06:23 |
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ShadowHawk posted:It's a parody of old Chevy commercials
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# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 07:49 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:A residential building in Dnipro struck during the Saturday mass airstrike. Casualties measuring in dozens dead and wounded, and still counting. https://www.ft.com/content/6d709080-edc3-420a-9133-a1953c0da05f Notably, this wave seems to have involved ballistic missiles (Iskander most likely) fired at Kyiv, beating air-raid warning to the punch. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/14/world/europe/the-saturday-attack-on-kyiv-appeared-to-best-the-air-raid-warning-system.html
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2023 20:13 |
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Mederlock posted:Looks like it's basically an uparmoured Ford heavy duty Diesel truck. Even has a Ford dash!
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2023 06:18 |
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Canada is sending 4 Leopard 2A4s to Ukraine. We have 62 2A4s and 20 2A6s. However, only 20 tanks are operational. The rest are in various states of storage or maintenance. https://globalnews.ca/news/9438332/canada-leopard-tanks-ukraine/ quote:Canada will send Ukraine 4 Leopard battle tanks: defence minister
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2023 19:07 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Small housekeeping update for the thread – I have resigned from being a D&D moderator.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2023 18:06 |
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SpaceX confirms they have sometimes blocked Ukrainian access to Starlink. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/spacex-ukrainian-troops-satellite-technology/index.html quote:Speaking with reporters after, Shotwell argued that Starlink had sent units to Ukraine to “keep the banks going, hospitals, keep families connected.” Seems a bit silly to act shocked that a country currently involved in a war would use communication devices during offensive operations. I guess Elon was really upset about the reaction to his Twitter poll "peace plans".
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 18:58 |
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Szarrukin posted:there's no better time to depart Poland than 9:37 PM
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:57 |
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Poland and Slovakia are talking about sending their MiG-29s to Ukraine again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/09/are-slovakia-and-poland-finally-serious-about-giving-ukraine-their-old-mig-29s https://news.yahoo.com/poland-prepared-transfer-remaining-mig-233300076.html Duda said in an interview the other day that Poland is ready to send it's MiGs to Ukraine "as part of a broader coalition". Today the Slovakian defense minister said that "it's time to make a decision" on sending MiGs as they could really help Ukraine. Ukraine for its part has said that it's main priority right now is artillery and artillery shells.
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