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Shes Not Impressed posted:Spoke to friend who owned my favorite cafe in my town in Western Ukraine. I made it all the way through this thread without the need to comment, but this absolutely tore at my heart. So many good people just trying to live their lives. Edit: sorry about the snipe. Here's a great OSI list as penance. Focused on aviation but also covering everything else. https://twitter.com/i/lists/1490427245097148423?s=20 bird cooch fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Mokotow posted:It probably means the GPS data has been disabled for this video. In the olden times you’d have to blur the data, now you can export the video without the data. cinci zoo sniper posted:We have OSINT on Russian military GPS jammer deployments in the theatre. Good to know, thank you both!
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KitConstantine posted:It's going to be a very bad night.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:Spoke to friend who owned my favorite cafe in my town in Western Ukraine. I'm so sorry.  I'm glad his wife and daughter are safe.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1497264309960773634 What? Ukraine should not have allowed a democratically elected "colorful figure" to lead the country? loving garbage-rear end humans. Tell me you mean "Jew" without saying "Jew", rear end in a top hat. (edit: apologies, somehow I got jumped a long way back just to see this--but no apologies to Glenn Greenwald, who can eat the peanuts out of my poo poo) tracecomplete fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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KitConstantine posted:UN Security Council emergency meeting stream is up. Should be starting soon. The last one was spicy and Russia is still presiding. Quoting for the new page. The Council is now in session.
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ethanol posted:Looks like a bunch of rolling Molotov targets if you ask me. Throwing molotovs on an armoured vehicle is probably worse for the thrower than the truck, to be honest.
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KitConstantine posted:UN Security Council emergency meeting stream is up. Should be starting soon. The last one was spicy and Russia is still presiding. I look forward to the UN doing absolutely nothing
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Nazzadan posted:Another goon alerted me to your post, so here you go if it wasn't already fulfilled God drat. Even the facial expressions.
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tracecomplete posted:What? Ukraine should not have allowed a democratically elected "colorful figure" to lead the country? I think he means a guy who kept to his moderate mandate: normalizing relations with Russia.
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TheRat posted:Throwing molotovs on an armoured vehicle is probably worse for the thrower than the truck, to be honest. If there's one thrower, yes. Not when the entire civilian population is throwing many, though.
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Are they falling out of the sky or just deploying flares?
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GABA ghoul posted:Sounds pretty bad. I think Russia can still important off-the-shelf stuff through middlemen in other countries like China (but at a huge markup), so it's not like they won't be able to buy office computers. But losing access to custom developed asic stuff is huge. It's going to be very hard to impossible to replace these components in production. Used to work in a factory making capacitors for cars, satellites & military hardware, if you want stuff that's military grade off the shelf you will suffer. 
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/putin-nuclear-warning-requires-west-to-tread-extremely-carefully i agree with this mostly.:quote:The challenge for the Nato allies now is maintaining the support Ukraine needs for its survival while making clear Putin has a way out of the crisis, rather than climbing up the escalation ladder to the point where it takes on a logic of its own. a few pages back i said i think it's dangerous to expect regime change from within, it's about as likely to happen as it is in north korea, russians don't love this war but the threshold at which they'll turn on putin i think is still higher than people here like to imagine. ukraine should be defended but there should be some sort of plan for ending the crisis on negotiations and returning to some sort of normal state of affairs, i don't really see that anywhere
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tracecomplete posted:What? Ukraine should not have allowed a democratically elected "colorful figure" to lead the country? The useful idiots have rallied I see
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Pook Good Mook posted:God drat. Even the facial expressions. Nazz is a genuinely talented memesmith and every one is a winner.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I look forward to the UN doing absolutely nothing Russia vetoed the attempt to bring a resolution condemning the Ukraine invasion to the General Assembly, but this meeting is operating under a different protocol in which vetoes cannot be used, all that's needed to pass the measure are the nine of the 15 Security Council members voting yes. Considering that 11 of them voted in favor of the resolution that Russia vetoed, passage seems assured. Edit: The UN General Assembly can also do things like stripping Russia of it's Security Council seat, so depending on what they will vote on, this is can be more than just useless posturing.
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TheRat posted:Throwing molotovs on an armoured vehicle is probably worse for the thrower than the truck, to be honest. Yeah except that column I’m talking about looks to be almost entirely canvas topped troop and or supply carriers with distinctly unarmored cabs
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Torrannor posted:Russia vetoed the attempt to bring a resolution condemning the Ukraine invasion to the General Assembly, but this meeting is operating under a different protocol in which vetoes cannot be used, all that's needed to pass the measure are the nine of the 15 Security Council members voting yes. Considering that 11 of them voted in favor of the resolution that Russia vetoed, passage seems assured. Does a UN condemnation mean anything other than a strongly worded letter?
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Warbadger posted:Like, I don't think Russia "created" Trump in a meaningful way or won the election for him but it's true that they definitely supported him and Trump definitely fellated Putin at every possible turn while in office. The question I will always ask is, what could Trump have done differently that would indicate he was more a Russian asset with any more amount of deniability?
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Crespolini posted:How not? Yeah I don't understand. Here the temps are worst than in germany and I think most heating is from electricity provided by dams.
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Franks Happy Place posted:I am here from Vancouver, Canada to tell you that electricity can and does heat homes, and the equipment is incredibly cheap and easy to install. In Finland we use electricity (nuclear and other) to run heatpumps to heat homes. More expensive than direct electricity but not inefficient. Would work even better in warmer climates.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Does a UN condemnation mean anything other than a strongly worded letter? It does in the sense that it makes it easier, politically, for various countries to impose sanctions on Russia.
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Shibawanko posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/putin-nuclear-warning-requires-west-to-tread-extremely-carefully i agree with this mostly.: Is there any incentive for the average politician to support an off-ramp? The media will just say they're 'weak on Putin'
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Does a UN condemnation mean anything other than a strongly worded letter? See my edit. An UN General Assembly session stripped Taiwan of it's Security Council seat and gave that seat to communist China, so depending on what they vote on, it absolutely can mean more. And the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN has argued that Russia just assumed the Soviet Union's permanent seat on the Security Council by default, it was never officially ratified. So crazy poo poo is absolutely possible. But to be realistic, it probably won't be more than a strongly worded letter.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498011610148859904?s=20&t=x60uKneme0DZdto_x-PfKQ The amount of damage that many men trained for 1 hour in “Turn this on, point it towards the armored thing, fire” is enough to crumble an empire.
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https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1498025983609348102 More big, big news.
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Heard a news correspondent say that those spray painted markings kept reappearing overnight. So there are probably still active saboteurs in Kyiv. But then I thought, what if they've gotten hold of some spray cans and are now placing them in areas that will steer the invaders into death traps?
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Does a UN condemnation mean anything other than a strongly worded letter? Probably not really, but it does help put countries on record regarding where they stand--for example, if China were to vote in favor it would be pretty big news, even if the measure didn't achieve anything itself. Particularly if it goes to a General Assembly vote, it will be interesting to see how much support Russia has left.
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Charliegrs posted:Are they falling out of the sky or just deploying flares? Looks like flares to me. The one on the right of shot lets off three or four of them then banks left. Nothing looks like they get hit. The guy who posted the tweet is an expert in Russian/Russia-adjacent military stuff, though, so maybe he sees something I can't.
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Tezzeract posted:Is there any incentive for the average politician to support an off-ramp? The media will just say they're 'weak on Putin' I have a hard time imagining what an off ramp for Putin even looks like at this point. No such thing as a "strongman" with a fuckup weak army.
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KitConstantine posted:https://twitter.com/UA_BotTwitte/status/1498006072740782091?t=_q4GPb9ZXrn80FFZY_lugA&s=19 I think you could tell the direction of the convoy by how the Chechens are facing while praying. In this case it looks like it's heading towards the west Fragrag fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Djarum posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1498025983609348102 Can't have some sort of european aggro without the balkans, it wouldn't be right.
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Crespolini posted:How not? They are too far away from population centers for district heating (and good luck selling that to the German populace), and millions of homes are set up with gas heating. Those need to be changed soon (to something heatpump-ish), but they aren't now. And good luck trying to get boomers who own all the property to change anything. Plus, trying to do anything nuclear is both extremely unpopular, the companies involved don't want them, they are extremely expensive, and Germany can't produce any fuel. The best they could do is run the few reactors even longer, but they are EOL. It's a pipe dream, and a dumb one at that.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Looks like flares to me. The one on the right of shot lets off three or four of them then banks left. Nothing looks like they get hit. The guy who posted the tweet is an expert in Russian/Russia-adjacent military stuff, though, so maybe he sees something I can't. I can't really tell either, but the one on the left definitely looks like it's still maneuvering at the end of the clip.
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KitConstantine posted:It looks like it's the Chechen reinforcements Seeing long convoy lines like this make me wish the US had sold Ukraine a few thousand A-10s.
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Fragrag posted:It's cool how the direction the Chechens are praying towards is a good indication of the convoy's heading. In this case it's heading towards the west Which I guess would be from the Russian border towards Kyiv?
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Djarum posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1498025983609348102 this isn't new, kosovo has wanted nato membership for awhile. but several nato states don't recognize them
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Antigravitas posted:They are too far away from population centers for district heating (and good luck selling that to the German populace), and millions of homes are set up with gas heating. Those need to be changed soon (to something heatpump-ish), but they aren't now. And good luck trying to get boomers who own all the property to change anything. I don't think it's that impossible to start switching over to electric heating. It's pretty easy to set up, and you don't have to do it all at once for everyone.
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