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What's the likelihood of all those unencrypted comms being completely intentional and there for disinformation?
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It's like looking at your opponents screen in Mario kart
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Feb 28, 2022 13:56
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That Works posted:What's the likelihood of all those unencrypted comms being completely intentional and there for disinformation? Given all the other stupidity we’ve seen at every level, I’d call it low. It’s also something the intel nerds can figure out via their various dark magics.
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Feb 28, 2022 13:57
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Tomfoolery posted:It's like looking at your opponents screen in Mario kart Very dishonorable
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Icon Of Sin posted:Given all the other stupidity we’ve seen at every level, I’d call it low. It’s also something the intel nerds can figure out via their various dark magics. Plus Russia has really been phoning it in with the propaganda and disinformation this war.
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Feb 28, 2022 13:58
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US Treasury just froze all assets of the Russian Central Bank and National Wealth Fund in pre-trading hours so they couldn't transfer them out. This basically means they have no way to guarantee depositors in the event of a bank run (which is already happening); the Russian banking industry will likely implode. The UK and EU are also discussing how to begin seizing the assets of sanctioned individuals so they can't attempt to hide behind billions of dollars of real estate. psydude fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Feb 28, 2022 14:03
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https://twitter.com/USAmbBelarus/status/1498278869756956676?s=20&t=cmyFzHPh8DXRhuvHcxUlPA More videos of equipment being staged around Brest too. https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/1498279662837014534?s=20&t=cmyFzHPh8DXRhuvHcxUlPA
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Feb 28, 2022 14:07
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Marshal Prolapse posted:It’s worse when you have to see it on the Jersey of your favorite basketball team and on the floor at the Wells Fargo Center. Oh hey I know that feeling. My MLS team, DC United, revealed their new sponsor last week, a crypto firm. Queue idiots running into the teams subreddit spamming links to buy crypto and NFTs while telling fans that our team was in "good hands"  , which makes no sense since all they are is a front of jersey sponsor, and nothing else . Pretty sure they were all banned after being told to gently caress off because no one in the fanbase gives a fuuuuuck about crypto.Anyways to make this tangibly related to the thread topic, home opener was on Saturday and they had a moment of silence for Ukraine and there were a ton of Ukrainian flags and signs of support around the stadium. To my knowledge, no one on either team is from Ukraine, but even still, it was nice to see  psydude posted:US Treasury just froze all assets of the Russian Central Bank and National Wealth Fund in pre-trading hours so they couldn't transfer them out. This basically means they have no way to guarantee depositors in the event of a bank run (which is already happening); the Russian banking industry will likely implode. It would be very cash money to see videos of US Marshalls seizing some yachts right about now.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:14
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psydude posted:US Treasury just froze all assets of the Russian Central Bank and National Wealth Fund in pre-trading hours so they couldn't transfer them out. This basically means they have no way to guarantee depositors in the event of a bank run (which is already happening); the Russian banking industry will likely implode. I think its Sberbank and their European arm that is just flat out done right now, I don't know about the rest of the banks. Events just haven't caught up to reality, there's a cliff of transactions that just haven't happened and once they resolve everything falls apart. Inertia and gravity are still duking it out but gravity is inevitable.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:24
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TCD posted:More videos of equipment being staged around Brest too. Maybe trying to start another front along the Polish border to cut off resupplies from NATO?
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Feb 28, 2022 14:30
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Naked Bear posted:Big one: the Ukrainian troops on Snake Island ("Russian warship, go gently caress yourself") may have been captured instead of killed. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=324446486389607 Ukrainian navy posted:Regarding the actions of the Russian Federation near the island of Snake
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Feb 28, 2022 14:32
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Has anyone else had the realization that if all of this was happening during Trump that we'd know the hourly thoughts of every member of the administration since the very beginning because none of them could stop tweeting or talking to reporters? And that even if by some miracle the Trump administration had done 100% the same actions that Biden has taken, the whole thing would be a million times more stressful and less likely to succeed as a result? I still hate Biden, but JFC this crisis really illustrates why you need actual professionals in government and can't just put your son-in-law in charge.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:42
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Arven posted:Has anyone else had the realization that if all of this was happening during Trump that we'd know the hourly thoughts of every member of the administration since the very beginning because none of them could stop tweeting or talking to reporters? And that even if by some miracle the Trump administration had done 100% the same actions that Biden has taken, the whole thing would be a million times more stressful and less likely to succeed as a result? The Trump White House would be in open support of Putin's actions regardless of whatever the rest of the world says/does. I'm sure Flynn would be involved in an official capacity. I don't think the world's reactions would be as strong without the US response, either.
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Feb 28, 2022 14:51
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https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1498292924144140290 https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1498236377300938754
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Feb 28, 2022 14:56
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I think he means the rubble. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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Feb 28, 2022 15:09
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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498295422036680715 I am deeply skeptical Also this: https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498295680334499845
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Feb 28, 2022 15:12
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498295422036680715 What's there to be skeptical about? The negotiations most likely failed, as Zelensky himself (and any other rational person) already predicted.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:14
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KozmoNaut posted:I think he means the rubble. Goddamnit well played 
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Feb 28, 2022 15:14
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Torrannor posted:What's there to be skeptical about? The negotiations most likely failed, as Zelensky himself (and any other rational person) already predicted. I should have stated it better, but skeptical about the negotiations being in good faith and anything productive coming from it.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:15
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If they're over already the details are probably that they failed.
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Some decent info from Chris Cappy https://youtu.be/xKFSK_9e-g4 That video came out yesterday on Sunday. But in it he confirms that two amphibious landings were done by the Russians, that one was successful and one was not.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:21
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psydude posted:The UK and EU are also discussing how to begin seizing the assets of sanctioned individuals so they can't attempt to hide behind billions of dollars of real estate. Handsome Ralph posted:It would be very cash money to see videos of US Marshalls seizing some yachts right about now. 2022 comedy option: US uses seized Russian assets to fund student loan forgiveness. I know it'll never, ever happen but a man can dream.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:23
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Mr. Nice! posted:The Trump White House would be in open support of Putin's actions regardless of whatever the rest of the world says/does. I'm sure Flynn would be involved in an official capacity. I find it interesting that, other than his genius comment on that podcast and speech at CPAC, he's been completely muted about this publicly. His handlers are probably smart enough to know that him publicly waxing poetic about his BFF is prime attack ad fodder for literally everyone else.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:29
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CBJSprague24 posted:I find it interesting that, other than his genius comment on that podcast and speech at CPAC, he's been completely muted about this publicly. His handlers are probably smart enough to know that him publicly waxing poetic about his BFF is prime attack ad fodder for literally everyone else. The people closest to trump are happier than anyone else that he doesn't have access to twitter on his phone anymore.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:34
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I feel like you can't even fault the experts for that assumption. I vividly recall the time in the pre-2000s when the ongoing joke was that Russia wouldn't even have fuel to let their nukes fly. at this point the signs from sochi are so apparent putin should just run with it and deploy a brigade of sochi dogs
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Feb 28, 2022 15:36
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https://twitter.com/katiebolillis/status/1498264050089832448?s=21 Just miserable imagining that while dealing with such an outsized disaster beyond your control as some random civilian, systems and people are still working to gently caress you over for irrational bigoted reasons you 100% cannot change.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:40
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I'm simultaneously frustrated that it needs to be said at all but also very pleased that it took this long to come to this. Do not post snuff in this subforum I get that there's a fine line between combat footage of genuine interest and snuff but I think we can all agree that there's a difference between watching guided munitions hit a vehicle and watching infantry walk into a minefield.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:46
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Cythereal posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1498292924144140290 drat worse than the Zimbabwe buxx?
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Feb 28, 2022 15:55
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https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498228751368396800 Updated stats from Ukraine
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McNally posted:2022 comedy option: US uses seized Russian assets to fund student loan forgiveness. then Putin did what Stalin could not: bring communism to the United States!
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Feb 28, 2022 15:59
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I am not posting footage because it has more than a few of what appear to be dead civilians, but it does look like general area shelling starting to take place in Kharkiv. Russian forces had previously appeared to be comparatively careful about shelling civilian infrastructure en masse vs select strikes like power plants. Unclear if this is a local commander or points toward a shift in accepted risk and strategy.
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498295422036680715 https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-kyiv-europe-moscow-016cc6cbc65ae95286d825a4ebebd1c5 quote:"Still, a tiny sliver of hope emerged as the first face-to-face talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials since the war began opened Monday. The delegations met at a long table with the blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag on one side and the Russian tricolor on the other. This article was from earlier. I have a hunch that sending your cultural advisor means you might not give a gently caress about how it goes
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1498228751368396800 Obviously these are to be taken with a grain of salt but those fukken armor losses
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Feb 28, 2022 16:04
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I mean all that number tells us is that the real number is almost definitely significantly less than that. Whether it's 30%, 60%, whatever we have no idea. So it's an upper bound of the confidence interval or something.
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MA-Horus posted:Obviously these are to be taken with a grain of salt but those fukken armor losses Even if the real number is 50%, that’s a poo poo ton. 
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498316038114623489 You KNOW you hosed up when an organization as corrupt as FIFA is moving to oust your rear end.
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Tucker Carlson has done a complete 180 on Russia and Putin's culpability since the sanctions were first announced. I guess he's pissed off that the money fountain has shut off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/25/tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-putin/
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Grand Fromage posted:If what we're seeing is true it seems like armor is just a deathtrap too. Or do their tanks/APCs particularly suck? Or is the army apparently forgetting they need to bring fuel causing a problem that an army not run by Mr Magoo wouldn't have? I haven't read a lot of modern military stuff in a while but tanks don't seem all that useful if there's a random dude with a Javelin around every corner. And the missiles are a whole lot cheaper. This isn't the first time that atgm have made people think twice about the future of tanks, but it may well be the last
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Alan Smithee posted:drat worse than the Zimbabwe buxx? The Ruble is currently worth less than the Robux, the currency for the game Roblox.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498316038114623489 Oh drat, dare to dream. I figured FIFA would just count Poland (and possibly Sweden and the Czech republic depending on how their match goes) refusing to play Russia as a forfeit, but if they just boot them out that'd be even better.
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