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mobby_6kl posted:
Ways back I used to moderate Goha.ru and hang around bunch of other gaming communities (eve-sru, dd, etcetera), as well as some LiveJournals and VK publics, but over time I kind of drifted away from that, after I moved out from parental home. Not even really connected to the quality of interactions that I was getting. In my experience with Russian internet users, Goha being quite busy in heyday, they’re same as everywhere else. Plenty of normal people, some crazies - nothing unusual. If anything, I prefer Russian crazies to Anglo crazies, because worst case American scenario is someone trying to SWAT you, whereas that salty gently caress from Belarus will just diligently reply to you with «да завали ты ебало уже» for 8 years. And vatniks usually are extremely upfront about their intentions. a podcast for cats posted:Buckwheat chat should really be going in the other EE thread, imo. Mostly because I want to share a simple af buckwheat plov recipe that's on my rotation, but can't bring myself to do it here. Just post it there. 
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DekeThornton posted:They got it from their partner, Tass. Sounds like a solid journalism plan to me. woodenchicken posted:There's also a Telegram channel Neural Meduza if you're in the mood for something REAL trippy. Link, please.
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Deteriorata posted:Yeah, I'm figuring a fair amount of rope-a-dope is going on. Ukraine is using just enough force to use up the Russian forces, and keeping as much back as possible. I'd actually be surprised if they many operational reserves right now. They have a reduced brigade holding the road to Odessa against 9-12 BTGs at the moment, for example. I imagine that unit got reinforced with territorial defense units a bit, but ultimately it's not that great a situation. If they truly did get those 30 helicopters on the ground (out of...58?) that would help, of course. In general, the Ukrainians seem to be pretty good at limited spoiling counter-attacks. That artillery strike against the tank regiment is a good example. Every time you shoot you expose yourself to counter-battery fire (which Russia is supposedly Very Good at, though OSINT doesn't have anything on counter-battery yet that's I've seen). They got a BTG clustered up, dropped a battery-one or battery-two on it, killed/disabled a couple vehicles, and forced them to scurry back. They're not over-committing or over-extending in these counter-attacks, though, at least as far as I've seen.
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Deteriorata posted:Yeah, I'm figuring a fair amount of rope-a-dope is going on. Ukraine is using just enough force to use up the Russian forces, and keeping as much back as possible. Anyone who thought there would be a war thought that the way it would go would be: 1) Rapid Ukranian collapse as mass fires and then Russian deep operational penetrations encircle and destroy their standing army; or 2) Some kind of fighting retreat to the Dnipier and an evacuation of the East of the country. Ukraine appears to be getting churned up just as much as Russia but with less to start with, but the fact that they not only stood their ground and Kharkiv but have prevented a rapid envelopment of the city is so far off what any of the armchair generals would have predicted the course of events to be.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:The western basin isn’t even fully in Ukrainian territory. Opening that one up would have to be a joint venture between 2-5 countries. If only there was some sort of economic integration union that could possibly cover the whole of Europe
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Not enough "What? Yes!" to feel authentic.
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Anglo news and reporting is often really dire. You need to speak other languages. I've been binging a lot of Arte. They have people in Ukraine as well.
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Alchenar posted:Anyone who thought there would be a war thought that the way it would go would be: Yeah, I'll put myself firmly in the camp of under-estimating rasputitsa and over-estimating the Russian army's ability to maneuver, coordinate fires, and use an air force.
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And another one: it looks like that 1st Tank Brigade holding at Chernihiv that I think we all assumed was going to be enveloped and destroyed pretty quickly might instead have wrecked the plan to surround Kiev. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1502041637962371080
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Гречка, plenty of butter and salt, and a fried egg on top will get you very far.
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Antigravitas posted:Anglo news and reporting is often really dire. You need to speak other languages. That’s what I have something awful and all you EE goons for
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Here, watch this: Ukraine: Resisting the Agressor There's a catapult near the end.
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Alchenar posted:And another one: it looks like that 1st Tank Brigade holding at Chernihiv that I think we all assumed was going to be enveloped and destroyed pretty quickly might instead have wrecked the plan to surround Kiev. This is interesting. I know we can't know why exactly but could it signal a sort of retreat for Putin? Unless they were scared they were about to get wrecked.
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I'd highly doubt it's a retreat. Putin's definitely in too deep to straight up back out. They must be going back to be redeployed.
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awesome-express posted:Russia is good at misinformation. After working at FB for 3.5 years I no longer believe any news articles I read. Everybody puts their own spin on everything it's really hard to find a good source of truth unless it's a reliable source. But as we see above, Reuters got swindled by some Russian misinfo. It's really difficult to weigh the news.
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SaTaMaS posted:it is easier to imagine the end of russia than the end of capitalism KitConstantine posted:So how are things going in Russia? Yeah my money’s on capitalism on this one.
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Alchenar posted:And another one: it looks like that 1st Tank Brigade holding at Chernihiv that I think we all assumed was going to be enveloped and destroyed pretty quickly might instead have wrecked the plan to surround Kiev. Whoops! Turns out our last three supply shipments were found burned and gutted. maybe this wasn't such a good idea.
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Capitalism is already 1-0 against russia
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It’s worrying that a lot of people are assuming Russia gets to keep the Donbass and Crimiea after all of this. Russia has done nothing to make their occupation legitimate or sustainable.
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eh, I myself still have intensely mixed feelings about the general sanctions on Russia Omar is prone to excessively spicy takes but I'm not sure this is one of them
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Baronjutter posted:She supports BDS, so only Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? I think it's just american-exceptionalism anti-imperialism brainworms you see out of a lot of the US "left". Their brains short out at the idea of the US or a US ally not being the bad guy. in fairness I'm also not sold on BDS
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Conspiratiorist posted:That BBC piece on Kharkiv is the single best bit of professional reporting I've seen out of the war yet. Which is why Tories are actively trying to destroy BBC.
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fnox posted:I'd highly doubt it's a retreat. Putin's definitely in too deep to straight up back out. They must be going back to be redeployed. Or could they be pulling back out of chemical weapons deployment range? 
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I guess Russia is working on advancing their tank camouflage during this lull https://twitter.com/worldonalert/status/1502050143914315777?t=V9-otWqqAVJTNhZ5EBp70A&s=19 ...ignore the bright red flag it's not important
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GreyjoyBastard posted:eh, I myself still have intensely mixed feelings about the general sanctions on Russia Out of genuine curiosity, what do you consider to be one of her 'excessively spicy' takes?
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https://twitter.com/joanna_szostek/status/1501874969311068161 Not doubting here, but has anyone got a clip of this by hand? https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1502007834594222080 EU presser on Russian energy dependency. https://twitter.com/dalperovitch/status/1502024366313328645 Looks like the conversation is moving from giving Ukraine jets to giving them more serious anti-air gear. woodenchicken posted:https://t.me/neural_meduza  thank you!
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Or could they be pulling back out of chemical weapons deployment range? No, this is a strategic-level move. It's like worrying chemical weapons would be used in Houston because troops are pulling out of Dallas.
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fnox posted:I'd highly doubt it's a retreat. Putin's definitely in too deep to straight up back out. They must be going back to be redeployed. Probably being pulled back to try and shore up the South. I think the current plan might be to give up on the frankly suicidal plan to attack Kyiv and try and solidify their land bridge, although that might not end well either. The Russians are probably desperate for any kind of a win so they can save some face.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:This is interesting. I know we can't know why exactly but could it signal a sort of retreat for Putin? Unless they were scared they were about to get wrecked. I did some high-level staff work for you:  Basically of all the advances going on it's the longest, using the worst roads, and is absolutely surrounded by population centres full of angry Ukranians who have presumably been mobilising and using their fancy AT weapons. It might also be a bad sign for the guys at Chernihiv, if they've been cut off by a push down the M102 then that would explain why the Russians would decide there's no point committing further to the other advance that doesn't have much prospect of achieving anything.
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KitConstantine posted:I guess Russia is working on advancing their tank camouflage during this lull How much precedent is there for an attacking army deciding to switch their flag mid-invasion? Is this some sort of mutiny or just young soldiers being stupid?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Looks like the conversation is moving from giving Ukraine jets to giving them more serious anti-air gear. About drat time.
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There Bias Two posted:How much precedent is there for an attacking army deciding to switch their flag mid-invasion? This is being done intentionally to invoke good memories of USSR with older people, and to bully the government of Ukraine.
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KitConstantine posted:I guess Russia is working on advancing their tank camouflage during this lull Casually charging into Ukraine in a tank under a flag associated with imperialism and ethnic cleansing expecting to be greeted as a liberator.
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There Bias Two posted:How much precedent is there for an attacking army deciding to switch their flag mid-invasion? That's just Soviet T-72. It was around since the first day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbMOMOSx2nI
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Comstar posted:It’s worrying that a lot of people are assuming Russia gets to keep the Donbass and Crimiea after all of this. Russia has done nothing to make their occupation legitimate or sustainable. Being There tends to matter when it comes to negotiations.
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Conspiratiorist posted:That's just Soviet T-72. It was around since the first day. Oh, just some terminal vatnik then.
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There Bias Two posted:Is this some sort of mutiny or just young soldiers being stupid?
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Comstar posted:It’s worrying that a lot of people are assuming Russia gets to keep the Donbass and Crimiea after all of this. Russia has done nothing to make their occupation legitimate or sustainable. Russia doesn't deserve it, no, but at some point the calculus for Ukraine becomes "we can keep fighting, and maybe even win, but thousands of our civilians are dying every day." Also it's within reason that Putin might end up settling for something he can spin as a win, for example maybe Ukraine keeping the separatist areas as "autonomous regions" with their own local government. But there's no way he could spin losing Crimea as a win, so it probably isn't on the table in any circumstance other than the Russian army completely collapsing and either captured by the tens of thousands or fleeing back to Russia starving and having dropped their weapons.
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Regardless of international legality, Crimea has been completely internalized as Russian territory, and is the HQ of the Black Sea Fleet, so there's zero chance of it being retaken - it'd be a red line for negotiations and an attempt on it by force is the kind of move that'd have Russian forces bust out the real nasty toys if necessary.
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OddObserver posted:^^^^ you say this but we're going to find a video of this thing dropping a mortar shell on a russian apc in a month
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