euphronius posted:

I don’t think even communism would work now as we are not all realized beings.

speng31b posted:

Iraq maybe?

lumpentroll posted:

shut the gently caress up law bitch

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Afghanistan didn't have infrastructure to strike. Iraq was wrecked.

quote:

The United States Air Force has long favored attacking electrical power systems. Electric power has been considered a critical target in every war since World War II, and will likely be nominated in the future. Despite the frequency of attacks on this target system there has also been recurring failure in understanding how power is used in a nation. In addition, air planners tend to become enamored with the vulnerability of electric power to air strikes, but analysis of the cause and effect relation-ships indicates that attacking electrical power does not achieve the stated objectives in terms of winning the war. Historically, there have been four basic strategies behind attacks on national electrical systems: to cause a decline in civilian morale; to inflict costs on the political leaders to induce a change; to hamper military operations; and to hinder war production.
...
Because most of the information from Operation Desert Storm is still classified, it is difficult to make definitive judgments about the impact of attacks on electrical power, but once again electric power was a high priority target. The primary purpose in bombing was not to stop production, but rather to induce strategic paralysis on the leadership in Baghdad. The focus of these attacks was on the military, with the loss of power intended to affect military facilities such as radar sites and communication facilities. In addition to the military effects, there was also the hope that because electricity touched all aspects of Iraqi society it might have a psychological impact as well.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Is there anything like this for the Chechen wars?

speng31b posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1595551957497806849

ngl, i misread "bandurists" and had to do a second take

Proust Malone posted:

it’s weird how these logos just keep showing up

https://twitter.com/noelreports/status/1594349377631309824?s=46&t=1Br5pqhLm8O2H9kYDodq7g

mlmp08 posted:

There were a lot of people convinced that Russia was not going to invade.

Real hurthling! posted:

it was in hindsight really dumb

Majorian posted:

Eh, people were convinced of that because invading was obviously a really stupid idea. We were right about the second part!

bedpan posted:

the only reason those people were wrong is because they wanted to hug and kiss vladimir putin, rather than correctly judging that actually invading was a really dumb idea.

Majorian posted:

Eh, people were convinced of that because invading was obviously a really stupid idea. We were right about the second part!

Majorian posted:

That's kind of gross. Don't post stuff like that.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently Ukraine is working on a bill to ban the Russian Orthodox Church. jfc

🇷🇺☦️🇺🇦A bill on banning the Russian Orthodox Church on the territory of Ukraine has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada. The draft provides for a complete ban on the activities of any religious organizations and institutions that are part of or recognize in any form the subordination of the ROC in canonical, organizational and other matters. Against the background of yesterday's searches in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and the announcement of inspections and criminal cases against its priests, this move surprised few people. And the last six months of observing the behavior of sectarians from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Vatican and other structures made it clear that this would happen with almost 100% probability. Now it remains to wait for the start of open repression against clergy and believers.
Rybar

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently Ukraine is working on a bill to ban the Russian Orthodox Church. jfc

speng31b posted:

if anyone was wrong about predicting something, i hope it is brought up repeatedly and used to own them forever

mlmp08 posted:

We’ve all been wrong about a lot. Like I was wrong in thinking Russia would have a more competent air and long range fires arm than they have demonstrated.

Frosted Flake posted:

Apparently Ukraine is working on a bill to ban the Russian Orthodox Church. jfc

quote:

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow said the conflict in Donbas is about “a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.”

“In order to enter the club of those countries, it is necessary to hold a gay pride parade. Not to make a political statement, ‘we are with you,’ not to sign any agreements, but to hold a gay parade. And we know how people resist these demands and how this resistance is suppressed by force,” Kirill said during a sermon in Moscow.

Kirill categorized the war as a struggle of “metaphysical significance,” for humanity to follow God’s laws.

“What is happening today in the sphere of international relations has not only political significance. We are talking about something different and much more important than politics. We are talking about human salvation,” he said.

“If we see violations of [God’s] law, we will never put up with those who destroy this law, blurring the line between holiness and sin, and even more so with those who promote sin as an example or as one of the models of human behavior,” Kirill said.

“Around this topic today there is a real war,” he said.

gradenko_2000 posted:

"my greatest weakness is that I'm just too much of a people person"

speng31b posted:

theyre really going to kill all those priests they arrested, huh. seems bad

Резидент posted:

⚡️⚡️⚡️#Инсайд
Our source in the OP told us that in two months, 900 people were arrested in Kharkiv and Kherson oblasts under the article of collaborationism. In this way, Bankova wants to form an exchange fund in order to implement the formula "all for all", now there are only 400 prisoners of war in Ukraine, and in Russia there are about 5 thousand soldiers of the AFU.

https://t.me/rezident_ua/15232

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Lostconfused posted:

I don't know if there's any evidence of this, but it's a reasonable conclusion to make. Medvedchuk is already a clear example of Ukrainian government imprisoning its own people for an exchange with Russia. They need to find warm bodies somewhere to make up the difference, so why not just random useless people that can't be sent to the frontline anyway.

Lostconfused posted:

I don't know if there's any evidence of this, but it's a reasonable conclusion to make.

paul_soccer12 posted:

Nice justifying

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's obviously just a political move, but if a hateful organization gets shut down incidentally ...

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's obviously just a political move, but if a hateful organization gets shut down incidentally ...

speng31b posted:

the Russian patriarch is a psycho, but suggesting that shutting down the entire Russian Orthodox church in Ukraine and purging anyone associated with it is okay as a result is really insane

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's obviously just a political move, but if a hateful organization gets shut down incidentally ...

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's obviously just a political move, but if a hateful organization gets shut down incidentally ...