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Man Plan Canal posted:https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/cheburashka-top-russian-box-office-all-time-225942.html I'm just glad that Colin finally found a job in the animation industry
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Man Plan Canal posted:https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/cheburashka-top-russian-box-office-all-time-225942.html Believe it or not, some Russian Duma members and right-wing activists are not happy with the movie. There's a scene in the movie where confused Cheburashka asks Gena if he's his mother, which, when you think about it enough, is pretty much LGBT propaganda. Plus, according to them, it's sort of morally grey, there are no positive male characters, and, of course, there's nothing about the war. That particular outrage didn't seem to spread beyond fiery proclamations on telegram, but since Feb 24 there are definitely much more outbursts from the right about bland pop culture products, whether it's about musicians who don't support the war strongly enough (not even opposing, just not performing for frontline troops), or looking for secret gay messages in anything that can resemble a rainbow.
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Man Plan Canal posted:https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/cheburashka-top-russian-box-office-all-time-225942.html the birthday song from cheburashka is banging, you must admit. Paladinus posted:Believe it or not, some Russian Duma members and right-wing activists are not happy with the movie. There's a scene in the movie where confused Cheburashka asks Gena if he's his mother, which, when you think about it enough, is pretty much LGBT propaganda. Plus, according to them, it's sort of morally grey, there are no positive male characters, and, of course, there's nothing about the war. That particular outrage didn't seem to spread beyond fiery proclamations on telegram, but since Feb 24 there are definitely much more outbursts from the right about bland pop culture products, whether it's about musicians who don't support the war strongly enough (not even opposing, just not performing for frontline troops), or looking for secret gay messages in anything that can resemble a rainbow. there's probably going to be a lot more of these kinds of non-embraces of the war as things continue.
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https://www.forcesoperations.com/une-premiere-vague-damx-10rc-en-partance-pour-lukraine/ The first AMX-10RC are being shipped to Ukraine right now – the crews have completed their training.
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litany of gulps posted:Hasn't the most economically powerful European country been blocking the rest from providing armored vehicles to the conflict? How does that indicate that they don't see value in a long war? How does that prove that aggression will not be tolerated? What is the swift, decisive punch in the nose? It hasn't done this at all, though. A lot of armored vehicles were sent to Ukraine. The issue were main battle tanks, were Germany blocked other's requests to give Germany-manufacture Leopard tanks to Ukraine, until their demands were met that the USA was part of the coalition that gave tanks to Ukraine. Once the US signed on, Germany stopped blocking tank deliveries. That had nothing to do with valuing a long war.
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https://twitter.com/lemondefr/status/1626446704022003713 French supermarket chain Auchan not only remained in Russia but willingly helped army with material support according to leaked internal communications.
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/lemondefr/status/1626446704022003713 From the English version of the article: quote:Video investigation: How a French company is supporting Russia's war effort in Ukraine Here's the Insider's writeup. https://theins.ru/politika/259454 Not sure they've broken any actual laws here, skimming. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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litany of gulps posted:Were you not alive or adult for this time period? The war on terror? Post 9/11 frenzy? Axis of evil? Turning Iran into our enemy? Back Hack posted:Turning? They were already our enemies. It's amusing that in 1990 when George Bush sr. was forming a coalition to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, he sent James Baker on a round trip to ensure that Soviet Union, Syria AND Iran would support the plan. quote:After stops in Helsinki and Moscow to smooth out Iraqi demands for a Middle-Eastern peace conference with the Soviet Union, Baker traveled to Syria to discuss its role in the crisis with its President Hafez Assad. Assad had a deep personal enmity towards Saddam, which was defined by the fact that "Saddam had been trying to kill him [Assad] for years." Harboring this animosity and impressed with Baker's diplomatic initiative to visit Damascus (relations had been severed since the 1983 bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut), Assad agreed to pledge up to 100,000 Syrian troops to the coalition effort. This was a vital step in ensuring Arab states were represented in the coalition. In exchange, Washington gave Syrian dictator President Hafez al-Assad the green light to wipe out forces opposing Syria's rule in Lebanon and arranged for weapons valued at a billion dollars to be provided to Syria, mostly through Gulf states.[111] In exchange for Iran's support for the US-led intervention, the US government promised the Iranian government to end US opposition to World Bank loans to Iran. On the day before the ground invasion began, the World Bank gave Iran the first loan of $250m.[111]
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Here is a video from the BBC with lots of speculation concerning Lukashenko and his claim that Ukraine wants to or will attack Belarus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZ2ztjYLHU Lukashenko says if Ukraine attacks, Belarus will join Russia to defend its territory. Lukashenko has been cooperating with Russia all along, so this seems like saber rattling or possibly setting up for a new attack. Also, Lukashenko seems to have a hard time sitting in a normal sized chair these days.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Here is a video from the BBC with lots of speculation concerning Lukashenko and his claim that Ukraine wants to or will attack Belarus. Sounds like setup for a false flag operation. UA has spent time on the northern border blowing bridges and mining areas. These are activities generally not intended for offensive operations.
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Someone ask Batka if Kherson, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk are Russia or not? Vova says they are and Ukraine is attacking them e: oh he will only act if Belarus gets attacked. Weak.
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FT has put up a summary piece on Davos. Doesn't look like there have been grand proclamations during it. Zelenskyy did the more moral take on gathering support, whereas Macron tried to do the same going “political” on the “global south”. Curiously enough, however, both Macron and Scholz gave what could be interpreted as criticism of the western coalition:quote:Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admonished Germany’s allies for failing to deliver tanks to Ukraine after having spent months urging Berlin to do so. Another interesting piece is the WSJ interview confirming that the U.S. plans to send auditors into Ukraine.
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For anyone interested in Russian counter intelligence, WaPo has a new article about efforts to root Russian assets out of Europe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/17/russia-spies-europe-arrests/ In particular, it delves into the arrests of two (one a senior German intelligence official and another a Russian born jewel trader living largely in Bavaria) now which compromised BND information. The article suggests that other nations are currently curtailing information flow to BND while agencies are trying to determine if information they sent to BND was passed along to Russia. It does not appear to state if the curtailment is as much as the one with Austria. It also says that the US, is stepping up efforts to provide information to our Russian operatives. However, some suspicious actions in other counties (Spain has one incidence) have been determined to be lone actors rather than interference. Russian assets are suspected to be significantly degraded by Finnish intelligence, but other caution that Russia still should be considered to have significant intelligence resources at its disposal even as it has pivoted to more cyber work as of late. It also talks a bit about cyber operations designed to sow distrust between the Baltics and their Ukrainian refugees and gauge how many may be there.
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Jamsque posted:This is a completely baffling conclusion. We have now spent an entire year watching a non-NATO nation successfully defend itself against a vastly larger and more militarised neighbour with only a trickle of material support from other nations. You are deducing from this that a country with a more modern military and more committed support from a broader coalition of allies would somehow fare worse in a similar situation? I think near real-time intelligence, thousands of armored vehicles, vehicle and equipment repair, training for multiple brigade-sized formations, operational planning consulting, and ammunition are not "a trickle". Don't get me wrong: I wish the West would do more. But it's not a trickle. Remember that Ukraine effectively ran out of 122mm and 152mm ammunition around May of last year. Only resupplies from the West kept--and keep--Ukraine's artillery going. Could a NATO without the US stop Russia from reaching the Rhine? Sure. Could they stop the Baltic countries from being overrun? Probably not. Could they stop half of Poland from being occupied? Probably not. Romania? Nope. Atreiden posted:wtf are you talking about, yea it could. The combined arms of Europe is only surpassed by the U.S. I suppose we'll have to disagree. I would, of course, love to be wrong about this. I think a strong Europe able to defend its interests is good for the world at large. cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/u-s-training-ukrainian-troops-use-less-ammo-00082765 I'd be curious as well. I assume much of the earlier training was tactical in nature--battle drills, combat lifesaving medical training, etc. The operational training could have been focused on improving Ukraine's ability to leverage fires: i.e. improving the process by which they identify, prioritize, and execute fires. There was a good podcast on MWI before the war in which a US officer described some of the early advisory work in 2014. The US kept bringing up things like civilian oversight, and investments in a professional non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, and so forth, and the Ukrainian generals apparently responded with, "Yes, that's great but I have units in contact right now and I need advice on how best to employ them. What are operational things my military should do now to prevent Russia from expanding?" Ukraine's army organizationally and doctrinally still looks very Soviet. litany of gulps posted:Isn't this playing out exactly as the West would want, though? If NATO gave everything that Ukraine would need to win, the conflict would either escalate or end. NATO doesn't want the conflict to escalate or end. NATO wants the conflict to drag out for as long as it takes to bleed the Russians dry. Walking the tightrope where Russia keeps throwing conventional forces into the meatgrinder, but can't quite justify anything much beyond that, isn't that the best possible outcome for the West? The Ukrainians aren't going to stop fighting, so there will always be just enough weapons to keep the fighting ugly (but not enough to settle things)... I don't believe the West wants this conflict to continue. I think they want it to end, but are cautious about escalating assistance so rapidly that it ends in both sides losing (i.e. Clancychat). One can make very reasonable arguments that the West is escalating too slowly--that is, too cautiously--but I don't believe their intent behind slow escalation is to keep the war going as long as possible. On the contrary, I think their genuine hope is to end the war as soon as possible with an intact Ukraine and without spreading the conflict further. Maybe I'm wrong. Reading minds isn't a thing I can do. But I think the West's collective behavior does not indicate a desire for prolonged conflict. Herstory Begins Now posted:On a factual level, too, Ukraine is getting a lot of the good stuff and much, much more of it than anyone would've expected a year ago, or even 9 months ago. I still think it's wild that Ukraine is getting patriots. Hell, they're getting Switchblades. Patriots are highly-classified but at least you can restrict who sees what to a fairly limited group of people. But something shot out of an 81mm mortar? I've been a little surprised just how many classified capabilities we are giving to Ukraine at scale. litany of gulps posted:This is a fun one because you're trying to do satire but basically all Americans are taught exactly this in school. In sixth grade history class my teacher was going on and on about how "the US won WW2" with the unspoken-but-understood "by itself" and I spoke up and said something like, "9 out of 10 Germans died on the Eastern Front, so while we certainly helped, the Soviet Union deserves the greatest credit for defeating Nazi Germany." This was around 1989--before the fall of Communism--and was not well-received. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Speaking of the Washington Post, two sections of their morning WorldView newsletter are relevant to the thread this morning so I'll post it. Of note, these articles contain a lot of links to other reporting, mostly other WaPo articles but also to some external reports. I haven't included them because it's a pain in the rear end to but if there's any claim in particular you would be interested in following up on let me know and I'll try to include more of them in the future.quote:A year after invasion, has Russia already lost? quote:Talking Points quote:Despite promises of a huge boost in defense spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s armed forces are in a worse place than a year ago, the country’s new defense minister, Boris Pistorius, told The Washington Post this week. I decided to link that last one, though. Moon Slayer fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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So I've heard the German complaints about other allies not doing their part but who is he really complaining about here? Just Spain really? Greece, Turkey, Switzerland, Austria are understandably out. Poland and Canada have promised and shipped tanks as I understand it? I don't know if they were expecting commitments from Denmark or Norway or something.
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Norway actually promised 8 Leo 2A4s!
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Nenonen posted:It's amusing that in 1990 when George Bush sr. was forming a coalition to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, he sent James Baker on a round trip to ensure that Soviet Union, Syria AND Iran would support the plan. Wikipedia posted:In the days after the September 11 attacks, Ryan Crocker would later become the United States ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009, and other senior U.S. State Department officials flew to Geneva to meet secretly with representatives of the government of Iran. For several months, Crocker and his Iranian counterparts cooperated on capturing Al Qaeda operatives in the region and fighting the Taliban government in Afghanistan. These meetings stopped after the "Axis of Evil" speech hardened Iranian attitudes toward cooperating with the U.S
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https://twitter.com/y_akopov/status/1626565601089953792?t=UjpqT-951UOE-U76NojqJw&s=19 Just a reminder how vile Russian propaganda is.
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Ynglaur posted:I'd be curious as well. I assume much of the earlier training was tactical in nature--battle drills, combat lifesaving medical training, etc. The operational training could have been focused on improving Ukraine's ability to leverage fires: i.e. improving the process by which they identify, prioritize, and execute fires. There was a good podcast on MWI before the war in which a US officer described some of the early advisory work in 2014. The US kept bringing up things like civilian oversight, and investments in a professional non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, and so forth, and the Ukrainian generals apparently responded with, "Yes, that's great but I have units in contact right now and I need advice on how best to employ them. What are operational things my military should do now to prevent Russia from expanding?" Looking back, I remember there was a training expansion announcement explicitly for combined arms/manoeuvre, along one of the recent vehicle packages - with Bradleys, I think? That could be the logical precursor, or maybe even the same thing.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/y_akopov/status/1626565601089953792?t=UjpqT-951UOE-U76NojqJw&s=19 Impressively, this establishes a new low for how verifiable an alleged leak of a paper document is, because it’s got that blob vomit covering all text.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Impressively, this establishes a new low for how verifiable an alleged leak of a paper document is, because it’s got that blob vomit covering all text. Well, if I've been had by a pro-Ukranian psyop, I'd feel relieved in this instance.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Looking back, I remember there was a training expansion announcement explicitly for combined arms/manoeuvre, along one of the recent vehicle packages - with Bradleys, I think? That could be the logical precursor, or maybe even the same thing. I think you're correct. I remember the training expansion announcement either coinciding with the Bradley announcement or very close in time to it.
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Thread: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1626649565314129920?t=_cwefDBgxUmmLM2ddKF3Wg&s=19 Real dusty in here all of a sudden.
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Endjinneer posted:TLDR- Iran and America were cooperating until Dubya's speechwriter needed another baddie to complete a three part list. It's obvious that either you didn't read it, or you're arguing in bad faith. Nenonen's post was in reference to the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, which happened when George H.W. Bush was President.
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Remember those artillery scorch mark satellite photos from Vuhledar? That burnt out spot used to be a gardening cooperative that Russia troops may have tried infiltrating through though I'm not entirely clear on who was calling artillery on it and when. That general area in those days seems to have also had some thermobaric artillery action.
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Brave New World posted:It's obvious that either you didn't read it, or you're arguing in bad faith. Nenonen's post was in reference to the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, which happened when George H.W. Bush was President. I didn't read it that way? I for one wasn't making any argument, just an observation about "strange bedfellows", and my interpretation was that Endji wanted to point out that H.W's son's advisors ruled out any cooperation with Iran. Which didn't have to go that way, but let's not go there (and in particular let's not think of the alternative reality where Al Gore got Florida).
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Impressively, this establishes a new low for how verifiable an alleged leak of a paper document is, because it’s got that blob vomit covering all text. The untranslated sources are in that twitter thread.
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Tuna-Fish posted:The untranslated sources are in that twitter thread. Not as of the post you're quoting (and not in the thread, technically speaking).
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This is extremely NMS but holy man the footage coming out. Video containsan extremely close range trench fight, Russians dying and a Ukranian Rambo popping off. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/114u66s
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1626244170917478400 Good to see Mitch McConnell trying to shore up support for Ukraine in the US.
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queeb posted:This is extremely NMS but holy man the footage coming out. Video containsan extremely close range trench fight, Russians dying and a Ukranian Rambo popping off. Holy gently caress that looks like footage from Commando without the saw blades and pitchfork. Good grief that looks absolutely miserable.
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Nenonen posted:I didn't read it that way? I for one wasn't making any argument, just an observation about "strange bedfellows", and my interpretation was that Endji wanted to point out that H.W's son's advisors ruled out any cooperation with Iran. Which didn't have to go that way, but let's not go there (and in particular let's not think of the alternative reality where Al Gore got Florida). Yeah that's how it was meant- that the present absolutist stance on Iran/US cooperation is a surprisingly recent innovation.
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queeb posted:This is extremely NMS but holy man the footage coming out. Video containsan extremely close range trench fight, Russians dying and a Ukranian Rambo popping off. Is there a way for me to see that without getting a Reddit account or downloading the app?
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Kraftwerk posted:Is there a way for me to see that without getting a Reddit account or downloading the app? Yes but you'd need to pack an overnight bag.
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Kraftwerk posted:Is there a way for me to see that without getting a Reddit account or downloading the app? Put "old." In front of the URL
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queeb posted:This is extremely NMS but holy man the footage coming out. Video containsan extremely close range trench fight, Russians dying and a Ukranian Rambo popping off. It's so equally terrifying and bizarre the things that happen in war. That Russian that died (was he Russian? Probably, hopefully for the camera man's sake) just walked right up to the enemy trench. Who knows how long he took walking up there, how he didn't get seen sooner, or if he had any idea how bad a situation he was putting himself in. He's looking for his enemy, which seems like just these 2 guys, but he looks the wrong way and his life is over. I hope the 2 guys in the trench made it out of there. Such a terrible hell all thanks to some evil psycho in the Kremlin.
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Orthanc6 posted:It's so equally terrifying and bizarre the things that happen in war. That Russian that died (was he Russian? Probably, hopefully for the camera man's sake) just walked right up to the enemy trench. Who knows how long he took walking up there, how he didn't get seen sooner, or if he had any idea how bad a situation he was putting himself in. He's looking for his enemy, which seems like just these 2 guys, but he looks the wrong way and his life is over. They were engaging some kind of armored vehicle (probably a BMP) that was very close and dropping autocannon rounds on their position before apparently taking it out with the 2nd rocket.
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The hardest thing to deal with is that fighting position is now known to the Russians so they could probably drop a drone launched grenade the next time they move some Wagner cannon fodder in to draw their fire.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Impressively, this establishes a new low for how verifiable an alleged leak of a paper document is, because it’s got that blob vomit covering all text.
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