Delta-Wye posted:

that mig monument in the background is boss

Endman posted:

The way that reporting has completely reversed course since 2014 is pretty astonishing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2014/05/19/why-everything-youve-read-about-ukraine-is-wrong/?sh=59ebc8a9510e

Throatwarbler posted:

https://twitter.com/PeImeniPusha/status/1626618558317985792

No Nazi faction too obscure for Ukraine

Lostconfused posted:

Also lol going to war with a country that makes your nuclear missiles.

Maybe that would give some perspective on how loving stupid this whole thing is.

Endman posted:

It's almost as if this war is a direct result of stoking far-right nationalism in Western Ukraine to the point where they began outright attacking the majority Russian-speaking parts of the country, pushing them straight into the arms of Moscow.

BadOptics posted:

Yeah, MiG-17 from the looks of it.

Honest Thief posted:

look we didnt even had access to fertilizers up until the 50s, please be nice to us

quote:

In a further indication of international differences on Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, acknowledged the west had failed to win backing from countries ranging from Africa to Latin America and Asia.

“I am struck by how we have lost the trust of the global south,” Macron said to an audience made up of top officials from both developed and developing countries. He argued that the world’s response to the war showed the need to rebalance the global order and make it more inclusive.

Macron called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “neocolonialist and imperialist” attack that “broke all taboos” and called on leaders of the global south to join the west in condemning the war.

While western countries have rallied to help Ukraine, many Asian, Latin American and African countries have been at best lukewarm in their support for Kyiv in what they see as a European war that is far from their daily concerns. The French president insisted that was not the case.

mlmp08 posted:

between 15, 17, and 19, aesthetics on the 17 are just right.

mlmp08 posted:

between 15, 17, and 19, aesthetics on the 17 are just right.

Gresh posted:

that was the plan all along

the US discovered long ago that the most radical people(usually as of the far right persuasions like the Mujahideen or anti-commy death squads in Latin America) are generally the most effective fighters because they're exactly that, radical. So naturally, stoking far right nationalism and Nazism in Ukraine was the way to go. What we've done in Ukraine is classic American foreign policy.

Lostconfused posted:

I dunno some of these bakhmut trenches are looking kind of shallow

https://twitter.com/CaliJournalism/status/1626658523118723072

Рыбарь posted:

🐱 It's just amazing: the head of Bellingcat organization, which is undesirable in Russia, Hristo Groziev complains about the London police, which forbade him and his family to attend the BAFTA award ceremony.

The irony is that this award nominated a film about Alexei Navalny, in the creation of which the odious journalist was directly involved. But the British law enforcement authorities called Grozev's appearance at the event a "threat to public safety."

What happened is not a coincidence: even for his handlers, old Christo became too toxic.

▪️ In Bellingcat Grozev initially did dirty work - from black market data trade to terrorist defense in court (https://t.me/rybar/22671). He could not boast of professional abilities, being remembered for his inability to handle facts (https://t.me/rybar/22594) and working off "orders" for the Bulgarian arms mafia (https://t.me/rybar/21535).

▪️ Back in 2021 an unfit journalist was appointed the head of Bellingcat, having sent Eliott Higgins to honorary retirement. Since then the structure made a qualitative leap downwards: the most vivid example is the extremely incompetent investigation (https://t.me/rybar/40608) about the Main Computer Center of the Russian Armed Forces.

▪️ As a result, the "investigative group" previously replicated by the Western media has finally turned into a "dumping ground" for British intelligence MI6, whose only task is to process the necessary narratives.

Under these conditions, Grozev's value to the client was reduced to almost nothing. He became not only useless, but also frankly inconvenient because of his reputation as a performer of dirty orders, connections with criminal circles and his own sloppy forecasts (https://t.me/pezdicide/1026).

And now the once self-appointed "Sherlock Holmes of the XXI century" is not even allowed at the film academy ceremonies, and he himself cannot return home to Vienna and has to hide (https://t.me/pezdicide/2759) in the United States.

Now the only question is when Hristo Grozev will be finally consigned to oblivion.
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Real hurthling! posted:

with posting like this you might grab that up for grabs mod star

icantfindaname posted:

Is there any meaningful anti-NATO sentiment in Portugal? I know they have a left government right now, and they had an actual Marxist revolution in the 70s unlike spain, but also much more of an Atlanticist history

mlmp08 posted:

between 15, 17, and 19, aesthetics on the 17 are just right.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

mlmp08 posted:

I’m just talking airplanes, not trying for aatrek’s star

mlmp08 posted:

One of Hersh’s claims I’ve found suspect was when he argued that Hillary Clinton is a hawk due to Jewish money and influential Jews.

I think Clinton would be a hawk anyway. Hersh argues that Jews and their money turned her into a hawk. Hersh argues that there is no other explanation for Clinton being a hawk, because she’s too smart to be such a hawk without Jewish moneyed influences.

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mlmp08 posted:

No, I think Hersh oversimplifies and sees connections where he wants to and sources poorly. I don’t think Hersh is antisemitic. He’s Jewish himself. I think he misunderstood Clinton and assumes without evidence that she favored a hard line with Iran due to, in Hersh’s words, “Jewish money.” I think he’s wrong, and Clinton would still be anti-Iran absent any influence from any pro-Israel lobby and absent her being elected in New York, specifically.

He said (emphasis added):

https://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/2/seymour_hersh_white_house_intensifying_plans

I can think of a lot of reasons, from Clinton’s pretty hawkish background and history, why she would be anti-Iran even without being of a senator from New York.

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Endman posted:

It also has a much nicer NATO reporting alias than the 15

BadOptics posted:

Yeah, MiG-17 from the looks of it.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

I'm sure it's really hard to dig trenches in frozen ground, which I assume generally benefits the attacker up until he has to dig new trenches on ground taken.

Real hurthling! posted:

with posting like this you might grab that up for grabs mod star

mlmp08 posted:

I’m just talking airplanes, not trying for aatrek’s star

OhFunny posted:

https://www.ft.com/content/32d00213-e954-45b3-8cd6-71c0b814aa6b

They ain't wrong Monsieur le President.

Frosted Flake posted:

That's a pretty shallow trench, without revetment too.

Lostconfused posted:

I dunno some of these bakhmut trenches are looking kind of shallow

https://twitter.com/CaliJournalism/status/1626658523118723072

speng31b posted:

you should apply, id vote for you as mod. this is completely serious and not a joke

Endman posted:

It also has a much nicer NATO reporting alias than the 15

speng31b posted:

you should apply, id vote for you as mod. this is completely serious and not a joke

Delta-Wye posted:

lol



front end could be a mig17, but that back end sets off my mig15-dar