shadow puppet of a posted:

Hearing rumblings that Austria is finally getting ready to commit to a military assistance package consisting of:

• A single gently used Lippanzer Stallion tack and extra narrow saddle
  
• One dozen Roth–Steyr M1907 keychain fobs
  
• Three Madritsch Weapon Technology ML40 Grenade Launcher DLC codes for ARMA2
  
• Four hundred and seventy nine commemorative Empress Maria Theresa Jägerbataillon Wien 1 buffet-type place settings with extra napkin rings.
  

BrassRoots posted:

I keep seeing right wing "wheres the money going?" Propaganda on twitter.

Do these people not know how the USA MIC works? Bitch, its going to lcokheed martin! Then trickles down to factory workers if there is enough left over from lobbying congress. Most of the "money" is just the government print fat syacks for american arms industry.

TBF, theres probably a few other stacks going to ukraine for things like fire engines, paying soldiers, you know the general poo poo a country has to pay for but cant because they have to defend against an invading force.

HonorableTB posted:

Latest casualties:



That's a decent amount of tanks and a great number of artillery systems taken out. The Ukrainians have been focusing a lot on artillery for the past few months so seeing double digit systems out of action on the daily will help upcoming offensives.

Also they lost 13 UAVs lol, they really don't have a lot of those to be losing double digits in a day

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Tree Bucket posted:

Outrageously irresponsible. Russia, the real victim here, will have no choice but to escalate.

Grognan posted:

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BrassRoots posted:

I keep seeing right wing "wheres the money going?" Propaganda on twitter.

Do these people not know how the USA MIC works? Bitch, its going to lcokheed martin! Then trickles down to factory workers if there is enough left over from lobbying congress. Most of the "money" is just the government print fat syacks for american arms industry.

TBF, theres probably a few other stacks going to ukraine for things like fire engines, paying soldiers, you know the general poo poo a country has to pay for but cant because they have to defend against an invading force.

Helsingin Sanomat posted:

In front of the apartment building a tall and lanky figure stands smoking. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Russian opposition channel Dozhd, Tikhon Dzyadko, who gestures us to follow him and then leads us up the stairs

The space looks like a normal apartment, but somehow an editorial staff of dozens has been crammed in.

On one wall a monitor is showing a live feed of an interview being conducted in the studio in another room. In the corner of the screen is Dozhd's logo, three pink diagonal lines.

Dozhd's broadcasting license in Latvia was revoked, but the channel isn't shutting down. Quite the opposite. Dzyadko believes that the work being conducted by independent Russian media is crucial to the whole world.

When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago and tightened its censorship laws, the opposition channel Dozhd was among the first to go on the chopping block. Even before that the channel's work was made as difficult as possible by having it listed as a foreign media agent. Dozhd move to Georgia and Latvia, from where it continued its Internet broadcasts. Last summer the channel announced it had received a license to broadcast on all European cable networks.

Last fall Latvian officials started accusing the opposition channel of supporting Russian military actions. A journalist working for the channel from Georgia, Alexey Korostlev, had mentioned collecting equipment for Russian mobiks. In December the Latvian government revoked Dozhd's cable broadcasting license.

According to them, the channel "threatens national security and public order". Additionally there were several other violations listed, among them the lack of real time Latvian translation.

"I bet champagne bottles were popping in the Kremiln that day", Dzyadko comments the loss of their license laconically. "I think the only one who won in that situation was Putin."

And sure enough, Putin's press secretary Dmitri Peskov was soon crowing about how it's a foolish illusion to imagine that life is more free outside Russia.

Editor-in-Chief Dzyadko believes that the root cause of their loss of license were Korostlev's comments. He was fired immediately after making them.

"I have no idea what he was thinking, and I don't want to know", Dzyadko says, obviously frustrated. He stresses that the channel is not helping, and will not help the Russian armed forces neither on the frontlines, or anywhere else.

The channel is now trying to convince the Latvian government of returning their license. Dzyadko says that there's no reasonable ground for considering the channel any kind of threat after the journalist was fired. "If we are still considered a threat, they must let us understand why", he says.

He believes that the true causes for the decision are internal politics, including the country's sizeable Russian expat population. They have shown vocal support to Kremlin. He does not want to comment further on Latvian internal politics, however.

Dozhd's network broadcasts have not stopped at any point. The journalists are still allowed to work within Latvia. However their studio locations had to be moved, as were their headquarters. Around the change of the year Dozhd got a new European cable broadcasting license, this time from the Netherlands. The plan is that out of 40 staff, about 10-15 will remain in Riga. The rest will move in small groups to Amsterdam.

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After Russia invaded, Europe had high hopes about Russian media being able to change things for the better very quickly, Dzyadko says. And then disappointment when that didn't happen.

"Russian media can have an inflience and change things", he stresses. "But it won't happen quickly, because Russians have been saturated with propaganda for 20 years. Things won't change in a month or even a year."

Dzyadko thinks the military support given to Ukraine and the support given to independent Russian media are parallel processes, which should not exclude the other. Russia has a lot of people who either don't know what is going on, or don't want to.

"When Ukraine wins the war, Russia and its people aren't going anywhere. They'll still be right next door. We have to have a conversation with these people and explain to them what is happening", he says.

"Ukrainian, European and American media can't find a common language with these people. We can, because we know how to talk with them."

The editor's own move to Amsterdam will still take a few months. "Some of our staff, myself included, have school-aged children, and we don't want to move again during the school year. First they had to go to school in Moscow, then Tbilsi and now here."

Dzyadko stresses that despite the problems, he is still thankful to Latvia for its help.

"We are working completely openly, and are not hiding anything. We are very grateful to Latvia for allowing us to come here, to work here, and for our children to go to school here", he says. "But as soon as things change in Russia, we will return there."

Borscht posted:

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1636478930939965440?s=20

zone posted:

It appears something else is burning in Rostov.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Helsingin Sanomat, a national Finnish newspaper, got the chance to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Dozhd ("TV Rain") a Russian opposition news channel, which was declared an enemy of the state around the start of the invasion and now operates out of Latvia (and will soon move to the Netherlands). A lot of the interview deals with the channel staff's experiences, but some of it is especially relevant.

Source: Helsingin Sanomat
Writer: Elina Saarilahti

E: WHOOPS had a very serious error in there, fixed now.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Samovar posted:

Not that I doubt their abilities, nor the fact that counter propaganda does seem to not do anything other than antagonize the championing of the R.A., but I would be curious as to know what language they feel I needed to communicate to the general Russian population.

Samovar posted:

Not that I doubt their abilities, nor the fact that counter propaganda does seem to not do anything other than antagonize the championing of the R.A., but I would be curious as to know what language they feel I needed to communicate to the general Russian population.

Samovar posted:

Not that I doubt their abilities, nor the fact that counter propaganda does seem to not do anything other than antagonize the championing of the R.A., but I would be curious as to know what language they feel I needed to communicate to the general Russian population.

Power Khan posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1636657074548404224

GABA ghoul posted:

Probably the same poo poo that works for de-programming in general. Not using a patronizing or judging voice(which western media is definitely guilty of), not being threatening and building trust by not attacking absurd and irrational beliefs directly. Instead point out logical inconsistencies and factual errors in explicit propaganda claims and do so in a non-judgemental way. The person has to understand by themselves that they are being intentionally manipulated and used for ulterior motives.

I think a TV channel is a decent approach here. Lots of older Russian émigrés here spent like 10h a day in front of the TV watching Russian state TV. Even if Dozdh was only doing entertainment programming it would still already help because it would get them out of the constant brainwashing loop for a couple of hours which gives them a chance to start thinking independently for a little while.

Power Khan posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1636657074548404224

Roblo posted:

Hahahaha the Guardian is reporting that Russia has given awards to the pilots that 'intercepted' the drone.

"Preventing the violation of the borders of the special operation area by the American MQ-9 Reaper drone".

Absolute clownshoes military.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1636674306594807809
Amnesty International, any comment?

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1636674306594807809
Amnesty International, any comment?

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Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out several strikes on important positions of Russia’s occupying forces over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian military’s General Staff said in its morning summary on Facebook on March 17.

The Defense Forces’ aviation made seven strikes on areas where the occupiers were concentrated.

Ukrainian missiles and artillery struck five control points, five areas where enemy forces and military equipment were concentrated, a fuel and lubricants warehouse, two radar stations, an electronic warfare station, and an anti-aircraft missile complex in a firing position.

Power Khan posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1636657074548404224