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Yeah. Let’s not forget that Stalin was from Georgia. Power is the only criteria that matters in the end.
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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1653456888971837462quote:In the Bryansk region, Russia, the railway track was blown up again. Three explosions occurred near the Snezhetskaya station while the train was moving. As a result of the explosion, 8 wagons overturned. There were 70 carriages on the train in total. Things are still blowing up in Russia it seems.
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# ? May 2, 2023 22:38 |
Vengarr posted:Yeah. Let’s not forget that Stalin was from Georgia. Power is the only criteria that matters in the end.
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# ? May 2, 2023 22:40 |
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Kadyrov is a small fish and the last time he made ambitious noises it was towards shoigu's job, though he seemed to back off from that pretty quickly and iirc his deal for the status quo with the Kremlin was renegotiated with increasingly favorable terms for him last year. Prigozhin similarly doesn't seem to be angling for anything more than maybe Shoigu's job and so far Shoigu remains far, far stronger than either of them. Shoigu's position in the current power structure is very strong, albeit it's anyone's guess how he does in a post Putin world. He doesn't have a reputation for executive-leadership ambition, which is pretty much why he's going to be very hard to remove from the MoDNessus posted:How well can Kadyrov project power? He would need connections with Russians to rule Russia. I doubt he can occupy it. Not well and he and his goons do not have a particularly good reputation in Russia. He bases some of his militia in the capital, but that's not even remotely the amount of people you'd need to, like, seize power. Kadyrov also has a lot of enemies. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 22:55 on May 2, 2023 |
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Know who's good at making noises? Ol' Strelkov. Keep an eye on him, Im seeing big moves in his future...
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# ? May 2, 2023 23:12 |
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Computer viking posted:Speaking of Russian opposition, here's an interesting enough news article. It's from Aftenposten, a centrist and mostly boring-in-the-good-way Norwegian newspaper, who still have people in Russia. This was a great read, thank you. The finale with the cops expressing disagreement was a great twist.
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# ? May 2, 2023 23:33 |
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Although Galeev is considered a flawed political analyst at best, he recently offered an interesting hypothesis: Medvedev is the obvious successor, which is also why he's in danger. The spies are the kingmakers, but none of them will sit on the throne, because that's just going to give your spy colleagues ambitions. Medvedev on the other hand is a legitimate face for the regime. He's even been the president once (albeit only nominally). From Putin's point of view, Medvedev presents the greatest danger of a palace coup, should the Praetorians tire of the war and decide to proclaim a new emperor. This might explain Medvedev's bizarre tirades: Medvedev is trying to prove his loyalty to Putin and dispel the notion that Russia could normalize relations with the west under him, because the tsarevich fears Vladimir the Terrible's paranoia.
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# ? May 3, 2023 00:21 |
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GD_American posted:They're not very capable, they've been largely mothballed forever apart from 1-2 they use for testing, and we don't want to give the Russians the chance to peek through the wreckage of even 2 generations' ago of our stealth technology. Sorry for post necromancy, but I’m just now getting caught up- but the way it was explained to me was that it was Soviet scientists who first conceived of and published on the concept of stealth. In typical Soviet fashion it went nowhere, meanwhile the AIA (Now NASIC) got their hands on a copy of the seminal technical paper on stealth and translated it for use by the U.S. and in typical U.S. fashion, it went somewhere. Was I just told horse poo poo? I only ever worked on the planes, I never flew them.
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# ? May 3, 2023 02:06 |
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I think in the skunk works book there is mention of them theorizing about using shapes to defeat certain wavelengths of radar. That was picked up and turned into the f-117.
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# ? May 3, 2023 02:36 |
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ded posted:I think in the skunk works book there is mention of them theorizing about using shapes to defeat certain wavelengths of radar. That was picked up and turned into the f-117. I have the book just haven’t read it. Guess this is the bump I need to listen to the Audiobook. I’m driving from San Diego to Austin and back home to San Diego over the next few days and need something to listen to.
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War Boi posted:I have the book just haven’t read it. Guess this is the bump I need to listen to the Audiobook. I’m driving from San Diego to Austin and back home to San Diego over the next few days and need something to listen to. It's a good book definitely give it a listen.
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# ? May 3, 2023 03:43 |
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Although Galeev is considered a flawed political analyst at best, Can someone explain Galeev's "China delenda est" viewpoint? He digressed into that in a twitter thread I was reading a while back without providing much sourcing and I found myself bewildered.
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# ? May 3, 2023 05:56 |
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Nordic public radio companies have conducted a joint investigation into the Nord Stream explosions, and they've uncovered evidence that certainly seems to credibly point at Russian naval vessels being involved. tl;dr: Russian Baltic Sea Fleet vessels loitered in the area several times leading up to the explosions with their location beacons turned off. The ships in question were designed for mapping the sea bottom and deploying heavy loads and miniature subs. Journalists: JYRI HÄNNINEN, JESSE MÄNTYSALO, MAGNUS BERGLUND Link: https://yle.fi/a/74-20029798 Yle posted:
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# ? May 3, 2023 08:13 |
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Tankies: "But why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?!?" Everyone: *puts forward entirely reasonable theories for why Putin might think he stands to gain from the action* Tankies: "But why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?!?" Everyone: *puts forward strong evidence indicative of Russian assets perpetrating the action* Tankies: "But why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?!?" Thanks for the article! Even though it's not going to convince Putin apologists, it's good to see that there's been meaningful progress towards assigning culpability.
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# ? May 3, 2023 08:34 |
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I've been assuming Russia blew up the pipeline from day one because it has "Sekrit Galaxy Brain 3d Chess move" written all over it and that's how they roll now.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Tankies: "But why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?!?" Tankies in early 2022: "But why would the Russians invade Ukraine?!? It would not make sense!"
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:06 |
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Deptfordx posted:I've been assuming Russia blew up the pipeline from day one because it has "Sekrit Galaxy Brain 3d Chess move" written all over it and that's how they roll now. Yeah I just immediately assumed it was a Russian thing, because it fits so perfectly with their dumb poo poo. They can spitefully deny the West something they assume we're desperate for, while also getting points at home because the god drat decadent Nato homonazis blew up their beautiful pipes. And I'm having a very hard time coming up with legit reasons for anyone else to do it, knowing that if someone uncovered actual evidence of a Nato operation or Finnish mine dolphins or whatever, the consequences could be catastrophic, and this risk would be worth it because...? And as a reminder, this is the country that set up a GPS jamming station as close to Finland as possible in their national waters, and used (use?) it to interfere with commercial civilian flights in southern Finland, and "accidentally" violate our national waters and airspace pretty much weekly. It's just what they do. And beyond that, there's ample historical evidence for them doing exactly this literal thing to give themselves excuses.
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:12 |
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The argument that Russia couldn't possibly be responsible always made me scratch my head. Maybe the Seymour Hersh conspiracy crank brain worms run deeper than I thought because I seem to recall people ITT insisting on as much.
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:25 |
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WHAT AIRDEFENSE DOING https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1653734700014358538?s=20 Then there was a little fire https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa/status/1653731673010319360
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# ? May 3, 2023 13:29 |
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Is this just the worst false flag attempt to whip up more popular support against the dastardly Ukrainians?
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PurpleXVI posted:Is this just the worst false flag attempt to whip up more popular support against the dastardly Ukrainians? Either that or they got the international version of a bitch slap of the grandest scale.
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Or it's domestic protestors and they'd rather blame it on Ukraine lest more Russians get encouraged to take a shot.
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# ? May 3, 2023 13:44 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:Tankies: "But why would the Russians blow up their own pipeline?!?" But why would Russia blow up their own kremlin?!?
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# ? May 3, 2023 13:50 |
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Soylent Pudding posted:Or it's domestic protestors and they'd rather blame it on Ukraine lest more Russians get encouraged to take a shot. That’s my guess.
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# ? May 3, 2023 13:54 |
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FrozenVent posted:That’s my guess. That's kinda where I am as well. Reapers or Predators or any straight up military drones like that are BIG, like small planes. Best guess I can make out from that clip is on the larger end of a quad-copter build with an explosive payload. Not something you're going to be launching in one country then going to cruising altitude to get to the target.
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PurpleXVI posted:Is this just the worst false flag attempt to whip up more popular support against the dastardly Ukrainians? https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1653738962555400193?s=20 There's a lot of unsurprising talk about that going on, and just like with the Dugina assassination, we won't know for sure. But just because it may have been ill-advised doesn't mean Ukraine didn't do it. Alan Smithee posted:But why would Russia blow up their own kremlin?!? Title material.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1653738962555400193?s=20 They lost their Black Sea flagship and blamed their own incompetence. I don’t think they’re above humiliating themselves.
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# ? May 3, 2023 14:05 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:They lost their Black Sea flagship and blamed their own incompetence. I don’t think they’re above humiliating themselves. Yeah, but they didn't sink their own false flagship in order to blame Ukraine and justify further escalation. They play down Ukraine's capability, not up.
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bird food bathtub posted:That's kinda where I am as well. Reapers or Predators or any straight up military drones like that are BIG, like small planes. Best guess I can make out from that clip is on the larger end of a quad-copter build with an explosive payload. Not something you're going to be launching in one country then going to cruising altitude to get to the target. I disagree- it looks and moves more like a fixed wing to me, and looked to be the size of something like Raven sized- something easily built, concealed, and flown. The bigger issue is the Range of Control- most drones that size have a fairly limited range of the controls (to my understanding), but it has a longer range as a fixed than quad. Cheap fixed wings are cheaper than quads the same size, and easier to pilot. Something like a Raven fixed wing SVBIED can be built by total novices with poo poo from Hobby Stores and/or a department store, and could also be the result of resistance movements, or UKR forces. It could be internal Russian resistance, UKR SoF type, or (my current running theory at the moment) the drone was released from a mother craft that got it close to the border, released, and the acted as a relay station for the pilot controls. The size could be a legit limitation, or a test of defenses. I'm probably totally wrong, too.
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# ? May 3, 2023 14:15 |
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Might have been the kind that they used to attack Engels airfield. That one was further away than Moscow btw.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I disagree- it looks and moves more like a fixed wing to me, and looked to be the size of something like Raven sized- something easily built, concealed, and flown. The bigger issue is the Range of Control- most drones that size have a fairly limited range of the controls (to my understanding), but it has a longer range as a fixed than quad. Cheap fixed wings are cheaper than quads the same size, and easier to pilot. Something like a Raven fixed wing SVBIED can be built by total novices with poo poo from Hobby Stores and/or a department store, and could also be the result of resistance movements, or UKR forces. It could be internal Russian resistance, UKR SoF type, or (my current running theory at the moment) the drone was released from a mother craft that got it close to the border, released, and the acted as a relay station for the pilot controls. The size could be a legit limitation, or a test of defenses. https://twitter.com/sambendett/status/1653747610124009473?s=20 Bendett is the go to drone guy on twitter. He's who I'll pay attention to to cut through the bullshit speculations that will inevitably crop up.
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# ? May 3, 2023 14:28 |
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Hannibal Rex posted:Yeah, but they didn't sink their own false flagship in order to blame Ukraine and justify further escalation. They play down Ukraine's capability, not up. False Flagship would be an excellent username, imo.
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# ? May 3, 2023 14:36 |
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There’s no gold fringe on that flagship. It is not subject to maritime law
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# ? May 3, 2023 14:41 |
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Alan Smithee posted:There’s no gold fringe on that flagship. It is not subject to maritime law MARITIME LAW DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY
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https://twitter.com/REDNOGGIN/status/1653180184214876163?s=20
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PurpleXVI posted:Is this just the worst explosive horse cum shart in existence?
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# ? May 3, 2023 15:12 |
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Hannibal Rex posted:Yeah, but they didn't sink their own false flagship in order to blame Ukraine and justify further escalation. They play down Ukraine's capability, not up. They don't need to be consistent about this. Something something the enemy is both strong and weak.
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# ? May 3, 2023 15:19 |
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Welp, guess it was a fixed wing drone. I am the dumb dumb today.
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# ? May 3, 2023 15:20 |
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There's video of the drone 'strike' out there. The drone was painted bright white, and blew up several meters away from the dome in a Hollywood looking incendiary charge. I have a feeling that the roof fire was unintentional and that poo poo was some false flag garbage. It was as fake looking as that pre invasion attack footage in the Donbass.
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lol I love to false flag attack my own capital because ?????? Why is putin and co so loving stupid?
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