Slim Jim Pickens posted:

A BMP can also do those things lol, these vehicles are basically interchangeable

Weka posted:

I'm sick of this idea that nothing but a MBT is a tank. A Bradley is only a couple tonnes lighter than the lighter Sherman varieties. It's a light tank. You call yourselves tankie!

Weka posted:

I'm sick of this idea that nothing but a MBT is a tank. A Bradley is only a couple tonnes lighter than the lighter Sherman varieties. It's a light tank. You call yourselves tankie!

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An employee at New Zealand’s national broadcaster, RNZ, has been placed on leave amid an investigation into how wire service news reports on the Ukraine war were rewritten to insert a pro-Russia slant.

Evidence emerged on Friday and Saturday that a number of articles attributed to the Reuters wire service or the BBC had been edited by RNZ to insert new sentences and paragraphs. In a radio interview on Monday, RNZ’s chief executive, Paul Thompson, described the edits as “pro-Kremlin garbage”, and said the news services would search thousands of articles “with a fine-tooth comb”.

About 250 had already been reviewed, he said. Sixteen articles that had been “inappropriately edited” had been corrected and had an editorial note appended.

“It is so disappointing, I’m gutted, it’s painful,” he said. “We have to get to the bottom of how it happened.”

New Zealand’s minister for broadcasting, Willie Jackson, was briefed on the matter over the weekend and said it was a “major issue” and “unprecedented for RNZ”.

Dating back to April 2022, the articles in question had made a range of changes to Reuters’ journalism, with a consistent pattern of adding Russian government talking points to news reports without additional attribution. Changes included adding the word “coup” to describe the Maidan revolution; changing a description of Ukraine’s former “pro-Russian president” to read “pro-Russian elected government”; adding references to a “pro-western government” that had “suppressed ethnic Russians”; and adding references to Russian concerns about “neo-Nazi elements” in Ukraine.

Some stories added whole paragraphs, saying that Russia had launched its invasion “claiming that a US-backed coup in 2014 with the help of neo-Nazis had created a threat to its borders and had ignited a civil war that saw Russian-speaking minorities persecuted”.

One piece inaccurately claimed that “Russia annexed Crimea after a referendum, as the new pro-western government suppressed ethnic Russians in eastern and southern Ukraine”.

Ukraine says those claims are discredited Kremlin propaganda. Street demonstrations began in late 2013 in Kyiv after the then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, dumped an association agreement with the EU and accepted a bailout from Moscow. The anti-corruption movement was peaceful and had widespread public support.

Yanukovych fled to Russia months later after his security forces shot dead more than 100 unarmed protesters. Putin responded by annexing Crimea and kickstarting a war in the east, using undercover agents. There is no evidence Russian speakers are “persecuted” in Ukraine, a bilingual country.

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The public was reminded of this in January when Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, one of Ukraine's oldest and most esteemed universities, banned the use of the Russian language on its premises. Teaching at the university has been conducted in Ukrainian and English for over thirty years; thus, the new ban concerned private conversations between students, teachers, and administration.

"We did not expect it to cause such resonance," Serhiy Kvit, the university's president, told RFE/RL referring to a wave of both supportive and critical reactions that swept through social media. The prohibition, he said, was unequivocally supported by representatives of all university members and does not foresee any form of punishment: "It is an expression of our corporate culture primarily aimed at the newcomers."

The legality of the ban in Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was questioned, but it doesn't go much further than the current language policy in Ukraine. A 2019 law made the use of Ukrainian compulsory in numerous spheres of public life, including administration, education, media, and even in restaurants and shops. After the large-scale invasion in February 2022, additional restrictions were placed on Russian books and music.

samogonka posted:

Weka posted:

I'm sick of this idea that nothing but a MBT is a tank. A Bradley is only a couple tonnes lighter than the lighter Sherman varieties. It's a light tank. You call yourselves tankie!

Weka posted:

I want to see American soldiers get in and out of a BMP-2.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

The Russian propaganda is coming from inside the house!

Radio New Zealand employee placed on leave amid investigation into pro-Russia editing of Ukraine reports


adding the fact checking to all the claims is so good. I present this for comparison, from infamous Russian propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-language-use-plunges-wartime-ukraine/32419351.html

Horizon Burning posted:

Consider that CD Projekt Red is a Polish studio. Poland shares a land border with Ukraine. Most of the Western military aid to Ukraine flows through Poland, and I recently saw an estimate that as of last month, over 12 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed through Poland since the war began. The aggressor in that war is attempting to erase the Ukrainian language.

Homeless Friend posted:

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1618326772071960576

wheres that image of the ukraine knights charging into a slaying orcs

Nix Panicus posted:

Its funny that one of the major drivers of separatism in Ukraine is the Ukrainian government's repeated ongoing attempts to eliminate the Russian language from public life (and Yiddish too, for some reason)

yellowcar posted:

what the hell is a subreddit blackout

yellowcar posted:

what the hell is a subreddit blackout

Homeless Friend posted:

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Nix Panicus posted:

The casualness of the racism from all corners of the liberal world has been breathtaking. Like, I always knew that if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds, but seeing it become so pervasive and accepted so quickly has been pretty wild

Nix Panicus posted:

The casualness of the racism from all corners of the liberal world has been breathtaking. Like, I always knew that if you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds, but seeing it become so pervasive and accepted so quickly has been pretty wild

Meow Tse-tung posted:

Mobile suit gundam: 88th MS team

Homeless Friend posted:

some sort of tolkein style orcs made outta mud & goblins or w/e vs humans in east meets west style where their peer to peer mostly but the world is still a bit magical and hostile is needed imo. like greenskin malazan... fantasy authors, get writing. imagine kruppe but a goblin

Danann posted:

Futanari Damacy posted:

"Ammunition with poor uranium core" = depleted uranium

*Attack of the Clones meme* he's just listing the specs, and not what they actually sent, right?

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Not good when CNNs front cover is saying that us aligned osint believe 15% of all us armored vehicles have been destroyed so far. Probably double or triple that number

DancingShade posted:

They haven't even reached the Russian lines proper yet either. Just probing the outer security area where its mobile defense. Apparently.

I'm not saying the western planners might need to find new jobs in a few years but it wouldn't hurt them to have a side gig. Maybe open that bar they've been thinking about.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1668083952039362561?t=1BjWtek0Scov6SArJyifKQ&s=19