Minenfeld! posted:

Why is there a Twitter account called ihatetrenches?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

blinken might legit be the stupidest secretary of state we’ve ever had

Lostconfused posted:

@IhateTrenches
Iraq/Afg Vet

Officer Sandvich posted:

https://twitter.com/IhateTrenches/status/1712764030249513333

Not surprised at all, this has always been Russia's tactics. It's also why the Soviet Union's casualties in WW2 were so extremely high. The only somewhat surprising thing about it is that in the day and age of easily accessible information the general Russian population is fine with it, although even that shouldn't be that surprising anymore after 20 months of war.

Regarde Aduck posted:

yeah this is the big new talking point

did you know Russia is taking casualties assaulting a fortress city? This then gets upgraded to human wave attacks and losing 500 tanks in an hour.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

blinken might legit be the stupidest secretary of state we’ve ever had

Резидент posted:

Our sources from the President's Office reported that the IMF demanded to drastically reduce social spending, they did not think for a long time at the Bankova and decided to cancel disability, under a beautiful pretext. Moreover, after the new reform, payments will be made b
to 30% of citizens, and benefits will be taken away from the majority.

In Ukraine, they want to "cancel" disability. According to the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko, the Ministry of Health plans to abandon the term "invalid" and replace it with an "assessment of the loss of functionality" of a person. But it's not just about playing with terminology.

The Ministry of Health is already preparing a bill that will prescribe a new methodology for determining the status of Ukrainians with a particular disease. The main goal, according to Lyashko, is to return a person to an "economic state", that is, to do everything so that he becomes able to work again.

As the Minister noted, now after the establishment of disability, a citizen has the right to certain benefits and compensation. But "we did not ask what a person wants, but only say what we can give him. This is the post—Soviet model, from which we must turn away," Lyashko said.

It can be assumed that everything is going to the fact that the state will tighten the screws on the disabled.

And the main thing here is not so much concern for people, as two other points, the main thing is to reduce the state's spending on payments to disabled people, the number of which increased dramatically during the war.

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In Ukraine, they want to "cancel" disability. According to the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko, the Ministry of Health plans to abandon the term "invalid" and replace it with an "assessment of the loss of functionality" of a person. But it's not just about playing with terminology.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

blinken might legit be the stupidest secretary of state we’ve ever had

Truga posted:

Frosted Flake posted:

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Frosted Flake posted:

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Lostconfused posted:

_{(from t.me/rezident_ua/20110, via tgsa)}

gradenko_2000 posted:

re. Avdiivka (and to an extent Bakhmut), I've been continuing my reading of "The Myth and Reality of German Warfare" and the takeaway I'm getting is that it is really loving hard to pull off an envelopment, and it basically requires that your opponent be fully cooperative as far as walking right into it - almost every time it has happened, the other guy was a willing tango partner, whether it was Alexander Samsonov not doing any kind of scouting in August 1914, the Allies marching into Belgium in May 1940, the Soviets refusing to issue retreat orders in June 1941, or the Axis shrugging off all the warning signs and putting Romanians on their flanks in November 1942.

and the reason why this is, is that most armies ultimately are still infantry armies, so if you're marching around them, they can also just march back - and even if you introduce tanks and motorized infantry, there's never enough of them to create an envelopment at the operational level, by themselves. You still your own leg infantry to seal the envelopment, and again, those guys are walking as fast as your own guys can walk, so there's almost always a way out, even if it means having to fight through the thin leaky perimeter that the tanks and motorized infantry will try to put up, as long as you actually try to get out to begin with.

it's in this context where it makes sense that Russia wouldn't necessarily go for completely snapping the jaws shut - not only is it not a sure thing, because the Ukrainians would be a hell of a lot more tipped-off about needing to escape, once you actually start trying to fully close it off, it's also not a sure thing in the sense of having to race the Ukrainians to the last road out. And even if you finally got the thing, fighting off the breakout attempts may well drive up casualties even further.

OhFunny posted:

Growing tanker fleet, cheaper freight challenge Russian oil price cap

Important article about the economic war.

The tanker fleet that is carrying Russian petroleum outside the reach of Western sanctions or through shell games to avoid them has grown large enough that the shipping rates being charged are decreasing.

Russian companies selling barrels of oil from the Urals are making an extra $7 per barrel due to the savings.

An example the article gives is a 100,000 tonne tanker sailing from Russia's Baltic ports to India used to have a freight rate of $15 million earlier in the year. Now it's about $5 million. Another example is from the Black Sea to India. Which was $5 million and is now $4.1 million-4.2 million.

Медиапалуба posted:

📈Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-September 2023 increased by 9%

Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in January-September 2023 increased by 9.0% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 675.3 million tons. The main contribution to the positive dynamics, as before, was provided by the transshipment of dry cargo, which increased by 17.3% to 344.4 million tons. Bulk cargoes added 1.5% and amounted to 330.9 million tons, the press service of Rosrybolovstvo reports.

Cargo turnover of seaports of the Arctic basin amounted to 73.5 million tons (+0.6%). Of these, the volume of transshipment of dry cargo increased by 10.9%, amounting to 23.7 million tons, bulk cargo – decreased by 3.7% to 49.8 million tons.

Cargo turnover of seaports of the Baltic basin increased by 3.6% and amounted to 188.6 million tons. The volume of dry cargo transshipment in the basin increased by 22.7% to 85.7 million tons, bulk cargo decreased by 7.9% to 102.9 million tons.

▪️Retains the position of the flagship of the Russian port industry, the Azov-Black Sea Basin. The cargo turnover of its seaports showed a balanced growth of 18.7% and amounted to 226.5 million tons. Of these, the volume of transshipment of dry cargo increased by 29.3% to 110.2 million tons, bulk – added 10.1% to 116.3 million tons.

The rapid growth of cargo turnover of the seaports of the Caspian basin, which is a transit for the international transport corridor "North-South", continues. The cargo turnover of the seaports of the basin increased by 34.3% and amounted to 5.7 million tons. Of these, the volume of transshipment of dry cargo increased by 1.7 times to 3.5 million tons, the growth of bulk cargo was more modest — 3.1%, amounting to 2.2 million tons.

Cargo turnover of seaports of the Far Eastern basin increased by 6.9% to 181.0 million tons, of which the volume of "dry" transshipment increased by 5.8% to 121.3 million tons, the volume of bulk cargo added 9.1% and amounted to 59.7 million tons.

@mediapaluba #ports

samogonka posted:

yeah, my bet is they are settings up Avdeevka as a new Bakhmut to keep the grind going now that the counter offensive is put on ice

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Rolling in his grave

Frosted Flake posted:

https://twitter.com/its_maria012/st...ingawful.com%2F

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/MirochnikIrina/status/1712854242245882154
https://twitter.com/temsu_walling/status/1712871243236757921

nomad2020 posted:

I thought it was also allowable to use for illumination.

FirstnameLastname posted:

burning magnesium cannot be extinguished with water, it just releases hydrogen gas and burns worse