KomradeX posted:

How do they get that many people in the street for a loving transparency law

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Exact figures of how many from the community are fighting are hard to come by, but it is estimated that there are a few thousand, said Stephan Müller, an adviser on international affairs with the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.

The actual number among the country’s estimated 400,000 Roma could be even higher – a recent survey of 143 Roma in Ukraine by the Roma Foundation for Europe found that a quarter of respondents had relatives on the frontlines. Of these, a third were volunteers.

It’s a remarkable contribution given that Roma, whose roots in Ukraine trace back centuries, rank among the country’s most discriminated against, complicating their access to decent housing, jobs, healthcare and schooling.

Jel Shaker posted:

‘My example can change minds’: Roma fighting for place in postwar Ukraine

Officer Sandvich posted:

https://twitter.com/GAMZIRI24/status/1784668914699338032

KomradeX posted:

How do they get that many people in the street for a loving transparency law

Officer Sandvich posted:

https://twitter.com/GAMZIRI24/status/1784668914699338032

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Ukrainian 'Grandpa' leads over-60s unit fighting Russian forces for free

ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, April 28 (Reuters) - Oleksandr Taran's mobile artillery unit isn't officially part of Ukraine's military, but that hasn't stopped his men from destroying Russian targets on their own dime.

"We ... get by thanks to the pension fund," the 68-year-old commander - whose call sign is "Grandpa" - said with a chuckle.

Taran's all-volunteer unit, the Steppe Wolves, is comprised of dozens of Ukrainian men mostly over 60 years old who are considered too old to be drafted but still want to fight.

Roving behind the front line with truck-mounted rocket launchers, they take orders from field commanders and work with other troops, contributing to the war effort despite lacking official support from the military.

The unit is funded by donations and stocked with faulty rounds they repair themselves as well as weapons captured from the enemy

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Jel Shaker posted:

‘My example can change minds’: Roma fighting for place in postwar Ukraine

Weka posted:

Ahhh, Rome, with their pathetic 2000 year total existence.

Cerebral Bore posted:

the one good thing about the nordics is that we do get some p drat good bread

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

The point of the transparency law, ironically, is to figure that out.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Roma actually comes from "Roman" too, according to recent research.

When the Romani people entered the western world from India, they apparently did so through the province of Egypt (hence, "Gypsies" according to some etymologists). They received some sort of grant of citizenship or permission for being there, which they turned into an ethnonym, "Ῥωμαῖος", Rhōmaîos, Romans. They were, as far as they were concerned, the (Indian descended) people of Rome, the same as any other people given permission to enter Roman lands (or citizenship, that's a little murky).

Somehow, in their travels, things got complicated so that both they and the (present day) Romanians, who were mostly Slavs, ended up living in the province of Dacia Ripensis, which was lost to the Roman Empire around 600, and, miraculously, both held onto a Roman identity (or at least name) longer than practically anyone else who was cut off from the Empire.

I have a book about this somewhere around here, it might be in my home office though.

Dokapon Findom posted:

So the Romanians are Roman the way Iranians are Aryan- technically correct, but functionally the exact opposite when things actually shake down

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FirstnameLastname posted:

"yakub was the good guy" hotep revisionism

DaysBefore posted:

How do younread this as anything other than horrifying or desperate. Like those pictures before the invasion started of Azov guys training Babushkas with AK47s

Ardennes posted:

As far as Tbilisi, the protest got broken up by riot police and the government they will go for the second trading, it needs a third reading and a veto override to get into law.

KomradeX posted:

How do they get that many people in the street for a loving transparency law

OctaMurk posted:

U.S.-provided precision-guided munitions have failed in mission after mission in Ukraine, taken down by Russian electronic warfare. On Wednesday, the Pentagon revealed the latest casualty.

A new ground-launched version of an air-to-ground weapon developed for Ukraine on a rapid timeline failed to hit targets in part because of Russian electro-magnetic warfare, Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, said at an event held by think tank CSIS.

LaPlante suggested that Ukraine may no longer be interested in the weapon. “When you send something to people in the fight of their lives that just doesn’t work, they’ll try it three times and they’ll just throw it aside,” said LaPlante. In congressional testimony in March, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Daniel Patt said the targeting system for the GPS-guided Excalibur round “dropped from 70 percent effectiveness to 6 percent effectiveness over a matter of a few months as new EW mechanisms came out” in Ukraine.

Russian electronic warfare attacks have also directed GMLRS missiles off course, CNN reported last spring. The missiles are similarly guided by a GPS. Russia has also successfully used electronic warfare against GPS-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), which are retrofitted aerial bombs.

OctaMurk posted:

U.S.-provided precision-guided munitions have failed in mission after mission in Ukraine, taken down by Russian electronic warfare. On Wednesday, the Pentagon revealed the latest casualty.

A new ground-launched version of an air-to-ground weapon developed for Ukraine on a rapid timeline failed to hit targets in part because of Russian electro-magnetic warfare, Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, said at an event held by think tank CSIS.

LaPlante suggested that Ukraine may no longer be interested in the weapon. “When you send something to people in the fight of their lives that just doesn’t work, they’ll try it three times and they’ll just throw it aside,” said LaPlante. In congressional testimony in March, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Daniel Patt said the targeting system for the GPS-guided Excalibur round “dropped from 70 percent effectiveness to 6 percent effectiveness over a matter of a few months as new EW mechanisms came out” in Ukraine.

Russian electronic warfare attacks have also directed GMLRS missiles off course, CNN reported last spring. The missiles are similarly guided by a GPS. Russia has also successfully used electronic warfare against GPS-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), which are retrofitted aerial bombs.

Ardennes posted:

Yeah Russian improvements in jamming especially of GPS kind of throws the United States’ whole big strategy against their enemies off. The future was suppose to be GPS guided everything that was going to be so precise it could be a reliable force multiplier. If the Russians can jam or at least disrupt JDAMs and GMLRS rockets it becomes a good question of what is suppose to be doing the damage because it isn’t HE or DPICM rounds.

Ardennes posted:

Also, it is true that the Russians haven’t gone as deep into stealth as the US of China, but they also have put a lot of weight on radar jamming in the skies. You can have a a great stealth aircraft but if the radar on it is being jammed, it is going to be an issue. The Ukrainians have been getting AWACS support but in a hot war they are going to be one of the first targets.

Nonsense posted:

Georgia will always belong to Russia. I'm very tired of these corrupt mini states.

Putin's continued meekness will undo the Russian empire. The next Russian Big Man will humiliate Europe.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I realize the forces on firing and acceleration are different with rockets, but since the GPS units fail all the time on shells anyway, I wonder how much of this is the rockets not having very good GPS systems to begin with? Seems like a great way to explain away faulty equipment.

"Japanese torpedo jammers are causing the Mark 14 torpedo to run deep, and for the detonator to fail"

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I realize the forces on firing and acceleration are different with rockets, but since the GPS units fail all the time on shells anyway, I wonder how much of this is the rockets not having very good GPS systems to begin with? Seems like a great way to explain away faulty equipment.

"Japanese torpedo jammers are causing the Mark 14 torpedo to run deep, and for the detonator to fail"

KomradeX posted:

They can't all be paid, right?

Freezer posted:

Along that line - the effectiveness of stealth aircraft against modern air defenses in a peer conflict hasn't really been tested so far, and betting the farm on it working as advertised is risky.

We'll have to wait until Ukraine gets F-35s in 2028.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

I would just replace the jammable GPS module with a laser detector and put an IR laser designator on the aircraft. Maybe the US could look into this space age technology for their 6th generation aircraft.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

They got scammed into paying a king's ransom for the copperhead, just like they later would for excalibur.

Even the new JDAM + laser bombs cost significantly more than just Paveway kit + JDAM kit would on paper, from what I remember.

Mr Hootington posted:

The press gang videos are so hosed up

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

This is what defending democracy looks like.

Regarde Aduck posted:

Nonsense's style of posting is syq's but from a slightly different universe than this one