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cochise posted:Now this is some cool poo poo to see. Taking out a noted number station to troll anyone listening is simply amazing. They haven't taken it out, they're just blasting over the same frequency. You can stil hear the buzzer in the background. I just checked it out and they're playing two tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood lol.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:10
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Mokotow posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1498602740188172293?s=20&t=aboYddvVnbqesLxafPROPw Sure, the russians are invading Kupyansk in a single 4x4. They also didn't do a good job of not letting it pass, seemed to drive away just fine. That's a really odd post.
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Mar 1, 2022 12:06
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Mr. Sunshine posted:As someone who's started dabbling in cyrillic - what the hell does the Ь even do? An equivalent in English would be when a word ends in E and it changes the vowel sound of the word: Grim-Grime, Sin-Sine etc. The E isn't there to be pronounced but to modify the sound of the word. kemikalkadet fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Mar 2, 2022 |
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Mar 2, 2022 09:42
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ZombieLenin posted:Wait, are you saying that the Moskva is on fire? That would be a pretty big deal, because that capital ship is the corner stone of the Russian Black Sea's Fleet. Russian ships seem to spend most of their existence on fire in some way, it's like their rest state. https://twitter.com/michaelblowers/status/789405013332271104
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Mar 2, 2022 15:04
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:anonymous is all brand and no action. oo they hacked a satellite to predict its orbital trajectory, a satellite which is constantly broadcasting its location and the datetime for all to hear Yeah but did you see the pics in that tweet? all that green text on a black background, that's how you know it's some serious hacking poo poo.
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Mar 2, 2022 20:08
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1499085547268186112 From what I saw earlier, the conditions for ceasefire were "dissolve your military and government, let us install a puppet government and also give us Donetsk and Luhansk" so i'm not too hopeful.
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Mar 2, 2022 20:34
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the popes toes posted:Guardian: Sainsbury's is also donating 2m to humanitarian aid, which is quite a surprising amount to be honest. As far as I'm aware as a company they have no real ties to either Ukraine or Russia. They're stopping the sale of the only two products they buy directly from Russia which is Russian Standard vodka and some kind of toasted seeds.
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Mar 4, 2022 20:10
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Herstory Begins Now posted:no, these were all comparatively tiny. Crimea and the breakaway regions didn't even require combat to take and Syria likely was the biggest source of recent experience and that was mostly airforce/armor. Georgia was 15 years ago. Crimea wasn't an official RU military op was it? IIRC it was claimed that all of the separatist fighters were Ukrainians from the region. Just ignore all these mystery dudes with Russian gear (the little green men) who turned up to fight. Apart from the scale of the conflict then and now, that seems to be the main difference: "these people are fighting to break away from Ukraine and be closer to us" vs. "We're sending in our own military to dismantle the entire countries government and armed forces.
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Mar 4, 2022 21:02
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Ikasuhito posted:https://twitter.com/5inan_/status/1500133780350197766 This is probably for unditching. Carry a load of wood with you then if you get stuck in mud at a time when you need to keep moving quickly you can use it to get unstuck or pontoon across the mud without having to waste time cutting trees down in situ.
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Mar 5, 2022 18:36
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Djarum posted:No that is still a common thing even in Western aviation. Most pilots will have something called a "knee board" which they will have a note pad. A lot of commercial pilots have moved to iPads but in military aviation a note pad is still standard kit. Yeah it's really not an unusual thing to see. I'd imagine most most combat pilots have a set of hand-written notes while on mission even if they're relying on their avionics for most of it. I know at least in the UK they do a lot of navigation training where they time their track on a certain heading with visual landmarks to crosscheck against. All you need for that kind of navigation is a stopwatch, compass and a notepad with bearings/times. This is a pretty good video about planning a route using that technique, dude used to be a jet trainer in the RAF and now he makes youtube videos about how to fly a hawk in Microsoft flight sim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68ACL5_N24
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Mar 5, 2022 21:46
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:After seeing that interview with the mayor who had Bandera portrait behind him I wanted to dive a little further into learning about how prevalent the far right is in Ukraine. It seems like the 2 biggest far right groups are the Svoboda political party and the Azov Battalion. Theres a number of other groups but they seem more fringe. After reading a number of sources, it sounds like Svoboda in around 2010 had about 10% of the national vote in parliamentary elections, which sounds real bad. But after Euromaidan, in 2014 that dropped to 4%, and in 2019 it dropped to 2% with no representation in parliament. It seems like that is going in a good direction already. It's comparable to a lot of European countries really. UK has the EDL and BNP and also the extreme end of UKIP/Brexit party/Whatever they are now. Germany has AfD, France has Front National. Having an extreme right/nationalist section of society is just the reality for basically every country on earth. To use it as a justification to excuse the kind of thing we're seeing in Ukraine is just falling for propaganda.
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Mar 5, 2022 22:03
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Sir John Falstaff posted:https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1500238754438594564 That's not really true, they're just walling off Russian transactions from the rest of the world:  Edit: Mastercard said the same thing in their press release: https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2022/march/mastercard-statement-on-suspension-of-russian-operations/ kemikalkadet fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 00:01
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Boris Galerkin posted:Are there any unfortunate clothing companies with a prominent “Z” logo? That analyst is right in that it’s slowly gonna turn out to be Putin Russia’s Swastika symbol. 
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Mar 6, 2022 14:34
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fatherboxx posted:You heard of painting over rust now prepare for painting over ice Haha nice, afaik that's right in the centre of St. Petersburg.
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Mar 6, 2022 16:30
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Twincityhacker posted:If anyone knows a good way to get around this, would be great to know. Take anything Nexta posts with a huge grain of salt. They sensationalise everything to a huge degree.
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Mar 6, 2022 23:03
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Vox Nihili posted:Kyiv is both an oblast and a city. There are definitely tanks in the oblast. There were also a number of clips with snow during the opening days of the campaign. So basically this "takedown" seems like nonsense? Yeah that's what I thought when I looked through the pics. Kyiv obl. extends all the way up to Pripyat on the northern border and a long way east. Both directions that Russian convoys have entered from. If Reuters are making the decision to remove tweets from propagandists then fair enough but that dude posting his own twitter owns isn't really much of a win.
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Mar 7, 2022 23:53
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/1501126678738841601 lol no this is just standard "we're making an honest call for peaceful dialogue, if the US rejects it then I guess they were the belligerents after all" line while keeping up hostilities in Ukraine making peaceful cooperation not a remote possibility right now. There's no reason to take anything they say at face value, same with when they say "Providing aid to Ukraine is a declaration of war" or "we're here in Ukraine to stop war happening".
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Mar 8, 2022 11:45
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Sumy looks pretty levelled. Click through for a bunch more videos in the thread. Videos are all panning shots of buildings, no active fighting and no bodies afaict https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1501125578535145472
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Mar 8, 2022 14:23
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TyrantWD posted:Discord is working fine for me. Been on it all day. Recently? All the channels I'm in stopped showing any new activity about an hour ago.
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Mar 8, 2022 20:07
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Payndz posted:As with literally everything else Johnson and the Tories say, it's deliberate misrepresentation at best and (most often) an outright lie that the media is generally unwilling to call them on. The Good Law Project cross-checked the list of Russian oligarchs facing sanctions with those who'd made donations to the Tory party, and surprise! There was zero crossover! Remember way before this conflict kicked off and I think it was the US was briefing that in the event of Russian hostilities, they couldn't rely on the UK because of how in the pocket of Russian money London is lol.
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Mar 10, 2022 16:07
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Deteriorata posted:Yeah, 3rd parties sending arms to one or both sides of an armed conflict has been standard practice for thousands of years. There are pretty clear (if unwritten) rules for dealing with it. Convoys in theater are legit, out of it are not. Yhea the statements don't really seem like a big deal. I'm assuming the Ukrainian military are picking them up and carrying them over the border rather than NATO crossing the border themselves, in which case it's still Russia attacking Ukrainian troops inside Ukraine. There's nothing about the statements Russia made than insinuate they're going to be attacking targets in NATO territory or that they'll be directly targeting NATO troops.
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Mar 12, 2022 17:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqcp8vnrJ7k Israels foreign minister condemning Russia for the invasion. This seems a lot less fence-sitty than they've been up to now. quote:Israel condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has no justification, so we call on Russia to stop shelling and attacks and sit down at the negotiating table to resolve the conflict,"
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Mar 13, 2022 17:06
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BoldFace posted:A rare case of a high ranking official hinting that perhaps not everything has gone according to Putin's plan thus far. That's the first part of the quote, and the rest is "because the Nazi's are using women, children and the elderly as a shield but we're moving ahead step by step and we'll be victorious".
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Mar 13, 2022 20:23
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Big Slammu posted:I can’t emphasize enough how hosed their air transport economy is in the short, medium, and long term. Planes need constant line maintenance and regular “heavy” checks on a scheduled basis. Part of what makes Boeing and Airbus so profitable is that they control the market for parts/licenses for parts. There are aftermarket OEM-approved parts (PMA/DER) but they are not super ubiquitous, and all of the OEM and aftermarket parts are caught up in all sanctions/export controls currently in place. Yeah if any airline goes through with seizing a plane it's hard to overstate how hosed they'll be forever lol. Not only will it only ever be able to fly in Russia, with ever decreasing maintenance standards, but they've cut themselves off from ever being able to lease a plane again. This is a bigger deal than it sounds: most Russian (and worldwide) planes are leased from giant lessor companies, lots of them based in Ireland. By seizing what they can grab hold of now, they're essentially ensuring that they're the only planes they'll ever own besides what they can build domestically. They'll have a few boeings and airbuses until they run out of parts and then I guess they'll be stuck with whatever Sukhoi can cobble together from scrap iron - they wont be able to build superjets for long because they're made with a host of western parts..
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Mar 14, 2022 21:52
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Der Kyhe posted:Yes. I am all in on the Russians getting their generals killed in a one strike, but the idea of doing this in a target area that is known to be an enemy target is just so stupid it has to be propaganda, unless it isn't and then freaking LOL. Yeah the quote read like "oh there were probably a bunch of generals there and we totally killed them". Really not worth reading into too much.
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Mar 18, 2022 23:35
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Slugworth posted:This may have been touched upon already (I guess it almost has to have been) but is there really no way to airdrop food/supplies to Mariupol? What's the limiting factor? Does Russian AA just make it impossible, or would it be considered an act of war for a NATO plane to be in Ukrainian air? Or is it simply too much of a gamble, because everyone knows Russians shooting down a plane would almost force a response? Yes to all.
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Mar 20, 2022 12:59
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ummel posted:Odesa's official telegram channel, in case anyone wants a peak at what that looks like. In chrome you can just right click anywhere on any page and hit "Translate" and it'll translate the whole thing. No copy/paste needed.
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Mar 22, 2022 22:52
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Magic Underwear posted:Did anyone say we should routinely call for the removal of leaders? I thought your argument was that Biden's statement was bad for the reasons you said. During peacetime of course it would be belligerent. But as I said we are at war and that changes everything. Pretty sure America isn't at war with Russia right now.
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Mar 26, 2022 23:39
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KitConstantine posted:Pics that make you go hmmm  Interesting, this is on the east side of the city so presumably they'd be blowing it up after they'd abandoned Kherson and would be using it to stop the Ukrainians chasing them further back towards Crimea rather than using it for defence of Kherson.
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Mar 29, 2022 18:55
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mobby_6kl posted:If only he know how stupid he looks in his Prada boots lol. It's probably based solely on this video that's been going around lol https://twitter.com/roflchatgroup/status/1508158386730328065
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Mar 30, 2022 13:05
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CommieGIR posted:Ah yes, the world jewry. The replies on VK by Russians to the news that they were pulling back from Kyiv were absolutely full of anti-jewish comments. Lots of cope and wailing about defeat and betrayal but also a lot of anti-jewish stuff:  source kemikalkadet fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Mar 30, 2022 16:53
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KitConstantine posted:Videos that make you go Earlier today I watched a jet from Moscow belonging to the "Ministry of Emergency Situations" depart Moscow for Rostov-on-Don but diverted to Grozny mid-flight. wonder if it's related. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ra-89067#2b51dc19
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Mar 30, 2022 23:01
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ZombieLenin posted:Okay, but the UA Army General Staff claims to have no knowledge of this attack. There's a lot of ways to read that tweet that don't mean that the general staff had no idea it was happening. What was the nature of the enquiry? Was the colleague of the tweeter blind emailing the staff offices asking them about it, was it a personal meeting, presser etc? I don't know how the Ukr mil usually disseminates info about it's operations to the press. Is it done seperately or through a central press release office? has the general staff coordinated the official response, do they have the capacity to reply with accurate information without consulting another group? Are the Ukr mil ready to brief the press about it? This happened in the early hours of this morning, that tweet went out maybe 3 hours after it happened. Is the sortie even over yet? has it been debriefed? do the general staff even know the extent of the success or failure yet? There are so many unknowns with an event this recent that you can't take a statement by someone like that at face value. The whole story is wild though and if it really did play out as it appears, with Ukr just flying into russia, blowing poo poo up and flying off then it's as much a PR win as it is a tactical one.
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There's a lot of infowar type stuff going on in Belgorod, probably Ukrainian in origin but it's pretty interesting. A few days ago there was a faked letter saying civilians were advised to evacuate, then yesterday they did a push SMS that air strikes were imminent which a lot of pro-russian accounts said was fake and to ignore it:  source I wonder what the population there must be thinking. They're constantly seeing messages saying attacks are imminent and to evacuate then officials are saying it's fake and to ignore it, then an ammo store explodes and a couple helicopters wander over the border and explode the fuel depot.
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GSV gently caress Your God posted:The most generous view of the Chinese statements from this are that they are playing dumb, otherwise they just seem stupid beyond belief. The explanation that the Chinese ambassador in the UK gave to BBC news a couple weeks back was essentially that China see's itself as the sensible adult that isn't getting involved in a childish squabble. Basically saying that by not picking sides, the world will look at China when this is over as the pragmatic and wise nation that didn't demean itself by getting embroiled in petty feuds. That was the outward message at lease and likely not the summation of what China thinks internally, I'm sure they don't want to lose Russias trade and are looking at how they can come out ahead globally but it was an interesting take.
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Apr 2, 2022 17:38
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Charlz Guybon posted:Aren't spoons ancient though? It's forks that were invented in the renaissance. I’m really starting to doubt the historical accuracy of this novelty restaurant.
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Apr 7, 2022 09:53
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eke out posted:It got reported as if there's reinforcements breaking through from the outside but I think it's a misunderstanding of the claim? seemed like Russian forces had bisected the Ukrainian-controlled territory within the larger encircled forces in Mariupol, cutting off a regiment that then managed to break through that and re-form with the other group there. BBC news radio was reporting that a lot of Ukr forces surrendered today and that Mariupol had effectively fallen. Just checked the BBC news website and it's saying that was the claim from Russian news media but Ukraine is denying it. Since there's no real media reporting presence in Mariupol I think it'll be a while before we get any real picture of what's going on there.
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Shooting Blanks posted:https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/04/07/us-navys-unmanned-vessel-plans-need-improvement-watchdog-agency-says/ Yeah the UK has a drone ship for mine sweeping. USV's are really new and not widely utilised by the military in general though so curious about what Ukraine is getting. Probably some arms manufacturer seeing an opportunity to test their new poo poo in the field. e: here's the UK's one. Don't think it's actually in service properly yet: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2020/august/21/20200821-future-mine-hunting-system-comes-to-clyde
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