Karma Comedian posted:

CommieGIR and Toxic Mental are the thread IKs. Also I will be here to handle things as needed as well as Tarquinn.

karmacomediansa@gmail.com if you don't have plat and want to reach me about an issue

FirstnameLastname posted:

that's what i said, they were volunteers, i think you misread it

HonorableTB posted:

The imperial centers of Moscow and St Petersburg absolutely receive preferential treatment when it comes to conscription. Here, check out this map of where troops have been conscripted from to get a better idea - these were mapped due to casualty counts



A resident in SPb or Moscow would have a much different experience simply refusing a conscription order than a resident of Tuva or Buryatia. When I lived in Russia I was based out of Saint Petersburg and the stark contrast between SPb and even a respectably sized city like Arkangelsk or Irkutsk in terms of sheer wealth and modernization was, at times, stunning. If you go 15 miles outside of Samara you start encountering dirt roads, for example. The cities are the only places of influence in Russia and of the cities only two actually matter and those are St Petersburg and Moscow. Everything else is distinctly on lower levels and that level drops the further east you go

Futanari Damacy posted:

If we're to be successful with this, one thing that has to stop is the false equivalencies. They're a huge red flag for a number of reasons.

We are to infer from this statement that because the Russian army = Wehrmacht, that Putin = Hitler, Russia = Nazi Germany, and so forth ad nauseum. The purpose of using such equivalency is to get other people frothing at the mouth, because everyone correctly agrees that Nazis = poo poo. But all it does is trivialize the horrors of the Second World War. We've heard it every time America has an enemy- Saddam is worse than Hitler, Gaddafi is worse than Hitler, Maduro (lol) is worse than Hitler, and on and on and on. To those of us whom that war actually has meaning beyond video games, they are not the meaningful comparisons that the people blithely making them think they are.

If you want to know who the Nazis are, they will gladly tell you. Heck, they have a whole pantheon of symbols that they've stolen from various non-poo poo belief systems and permanently corrupted the meaning of. For those wanting to get a better sense of how to identify a real neo-Nazi, here's a good resource to get started: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search?f%5B0%5D=topic%3A1705

hemale in pain posted:

I think it's just talking about nazis all the time is lame. Not as lame as using it as an excuse for your genocidal war though lol

BrassRoots posted:

Most people that give loans like to get paid.

Technically, it is going to Ukraine. But all the aid getting thrown their way isn't free. There's always a catch. Plus it sounds good to report "we're giving ukraine all this money".

I'm pessimistic on governments and find them to be shady as gently caress. I guess we will wait and see.

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/drewpavlou/status/1662774954423889921?s=46&t=lbKxPpxJyMeDN0i-nFAg4A

armpit_enjoyer posted:

https://twitter.com/dsa_intl_comm/status/1663930776776318977

I am so, so tired

Bone Crimes posted:

Ah, ok thanks for the clarity. Still, I could like understand maybe one raid getting through, then some changes happening and that not really being feasible anymore, but this (even if a a low level) seems to be happing for what - a week now?

zone posted:

The amazing Blyatman

ronya posted:

an information minister moment:

https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1666079339178500100

Oldsmobile posted:

Ikr, I saw a tweet saying something like "now why would Russia blow this dam up, doesn't make sense" (obviously implying it was Ukraine) and like have you not been paying attention to the last year-and-a-half?! Liek why would Russia do any of this poo poo, it doesn't make sense YET HERE WE loving ARE

fatherboxx posted:

second boot has hit the dam

HonorableTB posted:

In an uncommon seriouspost from me, the dam's destruction was an absolutely calamitous event. The flood waters are not expected to dissipate into the Black Sea for up to 2 weeks, and therefore it is extremely unlikely that casualty counts, whether civilian, Ukrainian, Russian, animal, or human, will be known for quite some time, and will likely never be fully known in the same vein as other mass casualty events such as tsunamis and hurricane storm surges. If anyone would have those figures, it would be the RU Ministry of Defense, and since they didn't bother telling their own boys to get the gently caress out before flooding them to death, there's likely never going to be anything like a real accounting of the losses from this on the Russian side.

Deki posted:

I do have to lol that most of the accused western "wonderwaffe" are just regular rear end systems/vehicles that have been in active and regular use since before I've been alive. Though most of them are going to have modernization upgrades/packages of course.


The Switchblades are the only extremely recent thing I've heard about the US giving Ukraine, and those seem to be more about seeing how well they actually perform in combat (not very well, apparently)

Nelson Mandingo posted:

Yeah I dunno normally I would agree that elitism and generalizations are bad and but I don't really see how broad strokes criticism of Russian society is gonna lead someone down a path to something similar to "Nuclear Armageddon is good actually, God gave us Nukes."

Especially you know, someone in a position of authority and not a position you want someone raging out with hysterical annihilationist rhetoric.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1669038889812516866
Second army of the world

EasilyConfused posted:

I can't even begin to parse this.

HonorableTB posted:

the complaint is russia is getting its poo poo kicked in and they dont like it

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/two-weeks-at-the-front-in-ukraine

Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine, a good article.

HonorableTB posted:

confused posted:

Yes. Moscovites are going to all suddenly decide that they care enough about politics to attempt to fight off a massive group of heavily armed mercenaries with, ummm, rocks or something I guess.

Tarquinn posted:

Quoting this for the new page.

Oldsmobile posted:

I mean, with zero info available, all there is to do is speculate like crazy.

Prigozhin "getting what he wanted" isn't exactly clear either.

E: Shoigu is nervous, accodring to Telegram rumors: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1673072309668544513

EasilyConfused posted:

Unless those linked articles say more, that's very different than:

fatherboxx posted:

Lol and lmao at all the rumours that Shoigu is done

Toxic Mental posted:

I mean we can just threadban fizzy if he's actually malicious, idgaf. I'd leave that up to the thread's posters though because you're the ones ultimately reading it (or not reading itlol)

Toxic Mental posted:

lol Okay you're threadbanned bitch, that's enough of whatever this was lmao

the popes toes posted:

On a few telegram channels so not sure of their provenance but the Russian VDV (reportedly) publicly expressed that if their commander is removed, it will be a fatal mistake for, presumably, the MOD.

“We, the paratroopers, warn that we will not tolerate such actions in relation to General Teplinsky. And in the event of the slightest threat to his life and freedom, we will stand as a wall to protect the honor and dignity of our commander. We are very determined. Up to the point that we will withdraw from our positions and go to the rescue of our Bata. You, those who sit in the offices! The landing party does not abandon its own! Do not make fatal mistakes"

Mikojan posted:

Satire is dead