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damnit who let galeev into the tweep list i mean, granted, "dubious tweep" is an apt descriptor, but
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VostokProgram posted:Could it be some quirk of translation or hyperbole? Like in English you might say "so-and-so is 'officially' canceled" even though that's not a real thing the word used, юридический, has a very narrow meaning. it's only law- or court-related: https://www.lingvolive.com/en-us/translate/ru-en/%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 законный, by comparison, has a dual sense of legally or legitimately/officially https://www.lingvolive.com/en-us/translate/ru-en/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9
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Apr 4, 2023 00:49
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Boris Galerkin posted:Discord hasn't been "for kids" for ages now. It's even starting to replace free/open source software discussion groups in Slack. And I know some PhDs who had to use Discord for online conferences during the pandemic lockdown. the average meme youtuber channel, however, is probably comfortably in mostly zoomers territory that said giving your kid your classified materials laptop to chat on seems profoundly stupid and unlikely. doubly so since the docs are paper copies that someone took pics of. if anything got taken home and left around where the kids could find them, it was probably those. what idiot with legit access to classified docs just casually snaps phone pics of them and uploads those to their home computer? Popete posted:Article is pay walled, does it name the company? the typical paywall circumvention site is offline today, but there's still good ol' other publications reposting stories from whomever got the scoop originally https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/04/07/british-firm-ships-12bln-of-electronics-to-russia-despite-sanctions-ft-a80753 Mykines Corporation LLP, some no-name solar power company registered to an (ostensibly) Ukrainian national and/or his wife, apparently. their website is also (albeit for likely different reasons than the paywall circumvention site) currently offline (https://mykinessolar.com/about-us.html) and so irrelevant that Wayback Machine has no record of it. Bing has a very basic cache: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4889373818444149&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=LbinDoO0S3mvblCAp-LFUXzWuQXEMOJO they straight up have no DNS A records at present, and basically nothing comes up trying to search for either historical news coverage or site history. best i can find is some place claiming they used to be hosted at some Hong Kong shared hosting outfit that currently returns a 404 if you force resolve the domain to that IP: https://ipinfo.io/103.27.108.60 im not saying it's definitely some Russian security services front co, but it looks odd, to say the least yet one more edit: damnit, if only i could channel my somewhat capable digital forensics autism mania into more useful, consistent work Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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Apr 8, 2023 17:48
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Charlz Guybon posted:He was a technocrat who didn't care about foreign policy, just domestic policy. watching Medvedev waltz down into the TV Rain offices to be so excited about the new internet-focused media company in F*ck This Job is so bizarre now
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Apr 9, 2023 05:14
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Nenonen posted:Despite all his failings Medvedev is still in my Top 3 of Russian presidents. do Lvov and Kerensky count for this
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Apr 9, 2023 06:45
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do we get to count Yeltsin's stints as president of the RSFSR and Russian Federation as separate entities
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Apr 9, 2023 07:16
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OddObserver posted:Good chance the leaker is left-handed.... cyrillic and latin representations of turkic language vowels are kind of a crapshoot, but i wouldn't read too much into that either way
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Apr 10, 2023 19:41
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Fidelitious posted:How would they even find them or suspect that it's some place worth putting resources on? Discord servers are ephemeral, can change names, and can be unsearchable. PRISM didn't just magically disappear after Snowden leaked it. i wouldn't be surprised if NSA has a bulk collection system into place to collect everything on Discord for later search. Discord's normal access controls and search limitations wouldn't apply. Edgar Allen Ho posted:It’s been said before but it can’t be overstated how easy it is to get “secret” clearance in the US. Mine was dudes show up to the people I myself named, and then I get interviewed by another dude who is like “promise you don’t have any compromising drug addictions? I see that passport but you love our man B-Rock and not Hollande right? there's still need to know restrictions. why would we give the dumbass 19 year old who has a clearance so they can work on navy reactors or whatever all our Ukraine troop attrition info and intercept data from the Egyptian military? maybe some idiot young congressional aide for someone on an intelligence committee though. idk how we handle what they have access to
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Apr 12, 2023 16:51
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cr0y posted:Who is managing the provisioning of the encryption keys? the sysadmins. the point isn't so much that they operate the systems that mint the keys, it's that the systems involved say "hey, if anyone but x, y, or z USE these keys, sound alarm". after initial setup and outside exceptional scenarios, sysadmins should not have free access to the systems they manage in high security environments you can and should design access control systems where the people tasked with managing it do not have free access to everything under it indefinitely this is demonstration that US control over secret information post-Snowden failed to realize that you need to ensure that people with keys to the kingdom cannot use them freely, and instead (from my own anecdotal experience) doubled down on existing security models, where you just try to be real sure nobody without keys to the kingdom can walk out with anything they _do_ have access to pre 9/11 siloing is brought up as a cause, but we apparently failed to distinguish permissive access controls between agencies from permissive systems in general. CIA and DOD analysts should be able to share information, but that doesn't require exposing the same information to the sysadmins who keep the network links between CIA and DOJ running
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Apr 14, 2023 06:53
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Saint Celestine posted:Are there any good reading/books out yet about this? good books aren't going to be a thing until years after the dust has settled, and it is very much still up in the air. at present you're going to get good journalism that later becomes the sources for those books, among other things on the russian side, meduza and holod have been producing good work and translating their major pieces into english. novaya gazeta has now shifted into the same, but i haven't been following them as much. historically their english coverage has been rather crap and i'll cop to being lazy and not reading longer pieces in russian. mediazona produces some good work, but is probably the most biased of the russian publications. i should read doxa for extremely zoomer content, but they definitely have no english coverage, and again, i am lazy the ukrainian side is unfortunately limited. idk, afaik prewar media there was more local and dominated by powerful local interests, which produced a different dynamic than russia's state/opposition media dichotomy. the kyiv independent is decent but kinda-sorta newly formed, and also (understandably) biased in a charm offensive sense. honestly, despite their typical failures reporting on the region, major american and european media have done better stories on the ukrainian side. in the same vein as plokhy's forthcoming book, the recorded snyder lecture series is good comparative history for the background leading up to the war, with the caveat that its coverage of post-USSR history is more limited than i would want (idk how plokhy's books do in that regard--obviously the one isn't out yet, and i still need to start Gates of Europe), but that's kinda understandable since Ukraine circa 2005 is both fairly niche and very recent as far as historical work goes
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Apr 18, 2023 09:46
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Somaen posted:...biased towards what? Not imprisoning people? bias can fall on either side; that's a normal thing in media analysis. it's the same thing you'd use to describe fox news or mother jones in relation to, say reuters
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Apr 18, 2023 16:40
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Paladinus posted:So maybe no actual counteroffensive yet, but ongoing active preparations that people mistake for the final phase. the OSINT crowd have started playing Who's That Pokemon!?, at least https://twitter.com/Mortis_Banned/status/1648761759354740765
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Apr 19, 2023 20:44
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Somaen posted:Please just say mud season someone's gonna be real mad if they ever start reading contemporary informal russian and seeing how many english loanwords are in use for things that could reasonably use a word of russian origin dehumanize yourself and face to фейки and смайлики
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Apr 25, 2023 18:48
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OddObserver posted:I feel obligated to point out that someone has remarked on how інцелпостінг is comprehensible in Ukrainian (sadly can't find whom to credit), which really shows the influence of US cultural stuff (as do things like Ukrainian, or for that matter, Russian, rappers). I do wonder to what extent this happens in countries with lower familiarity with English, though. loanwords are very much a historically common thing, and while a bit of a кринж reaction when you encounter a new one is pretty normal, they're pretty much inevitable. which source language is a factor of the times, but it's something that has been happening forever, and words sorta nativize over time. nobody bats an eye at шанс or журнал anymore, even though im sure there were plenty of people in 18th and 19th century russia complaining about all the drat french loanwords (hell, Stepan Trofimovich in Demons is in part literally a parody of fancy aristocrats insisting on using french for everything). on the other end, we're pretty used to the idea of "the White House drug czar" or whatever. it's always a bit of a joke when it first shows up in either direction: quote:Ругались матом на английском языке, there's definitely some degree of English -> Russian -> other language lag, but it definitely happens. peak twitter nonsense moments for me include seeing some random Uzbek foreign affairs official complaining about "feiklar" or similar, from the original loan of фейки (for "fake news") into Russian from English, and then into Uzbek via chopping off the original loanword Russian plural suffix and attaching the Uzbek equivalent
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Apr 25, 2023 21:35
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Paladinus posted:There was at least one Zambian student who died in Ukraine fighting for Wagner. But he was recruited in a Russian prison. can north koreans even freely leave? i guess maybe the regime there would be okay leasing people as yet another shady revenue stream to supplement drugs and ransomware, maybe
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May 2, 2023 13:52
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Willo567 posted:How does any of this help Ukraine? It's just going to make Russia take it out on innocent Ukranians more yeah i dont think you could really encourage russia more on that front
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May 3, 2023 13:31
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Chalks posted:You may be correct, but I don't think the mere capacity for one side to act irrationally tips the balance of probability here. Their previous mistakes have been easy to explain with poor intel and corruption, here we need to leap to them successfully pulling off a complex operation that simply makes no sense. the myriad reasons that the 1999 apartment bombings are considered a possible false flag operation, along with the bungling of the Dubrovka and Beslan sieges, are demonstration enough that the Russian security services are perfectly capable of screwing up operations on home turf i am doubtful we'll have a good explanation for this (or the above events) until decades down the road when archives get unsealed, but a poorly-conceived and executed false flag operation isn't outside the realm of possibility
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May 4, 2023 16:24
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Charlz Guybon posted:From the Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. those are just boat tours on the moscow river, it's completely normal
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May 6, 2023 05:09
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Sekenr posted:If anyone is interested how is Belarus after 2 years away. hey now, Georgia's an exception since their economy runs on tourism. most post-Soviet airports are a bit... iffy. i don't recall Minsk being any less dingy than Astana or Tashkent, or even Sheremetyevo circa 2010 (the latter has since had a considerable glow-up because lol infinite Moscow money funnel). that's maybe not a resounding endorsement. i can't remember Volgograd, Irkutsk, Manas, Almaty, or Pulkovo at all, but i figure they mostly have a similar "planes land here and you can go through migration control, don't expect much else" vibe
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May 17, 2023 17:33
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whats the status on more soup though
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May 19, 2023 19:36
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Young Freud posted:I was listening to the "Helluva A Way To Die" podcast and Joe Kassabian lives in Armenia and frequently goes to Georgia and he was going on about how both countries are filled with "visiting" Russians right now and the public is getting tired of them, especially Georgia, for all the reasons you could imagine. it's honestly kinda weird that ive only had one "fuckin russians" moment on this trip (as a russian-speaking american that normally defaults to russian in post-soviet countries because english is a crapshoot) it was in tajikistan to boot, arguably one of the more russia-friendly former republics. ain't nobody wearing "Tajikistan" clothing (with the exception of the national football team, which was inexplicably staying at my hotel), but plenty of people wearing "Russia" jackets or hats (usually with the english spelling for god knows what reason) shoutout to the one kid wearing an "СССР" jacket
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May 21, 2023 20:07
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Paladinus posted:A spokesperson for the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukrainain MoD had this to say: "conveniently they have obtained a number of russian tanks, as we understand, from a shop"
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May 22, 2023 13:22
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Irony Be My Shield posted:What would you do when they ask you to produce a list of undesirable neighbours? As a practical matter, occupations generally have collaborators. Debating individuals over their hypothetical moral convictions isn't that meaningful: you're going to end up with some people in collaboration, some people in resistance, and some people just trying to weather the storm with their heads down regardless.
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May 23, 2023 14:08
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Libluini posted:Tadschikistan Germany wtf is this spelling on a broader note im sad we probably won't get Родные 2 since Russia has maybe realized at this point that Mansky isn't actually a pro-regime filmmaker.
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May 25, 2023 19:33
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Grape posted:Do you actually honestly seriously believe Ukraine is encouraging Orthodox jihad it's only fair after all those years when Muscovy declared that all non-Muscovite orthodoxy was invalid and forced migrants to get baptized again
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May 29, 2023 01:25
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following another concerted terror strike against kyiv, ukraine is sending a pleasant good morning response to moscow https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1663398514477658112 https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1663413883053195264 ed: apparently a significant size attack fleet. a bunch shot down, but two got through to targets within the MKAD: https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1663472769265287168 --- unrelated tangential personal anecdote fluff: russian tourists in regions that typically have russian tourists very much do not discuss current events or ask americans about their opinions of them. central asian locals do! Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 10:52 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 07:10
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Cantide posted:Say about Putin what you want at least he's not active on loving social media putin can barely into a computer himself so...
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May 31, 2023 16:04
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beer_war posted:
woo poo poo about GMOs aside, are we sure Reade is in Russia? as someone with enduring interest in the country and appreciation for some of the things it produces, NOBODY should be lauding the food
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Jun 4, 2023 16:50
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Chill Monster posted:Not having access to this water is going to have serious financial implications for the russian government if continue to control and occupy Crimea. i mean do we think Putin had a long thoughtful rumination on whether to approve blowing it up after consulting with advisors across the government on the long-term implications of that action or do we think some general said "yo we could blow this up and impede Ukrainian attacks" and Putin was like "YOLO gently caress it" without consulting Nabiulina or Minselkhoz in the slightest like if he were the sort of person nowadays to take the former approach i don't think we'd be in this situation in the first place
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Jun 7, 2023 16:48
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boofhead posted:I thought most competent security services already knew who the likely spies were, and it was political/diplomatic/"decorum" reasons (as well as the desire to keep an eye on the foreign agents you've already identified) that precluded them from expelling them etc "spies" is ambiguous. officers who work under official cover as part of a diplomatic mission are hopefully known as "not actually an agricultural attache" if your CI people are good at their jobs, but you don't expel them because the other country will usually turn around and do the same to your official cover spooks (which you definitely have, and who are similarly probably known to host nation CI). agents are not employed by state; they're regular residents that officers recruit to feed the officer intelligence or do secret squirrel ops recruiting among emigre populations is something russian (and other) security services do do through both carrot and stick means, hence why you get things like security clearance denials because of foreign relatives poo poo like planting compromised people in foreign territory to do dirty work also happens and is a longstanding tactic employed by the russian security services (i still need to read The Compatriots by the Agentura people, but afaik that's the one of its main areas of focus), so Pavel isn't entirely out in left field. however, the suggestion that you should apply blanket surveillance to every russia-associated person you can find a la japanese internment is a bit daft, especially since the comparison example is generally regarded as a mistake. even if you toss ethical concerns to the wind, you'll spread your CI resources way too thin and mostly just dragnet a bunch of randos who aren't security service agents Orthanc6 posted:Sure but even if he gets half that he's still gonna spend his entire youth behind bars, and then have zero career prospects when he gets out. 30 years ago was before Ukraine signed the Budapest memorandum, for a scale reference for all the things this guy gets to watch fly by from behind bars. maybe the media and cultural landscape will have shifted so much in 30 years that this isn't an option, but surely he could find "work" as yet another "i was a rebel!" talking head in the right wing grift space
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Jun 16, 2023 04:51
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spankmeister posted:Russia: Has multiple troll farms actively spreading misinformation and propaganda, affecting elections, world events, etc. we also do the same thing, we just suck at it quote:Importantly, the data also shows the limitations of using inauthentic tactics to
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Jun 18, 2023 14:50
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Grape posted:There was a map of Turkish expat votes for one of Erdogan's creepy power extending amendment things a few years back that really told a story about each community abroad. Is there any Russian equivalent I wonder? Are have those elections been too borked for too long to have meaningful open data? russian election results, especially presidential elections, have been skewed for quite some time for a variety of reasons, but you can still track trends and qualitative stated voter positions`1 StumblyWumbly posted:Another friend who has a Russian wife and was planning to move to Moscow for lower cost living
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Jun 18, 2023 21:57
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Grape posted:There was a map of Turkish expat votes for one of Erdogan's creepy power extending amendment things a few years back that really told a story about each community abroad. Is there any Russian equivalent I wonder? Are have those elections been too borked for too long to have meaningful open data? russian election results, especially presidential elections, have been skewed for quite some time for a variety of reasons. you can still track trends and qualitative stated voter positions. tl;dr you have some expected opposition-minded expats, but a lot of people that vote for putin more as a show of support for russia in an environment they consider hostile to the russian nation. there are also plenty of post-soviet olds that vote on nostalgia vibes and support putin's restoration of empire tack raw per-precinct data is available (VPN into serbia or whatever; like many russian state sites, requests from US IPs are currently binned) but a pain to analyze because they just give you precinct numbers, which you'd then have to collate with info about what those precincts actually are. find an academic librarian if you're really curious; any good analysis is gonna be buried in some obscure poli sci journal if available at all. wikipedia has a self-sourced data map that indicates the aggregrate expat vote is generally more pro-putin than many domestic regions, but that's not particularly useful absent turnout figures alongside it StumblyWumbly posted:Another friend who has a Russian wife and was planning to move to Moscow for lower cost living i mean, while probably technically not wrong if they can work remote and pull a foreign salary, lol at the idea of moving to Moscow for low cost of living
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Jun 18, 2023 22:24
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:We had some viral fakes going around on the Hungarian socials about some Russian woman shopping in Moscow for pennies, showing the receipt etc. Meanwhile the government claims that all the inflation (highest in the EU, with almost 50% on food products) is because of the "disastrous sanctions of the EU". I know that the whole cheap living in Russia thing is bullshit, because I still have friends and relatives living there. much of russia does have way lower cost of living than the rest of europe, but moscow is extreme levels of "imperial center where all the rich people live", with way higher cost of living than most of a country noted for its stark wealth disparities
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Jun 19, 2023 02:24
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Nenonen posted:I specifically said that Prigozhin cannot win, not that Putin can't lose. Prig can't create a new civilian political apparatus to replace United Russia and all of its governors and local councilors and so on, nor can he expect Russians to bend knee to a private military company's boss trying to take power at gun point. sure they would, just call him False Dmitry IV. raising a private army to usurp the Russian throne is a time-honored tradition. the people will happily cry "да здравствует царь Дмитрий Иванович!" to the successor of an unpopular leader AT LEAST UNTIL THEY REALIZE HE'S A DIRTY CATHOLIC quote:I brought this up because someone said that we should be scared of the option where Prigozhin does win and becomes Russia's new fascist tsar. It's just not going to happen. See how the August coup went for comparison. Gorbachev's career was over but everything else went completely against the coup's goals. while i am also skeptical of Putin's ability to maintain control after this, contemporary Russia does lack an equivalent to the forces that took advantage of the post-GKChP power vacuum. there's neither a clear set of government officials discredited by coup association (Prigozhin appears to have done this without much support other than his guns) nor a set of challengers to fill the void. there's no obvious Yeltsin and band of nationalists waiting in the wings to take advantage of the fractures in Putin's control structures anyway, good day to relisten to some fascist punks out of rostov with choice album art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8Y0y2U6DU Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Jun 24, 2023 21:08
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whydirt posted:How do you say Outer Heaven in Russian? "Vyshe Homiel", apparently. luka got some balls letting coup bro settle down in his backyard i envy whoever gets to play Peskov in the forthcoming Iannucci film. fuckin lol, after all this you trot out ol' sandy mustache?
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Jun 24, 2023 21:25
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Tigey posted:his name always kept coming up in my peripheral vision as a 'Russia expert' that some people love to cite he works more to promote himself on social media than actual experts, and has been doing so for longer than academics broke out of their bubble a bit and started using social media
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Jun 26, 2023 17:21
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khwarezm posted:What does he even do these days. get drunk and shitpost honestly someone should buy him an account
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Jun 27, 2023 08:59
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hitchensgoespop posted:I've been reading the crayon eating thread over the last few days so I'm qualified to provide an unbiased answer to this. why would you do this to yourself it's like when i was so excited about the coup attempt i thought to strike up a conversation about it with a taxi driver, and was then promptly reminded that most people's knowledge of world events does not extend beyond charge they phone and eat hot chip
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Jun 30, 2023 18:52
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BillsPhoenix posted:On the surface I completely agree. Anyone in Eastern Europe should have this reaction as well. the US has significant allies in eastern europe, but that maybe matters more for federal politicians if i had to point to anything it's that ukraine both has a lot of material for a charm offensive (because the russians are brutal and callous) and learned how important it was to conduct one after 2014. comparatively, americans i talked with about the prior invasion usually had no idea it'd happened. current events abroad just usually aren't a concern for most people
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Jul 1, 2023 10:11
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