Cipheron on 3/3/2024 at 10:30

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It's two weeks out from their election too.

Such a leak couldn't have come at a better time for Putin, that's probably on purpose.

They probably have more intel so they just used whatever was convenient. Like, it's not really a secret that NATO nations are backing Ukraine, so discussions on what aid and weapons they can give them definitely exist.

Also keep in mind, the bridge is 100% a military target. They're not talking about bombing cities, which is what the Russians are actually doing.

BTW this is what intercepted Russian audio is about:

(https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldier-describes-commanders-using-sick-troops-cannon-fodder-1867472)

Starker on 3/3/2024 at 16:47

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This leak is likely serving to reinforce the Russian talking point that Ukrainians couldn't have damaged the bridge, etc. That it must be the doing of the West, who of course is the real enemy Russia is fighting and who started the whole war and is the reason for any significant difficulty Russia is having currently.

demagogue on 3/3/2024 at 20:27

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Germany renounced all claims to Kaliningrad during the negotiations to reintegrate East Germany.

Worth remembering that Poland also renounced all claims to west Ukraine before the Soviet Union even fell, not to mention the Budapest Memorandum.

The other fun thing to post is the (https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1584827906429456386) map of every country invaded by Russia since 1900 alongside a map of every other European country that invaded another European country since 1900... which I can't find, but you can imagine. For European countries attacking other European countries after WWII, there's the Balkans mess in the 1990s, and that's about it. (Edit: I almost didn't even count this because it was one country breaking up and the pieces at war, but NATO got involved, so that might count, depending on how you define attack vs. collective defense.)

But on the Balkans, they'll want to nitpick how much was driven by Milosevic & Serbian politics. That was the original thing that broke East-West relations right after the Cold War ended. But I don't think it represents any serious threat to Russia now; that conflict was over 30 years ago. Also, if you count European countries attacking non-European countries, there are some there (Algeria, Iraq), but that shouldn't be what Russia is worried about either.

baeuchlein on 4/3/2024 at 02:06

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I have now watched a movie on YouTube where someone comments on that recording of four German officers. It does not seem to be what some (non-neutral(!)) sources - the YT channel I watched included - make of it.

First of all, German officials stated that the recording is no fake. So far, they can't rule out that whatever was published in Russia has been slightly edited - some words could have been introduced into the real recording, or other parts cut out, et cetera. But the main part seems to be real, not fake.

Second, the german minister of defense said that it is all a part of Putin's propaganda war

Since german laws possibly do not allow me to share the information I originally wrote here, even though one can find it in the internet, I have now deleted the rest of the former text. Sorry, but I do not see any other option.

lowenz on 8/3/2024 at 12:05

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Peskov is a funny guy. Really not belonging to the russian gov elite, he could have chosen a less sad destiny for himself.

Ah, just for the ones who don't know:

.....daughter, Elizaveta "Liza" Peskova (born 1998), is an assistant to far-right Aymeric Chauprade, a French Member of the European Parliament. -> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymeric_Chauprade)