Subjective Effect on 20/8/2024 at 06:17
Quote Posted by SD
In Soviet Russia, Ukraine invades you.
Lol
lowenz on 20/8/2024 at 08:22
Quote Posted by DuatDweller
Yeah you will have to build up those finger muscles to a web search machine level.
Oh by the way, Google got a proposal to split into smaller companies, damn it.
Welcome to chaos and disorder.
Big bad corporations, oh no that's tyranny!
Small divided corpororations, oh no that's chaos!
Starker on 21/8/2024 at 06:08
A Russian man from Saint Petersburg admonishing the fleeing civilians of Kursk to stay and fight turns out to be in the funeral business:
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https://twitter.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1825675780010995729)
Context: Saint Petersburg is one of the wealthier cities of Russia and its inhabitants are far less likely to be drafted into military service.
lowenz on 21/8/2024 at 11:01
Quote Posted by Starker
A Russian man from Saint Petersburg admonishing the fleeing civilians of Kursk to stay and fight turns out to be in the funeral business:
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https://twitter.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1825675780010995729)
Context: Saint Petersburg is one of the wealthier cities of Russia and its inhabitants are far less likely to be drafted into military service.
"Society is ONE" (with the death).
DuatDweller on 21/8/2024 at 17:17
When android phones OS goes to hell (badly done for example, you'll see what I mean).
Ukraine soldiers (either mercenaries or national) are quite desperate and willing to do anything to win, including doing something illogical and crazy (even if they themselves in the foot, not literal).
Qooper on 29/8/2024 at 19:29
I've been following Prof. Gerdes for about a year. I thought I'd share this video of his: [video=youtube;6oGeA15J49I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGeA15J49I[/video]
The situation in Pokrovsk is grim. I hope the Ukrainians are able to hold the town until the weather gets rainy.
Starker on 3/9/2024 at 13:01
Stumbled upon a conversation with a former Australian diplomat about Russia's red lines and why it's very unlikely that Russia is going to commit nuclear suicide if it fails to conquer Ukraine or gets a harsher beating than it anticipated. The relevant part is from 26:30 to 1:02:00 (The rest is filled with talk about bizarre and esoteric politics revolving around the US, Australia and China).
Starting from the relevant part: (
https://youtu.be/Qaocovy5KwQ?si=wUXFM5LGC-RI2ElI&t=1350)
lowenz on 3/9/2024 at 13:13
Quote Posted by Starker
The rest is filled with talk about bizarre and esoteric politics revolving around the US, Australia and China
That's the real problem, you (generic you) don't realizes how today politics involve near-esoteric / mystical&mythical thinking and mindset.....something gone really wrong opposing the "materialistic interpretation" of reality. Somehow it's a sickness, an unholy (I love using this spiritualistic vocabulary against the actual spiritualists and idealists) legacy of the "deep" far right thinking of post-Enlightenment era against the materialism and the reductionism (the so called "Reaction"), paradoxically using as a leverage on the people psyche the product of the socialism culture like Orwell and the idea of the "rebellion againt the system": nazbol-like formations and "proper" neo-nationalism in general just orbit around the idea that the "system" is a form of enlighted tyranny to fight with nostalgia-driven ethno-dictatorship seeking a past - and now denied - halo/majesty.
That's what russian elite thinks.....and all their allies in Europe.
Just remember what I've said in this thread about russian political elite and the varangian guard ( (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard) ) and the enormous weight of foundational mythology in the process of creating a political ideology to "democratically" drive people (of course you can apply this to Ukraine too, but Ukraine doesn't have nuclear warheads to push its grandiosity/exceptional complex like Russia and USA have)
"Thanks" to the market economy as a prime mover of our society, the empty gigantic hole left by socialism will to shape the humanity future as "one" is now filled by nostalgia of a "saint & noble" world never existed but in the mind of conservative thinkers of the late '800.
That's dangerously tragic because the only thing that means something in that values system is the "greatness" in the history chapters and individuals gain value only as a function of this (otherwise they're "cowards" or "traitors", just see how russian elite think about Telegram creator).
To me this is just an hellish maniac nightmare but if the people positively responds to this stimulus (see the recent election in Germany) it will be the "new" reality for the years to come.
taffernicus on 5/9/2024 at 05:00
With this news, I'm digging the history of ukraine's contribution to soviet defense industry : (
https://defence24.com/industry/ukraine-tests-hrim-2-its-first-indigenous-ballistic-missile) https://defence24.com/industry/ukraine-tests-hrim-2-its-first-indigenous-ballistic-missile
Here is an interesting tidbit cited from (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_industry_of_Ukraine) wikipedia : "Ukraine's defense industry was a major part of the Soviet defense industry, responsible for 17% of Soviet defense production and 25% of its scientific research.[6] Some Soviet ICBMs were actually built at the Yuzhmash plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.[7] Russia's only aircraft carrier was also built in the Ukrainian SSR, as well as a number of other Russian military ships"
Both sides between Russia and Ukraine have also been reported to be reusing Soviet-era equipment. On the Ukrainian side, what is amazing to me is the reactivation of the S-200 missile. Which part of the missile was modified to perform ground attack, Could it be the seeker or radarhoming part?? How the heck do they maintain the interoperability of the legacy s-200 system with modern radar systems?
This s-200 resurrection lead me to the history o even older systems like the s-125 and s-75 dvina. I can't believe s-75 dvina is still used in several countries! some of it may have undergone modernization (yeah I also admit that my country also received Soviet military aid in the early 1960s and the S-75 was included in that aid package in addition to mig-17/19/21, Antonov An-12B, several helicopters, several submarines, Tupolev T-16 strategic bomber aircraft and a cruiser with 4x152mm multi-barrel cannons)
Starker on 6/9/2024 at 08:12
How well-known conservative/reactionary influencers learned to stop worrying and love Russian disinformation:
Quote:
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https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube)
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After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many American cable distributors dropped RT's U.S. channel, RT America, from their lineups, and it eventually shut down production. The video scheme allowed RT to covertly reach American audiences without a presence on the airwaves, the indictment alleges.
Tenet publicly launched in November 2023 with six contributors well-known in right-wing media, including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, David Rubin and Lauren Southern. The videos they create for Tenet regularly cover conservative staples including "migrant gangs," transgender people, online censorship and attacks on Vice President Harris and President Biden.
"While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, the subject matter and content of the videos are often consistent with the Government of Russia's interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition to core Government of Russia interests, such as its ongoing war in Ukraine," the indictment says.
The indictment accuses Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva of working with the Tennessee company's founders to conceal the true origins of its funding. They told some contributors that the company was being backed by a wealthy European banker named Eduard Grigoriann. "In truth and in fact, Grigoriann was a fictional persona," the indictment says.
The influencers say they were unaware of the project's Russian connections. On Wednesday, Johnson, Pool and Rubin posted statements on X describing themselves as victims. Southern didn't respond to a request for comment.
"Should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived," Pool wrote.
"I knew absolutely nothing about any of this fraudulent activity. Period," wrote Rubin.
Johnson said he had been pitched by a "media startup" and had "negotiated a standard, arms length deal, which was later terminated." His most recent video on Tenet Media's YouTube channel is from Aug. 29.
The Tennessee company offered lucrative terms, according to the indictment. One influencer was paid $400,000 a month, a $100,000 signing bonus and an additional performance bonus in exchange for four videos a week.
Afanasyeva allegedly exerted a lot of control over the Tennessee company's operations and what it put out, including pushing for specific angles that echoed Kremlin narratives.
For example, the indictment said Afanasyeva told the company to blame Ukraine for a March terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall, even though ISIS had claimed responsibility. The company's founder said one of the contributors was "happy to cover it."
Afanasyeva also allegedly requested that the company post a video of "a well-known U.S. political commentator visiting a grocery store in Russia" — likely a reference to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who traveled to Moscow in February. According to the indictment, a producer at the company told one of the founders "it just feels like overt shilling" but was told to "put it out there."
Afanasyeva also urged the influencers to share the company's videos on their own channels and got annoyed when she didn't think they were promoting them enough, according to the indictment.
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