Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[friedaweed]

At long last. Some proper journalism on the Ukraine situation.

Stacey Dooley - Ready for War?

Stacey joins the British army transforming Ukrainian civilians into frontline fighters.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gonna watch this with some nice noodles.

 

[The39thStep]

Good article on the leaked document.Quite unsettling to know that such high level confidential and sensitive information is not only in the hands of this sort of people but that the US wasn't even aware of the leak until after a month it was reposted and reposted. Of course we cant rule out that it could all be a cunning plan based on the remake of a British film from the 1950s .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/

 

[teqniq]

Archived version:

Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says

 

[LDC]

Good article on the leaked document.Quite unsettling to know that such high level confidential and sensitive information is not only in the hands of this sort of people but that the US wasn't even aware of the leak until after a month it was reposted and reposted. Of course we cant rule out that it could all be a cunning plan based on the remake of a British film from the 1950s .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/

Yeah, doesn't give a general feeling of their security all being safe and in-hand when some gun nut racist youth posts all this shit online. He's fucked isn't he, can only be a matter of time before he gets napped and then spends the next 20-30 years in some concrete cell.

 

[Dogsauce]

A racist gun enthusiast no less, concerned about ‘government overreach’.

 

[LDC]

This definitely was not his best choice to avoid government interference in his life.

 

[The39thStep]

Archived version:

Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says

My link didn't require an archived version, on my browser/pc .

 

[teqniq]

My link didn't require an archived version, on my browser/pc .

Nor mine (I read the original as well) but I thought I'd post the archived version in case anyone else had problems. Sometimes, but not so much of late the WP has been paywalled.

 

[ska invita]

when some gun nut racist youth

Doesn't really narrow down military personnel much

 

[LDC]

Doesn't really narrow down military personnel much

Not looking like they were military though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This definitely was not his best choice to avoid government interference in his life.

YOU'RE NOT MY MUUUUUUUM

 

[A380]

Doesn't really narrow down military personnel much

Not sure many people in any military are gun nuts. Having to drag one around, keep it clean and get in the shit if you lose it tends to end fetishisation for most people.

 

[LDC]

YOU'RE NOT MY MUUUUUUUM

He was R4 headlines just now, there was a line something like, "He's not a Ukrainian asset, he's not a Russian asset, he's not a spy..." that was just screaming out for, "He's just a very naughty boy."

And he thought his mum's basement was dark and lonely... ADX Florence - Wikipedia

 

[Artaxerxes]

Not sure many people in any military are gun nuts. Having to drag one around, keep it clean and get in the shit if you lose it tends to end fetishisation for most people.

I’ve read the us military has a tendency to be slightly more left than the actual US partly because it recruits minority and working class people more than it does loon spud militia types

 

[Crispy]

I’ve read the us military has a tendency to be slightly more left than the actual US partly because it recruits minority and working class people more than it does loon spud militia types

And the officer training, from what I can tell, has a strong "facts and reason" culture, which tends to weed out nutjobs. The long-term planning people in particular seem to have their heads screwed on when it comes to global politics, climate change etc. They want to know why and where the wars of the future will be fought. "Reality has a liberal bias" as they say.

 

[Rimbaud]

Someone realised classified documents to win an argument about a computer game...

War Thunder fan says tank is inaccurate, leaks classified military documents to prove it

The player posted secret info about the UK's Challenger 2 tank to prove that War Thunder's modeling is wrong.

www.pcgamer.com

Tbf if you actually had access to the blueprints and worked with the real tank professionally and knew for a fact that the video game model was incorrect, and were arguing against someone insisting they know it better than you, it would be pretty annoying and I can understand how you might be tempted to just whip the blueprints out!

 

[The39thStep]

I've often thought that if there was one army that I'd prefer to be invaded by it would be the more leftist anti gun nuts of the US. armed forces.

 

[Pickman's model]

I’ve read the us military has a tendency to be slightly more left than the actual US partly because it recruits minority and working class people more than it does loon spud militia types

have you read matt kennard's 'irregular army'? Irregular Army

 

[A380]

I've often thought that if there was one army that I'd prefer to be invaded by it would be the more leftist anti gun nuts of the US. armed forces.

Salvation Army for the win. Decent brass band music and a nice bun.

 

[Pickman's model]

Salvation Army for the win. Decent brass band music and a nice bun.

their shitty brass bands were a bone of great contention in the nineteenth century, manufacturers of cacaphony

 

[The39thStep]

Salvation Army for the win. Decent brass band music and a nice bun.

Got to admire the fact that they used to be in some of the worst public bars known to mankind at 10 o'clock on a Friday night with copies of The War Cry

 

[The39thStep]

have you read matt kennard's 'irregular army'? Irregular Army

Pro -Putin propaganda

 

[DaveCinzano]

Got to admire the fact that they used to be in some of the worst public bars known to mankind at 10 o'clock on a Friday night with copies of The War Cry

Best way to secure a table

 

[maomao]

The one thing that the US army seem to be fucking fantastic at is PR.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The one thing that the US army seem to be fucking fantastic at is PR.

I think it’s more the rest of the US is just that fucking bad the army is mild in comparison

 

[Pickman's model]

Got to admire the fact that they used to be in some of the worst public bars known to mankind at 10 o'clock on a Friday night with copies of The War Cry

hackney & kingsland gazette, 31.10.1881

 

[teqniq]

There appear to be more leaked documents that originally reported:

New Leaked Documents Show Broad Infighting Among Russian Officials

Also:

Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

 

[The39thStep]

There appear to be more leaked documents that originally reported:

New Leaked Documents Show Broad Infighting Among Russian Officials

Also:

Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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I think Jack might be on the sick at the moment.

 

[friedaweed]

Wait till his mother gets hold of him.

Pentagon leaks: US air national guardsman, 21, identified as suspect

Jack Teixeira led Thug Shaker Central online group and is facing arrest in Massachusetts, say reports

www.theguardian.com

"I'm not coming out of my room Mom, forget it"

 

[Cid]

You have to wonder how exactly a 21 year old reservist managed to get access to these docs. It's a pretty colossal fuck up.