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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap
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Pickman's model
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Stuff rusts very quickly though, even in days, if damp like it would be down there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
given the price tag of a barrett sniper rifle, and the information on caching freely available online (eg special forces caching techniques [paladin reprint, pdf]) it's criminal to leave a weapon to rot like that
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Might have been damaged reasonably recently and sent down there to see if it could be repaired and then abandoned when Soledar was taken maybe? From the video sounds like it was a workshop as well as a storage facility.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's good of you to offer excuses, it shows a good spirit. makes you wonder what other caches of weapons might be lurking round the place. there's a blog piece about this one at Ukraine Weapons Cache – The Armourers Bench e2a yeh you're right, it was damaged recently
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
How so, you deluded clown?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
I've posted videos before from 1402 - a Youtube that specialises in vox-pop interviews in Russia. This is one of their latest in which they ask, mostly young people if Russia is losing the war. There are quite a few people who don't seem to worry about speaking their minds and not giving the answers the Russian state would like to hear.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
How so, you deluded clown?
The demolition of Britain? The Conservative party acting under their own volition have nearly achieved it
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
As always in such debates you overlook the role of the Liberal Democrats as a catalyst for change, without their crucial assistance in the early years the last decade the Tories would still be stripping the lead from the roof of Castle Britannia not grubbing up the foundations as they currently are
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
And, bloody brave to speak they way they did.
strung out
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On a similar theme to the above video, I found this article from Meduza (an independent Russian media outlet with an anti-war editorial line) fascinating.
They asked their readers, who are generally on the more liberal and independently minded side of Russian society, why some of them still supported the war in Ukraine.
meduza.io
They asked their readers, who are generally on the more liberal and independently minded side of Russian society, why some of them still supported the war in Ukraine.
‘The only thing worse than war is losing one’ Even some of Meduza’s readers support the invasion of Ukraine. We asked them to explain why. — Meduza
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has been analyzing — and refuting — the Russian military propaganda that tries to justify the war (here’s one recent example). But while we find Moscow’s talking points absurd and unconvincing, there’s no denying it: propaganda works. Even...
meduza.io
RedRedRose
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Journalists at Kyiv Independent discuss the level of corruption in Ukraine, the lack of independence in the judiciary and various initiatives looking to tackle this. Ends with an interesting Q&A asking what Ukraine needs to do to get in the EU and whether Zelensky is corrupt.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
Very tangential. I love this guys channel. He tests out different countries MREs and he's insanely enthusiastic and likes to eat. Here he's trying the home teams Russian MRE.
I like trying different ones myself (handy for hiking/camping). They are expensive though if you get them on Ebay. I've tries British, Canadian, American, Italian (contains a shot of brandy like alcohol), French and Russian (the worst). You can get civilian ones some of which are almost identical to the military ones (they sometimes use these to feed people in disaster zones).
The British one's great.
I like trying different ones myself (handy for hiking/camping). They are expensive though if you get them on Ebay. I've tries British, Canadian, American, Italian (contains a shot of brandy like alcohol), French and Russian (the worst). You can get civilian ones some of which are almost identical to the military ones (they sometimes use these to feed people in disaster zones).
The British one's great.
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RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
He might have a point...
unherd.com
'In an essay written before the Ukraine war, I argued that the conjunction of social media with high quality drone footage from the wars in Syria and Karabakh had created a fusion of online enthusiasts with technology, so that “Drone, camera and social media sharer thus become a single, integrated weapon system, a hybrid semi-autonomous proxy as useful and as cheap to operate as the expendable proxies fighting on the ground”. The Syrian war, like the Spanish Civil War before World War Two, can be considered an armed rehearsal for the Ukraine war, a rough draft of processes and technologies that would later reach their full, terrible potential. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the conjunction of brutal drone footage with social media, and of mass deaths with vigorous online fandoms.'
'Published just before the Ukraine War began, Radical War by the academics Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins warned that the fusion of smartphone technology and modern warfare meant that “war is principally about managing the attention of populations and different audiences” in a “media spectacle” where “it is not possible to locate these emergent forms of warfare within existing models of representation and ways of seeing the world”. The smartphone and the drone camera have changed war entirely, “replacing the rifle as the weapon of choice for those engaged in mass participation in war” and “collapsing the boundary between those who observe war and those who engage in it”.'
How the Ukraine war became a spectator sport
Conflict and social media are now inextricably intertwined
unherd.com
'In an essay written before the Ukraine war, I argued that the conjunction of social media with high quality drone footage from the wars in Syria and Karabakh had created a fusion of online enthusiasts with technology, so that “Drone, camera and social media sharer thus become a single, integrated weapon system, a hybrid semi-autonomous proxy as useful and as cheap to operate as the expendable proxies fighting on the ground”. The Syrian war, like the Spanish Civil War before World War Two, can be considered an armed rehearsal for the Ukraine war, a rough draft of processes and technologies that would later reach their full, terrible potential. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the conjunction of brutal drone footage with social media, and of mass deaths with vigorous online fandoms.'
'Published just before the Ukraine War began, Radical War by the academics Matthew Ford and Andrew Hoskins warned that the fusion of smartphone technology and modern warfare meant that “war is principally about managing the attention of populations and different audiences” in a “media spectacle” where “it is not possible to locate these emergent forms of warfare within existing models of representation and ways of seeing the world”. The smartphone and the drone camera have changed war entirely, “replacing the rifle as the weapon of choice for those engaged in mass participation in war” and “collapsing the boundary between those who observe war and those who engage in it”.'
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
yet the war looks very much to be about trenches, artillary bombarments, atrocities, death and destruction very much in the style of mid 20th centuary conflicts. Not sure having the real time footage of the mud and blood and bullets on you tube and twitter makes any differance to what's happening on the ground - and im pretty sure the poor bastards at the sharp end are having a very different experience to those watching it several thousand miles away.
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
I'm not sure he was saying this isn't the case. He was talking about us, not them.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
it was the "changed war entriely bit" which stood out- for a war which looks like a massive throwback to the days of mass armys furiously slogging it out over months and years. Even if he was talking about changing the reporting of war -"entirely" im not sure thats true either - vietnam and Gulf War 1 also saw significent changes (daily tv reporting and remote camera footage respectively)
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
Could have been in those wars that it was transformed into a spectator sport for those at a safe distance, a phenomenon we've seen glimpses of on here more or less daily since the war began.
Was it the Vietnam war about which Gang of Four sang 'Watch new blood on the 18-inch screen, the corpse is a new personality'?
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
At the start of the American Civil War, families used to have picnics and cheer on their side, afaik.
RedRedRose
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Interesting article covering the political trajectory of MMA's Jeff Monson
Jeff Monson’s journey from American MMA muscle to Russian propagandist
The one-time UFC title challenger has gone from helping children deal with trauma to a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin’s regimewww.theguardian.com
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