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by mopsi 1y ago
It's pretty common for the media to misreport things at first, especially when two similar events happen nearby. Both dams are part of the Kyiv reservoir, and it's easy to mistake one for the other when they're both referred
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Different dams, roughly 20 km apart: https://maps.app.goo.gl/DYkLKTsJvE5ZMcxY8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/kjnpkvHK5k2CfJhaA Ukraine blew up the Kozarovychi dam, flooding the Irpin river valley and blocking the
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There is no reason to talk about "expansion" when it is not the EU imposing itself on others, but rather others who are very eager to join, just as people eagerly apply to join prestigious universities or clubs, not because those
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> I’m not actually Russian. /---/ near-abroad. A leopard cannot change its spots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_abroad
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> The fact is there is going to be no one coming to help replace burned up hoes and shovels. Why? Why would it be happening everywhere - in South America, Africa, Asia, and many other places - at the same time?
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One has to recognize the genre of "Threads" and "The Day After" - they represent suffering porn that has little to do with how actual disasters play out. In "Threads", the way people suddenly lose the ability
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The civilian death toll in Ukraine is severely underreported due to a lack of access to the occupied territories, while the death toll in Gaza is greatly overreported because Hamas is the primary source of information and they are known for
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Russian trolls have blown that single call out of proportion. We, too, can have a phone call and discuss who we'd prefer the next Chinese leader to be; it doesn't mean we actually have much influence over that. We can even discuss
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> it was a NATO operation when it came to reconnaissance and I also highly suspect when it came to communications Because you need to be an advanced NATO military to look up parking stands at Russian airbases on Google Maps and buy a bu
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> This was most probably supervised by NATO, there's no other way. Technically speaking, this is a hobby-level undertaking. A model airplane club could "supervise" such an operation. Skills needed: 1. Build a mechanism to
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by mopsi 1y ago
Doesn't look like that. The footage released so far shows almost exclusively bombers. Here's a row of Tu-95 bombers burning, plus a single transporter at the end of the row: https://bsky.app/profile/noelreport
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The containers weren't smuggled across the border. Ukrainian intelligence assembled the containers in a rented warehouse inside Russia, near the border with Kazahkstan. Drones were hidden into the roof section of wooden containers. Pho
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Excellent example. In case you're not aware (as the snark suggests), the broad consensus among historians since the 1960s holds that the Reichstag was indeed not set on fire by the Nazis.
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Has there ever been a terrorist attack that was not a "false flag" according to internet loonies? :D The fact that you have to make something like this up within the first ten words of your narrative really shows just how detached
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From earlier: That is, until 10 years later when they have a new narrative about a different military rival. They quietly stop pushing the old narrative and everyone quietly admits the old one was kinda bullshit all along. /---&#x2
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He has also made significant contributions to the denial of the Khmer Rouge genocide and countless other atrocities committed by communist regimes across the world. Almost everything he's written on linguistics has been peer-reviewed,
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> Just like fear of "greater finland" made the Soviets invade in the first place. And the fear of Poland made the Nazis invade Poland, right? Their propaganda no doubt presented things this way, but that was far from the truth.
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In addition to what others have said, letting artillery mark targets with colored smoke and simply flying to a grid location and keeping an eye out for these signals also works well.
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I am not desperate, but astonished why you remain stuck reposting the same garbage-tier propaganda narratives instead of actually learning about the events from high quality sources. (1) Relations between Ukraine and Russia have been very p
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> The chain of events you seem to be suggesting is something like Russia has good relations with their neighbour, then that neighbour's government collapses in a highly suspicious coup and then, presumably, the US military starts to
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Your numbers are way off. Ukraine has not received "over $500B". According to the Kiel institute tracker, as of February, the total military support for Ukraine from all all over the world combined stands at 132 billion EUR (~148b
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From the article: HMS Defender was sailing from Odessa in southern Ukraine to Georgia. To get there, it passed south of the Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that has not been recognised international
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> I want to see the details - not the anecdotes, not the vitriol - based on evidence that can be reviewed and which is not keyed to emotional levers being pushed and pulled depending on which 'side' you are on. /---&#
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> If Ukraine joined NATO then, by definition, every military base in Ukraine woudl be a NATO forward operating base on Russia's border. That's quite a retreat from "building missile bases along borders". But you'
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> I want you to imagine a scenario where China forms a military relationship with Canada and/or Mexico and builds a whole bunch of forward operating and missile bases along the US border. How is that relevant? Nobody built any &quot
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> What isn't disputed is that George W. Bush opened the door to Ukraine joining NATO [2]. Now this was never going to happen. Germany (for one) would veto it. Having NATO on the border with Russia is a recipe for disaster. It will h
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> A 1964 film where every line is sung? You got me there. Chalk one up for the appeal of international cinema over Hollywood. This snarky remark ridicules you more than it does the film. "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is widely c
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The quality of recommendations depends on the social circle, I guess. When the Russian Guild of Film Critics picked the 100 best movies from 1908 to 2000, "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession" didn't make it to the list,
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I wouldn't call "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession" that either. It's more of a "Blazing Saddles" type movie with a cult following due to its catchphrases, but overall, it isn't very good. Even among
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> But here's a pivotal soviet comedy about a guy who goes to the future... okay, here's Bob Zemeckis's Back to the Future. Compare the quality of any aspect: story, acting, props, costumes, cinematography, special fx,

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