Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- shapesalad0
From Blockworks newsletter:
Planting season in Ukraine starts in 30 days and if wheat doesn’t get planted, there will be food shortages in a lot of places that can’t afford to have food shortages.
UN data shows that the likely agriculture shock comes at a time when world food prices are already at a 50-year high.
- shapesalad-2
Adobe stopped selling its services in Russia.
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publis…
Effective immediately, Adobe will halt all new sales of Adobe products and services in Russia.
- I bet they still offer CS monthly planshardhat
- Most Russian's already use illegal versions of Adobe software.utopian
- Russians paying for software? LOL.ArmandoEstrada
- ********0
Another Arab Spring?
- https://i.imgur.com/…********
- ... or maybe they'll go keto?********
- Those are non Nato countries so they can team up and enforce a no fly zone and help out Ukraine?shapesalad
- 'no fly zone' is another way of saying 'shoot down russian aircraft'. that's quite a red line to cross...********
- itd be best for all if Ukraine surrendered, planted their crops, ceded the eastern bits, demilitarised etc********
- Not exactly best for the Ukrainians though, is it?monNom
- https://i.imgur.com/…
- drgs1
Putin is caught in a trap which has appeared in Russian history many times: Whenever a tsar was losing people's support, his advisers would recommend to execute a small victorious war. This war is, of course, lost due to their army being completely corroded by corruption etc.
Two such wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru…
"The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised international observers and transformed the balance of power in both East Asia and Eastern Europe, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power and Russia's decline in prestige and influence in Eastern Europe. The loss of life without victory and the humiliating defeat for the Russian Empire contributed to growing domestic unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and accelerated the disintegration of the Russian autocracy."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr…
"Russia's humiliation forced its educated elites to identify its problems and to recognise the need for fundamental reforms. They saw rapid modernisation as the sole way to recover the empire's status as a European power. The war thus became a catalyst for reforms of Russia's social institutions, including the abolition of serfdom and overhauls in the justice system, local self-government, education and military service."The reason is: the bigger the organizational hierarchy, the less real information is reaching the top. Putin, like most people of his age, knows that internet exists, but is not using it. He relies on his advisers who feed him all info on printed sheets of paper in folders. They filter out bad information and add in whatever he wants to read, and the same applies to advisers' advisers beneath them and so forth.
This is also true for the corporate world. Eventually you have one way communication from the top downward, but nothing reaches the top.The result is field rations which have expired in 2015, tanks without exterior armor, beat down btr's which look like training equipment, civilian trucks for supplies, soldiers buying helmets with their own money, open frequency communication and this:
https://rusi.org/explore-our-res…- Add to your list Chinese made tires that are copies of premium brand ones, have been store flat and are failing.shapesalad
- The link to the air operations - I read it could be due to borders not being easily seen from air and pilots could easily stray outside of ukraine.shapesalad
- Unlike Russias activity in middle easy where boarders were more visible - due to being based on topographical features. Also providing cover.shapesalad
- @drgs Dagrafician
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good morning drgs :Dsted - Maybe this is how Russia moves forward, ie. not continuously like most western nations, but in discrete, separate jumps. And for every jump there has to bedrgs
- a small crisis. Otherwise Russia a like giant ship which is very difficult to turn around and moves very slowly.drgs
- Da. Da.grafician
- This leaked analysis supposedly from FSB officer is making the rounds...yuekit
- https://twitter.com/…yuekit
- It may or may not be real but makes similar points and also mentions Russia's loss against Japan.yuekit
- "First, it’s not one person that decides, and someone will refuse. There are lots of people involved in the process and there is no single “red” button."drgs
- "I am not sure that the “red button” system functions according to the declared data. Besides, plutonium fuel must be changed every 10 years."drgs
- grafician0
"RUSSIA SAYS IT HAS AMERICAN BASKETBALL PLAYER IN CUSTODY -NYT
Bruh Rodman needs to stay away from totalitarian countries, that man has no chill *joke
- shapesalad1
Send a text to a random person in Russia letting them know their leader is committing acts of terrorism.
- also leak personal data of all 120k soldier taking part in the act of terrorism: https://ddosecrets.c…shapesalad
- https://i.redd.it/vr…drgs
- ^ not quite the translation.shapesalad
- sted0
- NBQ000
Vladimir “Vokha” Zhoga, the “successor” of Russian criminal warlord Arsen “Motorola” Pavlov, has been killed in action.
In my hometown Volnovakha!
- NBQ002
- In my minds eye, fighter pilots are dashing muscular handsome guys - Top Gun like. Was not expecting a dorky fat guy.shapesalad
- Thought you had to be in top shape to handle the G and all that.shapesalad
- In soviet Russia, the G means gutspango
- grafician0
- Poland is #1 when it comes to help********
- Those lovely fuckers usually don't like each other, heart is in the right place. And they know how to drink.********
- but their* for fuck sake********
- Poland is #1 when it comes to help
- Nairn3
Seems at least mostly bullshit free...
"Ukraine's 93rd mechanized brigade captured 30 vehicles near Kharkiv. [subbed]"https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine…
I don't know if it's just coincidence, or perhaps Ukraine recently received delivery of a lot of consumer-type drones*, but I've seen a few videos from elevated positions today with very clear definition.
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* I'm sure I read somewhere that some distributor or something had donated a load of consumer drones to the cause. Would make sense.
- Latvia and Estonia gave them lots of consumer drones https://mobile.twitt…shapesalad
- sted3
Mastercard
- sted7
Visa
- "MasterCard/Visa cards issued in Russia will not work abroad, cards issued abroad will not work in Russia."grafician
- OuchGuyFawkes
- PayPal also not working. Will this mean crypto is used... or digital yuan? I’d say digital yuan will fly in to save the day.shapesalad
- They have their own payment system
https://en.wikipedia…drgs
- BaskerviIle1
Putin appeared on tv today explaining his actions to a group of trainee flight attendants.
Except it looks like the whole thing was actually green screened – some telltale signs: his hand waving through a microphone, the reflection in his teapot showing a camera crew rather than the guests etc
https://twitter.com/Reevellp/sta…- here:
https://www.qbn.com/…sted - Compression artefactsNairn
- Green screen
https://www.reddit.c…zaq - i don't think. its the same shite AI upscale my old security cam had it was a fake HD with a 720p sensor. and sometimes produced some weird shit like my dogsted
- being transparent :)sted
- look closer, his hand is going through a miczaq
- look at the video i posted, it isn't green-screen.
check the section at 15:00, how the light moves on the microphone for example.sted - Why green screen? He hiding?pango
- funnily here he doesn’t need the big ass table and distance to people.NBQ00
- Its not going through the mic
https://www.youtube.…
0:20 + x0.25 speeddrgs
- here:
- sted1
Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that routes data across intercontinental connections, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by The Washington Post. The US-based company is one of the world’s largest internet backbone providers and serves customers in 50 countries, including a number of high-profile Russian companies.
"The shutdown won’t disconnect Russians completely"In a letter to Russian customers obtained by The Post, Cogent cited “economic sanctions” and “the increasingly uncertain security situation” as the motives behind its total shutdown in the country. Cogent similarly told The Verge that it “terminated its contracts” with Russian customers in compliance with the European Union’s move to ban Russian state-backed media outlets.
- sted0
