The Russia is getting more evil thread

[scottagibson]

Jesus, WTF is this? Some kind of propaganda?

Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒

[TranquilityBase]

Protip: When learning how to make Molotovs, stick around and learn how to deploy them as well.

IgorGirkin

[Ginger_Yellow]

@scottagibson

Edit: same as the link above from @Grifman but rolled up into a single link.

Speaking of which, it would be awesome if people did this in general when posting links to Twitter threads as I’m unable to read them otherwise.

[tomchick]

I feel like this paragraph embedded in the Washington Post’s latest update is the shape of things to come:

Meanwhile, three areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, came under heavy daylight shelling while civilians who had been under curfew ventured out to grocery stores and pharmacies. At least 11 people were reported killed and dozens hospitalized, according to the head of the regional government, in some of the heaviest shelling and street fighting since the invasion began.

My fear is we’re going to be reading variations on that paragraph over and over and over in the days to come.

-Tom

[scottagibson]

@Ginger_Yellow

Speaking of which, it would be awesome if people did this in general when posting links to Twitter threads as I’m unable to read them otherwise.

This is a good point. Will try to remember it!

[abrandt]

I don’t remember if I brought this up here before or not, but it’s absolutely fascinating to me that I still, to my recollection, haven’t seen anyone on TV or really in official reporting ever acknowledge the fact that the US has had airborne intelligence assets flying along the Ukrainian border 24/7. I understand not openly admitting that they are feeding all of that intelligence straight to the Ukrainian military, but they have their transponders on and you can freely look at any flight tracking website and see them up there. Just a very interesting completely open secret that I’ve not seen get even and wink and a nod on CNN.

[Strollen]

I was just about to post this, WTF indeed. I liked the comments, he’ll soon surrender to a Ukrainian grandmother in return for a meal

[TheWombat]

@Enidigm

It’s more a matter of looking at Chinese military build ups. They have the largest surface fleet, if shorter ranges, and they have anti-carrier missiles to shoo away US intervention. There might be strikes against anti-missile positions but China doesn’t want to bomb Taiwans invaluable tech industry to rubble. Basically the opposite.

Oh, for sure. I just don’t see how they can get Taipei to capitulate short of invading, or bullying everyone else including the USA into abandoning them.

[LokeUtgaard]

I have heard a few rumours that US has raised readyness level to DEFCON 3. If true, that is not a great sign…

[TheWombat]

@MelesMeles

The only people who have a real sense of it is probably the Americans with their fancy space gadgets and spy doohickeys, and they’re probably getting better reports from the Ukrainians, than whats in the press or on social media, none of which they’ll share with us plebs, because knowledge is power.

Though dollars to donuts we are sharing a lot of it with the Ukrainians. Or we should be…

[dtolman]

Its from a fake newsfeed that pretends to show current DEFCON levels. The US does NOT publish its DEFCON level.

[Penny_Dreadful]

Yeah I think one of Russia’s biggest concerns is that they’ve basically been completely and utterly had since well before the invasion even began. None of their movements are even remotely secret due to satellites, recon planes, intelligence assets, and people on the ground—all with cell phones in hand. And I don’t think anybody is trying to keep that a secret—maybe intentionally so.

I think early on the Biden administration likely let it be known that we knew exactly what they were up to, as a deterrent. It didn’t work of course, but I suppose it was worth a shot.

[LokeUtgaard]

Well, not exactly. These were rumours that coms were being encrypted right now actually.

[BellaConfusione]

@scottagibson

Jesus, WTF is this? Some kind of propaganda?

Some more info on your friend:

War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin

[abrandt]

I guess the difference for me is that ahead of the invasion the Biden admin revealed a whole lot of what they knew without any indication of how they knew it. Very smart as a psychological thing because it sows distrust as to who you can trust and if any of your communications are secret. In this case the “how” is flying out there in full public view and it’s pretty easy to connect the dots to what they are doing. And yet, nobody(official) is talking about it at all.

[Grifman]

The case of the missing Russian Air Force:

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force

[ooomalley]

@tomchick

My fear is we’re going to be reading variations on that paragraph over and over and over in the days to come.

I don’t see how it can be anything else. :( All the videos of Ukrainian civilians standing up to the invaders are inspiring, but surely the Russian troops can only take so much of that. (The one two posts above yours of the drive-by Molotov cocktail’ing seems, well, entirely unbelievable, but near guaranteed to provoke the terrible retaliation.)

[scottagibson]

From the article:

Bentley had been husky and out of shape when he’d arrived a month earlier, but on a battlefield diet of tinned meat and buckwheat porridge, the weight was melting off.

The weight, it has melted back on somehow.

[abrandt]

" In battle, Bentley often wore a straw cowboy hat that he’d adorned with a red Soviet star. "

I mean, the long white hair kind of gave it away, but article confirms that this guy is basically a tankie who doesn’t realize the Soviet Union is dead.

[scottagibson]

Some great tag lines for that guy in the comments. 101st Chairborne. Spetznazchos.