It looks like we’re in the phase where the Russians are just gonna bombard cities indiscriminately. It’s gonna get increasingly hard to watch.
I’ve seen a few bright spots, like Ukrainian special forces (apparently) going behind the lines around Hostomel to attack columns of Russians, but short of the Russians deciding to blow themselves up, I don’t see an outcome with a free Ukraine.
You have to wonder how they’re gonna sell it at home as any kind of peacekeeping or liberation. They’ll probably make some kind of comparison to Berlin 1945 (even though we’ve stopped waging war like that) with Zelensky in his bunker.
Some will buy it, but you have to think that others will realize that they’re not doing the right thing.
To be fair, if we really wanted the US populace to understand you need to frame it in a Marvel narrative.
Or Ukrainian forces shelling a forward Russian depot, north of Kyiv on the Irpin river which rather gives the lie to the maps we’ve been seeing.
When you consider how much Russian disinformation was responsible for some of the crap we’re seeing in the States, it isn’t at all surprising that people over there are behaving in similar ways.
On the (somewhat) lighter side?
Hahaha. I was laughing when I read the quote from Graham.
Hey, dude. “Et tu Brute?” isn’t remembered as a positive phrase about Brutus, you idiot.
Guap
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Here is a better picture of Mriya, the AN-225.
It’s still in that partially destroyed hanger, this shot is just zoomed in.
You can see the hangar frame in the upper left.
But, yeah, that’s a hull loss.
Thrag
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More from the tire guy commenting on likely maintenance failures.
Yeah, that’s my bad. The maps I’m seeing in the press are well short on detail, and some seem to be flat wrong.
I think more than fog of war it’s the overall impression most of the main media are giving, that a Russian advance implies territory surrounding and to the rear is under control. This appears not to be entirely true but also, it might just be that we’ve never seen behind-the-lines footage before as we are doing to this extent. So what in the past we thought of as “under control” may have been rather like today. I guess Afghanistan is instructive.
Russia apparently doesn’t know or doesn’t care that killing Zeleknsky is only going to make him the biggest martyr in Ukraine’s history.
spiffy
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They know that the sooner they can get him into history past, the sooner they can rewrite it.
Precisely, and we have to remember that journalists aren’t war geeks*, they may not the see the value in including pockets of resistance, or establishing where fighting is still ongoing.
The logic seems to be “If the Russians are here, it’s theirs.”, which is pretty flawed.
*Back when I was on Facebook, one of the favored activities of my friends in the army was flipping their lid whenever someone on the news would refer to an APC as a tank. There were memes made, like: Flower pot? Tank. Kitten? Tank.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/03/seize-dont-just-freeze-putins-billions/
This seems like the logical next step in putting pressure on Putin and his cronies.
The Magnitsky Act authorizes the U.S. government to freeze the assets of any foreigners, anywhere in the world, accused of human rights violations under international law. Canada, which has a similar Magnitsky Act, is considering a further step: A bill (S-217) before the Canadian Parliament would authorize Canadian courts to confiscate the frozen assets and redistribute them to address humanitarian needs of people displaced by the violations. In Europe, where the E.U. provides a legal basis for freezing assets of those who violate human rights, member states have taken individual action: In 2017, a Spanish judge ordered the seizure of properties owned by an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a money-laundering case.
The idea would be to seize these assets and use them to assist Ukrainian refugees and citizens. Seems like a win-win. If you want to do the war, you are going to have to pay for the refugees, not the EU.
Quaro
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Dude, I had no idea I could get social media curated by smart people. Thanks for linking those.
Also, war gets really weird in the internet age:
Sorry if it’s a repost!
I didn’t even realize Twitter lists were a thing! I follow a livethread on Reddit and it causes me enough “doom fear”.
TLDR: Russian corruption results in them not having as much military supplies as they thought.
Turns out corruption is not just a way to subvert civil institution and empower your friends, it has some negative effects.
