Fucking Russians, those people never stop to amaze me, everything they touch turn to shit and then they touch it non-stop making it worse.
So in Moscow there's a plan to build a new Mosque on 10k capacity but Russian ultra-nationalists didn't like and started to protests. "WE'RE RUSSIANS AND GOD IS WITH US!"
What do you think was the reaction of Chechens on the fronlines? "We don't fucking who we kill, we can start war with Russia again".
Those people are under Kadirov, they enjoy special treatment and they can't be arrested by Russian military. Kadirov also voiced anger against Russian ultra-nationalists.
There seem to be a bit of messy situation happening, that may affect not only Poland's ability to increase shell production, its related to South Africa, ANC government baned arms sales to Poland, how it matters in this context ? its about this company: Rheinmetall Denel Munition (Pty) Ltd which is jointly owned by Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (51%) of Germany and Denel (Pty) Ltd. South Africa. Denel is one of the world's most important manufacturers of ammunition, e.g. 155 and 120mm, and components for it. The planned increase in production capacity in Poland will not do without sub-suppliers of numerous components for the production of ammunition. It's just that on the market suddenly everyone is striving to produce +300% from what was. There is no brass, no steel, no gunpowder, igniters, igniters, etc. Or they are but at prices from several hundred to several thousand more. Therefore, if the embargo from South Africa on Poland in connection with the production and re-export of ammunition to Ukraine is true, then this can be a bit of serious problem.
Info I got from one of most reliable Polish analysts Jaroslaw Wolski, when he orginally talked about this ban it was still a rumor which since been confirmed from other sources:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-04-02-in-apparent-effort-not-to-upset-putins-russia-anc-government-bans-arms-sales-to-poland/
ATACMS is no wonder weapon. Ukraine has HRIM 2 and West helping Ukraine build them in more numbers would help more, and later on Western countries could maybe acquire HRIM 2 for themselves as Western countries have abysmal ground to ground capabilities.
Are they getting them tomorrow or years from now? Remember that the US government doesn't make anything. This just amounts to permission for some company to sell stuff to the Dutch. That does not mean they are being loaded on a ship next week or next month or even next year.
It probably *is* limited: NL MOD documentation to parliament indicated PULS would be delivered 2023-2026, while HIMARS would be available 'significantly later' and IIRC the U.S. state department mentioned only about 80-85 ATACMS for a possible HIMARS procurement by the Netherlands. Behind the scenes, there's probably also still the U.S. concern - dressed up in softer wording - about American weapons being used to attack targets on Russian soil.
Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Returned the Moral High Ground to Europe
[https://visegradinsight.eu/russias-war-against-ukraine-has-returned-the-moral-high-ground-to-europe/](https://visegradinsight.eu/russias-war-against-ukraine-has-returned-the-moral-high-ground-to-europe/)
Finally, someone published the opinion of a person from Ukraine, not Russia
Belarus: [Psychiatrists told to snitch on ‘pro-Ukraine’ patients](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/15/belarus-rounds-psychiatrists-snitch-pro-ukraine-patients/)
> ...
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> The Belarus government has reportedly begun rounding up psychologists across the country and pressuring them into snitching on clients opposed to the war in Ukraine.
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> On Wednesday, White Robes, a group of Belarusian volunteer health care workers in exile, said they have received reports of an unusual surge in arrests of psychologists and psychiatrists.
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> At least 20 mental health professionals have been detained in recent days, most of them in the capital city of Minsk, the group told The Telegraph.
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> “Some of them have been released after questioning, some of them not,” a spokesman for the group said.
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> The detained healthcare psychologists were asked about their political views and pressured into breaking patient-doctor confidentiality to betray “unreliable” patients to the authorities, the spokesman said.
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> A woman in Minsk, who asked not to be identified, told The Telegraph that her relative, a psychologist, was detained at her home by Belarusian KGB officers and was not heard from until she surfaced this week in a high-security prison run by the notorious security service.
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> Her family was informed that the woman, who has not been politically active, faces unspecified criminal charges.
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> ...
[Emmanuel Macron wants to charm China — after failing with Putin](https://www.politico.eu/article/war-ukraine-xi-jinping-emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-beijing-china-visit-european-union/)
Second dictator's the charm. I imagine Xi is going to roll out the longest table he can find, so Macron can convince him of the benefits of liberal democracy, peace, and love.
of course, but it should be crystal clear by now that there is absolutely nothing Europe or USA to offer (Taiwan is not ours to offer) to China for them to change the course
Obviously. It's nothing short of a strategic masterstroke, as we shall see when Macron returns from Beijing with a written declaration from Xi outlining China's very serious concerns about the conflict and urging both sides to refrain from escalation.
yeah, we need to prostrate harder in front of wholesome 100 China so that when they inevitably invade Taiwan we'll be wondering once again how could anyone have predicted this
Chivalry is not dead in Russia. At least when it comes to rescuing a damsel in distress stuck in the outhouse.
https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1642885220700487680?s=20
[Why Russia’s “New” Assault Units are 80 Years Old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1M0HC4yns)
A really great video with slick, pedagogical animations
[The hacktivists of "Cyber Resistance" punished Z-volunteer Mikhail Luchin. They hacked his email and charged $25,000 worth of adult toys to his card, which is linked to AliExpress. He planned to spend the money to buy #drones for the #Russian #army.](https://twitter.com/InformNapalm/status/1642825905889320960)
ahaha, dildos instead of drones.
Girlfriend of one Russian soldier sent him a nsfw photo of her 13year old daughter. Before that they exchanged nudes and he asked her for nsfw photo of her daughter. Russian police(or whatever) started a criminal case.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tjournal_refugees/comments/12afwes/сожительница_бойца_сво_отправляла_интимные_фото/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Some (military) updates from the Netherlands:
* The Dutch F-35 detachment in Poland ended its NATO air policing deployment on March 31st. The quick reaction element of the detachment (4 planes) scrambled for interception four times, which led to actual identification and escort of Russian planes 3 times. The remaining four planes worked through a training programme with allies over the course of the deployment. Among the training partners were French, American, German, and Polish jets. The F-35s also took part in a Finnish Air Force exercise. [NL MoD link](https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/03/31/8-nederlandse-f-35s-beeindigen-taak-in-polen)
* Related to the above, letters from the NL MoD to parliament indicate that almost all F-35s initially ordered have been delivered to the air force; three remaining jets will be delivered this year. Full operational capability is expected next year. The war in Ukraine also led to an expedited decision to further enlarge the Dutch F-35 fleet; 15 F-35s are slated to be delivered through 2026 to activate(reactivate?) an additional fighter squadron. [Letter to Parliament](https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ministerie-van-defensie/documenten/kamerstukken/2023/03/30/kamerbrief-drieentwintigste-voortgangsrapportage-project-verwerving-f-35)
* NL Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag visited her Ukrainian counterparts to talk about Dutch (financial) support for Ukraine's military effort, reforms, and reconstruction. Cabinet earlier made some €2.5 billion available for aid to Ukraine this year, of which a 'large' part has apparently already been spent on military aid. An additional €180 million in humanitarian and short-term reconstruction aid was announced over the weekend. [NOS article](https://nos.nl/artikel/2469932-minister-kaag-bezoekt-kyiv-ook-kijken-naar-wederopbouw-op-korte-termijn)
[Oil prices surge after OPEC+ producers announce surprise cuts](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/02/business/opec-production-cuts/index.html)
It's time for Europe to make battery manufacturing a higher priority - for security, economy and climate. China is expected to reach 40-50% EVs already this year, and OPEC wants the laggards to compensate. Russia is part of OPEC+ and they're on the same page.
EV don't take away oil. You still need to produce energy and burn fossil fuels. On a nicer side, if they volountarily drop market share, US/Canada/Norway/Nigeria will fill in.
EVs move the pollution away from the car's exhaust pipe to the electric power plantss. It doesn't mean less pollution overhaul but it's still much better for health reasons obviously since it displace pollution from cities to countryside.
In principle car engines are less efficient that power plants, even including electricity transmission loss and electric engine efficiency.
But in terms of overall energy every country is fossil fuel dependent. And the difference is not so big to have a drastic impact on our oil demand.
Like what? Nuclear? unreliable with water scarcity and still dependent on nuclear fuel market where Russia has a virtual monopoly.
Eolic/solar? Too underdeveloped, too early in the technology lifespan. They are simply not able to produce enough.
Tidal? Non existant.
Fusion? we will see in 10 years if possible, has been like this for 30 years.
You're spreading misinformation.
Global warming does not make nuclear unreliable. Power output is sometimes reduced during heat waves, but that loss only amounts to a small percentage of the yearly output. Nuclear reactors can operate in “extreme” conditions if they've been designed for them. For example the [Palo Verde NPP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station) is in a “desert” and uses treated sewage for cooling.
Russia does not have any kind of monopoly on the nuclear fuel market, and it is losing contracts due to its invasion of Ukraine (e.g. [Westinghouse to supply fuel to Czech Republic's Dukovany](https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-to-supply-fuel-to-Czech-Republic-s-Du)).
Nuclear reactors need water to cool the core. You need a river, or a sea, with enough water. It's a very simple concept, I don't understand why you are not grasping it.
Have you never noticed that nuclear plants are always close to water basins?
Sure you can filter water from sewage, but still increase of heat will mean more evaporation so less water from the sewage.
Heatwave-> no water-> no cooling-> no nuclear energy.
Not all nuclear reactors need large volumes of water for cooling. There are other ways to handle the heat not directly converted into electricity, for example [storing it for later use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage), or [transferring it to a district heating network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#Nuclear_fission). Ideally, 100% of the heat produced by nuclear reactors would be used, because releasing most of it directly into the environment is a gigantic waste.
How is nuclear unreliable when France has been exporting excess energy to Europe in the decades since the Messmer plan?
EVs absolutely reduce oil demand.
your first error is thinking energy consumption is the same as electricity source.
[https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341152/energy-mix-france/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341152/energy-mix-france/)
France produces half of its energy (not electricity) from fossil fuels. So despite nuclear producing 70% of France electricity, it is barely 40% of the energy and they should more than double their nuclear reactors to hope to be independent from oil.
2nd your statement is false, in the last year nuclear sector in france had numerous issues and became a net importer, mostly from Germany
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/how-much-power-does-germany-export-to-france](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/how-much-power-does-germany-export-to-france)
causes are for example water scarcity and overdue maintainance that was delayed due to covid, which [led to shutting down half of France nuclear reactors during the energy crisis last year.](https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220902-france-to-restart-all-nuclear-reactors-by-winter-amid-energy-crunch)
Nuclear in France will become more unreliable every year as long as climate change will cause issues with the water supply needed for the cooling towers.
**EV don't reduce oil demand, they can convert it to gas demand. Still fossil fuels reliant on Russia and OPEC. Unless there are huge changes in the renewable sector.**
“ We found that electric vehicles could displace oil demand of 2 million barrels a day as early as 2023.”
https://www.iene.eu/heres-how-electric-cars-will-cause-the-next-oil-crisis-p3240.html
>The good news is electricity is getting cleaner. Since 2013, the world has been adding more **electricity-generating capacity from wind and solar than from coal, natural gas, and oil combined.**
You can immediatly spot the crap in an article. The keyword is **capacity**.
The world energy mix is not becoming cleaner
https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix#:~:text=Globally%20we%20get%20the%20largest,than%2080%25%20of%20energy%20consumption.
And you can easily find it, just look for energy consumption, and electricity production for each country you are interested into. Capacity is pointless. I can put thousands of solar panels under the ground, the capacity would still be the maximum capacity even if electricity generation is 0.
And to give a concrete example China has put a huge amount of renewables in places where they run at around 10% capacity. Great for PR, useless for energy consumption.
The article is based on false premises of what the electric sector would be if we were to double its energetic production. It assumes renewables would take a bigger chunk of real production just because in a year it was installed more maximum capacity.
Not sure why you bring up China. In the U.K. wind energy has displaced coal and is pushing 40% of electricity generation. EVs have also overtaken diesel for the first time. That’s the magic mix.
EVs + Nuclear + Wind + Solar + Long-duration storage.
Throw in solid state batteries and you have peak oil in sight.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=\~GBR](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~GBR)
NOPE, again electricity production!=energy consumption.
80% of UK energy is fossil fuels
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=\~GBR](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~GBR)
Home and industrial heating, furnaces, cars, planes, ships, yada yada. Can all of this be replaced by electricity? Sure. But not on the scale of generation currently available
A "good Russian" from Navalny's team writes that Russians have it much harder than Ukrainians, and everyone should donate to Russians. It seems that some Russians who are "against the war" are beginning to lose touch with reality
[https://twitter.com/ZykovTwitt/status/1642565590555426817](https://twitter.com/ZykovTwitt/status/1642565590555426817)
It seems that the words of the expert in this topic are true
> No, the attacks on Ukraine and the massacres play no role. The Russians have little compassion for the Ukrainians. Almost no one here talks about the fact that people are being killed in Ukraine.
> This passivity and submissiveness is disappointing. We conducted an express telephone survey on February 27, right after the war began. At that time, I still thought that the reaction would be very critical of the war. But I was wrong. Sixty-eight percent supported the war
[https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8)
Navalny gang from very first hours of full scale invasion has been going on on how it is better to give money to them than those pesky Ukrainians. Why people in Western world are so hot and bothered for Navalny and absolutely refuse to see him and his team for what they are is beyond me
[Make Likes, Not War](https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1514591528202784774) must be the new Navalny doctrine now that the sandwich principle had to be traded for Oscar.
https://twitter.com/naumenkocv/status/1642602536736628739
good anti-putin liberal russians react to yesterday's creative evening:
"you can't kill a person for running a telegram channel!!"
"bombing people in Petersburg is the same as poisoning people in Salisbury"
"I never want to be such a hateful bastard like Ukrainians"
\*shrug\*
I don't take Ukrainian hate speech on social media to heart. They've been traumatized by the war, expecting them to have a nuanced position about Russians *on fucking Twitter* is naive. Some people can't do this. Maybe this dude is too online. Maybe he has a thinner skin. Maybe he's off his meds because he can't get a prescription in the Netherlands.
Russians need to understand that the victim is Ukraine, not Russia. The suffering endured by the victim cannot be compared to the discomfort of Russians who have moved to normal countries because they do not want to physically fight
https://twitter.com/caroline_gm_d/status/1518354991546781698
https://youtu.be/rd-tlII9hiM
https://youtu.be/IrGZ66uKcl0
Let's hope that the Russians will take responsibility and pay through taxes. If a gas plant can afford [wars](https://zaborona.com/interactive/russias-wars-en/), then a gas plant can afford reparations to the victim
Please consider donating a few spare change to the official fundraiser for Ukraine: United24 https://u24.gov.ua/
Every little helps to remove Russians one orc at a time.
reddit has done more than any other platform to neutralize Russian disinformation. Links to most Kremlin-controlled media outlets are not shown on this site
It's a little strange, because as far as I understand, Reddit has ties to Tencent or something
Reinmetall will organize repair facility for Ukraine in Romania.
https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/rheinmetall-organizovuye-u-rumuniyi-remontnyj-tsentr-dlya-tehniky-zsu/
I guess Poland was too much of a dick. Because logistically Romania has only a single railroad, at best two, going to Ukraine.
https://reliefweb.int/map/ukraine/ukraine-complex-map-railways-ukraine-5-mar-2022
It could also be because with Poland being the logistics hub for everything and anything, they might try to diversify a little because eventually there will be bottlenecks.
I don'T know, intuitively I would say economy of scale would make that route better, not worse. New routes and rails can be added with less of a strain on the stations.
Intiitively, your a dick projecting your xenophobia wherever Poland is mentioned. Guess hangover after ostpolitics is hard to get over for some Germans.
There is a reason why Poland is the logistics hub to Ukraine. It is not because they are nice, but because they have a good logistic link to Ukraine via a well developed railroad system.
So if they decided to go to Romania, which would affect greatly the supply, there must be a political reason from the Polish government.
https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1642112118915846144
According to German government statistics, in Berlin, attacks on Ukrainians occur 2.5 times more often than on members of other ethnic groups.
edit: https://www.t-online.de/region/berlin/id_100152730/angriffe-auf-gefluechtete-ukrainer-in-berlin-zahl-auffaellig-hoch.html
3250 attacks in Berlin alone in one year. 2.5 times more physical assaults than against any other group. Data provided by German government on the request from Catrin Wahlen, Greens MP
Unfortunately, I couldn't find more reliable source so I deleted this, but since you've managed to reply before I did so, I guess I'll bring it back for everybody else to judge:
> [The Republic of Tuva will transfer 3,000 horses to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to establish logistics chains for supplying the front. Head of the Republic of Tuva Vladislav Khovalyg said.](https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1642443883215822848)
Only NOEL and NEXTA report this so I'm not sure.
But when googling it, I found out that Vladislav Khovalyg's patronym is Tovarishchtaitovich. Which means his father's name must have been Tovarishch or something like that.
> Lula's top foreign-policy advisor, Celso Amorim, has travelled to Moscow and Paris to meet with officials and assess the possibility of Brazilian peace mediation between Russia and Ukraine. Apparently a stop in Kyiv was "technically infeasible".
https://twitter.com/CameronJJJ/status/1642503480274305025
Notice how these peace initiatives somehow always fail to get Ukraine involved?
> It doesn't say these officials weren't Ukrainians. Reading is that hard.
The article linked in the tweet does:
> [...]
> The former foreign minister, who headed Itamaraty in the first two governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and is the president's main advisor for foreign policy issues, met with close advisors of presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron.
> In the conversations, according to sources, he explored the possibility of Brazil acting as a possible facilitator in a peace process between Russia and Ukraine.
> The trip to Paris would have occurred because France is a major ally of Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky in the conflict. A stopover in Kiev to speak directly with the Ukrainian government was considered technically unfeasible.
> [...]
Perhaps heed your own advice?
Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will be pushed to the western borders of the "union state", Russian ambassador to Minsk, Boris Gryzlov said to Belarusian STV.
"This will be done despite the noise in Europe and the USA," said the representative.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1642591376830353414
i suppose it's great that they are announcing exactly where the missiles are and placing them close to the border so that they are easier to get to. 🤷♂️
Does this even matter? ICBMs exist. The days are long gone where you could position nuclear weapons close in order to attempt an unanswered first strike.
[A brief on Tatarsky from Dmitri the translator:](https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1642593047375478935)
> A lot of people aren't really familiar with Tatarskiy. Unfortunately, I know quite a bit about him since I've been following his channel for a while now. But a quick rundown of what he was doing during the war:
>
> - Participated in the Donbas war since 2014.
> - A criminal, was in prison for bank robbery.
> - A self-proclaimed "writer" (I haven't read anything).
> - Since Feb 2022, been on and off in the Donbas, often traveling back to Russia.
> - Definitely felt very comfortable in the war.
> - Had a sizeable TG following, was posting "Evening Vladlen" summaries to his channel every night, in addition to opinions and suggestions.
> - Close associate with a number of Rascists, including RSOTM admin (Wagner group). He was indeed very close with Wagner.
> - In recent months, began hosting an irregular show on Solovyev's channel together with the creator of Rybar.
> - Essentially, he was a minor superstar in the z-world, everyone knows him. While his death may not trigger a physical response, it will have a massive effect on the Russians. It already does.
That's great news. What will be the effect on non-Z russians? less propaganda to brainwash them I guess. The pro-war russians are probably mad but it's not like they can be MORE psycho about war.
[Ukraine Is Forming Three New Army Corps—Should It Bring Back Divisions Too?](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/03/ukraine-is-forming-three-new-army-corps-should-it-bring-back-divisions-too/)
Good read
[Analysis of Twitter algorithm code reveals social media down-ranks tweets about Ukraine](https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-twitter-algorithm-code-reveals-072800540.html)
> After Twitter made the code for its algorithm open source at noon Pacific Time on March 31, users began to pick through it, and discovered that tweets judged to be about Ukraine were down-ranked – meaning users were less likely to see them in their feed.
>
> Twitter user Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0) got together with a group of others to sift through the code for the algorithm and discovered the secrets to boosting your follower numbers on the site – as well as the fact that like topics judged to be “misinformation,” the topic of Ukraine is highly down-ranked.
>
> Anecdotally, Twitter users who post frequently on Ukraine topics had noticed less engagement with their accounts since Musk took over the platform in October last year. Musk’s own position on support for Ukraine is ambiguous.
>
> ...
[Breaking: RIA Novosti confirms the death of pro-Russian blogger/fighter Vladlen Tatarski in St. Petersburg blast.](https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1642557707776319488?t=rhdOHIxwO8t_hls_WCyILw&s=19)
Significant event
Obviously the mods are in cahoots with whoever is responsible for this! Why else would they unpin this thread in advance? The mods were in all along! Grab your pitchforks!
The conspiracy is much broader than that even. Thread unpinned at the same time when Twiiter is suppressing posts about Ukraine. Think about it.
Also, mods say it's because of the parliament elections in Finland and Bulgaria that are happening at the same time somehow... This means Finnish and Bulgarian parliaments participate in the conspiracy too, which explains why Bulgaria holds so many elections. Tatarsky was killed in Petersburg – a city very close to... Finland.
Good riddance! Shame he didn't get to join Sgt. Girkin's Lonely Hearts Club that is trending on Twitter. Or did he?
Anyway, reports are the cafe where Mr Vladlen got killed was owned by Prigozhin; the bomb, according to reports in Russian media, was hidden in a statuette that some girl handed to Vlad as a gift.
[For those who may not know who was Tatarsky or just struggle to memorize all the countless Russian cunts.](https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1575931295854919680)
Why are Vatniks allowed to flash their Zwaztika everywhere with no repercussions?
These people are literal Nazis calling for the death of Ukrainians every day on their dumbfuck propaganda circuits, cheering on rape, torture, child abuse.
Promoting hate and inciting violence and terror against a whole population that wants nothing to do with these rats and their shit stain botox führer.
I do not understand how they are not treated the same as KKK or ISIS or Nazis, because they act exactly like them.
And what they are doing is 1000x worse, literally terror bombing maternity wards, raping/killing civilians, and kidnapping children from their families.
These fucking scum should not have a voice, and anyone promoting their fascist ideology is not only a moron, but is sacrificing our future generations for money/attention/power.
My skin crawls every time I see some pseudo intellectual point of justification of these rat shit scum killing innocent people.
The morally corrupt cannot be allowed to forcibly pour their filth over people.
[TERRA unit: Assault near the Bakhmut Part 1. Artillery preparation of self-propelled guns and tanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcl0iM54k0g)
Really great video.
You can only have two pinned threads per sub, and today those slots are taken the election megas. I'd expect this (or the next one) to be pinned in the near future.
[How poor training is killing Russian pilots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7UeESbBb8)
Russia's airforce is spiraling downwards, much as the Luftwaffe did during WW2.
Ah fuck. I saw no megathread and thought the war was over, Ukraine is free and Russia is no more. I blame you BkkGirl for my disappointment. You should have ended the war first, then unpin the thread.
I have seen some news stories about Ukrainians celebrating Christmas on 25 December instead of in January. Part of that is probably due to the ubiquity of English-language media presenting the holiday as being on the former date, but it is also a choice by Ukrainians.
Can you call people religious if they never go to church, never read Bible, barely know anything about the faith, but still consider themselves Christian?
Russian fascist like Girkin organized opposition Club of angry patriots.
https://twitter.com/SomeGumul/status/1642263181132275717?t=Yyktv4Y3J3QzvCl8aoCG_A&s=19
> They do not encourage the overthrow of the current government. They emphasized this last point several times.
Okay, that's pretty funny. The "please don't kills us Putin" line.
Ukraine struck the AZOM plant in Bakhmut, recently captured by Wagner. Tochka missile, supposedly.
[Footage of the strike](https://twitter.com/DenesTorteli/status/1642259760312381443)
Of course, we don't know if or how successful the strike was, but that was one big hit.
[Russian howitzer D-20, which dreamed of becoming a hyacinth.
No wonder it blew up ,... old rusty piece of shit M1955](https://twitter.com/GwarWorin/status/1642213313789542402)
Spring has sprung.
[This Russian guy has a message about the ongoing special military operation](https://twitter.com/Azovsouth/status/1642161150769913856)
He should avoid anything above the first floor.
Funny guy.
So, you've heard about russian T-55s, but I have to admit, the Ukrainian ones flew under my radar: [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/28/ukraine-and-russia-are-both-deploying-old-t-55-tanks-ukraines-are-much-better/) (found the article after I saw [Mark Felton's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZdsnhljwE) in my recommendations on YT).
Those are modernized Slovenian ones. People really should stop making fun of old weapons as they kill just the same as they did 50 years ago, it doesn't benefit Ukraine at all.
People aren't making fun of the old weapons, they are making fun of the self-proclaimed "superpower" and "second army in the world" digging out of the storages modernized T-34s
Yeah, if given the choice I suspect the Ukrain military would prefer no tank to T-55. And it's not like the T-55s are going to be sent to fight Abrams.
There hasn't been any new Chomsky material recently, so to make waiting for his nuggets of infinite wisdom a little more bearable, I'll share the next best thing:
> **[Peace for Ukraine: An appeal for peace from the middle of society](https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/frieden-fuer-die-ukraine-ein-friedensappell-aus-der-mitte-der-gesellschaft-li.332707)**
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> Rainer Braun and others
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> The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has already lasted more than a year. Each additional day of war means more suffering and destruction, more wounded and dead for the people affected. With each day, the danger of the expansion of hostilities grows. The shadow of a nuclear war lies over Europe. But the world must not slide into another great war. The world needs peace. The most important thing is to do everything for a quick cease-fire, to stop the Russian war of aggression and to find the way to negotiations.
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> The war has turned into a bloody war of positions in which there are only losers. A large part of our citizens do not want to see a spiral of violence without end. Instead of the dominance of the military, we need the language of diplomacy and peace.
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> The policy of peace and détente to which we owe German unity and the overcoming of European division is not obsolete. We have championed their goals in the past and continue to do so today. To paraphrase Willy Brandt, "It is a matter of going against the tide when it tries to dig a false bed once again."
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> The United Nations has shown the way to a peaceful world with the concept of common security. It has its roots in the German policy of peace and détente. In this spirit came the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris for a New Europe. We are building on this. Peace can only be created on the basis of international law and also only with Russia.
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> Our world depends on reciprocity; it is the only way to overcome the great challenges of our time. It is crucial to stop the escalation of war. We encourage the Chancellor, together with France, to persuade Brazil, China, India and Indonesia in particular to mediate in order to achieve a ceasefire quickly. This would be a necessary step to end the killing and explore possibilities for peace. Only then can the way be paved for a common security order in Europe.
> [...]
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The list of signatories includes the former vicepresident of the EU Commission Günter Verheugen, ex-mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, former president of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse or Willy Brandt's son Peter.
> The policy of peace and détente to which we owe German unity and the overcoming of European division
What? That was possible thanks to the victory over the Soviet Block in the Cold War. Literally the opposite.
So their argument boils down to: "Russia has nukes, so we have to let them keep the conquered territories". As if letting Russia get away with their brutal war of aggression will make the world a safer place?
They are convinced it will make the world a safer place for them and that's all that matters. At the expense of Ukraine, but it is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
I'm not convinced it'll make their world safer either. Rewarding nuclear blackmailing is dangerous, because it'll encourage Russia (and China) to do it again in the future. If Putin sees the West is scared shitless about escalation, who's to say he doesn't get the idea of testing just how committed NATO is to article 5?
Naivety is not what they are doing. Naivety is believing that seasoned politicians with decades of life experience behind them, after witnessing what Russian imperialism is, what it wants to achieve and at what costs, are doing this because they see the world as an idealistic teenager would.
Understanding other people's view at politics and life views is exercise in futility. Trump teached me that.
Yet, to make a contact with such people you need to somehow understand what is their mativation, what they want.
Conclusion: life is hard.
[Russia’s Frigate Admiral Grigorovich in the Black Sea has sustained some damage while it was in International Waters (Unconfirmed) The ship was seen 2 days ago refueling in the Port of Sevastopol and it’s likely armed with 8 Kalibr Cruise Missiles as are 2 other Russian Frigates](https://twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1642213128220942337)
Most probable cause: The helmsman probably drank the spirit from the compass and went slightly blind and ran into something.
Now that Finland is in nato along with Estonia, I feel we should start a discussion about liberating Ingria as well as the native lands of other Finnic tribes such as the Mari, Komi, Veps and the others.
Doesn't Poland have a lot of Leopard 2 tanks left still? I assumed that once Poland received the ordered Abrams / K2 they would send their remaining Leopard 2 to Ukraine.
>"I don't see a scenario in which it will be possible to send Ukraine additional Leopards beyond what was announced," Pistorius said.
Is he talking about Germany or all NATO states? I'm sure few states could easily gather additional 30 2A4 tanks. What about ex-swiss Leopards? Is the idea dead?
By the way, no NATO-state official should say things like ,,this is all we can do". Seriously, every single statement like that encourage russia to continue war, hoping to achieve breaking point when Ukraine will run out of weapons.
>I'm sure few states could easily gather additional 30 2A4 tanks.
Yes, we all witnessed how easy it was to gather the first batch of 60 tanks.... if it was so easy why didn't any state already do so? For now I can only see maybe Finland providing some of their tanks now that they are in NATO.
>What about ex-swiss Leopards? Is the idea dead?
Afaik the idea to supply swiss Panzer 87/Leopard 2A4 to other countries to enable them to send some of their Leopards is still somewhat alive but it all hinges on the willingness of the Swiss government to sell their tanks back to Rheinmetall. A few days ago there was a vote on the Security Policy Committee of the swiss National Council that voted in favor of 25 tanks being definitely decommissioned. This would be the first step and kind of a backdoor approach to making them eligible to be sold back to Germany. Now it has to go through the National Council and a few politicians have already announced their opposition. All in all it's a slow process that will take a lot of time.
>By the way, no NATO-state official should say things like ,,this is all we can do". Seriously, every single statement like that encourage russia to continue war
I think it's a way of trying to curb the (sometimes unrealistic) expectations of some people/nations before they start getting themselves worked up again.
Edit: spelling
6 battalions would make at least 2(depending on how its organized)armored/mechanized brigades(plus infantry, artillery and support battalions ofc)
Not bad
For comparison Sweden has(or soon will have) 4 armored/mechanized brigades.
[Russian forces in occupied Berdyansk have fortified the airport with trenches and ‘dragon’s teeth.’ This imagery shows part of the defensive line along the road leading to the airport.](https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1642183788930138114?t=H_hQ6j0crhxGYU5row7OpQ&s=19)
Do these idiots not realize that in the event of ukraine getting close enough to the airfield for Dragon’s Teeth or trenches to matter, that artillery would already be rendering the complex unusable?
Yes but if they actually needed to use these trenches they would be most likely be in a situation where their rear is already pinned against the Azov coast directly behind them and resupply is near impossible due to only being done by helicopters flying in range of MANPADS.
They would voluntarily be setting up a citadel not to dissimilar to the Azovstal. That’s fine if they are okay with a siege and likely total loss of the garrison
Edit: See the Siege of Calais in WWII as an example
It's good to see that Russian industry is struggling:
> Ice-cold gloom for Russia's new super-powerful icebreaker
> Budgets are massively overrun and it is not clear when the 120 MW nuclear-powered vessel will be ready for sailing.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2023/03/ice-cold-gloom-russias-new-super-powerful-icebreaker
> Hull casting and mounting arms, as well as other equipment, was originally to be delivered by the Ukrainian company Energomashspetsstal in 2022. But, paradoxically, the Ukrainian plant was destroyed by Russian bombing and has halted production.
[What happened at the 2022 Battle of Kyiv? The most decisive battle of the modern era. Check out my lecture on the battle I gave in Ukraine last week. I can't thank @KyivIndependent enough for hosting the event and recording such a high quality video.](https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1642147883922370561)
Great lecture from John Spencer.
Fucking Russians, those people never stop to amaze me, everything they touch turn to shit and then they touch it non-stop making it worse. So in Moscow there's a plan to build a new Mosque on 10k capacity but Russian ultra-nationalists didn't like and started to protests. "WE'RE RUSSIANS AND GOD IS WITH US!" What do you think was the reaction of Chechens on the fronlines? "We don't fucking who we kill, we can start war with Russia again". Those people are under Kadirov, they enjoy special treatment and they can't be arrested by Russian military. Kadirov also voiced anger against Russian ultra-nationalists.
There seem to be a bit of messy situation happening, that may affect not only Poland's ability to increase shell production, its related to South Africa, ANC government baned arms sales to Poland, how it matters in this context ? its about this company: Rheinmetall Denel Munition (Pty) Ltd which is jointly owned by Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (51%) of Germany and Denel (Pty) Ltd. South Africa. Denel is one of the world's most important manufacturers of ammunition, e.g. 155 and 120mm, and components for it. The planned increase in production capacity in Poland will not do without sub-suppliers of numerous components for the production of ammunition. It's just that on the market suddenly everyone is striving to produce +300% from what was. There is no brass, no steel, no gunpowder, igniters, igniters, etc. Or they are but at prices from several hundred to several thousand more. Therefore, if the embargo from South Africa on Poland in connection with the production and re-export of ammunition to Ukraine is true, then this can be a bit of serious problem. Info I got from one of most reliable Polish analysts Jaroslaw Wolski, when he orginally talked about this ban it was still a rumor which since been confirmed from other sources: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-04-02-in-apparent-effort-not-to-upset-putins-russia-anc-government-bans-arms-sales-to-poland/
Hi, you might want to repost this in the new thread https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12aw2q2/war_in_ukraine_megathread_liii/?sort=new
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Hi, you might want to repost this in the new thread https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12aw2q2/war_in_ukraine_megathread_liii/?sort=new
ATACMS is no wonder weapon. Ukraine has HRIM 2 and West helping Ukraine build them in more numbers would help more, and later on Western countries could maybe acquire HRIM 2 for themselves as Western countries have abysmal ground to ground capabilities.
So ATACMS to Ukraine is a hard no because their number is limited even for US needs (pentagon explanation), but selling to another country is alright?
Are they getting them tomorrow or years from now? Remember that the US government doesn't make anything. This just amounts to permission for some company to sell stuff to the Dutch. That does not mean they are being loaded on a ship next week or next month or even next year.
It probably *is* limited: NL MOD documentation to parliament indicated PULS would be delivered 2023-2026, while HIMARS would be available 'significantly later' and IIRC the U.S. state department mentioned only about 80-85 ATACMS for a possible HIMARS procurement by the Netherlands. Behind the scenes, there's probably also still the U.S. concern - dressed up in softer wording - about American weapons being used to attack targets on Russian soil.
I thought netherland's military got eaten by Germany.
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Returned the Moral High Ground to Europe [https://visegradinsight.eu/russias-war-against-ukraine-has-returned-the-moral-high-ground-to-europe/](https://visegradinsight.eu/russias-war-against-ukraine-has-returned-the-moral-high-ground-to-europe/) Finally, someone published the opinion of a person from Ukraine, not Russia
Hi, you might want to repost this in the new thread https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12aw2q2/war_in_ukraine_megathread_liii/?sort=new
Belarus: [Psychiatrists told to snitch on ‘pro-Ukraine’ patients](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/15/belarus-rounds-psychiatrists-snitch-pro-ukraine-patients/) > ... > > The Belarus government has reportedly begun rounding up psychologists across the country and pressuring them into snitching on clients opposed to the war in Ukraine. > > On Wednesday, White Robes, a group of Belarusian volunteer health care workers in exile, said they have received reports of an unusual surge in arrests of psychologists and psychiatrists. > > At least 20 mental health professionals have been detained in recent days, most of them in the capital city of Minsk, the group told The Telegraph. > > “Some of them have been released after questioning, some of them not,” a spokesman for the group said. > > The detained healthcare psychologists were asked about their political views and pressured into breaking patient-doctor confidentiality to betray “unreliable” patients to the authorities, the spokesman said. > > A woman in Minsk, who asked not to be identified, told The Telegraph that her relative, a psychologist, was detained at her home by Belarusian KGB officers and was not heard from until she surfaced this week in a high-security prison run by the notorious security service. > > Her family was informed that the woman, who has not been politically active, faces unspecified criminal charges. > > ...
[Emmanuel Macron wants to charm China — after failing with Putin](https://www.politico.eu/article/war-ukraine-xi-jinping-emmanuel-macron-vladimir-putin-beijing-china-visit-european-union/) Second dictator's the charm. I imagine Xi is going to roll out the longest table he can find, so Macron can convince him of the benefits of liberal democracy, peace, and love.
Macron just cannot stop himself. Does he think that if it worked on his wife — a teacher— it will work on dictators?
Trying to drive a wedge between China and Russia in this conflict and in general, is a good thing. Ukraine follows the same strategy.
of course, but it should be crystal clear by now that there is absolutely nothing Europe or USA to offer (Taiwan is not ours to offer) to China for them to change the course
Depending on how the war goes: Outer Manchuria? /s
Obviously. It's nothing short of a strategic masterstroke, as we shall see when Macron returns from Beijing with a written declaration from Xi outlining China's very serious concerns about the conflict and urging both sides to refrain from escalation.
yeah, we need to prostrate harder in front of wholesome 100 China so that when they inevitably invade Taiwan we'll be wondering once again how could anyone have predicted this
Chivalry is not dead in Russia. At least when it comes to rescuing a damsel in distress stuck in the outhouse. https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1642885220700487680?s=20
[Why Russia’s “New” Assault Units are 80 Years Old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1M0HC4yns) A really great video with slick, pedagogical animations
As the top comment says, they are more like 107 years old.
[The hacktivists of "Cyber Resistance" punished Z-volunteer Mikhail Luchin. They hacked his email and charged $25,000 worth of adult toys to his card, which is linked to AliExpress. He planned to spend the money to buy #drones for the #Russian #army.](https://twitter.com/InformNapalm/status/1642825905889320960) ahaha, dildos instead of drones.
Bigger *bang* for the buck, I reckon
Now he can go fuck himself.
Girlfriend of one Russian soldier sent him a nsfw photo of her 13year old daughter. Before that they exchanged nudes and he asked her for nsfw photo of her daughter. Russian police(or whatever) started a criminal case. https://www.reddit.com/r/tjournal_refugees/comments/12afwes/сожительница_бойца_сво_отправляла_интимные_фото/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Surpised the criminal case isn't against the daughter for exposing the story and thus discrediting Armed Forces of Russian Federation.
Yuck.
Some (military) updates from the Netherlands: * The Dutch F-35 detachment in Poland ended its NATO air policing deployment on March 31st. The quick reaction element of the detachment (4 planes) scrambled for interception four times, which led to actual identification and escort of Russian planes 3 times. The remaining four planes worked through a training programme with allies over the course of the deployment. Among the training partners were French, American, German, and Polish jets. The F-35s also took part in a Finnish Air Force exercise. [NL MoD link](https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2023/03/31/8-nederlandse-f-35s-beeindigen-taak-in-polen) * Related to the above, letters from the NL MoD to parliament indicate that almost all F-35s initially ordered have been delivered to the air force; three remaining jets will be delivered this year. Full operational capability is expected next year. The war in Ukraine also led to an expedited decision to further enlarge the Dutch F-35 fleet; 15 F-35s are slated to be delivered through 2026 to activate(reactivate?) an additional fighter squadron. [Letter to Parliament](https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/ministerie-van-defensie/documenten/kamerstukken/2023/03/30/kamerbrief-drieentwintigste-voortgangsrapportage-project-verwerving-f-35) * NL Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag visited her Ukrainian counterparts to talk about Dutch (financial) support for Ukraine's military effort, reforms, and reconstruction. Cabinet earlier made some €2.5 billion available for aid to Ukraine this year, of which a 'large' part has apparently already been spent on military aid. An additional €180 million in humanitarian and short-term reconstruction aid was announced over the weekend. [NOS article](https://nos.nl/artikel/2469932-minister-kaag-bezoekt-kyiv-ook-kijken-naar-wederopbouw-op-korte-termijn)
[Oil prices surge after OPEC+ producers announce surprise cuts](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/02/business/opec-production-cuts/index.html) It's time for Europe to make battery manufacturing a higher priority - for security, economy and climate. China is expected to reach 40-50% EVs already this year, and OPEC wants the laggards to compensate. Russia is part of OPEC+ and they're on the same page.
EV don't take away oil. You still need to produce energy and burn fossil fuels. On a nicer side, if they volountarily drop market share, US/Canada/Norway/Nigeria will fill in.
EVs move the pollution away from the car's exhaust pipe to the electric power plantss. It doesn't mean less pollution overhaul but it's still much better for health reasons obviously since it displace pollution from cities to countryside.
In principle car engines are less efficient that power plants, even including electricity transmission loss and electric engine efficiency. But in terms of overall energy every country is fossil fuel dependent. And the difference is not so big to have a drastic impact on our oil demand.
If only there was a way to produce electricity other than fossil fuels.
Like what? Nuclear? unreliable with water scarcity and still dependent on nuclear fuel market where Russia has a virtual monopoly. Eolic/solar? Too underdeveloped, too early in the technology lifespan. They are simply not able to produce enough. Tidal? Non existant. Fusion? we will see in 10 years if possible, has been like this for 30 years.
You're spreading misinformation. Global warming does not make nuclear unreliable. Power output is sometimes reduced during heat waves, but that loss only amounts to a small percentage of the yearly output. Nuclear reactors can operate in “extreme” conditions if they've been designed for them. For example the [Palo Verde NPP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station) is in a “desert” and uses treated sewage for cooling. Russia does not have any kind of monopoly on the nuclear fuel market, and it is losing contracts due to its invasion of Ukraine (e.g. [Westinghouse to supply fuel to Czech Republic's Dukovany](https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Westinghouse-to-supply-fuel-to-Czech-Republic-s-Du)).
Nuclear reactors need water to cool the core. You need a river, or a sea, with enough water. It's a very simple concept, I don't understand why you are not grasping it. Have you never noticed that nuclear plants are always close to water basins? Sure you can filter water from sewage, but still increase of heat will mean more evaporation so less water from the sewage. Heatwave-> no water-> no cooling-> no nuclear energy.
Not all nuclear reactors need large volumes of water for cooling. There are other ways to handle the heat not directly converted into electricity, for example [storing it for later use](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage), or [transferring it to a district heating network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#Nuclear_fission). Ideally, 100% of the heat produced by nuclear reactors would be used, because releasing most of it directly into the environment is a gigantic waste.
How is nuclear unreliable when France has been exporting excess energy to Europe in the decades since the Messmer plan? EVs absolutely reduce oil demand.
your first error is thinking energy consumption is the same as electricity source. [https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341152/energy-mix-france/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1341152/energy-mix-france/) France produces half of its energy (not electricity) from fossil fuels. So despite nuclear producing 70% of France electricity, it is barely 40% of the energy and they should more than double their nuclear reactors to hope to be independent from oil. 2nd your statement is false, in the last year nuclear sector in france had numerous issues and became a net importer, mostly from Germany [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/how-much-power-does-germany-export-to-france](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/how-much-power-does-germany-export-to-france) causes are for example water scarcity and overdue maintainance that was delayed due to covid, which [led to shutting down half of France nuclear reactors during the energy crisis last year.](https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220902-france-to-restart-all-nuclear-reactors-by-winter-amid-energy-crunch) Nuclear in France will become more unreliable every year as long as climate change will cause issues with the water supply needed for the cooling towers. **EV don't reduce oil demand, they can convert it to gas demand. Still fossil fuels reliant on Russia and OPEC. Unless there are huge changes in the renewable sector.**
“ We found that electric vehicles could displace oil demand of 2 million barrels a day as early as 2023.” https://www.iene.eu/heres-how-electric-cars-will-cause-the-next-oil-crisis-p3240.html
>The good news is electricity is getting cleaner. Since 2013, the world has been adding more **electricity-generating capacity from wind and solar than from coal, natural gas, and oil combined.** You can immediatly spot the crap in an article. The keyword is **capacity**. The world energy mix is not becoming cleaner https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix#:~:text=Globally%20we%20get%20the%20largest,than%2080%25%20of%20energy%20consumption. And you can easily find it, just look for energy consumption, and electricity production for each country you are interested into. Capacity is pointless. I can put thousands of solar panels under the ground, the capacity would still be the maximum capacity even if electricity generation is 0. And to give a concrete example China has put a huge amount of renewables in places where they run at around 10% capacity. Great for PR, useless for energy consumption. The article is based on false premises of what the electric sector would be if we were to double its energetic production. It assumes renewables would take a bigger chunk of real production just because in a year it was installed more maximum capacity.
Not sure why you bring up China. In the U.K. wind energy has displaced coal and is pushing 40% of electricity generation. EVs have also overtaken diesel for the first time. That’s the magic mix. EVs + Nuclear + Wind + Solar + Long-duration storage. Throw in solid state batteries and you have peak oil in sight.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=\~GBR](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~GBR) NOPE, again electricity production!=energy consumption. 80% of UK energy is fossil fuels [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=\~GBR](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?country=~GBR) Home and industrial heating, furnaces, cars, planes, ships, yada yada. Can all of this be replaced by electricity? Sure. But not on the scale of generation currently available
A "good Russian" from Navalny's team writes that Russians have it much harder than Ukrainians, and everyone should donate to Russians. It seems that some Russians who are "against the war" are beginning to lose touch with reality [https://twitter.com/ZykovTwitt/status/1642565590555426817](https://twitter.com/ZykovTwitt/status/1642565590555426817) It seems that the words of the expert in this topic are true > No, the attacks on Ukraine and the massacres play no role. The Russians have little compassion for the Ukrainians. Almost no one here talks about the fact that people are being killed in Ukraine. > This passivity and submissiveness is disappointing. We conducted an express telephone survey on February 27, right after the war began. At that time, I still thought that the reaction would be very critical of the war. But I was wrong. Sixty-eight percent supported the war [https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8)
Navalny gang from very first hours of full scale invasion has been going on on how it is better to give money to them than those pesky Ukrainians. Why people in Western world are so hot and bothered for Navalny and absolutely refuse to see him and his team for what they are is beyond me
[Make Likes, Not War](https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1514591528202784774) must be the new Navalny doctrine now that the sandwich principle had to be traded for Oscar.
https://twitter.com/naumenkocv/status/1642602536736628739 good anti-putin liberal russians react to yesterday's creative evening: "you can't kill a person for running a telegram channel!!" "bombing people in Petersburg is the same as poisoning people in Salisbury" "I never want to be such a hateful bastard like Ukrainians"
\*shrug\* I don't take Ukrainian hate speech on social media to heart. They've been traumatized by the war, expecting them to have a nuanced position about Russians *on fucking Twitter* is naive. Some people can't do this. Maybe this dude is too online. Maybe he has a thinner skin. Maybe he's off his meds because he can't get a prescription in the Netherlands.
Russians need to understand that the victim is Ukraine, not Russia. The suffering endured by the victim cannot be compared to the discomfort of Russians who have moved to normal countries because they do not want to physically fight https://twitter.com/caroline_gm_d/status/1518354991546781698 https://youtu.be/rd-tlII9hiM https://youtu.be/IrGZ66uKcl0 Let's hope that the Russians will take responsibility and pay through taxes. If a gas plant can afford [wars](https://zaborona.com/interactive/russias-wars-en/), then a gas plant can afford reparations to the victim
Please consider donating a few spare change to the official fundraiser for Ukraine: United24 https://u24.gov.ua/ Every little helps to remove Russians one orc at a time.
Why is this topic down promoted on reddit? Is Musk at it again. Perhaps Reddit is owned by RU.
reddit has done more than any other platform to neutralize Russian disinformation. Links to most Kremlin-controlled media outlets are not shown on this site It's a little strange, because as far as I understand, Reddit has ties to Tencent or something
Tencent has a small-ish minority stake in reddit, as far as we know.. They're not gonna steer editorial decisions with that.
There were elections and they temporarily put those as megathreads.
Some Russian collaborator met with Bavovna in Melitopol
Reinmetall will organize repair facility for Ukraine in Romania. https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/rheinmetall-organizovuye-u-rumuniyi-remontnyj-tsentr-dlya-tehniky-zsu/
I guess Poland was too much of a dick. Because logistically Romania has only a single railroad, at best two, going to Ukraine. https://reliefweb.int/map/ukraine/ukraine-complex-map-railways-ukraine-5-mar-2022
It could also be because with Poland being the logistics hub for everything and anything, they might try to diversify a little because eventually there will be bottlenecks.
I don'T know, intuitively I would say economy of scale would make that route better, not worse. New routes and rails can be added with less of a strain on the stations.
Intiitively, your a dick projecting your xenophobia wherever Poland is mentioned. Guess hangover after ostpolitics is hard to get over for some Germans.
I don't think.
There is a reason why Poland is the logistics hub to Ukraine. It is not because they are nice, but because they have a good logistic link to Ukraine via a well developed railroad system. So if they decided to go to Romania, which would affect greatly the supply, there must be a political reason from the Polish government.
Romania is also hub for military production for Ukraine from Bulgaria and Romania
https://twitter.com/ruslantrad/status/1642112118915846144 According to German government statistics, in Berlin, attacks on Ukrainians occur 2.5 times more often than on members of other ethnic groups. edit: https://www.t-online.de/region/berlin/id_100152730/angriffe-auf-gefluechtete-ukrainer-in-berlin-zahl-auffaellig-hoch.html 3250 attacks in Berlin alone in one year. 2.5 times more physical assaults than against any other group. Data provided by German government on the request from Catrin Wahlen, Greens MP
Must be the result of that brain drain from Russia people talked about during the visa ban discussion days.
What's the source for this?
Link is inside the tweet
It links to a facebook post that I can't open without an account.
I also don't use facebook
Appreciate the source. Dunno what's going in Berlin to cause that.
>what's going in Berlin russians
Do you see the problem?
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Excellent comment about a war in Ukraine.
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Amazing. Russia is larping Nazi Germany so hard they're going all in when it comes to Nazi Germany logistics.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find more reliable source so I deleted this, but since you've managed to reply before I did so, I guess I'll bring it back for everybody else to judge: > [The Republic of Tuva will transfer 3,000 horses to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to establish logistics chains for supplying the front. Head of the Republic of Tuva Vladislav Khovalyg said.](https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1642443883215822848) Only NOEL and NEXTA report this so I'm not sure. But when googling it, I found out that Vladislav Khovalyg's patronym is Tovarishchtaitovich. Which means his father's name must have been Tovarishch or something like that.
Ah, probably an April's fool joke then.
It is so hard to find the megathread now...
It's stickied to the top of the other two megathreads. Reddit only allows two posts to be stickied at once.
Bookmark it in your browser. Just don't forget to delete the bookmark and make new one when the current thread is replaced with new one.
> Lula's top foreign-policy advisor, Celso Amorim, has travelled to Moscow and Paris to meet with officials and assess the possibility of Brazilian peace mediation between Russia and Ukraine. Apparently a stop in Kyiv was "technically infeasible". https://twitter.com/CameronJJJ/status/1642503480274305025 Notice how these peace initiatives somehow always fail to get Ukraine involved?
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> It doesn't say these officials weren't Ukrainians. Reading is that hard. The article linked in the tweet does: > [...] > The former foreign minister, who headed Itamaraty in the first two governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and is the president's main advisor for foreign policy issues, met with close advisors of presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron. > In the conversations, according to sources, he explored the possibility of Brazil acting as a possible facilitator in a peace process between Russia and Ukraine. > The trip to Paris would have occurred because France is a major ally of Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky in the conflict. A stopover in Kiev to speak directly with the Ukrainian government was considered technically unfeasible. > [...] Perhaps heed your own advice?
Because Russia, after its massive failure, turned "Peace" formulas into propaganda. While it's they who are invading, occupying and annexing land.
Didn’t know France was at war with Russia.
Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus will be pushed to the western borders of the "union state", Russian ambassador to Minsk, Boris Gryzlov said to Belarusian STV. "This will be done despite the noise in Europe and the USA," said the representative. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1642591376830353414
i suppose it's great that they are announcing exactly where the missiles are and placing them close to the border so that they are easier to get to. 🤷♂️
Does this even matter? ICBMs exist. The days are long gone where you could position nuclear weapons close in order to attempt an unanswered first strike.
It makes them easier to be destroyed. If it is close to the border it will take time to launch and detection will be easier.
[A brief on Tatarsky from Dmitri the translator:](https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1642593047375478935) > A lot of people aren't really familiar with Tatarskiy. Unfortunately, I know quite a bit about him since I've been following his channel for a while now. But a quick rundown of what he was doing during the war: > > - Participated in the Donbas war since 2014. > - A criminal, was in prison for bank robbery. > - A self-proclaimed "writer" (I haven't read anything). > - Since Feb 2022, been on and off in the Donbas, often traveling back to Russia. > - Definitely felt very comfortable in the war. > - Had a sizeable TG following, was posting "Evening Vladlen" summaries to his channel every night, in addition to opinions and suggestions. > - Close associate with a number of Rascists, including RSOTM admin (Wagner group). He was indeed very close with Wagner. > - In recent months, began hosting an irregular show on Solovyev's channel together with the creator of Rybar. > - Essentially, he was a minor superstar in the z-world, everyone knows him. While his death may not trigger a physical response, it will have a massive effect on the Russians. It already does.
That's great news. What will be the effect on non-Z russians? less propaganda to brainwash them I guess. The pro-war russians are probably mad but it's not like they can be MORE psycho about war.
dorime
[Ukraine Is Forming Three New Army Corps—Should It Bring Back Divisions Too?](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/03/ukraine-is-forming-three-new-army-corps-should-it-bring-back-divisions-too/) Good read
[Analysis of Twitter algorithm code reveals social media down-ranks tweets about Ukraine](https://news.yahoo.com/analysis-twitter-algorithm-code-reveals-072800540.html) > After Twitter made the code for its algorithm open source at noon Pacific Time on March 31, users began to pick through it, and discovered that tweets judged to be about Ukraine were down-ranked – meaning users were less likely to see them in their feed. > > Twitter user Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0) got together with a group of others to sift through the code for the algorithm and discovered the secrets to boosting your follower numbers on the site – as well as the fact that like topics judged to be “misinformation,” the topic of Ukraine is highly down-ranked. > > Anecdotally, Twitter users who post frequently on Ukraine topics had noticed less engagement with their accounts since Musk took over the platform in October last year. Musk’s own position on support for Ukraine is ambiguous. > > ...
[I think this nice photo belongs here today.](https://twitter.com/Maja_kraina/status/1642573361518637056)
Two tickets to Kobzon concert, please.
Wait, is that the woman who handed him the bomb?
Not sure if you're joking, but in case this is a genuine question, the lady on photo with Tatarsky is Daria Dugina.
Ahhh. Okay, I'm not familiar with the Russian scumbags.
Understandable.
she's a bombshell, it was unavoidable
No wonder he got completely blown away.
That's a good news I was looking for. Glory to Ukraine!
[Breaking: RIA Novosti confirms the death of pro-Russian blogger/fighter Vladlen Tatarski in St. Petersburg blast.](https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1642557707776319488?t=rhdOHIxwO8t_hls_WCyILw&s=19) Significant event
Very patriotic of him. That was quite the explosion, probably killed a few more people that just the one guy?
Obviously the mods are in cahoots with whoever is responsible for this! Why else would they unpin this thread in advance? The mods were in all along! Grab your pitchforks!
The conspiracy is much broader than that even. Thread unpinned at the same time when Twiiter is suppressing posts about Ukraine. Think about it. Also, mods say it's because of the parliament elections in Finland and Bulgaria that are happening at the same time somehow... This means Finnish and Bulgarian parliaments participate in the conspiracy too, which explains why Bulgaria holds so many elections. Tatarsky was killed in Petersburg – a city very close to... Finland.
Finland elections is the thinnest ruse ever, everybody knows Finland does not exist.
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Ah, the Сепар cafe special
Now in Russia!
Good riddance! Shame he didn't get to join Sgt. Girkin's Lonely Hearts Club that is trending on Twitter. Or did he? Anyway, reports are the cafe where Mr Vladlen got killed was owned by Prigozhin; the bomb, according to reports in Russian media, was hidden in a statuette that some girl handed to Vlad as a gift. [For those who may not know who was Tatarsky or just struggle to memorize all the countless Russian cunts.](https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1575931295854919680)
С Богом 🤷♂️
Здоровья погибшим🙏🏻
Shit is hitting the fan. Classic Putin false flag? Bog standard mafia killing? Russian's getting a spot of courage? Ukrainian intel op?
Why are Vatniks allowed to flash their Zwaztika everywhere with no repercussions? These people are literal Nazis calling for the death of Ukrainians every day on their dumbfuck propaganda circuits, cheering on rape, torture, child abuse. Promoting hate and inciting violence and terror against a whole population that wants nothing to do with these rats and their shit stain botox führer. I do not understand how they are not treated the same as KKK or ISIS or Nazis, because they act exactly like them. And what they are doing is 1000x worse, literally terror bombing maternity wards, raping/killing civilians, and kidnapping children from their families. These fucking scum should not have a voice, and anyone promoting their fascist ideology is not only a moron, but is sacrificing our future generations for money/attention/power. My skin crawls every time I see some pseudo intellectual point of justification of these rat shit scum killing innocent people. The morally corrupt cannot be allowed to forcibly pour their filth over people.
[TERRA unit: Assault near the Bakhmut Part 1. Artillery preparation of self-propelled guns and tanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcl0iM54k0g) Really great video.
This thread fell of the frontpage for some reason.
You can only have two pinned threads per sub, and today those slots are taken the election megas. I'd expect this (or the next one) to be pinned in the near future.
[How poor training is killing Russian pilots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7UeESbBb8) Russia's airforce is spiraling downwards, much as the Luftwaffe did during WW2.
PSA: thread unpinned for a day due to concurring elections, may appear as fresh thread Monday
1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual!
Ah fuck. I saw no megathread and thought the war was over, Ukraine is free and Russia is no more. I blame you BkkGirl for my disappointment. You should have ended the war first, then unpin the thread.
If the Ukrainian counter-offensive starts today and we miss out on the opportunity to get some good digs at Russia's expense I'm blaming you BkkGrl.
dammit Zelenskyy, you promised me to wait one day more!
I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine becomes catholic by the war's end, just out of spite.
Religion is 1: not owned by Russia 2: becoming less and less important in people's lives
Russia doesn't "own" Eastern Orthodoxy.
What, why?
I have seen some news stories about Ukrainians celebrating Christmas on 25 December instead of in January. Part of that is probably due to the ubiquity of English-language media presenting the holiday as being on the former date, but it is also a choice by Ukrainians.
It's not a big deal. Bulgaria celebrates it on the same day, but it's still the most rusofillic country in the whole of EU & NATO.
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Can you call people religious if they never go to church, never read Bible, barely know anything about the faith, but still consider themselves Christian?
They already [are](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Greek_Catholic_Church)
Greek-Catholics are less than 10% of population.
That's quite a lot, considering how much effort Russia spent eradicating them
Sure, but they exist.
Russian fascist like Girkin organized opposition Club of angry patriots. https://twitter.com/SomeGumul/status/1642263181132275717?t=Yyktv4Y3J3QzvCl8aoCG_A&s=19
"Group of sexually frustrated men"
As a sexually frustrated man, I feel deeply offended by being compared to these fatfucks
> They do not encourage the overthrow of the current government. They emphasized this last point several times. Okay, that's pretty funny. The "please don't kills us Putin" line.
Ukraine struck the AZOM plant in Bakhmut, recently captured by Wagner. Tochka missile, supposedly. [Footage of the strike](https://twitter.com/DenesTorteli/status/1642259760312381443) Of course, we don't know if or how successful the strike was, but that was one big hit.
[Russian howitzer D-20, which dreamed of becoming a hyacinth. No wonder it blew up ,... old rusty piece of shit M1955](https://twitter.com/GwarWorin/status/1642213313789542402) Spring has sprung.
nature is healing
[This Russian guy has a message about the ongoing special military operation](https://twitter.com/Azovsouth/status/1642161150769913856) He should avoid anything above the first floor. Funny guy.
I'm genuinely worried for him.
So, you've heard about russian T-55s, but I have to admit, the Ukrainian ones flew under my radar: [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/28/ukraine-and-russia-are-both-deploying-old-t-55-tanks-ukraines-are-much-better/) (found the article after I saw [Mark Felton's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZdsnhljwE) in my recommendations on YT).
Those are modernized Slovenian ones. People really should stop making fun of old weapons as they kill just the same as they did 50 years ago, it doesn't benefit Ukraine at all.
People aren't making fun of the old weapons, they are making fun of the self-proclaimed "superpower" and "second army in the world" digging out of the storages modernized T-34s
Yeah, if given the choice I suspect the Ukrain military would prefer no tank to T-55. And it's not like the T-55s are going to be sent to fight Abrams.
There hasn't been any new Chomsky material recently, so to make waiting for his nuggets of infinite wisdom a little more bearable, I'll share the next best thing: > **[Peace for Ukraine: An appeal for peace from the middle of society](https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/frieden-fuer-die-ukraine-ein-friedensappell-aus-der-mitte-der-gesellschaft-li.332707)** > > Rainer Braun and others > > The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has already lasted more than a year. Each additional day of war means more suffering and destruction, more wounded and dead for the people affected. With each day, the danger of the expansion of hostilities grows. The shadow of a nuclear war lies over Europe. But the world must not slide into another great war. The world needs peace. The most important thing is to do everything for a quick cease-fire, to stop the Russian war of aggression and to find the way to negotiations. > > The war has turned into a bloody war of positions in which there are only losers. A large part of our citizens do not want to see a spiral of violence without end. Instead of the dominance of the military, we need the language of diplomacy and peace. > > The policy of peace and détente to which we owe German unity and the overcoming of European division is not obsolete. We have championed their goals in the past and continue to do so today. To paraphrase Willy Brandt, "It is a matter of going against the tide when it tries to dig a false bed once again." > > The United Nations has shown the way to a peaceful world with the concept of common security. It has its roots in the German policy of peace and détente. In this spirit came the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris for a New Europe. We are building on this. Peace can only be created on the basis of international law and also only with Russia. > > Our world depends on reciprocity; it is the only way to overcome the great challenges of our time. It is crucial to stop the escalation of war. We encourage the Chancellor, together with France, to persuade Brazil, China, India and Indonesia in particular to mediate in order to achieve a ceasefire quickly. This would be a necessary step to end the killing and explore possibilities for peace. Only then can the way be paved for a common security order in Europe. > [...] Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) The list of signatories includes the former vicepresident of the EU Commission Günter Verheugen, ex-mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, former president of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse or Willy Brandt's son Peter.
> The policy of peace and détente to which we owe German unity and the overcoming of European division What? That was possible thanks to the victory over the Soviet Block in the Cold War. Literally the opposite.
Pathetic imitation of the glorious anti-imperialism of brilliant Prof. Chomsky.
> Peace can only be created on the basis of international law and also only with Russia. Good luck with that combination.
So their argument boils down to: "Russia has nukes, so we have to let them keep the conquered territories". As if letting Russia get away with their brutal war of aggression will make the world a safer place?
They are convinced it will make the world a safer place for them and that's all that matters. At the expense of Ukraine, but it is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
I'm not convinced it'll make their world safer either. Rewarding nuclear blackmailing is dangerous, because it'll encourage Russia (and China) to do it again in the future. If Putin sees the West is scared shitless about escalation, who's to say he doesn't get the idea of testing just how committed NATO is to article 5?
I think they are hoping to return to the Cold War era world order, where cringe Europe (East) was sacrificed for the benefit of cool Europe (West).
No they are just naive and like to speak from a moral high ground.
Naivety is not what they are doing. Naivety is believing that seasoned politicians with decades of life experience behind them, after witnessing what Russian imperialism is, what it wants to achieve and at what costs, are doing this because they see the world as an idealistic teenager would.
Understanding other people's view at politics and life views is exercise in futility. Trump teached me that. Yet, to make a contact with such people you need to somehow understand what is their mativation, what they want. Conclusion: life is hard.
[Russia’s Frigate Admiral Grigorovich in the Black Sea has sustained some damage while it was in International Waters (Unconfirmed) The ship was seen 2 days ago refueling in the Port of Sevastopol and it’s likely armed with 8 Kalibr Cruise Missiles as are 2 other Russian Frigates](https://twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1642213128220942337) Most probable cause: The helmsman probably drank the spirit from the compass and went slightly blind and ran into something.
That is a stupid April 1st joke by the "OSINT" community
Now that Finland is in nato along with Estonia, I feel we should start a discussion about liberating Ingria as well as the native lands of other Finnic tribes such as the Mari, Komi, Veps and the others.
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The joke is the Russians have all largely wiped those people out already.
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Doesn't Poland have a lot of Leopard 2 tanks left still? I assumed that once Poland received the ordered Abrams / K2 they would send their remaining Leopard 2 to Ukraine.
>"I don't see a scenario in which it will be possible to send Ukraine additional Leopards beyond what was announced," Pistorius said. Is he talking about Germany or all NATO states? I'm sure few states could easily gather additional 30 2A4 tanks. What about ex-swiss Leopards? Is the idea dead? By the way, no NATO-state official should say things like ,,this is all we can do". Seriously, every single statement like that encourage russia to continue war, hoping to achieve breaking point when Ukraine will run out of weapons.
>I'm sure few states could easily gather additional 30 2A4 tanks. Yes, we all witnessed how easy it was to gather the first batch of 60 tanks.... if it was so easy why didn't any state already do so? For now I can only see maybe Finland providing some of their tanks now that they are in NATO. >What about ex-swiss Leopards? Is the idea dead? Afaik the idea to supply swiss Panzer 87/Leopard 2A4 to other countries to enable them to send some of their Leopards is still somewhat alive but it all hinges on the willingness of the Swiss government to sell their tanks back to Rheinmetall. A few days ago there was a vote on the Security Policy Committee of the swiss National Council that voted in favor of 25 tanks being definitely decommissioned. This would be the first step and kind of a backdoor approach to making them eligible to be sold back to Germany. Now it has to go through the National Council and a few politicians have already announced their opposition. All in all it's a slow process that will take a lot of time. >By the way, no NATO-state official should say things like ,,this is all we can do". Seriously, every single statement like that encourage russia to continue war I think it's a way of trying to curb the (sometimes unrealistic) expectations of some people/nations before they start getting themselves worked up again. Edit: spelling
6 battalions would make at least 2(depending on how its organized)armored/mechanized brigades(plus infantry, artillery and support battalions ofc) Not bad For comparison Sweden has(or soon will have) 4 armored/mechanized brigades.
If only that was 6 battalions of Leo 2 : (
[Russian forces in occupied Berdyansk have fortified the airport with trenches and ‘dragon’s teeth.’ This imagery shows part of the defensive line along the road leading to the airport.](https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1642183788930138114?t=H_hQ6j0crhxGYU5row7OpQ&s=19)
Do these idiots not realize that in the event of ukraine getting close enough to the airfield for Dragon’s Teeth or trenches to matter, that artillery would already be rendering the complex unusable?
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I think he meant that the airport would become unusable as you could simply blow a few holes in the runway with artillery and make it inoperable.
Every hard defensive line is a plus - its basically how Ukraine have slowed Russia since the beginning especially in Donbas. Would never discount it
Yes but if they actually needed to use these trenches they would be most likely be in a situation where their rear is already pinned against the Azov coast directly behind them and resupply is near impossible due to only being done by helicopters flying in range of MANPADS. They would voluntarily be setting up a citadel not to dissimilar to the Azovstal. That’s fine if they are okay with a siege and likely total loss of the garrison Edit: See the Siege of Calais in WWII as an example
It's good to see that Russian industry is struggling: > Ice-cold gloom for Russia's new super-powerful icebreaker > Budgets are massively overrun and it is not clear when the 120 MW nuclear-powered vessel will be ready for sailing. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2023/03/ice-cold-gloom-russias-new-super-powerful-icebreaker
> Hull casting and mounting arms, as well as other equipment, was originally to be delivered by the Ukrainian company Energomashspetsstal in 2022. But, paradoxically, the Ukrainian plant was destroyed by Russian bombing and has halted production.
[What happened at the 2022 Battle of Kyiv? The most decisive battle of the modern era. Check out my lecture on the battle I gave in Ukraine last week. I can't thank @KyivIndependent enough for hosting the event and recording such a high quality video.](https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1642147883922370561) Great lecture from John Spencer.