Van Halen - "Finish What Ya Started"
― omar little, Friday, 25 August 2023 20:47 (eight months ago) link
Naked City - "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh"
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Friday, 25 August 2023 20:58 (eight months ago) link
Bloodrock "DOA"
― earlnash, Friday, 25 August 2023 21:01 (eight months ago) link
Slade - "Wheels Ain't Coming Down"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 August 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link
Buffalo Springfield - Expecting to Fly
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 25 August 2023 21:20 (eight months ago) link
gentlemen you cant poll in here
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 August 2023 01:59 (eight months ago) link
Boris Johnson has claimed that President Putin is “being transformed before our eyes into an Asiatic despot”.In a column for the Daily Mail, the former UK prime minister said Putin’s “mask is now fully off” following the death of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in an attack he described as “violent liquidation”.“I cannot think of another example of such ostentatious and uninhibited savagery by a world leader – not in our lifetimes,” he wrote.
In a column for the Daily Mail, the former UK prime minister said Putin’s “mask is now fully off” following the death of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in an attack he described as “violent liquidation”.
“I cannot think of another example of such ostentatious and uninhibited savagery by a world leader – not in our lifetimes,” he wrote.
Er, hello? One of your chums, I believe, Boris....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 August 2023 11:45 (eight months ago) link
And Britland will be rolling out the red carpet for him very soon.
― nashwan, Saturday, 26 August 2023 12:10 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OP8v8CLlRU
3 hour interview with a guy from Wagner PMC. Doesn't speak English so is translated by the laughing patriot medic from the previous two interviews upthread.
Not too far in yet, but so far
- joined prior to 2022- has served in Ukraine and 'another continent', not sure why phrased like that- joined Wagner for the idea not the money
― anvil, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 09:44 (seven months ago) link
the idea being---?
― dow, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:11 (seven months ago) link
?? the greater glory of Mother Russia??
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:36 (seven months ago) link
Profit ... in the marketplace of ideas, man.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:40 (seven months ago) link
Just past halfway in the Wagner interview, not the easiest to follow and the interviewer lapses into leading questions a few times, which he managed to avoid last time out
- Radicalised by anti-russian Ukrainian propaganda not by Russian propaganda. Russian propaganda absolutely useless, has no truck with SImonyan or any of the Kremlim talking heads. Sees them as clowns. Decided he wanted to destroy the enemy of his nation due to the Russophobia he was seeing on telegram. This seems to start around 2019
- Ukraine wasn’t just planning to take back Crimea and Donbas, but also Kuban (Krasnodar), Rostov, Belgorod, and others were on the table (they were already carrying out kidnaps and assassinations not just in Donbass but officially recognised territories). Assasinations increased under Zelensky
- Interview goes into the weeds with some difficult to follow stuff about Ukrainian women preferring to become prostitutes in Hamburg, men doing drugs, nazis, the dark web in Germany, lynchings
- Doesnt believer Prigozhin was killed by Russia (no follow up on this for some reason)
- In Wagner there are foreign units, there is a unit of English speakers, a unit of French speakers, a unit of German speakers, and a unit of Arabic speakers. There are no Australians.
- In his particular unit there are no foreigners, only foreigners he has comes across are Poles and Georgians on the other side but they didn’t talk because he had killed them
- Poland has sent good sappers and technical specialists to Ukraine. But Ukrainian skill level has gone down since Americans started training them. Couldn’t tell if serious comment or not because also British, France, Americans good at technical expertise
- Why Russia doing badly? Something about a behind scenes agreement between Rus gov and Ukr gov so they didn’t prepare for longer war. Says the high Russian casualty rates are as high as is reported, but ratio is 4-1 and in some cases 7-1
― anvil, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:05 (seven months ago) link
Ugh, just come across the word (verb) "attrit" in an article about Ukraine. Inevitably, one feels, it's a word used by the US military.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 14:16 (seven months ago) link
can confirm via watching terrible youtubes
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:17 (seven months ago) link
Something about Bucha that was difficult to follow - and was brought up by the Wagner guy, not the interviewer.
- Says the civilians there were killed by Ukrainian artillery but then Russian soldiers who had been there ran into trouble with the FSB because of it and were 'negotiated into Belarus" where they faced physical consequences that went beyond simple broken bones. The FSB seemed to have heavily interrogated some Russian soldiers based on western media reports. He knew this because he was later in trenches with people who had been at Bucha
― anvil, Saturday, 16 September 2023 02:02 (seven months ago) link
Ukraine Special Forces conducting attacks in Sudan? WTFMaybe we are heading to WWIII after all
Exclusive: Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/africa/ukraine-military-sudan-wagner-cmd-intl/index.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:56 (seven months ago) link
😕
Israel we know what you feel today.Be strong.Ukrainians with you.— Ukraine Front Lines (@EuromaidanPR) October 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 October 2023 11:57 (six months ago) link
Uh???
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:35 (six months ago) link
after Israel didn't lift a finger to help Ukraine last year too
― symsymsym, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:53 (six months ago) link
true, but I think this attack is being backed by Iran and that's not good for anyone.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:54 (six months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 16:10 (six months ago) link
Do we have much of an idea of how much population transfer there has been in Mariupol over the last year? My assumption is that most of the people that have been moved into Russia were moved out of Mariupol and that this is also where resettlement and replacement from Russia has been concentrated - especially with it being the only major city under Russian control that is out of the originally occupied territories
I don't really have a handle on just how many people currently living in Mariupol are settlers in comparison to the pre-2022 population, because that seems a massively complicating factor
― anvil, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 07:17 (five months ago) link
Strange chess game going on here
Ukrainian special forces are reportedly operating in Sudan in support of the country’s army against Russian Wagner mercenaries aligned with the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a video released on Monday... it has surfaced following months of speculation that Ukrainian forces are operating in Sudan as part of an emerging campaign by Kyiv to strike at Russian interests far beyond the Ukraine war’s frontlines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/06/ukrainian-special-forces-sudan-russian-mercenaries-wagner
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
Ukraine is reportedly struggling to train enough troops for its own front lines and keep them supplied. Sending some of their best trained troops to Sudan seems like a strange tactic, if that is true.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:51 (two months ago) link
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well... their expertise would seem to be more useful on the home front
Not sure what the strategy is here
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link
theyre fighting russia
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 21:14 (two months ago) link
i think thats the basic idea, as to why they would choose to fight them in sudan specifically my guess would be russias african operations are a big profit center and a fairly soft target so they are maybe thinking they can inflict some damage on russias bottom line without that much effort
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 21:20 (two months ago) link
much more detailed reporting here:
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 21:37 (two months ago) link
that footage of the pickup is crazy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 21:44 (two months ago) link
CNN--Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence claims it has confirmed the use of Starlink satellite communications by Russian forces in occupied areas.It says it has intercepted conversations which indicate the Starlink terminals are being used to provide internet access to Russia’s 83rd Air Assault Brigade operating in the Donetsk region.Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, which owns Starlink, says it does not do business of any kind with the Russian government or its military.“If SpaceX obtains knowledge that a Starlink terminal is being used by a sanctioned or unauthorized party, we investigate the claim and take actions to deactivate the terminal if confirmed,” the company said in a statement.Starlink, which uses a network of satellites to provide broadband, says its service will not work in Russia, although the statement didn’t address whether it would work in occupied Ukraine.The service plays a crucial role in Ukrainian battlefield communications. Last year, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, said “absolutely all front lines are using them.”Ukraine’s claim follows revelations about the satellite system’s use in the war made in a biography of Starlink’s owner Elon Musk, written by Walter Isaacson.According to an excerpt from the book, Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet.As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson.
It says it has intercepted conversations which indicate the Starlink terminals are being used to provide internet access to Russia’s 83rd Air Assault Brigade operating in the Donetsk region.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, which owns Starlink, says it does not do business of any kind with the Russian government or its military.
“If SpaceX obtains knowledge that a Starlink terminal is being used by a sanctioned or unauthorized party, we investigate the claim and take actions to deactivate the terminal if confirmed,” the company said in a statement.Starlink, which uses a network of satellites to provide broadband, says its service will not work in Russia, although the statement didn’t address whether it would work in occupied Ukraine.
The service plays a crucial role in Ukrainian battlefield communications. Last year, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, said “absolutely all front lines are using them.”
Ukraine’s claim follows revelations about the satellite system’s use in the war made in a biography of Starlink’s owner Elon Musk, written by Walter Isaacson.
According to an excerpt from the book, Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet.
As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes.
Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons, a fear driven home by Musk’s conversations with senior Russian officials, according to Isaacson.
― dow, Sunday, 11 February 2024 22:04 (two months ago) link
A more detailed quote in Reuters. coverage:
"Cases of the Russian occupiers' use of the given devices have been registered. It is beginning to take on a systemic nature," the Ukrainian defence ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) quoted spokesman Andriy Yusov as saying.
― dow, Sunday, 11 February 2024 22:07 (two months ago) link
Situation worsening in Avdiivka. Media attention is more focused on funding and support rather than situation on ground right now, but fairly intense at the moment and potentially quite consequential
― anvil, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 00:00 (two months ago) link
Situation in Avdiivka getting the most media attention, but Kupyansk looking bad as well now, Ammunition shortage starting to bite. I don't know just how consequential this is, but I presume this starts to make Kharkiv more vulnerable?
― anvil, Monday, 19 February 2024 16:47 (two months ago) link