ok what the fuck is happening in ukraine

ugh

here's the related article:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-ambassador-us-says-russia-used-vacuum-bomb-monday-2022-02-28/

I apologize if this has been posted already- a twitter feed tracking private jets of Russian oligarchs: https://twitter.com/RUOligarchJets

why if Russia has launched a thermobaric weapon in Ukraine can we only read about it by registering with Reuters?

War crimes.

I guess the answer might be that some outlets are waiting for additional confirmation. I think people generally imagine huge weapons like the MOAB the US used in Afghanistan or the FOAB that Russia has been developing, which would be very obvious and easy to verify if used in Ukraine, but most thermobaric weapons are stuff like Hellfire II missiles and ‘bunker busters’ used by the US and U.K. which would be a lot harder.

sorry, i didn't realize reuters had a paywall!

it's more a "register for free", I guess I've read too many articles

this guy gives a lot of detail and context in his vids
https://www.tiktok.com/@cpscott15/video/7069893092219866414?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo85SXvdu6gtL4Kvv6rsDqDdykjBqNS%2FEEL%2FmyioNALCDZtbpLkUklZkF%2Fw5QTU0Hiie1UE2DegcD2sxcyCGgA%3D&_r=1&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&language=en&sec_uid=MS4wLjABAAAA4jnDB_I2RkWXkodQt9nPIyVhUZfjU5PFH1Nu6V8Dxns6qrvuunFWFcQeNLZmZQzA&sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAA6z8M9dM5waujk9wiXjpydnFGAKJcOavYbPmCGM_uwA_FFw5MablGktAf9M_lAGsB&share_app_id=1233&share_author_id=6922312645967168517&share_link_id=d5c8ff9e-abf0-4737-a5f6-755cf941b8ee&source=h5_m×tamp=1646096759&u_code=dfc831l139480k&ugbiz_name=Account&user_id=6892962754279277574&utm_campaign=client_share&utm_medium=android&utm_source=copy

not clicking on that link

sorrry i don't really know how ticktock works?
here's something more normal & very informative
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-update-11

Meanwhile, in the grassroots:
This white nationalist, pro-Putin-but-I-might-be-joeking, a longtime local loser finally brought into AZ Legislature by Gov. Doucey, provides lead-in to rally what got even Kevin McCarthy a little bit pissed at Marjorie Taylor Greene's participation, rally pretty vividly referenced here:

..Rogers had the gall to defend Nick Fuentes
During her Friday speech to the white nationalists, Rogers fantasized about building "gallows" to hang her political enemies and lauded Fuentes, who has warned that America needs to protect its “white demographic core” and boasted about the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Now, they’re going and saying,‘Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler,’ as if that isn’t a good thing,” he said, before laughing and adding, “Oops, I shouldn’t have said that.”

Rogers, meanwhile, speaking remotely from Arizona, praised Fuentes and longed for the good old days when “we could say the craziest stuff and people would just laugh and not take offense, because it was simply light-hearted.”
“I truly respect Nick because he’s the most persecuted man in America,” she said, referring to the fact that he’s been banned from most social media platforms.

For good reason.

Fortunately, there are still a few Republicans – so few, in fact, that I can count them on one hand – who are horrified by their fellow party members who act as if the bile spouted by Fuentes and his fellow white nationalists is somehow acceptable.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/02/27/where-sen-mitt-romney-sees-morons-gov-doug-ducey-sees-allies/6969832001/

Oops, left out the part where he led a round of applause for Putin.

As Tucker Carlson said recently, "Vladimir Putin has never called me a racist."

Certainly a major achievement to get so many across the globe emotionally invested in a country they knew nothing about a few days ago.

No lie

👍

It also helps that the invader is deliberately and openly threatening the US and Europe.

So uh, what is Putin's plan at this point? He can take Ukraine but it doesn't seem like he can hold it, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBxFH_hEwA

xp Wonder if we're going to have worries about invasion and white refugee porn on here, like somebody showed up on the in-progress Katrina thread, worrying that us participants were going down the slippery slope to disaster porn. Not really a question.

right?

There are plausible scenarios that play out in many ways, and that is one of them, but not the most likely one imo

A 17-mile convoy of military vehicles approaching DC I mean Kyiv was reported recently---I suppose, whatever else is happening, he means to use the city at least as a bargaining chip, for some deal he can renege on at the right time, also install a puppet government of sorts.

Right, people seem to think that a puppet government was his original plan. But that seems like a ludicrous idea given what we've seen of Ukrainian resistance, no? You would need an occupying army to keep a puppet government in place. And the 150k soldiers the Russians have assembled wouldn't be enough.

think that's right and worried about what plan b is

Make that 40 miles long:

40 mile convoy en route. The world is watching. #Ukraine https://t.co/zDVuRdMjc9

— G Morishige (@gmorishige) March 1, 2022

p much praying that that's just intimidation during negotiations and not intention

Right, people seem to think that a puppet government was his original plan. But that seems like a ludicrous idea given what we've seen of Ukrainian resistance, no?

I dunno. Wield enough "liberation" propaganda, especially if it's for a cause you yourself see as utterly and obviously righteous (the restitution of Great Russia!), and I suppose you might underestimate resistance among people you assume is really of your own, if somewhat led astray?

(the last clause is a bit ambiguous, for clarity it should read "even if they have been somewhat led astray?".)

Isa Akayev, commander of the "Crimea" volunteer battalion, addressed the Muslims of #Russia. pic.twitter.com/OefoxK3zId

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 28, 2022

hmm sorry i thought that was the subtitled version i saw before. i apologize.

There's a translation in the replies.

cant tell if this has been posted already, sobering interview w Dr Fiona Hill on Putin

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340

I thought this was really interesting -- "In just 72 hours, Europe overhauled its entire post-Cold War relationship with Russia"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/28/europe-new-era-russia-ukraine/

uh remove the dr there xpost

Since I brought up white nationalist Putin etc fans (Before Greene’s remarks, Fuentes asked the audience to give “a round of applause” for Russia during its brutal invasion of Ukraine, which prompted a chant of “Putin” from the crowd in support of Moscow’s leader). might as well put in this, though tangential to war: How Ukraine Split The GOP https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2022/02/28/how-ukraine-split-the-gop-00012394?nname=politico-nightly&nid=00000170-c000-da87-af78-e185fa700000&nrid=00000172-4d9a-d3ba-a9f3-6f9e04a20000&nlid=2670445

The 'ok what the ukraine-adjacent fuck is happening in the us' thread is thataway

It's kind of funny when darragh does that but it also kinda seems like folly to imagine the impact of this war on us (and uk and eu and etc) politics isn't important enough to talk about here

yes but the thread refers to IN ukraine and us politics however related is not IN ukraine & can therefore be discussed elsewhere because literally no one but us-ians are clamoring to discuss that here itt

The scenario Fiona Hill sketches out in the Politico piece linked to above sounds pretty plausible to me. Putin can and will take Ukraine, but he can't hold onto to it, so he'll just fuck it up, there'll be a Russian fiefdom in the east, a rump Ukraine in the west, continually fighting in a hot or cold war, continually unstable so it can't really join or be an effective member/ally of NATO or the EU.

Apologies for the repurposed content, but the HF radio campaign hasn't stopped.

If I understand this HF Underground thread correctly, a pirate station Out There is jamming the infamous Russian “Buzzer” transmitter with a “Stop War” sonogram. Lots of Eastern Europe pirates going wIth “Fuck Putin” programming. #FuckPutin https://t.co/q8Kv8LpJek pic.twitter.com/oa2wUwIIUY

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) February 27, 2022

Another Eastern European pirate out there is broadcasting Sting’s “Russians” over and over. https://t.co/brDdsNtRaq pic.twitter.com/FvGm57yC2d

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) February 27, 2022

A couple days ago, someone posted a picture of a captured Russian army radio on social media. Someone quickly ID'ed it as an off-the-shelf, unencrypted Baofeng transceiver from China (you can get them on Amazon for $100) and since then Russian military frequencies have been flooded with pervasive and unrelenting pirate transmissions, broadcasts, sound effects, “Fuck Putin” chants, etc. My fave is the one pirate that’s busting in and flooding the frequency with pig noises:
https://soundcloud.com/frenchbloke/websdr-recording-start-2022-02-28t10-32-36z-79333khz

It hasn't stopped either

Still cannot get over that Russian military HF frequency being overrun with pig noises. 10/10 full spectrum shitposting.

— Maid POLadin 🎪 💙💛 (@tacticalmaid) March 1, 2022

shout out to the solo guitarist absolutely shredding over the 7933 Russian military frequency

— frenchbloke (@frenchbloke) February 28, 2022

Anyway, as I've been speed-reading Gary Lachman's The Return Of Holy Russia in preparation of my pivot to Russian Apocalyptic Mysticism expert I'm going back to shutting the fuck up.

That Fiona Hill interview posted above is pretty sobering.

Ugh

https://i.imgur.com/YUBd0BW.png

Nothing is likely to beat her saying that Poland has surprisingly good sushi for a landlocked country.

Lot of ostensibly serious people out there casually throwing around the idea of a no-fly zone with absolutely no concept of NATO or Article 5.

In light of the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine, the International Judo Federation announces the suspension of Mr. Vladimir Putin’s status as Honorary President and Ambassador of the International Judo Federation.https://t.co/QQDZbF6rfd

— Judo (@Judo) February 27, 2022

Barbaric Russian missile strikes on the central Freedom Square and residential districts of Kharkiv. Putin is unable to break Ukraine down. He commits more war crimes out of fury, murders innocent civilians. The world can and must do more. INCREASE PRESSURE, ISOLATE RUSSIA FULLY! pic.twitter.com/tN4VHF1A9n

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 1, 2022