Born in Moscow, moved to America aged 7. Worked only for American media publications, only foreign posting wass three years back in Moscow working for....The New Yorker. She's an American Journalist, plain and simple. 10 minutes of that interview will tell you that her analysis is entirely through the perspective of American politics. I watched to past the TDS section and realised there was little of value, just an American journo talking to an American journo where ever issue is a just another vehicle for American party politics. You want analysis these days, you're going to have to look outside of the US press
My school reports generally said I was an avid reader :)
Wonder what they'll think of fighting against civilians who will fight back with lethal intent.
All very well to gun down and machete a bunch of unarmed women, children and old people in a remote village.
Try doing that when the "villagers" are armed with AK-47's and Molotovs.
This is true for the most part.
I think a lot of the younger Russians are clued in to what's happening right now but still overwhelmingly support Putin.
I've watched several online news clips from BBC to France24 and the majority of the Russians interviewed support the war in Ukraine.
The most depressing was the BBC report on the day McDonalds announced it was closing, 2 young Russian women stood outside with 1 saying Putin was 100% correct while the other chimed in with "No. He is 200% correct".
So fcuk Russia, as they slide into oblivion we won't miss them!
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation discontinued its Instagram account.
Moscow Mayor Sobyanin is also discontinuing his Instagram account.
RF Prosecutor General's Office has demanded access to Instagram be limited.
It looks like Instagram might be having a negative impact for some reason. 🤔
I would have thought it is inevitable that Poland are going to get dragged into this, not immediately but by the summer. Presuming Russia eventually take over Ukraine the next steps will be Russia flying fighter jets up and down the Polish border and them diving into Polish airspace to try to provoke them. If Putin succeeds in Ukraine what will follow is him locating Russian military infrastructure on bases in western Ukraine and beginning a war of attrition with Poland that could last years or could also develop into full scale war if one of his fighter jets got shot down. You can already see the inevitable campaign of disinformation from Russia saying their jet wasnt in Polish airspace.
@Bayonet
It's becoming quite the axis of pricks forming on the Russian side
It gets worse. These guys have also expressed an interest in getting in on the action, maybe providing aerial support.
This man has made overtures to Moscow to register an interest in some sort of paid officer role,
And the Combine is gearing up to announce a commitment of off-world assets to assist Russia in its glorious special military operation,
I think its one thing to attack Ukraine but another to attack at fully tooled up Poland backed by NATO.
Besides, I think they have a pretty good idea of his capabilities at this stage. Any sort of incursion into Poland would be a few years away yet.
that was their winter training in prep for Ukraine
The black wagners ...
thought the Russians hate blacks?
It's complicated. It seems the older people with less access to the internet and who watch only TV news are completely brainwashed by the propaganda (though there will be a fair amount of younger people going along with it too). It appears the Ukrainian invasion is far less popular in general than the Crimea one in 2014.
Russias first domestically designed and made cell-phone will be something like:
That Russian teen brat smashing her iPhone and cutting up decadent western clothing is going to be regretting it in 4 years time when the going price for a working iPhone 8 is 10m roubles.
I remember the cold war well. I was acquainted with an amazing young lady - tiny, blonde - who in the early eighties flew to Vladivostok and got on the trans-siberian express and crossed all of communist USSR - solo. She recounted that the food was, er, off-putting and that she had to carry several rubber bath plugs because not a single bath in any hotel or accommodation had one, as they were a treasured item and very sought after and much stolen. Some of hers were nicked.
Amazing courage.
I doubt Putin has a short memory or forgets the empty shelves and general depravtion. He isn't even kidding himself and is just putting on a brave 'I havent really screwed the pooch' face.
They pulled the Wagner group back out of Mali a week or so ago. They have been in Ukraine for a while now.
The Polish prime minister sounded a bit jittery and spooked in the joint press conference with Kamala Harris. I don’t think Putin will invade in the next couple of years, but will use a buildup of troops on the border as a threat to influence Polish politics. He’ll probably go with the same kind of disinformation campaign and try to stoke division and paranoia.
The journalist interviewed in the post a while back was saying Putin doesn’t use computers or social media, or at least that was the situation in 2017. That’s nuts if it’s true.
Then how could she be talking in 2017 about being in Moscow, the Russian Olympics and being in Kiev during the revolution? Are you saying she is lying about being there?
The Global Hawk drone can detect them.
F16s with the right radar can also detect and track them.
I know that but perhaps the Mali junta were making inquiries as they are in need of some 'security' after announcing there won't be any elections for at least 5 years.
Yep, they are taking massive losses. Tanks being abandoned and not even being put out of use first. Clearly the Russian military leadership and planning is woefully incompetent. Their tactics are unbelievably foolish, crowding tanks and trucks up to three lanes across in built up areas. It just shows how insecure they feel if they resort to crowding together like that.
Actually to me it smacks of arrogance, that the Ukrainians wouldn't dare to put it up to them
You would think that arrogance would wear off after two weeks of javelins and NLAWs toasting tank crews. Maybe their comms are so bad that they have extremely poor situational awareness.
I really like the aggressive, go for the throat, pull no punches approach that WION, an Indian, global media outlet takes. Their special on Putin is good:
I have been tuning into them via satellite for some time.
I've read a couple of things around the Comms being awful.
And deep down I'm sure Vlad knows this is going bad or he would have had a melter about wasting 8 cruise missiles.
Tell me people won't miss whatsapp. It's the primary messaging service in Russia..
And insta obviously for the youths...
being militarily neutral is not the same as not taking sides. We are still supporting sanctions, and anti Russia in every way other than the supply of military equipment or the direct participation in the conflict. We are absolutely not like India or China. We are like Sweden
people completely misunderstand what neutrality in an Irish context means
I was just reading up on the Russian invasion of Finland. Sweet Jesus they lost 200k soldiers against the Fins. Even though the Fins surrendered in the end, it was still viewed as a defeat for Russia. I'm seeing the same scenario building here. A sort of 'win' for Russia on paper, but in reality it's a defeat. Or maybe it could be a defeat on paper too.....
We're about as neutral as a vegan who eats a medium rare steak on Fridays
I have to wonder how Russia intends to feed them, and with what? Their own troops are murdering Ukrainian civillians just for their food.
That's if we assume a) they expected to be easier, a good assumption alright and b) they don't care about optics anymore at home(they currently have that sewn up) or abroad and are going old style. And they have the manpower and firepower and time to do it. They've been sanctioned into pariahdom and for the moment that's not stopping them. Hell, it's been reported that they've seized leased airliners. Small biscuits except it means they're game over for leasing and insurance across the board going forward, so it seems they just don't care.
I didn't. That's why I said our inteligence services are laughable.
It seems Russia isn't happy with simply blocking Facebook, they want it recognised as an "extremist organisation".
"The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia asked the court to recognize Meta as an extremist organization"
That made me laugh
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