Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

I wouldn't calling it a potentially regime ending showdown but live in hope.

This reply is worth posting on its own 😁

pedo ?

These blue sky accounts still post on twitter so it's better to embed that version if you want your information to get a greater reach. Anyone having a problem with twitter just follow Pro Ukraine channels and block the vatniks.

No, not for me, its time to push the change to bluesky (if we want).

But nothing stopping you from setting up an Bsky account, and keeping Musk's-X account too ,if you really want to,

You can post from X, if you want (I cannot view X fully anymore, but that's my choice), and we can post fro Bsky

Nato is nearer to Russia now becuse of Putin's actions.

A lot of schools in Lithuania are receiving (again) today letters/emails with bomb threats etc….. all in the wonderful Russian language..

Their entire existence is only about antagonising everyone else, and causing as much hassle as they possibly can.

They are absolute scum.

Plans are afoot (if you can believe what you read on the internet) …

While the Germans agonise over their level of involvement in the conflict and Scholz trembles at the risk of "escalation", the French appear to be going all-in, supplying Scalp missiles, Caesars, Mirages and now, maybe, boots on the ground.

India / China would have no interest in that

"Peacekeepers" by definition aim to keep the peace. Whereas my impression is that they are quite happy for the war to continue, and to try to profit from it.

A really horrendous story and probably true. Mafia state in action

It's yet to be seen if trump will be better or worse because Biden was a lame duck IMO. We'll find out soon. Locking yourself away from the majority of public discourse is exactly what Putin would want.

Own goal?

Okay, things not quite as bad as inferred from the early reports: Ukraine brought down 30 out of the 43 missiles used overnight (and rendered harmless 100% of the Shaheds, again).

As usual, bombers from the Olenya airbase were involved. IIRC, in the novel Red Storm Rising the Russians successfully bait a NATO squadron into taking off from their base, then destroy it so the planes can't land. With all their creative ingenuity, surely by now the Ukrainians must be capable of doing something similar once they know the Tu-22s are in the air ?

Are Russian's in control of youtube now?

Many videos on the topic of the war or related to it are spammed with tons of pro-russia comments, very few comments from the other pov.

On a recent DW news channel video about russian drones and industrial sabotage in Germany I made a comment 'the poison dwarf Putler won't be laughing when he's in the dock in the Hague', a few seconds after posting it disappears.

So figuring the AI censors are responsible, I then post an ammended comment 'the war criminal Putin won't be so smug when he's on trial in the Hague'. (changed to his proper name as maybe that's what triggered the removal).

About half a minute later, an window pops up - in large bold:

'Commenting paused to protect the community. We've discovered that comments you've left violate community guidelines:

• Harassment and cyberbulling policies
• Racially motivated 'hate speech'

You'll be able to post comments again in 1 week

ffs this is a joke, western social media seems to be an ally of russia given their biased censoring.

I've noticed on some channels in particular such as DW news, practically all comments seem to be cheering on russia, so I'm guessing most anti-russia comments are removed before anyone can see them, the viewership couldn't be that overwhelmingly anti-western surely?