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Is this some form of weird parody or dark humour or something?
You're adding nothing to this thread and sticking your fingers in your ears.
Looks like Mariupol is falling now. Guess it was inevitable.
Amen, I hate the format, its not even about the content. Can people just write blogs? What happened to Twitlonger?
People posted this last weekend, and the weekend before that, and the weekend before that…
We will be here next week too!
I want to wake up one morning and read that Ukraine has taken control of everywhere and peace has broken out.
The BBC reports:
"Another Russian general reported dead
The deputy commander of the 8th army of Russia's armed forces, Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, has died in the war in Ukraine, the Russian news agency TASS has reported.
The news was confirmed by St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov. Beglov said: "Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died a heroic death in battle with Ukrainian nationalists ..."
"Another Russian general reported dead
The deputy commander of the 8th army of Russia's armed forces, Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, has died in the war in Ukraine, the Russian news agency TASS has reported.
The news was confirmed by St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov. Beglov said: "Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died a heroic death in battle with Ukrainian nationalists ..."
The BBC reports:
"Soldiers in Mariupol 'continue to hold the defence' - Ukrainian official
As we've been reporting, there is no indication from Ukraine that it will be surrendering to Russia in the besieged city of Mariupol.
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andriushchenko, said on Telegram that despite Russia's "'surrender corridor' for the remaining troops" in the city, "our defenders continue to hold the defence".
(CNN)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN that Ukraine is not willing to give up territory in the eastern part of the country to end the war with Russia, and Ukraine's military is prepared to fight Moscow's military in the Donbas region in a battle he says could influence the course of the entire war.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/politics/zelensky-russia-war-tapper-interview-cnntv/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/politics/zelensky-russia-war-tapper-interview-cnntv/index.html
Even if it "falls" it would be a non-victory for the Russians given that there's no city left.
Matthew Chance toured the Moskva in 2015
"What about the west" derangement syndrome seems to be rampant in the last two on the right.
1 quote tweet, 0 likes, barely 10 minutes old and with Reddit as a source. Account has 600 followers.
Are you posting your own tweets, or if not how are you finding these things?
The survey cited - from Global Soft Power Index 2022 - is the focus, not the tweeter, nor Reddit. If you think the survey is questionable, then why?
I don't have a personal Twitter account.
If it makes you feel better, this is the original source…
https://brandfinance.com/press-rele...es-back-better-to-top-of-nation-brand-ranking
Just curious, I have no issue with the survey or what it shows.
I think its all about the land bridge to Criema. They can sell that internally as an important victory.
Thing about it is, from what Zalensky is saying, Ukraine isn’t gonna stop fighting to push them out of that land bridge.
I think the supply of Switchblade drones is going to have a big effect in due course, depending on how many can be or will be supplied. The Russian military have no defence against these, and some variants have a range of 40km.
The cheapest variant costs only $6,000. I don't how how quickly they can be manufactured, but pretty rapidly I would have thought. If thousands - or even tens of thousands - of these can be supplied to Ukraine, then the Russians in occupied territory could see dozens of these raining down every single day until there are no more Russians left.
Yes. Using them to clear an area of Russian armor and artillery could go a helluva long way to helping Ukraine preserve their armor for the actual breakthrough stage of an assault.
I believe the commitment so far is more like 100
A mix of switchblade 300 (not anti armour costing circa 6k)... 10km limit of operations
And switchblade 600 cost a lot more is anti armor and operates at 40km
It may also include the unarmed s300 variant as well?
I'm actually surprised that only 74 percent in the UK and 60 percent in the US think Russia are to blame. Id expect it to be well into the 90 percent plus range
The US numbers are probably down to anti-establishment elements on both the left and right - the fringe left is largely anti-interventionist and the fringe right more or less vacillate between Trump's NATO skepticism to Rand Paul style isolationism. The US is a divided country so it should come as no surprise that there is a lack homogeneity on even something simple as who the bad guy is in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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OK, but you have to figure in those who say 'don't know'.' So in the UK for example, it looks like less than 10% blame Ukraine/NATO/the U.S.
The real standout for me is the 25% (?) in the U.S. who blame the U.S - due the influence of Fox News/Trump cult I guess.
Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...g-artist-russia-cultural-uncoupling-from-west
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...g-artist-russia-cultural-uncoupling-from-west
Mostly, but not exclusively. As you can tell on here, there’s folks on the opposite end of the spectrum from Fox/Trump who also blame the US.
The BBC reports:
"The Ukrainian troops defending the huge Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol may hold out for a long time with guerrilla tactics, using its nuclear bunkers and tunnels, a military expert says.
Justin Crump of security consultancy Sibylline told the BBC "they are really well set for defence", having had more than 50 days to fortify the site and build escape routes.
"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they’ll be there a long time - they could do nasty stuff at night, and go back in."
He estimates as many as 800 fighters are defending the plant, led by the far-right Azov Battalion - a group vilified by Russia as "neo-Nazis".
"The soldiers there don’t want to get captured, I don’t think they'll surrender. And Russia doesn’t want to go in and clear it out metre by metre, underground, that's horrendous," he said.
Ukraine has managed to resupply its beleaguered forces in Mariupol in very risky night-time missions, he said.
The steelworks is a key industrial site and, if Russia does get control of it, "maybe the Chinese will get them back in operation, as they want the steel", Mr Crump said. But it will take years to rebuild devastated Mariupol, he added."
"The Ukrainian troops defending the huge Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol may hold out for a long time with guerrilla tactics, using its nuclear bunkers and tunnels, a military expert says.
Justin Crump of security consultancy Sibylline told the BBC "they are really well set for defence", having had more than 50 days to fortify the site and build escape routes.
"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they’ll be there a long time - they could do nasty stuff at night, and go back in."
He estimates as many as 800 fighters are defending the plant, led by the far-right Azov Battalion - a group vilified by Russia as "neo-Nazis".
"The soldiers there don’t want to get captured, I don’t think they'll surrender. And Russia doesn’t want to go in and clear it out metre by metre, underground, that's horrendous," he said.
Ukraine has managed to resupply its beleaguered forces in Mariupol in very risky night-time missions, he said.
The steelworks is a key industrial site and, if Russia does get control of it, "maybe the Chinese will get them back in operation, as they want the steel", Mr Crump said. But it will take years to rebuild devastated Mariupol, he added."
Those defending Mariupol are tough as nails, has to be said. So weird for me to type that from the comfort of my computer while they're in a plant battling it out with overwhelming Russian forces. Bizarre.
Why do the Russians have such a hardon for Mariupol. What makes it so significant for them?