In Ukraine as wellbjn wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:32 pmThe Russians have form for that.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 10:45 amSimonyan disturbingly open about the use of famine as a weapon.
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I mean it's pretty much literally the oldest trick in the book (siege warfare, salted earth etc), and still done today where an aggressive power can control food supplies e.g. Syria, Yemen, Gaza, South Sudan, Ethiopia etc etc.
What's more disturbing is the scale of Russia's influence, able to affect global food supplies and prices rather than just nobbling a single population.
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https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1 ... jhRah0xsqgUkrainian pilots said that their Air Force has mostly pulled back strikes using Turkish Bayraktar drones that proved effective at stopping Russian tank advances during the battle of Kyiv.
'Now that they’ve built up good air defenses, they’re almost useless,” said onepilot.
They still have an important role providing reconnaissance.
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The хуйло́s aren't just stealing everything that isn't nailed down, they are stealing things that are, too. For example, they stole Ukraine's largest solar power plant.
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Deliberate destruction of a grain terminal, part of Russia's ongoing attempts to starve the world into supporting them.

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Risky - more likely rally support for international operations to boot the Russians out?EACLucifer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:52 amDeliberate destruction of a grain terminal, part of Russia's ongoing attempts to starve the world into supporting them.
One might think this could be done salami style... emplacing 'Iron Dome' type systems and air defenses with a no fly zone in the west of Ukraine then gradually shuffling the line of protection it provides eastward?
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Blimey, I thought that for the first time in my life I might actually agree with an entire piece by Slavoj Žižek (usually I just chuckle at the jokes and the absurdity of their juxtaposition with whatever contrarian argument he is making). Fortunately he found a way to shoehorn support for Assange in there. (Or is that just a clever ruse to show the Corbynites/Mélenchonites/Podemosites that it's OK to support Ukraine?)
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Russians have hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, a long way from the front line. Reportedly a lot of civilians present, casualties could be horrifyingly high. Two cruise or ballistic missiles used, so clearly the shopping centre was the target.
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It's not a bad plan to be honest. For all the fears about Russian responses to non-Ukrainians shooting down Russian planes, missile defence over western or central Ukraine is unlikely to meet any Russian plans.TopBadger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:54 amRisky - more likely rally support for international operations to boot the Russians out?EACLucifer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:52 amDeliberate destruction of a grain terminal, part of Russia's ongoing attempts to starve the world into supporting them.
One might think this could be done salami style... emplacing 'Iron Dome' type systems and air defenses with a no fly zone in the west of Ukraine then gradually shuffling the line of protection it provides eastward?
And if they do, schwack them and deny all knowledge. There would be something darkly satisfying about turning round to the Russians and saying "No, it wasn't a SAM. Must have been a Ukrainian MiG-29"
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Agreed re: reconnaissance. They have absolutely fantastic cameras, as seen by just how far away they sometimes are when filming things.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 10:25 pmhttps://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1 ... jhRah0xsqgUkrainian pilots said that their Air Force has mostly pulled back strikes using Turkish Bayraktar drones that proved effective at stopping Russian tank advances during the battle of Kyiv.
'Now that they’ve built up good air defenses, they’re almost useless,” said onepilot.
They still have an important role providing reconnaissance.
And speaking of Bayraktars, Baykar continue to refuse to take money from crowdfunding drives. This time, Ukrainians raised money for three, which will now go to humanitarian aid with the drones donated by the manufacturer.
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The poor people at TASS seem to have given up. They are only allowed to present the official line, so when that's plainly bollocks there's no point trying to make it look like a sensible account.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:09 pmRussians have hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, a long way from the front line. Reportedly a lot of civilians present, casualties could be horrifyingly high. Two cruise or ballistic missiles used, so clearly the shopping centre was the target.
So: Russia didn't strike the shopping centre, it was a defunct shopping centre anyway, that Ukraine was using as human shields, even though nobody was there, when Ukraine themselves made a false flag attack on it, a provocation, like Bucha.https://tass.com/politics/1473195 wrote:
‘Fake news’: Diplomat castigates claims about ‘Russian strike’ on Kremenchug mall
Maria Zakharova criticized the deliberate moves as hiding behind the backs of civilians, using them as human shields for the sake of the West’s geopolitical interests
MOSCOW, June 29. /TASS/ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has slammed as fake news Kiev’s reports about a Russian air strike at a shopping mall in Kremenchug.
"An attempt to claim that Russian forces struck a shopping mall in Kremenchug on June 27 is the latest blatant provocation by the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime. The Kiev regime has claimed there were some 1,000 civilians in the mall, etc. Unfortunately, all this fake news was disseminated," the Russian diplomat said at a news conference on Wednesday."The Western countries could as well ask their regimes what’s the use of delivering and storing weapons and ammunition near a shopping center? It never occurred to either Western reporters, or Western NGOs and the `humanitarian activists’ who are so much concerned over the situation around Ukraine to ask this question," Zakharova remarked.
She criticized the deliberate moves as hiding behind the backs of civilians, using them as human shields for the sake of the West’s geopolitical interests.
"It is the storage facilities that the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed with high-precision strikes," the spokeswoman emphasized.
On Tuesday, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered high-precision surgical strikes on hangars containing US-and EU-supplied weapons near to a road machinery plant in Kremenchug. "The ensuing blast from the ammunition for the Western-supplied arms stored there sparked a fire at a defunct shopping mall located close to the plant," the general pointed out.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel that a shopping mall was ablaze in Kremenchug. He claimed that a rocket attack had caused the fire. Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Monday that this case resembled the false flag in Bucha, noting that the shopping mall incident had numerous glaring inconsistencies around it.
Fair enough, editor, there's not much you can do with source material like that.
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And they're trying to frame abandoning their occupation of Snake Island as a humanitarian gesture (which would mean acknowledging they are the ones causing the crisis re: food exports, but never expect Russian propaganda to be consistent with itself) and not because Snake Island currently looks like this.TimW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:47 amSo: Russia didn't strike the shopping centre, it was a defunct shopping centre anyway, that Ukraine was using as human shields, even though nobody was there, when Ukraine themselves made a false flag attack on it, a provocation, like Bucha.
Fair enough, editor, there's not much you can do with source material like that.
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Nice spotTimW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:47 amThe poor people at TASS seem to have given up. They are only allowed to present the official line, so when that's plainly bollocks there's no point trying to make it look like a sensible account.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:09 pmRussians have hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, a long way from the front line. Reportedly a lot of civilians present, casualties could be horrifyingly high. Two cruise or ballistic missiles used, so clearly the shopping centre was the target.
So: Russia didn't strike the shopping centre, it was a defunct shopping centre anyway, that Ukraine was using as human shields, even though nobody was there, when Ukraine themselves made a false flag attack on it, a provocation, like Bucha.https://tass.com/politics/1473195 wrote:
‘Fake news’: Diplomat castigates claims about ‘Russian strike’ on Kremenchug mall
Maria Zakharova criticized the deliberate moves as hiding behind the backs of civilians, using them as human shields for the sake of the West’s geopolitical interests
MOSCOW, June 29. /TASS/ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has slammed as fake news Kiev’s reports about a Russian air strike at a shopping mall in Kremenchug.
"An attempt to claim that Russian forces struck a shopping mall in Kremenchug on June 27 is the latest blatant provocation by the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime. The Kiev regime has claimed there were some 1,000 civilians in the mall, etc. Unfortunately, all this fake news was disseminated," the Russian diplomat said at a news conference on Wednesday."The Western countries could as well ask their regimes what’s the use of delivering and storing weapons and ammunition near a shopping center? It never occurred to either Western reporters, or Western NGOs and the `humanitarian activists’ who are so much concerned over the situation around Ukraine to ask this question," Zakharova remarked.
She criticized the deliberate moves as hiding behind the backs of civilians, using them as human shields for the sake of the West’s geopolitical interests.
"It is the storage facilities that the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed with high-precision strikes," the spokeswoman emphasized.
On Tuesday, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered high-precision surgical strikes on hangars containing US-and EU-supplied weapons near to a road machinery plant in Kremenchug. "The ensuing blast from the ammunition for the Western-supplied arms stored there sparked a fire at a defunct shopping mall located close to the plant," the general pointed out.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel that a shopping mall was ablaze in Kremenchug. He claimed that a rocket attack had caused the fire. Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Monday that this case resembled the false flag in Bucha, noting that the shopping mall incident had numerous glaring inconsistencies around it.
Fair enough, editor, there's not much you can do with source material like that.
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I wonder how they'll spin attacking blocks of flats in Odesa oblast overnight? Sadly it looks to be as bad as the Kremenchuk attack.TimW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:47 amThe poor people at TASS seem to have given up. They are only allowed to present the official line, so when that's plainly bollocks there's no point trying to make it look like a sensible account.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:09 pmRussians have hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, a long way from the front line. Reportedly a lot of civilians present, casualties could be horrifyingly high. Two cruise or ballistic missiles used, so clearly the shopping centre was the target.
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Vicious attack by Ukrainian housing against innocent Russian missiles.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:58 amI wonder how they'll spin attacking blocks of flats in Odesa oblast overnight? Sadly it looks to be as bad as the Kremenchuk attack.TimW wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:47 amThe poor people at TASS seem to have given up. They are only allowed to present the official line, so when that's plainly bollocks there's no point trying to make it look like a sensible account.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:09 pmRussians have hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, a long way from the front line. Reportedly a lot of civilians present, casualties could be horrifyingly high. Two cruise or ballistic missiles used, so clearly the shopping centre was the target.
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Even Dmitry Peskov sounds a bit like he's has had enough of talking unending shite, and he seems like an expert at it.EACLucifer wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:58 am
I wonder how they'll spin attacking blocks of flats in Odesa oblast overnight? Sadly it looks to be as bad as the Kremenchuk attack.
https://tass.com/defense/1474441"I would like to remind you once again Russia’s president and commander-in-chief has repeatedly said that the Russian army during the special military operation does not attack civilian targets or civilian infrastructure. It carries out strikes against military warehouses, industrial facilities where military equipment undergoes maintenance and repairs, ammunition depots and the sites where mercenaries and nationalist elements are stationed and trained," Peskov said while commenting on media claims a missile had hit an apartment building in the Odessa Region.
Peskov advised the media to contact the Russian Defense Ministry for details.
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Timothy Snyder eviscerates Jürgen Habermas: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/aus ... 31718.html
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Looks like Russian cash machines cannot be programmed to recognise the new 100 Ruble notes due to sanctions
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Good articleWoodchopper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:12 amTimothy Snyder eviscerates Jürgen Habermas: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/aus ... 31718.html
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And the piece to which it was respondingWoodchopper wrote: ↑Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:12 amTimothy Snyder eviscerates Jürgen Habermas: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/aus ... 31718.html
https://www.resetdoc.org/story/jurgen-h ... e-dilemma/
As you said - eviscerated.
Which was pretty naïve for someone someone writing in late AprilThe dilemma that has forced the West to choose among alternatives in the range between two evils – a defeat of Ukraine or the escalation of a limited conflict into a third world war – is clear. On the one hand, we have learned from the Cold War that a war against a nuclear power can no longer be “won” in any reasonable sense, at least not with the means of military force within the limited timeline of a hot conflict.
And as for this:
Gee why would that be? It's not based on a psychological assessment of Putin, but on his expansionist wars and statements, which feed into the assessment - not the other way round.But such projections are the foundation for the widespread assumption that Putin’s aggressive intentions extend beyond Ukraine to Georgia and the Republic of Moldova, and perhaps even to the Nato member states in the Baltic region and then even far into the Balkans.
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A twitter thread discussing Russia's plans to create global hunger
I'm really not seeing signs of politicians recognising just how dangerous this is to the world as a whole. This is a policy designed to cause unrest. It's designed to cause political turmoil in Europe, but will cause the most damage in Africa and Asia. It won't just be famine - it will also be war.
I'm really not seeing signs of politicians recognising just how dangerous this is to the world as a whole. This is a policy designed to cause unrest. It's designed to cause political turmoil in Europe, but will cause the most damage in Africa and Asia. It won't just be famine - it will also be war.
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Reportedly four civilians killed in Belgorod, and reportedly the governor has been surprisingly open about what happened; A Russian Pantsir launched an interceptor, knocking an incoming Tochka-U off-course and onto a civilian area.
Aside from the acknowledgement from a Russian official, we also have evidence of part of the Pantsir's interceptor - the booster - landing in Belgorod, and footage showing a blast in the air, shortly followed by a much larger blast on the ground a little distance away.
Aside from the acknowledgement from a Russian official, we also have evidence of part of the Pantsir's interceptor - the booster - landing in Belgorod, and footage showing a blast in the air, shortly followed by a much larger blast on the ground a little distance away.