The ‘human waves’ style of spycraft

The dragon’s teeth got made, they just… didn’t quite make it to the front line

Black Lodge ass motherfucker

China’s aggressive embrace of clean energy technologies, at a faster pace than even its own government expected or planned,

Beijing’s central planners, having underestimated the country’s swift adoption of solar and wind energy,

The country’s government-owned electricity transmission giant, State Grid, was caught unprepared.

Can’t miss a single opportunity to imply that central planning is too slow and lacking in foresight to keep up with economic trends, when the literal entire point of the article is the exact opposite.

“State Grid is good at building things, but not six years ahead,” said David Fishman, an electricity consultant in Shanghai.

In a whole country of Chinese people, I’m glad they could find someone an anglo name to tell me how to feel.

Europe should […] become an exception—a place that offers support to the victims of the new BRICS superpowers

Jesus fucking Christ, to the wall with him

Luhansk is no longer being bombed and Mariupol is no longer occupied by nazi militias. Despite Putin dragging his heels for almost a decade, the unstoppable bloodlust of the west eventually forced him to do the right thing.

Breaking out the ‘Henry Morgenthau apology form’ once again

There’s nothing in the rulebook that says a blue whale can’t play basketball

On the plus side it supposedly reduces the concentration of PFAS and microplastics in your bloodstream by making your body generate fresh blood so uh… congrats?

Shawty’s head got me in a decorticate posture

May everyone here find someone that will call you the ultimate lifeform

Turns out it was secretly the Morgenthau Plan all along

Volunteering to just be prisoner swapped to wherever in exchange for whoever is an incredible bit

You will NEVER guess what “Bolshevik” means

Overall pretty good, I like the lining up of some corp-on-corp violence which hasn’t been seen in the franchise so far

To avoid drama: @ less, shrug more

In short, at the start of the war, Russia was conducting three qualitatively different campaigns at the same time: the rush to Kiev in the north, avoiding urban areas to reach and encircle the capital as fast as possible- both for the chance of extracting a treaty in one blow, and also to pin all the troops in the region with the threat of attacking Kiev itself; actual territorial capture in the south, with city fighting in Melitopol, Mariupol and smaller towns in the vicinity, and the swift replacement of their civil structures by Russian-organized ones; and the roll-out and setup of artillery positions and logistics in the east, to prepare for a war of attrition against Kiev’s entrenched positions there.

The article even argues that pinning the troops in Kiev so they couldn’t immediately reinforce the army on the field in the east was the more important of the strategic goals of the northward push, because by the time those troops were free and able to move eastwards, Russian artillery was firmly entrenched and the Ukrainian logistics network had been severely disrupted. They took a gamble at ending the war immediately, while also engaging in the rest of Ukraine on the assumption that gamble would fail, and using the movement entailed by that gamble to improve their chance of success in the other theaters. And in fact, as already mentioned, the gamble succeeded! The west had to step in and cancel the peace treaty themselves.

Edit: And compare this with western military understanding, which seems to be “Bomb everything -> take the capital -> ??? -> win”. Being able to construct campaigns like this is clearly a legacy of Soviet military doctrine and understanding.

Don’t lay all your eggs in one nest

A mouse in the claw is worth two in the bush

You can’t make an omelette without crushing a few children