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The Russia has had a tradition of telling about drones hitting targets as “shot down” and being quiet about drones shot down, because they don’t want to show how many drones really attacked.

I don’t really know why they have elected to tell the amount of targets succesfully hit as “shot down”, but maybe they think we won’t notice?

100 000 $ per year is 8333 $ per month. That is a proportionally very high extra cost, even if the salary is high.

And this thing done by UK is just a publicity stunt. “You are welcome here. Come here!”

Here goes one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-71_TOW

I’d really like to read more about this. Nobody is telling how this regional train caught fire. There are mentions of a substation being burned, so did this train just end up stopping next to the substation and caught fire? Somebody on Supernova+ was saying:

Там пожар прямо на ж/д на карте НАСА чуть севернеее Стародеревянской и Каневской

So, they’re saying that a little bit nortwards of the train there’s a fire right next to the railway. That suggests this train rode into a fire that had ignited earlier. What is the precise location where this train was caught on this video?

At the same time when Ukraine is gaining village after village from the Russia? I think I know a reason why the Russia wants to make such claims as the one referred to in this post :)

This needs to be fixed. For example by adding a random waiting time before making the request.

The Russia started actively supporting neo-nazistic organizations in ex-USSR countries around year 2005. That was documented back and there were news articles about that. For example in Ukraine that caused the prevalence of a nazi problem to increase steadily year after all the way until 2014 when that development got cut and the prevalence started decreasing.

Back then, 20 years ago, when there was more media attention about it, it was done only in ex-USSR countries, but it would be weird if the same concept hadn’t been extended to EU countries as well. Why wouldn’t it have been? It has worked extremely well for Putin in the original area, and there’s no reason to assume it wouldn’t work for him the same way within EU countries as well.

At least we should.

But, if we are playing that, then at 2 % of the intensity required. There’s a LOT we could do.
One thing I keep saying is that where Russians can still obtain EU visas, they should have to fill a short questionnaire about current events in the Russia and its war against Ukraine.

Something, where they’d have to know the basics of who has attacked whom and when, and also what has been happening at the front in the last 4 weeks.
In order to know which correct answers to learn by heart. they would quickly develop a network of delivering that information to everyone who needs it for applying a visa. That network could be used for getting reliable information about the situation in the Russia without the information having been tainted by Kremlin.

For most of the people applying for visas, that would be just “so, this is what they want to hear, so this is what I will tell them. I know it’s not reality, but I don’t care. That’s the correct words for them and I’ll get to visit something else than this shithole.”
But here and there, some people would figure out how much the Russian TV has been lying to them. And at the same time, the same sources of information that exist for visa applicants could be used by anyone who wants reliable information. That would sow the seed of a revolution.

That would be super useful for spreading awareness in the Russia! And basically from Kremlin’s playbook.

It might not explode!

If the Russia says there were two dead, there were at least 4 in reality. If it says there were 15 injured, there have been 60 injured.

I know. They’d exist anyway, but the scale is because of the Russia. They firstly give a lot of funding, secondly they do a lot of work to shape the discussions in the Internet. They put some “opinion” into the wild, then let local people do the talking. They only need to bootstrap the discussion, after which it will continue on its own weight without much need for further influence by the troll factory.

This is a ridiculous article. In practical terms, our current government has been slashing as much climate work as it has been able to do.

And Petteri Orpo is anyway a person who never makes any decisions. He always yields to all other ministers in all matters. Funny seeing the photo of him as if he was a person of power. He’s very purely a figurehead only.

It’s very largely Putin.

We know about how he made Ukraine’s far right stronger and stronger until 2014, but there’s less talk about how he has done the same everywhere in the countries that used to be under Soviet rule. And then, around 2014, he started seriously expanding the same to the west, as well.

Because Germany has made a big effort picturing Soviet Union as a hero country that saved Germany from Nazis, anything that would be somehow against the Russia has been traditionally seen as pro-Nazi. So, it’s extremely difficult to talk in Germany about how the Russia is doing evil things. In Germany the Russia has had exceptionally free hands to operate. And they’ve used the opportunity. AfD is an offshoot of Kremlin.

It’s good to keep in mind that Lukašenka tried to take over the Russian Federation in the end of 1990’s.
That’s why it signed the very tight coöperation agreement. His idea was that Belarus and the Russia will become one state and its leader will be Aljaksand Lukašenka. Then KGB (FSB) managed to get Putin into power, thus blocking Lukašenka’s way to the power he had strived for.

However, now the Union Agreement had been signed, and the Russia suddenly had much of the power over Belarus that Lukašenka had planned to have over the Russia. Putin is absolutely aware that Lukašenka had tried that scheme, and they are not really very close friends to each other. Putin hasn’t been able to get Lukašenka sacked, because any follower would have been likely to be democratic, so he has had to tolerate Lukašenka. Lukašenka has been dancing on a knife’s edge for the last 25 years, trying to keep the Russia from taking over Belarus the way he had planned a takeover. At the same time be nice enough to Putin that he’ll need you in power, and keep Belarus as independent from the Russia as possible.

I see this merely as one thing among many where Belarus is trying to regulate the distance between itself and the Russia. This has never meant that it stops being tightly connected to the Russia, and I don’t think it means that this time, either.

Lukašenka also sees that the Russia is about to lose a war. He also knows that he won’t live very long anymore. Once the Russia is gone, it might be best for Belarus to be allowed to move into democratic hands. And at that point it’s important that the relationship with the west has not been completely soured.

Ah, a different “here” 🐳

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Uh, what? I have only ever used instances that block Hexbear, but I haven’t felt that there’s no good content. What would you describe I’m missing?

How about people driving those trucks that directly dump mixed waste into the ocean? That’s a very common thing to do in South-East Asia. Plus, there are a zillion villages everywhere around there that dump all of their mixed waste into creeks going through them – to be brought “away”. Into the oceans.

That’s where almost half of all microplastic comes from. Then there’s the other approximately half that comes from cars’ tyres. And then a part of a percent that comes from drinking straws and such. Hooray.

Could the other galaxy please pull us just the correct distance away from the sun to cancel the effect of global warming?