International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V13

[SandisLL]

Germany might not dream that their Taurus missiles is any stuff some country in EU or EZ or NATO is interested about. Worth 0 cent plus utilisation expenses for local taxpayers.
Maybe even better that germans will utilise this old shit already paid by taxpayers and utilisation too ofc will be paid from their taxpayers pockets. Instead to waste time with talks about idiotism and to waste time with Putin's allies...in Germany.

 

[AWilder]

Western Communists are the best society has to offer.

You know like Albert Einstein, MLK Jr etc? All the truly great people in the West are communists or some degree of socialist.

truly your peers.

 

[Ruthless Ryan]

Seems Russian command still have no value for their soldiers as every time UKR advances the commander sends them back in for a counter attack but certain death. The commanders obviously do t want to have to tell Putler that they have lost ground as that might cost the commander his job or his life.

 

[AWilder]

 

[Denter]

The idea of rusification of ukrainians had been attempted before even U.S existed as country.
It is called imperialism and nationalism in order to build Empire - World Hegemon.
U.S area then had been ruled partially by local Indians ( americans ) , partially by King of Spain, parrially by french feodals, partially by U.K feodals.
Nothing here is about NATO or EU at all.
It is neo imperialism and @Dexter, as had been told winners aren't judged. I agree. This war already does have winner: China and BI countries + Iran and North Korea.
They had won, Russia and Ukr had lost. West and Asia are watching cos winners aren't judged.

So true.

 

[Denter]

Seems Russian command still have no value for their soldiers as every time UKR advances the commander sends them back in for a counter attack but certain death. The commanders obviously do t want to have to tell Putler that they have lost ground as that might cost the commander his job or his life.

Wow a lot of commanders must have been executed after the Kharkov and Kherson offensives last year, right?

 

[SwamiLeoni]

A beautiful takedown of our wonderful friend, the tech billionaire turned geopolitical analyst David Sacks.

https://x.com/jennycafarella/status/1703759074855174400?s=46

 

[SandisLL]

Wow a lot of commanders must have been executed after the Kharkov and Kherson offensives last year, right?

Now is more soft approach : replace, maybe some health problems or accidents sooner or later. Suicide too might happen.

 

[Rational Poster]

Wow a lot of commanders must have been executed after the Kharkov and Kherson offensives last year, right?

I mean the number of Russian high ranking officers and generals killed in Ukraine is unprecedently high for modern war even if we're just confirming off Russian sources, let alone western claims which are much higher.

You have to go back to the world wars to see a rate of attrition in such high ranks.

 

[Strychnine]

Pres. Putin is throwing away his best and brightest into the human lawnmower because of his own hubris.

 

[SandisLL]

I mean the number of Russian high ranking officers and generals killed in Ukraine is unprecedently high for modern war even if we're just confirming off Russian sources, let alone western claims which are much higher.

You have to go back to the world wars to see a rate of attrition in such high ranks.

This is because this war is ruled from Russia's side by politicians and KGB ( sorry FSB ) elite. They most likely in reality are real generals too de facto, instructing what kind of weapons to use, where and ...loves ASAP to capture cities.

Therefore generals and high level colonels are forced to be closer to frontline and report on daily basis: where you are? Report achievements!

Putin and his friends wants to grab land as quickly as it is possible.
Therefore IMHO they beared even Girkin's critique and Prigozin's yelling, Kadirov ambitions etc....
When they had hope that they will manage to annex ALL areas Putin annexed on paper.
When hope disappeared, Prigozin and Utkin + Girkin had been written off and looks that they in Kremlin had lost hope on Kadirovites too.

 

[SandisLL]

Kremlin in general didn't had fear from checen elite or Kadirov.
They so much benefited from Putin that not at all were interested to remowe Putin cos mercantile reasons.
1. Generous funding for Grozny from Russian federal budget.....
2. Putin and his clique allowed rich checens to open businesses and purchase shares in businesses in Moscow, St Pete etc...
Ofc russians working in these businesses usually didn't knew real owners because members of board, CEO etc kind of ppl usually are local russians...

 

[PEB]

Mob boss Elon will require all users to pay to use it. I hope people have already moved to other platforms especially Ukrainian stuff.


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Elon Musk said Monday he's moving to require all users to pay a monthly fee to use his social media site X, previously called Twitter.

Why it matters: The comments, which he made during a livestreamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the company struggles to regain trust with advertisers.

• Musk said earlier this month that Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was down 60%. He has blamed the company's ad challenges on civil rights and consumer groups putting pressure on big brands.

Driving the news: During the live conversation, Netanyahu brought up the challenge of preventing large armies of bots that amplify hate speech.

• Musk replied: "The single-most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots."
• Musk said adding a subscription would make it much more difficult for bots to create accounts, because each bot would need to register a new credit card.
• He added that the company plans to come out with "a lower tier pricing," than what it currently charges for its X Premium subscribers, which is around $8 monthly.

Yes, but: Musk has often teased new products or innovations, only to change course later down the line.

The big picture: Few social networks operate on subscriptions only, although more are experimenting with subscription products amid a weak ad market.

 

[SandisLL]

Mob boss Elon will require all users to pay to use it. I hope people have already moved to other platforms especially Ukrainian stuff.


"
Elon Musk said Monday he's moving to require all users to pay a monthly fee to use his social media site X, previously called Twitter.

Why it matters: The comments, which he made during a livestreamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the company struggles to regain trust with advertisers.

• Musk said earlier this month that Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was down 60%. He has blamed the company's ad challenges on civil rights and consumer groups putting pressure on big brands.

Driving the news: During the live conversation, Netanyahu brought up the challenge of preventing large armies of bots that amplify hate speech.

• Musk replied: "The single-most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots."
• Musk said adding a subscription would make it much more difficult for bots to create accounts, because each bot would need to register a new credit card.
• He added that the company plans to come out with "a lower tier pricing," than what it currently charges for its X Premium subscribers, which is around $8 monthly.

Yes, but: Musk has often teased new products or innovations, only to change course later down the line.

The big picture: Few social networks operate on subscriptions only, although more are experimenting with subscription products amid a weak ad market.

The stuff is that he overrated Twitter when had purchased it.
Even had hired new teams to develop new projects and later....
They started to do " perssonel optimization process ".
In real world words : layoffs.
And these aren't low skilled burger flippers, these are experienced ppl with degrees, some bunch of them even does have 2 degrees and 10+ years real commercial experience under belt.

BTW approx the same is about Meta....for these who had worked for Metauniverse projects. Mark reduced financing for this and layoffs had been started.

 

[SandisLL]

From 10 Leopard 1 tanks Ukraine had recieved majority aren't usable and Ukraine refused to accept next batch: 10 Leopard 1 tanks currently stationed in Poland because they aren't usable.
Spiegel does have article about this.

Sadly most likely it is big shame for western partners.
Ukraine usually is accepting everything, even stuff manufactured in 1950 ies...

 

[Ruthless Ryan]

Wow a lot of commanders must have been executed after the Kharkov and Kherson offensives last year, right?

Nice spin, I said lose his job or his life and if you don’t know this about the Russian way you havnt been following

 

[method115]

Mob boss Elon will require all users to pay to use it. I hope people have already moved to other platforms especially Ukrainian stuff.


"
Elon Musk said Monday he's moving to require all users to pay a monthly fee to use his social media site X, previously called Twitter.

Why it matters: The comments, which he made during a livestreamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the company struggles to regain trust with advertisers.

• Musk said earlier this month that Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was down 60%. He has blamed the company's ad challenges on civil rights and consumer groups putting pressure on big brands.

Driving the news: During the live conversation, Netanyahu brought up the challenge of preventing large armies of bots that amplify hate speech.

• Musk replied: "The single-most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots."
• Musk said adding a subscription would make it much more difficult for bots to create accounts, because each bot would need to register a new credit card.
• He added that the company plans to come out with "a lower tier pricing," than what it currently charges for its X Premium subscribers, which is around $8 monthly.

Yes, but: Musk has often teased new products or innovations, only to change course later down the line.

The big picture: Few social networks operate on subscriptions only, although more are experimenting with subscription products amid a weak ad market.

Well this is a good move to counter bots. I would suggest he offers free accounts that are allowed to read but not post/reply. I would even think about allowing free accounts to reply to other post but not create their own. With that said this is a very quick and easy way to just outright kill off X.

 

[SandisLL]

Well, I might be statisfied just to read something in some ! cases. I never had posted anything in Twitter.

 

[method115]

Well, I might be statisfied just to read something in some ! cases. I newer had posted anything in Twitter.

Same. I'll read stuff but I never post anything on there.

 

[PEB]

Instead of creating a new thread this is interesting video about Taiwan's defense.