General Russia Ukraine round 2 Price hike boogaloo

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BeardOfKnowledge

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Russia wants to legally brand Facebook's parent company Meta an "extremist organization," Russian state media outlet Tass reported Friday.

The Prosecutor General's Office officially asked Meta to be labelled as an extremist organization under Russian law and have all its activities banned in Russia, Tass reported.

Tass also said the Prosecutor General asked for an investigation into whether Meta broke laws on "terrorist propaganda" and "inciting hatred."

This marks a further escalation of tensions between the Kremlin and the US tech giant, which has been building since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I love this, so, so much.
 

NotBanjaxo

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Putin and his government are struggling to find a response to sanctions:

 

FINGERS

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Putin and his government are struggling to find a response to sanctions:


This guy thinks Putin wanst the sanctions so he can turn Russia back into...or more of a police state.

 

NotBanjaxo

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This guy thinks Putin wanst the sanctions so he can turn Russia back into...or more of a police state.

He will need the police state to be at it's most repressive and brutal.

The younger Russian generations (particularly those born from the mid 80s onwards, who have no real memory of living in the old Soviet Union) have become accustomed to a certain standard of living, as well as access to western goods. They won't go back to bread lines and the like without serious resentment.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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He will need the police state to be at it's most repressive and brutal.

The younger Russian generations (particularly those born from the mid 80s onwards, who have no real memory of living in the old Soviet Union) have become accustomed to a certain standard of living, as well as access to western goods. They won't go back to bread lines and the like without serious resentment.
If there's one thing COVID has taught us it's that most people are happy to just get along
 

Sheepdog

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The idea of bringing in Syrian fighter is extra desperate. "One thing is to fight in the narrow streets of Arabian cities. It's something else in Kyiv or Kharkiv where the boulevards are 100m wide." Also refers to cold climate and low morale of Syrians.


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Since last Sat it's been relatively stable on the fronts. There is an expectation of a reforming of RU units and a new line of attack, but so far little evidence of it. "If Russia doesn't achieve a remarkable advance by end of week, difficult to see how it should come at all."

https://twitter.com/holger_r

The sth line of attack has split in 2, one advancing twd Mykolaiv, the other to Kryvyi Rih. This is serious risk to RU forces as the supply lines, which we already know are crap, will be dragged even longer. "This leaves the Ukrainians plenty of chance to 'beat them to pieces'.




The question is if Moscow today forces Lukashenko to send in the troops from Belarus, but BY troops' motivation is even lower than that of RU. "The Western-Ukrainian national & anti-Russian environment would be extra hostile towards them."




The idea of bringing in Syrian fighter is extra desperate. "One thing is to fight in the narrow streets of Arabian cities. It's something else in Kyiv or Kharkiv where the boulevards are 100m wide." Also refers to cold climate and low morale of Syrians.




About possible mobilization in RU. That was on the agenda last Friday in Fed Council and duma but allegedly high-ranking military re-convinced Putin. "Reserve units have no training, they even don't have enough uniforms for them."




"They've included very few reservists in Zapad exercises. Of the few thousand they usually include, the officers complain about them "messing up" the exercise."




Fatigue of RU units "massive". A third has been replaced, but incoming units have even worse quality. Another third has been destroyed, killed or wounded. Re-formation of units doesn't have a good impact on combat capability.




Ukraine's counter-offensive has so far been small-scale but when RU stalls, they have resources to start pressing. First aim would be to drive RU out of country in the North (Kyiv and Kharkiv).



https://twitter.com/holger_r

It will be more difficult to gain back ground in South, also because of terrain. "In steppe you will be an open target from air."

https://twitter.com/holger_r

Regarding Russia's shortage of missiles. "Putin was told he had 10,000 missiles. In fact, he had 1,000. It's peculiar he didn't remember how he was lying to his own bosses as a young KGB officer. Such lying is common in the culture."
My imaginary unnamed and unspecified Estonian analyst says that this guy's imaginary unnamed and unspecified Estonian analyst is full of shit.
 

FINGERS

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My imaginary unnamed and unspecified Estonian analyst says that this guy's imaginary unnamed and unspecified Estonian analyst is full of shit.

Well he's going to fuck your guy up but good.

His imaginary judo is on point.