How do you know a ruzzian is lying? Sound is coming out if their mouth.
By degrading a near-peer adversary’s military capability, gaining unprecedented battlefield intelligence, and accelerating the testing and development of advanced weapons systems, the U.S. is realizing a Return on Strategic Investment (ROSI) of 321% to 797%
If we were to take over the entire connectivity capacity for Ukraine and all the citizens, — we wouldn't be able to do that.
Luckily, that's not needed. Let's start with covering 50% of the frontline needs.
My version would be "hugs, no high fives and happy to answer meaningful questions"
A hundred dictators is still better than a hundred and one dictator. When one approached a difficult task, it's better to divide it into smaller tasks.
This difficulty to believe it's actually quite fundamental to what's happening.
If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)
101 artillery pieces is also quite something!
Nope. He just doesn't care. That's much worse.
Once I saw a categorisation I liked. There are three kinds of people: those who know what they want or like, those who know what they don't like and the confused ones.
In other words, it's totally fine even for neurotypicals not too know if something is better than the other, especially when it comes to subjective reactions based on subconscious or feelings.
Yes, the word is used for both meanings. I doubt ruskies are using it to describe their tactics, though.
If only there were a European country that is investing in the drone technology like their existence depended on it...
I'm not the OG commenter, but for me this is important because I see how gpt is replacing search, I can imagine they will play an increasing role in news. Which has two sides. One is the fact that people will read news summaries dinner by a system with a bias. Second is writing of the news with the same bias.
We've seen this before. Machine learning systems that were trained on past human decisions also learned biases from those decisions. Court ruling suggestions stronger for black than white. Job applicant analysis favouring men over women. Etc.
There's a good book about that, if you're interested: "Weapons of Math Destruction" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
Thank you. I'm glad you see it the way I did.
Haven't you heard about the human autism detectors? Those people who say: "Oh, but you don't look autistic!"
/s
We’re all sick of the dozens of apps on our phones
That day when I realised I'm not part of "we all".
Do I really need my calculator to have maps function?
If they're looking for a good location, Hague is just perfect.
Yeah, me too. Looks like this year will be make it or break it.
US' help was critical so far and when it was paused for six months Ukraine noticed.
On the other hand, when it was paused, Ukraine noticed, but didn't immediately fail. On top of that there were recent reports that Ukraine has enough supplies until summer. On top of that there Zelensky's statement that Ukraine is now producing up to 30% of what it needs in the battlefield. And on top of that, while US help was significant, the contributions from other countries were also nontrivial and many of them invested into increasing production.
So all in all, US' help was and stays important (even if it was quite often a little too late), but if it stops, I believe Ukraine can still win, but that will be quite bad for the States as Trump will not be able to claim this victory and also the military industry will lose quite a lot of advertisement when Ukraine wins with Owen, German, French, Korean or any other weapons.
And do it begins. Musk wants to become the new Hitler.
How soon till we start making time travel films about going back to stop him?
sanctions work
2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse.
... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.
www.eeas.europa.eu No, time is not on Russia‘s side
HR/VP Blog – Russian authorities regularly claim that the Russian economy would not really suffer from Western sanctions and that time would be on Russia's side in its war of aggression against Ukraine. However, these ideas do not stand up to scrutiny. Our sanctions have already significantly weaken...
www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Russia is not winning the war
On Friday, Russian state media reported that�dictator Vladimir Putin had ordered the size of the Russian military to increase by 170,000 active members. This is the second time in a year that Putin ...
If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy
xxtomcooperxx.substack.com Ukraine War, 26 September 2023: The right Stuff....erm...Metrics
Good morning everybody! Going through a myriad of reports from the frontlines in southern Zaporizhzhya of the last few days, even weeks, and some analysis…. well, at least two thingies are now sure: - 1.) at the pace the super-brains between the Keystone Cops in Moscow are squandering the VDV in the...
www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Ukraine just had its best week of the year
Let’s talk about Ukraine’s very good week.
www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: Ukraine's war of attrition can break Russia—and it won't take years
Attritional strategies get a bad rap. When someone mentions a battle of attrition, many people think of the years-long-stalemate of World War I, or the endless and strategically pointless body count battles that characterized the American involvement...
several examples of tactics used by Russians to reshape the population on occupied territories
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@Tatarigami_UA: Recently, I mentioned the issue of Russian colonists replacing Ukrainians, who either fell victim to violence, was forcibly displaced, or had to flee. Today, I will provide several examples of tactic...…
Russian Nazis and Russian neo-Nazi movements.
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@P_Kallioniemi: In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin an...…
In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.
www.dailykos.com Ukraine Update: One town south of Bakhmut is liberated, and another is almost there
No one is particularly happy about the pace of events in the Ukraine counteroffensive. President Volodomyr Zelenskyy isn’t happy. Ukraine’s military leadership isn’t happy. Those participating ...
Ukraine Update: Russia doesn't have a backup plan when it runs out of artillery
So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery
Making the case why the Ukrainian counteroffensive is exactly going according to plan.
Russia's losses 29.06.2023
what's crazy is that Ukraine already neutralised (killed and wounded) 100% of what was the entire pre-war army of the moscovites (around 900K), 100% of non-reserve tanks and now getting close to 75% of artillery.
Ukraine Update: Normandy, maple syrup, and counteroffensive optimism
Russia's losses 23.06.2023
+44 artillery is very very good news. for moscovia the artillery is the main offensive and defensive tool.