I would like a row of sittings ducks please.
Best I can do are sitting duck related meetings with expensive consultants.
Perfect!
trompete
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But that's what I'm asking. Assuming the quote is correct, and he really did say a decision has been made to create a security zone and they're currently solving this problem, what does that mean?
Security zone is vague af (which I guess is the point), but people have been speculating about quite a large area potentially. Something about getting Moscow out StormShadow range, everything east of the Dnieper, stuff like that. And whatever forces crossed into Sumi chasing the Ukrainians out of Kursk, that'll not be enough to achieve that. So must be an offensive, am I wrong? They would not announce this before starting, so they would have started already. It's also about time for a spring/summer offensive, assuming they had one planned. Supposedly they built up two new armies.
But who knows I guess we'll see in the next few days.
Did Putin just announce an offensive to take half of Ukraine?
Some Ukrainian officer explaining that their drone operators are getting hit more and more:
transcript
The second thing I’ve been thinking about a lot is that I’ve felt that the Russians have learned to counter our drone systems, and I’m seriously concerned about this, because in the past few days—the past few weeks, I’ve seen a lot of signs of this, when I see that the number of losses among our drone pilots has increased. Are these ambushes? These are complex measures, unfortunately. And I’ve been thinking about how we need to resist, yes—what we need to do to reduce this impact, because earlier it was only guided bombs, and now it’s “Molniya”, it’s fiber optics, it’s operations with many methods of attack and winged shoot-downs. This story—they're working on a broad scale.
And it really troubles me internally, because I keep thinking about what I can do here to improve the situation over there—to reduce this gap between Kyiv and the front line. That’s the main thing.
And the losses really, if we’re speaking about the brigades specifically, have skyrocketed. They’ve skyrocketed just over the last couple of weeks. We were also just recently at one of the brigades. This happens constantly—you might spend two hours with a brigade and you get the message that there are “200s”, there are “300s”, and of course, this greatly, greatly affects both what’s happening on the front and the overall condition of our military.
What I see now is—they’ve learned to counter our UAVs, and their success is getting better and better, unfortunately, and this is happening in several directions. First, it’s situational awareness on the battlefield. Second, it’s targeting the positions they detect—they’re striking identified positions. I’ve even heard in some brigades—“Let’s change our shifts not every three or six hours, but let’s stay on rotation for a month and then rotate out,” because today, the act of repositioning is very difficult and has deep consequences, including from the effects of the Russian enemy.
Again—three months ago they worked only with guided bombs. Now they’re using both “Molniya” and guided bombs, and now there’s fiber optics that were working three months ago in the Kursk direction, and now they’ve moved—to Kurakhove, to the Kostyantynivka area, and to Pokrovsk.
Three months ago there was no fiber optics at all in Pokrovsk. Two months ago there were just isolated strands hanging somewhere in Pokrovsk, and now—it’s daily operations—again, daily operations. And this is the problem that—I keep thinking about it constantly, and it’s more important to me than the Istanbul track, Ankara... and from what I understand, they’ve basically created an equivalent of our drone forces—that is, a separate branch of troops that focuses solely on countering drones. And in my view, we really, really need to consider—just like we have counter-battery units in artillery, we need counter-UAV units, positions that handle that, because their drones are taking out a major part of our armed forces—honestly.
And we don’t have a separate structure in our armed forces that works against drones on their side. There are specific initiatives at the level of individual units, some companies or battalions—but it’s not a systematic effort.
Return of the Obra Dinn, UFO 50
Civ 6 works ok on Steam Deck if you turn down the graphics (make the leaders into static pictures especially) and take some time to configure the inputs.
They are either trying to be an independent imperialist power, or they're just doing the US empire's bidding. Either way it's imperialism. If you believe their insane plans will actually manifest (I doubt it), their goal is to be able to win the next round of war in eastern Europe. Clearly they're not winning this round, so wherever the front settles, they want to be able to do re-match in couple of years.
I so hope this backfires. First of all, I don't think they can pull it off anyway, the corruption and incompetence is off the charts with these people and that's not due to lack of vision (which they also don't have) or whatever, that's systemic. All that money will go into private pockets and fuck-all will be delivered, and thank Allah for that.
Also, this will antagonize other EU countries (well, some of them, I assume the Baltics will hail their German overlords), making it so much easier for nationalist EU-skeptic politicians to gain support.
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/499987.ukraine-moskau-muss-brennen.html
Junge Welt reports that the Deutsches Freiwilligenkorps (DFK; I assume they go by Freikorps), made of German Neo-Nazi volunteers, will be integrated into the 49. storm battalion "Karpaten-Sitsch":
Founded in 2014 after the Maidan coup by members of the Svoboda ["freedom", formerly social-nationalist] party and the “Sokil” military sports group [article says "Wehrsportgruppe"; famously Wehrsportgruppe is what Nazis like to call their little militant clubs in Germany], the “Carpathian Sitsch” battalion, which has since been disbanded and reactivated in 2022, is a volunteer unit. It follows in the tradition of the “Carpathian Sitsch”, which was formed in 1938 on the initiative of the fascist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and wiped out in the fight for independence against Hungary.
The DFK to this day recruits from the milieu of the small party Der III. Weg [the third way]. The neo-Nazis have maintained contacts with Svoboda, Sokil and the “Azov” movement for years, collect donations for Ukrainian fascists and took part in a conference of the Fascist International in Lviv in August 2024 together with the DFK, the Russian Volunteer Corps [these are the Russian Nazis that raided into Russia in 2023] and other neo-Nazi units fighting for Kiev. The fact that the DFK congratulated Adolf Hitler on his “birthday” on their official social media channel on April 20 does not seem to bother the Ukrainian army leadership. Nor does the revanchist manifesto published by the DFK on the 80th anniversary of the liberation: “In Germany, the 8th of May 1945 has not been forgotten, and it will certainly not be celebrated!” declared the DFK, demanding that the German people show “the same courage, the same loyalty, the same willingness to sacrifice” as Hitler's soldiers once did - “for a bright future in the glory of the old glory”.
I understand this is joke, but the F in PFAS "forever chemicals" is fluorine. You'd think the fluoride whackos would be all over this, after all it is a communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
To be clear, a bit of fluoride in the water is fine, the problem is that they made synthetic polymers out of carbon and fluorine and they don't degrade and just accumulate in your blood and organs forever and disrupt whatever is normally supposed to be going on there.
Yeah they are trying to become indistinguishable from the AfD, and they're also increasing surveillance, repression, censorship and propaganda, which to some degree target the AfD (among others), because what's important isn't what someone is doing, but what's in their heart of hearts.
German Greens want to force people of all ages to serve the state in a new Freedom Service™. Either military or some community service.
"It is time to ask the question: What can you do for you country?", Schulze said to Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The threats are growing.
"In order make our society more robust, to defend our freedom, and to strengthen cooperation, we need everybody. The Freedom Service is a collective project for Germany, by all and for all. Through the Freedom Service, we will to bring together generations and milieus, strengthen our society, and defend what is important to us."
I'm not making this up btw.
They're no longer in government of course, that's just their contribution to the debate about re-introducing conscription.
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In the last week, I have seen two videos of groups of men punching and puting to flight TCC officers. And one video that supposedly shows a TCC office going up in flames. Previously, this stuff was rare; you'd usually see mainly women shoving and berating the TCC pressgangs, and obviously the guys being kidnapped trying to escape. The TCC wasn't getting attacked though, that seems new.