Dumb fuck Putin could’ve just sat on his billions and coasted through his last years on Earth but no, he had to play Hitler.

I got banned from r/news and r/worldnews for pointing this out before public sentiment finally became too insurmountable to ignore. Fucking coward mods.

Israeli nationalists: “That’s okay because there was a ‘high value Hamas target’ in the vicinity!”

Pro-tip: If you’re trying to radicalize a population and create an incubator for greater terrorism, then you do exactly what Israel has been doing. If I was this man, I’d have nothing to live for and thus spend the rest of my days focused on vengeance. Sorry, but it’s the truth.

Blitzing into largely undefended territories and nabbing large amounts of territory is kind of the easy part. As anyone who plays any sort of RTS, the key question is how you set up defenses and maintain logistics to thwart counter-offensives. The good news is that Ukraine has options. They can choose to dig in before Russia amasses troops to attack and legitimately try to hold onto the territory, or they can simply back out and use this as a skirmish to divide Russian forces before launching another offensive elsewhere.

This seems to a) be intended to divide Russian attention and spread their forces out, b) be used in negotiation and applying domestic pressure to Putin, and c) provide a greater buffer for air-defense to counter inbound artillery and missiles. Who knows for sure though.

That’s not the impression I’ve been getting. This has been covered extensively from places ranging from BBC and Telegraph to PBS, and numerous reddit subs. I haven’t seen this much activity centered on Ukraine in a while.

Well hey, good news, Boat Ho — we can do both! We have this magical capacity to both walk and chew bubble-gum at the same time. You may understand as as “not being mutually-exclusive.” Being the richest nation on Earth, this is not outside our capacity.

Here let me help you out, here: You see, it’s not Ukraine preventing you from having those things; to the contrary, it’s not even a matter of affordability. The problem comes from Republican obstructionists.

The US has committed over $175 billion in aid to Ukraine since February 2022.

Between affording a house and having Russians invade and rape your family while indiscriminately bombing civilian centers… Yeah… I think my former problem is a bit less significant.

lol ah yes, we should simply cede to a dictator’s territorial imperial annexation by… Weakening defense budgets? Remind me how the US annexed Iraq and Afghanistan as Russia did with Crimea, parts of Georgia, Chechyna?

And no, NATO is how you invert the course. Russia is too pussy to confront NATO’s Article 5. So bring Ukraine into NATO.

So why don’t you go tell Putin to cut his military budget?

This guy… Apparently thinks we should have rolled over when Hitler invaded Poland and the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Edit: Observe below how this user hops around with tangential points and half-truths, all the while avoiding the heart of the matter: They believe we should just give in to the dictator — whether it’s the Hitler of old or the Putin of recent. Further observe how they have no response to the fact that NATO countries have never been directly attacked by Russia, giving proof to the power of a Defensive Alliance.

Fucking love this. Think about it:

• While Russia concentrates defenses in the southern Donetsk region, Ukraine simply pushes forward into Russia itself and grabs easy land. Like squeezing a balloon, the bulge finds the least resistance.

• It causes domestic unrest and panic.

• It forces Russia to spread thinner their already-thin resources.

• It gives Ukraine a bargaining-chip at the negotiating table.

• It helps nullify net-territorial gains made by Russia elsewhere.

• It gives Ukrainian forces a boost of morale.

Norovirus hit our house hard… I did pretty much everything I could do to prevent getting it. Lasted 2 weeks while rest of family and kids got sick. Even with vigorous handwashing and N95 being up all night with a baby puking on you… Well, I knew it was coming.

So watch out.THAT is going around, too.

Do pardon my absence, for it seems my coffee has stimulated gastrin production, triggering peristalsis and thus motility of a log flume near my nethers.

You’re in for a wild night with a futon.

My zoomer sis and her bf are big time concert goers and collecting vinyl is huge. No cds.

Anyone who’s watched like any documentary on Russia in the past decade recognizes this guy. He’s insanely intelligent, morally grounded, and incredibly brave. Honestly, I wish he was the leader of Russia. I’ll dream.

This interview was awesome. The way he speaks about seeing his family tomorrow is pretty touching.

Ah… It’s odd that my coworker’s laptops were impacted yet a handful of the group weren’t as they should all be identically images. I believe I was running Falcon Endpoint. I distinctly remember CrowdStrike on the taskbar but not much beyond that.

The way I see the current administration’s policy is this:

• Obviously we’ve had longstanding defense agreements with Israel.
• Obviously APAIC is an incredibly strong lobbyist
• It’s dangerous to get ahead of polls and walk back defending Israel following October 7th
• Especially when the Jewish-American electorate is every bit as vital to getting Democrats over the finish-line.
• Now imagine if you will that Biden withdraws all aid to Israel, but then Bibi in a false-flag just so happens to say oopsies again and ignores intelligence and let’s another terrorist attack happen on Israeli soil. Democrats would lose in a landslide.

I think ultimately a lot of the optics right now is framed around getting reelected and ensuring Trump, who would be far more pro-genocide, doesn’t get in the White House. Blinken is clearly echoing marching orders from Biden in that respect.

Do I believe this administration at this point wants anything to do with Bibi in reality? Not really.

I never update my work laptop, so I was good 🤣

I was reading a company in Ukraine has completed a functioning drone that does just this. Basically permits it to fire-and-forget as it has basic optimal image recognition built into a chip. Crazy.

Alternatively if you knew the target’s static location, you could bypass GPS and controller jamming by utilizing good 'ol fashioned orienteering principles with an accelerometer, compass, and provided coordinates.

Possibly whitelisted frequencies that must hop in a certain pattern to avoid jamming?