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25·15 days ago
42·17 days agoThe Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank.
6·19 days ago书读百遍其意自现 – meaning reveals itself when you read something many times.
best shorthand of why “blue curtains”
are so dumb I’ve come across
7·29 days agoI think it was some screenshots from the OSCE report here: https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683
I can’t get your link to load at the moment, but maybe that was the source of these screenshots or had similar analysis.
He said Blue MAGA:
Bidenomics is Maga for thinking people.
Someone used to have some clear evidence of the shelling of the Donbas ratcheting up from Ukr side in the days before the invasion. I haven’t seen it posted in a while, but it was from some international monitoring org showing how the Ukr side was being very accelerationist. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
e: not what I was thinking of, but provides similar context, this interview in French, the translated part below:
spoiler
Specifically, on Friday, the OSCE identifies 1,800 violations of the peace agreements by Ukraine, with heavy-arm shelling, which are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions and international law. On Saturday, 19 February 2022, the Donbas authorities, in agreement with Russia, evacuated 100,000 people across the border in order to protect them from Ukrainian bombing. Moreover, hundreds of buses can be seen on the roads. At that time, it is also discovered that there are more than 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers who are massed on the banks of the Donbass and who are ready to fight them. Frankly, when we also heavily bombard the civilian population, it is because we are preparing something behind us. In addition, there is article 61 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which is very short, which says that the Russian Federation must protect and assist Russian citizens abroad. In Donbass, however, many people have dual nationality. International law obliges Vladimir Putin to intervene, as does his own constitution. When we bomb civilian populations, international law requires the intervention of neighbours. However, this famous week, I have not heard the UN Secretary General worry about what the civilian population is going to suffer, I have not heard the NATO Secretary General intervene, I have not heard Mrs Von der Leyen, or President Macron, when they are supposed to guarantee the peace agreements. If a State attacks the civilian population, the international community must intervene, so I consider the Ukrainian State to be the aggressor and that the neighbouring State must intervene to protect the civilian population. I would add that 20 February 2022 is also a very interesting day. President zelensky is invited to the famous Munich Security Conference and will explain that he wants to break the Budapest protocol in order to have nuclear weapons on its territory. Over the weekend, the OSCE will continue to record 3,000 ceasefire violations. At that time, there are Ukrainian forces firing, but also the Donbas republics defending themselves. On Sunday, Vladimir Putin begins the process of recognizing the two republics and the presidents of the two republics are invited to Moscow the next day to sign aid treaties. I thought it was a good thing, because it was a sign of de-escalation because, until then, attacking the Donbass, by the Ukrainians, was attacking Ukrainian civilian populations. This time, one might have thought that the Ukrainians were going to be careful, because now they would also attack Russia. But not at all, it is still in the OSCE reports that everyone can read, the OSCE continues to record 1,700 ceasefire violations on Monday and Tuesday. Now, we are in my interpretation, Russia has understood that the Minsk agreements have lapsed. We must not forget this statement by Angela Merkel and François Hollande that Ukraine needed to be given time to arm it.
The closing paragraph really gives the game away, but can’t expect any better from The Economist:
In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards.
So in the process of being spooked by China, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, having some influence on standards, the West refers to letting the biggest pile of capital set standards for profit as a ‘bottom-up approach’.
“We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.
China now being more capable at playing the same game they been playing for decades is framed as a terrible injustice. They are crying that they used to be able to set standards that relied on privately owned intellectual property that generated easy profits for years or even decades.
I hope the Chinese told them they could just stop enabling a genocide. That is the correct answer to this situation.
0·1 month ago
Intel did 3D Xpoint aka Optane, but seems like it didn’t really catch on so much. Hopefully this new NV memory tech gets to scale because it sounds awesome.
The zionist prez that said
being the strategic leader of this escalation is really something.
why are all these terrible fruits growing up out of the fertile banderite soil we’ve been cultivating for decades?
An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.
0·2 months agoI just realized their native built sniper rifles are only single shot bolt action. I kept wondering why they were handling loose ammo in these videos, but now that totally makes sense. They don’t have magazines. I thought it was just cool sniper theatrics, but it’s actually quite utilitarian.
151·2 months agoEvery on-call employee should now get additional hazard pay until all devices have been throughly screened for explosives.
I was wondering how quickly into the article there would be fascist dog-whistling about invading Kursk. 2nd paragraph.
“I felt myself a part of history, because it was the first time since the Second World War Russia’s been invaded,” Sergei, the flaxen-haired trooper, told POLITICO
“I had the most powerful feeling,” he said.
‘Murder on Canvas’ would be the perfect name for their art show.
0·2 months ago
Is this harm reduction?
The debate is just going to be her and Don trying to out-fascist each other, isn’t it?
I will create a final solution to the Border Problem.
I made the whole Border Problem discourse the core of my platform, how dare you say you will deal with it. Only I can fix it through state violence.
I’m a cop, who do you think is better at facilitating state violence to solve problems?
If Don still has a working brain, he might be able to pull off the same inversion that he did with Hillary, making him seem to be the pro-peace and reconciliation candidate, but I won’t hold my breath on that one.
