This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Apparently Putin doesn't like being called a bald dwarf. He has a team dedicated to combing the internet looking for criticism of Putin. He doesn't use the internet himself for fear of being spied on.
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Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show
Russia's federal media watchdog has a special team tasked with hunting down insults about the president, a report says.
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I would love to spoof the Russian propaganda on Twitter but am afraid they would destroy my computer.Apparently Putin doesn't like being called a bald dwarf. He has a team dedicated to combing the internet looking for criticism of Putin. He doesn't use the internet himself for fear of being spied on.
Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show
Russia's federal media watchdog has a special team tasked with hunting down insults about the president, a report says.
I'm not computer literate enough to know if that is possible
"Rather than sending Ukraine tanks from its own stocks, as it has done with previous weapons, the U.S. has said it is buying the Abrams from industry, meaning they won’t arrive on the battlefield for many months, or potentially years"
New video captures the moment one of Russia's horrifying thermobaric weapon launchers was destroyed, Ukraine says
I saw this air last night. Another war crime by Russia. Callously we need to utilize crimes like this to force the issue with some about why supporting Ukraine is so important. The Russians will not stop at Ukraine. They will keep on killing in Moldova, Poland and the Baltics if left unchecked.
Your posts and updates are much more important. We don’t need you on the frontline!I would love to spoof the Russian propaganda on Twitter but am afraid they would destroy my computer.
I'm not computer literate enough to know if that is possible
It is a difficult decision. Take the strategic pullback, or the propaganda hit. And, for the Ukrainians this is an internal and external propaganda hit. They do not want to be seen as falling back, but if it prepares for future victory they need to do it.Came across this....a few troubling tidbits.
The Washington Post reported that US officials have privately signaled to Ukraine that Western security aid to Ukraine is finite, however. The Washington Post reported on February 13 that an anonymous US government official stated that US government officials are trying to “impress upon [Ukrainian officials] that [the US Government] can’t do anything and everything forever.”[3] The Washington Post also reported that US officials stated that recent Western aid packages for Ukraine “represent Kyiv’s best chance to decisively change the course of the war.“[4]
Western reporting indicates that there continue to be Western concerns about Ukraine’s determination to hold Bakhmut. The Washington Post also reported that US defense planners assess that Ukrainian forces are unable to simultaneously defend Bakhmut and launch a spring counteroffensive and have urged Ukraine to prioritize the spring counteroffensive over defending Bakhmut.[5] ISW continues to assess that Ukraine’s decision to defend Bakhmut is likely a strategically sound effort despite its costs for Ukraine.[6] Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut has forced the Kremlin to expend much of the Wagner Group as a force and commit high-value Russian airborne forces to sustain attritional advances.[7] Ukrainian defense of Bakhmut has degraded significant Russian forces and will likely set favorable conditions for a future Ukrainian counteroffensive. Had Russian troops taken Bakhmut without significant Ukrainian resistance they could have hoped to expand operations in ways that could have forced Ukraine to construct hasty defensive positions in less favorable terrain. Therefore, Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut and undertaking an effort to set conditions for a counteroffensive are likely complementary, not mutually exclusive, activities considering that Russian forces would have continued their offensive beyond Bakhmut had Ukraine yielded the city earlier.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reportedly recruiting convicts and mimicking the Wagner Group’s treatment of convicts as cannon fodder. CNN reported that the Russian MoD had been directly recruiting prisoners who deployed to Soledar, Donetsk Oblast, into formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) 2nd Army Corps in October 2022.[8] Convicts complained to CNN about gruesome abuses and noted that they suffered heavy casualties after they were ordered to storm Ukrainian defensive positions. CNN also obtained a recording from a deceased convict who feared that the Russian MoD would execute him after he survived an assault on Soledar, though this soldier was killed in action days later anyway. These convicts specified that the Russian MoD recruited them after Wagner Group initially overlooked them, and even accused Russian forces of conducting deliberate friendly fire against the convicts.
The Russian MoD’s decision to recruit prisoners is an indicator that the Kremlin seeks to exploit convicts for future human wave attacks in a similar fashion as the Wagner Group despite convicts’ limited combat effectiveness. Representative of the Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate Andriy Usov stated that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov are creating a convict cannon fodder reserve that they could directly control through the MoD’s own private military companies.[9] Russian MoD’s integration of these convict forces into the LNR formations also may suggest that Russian military commanders are attempting to avoid the restructuring of some of their conventional units to fit underprepared convicts. ISW had previously observed instances of Russian proxy armed formations receiving poor treatment from Russian conventional forces, and the Russian command may have sought to not further disturb unit morale by integrating convicts.[10]
The Russian MoD’s recruitment of prisoners in fall 2022 may also coincide with the intensifying criticism from Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin. Prigozhin began to publicly attack Russian military commanders in early October, and the Russian MoD’s intervention in his recruitment scheme may have ignited some of these grievances with the conventional Russian military and MoD bureaucracy.[11] A representative for the Russian prisoner group Gulagu.net also noted that many in Moscow began to fear Prigozhin and his unpredictable and ever-growing large “organized criminal group of mercenaries and killers.”[12] The Kremlin has since been distancing itself from Wagner—both rhetorically and by likely depriving Prigozhin of the ability to recruit and train convicts. The Ukrainian General Staff, for example, reported that Russian MoD began to use the Kadamovsky Training Ground in Rostov Oblast to train mobilized and volunteer personnel for a few weeks, while Wagner had not been able to train at the training ground since the beginning of 2023.[13]
Key Takeaways
- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signaled on February 14 that the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s 54 member states will continue to support Ukraine in the long run. The Washington Post reported that US officials have privately signaled to Ukraine that Western security aid to Ukraine is finite, however.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reportedly recruiting convicts and mimicking the Wagner Group’s treatment of convicts as cannon fodder.
- Russian forces continued offensive actions in the Kupyansk direction and along the Svatove-Kreminna line on February 14.
- Russian forces continued ground attacks around Bakhmut and along the western outskirts of Donetsk City on February 14.
- Russian forces did not conduct any confirmed ground attacks in western Donetsk Oblast or in Kherson, Mykolaiv, or western Zaporizhia oblasts on February 14.
- Russian ground forces on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia have been reduced to one-fifth of their initial strength numbers before the invasion of Ukraine, supporting ISW’s longtime assessment that the Kremlin is not concerned about a NATO conventional military threat against Russia.
- A Ukrainian and Tatar partisan group reportedly conducted an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on a car carrying two Russian military personnel and two Russian special service representatives in Nova Kakhovka on February 10.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko may meet on February 17.
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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signaled on February 14 that the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s 54 member states will continue to support Ukraine in the long run. Austin stated that the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (a coalition of 54 states sunderstandingwar.org
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So if we were to call Putin a bald dwarf who likes to f*ck sheep on here we would cause Putin to spend resources trying to counter those claims? Resources that he would otherwise use to attack Ukraine and kidnap their children?Apparently Putin doesn't like being called a bald dwarf. He has a team dedicated to combing the internet looking for criticism of Putin. He doesn't use the internet himself for fear of being spied on.
Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show
Russia's federal media watchdog has a special team tasked with hunting down insults about the president, a report says.
Putin is a bald dwarf who likes to f*ck sheep y’all.
I think people need to take a step back and look at Russian strategy in a different light.
They're pressing forward and taking horrific casualties. Seems like a losing strategy.
But if they can get the Ukrainians to deplete their stocks of munitions AND wear their combat units down in the process they can perhaps prevent the Ukrainians from launching a major counter offensive to take occupied territory back.
The Russians want this to go on as long as possible and wait for western support to crumble...I think that's probably in the cards at some point.
Totally understandable that the Ukrainians want to defend every inch of territory but it might be what the Russians are counting on....
Neither side likely to achieve aims in the war, says US general
Gen Mark Milley, chair of America’s joint chiefs of staff, has said neither Russia nor Ukraine is likely to achieve their military aims, and he believes the war will end at the negotiating table.The Pentagon is re-examining its weapons stockpiles and may need to boost military spending after seeing how quickly ammunition has been used during the war in Ukraine, Milley said in an interview with the Financial Times.
While he did not tie the depletion of stockpiles to his support for peace talks, Milley said he still believed the war would end at the negotiating table.
He said:
It would also be “very, very difficult for Ukraine this year to kick the Russians out of every inch of Russian-occupied Ukraine”, he said, adding:
On Tuesday, Milley said Russia has lost “strategically, operationally and tactically” during a joint news conference with the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin.
He said at the time:
Russia-Ukraine war will end in negotiations as neither side likely to achieve aims, says US general – live
Mark Milley says ‘almost impossible’ for Russia or Ukraine to achieve their objectives via military means
"France sends the first batch of AMX-10RC to Ukraine These armored vehicles are armed with a 105-mm rifled tank gun"
"I have already met the Prime Minister @RishiSunak at 10 Downing Street in London, and tomorrow I will talk to King Charles III. Great Britain strengthens the security of our region. It is an important ally in this difficult time."
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Oh my god, in a reversal of fortune, the RUSSIANS are trying to pull a Rocky on Drago.
Gravity claims another victim in Russia.
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Top Russian Military Official Dead After Fall From 16th Floor
Reuters/Alexey PavlishakA Russian military official in charge of financial provisions for the military district blamed for the Kremlin’s worst losses in Ukraine has been found dead after a nasty fall from a St. Petersburg high-rise.Marina Yankina, head of the department of financial provisions...
Explosions heard in Armyansk in northern Crimea — photo and video reports
An explosion was heard near Armyansk in northern Crimea near the Perekop Isthmus on Feb. 16, local independent Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported on Feb. 16.
Another update.
From comments -
"I read that the first has arrived, and teams are already trained"
"You wouldn’t necessarily want to use these against MBT’s, but there are going to be some additional very unhappy BMP / MT-LB crews in the near future. And they can’t touch the AMX because they are outranged by that 90mm canon."
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From comments -
"I read that the first has arrived, and teams are already trained"
"You wouldn’t necessarily want to use these against MBT’s, but there are going to be some additional very unhappy BMP / MT-LB crews in the near future. And they can’t touch the AMX because they are outranged by that 90mm canon."
https://twitter.com/twotime2equals4
https://twitter.com/twotime2equals4
At least one of those explosions we've posted about may have been a train station.
I'm not sure f*cking sheep is considered an insult in Russia...
A large, bi-partisan group of US senators are pushing to declare that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine. They are using the G word. Genocide.
Will this move in the House?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ukraine-genocide-label_n_63ee74c0e4b0808b91c58256
Will this move in the House?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ukraine-genocide-label_n_63ee74c0e4b0808b91c58256
In charge of financial provisions?Gravity claims another victim in Russia.
Top Russian Military Official Dead After Fall From 16th Floor
Reuters/Alexey PavlishakA Russian military official in charge of financial provisions for the military district blamed for the Kremlin’s worst losses in Ukraine has been found dead after a nasty fall from a St. Petersburg high-rise.Marina Yankina, head of the department of financial provisions...
If the house voted on it, it would pass. All the dems would likely vote for it and there are enough Republicans that would agree.
However there is a good chance that the Putin fans in the House stop McCarthy from even holding a vote on this.
Hard to believe he was once a respected journalist.
I was wondering if this was one of Putin's allies, compared to some who seem to have been killed for speaking out against the "special operation". Maybe this is to scare him and hurt their war effort.
More possible good news. (For the teaser-no NY Times subscription.)
From the late 40s or the 50s I think. (Not Ukraine related other being on Twitter.)
How did they portray the suicide of the German captain of the Graf Spee?
Tidying up loose ends? Not that Putin would need evidence if he decides to start whacking embezzlers.
