"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

We're in ur Zoom callz, spottin' yur traitorz.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/ukraine-hacks-video-call-between-moscow

When you have pissed off the Canadians, you are the dick, or you are opposing them in hockey.

Oh, well, that makes it okay then.

Putin promised not to kill Zelensky, former Israeli prime minister Bennett says

Jesus, fuck! Of all the folks you'd think could fucking learn from goddamned history, it'd be the Israelis, but obviously fucking not! In what universe does this sound good? It doesn't even need to be mentioned if you think that Putin's a liar.

Nope, up to 200k dead and wounded.

Something tells me an actual member of Ukraine Security Services would not have announced themselves, so it was probably a troll.

Unless, of course, they figured there was an approximately 0% chance of catching any of the people anyway so engaging in a little mild psyops was worth the cost of tipping their hand.

I'm not entirely sure what's going on with this clip. It appears to show (and I'm not making this up) Nancy Sinatra running with a Molotov cocktail, and then the camera pans over to nearby armored vehicles that promptly explode a few seconds later.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1622632497723985920?s=20

Ex-Pink Floyd partner brands Roger Waters antisemitic, lip-synching Putin apologist

Trench warfare in the age of drones.

Poland's ordering a bunch of military gear from the US and South Korea.

If you see a downed drone, what do you do? Well, if you're a Russian soldier, you poke it with a stick. You won't believe what happens next! (Actually, you probably will.)

Starlink hobbles Ukrainian military access.

https://twitter.com/christopherjm/status/1623582057476620289?s=46&t=FM3WKUkTLgOD_zKhdJUhGA

Goddamn. You drive where the other tracks are because that means there aren't any mines there.

The Keystone Kops would've fared better than these clowns.




https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1623532179220500480?s=20&t=dNJdfNDpOavXGdMuWY2ISQ

Putin’s given her a medal.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1624369309542764544?s=46&t=PyZoHgIGaSD-d8kKjQwE4g

In watching the videos of these drone drops:
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1624471483463475203?s=20

I couldn't help but be reminded of this:

Are there cracks starting to show in Russia? https://twitter.com/thestudyofwar/status/1624762866996768768?s=46&t=u9CKMWxztBgwwkV_v8NsLg

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...ince-start-of-war_uk_63e89c71e4b0808b91c0e7a7

https://twitter.com/jayinkyiv/status/1624674192808353793?s=46&t=KEMvWIKwMBCA3NmQgsjXYw

This is damned peculiar. You're in the midst of a war that has everyone shitting their pants that it might go global (this is despite the fact that much of the rest of the world is pouring weapons into Ukraine, so it is fucking global at this point) and both your military gear and personnel are getting trashed at rates not seen since at least WWII, if not WWI. What do you do? You scrap the last of your submarines that are closely tied to your nuclear weapons strategy.

This raises the question: If you're worried that the conflict might go nuclear, why scrap a nuke sub? Is it because the thing is just a gigantic piece of shit that it's useless at even firing missiles while in port? Would the metals in it be of more use in stuff you're using on the battlefield now than in the sub? Given that it takes years to scrap such a thing and have its materials reused, it's hardly going to make a difference in the war.

Denmark sends a bunch of gear to Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/newvoiceukraine/status/1625046872153808896?s=46&t=ZGhm6R71vaIHkS84QX2hSA

Sounds like they were already being decommissioned and weren't needed.

Nuclear war isn't a numbers game where having more means you win, and even with these submarines Russia still has plenty of ways to launch nukes.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu warns her people about a planned Russian coup attempt. Moldova was once a Soviet province under direct Soviet rule, and Putin has long stated his desires to reincorporate it, including a previous coup attempt that was outed prior to its commencement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...ns-russian-plot-topple-leadership-2023-02-13/

They've been replaced by the Borei class. The Borei is faster, smaller, requires fewer crew, and in theory is more stealthy.

We'll see if it actually has anywhere near the capabilities claimed. It's definitely not the equal of the Western subs, even if all that is true.

So the shadow war rages on:

#Russia: Major-General Vladimir Makarov, former deputy chief of the Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Countering Extremism was found dead with a gunshot to the head from a rifle in #Moscow. Kremlin reports it was 'suicide.' He was fired by Putin in January 2023.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1625203430427099136

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...reported-have-killed-himself-tass-2023-02-13/

It's like watching all those Trump cabinet members who were like "duhhrr, Trump won't screw ME over! I'm special and magic! ".
Except in Russia, and with death.

The US and four other countries have told their citizens to GTFO of Russia.

https://twitter.com/davidcayj/status/1625555754492067841?s=46&t=IgDnfXGvqO6DeZCyESh8rg

Pretty sure they did this already, like last February. Do they need to just renew it every year?

MAGAs might be going over to fight on the Russian side, and we have to pretend to care, cuz....diplomacy?

Russia's apparently targeting migrant workers and convicts from Central Asia to fight for them, so it could be fears that they'll expand to economic migrants in general?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64582985

Europe debates more sanctions for Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...3-02-15/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter