Russia Surrounded

[Mr. Tea]

Russian forces destroy own tank, pass it off as Ukrainian loss

Pro-Kremlin Telegram news channels posted on Aug. 22 a drone video allegedly showing a

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[IdleRich]

Turns out it wasn't Putin after all.

The Kremlin said on Friday that western suggestions that the Wagner group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had been killed on its orders were an “absolute lie”, and it declined to definitively confirm his death, citing the need to wait for test results.

In a call with reporters, the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said: “There is now a great deal of speculation surrounding this plane crash and the tragic deaths of the plane’s passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin. Of course, in the west, all this speculation is presented from a well-known angle.

“All of this is an absolute lie, and here, when covering this issue, it is necessary to base yourself on facts. There are not many facts yet. They need to be established in the course of investigative actions.”

That's good enough for me.

 

[Mr. Tea]

It's looking like Gollum 0 - 1 Dobby.

 

[Slothrop]

Turns out it wasn't Putin after all.

"I'm shocked at the suggestion that we blew up the plane to kill Prigozhin. When we want to bump people off we do cool shit like sticking polonium in their tea, trying to pin this sort of amateur-hour stuff on us is frankly offensive."

 

[IdleRich]

If you can't believe Kremlin press releases what can you believe?

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[mixed_biscuits]

As I expected the conflict has degenerated into pure kitsch.

 

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As I expected the conflict has degenerated into pure kitsch.

It started with kitsch, if you consider Putin's essay 'On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians' as the founding document of the war.

 

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Yeah, we all read it.

 

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Yeah, we all read it.

Are you malfunctioning again?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, we all read it.

I read it in the original Russian, marked up the pdf to indicate some factual and grammatical errors, and emailed it back to him.

 

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Ignoramuses.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Don't the Ukrainians appeal to their Slavic brotherhood with the Russians in attempting to discourage the latter from attacking?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Ignoramuses.

Yeah, for a native speaker his grasp of the subjunctive mood is surprisingly poor.

 

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Look, if you haven't read it, you really should. It is a key document in the rise of the new ethnonationalism. It's as important, in its own way, as the 1986 Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

 

[Clinamenic]

But if his syntax is poor, how important can it really be?

 

[...]

Et tu, Stan?

 

[sufi]

Adam Curtis Talks to Jacobin About Russia, Oligarchs, and the Fall of the USSR

Acclaimed filmmaker Adam Curtis talks to us about his latest film, Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, the fall of the Soviet Union and the war in Ukraine, and the massive upward transfer of wealth to a tiny elite in both the East and West.

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As one Russian journalist said to me, London now does feel a bit like Moscow in 1988.

 

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As one Russian journalist said to me, London now does feel a bit like Moscow in 1988.

Rudewhy reprimanded me for suggesting that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The T-72B3, a product of Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, is one of Russia’s newer tanks. And unlike, say, the T-64BV, the T-80U or the T-72AMT, Ukrainian industry doesn’t have much experience with the type.


So when a Ukrainian tanker with the callsign “Kochevnik” ran into problems with his captured Russian T-72B3—problems local expertise couldn’t immediately solve—he called Uralvagonzavod tech support.

And incredibly, the help line actually helped.

A Ukrainian Officer’s Captured Russian Tank Wasn’t Working. So He Called Tech Support—In Russia.

When a Ukrainian tanker with the callsign 'Kochevnik' ran into problems with his captured Russian T-72B3, he called Uralvagonzavod tech support in Russia.

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