12/11/2022 0 Comments Der tag nach roswell pdf to jpg![]() Sat-phones are the one communications network that Moscow can't block, trace or tap (I'm not sure how easy it is to home in on one). If Lenin focussed on the telegraph station, Mr Putin's generals would be as concerned by TikTok.Īssuming the unavailability of sat-phones is due to everyone trying to get one, rather than some kind of interdict, I would expect that the military in particular will have stocked up on them. In the event of a bloody war, internet outages would be particularly helpful for the Kremlin, preventing the dissemination of troop movements and atrocities. Satellite phones have been unavailable for purchase in Ukraine since the start of the year. This article from The Economist includes one snippet: So the growth of a partisan resistance seems quite probable. So will we see a similar quagmire in Ukraine? I don't know for certain how the Ukrainian countryside regards Russia (as opposed to the urban elite), but foreign troops are never popular and I imagine a lot of people have heard stories of the Holodomor from grandparents. He may be able to take Kyiv, but as America found out in Iraq that isn't necessarily Mission Accomplished. Therefore the prime objective of Ukraine will be to deny him that. Assuming they are not blind idiots, they have to have considered the longer game once Kyiv falls. I find it unlikely that Ukraine's generals expected to repel a serious invasion. ![]() )Īnyway, over to you for discussion, with one ground rule: do not report on current Ukrainian troop or defensive positions or anything else that might get people killed, otherwise you will get an immediate red card (permaban). ![]() Some "store of value", huh? (Gold is heading for the stratosphere, as usual in time of war. Oh, and both the Russian stock market and BitCoin both fell off a cliff (BtC is down nearly 10% in the past 24 hours). Hates the LGBTQ+, UK news outlet Pink News reports Russia plotting to kill LGBT+ Ukrainians after invasion (according to an unnamed US source, so treat with caution-might be disinformation). (Esoteric fascist neoreactionary philosopher.) I'm also going to note that Putin's politics seems to echo a bunch of ethnonationalist tropes from Aleksandr Dugin, a deeply dangerous ideologue who drank the Kool Aid Julius Evola was passing around. He's been the Russian Federation's Prime Minister or President for 23 years, and high office combined with executive power tends to drive office-holders completely out of touch with external reality in about a decade. Well, yes: Vladimir Putin is 69 and rumours last year suggested he'd been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. ![]() Russia invades Ukraine need I say any more? ![]()
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