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A 🧵 about how I got blocked by @kevinrothrock, managing editor of @meduza_en on not 1 but 2 social media platforms. This will be a familiar tale for other #fellas in the #Fediverse, but isn't just a story of a #NAFO#ShibaInu piling on someone for an unfortunate post.
Rather I'm sharing this as a lesson for other folks who are here to follow #news about #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine. This isn't an attack on Kevin, even if I say some mean things about him, but about bias expertise & trust 1/n
The 2 brother from The United States deliver a very entertaining coverage of the news of the war in Ukraine. In Addition to that: Every Sunday is fundraiser day, where the viewers can donate to support various NGOs that operate in Ukraine.
#Russia is now at peak #military-industrial capacity, practically zero unemployment, pay hikes because not enough labour force to man the weapons factories. 35% of government spending go to military. 7.1% of GDP. All of it to go up in smoke in #Ukraine
However, if we look at the numbers, this output only matches current EU military spending. Countries which are on avg spending less than 2% on it currently.
Tell me again how Ukraine supported only by Europe can’t possibly win?
Aid bill for Ukraine finally passes, with the all-important 155mm cannon shells & long-range weapons & continuation plan. Because this will take a while.
Finally, we can expect Ukraine to be able to hit Russia on an equal footing, not outgunned 5-to-1 and banned from hitting the actual supplies far outside Ukrainian borders.
That’s going to change a lot of things.
Slava Ukraïni!
After 3.5 months where #Ukraine had the initiative, now it is #Russia which is more actively attacking, while Ukrainian forces try to not lose territory.
With winter fastly approaching, it is highly likely that Russia will get to hold the acquired territories undisturbed at least until May 2024.
Why are maritime drones so hard to beat?
by @anderspuck 08:28
Russia has fired the navy chief because the Black Sea Fleet continues to lose warships
Cmdr. Nielsen explains why maritime drones are such a difficult challenge not only for Russia but also for other navies
🇩🇰 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #AndersPuckNielsen is a military analyst and Navy Commander at the Royal Danish Defence College. He studies #Russia's military since long before the 2022 invasion
Article in Finnish, but very important in current #russia conflict
Kreml uses ”traditional Russian heritage” as reasons to setup paramilitary training abroad. These ”cossacks” are not ethnic #cossacks, but are paid by Russian state to conduct training with live weapons as ”heritage”
Of these Kremlin-funded cossacks around the world, 27000 have already fought in #ukraine
Needless to say, Cossacks are not originally Russian either, but from south Ukraine 🇺🇦
#NAFO - have a look at the hashtags of this account in posts related to Poland and the protests at the border: BoycottPolishGoods, BoycottPolishBusinesses, BurnPolishTractors, PolandIsNotAFriend, PunchAPolishFarmer etc. The person running it is doing everything they can to make the situation worse. The articles they link usually objectively report the facts, but they add inflammatory commentary including things that were not in the linked articles.
I really had a higher opinion of #NAFO than to believe the guys who ride so hard for #Ukraine could have understood that #Israel is the occupying force and Zelenskyy is Jewish and requires American money to win their proxy war so you can make your own mind up about it.
Holocaust Memorial Day is observed in the spring, based on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and has been since shortly after the Holocaust; the US began observing that day as well in the 1970s. The international day, on the day of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz (yesterday), is a post-Cold War construct, aiming to integrate Russia's narrative and ignore that the USSR denied that the Holocaust targeted Jews; the countries that observe it didn't observe any day before the 1990s. Don't do it. #NAFO