The Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 Viewer)

[Cormcolash]

That was me, I've been following him for a while. He's quite sick sadly, so his posts are a bit variable in frequency.
Vlad emphasized the disenfranchisement of a large section of the population, "Putin deals with The Politics, we deal with our lives.". But I think there's also Make Russia Great Again happening alongside that, which Putin is trying to feed into. Along with "Gay people are terrible", which is a standard goto.

Yeah, I think this is a pretty good summary. Like what you just said is all the exact same stuff that is going on in USA, except over there they have the illusion of pretending to have different leaders every 4 years that might try and change things - basically put Trump back in charge and let him change election laws and put his own people in charge of the court system (which he already did), the military, the police etc and in like 10 years you get Russia.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Really top notch stuff here.
Thanks


Will watch the other one when I'm less tired.

I’m reading Chekhov again and still struck by how special the Russians were when it came to understanding the human condition; like as much as any society ever has.
And then the cataclysm of the Revolution and Stalinism where thought itself was policed by death, all leading to where we are now – a society that cannot be participated in by its citizens, and there is no objective truth to be had within its walls.
The whole thing looks broken beyond repair.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Speaking of the horrors of Soviet Russia, great podcast series on Soviet Georgia here, would recommend.

Reimagining Soviet Georgia • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

We are a multigenerational, multilingual, Tbilisi based collective. Our goal is to reexamine and rearticulate the history of Soviet Georgia by producing and supporting critical research, including oral and written histories, and a podcast for both Georgian and English speaking audiences.

anchor.fm

https://twitter.com/ReimaginingG

content kinda varies from "I don't know who any of these people are" to interesting discussions on day to day life in a post-soviet country.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Suppose I should post this in here, it's only really made minor ripples in the news

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

Not bad for a man in his 80s!

Being denied by the US of course, it's not like they could really confirm it though.

 

[pete]

Suppose I should post this in here, it's only really made minor ripples in the news

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

Not bad for a man in his 80s!

Being denied by the US of course, it's not like they could really confirm it though.

I only heard about it because of the rebuttals

 

[Cormcolash]

I only heard about it because of the rebuttals

Good old Barbara Streisland

 

[Deadmanposting]

The Russians have their own specialist undersea demo guys. Probably the Chinese too.
Makes way more sense for the US to do this than the idea that the Russians would do it. I mean they are perfectly capable of shooting off their own dick, but harder to see it in this case.

Another catastrophic strategic error by Putin - he had the US beaten into submission on this. They admitted defeat. Had the Germans fully on board and ... well we all know what happened.

Horrible environmental hazard caused by the US.
Not sure how this plays as a welcome-to-Nato message to the Swedes. Presumably not well.

But if everyone is wrong here, is this not a net win for the leave-it-in-the-ground types? Fewer pipelines, less extraction? Or at least more likely to keep Germany honest on its reorientation toward renewables.
Truly grasping for a silver lining here. Or in anything to do with this entire horrific year.

 

[flashback]

Speaking of the horrors of Soviet Russia, great podcast series on Soviet Georgia here, would recommend.

Reimagining Soviet Georgia • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

We are a multigenerational, multilingual, Tbilisi based collective. Our goal is to reexamine and rearticulate the history of Soviet Georgia by producing and supporting critical research, including oral and written histories, and a podcast for both Georgian and English speaking audiences.

anchor.fm

https://twitter.com/ReimaginingG

content kinda varies from "I don't know who any of these people are" to interesting discussions on day to day life in a post-soviet country.

these seem very interesting - thanks @Lili Marlene


---well, I'm only starting into the second one, but, like... so far so good!

 

[Cormcolash]

The Russians have their own specialist undersea demo guys. Probably the Chinese too.
Makes way more sense for the US to do this than the idea that the Russians would do it. I mean they are perfectly capable of shooting off their own dick, but harder to see it in this case.

Another catastrophic strategic error by Putin - he had the US beaten into submission on this. They admitted defeat. Had the Germans fully on board and ... well we all know what happened.

Horrible environmental hazard caused by the US.
Not sure how this plays as a welcome-to-Nato message to the Swedes. Presumably not well.

But if everyone is wrong here, is this not a net win for the leave-it-in-the-ground types? Fewer pipelines, less extraction? Or at least more likely to keep Germany honest on its reorientation toward renewables.
Truly grasping for a silver lining here. Or in anything to do with this entire horrific year.

Kind of looks like the big losers on this particular thing are poor people in European countries that have been hit with rocketing heating bills. I don't really think Nord Stream 2 would have put less emphasis on the need to shift to renewables anyway, but it definitely would have kept gas bills cheaper.

 

[Lili Marlene]

these seem very interesting - thanks @Lili Marlene


---well, I'm only starting into the second one, but, like... so far so good!

Glad you're liking it! I stumbled across it somewhere completely random.

Some of the episodes are about historical people I've never heard of and a bit beyond me but there's lots of interesting stuff in there. There's a fascinating episode about the radically different approaches to medicine with doctors trying to negotiate the gap between their training in Soviet times and the western approaches they have to take on in the 90s.

I've ended up with another huge booklist from it.

 

[GO]

Just watched Ep.1 of Putin VS the West . Great TV

 

[Deadmanposting]

Just watched Ep.1 of Putin VS the West . Great TV

oh I am all in on this

nice one

 

[taubstumm]

Emmanuel Todd was the guy who accurately predicted the specifics of the fall of the soviet union back in the mid-80s... he says we’re already in world war 3. worth a read.

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if anyone’s interested at all in Emmanuel Todd’s perspective on all of this, he just did a long interview with a big french youtube channel, you can watch it all with english subtitles

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[pete]

Russkaja Cancelled - DME Promotions

Sadly the Russkaja show in April is cancelled. Please see band statement below. Refunds will be issued from your point of purchase. Hey there, the band RUSSKAJA has ultimately decided to quit with the band. This is after 18 years very sad news of course, but the ongoing war in Ukraine that was...

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[Deadmanposting]

Russkaja Cancelled - DME Promotions

Sadly the Russkaja show in April is cancelled. Please see band statement below. Refunds will be issued from your point of purchase. Hey there, the band RUSSKAJA has ultimately decided to quit with the band. This is after 18 years very sad news of course, but the ongoing war in Ukraine that was...

dme-promotions.com

They cancelled themselves?

Huh

We hope that all fans, promoters & partners can understand the hell we’re going through taking our own baby to the grave after all these years. As a farewell gift we wanna give you our new album TURBO POLKA PARTY.

Peace RUSSKAJA

Nice

 

[Cormcolash]

Yeah I've a class Ivan Drago hoodie that I can't really wear these days too

 

[pete]

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[Deadmanposting]

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I mean, it's obviously beyond a joke at this point
Prigozhin is on Telegram on the regular calling for all the actual military leaders to be called to account" - by which he means killed

As incredible as it is, Russia is getting worse

 

[Deadmanposting]

Russia having an absolute nightmare in Vuhledar
Losing tanks and armor. Men getting slaughtered. And the ones that survive are called deserters.

Russia has never cared how many men it loses. It's barbaric, but it has worked for them at times. Says a lot about a country though.

 

[seanc]

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From that thread:

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