Russian hackers probing U.S. energy companies' networks, FBI warns
The alert to industry is dated days before President Joe Biden said publicly that cyberattacks from Russia are "coming."
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Russia launched hypersonic missiles due to a low stockpile, sources say
The leading theory in Western assessments of the hypersonic missiles attack is that Russia's number of precision-guided munitions are dwindling fast.
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The various groups of Russians I have run into while on vacation in Cuba were pretty much all demanding, loud, obnoxious and seriously unfriendly if their women were around, but fairly genial if they were wife-less. Some very interesting tattoos with lots of multi pointed stars, daggers and skulls etc but the weirdest were the eyes. They looked like women's eyes but only the bit you would see through a veil like a naquib. The groups I have run into in the bush while canoeing in Canuckistan were quite a bit more open and engaging. Same sort of tattoos though, once you see a few set of those eyes - they stay with you.
to be fair, don't you get that from pretty much everybody?!?!
was going to say... I've only been to a resort vacation in Cuba once, but pretty much all the guests there acted that way. Quebecers and Albertans, Russians, Italians. Made me sick to my stomach. There were also other native Spanish speakers (Colombians and Venezuelans as I recall), who were a bit condescending, but still generally polite. I wonder if that's not more a representation of those stupid all-inclusive resort settings. People feel entitled when they've paid for an-inclusive, and so act that way.
General, non-resort travelling has mostly led to agreeable encounters for me.
No idea about the tattoos though. Would be curious to know what that's all about?
not at all, they're just the ones I bitch aboutto be fair, don't you get that from pretty much everybody?!?!
So now the Russians are stooping to a new low.
The current tactics are going to a town or village with no or little military presence, targeting operational hospitals, occupied apartment buildings and residential structures, then ambushing the ambulances, Fire and public service entities responding to the fires and medical calls.
Makes me furious
The current tactics are going to a town or village with no or little military presence, targeting operational hospitals, occupied apartment buildings and residential structures, then ambushing the ambulances, Fire and public service entities responding to the fires and medical calls.
Makes me furious
20% casualties on the Russian side
Oh darn
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Oh darn
NATO: Up to 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Taken Prisoner or Missing in Ukraine
NATO says that up to 40,000 Russian troops have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or are missing in Ukraine, said a senior military official from the alliance. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization calculates the figure based on information provided by Ukrainian authorities and information obta
Unfortunately, they will brutally retaliate against civilians.
A Lenin quote from the video I posted earlier. 'You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw'
Interestingly this is a similar tactic that the Germans used during the battle of Britain. At the begining they were engaging military targets and were taking heavy losses. So they switched to bombing cities thinking they could get the Brits to surrender. First they were wrong about the Brits surrendering but it also let the British forces to remain intact allowing them to continuing to fight. That seems to be what is happening in Ukraine. In addition these people aren't going to quit. Their whole country can be destroyed and they will keep fighting out of sheer spite and hatred.
What is infuriating is that I think a lot of western countries (cough germany cough) are more than happy to just arm Ukraine so they can destroy the Russian army while the western countries suffer little and Ukraine is left in ashes.
What's infuriating is that the Germans are still happily trading with the russians, funding the war and lessening the impacts of the economic sanctions.
Russians will be russians, steppe hordes on the doorstep of western civilization, forever hurt by the scorn they receive for their crudeness, forever tortured by the gap between their ambitions and capabilities.
No NATO member will get directly involved, but have you heard about this crazy idea of not transferring 200M Euros a day to Russia?! Maybe Putin’s demand of payment in Rubles will finally get the ball moving towards an embargo.
ha yea i saw about the rubles only payment thing. supposedly they are out of cash reserves in other currencies?
As most of their foreign currency reserves are frozen that’s pretty likely, but I think the main motivation on Russia’s side is making the west undercut their own sanctions by buying currency from Russia’s central bank, which is the only way to get substantial amounts of Rubles.
Hard to say if this will shake things loose, I‘m still pessimistic on an embargo in the near future, as it might lead to the unimaginable horrors of a recession in Europe.
Link for shirt?
I wouldn't buy from a non-charity related source, but random searching and this one is great.
Good read
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Alexander Vindman on the invasion of Ukraine, Putin and the dangers ahead
Russia's war on the country of his birth is "surreal, it's disturbing. It's disheartening on multiple levels," says retired U.S. Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman.
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Good read
Alexander Vindman on the invasion of Ukraine, Putin and the dangers ahead
Russia's war on the country of his birth is "surreal, it's disturbing. It's disheartening on multiple levels," says retired U.S. Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman.
That's a strange way to say "HuNtEr BiDeNs LaPTop!".
A mysterious satellite hack has victims far beyond Ukraine
The biggest hack since Russia’s war began knocked thousands of people offline.
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Inside massacre of civilian evacuees outside Kyiv
STOYANKA-2, Kyiv Oblast – In the village of Stoyanka-2 outside Kyiv, a half-dozen cars line the road, riddled with holes, their bodywork mangled by bullets and an explosion. Their windows, bearing handwritten Ukrainian signs saying “Children” are perforated or shattered. The suitcases inside...
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Fucking animals.Inside massacre of civilian evacuees outside Kyiv
STOYANKA-2, Kyiv Oblast – In the village of Stoyanka-2 outside Kyiv, a half-dozen cars line the road, riddled with holes, their bodywork mangled by bullets and an explosion. Their windows, bearing handwritten Ukrainian signs saying “Children” are perforated or shattered. The suitcases inside...
20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and we had been documenting its siege by Russian troops for more than two weeks.
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FBI trolls Russian embassy with geotargeted ads for disgruntled spies
“Speak plainly… we are ready to listen.”…
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its cool guys
the mukinz showed up
the mukinz showed up
This is a very interesting interview about Putin with a Bulgarian political scientist
Ivan Krastev on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: "Putin Lives in Historic Analogies and Metaphors" - DER SPIEGEL
Ivan Krastev on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: "Putin Lives in Historic Analogies and Metaphors" - DER SPIEGEL
This would seem like an incredible strategic victory. But I think it is actually part of the plan. Russian generals die quickly under Putin. No general can become powerful enough to plan a coup.
I think it's just a combination of russian hubris, neglect and values. Nas mnogo.
Hopefully the result of sabotage.
I was surprised to see a video of Ukranians breaking bottles of booze, I guess it has been banned. Probably a good idea but it would be better to let the stuff get captured. Guessing fighting the drunk and hungover would be esier. Even better if just poisoned.
In WWII the British made a batch of canned goods where every tenth or so can was contaminated with an extremely powerful laxatives. Enough to make a bunch of them sick, but not enough for them to realize it was the food that was causing it.
In other breaking news, Ukrainian staff at Chernobyl no longer allowed to make cups of tea for their Russian prison guards.