Mamoulian War

Part from an interview with Russian/Russian Speaking Economist Igor Lipsits, currently living in Lithuania.

You are correct about the healthy dose of skepticism, that should be applied to both sides. The reason, that I have shared the last video of Russian soldier claiming big losses, is that I have seen in the last week more than a few confirmed Russian milbloggers, that have been complaining about serious loses at the Kharkiv direction, which have used words, that have been last used by Prigozhin. Can we say with 100% sure, if he was really Russian soldier? Most likely not, but in context to the articles/blogs/tweets which I went through, and the UA side being able to reclaim some previously occupied areas, I have considered the video plausible enough to describe what’s going on in Kharkiv direction.

According to Ukrainian officials many of these videos has been “crafted” by Russia as a PSYOPS to undermine the UA efforts to defends itself 🤷‍♂️ which is pretty much plausible, taking into account their history of involvement in Ukraine 🤷‍♂️ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/2/7458820/

That one has been confirmed as a first hit by HIMARS in Russia.

The situation is different today for Russia as well. They are not under lend lease from USA, so even if the manpower does not run dry, artillery and tanks will run low sooner or later. There is no way, that Russia can sustain losing 20-50 artillery and 10-25 tanks each day in the long term. Yes they are on war economy for a long time already, but there is no chance for them to build 1000 new artillery and 500 new tanks a month, when they are already lacking qualified workforce. It is now much easier to flee Russia now, than half century ago. 🤷‍♂️

Results of Kharkiv offensive in the words of Russian serviceman.

Afaik for SU-34s has been shown some evidence. Most of them have been destroyed directly on the airports though. And they stopped reporting on them after alleged destruction of two Patriot Launchers in Doneck Oblast. And yes, Axe is correct, the late claimed downing of SU-25s lacks footage. Anyway, back to the myth of Ghost of Kyiv:

Yeah, you are correct. That was propaganda for people, who can use their brains once in a while, but sometimes are unable to overcome through their emotion, and because of that, they were wishing, that it would be true (in the West). In Russia, this was a propaganda, which tried to sew a little bit of fear into the pilots of larger country, which are committing war crimes on daily bases, and for some time it worked.

As far as I understand, if the money they get are from Russia, they do not need to be “marked” as a Foreign Agent. It’s mind bogling, that some people are still in favour of Russian paid parties, after what they suffered through in 2008.

Well propaganda for Russian simps is very different than propaganda for people, who can use their brains once in a while, but still can be influenced by nice words and “cute” face. Even not the smartest string pullers in Russia know, that propaganda targeted to flatearthers does not work on average Joe. Anything still released in the Russia in the social space, is controlled by the state, that’s a fact. They have also annected a law last year, that if some Russian citizen criticizes Russia on social media, and lives outside Russia, It is forbidden for Russian companies to sponsor them, which is punished by heavy fines. And what do you think what happens, when influencers’ income starts to get dry? They usually try to find the easiest way, how to get it back. And that is to appease whoever holds the gates to the flow of money 🤷‍♂️

You should not, as FSB has employed loads of young “influencers” and not only in Russia, who are payed to talk positively about Russia. These are aimed especially at Latin American, African and Asian countries. But not exclusively.

Trump joined the party as well with his latest 180 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/29/7458155/

I am doing exactly the same. Although sometimes, I am inclined to spent some extra dimes sooner than later, as last time, because I wanted to much to start racing in Assetto Corsa Competizione. If I would stay with RPGs as before finding that game, I would not need new PC for few more years 😂

Go for the ass Boo, GO FOR THE ASS!!

That’s to much conservative option for the current year audience 🤷‍♂️

Bioware has a pretty high hurdle now to overcome. Trying to beat Larian's Bear "romance" will be definitely challenging 🙈

Because they “want” a ceasefire so badly 🤷‍♂️

It might or not. We'll see how they will handle them. The thing is, they will be use some longer range munition with them, which is still incompatible with SU-25s, which they are currently using. The biggest thing might really be maintaining No Fly Zone over most of the Ukraine, as the current most dangerous thing Russia has, according to many soldiers directly from battlefield, are their FAB glide bombs. PVO = Air defense in Czech or Slovak language, is really the biggest enemy for these F16s, but you have probably seen, that in the last two weeks, UA used dozens of newly acquired ATACMS to obliterate a big chunk of them all around Crimea and Donbas.

It was only few days ago, when he was dismissing by Macron proposed olympic ceasefire, as ridiculous. So as I see it, if he asks for ceasefire now, it’s because he need to replenish some of the completely exhausted battalions, before UA gets the first F16s, which are allowed to hit targets in Russia, and he feels, he might lose conquered areas 🤷‍♂️

W40K - Gladius - Relics of War in a giveaway on GOG. To bad, it has billion of DLCs, which cost arm and leg 😂 https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_40000_gladius_relics_of_war

So far the weakest goodie bag by GOG. But free is free 😅

W40K Mechanicus II has been announced. No GOG for now

Only few idiots have always sparked the hate. I am half Hungarian as well with very Hungarian surname, and I live in the area, where there is a lot of hate against immigrants (which are actually almost non-existent here 😄 ) And IIRC last time, I have experienced the hate against my “bloodline” was maybe 30-35 years ago. Currently the mostly visible hate against diverse people here, is hate against gypsies and gays. On the other hand, lesbians are the most sought for term at various channels which offer “documentary” entertainment 🤷‍♂️

Well, if I want to go deep into the conspiracy hole, there is a scenario, where the PM and friends staged this. PM published after his candidate won president elections, that someone backed by the opposition is planning to kill someone from coalition. During the incident his bodyguards made like billion of mistakes, so there is that crazy theory, that the old guy just forgot, that he has to shoot in the air. The reason for this, that like few minutes after the attempt, his interview with police has been leaked together with medical records of PM (which is strictly against the law). It was leaked by someone from the police. There the pro-russian guy has stated, that he does not like the steps made by the pro-russian PM, to change the country into authoritarian state. And the first interview with the other guys from the party, immediately have said, that this incident was in making since the results of presidential elections. And almost immediatelly our social media space in country has been infested by extremely high russian troll farm bots activity. 🤷‍♂️

His book is called Efata. Published in 2015.