2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 1)

I tried to read the Russian text below it, but too blurry.

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One of the first applications of the Poisson distribution was to model the number of Prussian soldiers killed by horse kicks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120614034710/http://statprob.com/encyclopedia/LadislausVonBORTKIEWICZ.html

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The words are: своих не бросаем: We don’t give up on our people.

and from this

The Russian Defense Ministry explained in early March that the letter “Z” on military equipment stands for “Za pobedu” (“For victory”), while the “V” symbols stands for “Sila v Pravde” (“Strength is in the truth”) and “Zadacha budet vypolnena” (“The task will be completed”).

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Is Joe Rogan still being carried?

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Putin being such an absolute shit has had the effect of making almost everyone else in the world look better by comparison

EXCEPTIONS: Mitch McConnell, the Myanmar junta, etc.

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This may be the floofiest and most powerful propaganda ever deployed:

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Huh, I learned a new word

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I used to have a tank brigade but now I have lost several
My fresh assaults are faltering with battleplans extemporal
I can’t recover vehicles but farmers in a tractor can
It’s all becoming rather reminiscent of Afghanistan

My ordnance is the best but only half my missiles make it there
I would have thought by now that we would be controllers of the air
But at the rate the snipers work my time here is ephemeral
I am the very model of a Russian Major General

(I’m not posting this to make light of the death and suffering, but as a breather from the heavy news… and let’s face it, that’s some decently-written parody.)

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I want some really knowledgeable analysts doing a what if, Randall Munroe Style, for that.

What if everything is going according to plan from the Russian perspective?

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They seem to be polishing that turd

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“We have completed the first phase of the operation, fucking around. We will now be intensifying our focus towards finding out.”

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