It seems to me that he has miscalculated. He may have thought, as Hitler did about the Soviet Union. "We have only to kick in the door,” Hitler said, “and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.” That didn’t happen. Kyiv resisted and the Ukrainian government didn’t run away. This is not good for Russia, quite the opposite. He could just have annexed the separatist regions, but that was not enough for his hubris. Ukraine was going to submit and NATO was going to disband. Nope!
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I thought there was always one of these in the air, at a given time. Maybe that was in days of yore? I remember one of these doing touch-and-go landings at AUS one day, although that was around 2000, 2001.
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“We’re out of funeral wreaths and lillies”
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Could he? I haven’t heard anything about Ukraine being willing to just give them up without a fight.
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Hard LOL. Yeah, maybe Vlad really has lost contact with reality.
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Good thread about that stalled Russian Army column.
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Day 10 was always supposed to be the red letter day. If Ukraine could hold out that long, Russia would run out of fuel, food and ammunition and the tide starts to turn. That is tomorrow. How does Putin react if things go sideways in a big way? I am thinking we’re going to find out.
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The Russians could have moved up to the line of control and formally annexed those areas. If Ukraine reacted, it would have been seen as the aggressor. Another couple of feathers for Putin’s cap.
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Wohoo. We once used the imagemagick library in our app, but when we looked at our users actually use, we ditched it and wrote the few needed routines ourselves.
Also, so what if it breaks? You don’t tell web services keep the source of modules and deploy from that?
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yeah, and it’s not clear the world would have done much other than tut tut at him. there wasn’t much push back against the last invasion certainly
i think he could have taken ukraine bit by bit if he’d been more patient. ( which doesn’t speak all that well for international politics mind you )
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it’s just an example. not the actual linchpin of the internet, just one of the very random things that makes stuff work. see also: log4j
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Yeah, ICANN made it clear from day 1 that they were about money, extremely radical Intellectual Property rights, and making sure the engineers who built and maintain the damn thing have no say in policy.
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There’s a serious problem with racist border guards, but most of the reports I’ve seen are about people of colour getting delayed (often by days) when they try to escape Ukraine because the guards are giving priority to white Ukrainians.
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And as Ukrainian border guards stop Black Africans from exiting Ukraine. The absurdity is stunning.
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The recent attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had a bit of fascinating propaganda about it. On February 28 Russia claimed it had taken control of the plant - it was announced through official channels, and dutifully reported by western news. This was met with confusion from the Ukrainian side, because the closest Russian troop deployments were still tens of kilometers away, none had entered the town of Enerhodar, and the plant was still working normally as part of the Ukrainian power grid. When Russians finally did move in and nearly cause a nuclear catastrophe in the process, they pointed to the earlier fake announcement - you see, Russia had been in control for days, therefore any new developments had to be caused by “Ukrainian sabotage”.
It’s a fascinating display of priorities - they took a gamble on something that could have rendered a chunk of the country uninhabitable for centuries, but the only precaution they took in advance was to prepare the propaganda spin.
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You might be thinking of Operation Looking Glass:
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As with the advance through the Chornobyl exclusion zone, they might have been gambling that the Ukrainians would retreat without a fight to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
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Perhaps the Russians will “solve” this problem by bringing in their own staff.
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