Meanwhile in Russia pundits discuss the next steps: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and chunks of Sweden and Poland. It is not all Russians, for sure, but it is not just Putin.
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They certainly seem… confident…in their military might. It is reminiscent of the US generals like Curtis LeMay calling for full-blown war with China when the Korean War was just getting started. Only these are straight-up armchair generals.
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To be fair, so is Putin. He’s just an armchair general with an actual army.
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Meanwhile, I wonder if anything will come unglued in Syria during their absence?
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That is an amazing story and I hope it is real.
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Was anything “stable” there to begin with? It’s still a loose collection of warring fiefdoms
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Same thing is happening to Apple. Here’s a link to the WaPo article:
Amid this internal offensive, Putin also moved to bring foreign technology companies to heel. Moscow deployed new devices that let it degrade or even block Russians’ access to Facebook and Twitter, imposed fines totaling $120 million on firms accused of defying Kremlin censors, and ordered 13 of the world’s largest technology companies to keep employees in Russia and thus exposed to potential arrest or other punishment for their employers’ actions — a measure that U.S. executives refer to as the “hostage law.”
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Is there a translation of this madness?
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The comments to the tweet seem to say that this is a pre-war broadcast that was discussing what NATO thought Russia may do.
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“He is one of more than 25,000 Russians to have arrived in Georgia since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
That’s a lot.
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Thread. Good logistics review/assessment.
Thread reader version
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(Reprint from the LA Times)
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However, mercenaries from Syria will not affect the outcome of the war, mainly due to climactic reasons, he said.
Eh? Because it’s too cold in Ukraine for those fighters? Or because the war will reach a climax before there are enough to have an effect? No follow-up from the reporter.
ETA: Climactic and climatic are often confused, and without follow-up it’s not clear to me how this was used.
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