This weekâs appeal for peace negotiations without saying what a peace settlement would look like or acknowledging that Russia demands recognition of ânew territorial realitiesâ.
At least the author acknowledges that the debate he wants is already happening, albeit with the wrong people.
It is unfortunate that the most prominent political critique of U.S. policy in Ukraine from official quarters emanates from a handful of congressional Republicans whose dominant rationale for their position is a rancid potpourri of âAmerica Firstâ principles and warped Trumpist ideology.
â⌠peace is when I tell you what to do and you do itâ
They want peace, and are willing to sacrifce any number of Ukrainians to achieve it, against the wishes of Ukraine if need be.
I guess we might call this âtoxic pacifismâ, where letting the invader rape, murder and pillage in peace is better than allowing the invaded to fight back.
Wondering if they come with 8-Track tape players?
This Telegram post by Russian âjournalistâ Andrei Medvedev was featured on last nightâs weekly news show with Dmitry Kiselyov
âWhat is to be done with terrorists? They are eliminated, there is no other option⌠I am talking about the terrorist state [of Ukraine] as a wholeâ
There is documentary about this now, which is apparently being very well recieved:
Iâve been out of action for a week or so. This may have been posted, but it is fascinating. Crowdsourcing artillery spotters.
(I): So you managed to hit a moving column the first time?
(Serhiy): Not always. Thatâs why we needed âeyesâ. We also called civilians and asked: âDo you see this section of the road?â âI do.â âIf a shell hits in a minute and a half, can you tell us at least roughly where it exploded?â âI can. Then the person would describe the place of the explosion, and we would open a Google map and see: yes, there is such a place behind the vegetable gardens.
Maybe they can find the Ray Bans I lost in the Cape Hatteras surf last Summer.
BTW this is nothing all that new Newsweek.
Re: Drone tracking
âAccording to the most recent reports from the Ukrainian army, the AeroScope technology is effectively turned off for Ukrainian operators,â co-founder of the Blynk IoT platform Bolodymyr Shymanskyy tweeted said last year. âIn fact, while Russians have the technical capabilities to track Ukrainian DJI drone operators, the Ukrainian army can not do the same.â
Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr Demchenko told CNN that Russians were using the tech to track their droneâs movements.
eta:
âWhen we set out to make the film, the escalation of the war in Ukraine wasnât foreseeable â we really did not have that in mind,â Grunert told TheWrap. âWhat we felt was relevant is a story of a young man who falls prey to right-wing nationalist propaganda â believing that war is an adventure, and that they are on the right side. It is a timeless story, that we now see played out live in Ukraine.â
AFAIK, T-62s are fully obsolete on a modern battlefield, and there is no way Russia can get a modernization program going that would make them meaningfully better, in useful numbers, quickly enough to matter.
Just throwing a thought out here, but considering the state of the battlefield, perhaps all this talk of sending F-16âs to the Ukrainian battlefield is ignoring another plane that could be very useful, even if the US Air Force for some reason hates the bird with a passion: the original warthog, the A 10 Thunderbolt?
Does anyone have any thoughts about this, pro or contra?
