Consequences of war and the lack of global trade on ordinary car owners in Russia…
To be fair I own a Mazda whose media system freaks out when temps go down to the 20’s. With recent climate changes this is happening far less than it used to.
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100 gigabytes of secrets, worth $1.5 billion - GUR received an array of secret data about the military equipment of the occupiers
January 8, 2024
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine informs about the receipt of 100 gigabytes of classified data from the Russian company “Special Technology Center” (“STC”).
This Russian company has been under sanctions since 2016. Its facilities produce military equipment and machinery used by the Russian army in the war against Ukraine.
In particular, “Orlan” UAVs of various modifications, a whole range of radio-electronic warfare and intelligence equipment, and other military products are manufactured at the “STC”.
Guardian: Canada reverses course after blocking Russian anti-war activist’s citizenship
(This is a rewrite of the previous story published at the same URL, and the onebox has not changed.)
This “civilizational struggle” stuff is why I have zero sympathy for the ordinary Russian whenever they are hurt by the sanctions or some other effects of Putin’s war.
Good. If it means Muscovites have to suffer to get them against the war, then so be it. Putin will still win reelection simply because he counts the votes, but having Grandma freeze to fight the supposed nazis in that weird western province, well, maybe it’s just not worth it?
They’ve been insulated so far from both the war’s brutal meat grinder, the poor hicks in the provinces bearing the brunt, so the Muscovites just see it as something happening elsewhere to less deserving schmucks.
War of Attrition
…after 2+8 years of this fracas, one would hope that people happy to report about dead Russian generals, or enjoying such videos might finally accept the reality: all of this simply doesn’t matter. The Russians still have enough generals to staff two entire divisions just with them; moreover, they still have many more troops and these are fighting. What’s worse: for weeks already, the rate of their (claimed) daily losses is significantly lower than the rate of their (assessed) newly trained reservists. Means: they’re all the time sending yet more troops to the frontline.
