The Russia-Ukraine War has begun

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

i personally cannot force myself into watching it all. managed a few of his more popular talks some months ago

Jesus Christ, that's 2 hours long, that's 2 hours too long for information that could probably be summed up in a single page....or even a Paragraph.

Here, I'll do it.

Comrade Putin is a former KGB guy right wing nationalist who got butthurt when the Cold War ended with the breakup of the USSR. He's had a grudge against the "West" and has wanted to remedy what he considers a wrong for years and rebuild a new Kleptocratic Authoritarian Russian Empire. So he's been sabre-rattling, trying to destabilize NATO and the west and finally invaded Ukraine.

Oh I forgot consquences. lots of people dying and horrible things going on in Ukraine that only Russian assholes think are a good thing. a strengthened NATO, sanctions on Russia, Comrade Putin and cronies. More instability in Eastern Europe because of Comrade Putins Sabre rattling about Russian Empire, economic insecurity for EVERYONE, Inflation, trade disruptions, and other economic goings on. Also China doing its own sabre rattling in the South China sea and about Taiwan.

There, much better and it didn't take 2 hours.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

what do you mean by bias?

Bias is... so, Russian state media has a bias that only they are worth holding any other country on the planet, for example.

Usually it's not as extreme though. The Guardian from the UK has a bias towards the Left, but tend to be fairly reliable, because its not extreme. I believe the Times has a Right leaning, but again, not extreme [if someone can correct me, please do - it might be that I'm so used to US MSM that anything else seems reliable enough.

Basically, I try and look at the sources of my info to see if I can -find- what the bias is, so I can take it into account. Because bias seems linked to agenda.

 

[Khamon]

Why y’all feeding the troll? It is a holiday game? Does it end at midnight wherever you are?

 

[Arkady Arkright]

And, inevitably - Russia threatens Lithuania over ‘more than serious’ Kaliningrad rail goods ban

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Bias is when you cut fabric on the diagonal instead of with the grain.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Bias is old fashioned tires.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[WolfEyes]

Why y’all feeding the troll? It is a holiday game? Does it end at midnight wherever you are?

Some of us like to play with our food before we kill it.

 

[Noodles]

Why y’all feeding the troll? It is a holiday game? Does it end at midnight wherever you are?

I already finished the various Wordle games I had lined up and have nothing else to do.

Wait, I wasn't feeding anyone...

 

[WolfEyes]

Can't even last a full minute trying to listen to all those lies. Fifty-one seconds was all I could manage.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Soen Eber]

The closest equvalancy I can find to the above is how America was following D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" film.

OK, this scares me. A lot.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ukrainians still finding bodies in former occupied villages outside Kyiv

Many exhumed bodies found near checkpoints used by invading Russian soldiers before their retreat in April

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Aiden Aslin: Ukraine Briton told execution will go ahead

Aiden Aslin tells family his captors say the UK has not negotiated for him and "time is running out".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Compare and contrast, a true hero :-
The audience rose when they learned who was among them! He saved 669 children and didn’t tell a soul
with Priti Patel's UK Home Office :-
Home for Ukraine Scheme and child refugees

Unaccompanied children may only apply to the Homes for Ukraine scheme if they are reuniting with their parent or legal guardian who is currently living in the UK.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘It’s a horror show’: defiant Kharkiv residents return home despite new Russian offensive

No running water, gas or electricity and apartment blocks destroyed at random… Now civilians in Ukraine’s second biggest city are facing a new Russian offensive

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[brave.rabbit]

as if on purpose for tomorrow's NATO summit


PS
if i understand correctly, unlike yesterday's attack, there are no legitimate targets even nearby

PPS


i can hardly understand a word in ukrainian but i think they mention TWO missiles hitting the shopping centre

Ukrainska pravda

Ukrainska Pravda - Ukraine's news

www.pravda.com.ua

Yurii Ihnat, speaker of the Air Forces Command, told Ukrainska Pravda that Russia hit Kremenchuk with an X-22 missile launched from a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber from the direction of Kursk, Russia.

a rather old one, if the above is correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22