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04-03-2022, 09:32 PM | #211 | ||
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04-03-2022, 09:44 PM | #212 | ||
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Conflict has erupted at Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Here's what we know
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05-03-2022, 08:43 AM | #213 | ||
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Ukraine conflict: How reliant is Europe on Russia for oil and gas?
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05-03-2022, 08:59 AM | #214 | ||
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I’ve studied nuclear power quite a bit, & I am going to say shooting rockets @ a nuclear power plant is a very bad idea.
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05-03-2022, 02:08 PM | #216 | |||
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05-03-2022, 03:01 PM | #218 | |||
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Fact of the matter is, no matter what your source of information is, unless you've experienced it yourself, you're looking at the 'facts' through someone else's lense. Whether their lense is an intentional bias or a natural one, their lense applies some level of bias. All anyone can do is do as much research as possible and inform their own view of what the truth is.
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05-03-2022, 06:30 PM | #219 | ||
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It's a war zone and both sides have reasons to stretch the truth and it can be difficult to verify things. We are also in our first full on social media war where a lot of stuff is coming out.
However that training facility is not somewhere else, it is part of the same complex where the reactors are and it is disturbing that any form of attack would impact there. Common sense says there'd be an exclusion around such facilities as any incident there will not care about borders |
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05-03-2022, 07:03 PM | #221 | ||
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Russia has just introduced a new law. Spreading disinformation about the war in the country will now land you 15 years in jail. FB and Twitter blocked too I think.
On the nuclear plant attack, you'd think / hope they knew what they were doing. It's pretty close to the two regions they declared independent, and pretty close to their own border. They now have control of a facility that generates 20% of the country's power. Heard they are now moving to another nuclear facility.
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05-03-2022, 07:14 PM | #222 | ||
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From what has happened so far it seems Russia's planning is bad and the execution is worse
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Putin has moved his family to an underground city
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05-03-2022, 08:01 PM | #224 | ||
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This is why Russia will win and expose global corruption:
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05-03-2022, 08:41 PM | #225 | ||
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No doubt Russians are crazy bastards but maybe that time would have been better spent on figuring out how to keep fuel in their tanks. And I doubt that is a wild bear for obvious reasons
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05-03-2022, 08:43 PM | #226 | ||
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Maria Antonova (“MashAnt” on Twitter) seems to have a good stream of fairly direct information through both personal contacts and journalists.
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05-03-2022, 08:49 PM | #227 | |||
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The Russian Airforce witch is absent would take out most of Europe on it's own. |
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05-03-2022, 08:57 PM | #228 | ||
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Australian online anti-vaccine groups switch to Putin praise and Ukraine conspiracies
Australian anti-vaxxer groups are awash with conspiracy theories praising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an attack on the “deep state”, with some followers of the Covid-sceptic movement expressing admiration for Vladimir Putin. https://www.theguardian.com/australi...e-conspiracies |
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So either they can't or Ukraine is more effective then they thought, none of which reflects well on Russia They might have an airforce on paper to have superiority over Ukraine but you're joking if you think they'd take over Europe given what we have seen |
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Someone help him out.
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War is the art of deception, so I wouldn't underestimate anything. I'd say that the only thing that hasn't gone according to Russia's plan, is that the people of Ukraine have not overthrown their government. I think Putin was banking on that to end the war in a couple of days. So now its plan B. They seem to be taking strategic assets with relative ease. Mariupol has just fallen, and ceasefire called to allow residents to evacuate. Remember, even with all their firepower, it took the US 40 odd days before declaring victory in Iraq.
I reckon Kyiv hasn't been taken yet because that would involve urban warfare, and would result in huge casualties. So they are going to put the city under siege and wait for a surrender / peace deal. Mate of mine who has contacts in the US army, tells me they have estimated that there are some 30-40 "deterrence" submarines off the international water of the US. This has the potential to become something much much bigger, hence why I think US and NATO are hell bent on not getting involved militarily. Based on what I am seeing, it appears Ukraine is being used as a proxy for a bigger war. That's my armchair analysis for the evening.
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US and NATO don't want to get involved because it would expand the war beyond Ukraine borders and make it a much bigger conflict where more people die.
Ukraine wants a no fly zone but that means NATO have to enforce it and why they didn't want Ukraine into the pact in the first place. It's the reason why this war is ****en stupid in the first place. This is just Veelad trying to get the old band back together. Here is hoping someone in Putin's inner circle learns from history and puts a bullet into the left listener as someone should have done with that tyrant Hitler. |
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IMHO a lot of what posted here and in news articles cant really be taken for gospel. Still very sad whats going on though, what ever the reasons may or may not be.
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06-03-2022, 03:39 PM | #238 | ||
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Via art historian Simon Schama (Twitter). Sniper murder of a woman taking food to a dog shelter.
https://twitter.com/Ash_Stewart_/sta...21871760949250 This cannot be the conflict Vladimir Vladimirovich envisaged. |
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Anti-vax conspiracy theorists in US turning to antisemitic pro-Putin propaganda, report says
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