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I think one of the reasons that #UA has done so well against #RU is because #RU's best people became Wagner Group mercenaries, and UA has spent 8 years fighting against them in the fake independent republics.
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https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/25/7373492/ [www pravda com ua]
#Chechnya leader: #RU conscripts should not complain about the old, outdated weapons they've been issued; instead, take better weapons from #UA troops
What? You're personally seeing that #Russia's endemic cronyism and corruption could put the national future at risk and instead of railing against the oligarchs who stole the improvement and replacement funds, you're blaming it on people that are being forced to use the weapons that were slated for replacement?
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The #war in #Ukraine is a colonial war. https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-war-in-ukraine-is-a-colonial-war [www newyorker com]
#Russia #invasion #RU #UA
Source: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/108222933682587157
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Something I don’t understand: rightist Holocaust deniers love to bring up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor in response to discussion of Nazi atrocities, but suddenly forgot all that when #Putin’s #Russia starts a war against #Ukraine.
#Holocaust #Holodomor #RU #UA #invasion
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#Putin's key supporters playing face-saving waiting game in #Ukraine https://nu.federati.net/url/285945 [www theguardian com]
The author, Olga Chyzh believes that neither the intelligence community nor the military wishes the war to end, because of the purges that can be expected.
#Russia #invasion #RU #UA
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https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/the-tank-is-dead-long-live-the-javelin-the-switchblade-the/ [warontherocks com]
Are the #UA successes against #RU tanks a sign that tanks are outdated?
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This 1980s warship was the flagship of the Black Sea fleet.
#Ukraine apparently did this with a missile they developed based on old #USSR designs. This is an embarrassing loss for #Russia. I'm sure the #RU Black Sea fleet is still a potent force, but they're now seen as vulnerable to #UA's weapons.
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"Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory." https://nu.federati.net/url/285679 [www newstatesman com]
#Russia #Ukraine #war #invasion #Putin #NATO #China #geopolitics #RU #UA
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Way back in the 1970s and 1980s, first the US encouraged large solar and wind generation projects, then cut off the tax subsidies. Most of them were not economical without those subsidies, so this both eliminated new investment in the field for the next 20 years and caused a lot of existing projects to shut down.
In California, we've got "sell your excess power back to the utility company at full retail price" plus tax subsidies for homeowners who put solar photovoltaic generation panels on their properties. (There are some limitations, such as you can't sell back more than you use in a year. Which means you can lower your electricity bill to $0 per year, but the electric utility will never owe you any payment.)
I also notice that none of the popular advertisers talking about putting in solar generation ("rooftop solar") talk about putting in any kind of personally-owned storage (e.g., Tesla powerwall). So if there is an outage during a period when someone's solar panels are not receiving enough light, it affects them just as though they hadn't spent a whole lot of money on solar panels.
(When I was working in Sacramento a few years ago, a co-worker who lived in NorCal had just had rooftop solar and an electric car charging station installed. He realized that he needed storage, so he had a powerwall installed, along with the necessary switching equipment.)
Currently, thanks to the #RU versus #UA war and the related price changes for energy, the various price and tax subsidies are probably not going away any time soon, but they still could go away before people have paid off their equipment investment.
Adding the personally-owned on-site storage makes true "off the [electric power] grid" living possible.
Anyway, my point is, I've been watching #California and #US policies this area (but not closely enough) since the 1980s, and I can see a similar policy change against normal homeowners ahead of us when sufficient solar / wind / geothermal electricity generation comes online to threaten the financial viability of electric utility companies.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/285551
Sorry, I can't read Italian.
Article says that #Putin says he plans to withdraw #RU troops from most of #UA by 2022-05-09, leaving only the Donbass areas (e.g., the breakaway republics) and speculates that this is not likely to happen unless #Russia has lost a lot of soldiers and cannot continue its invasion. And even then, if they unilaterally retreated, every Ukrainian would continue shooting as they left ... and probably follow them into the Donbass region in an attempt to liberate its territory from the invaders.
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https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-lashes-out-at-poland-for-siding-with-ukraine-134545060.html
Kremlin lashes out at #Poland for supporting #Ukraine against invasion.
#RU #UA
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https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107976635989754110
Thread that explores the #RU vs #UA war and digs up some history.
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If France still makes the Exocet anti-ship missile, I think they should arm #Ukraine with them and let them sink a few Russian ships. If the RU navy is afraid to come near and resupply the Southern part of the invasion, it could put a substantial hurting on Putin’s plan to gobble up #UA into #Russia.
Also, bomb the bridge that crosses from Russia to Crimea.
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Putin threatens to end #Ukraine nation-state ... https://nu.federati.net/url/285191 [nypost com]
I assume he's brazenly admitting that he wants to absorb #UA into #Russia, as I thought all along since they deposed #RU's Ukrainian puppet ruler in 2014.
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https://news.yahoo.com/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-060619443.html [news yahoo com] Government of #Russia accuses #Ukraine of trying to build a "dirty bomb".
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-tactics-ukraine-invasion-similar-084240238.html [news yahoo com] #NATO nations allowed to provide planes to #UA air force, still not supporting "no fly zone".