War in Ukraine

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DonjoVol said:
You ever notice these Ukrainian Bots say the and things over and over and over.
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Because yall refuse to address even the most basic points, and hide behind the faux superiority of your supposed new found one sided truth.

It's been this way since the first Ukraine thread. It's why Ras has me blocked. Because I read the article he posts, point out the flaws and contradictions inside his own posts, and instead of deal with it or address it, he blocks me.
 
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LouderVol said:
No they didnt. You, nor anyone else, has been able to point to what Ryssia was being diplomatic with. What were they willing to give up, what was Ukraine getting out of it? Did the russians ever pull out of the region during the ceasefire?

Its disingenuous to say you want peace when you put more and more troops and supplies into an occupied country and are able to launch the biggest land war in decades at a moments notice.

Heck russian hasnt even "diplomatically" declared war yet. Complete bs to try and sell they have been a voice of peace through out any of this.
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You don't really expect communist governments or communist governments pretending not to be communist to play by ordinary rules I hope. They don't roll that way. One favorite strategy is to negotiate peace with all hostiles removing troops; only they don't remove combatants and just say they did unlike the other side ... refer to Laos and N Vietnam for an example. Also never believe a word that they utter about cause, effect, why, or who did what; they are utterly incapable of the truth. People born to the totalitarian left like Putin and other disciples make the Third Reich look like Boy Scouts when it comes to truth and honesty.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Ive always said the one thing we could do to hurt the competitive capabilities of other companies in our equipment segment is to give them our design data and dare them to produce them too 😂
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Have you ever wondered where this crap comes from? Seems like engineers always get the blame, but I'm pretty certain engineers don't start the ball rolling - we just try to make the best of (or salvage) a bad plan. Most of the nutty stuff I've had to manage came from marketing and management types.
 
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Russian Internet and IT sector demolished by the Kremlin. Up to 100 000 IT specialists have fled the country since the invasion.

The Kremlin has trashed Russia's internet and information technology sector, according to independent Russian commentators. The Meduza portal reported that a significant number of high-level specialists have left Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. During this time, Russian military censors have blocked more than 3,000 websites and web services.

Medusa journalist Vladislav Gorin wrote that due to the war in Ukraine, the Russian information technology sector has been almost completely destroyed. The journalist pointed to the departure of thousands of IT specialists from Russia and the withdrawal of Western IT companies from the Russian market.

Censorship in Russia. Up to 100 000 IT specialists have left the country. Thousands of websites have been blocked
"I myself see the planes on which IT specialists have been departing for two months. According to the assessment of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications, between 70,000 and 100,000 people have left" - Vladislav Gorin explained.

The Meduza portal calculated that more than 3,000 websites and webpages were blocked due to military censorship in Russia. In all cases, the aim was to restrict Russians' access to sources of information other than the Kremlin's.
War in Ukraine. Russia is censoring the media

In late February, two days after the Russian attack on Ukraine, Roskomnadzor issued regulations that prohibit describing Putin's military aggression as an "invasion". The Russian authorities describe the ongoing assault as a "special operation". The only information allowed to be published in Russia about the war in Ukraine is that which comes from official communiqués from the Russian defence ministry. The penalty for not complying with the regulation is blocking.

Many television and radio stations did not comply with bans imposed by Russian censorship. This has blocked, among others, the TV channel Nastoyashchye Vremya (Current Time TV), the Russian version of Crimea.Realities, the website of 'The New Times', the portal Taiga.info, as well as Ukrainian media such as Interfax. Six days after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian Prosecutor General also ordered that access to the Doj channel and Echo of Moscow radio be "restricted".

In early March, the foreign ministry accused Facebook, Google, Twitter and other foreign platforms of "warmongering". As a result, access to social media such as Facebook and Twitter has been restricted within Russia.

Source (in Polish): https://next.gazeta.pl/next/7,151243,28416448,rosyjscy-eksperci-internet-i-sektor-it-zostaly-zdemolowane.html
 
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EasternVol said:
Thank you for mentioning those books. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon touches on the divisions mentioned. Forgotten Armies and Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper deal with the end of that empire. All three are good reads, at least for me.
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Thanks, for the heads up. I've got Forgotten Wars in but haven't read it, and I'll look for the other two.
 
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MontyPython said:
Russian Internet and IT sector demolished by the Kremlin. Up to 100 000 IT specialists have fled the country since the invasion.

The Kremlin has trashed Russia's internet and information technology sector, according to independent Russian commentators. The Meduza portal reported that a significant number of high-level specialists have left Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. During this time, Russian military censors have blocked more than 3,000 websites and web services.

Medusa journalist Vladislav Gorin wrote that due to the war in Ukraine, the Russian information technology sector has been almost completely destroyed. The journalist pointed to the departure of thousands of IT specialists from Russia and the withdrawal of Western IT companies from the Russian market.

Censorship in Russia. Up to 100 000 IT specialists have left the country. Thousands of websites have been blocked
"I myself see the planes on which IT specialists have been departing for two months. According to the assessment of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications, between 70,000 and 100,000 people have left" - Vladislav Gorin explained.

The Meduza portal calculated that more than 3,000 websites and webpages were blocked due to military censorship in Russia. In all cases, the aim was to restrict Russians' access to sources of information other than the Kremlin's.
War in Ukraine. Russia is censoring the media

In late February, two days after the Russian attack on Ukraine, Roskomnadzor issued regulations that prohibit describing Putin's military aggression as an "invasion". The Russian authorities describe the ongoing assault as a "special operation". The only information allowed to be published in Russia about the war in Ukraine is that which comes from official communiqués from the Russian defence ministry. The penalty for not complying with the regulation is blocking.

Many television and radio stations did not comply with bans imposed by Russian censorship. This has blocked, among others, the TV channel Nastoyashchye Vremya (Current Time TV), the Russian version of Crimea.Realities, the website of 'The New Times', the portal Taiga.info, as well as Ukrainian media such as Interfax. Six days after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian Prosecutor General also ordered that access to the Doj channel and Echo of Moscow radio be "restricted".

In early March, the foreign ministry accused Facebook, Google, Twitter and other foreign platforms of "warmongering". As a result, access to social media such as Facebook and Twitter has been restricted within Russia.

Source (in Polish): https://next.gazeta.pl/next/7,151243,28416448,rosyjscy-eksperci-internet-i-sektor-it-zostaly-zdemolowane.html
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Keeping the truth from the Russian people is the only thing that is keeping Pootin in power.

He's keeping them dumb and sowing confusion.

I thought he was setting back Russia a few decades, he might be sending them back to the stone age.
 
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AM64 said:
Have you ever wondered where this crap comes from? Seems like engineers always get the blame, but I'm pretty certain engineers don't start the ball rolling - we just try to make the best of (or salvage) a bad plan. Most of the nutty stuff I've had to manage came from marketing and management types.
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Oh engineers absolutely deserve the blame because many times we make design or maintenance decisions in a vacuum when writing the TOs

Back in the day the USAF used to do something called a Blue Two tour. They’d invite industry engineers out to a maintenance facility, throw the TOs in their hands on some maintenance activity, and step back and watch the fun. These tasks were chosen for a reason. When the questions inevitably came experienced maintainers were on hand to provide their INVALUABLE input. It was win-win. It put the engineers in the perspective of the maintainers and gave the maintainers a chance to rightly ask WTF?!
 
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EasternVol said:
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What kind of condemnation would be stronger than that already done, or more importantly more effective?
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I don't know but the world will become a different place. It would mean that there is no longer an effective nuclear deterrent (if there ever were one). Also I would hope that Mr Xi understands that a nuclear war in Europe could make its way to his front door. China hasn't said anything publicly but I can't believe they are happy with the nuclear threats coming out of Russia.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Oh engineers absolutely deserve the blame because many times we make design or maintenance decisions in a vacuum when writing the TOs

Back in the day the USAF used to do something called a Blue Two tour. They’d invite industry engineers out to a maintenance facility, throw the TOs in their hands on some maintenance activity, and step back and watch the fun. These tasks were chosen for a reason. When the questions inevitably came experienced maintainers were on hand to provide their INVALUABLE input. It was win-win. It put the engineers in the perspective of the maintainers and gave the maintainers a chance to rightly ask WTF?!
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I can see that, and yeah, I've dealt with those engineers, too ... and try to forget that we aren't all on the same side or that they were ever granted the engineering title. I'm from a maintenance - diagnostic - implementation side of things; so when I chaired a couple of ASME standards subcommittees on monitoring and monitoring systems, I always loaded them up with similar kinds of guys from utilities - reality. My pet peeve is that newly graduated engineers aren't put out in the field to observe before they ever see places like design or compliance organizations. My mistake - sometimes the enemy is us.
 
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