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Let's hope so - Tucker Carlson in particular, when they reveal nice little monthly "additions" to his bank account.
I wouldn't have expected to ever be a paper trail about these payments, however if we are to extrapolate from the Russian competence on display so far, it wouldn't surprise me one bit.
 
It wouldn't surprise me if a fair few of the Anonymous hackers are actually employees of GCHQ (signals intelligence, cyber security and more), an organisation which is known to have very sophisticated hacking capabilities.

After all, an "anarchist" collective like Anonymous would be the perfect front/disguise for such involvement, allowing government denial of any such activity.
 


Something make me uneasy about leaks like this. I don't know anything about this guy, but i don't see why Putin needs to hear about his "outburst of emotions". This man could potentially be part of a coup against Putin, no need for him to disappear from the earth. Maybe i'm making too much out of it.
 
Something make me uneasy about leaks like this. I don't know anything about this guy, but i don't see why Putin needs to hear about his "outburst of emotions". This man could potentially be part of a coup against Putin, no need for him to disappear from the earth. Maybe i'm making too much out of it.

I thought it was strange that they interpreted his outburst as a precursor to attacking them over the US and Ukraine re: Donbas, but I don't think you'd be in the Russian General Staff if you weren't drinking the Koolaid. I think it does show how nervy they are about the war.
 
The EU is trying to convince Germany and Hungary to accept an oil embargo and Putin comes in and helps by cutting the gas anyway? Also, doesn't this free the EU to cut the remaining Russian banks from SWIFT?

It doesn't make sense for them, especially when they need the money to keep the war going.

That’s the thing, he knows they need his gas, so they won’t feck off and they will buy in roubles hence strengthening the rouble, it’s also a political power play.
 


the most nationalistic* russian chess player has a similar personal background to this general (born to russian-speaking family in eastern ukraine, left for russia, massive putin fan, now banned from chess for supportive statements about the war).

*at least among high-profile ones
 


This talks about the (low) Russian military standing in social hierarchy and discuss the domestic support for this war. Really good thread.
 
That’s the thing, he knows they need his gas, so they won’t feck off and they will buy in roubles hence strengthening the rouble, it’s also a political power play.

I'm not 100% sure Germany would give in so easily, if Putin really pushes this through.
 

Nice catch this morning, Odessa is going to be a Russian bloodbath if they attempt a beach landing still.
 
That's virtually impossible. China is a completely different situation than Russia, where the economic integration is mostly just based on resource exportation. That is a vastly different scenario than China where 50 years of globalism have integrated the Chinese and western economies in such a way across so many sectors that what you suggest just isn't realistic in any way. A world where the west is entirely self-sufficient to the point it could cut all economic ties with China with minimal impact is very far away from the world we live in today.

It's not even desirable really because that integration also serves to keep China aligned more with global prosperity. A China that cut off from the west would have less incentives to keep the peace overall.
So they start arming Russia. Then what? Bend over?

Whats the odds that its just the UK/US spy agencies doing this and pretending to be hackers.
 

I dont know why everyone is losing their sht over this like they just found the enigma machine. I programmed something similar 20 years ago for the MOD. Its just a mobile command and control center. i.e. a fancy mobile bomb proof (ish) office with a few servers and radar etc. It just gets all the data from planes etc and processes it into one big tactical map. There will be nothing fancy to find.
 


This talks about the (low) Russian military standing in social hierarchy and discuss the domestic support for this war. Really good thread.


Very interesting thread. It reminds to a certain degree og much of what Stalin would constantly do with his military leadership and the entire officer class before and during WW2. Regular army forces would be followed by politically reliable troops (typically NKVD) and harassed and threatened in order to keep them in line.
 
They aren't actually cheaper, they're about the same price.

But they also require fossil fuels to make.

Solar and wind have been cheaper than gas for years in most places and gas has just gone up 400% so...

And ref energy efficiency I would accept that it depends on the application but the cheapest energy efficiency measures pay themselves back incredibly quickly in many places in Northern Europe e.g. draught proofing, insulation. Heat pumps it's a less obvious case admittedly. New builds in the UK still aren't obliged to fit most water and energy saving measures though, which is inexcusable really as it's far easier and cheaper to fit to a new build than refit a building that wasn't designed for it.

Oh and you don't need fossil fuels to make these things, that's why we're working on hydrogen for example.
 
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I dont know why everyone is losing their sht over this like they just found the enigma machine. I programmed something similar 20 years ago for the MOD. Its just a mobile command and control center. i.e. a fancy mobile bomb proof (ish) office with a few servers and radar etc. It just gets all the data from planes etc and processes it into one big tactical map. There will be nothing fancy to find.

Folk seem to think it's a jamming station rather than a command and control centre.
 
It wouldn't surprise me if a fair few of the Anonymous hackers are actually employees of GCHQ (signals intelligence, cyber security and more), an organisation which is known to have very sophisticated hacking capabilities.

After all, an "anarchist" collective like Anonymous would be the perfect front/disguise for such involvement, allowing government denial of any such activity.
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