The survey cited - from Global Soft Power Index 2022 - is the focus, not the tweeter, nor Reddit. If you think the survey is questionable, then why?
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The survey cited - from Global Soft Power Index 2022 - is the focus, not the tweeter, nor Reddit. If you think the survey is questionable, then why?
I don't have a personal Twitter account.
If it makes you feel better, this is the original source…
https://brandfinance.com/press-rele...es-back-better-to-top-of-nation-brand-ranking
Just curious, I have no issue with the survey or what it shows.
I think its all about the land bridge to Criema. They can sell that internally as an important victory.
Thing about it is, from what Zalensky is saying, Ukraine isn’t gonna stop fighting to push them out of that land bridge.
I think the supply of Switchblade drones is going to have a big effect in due course, depending on how many can be or will be supplied. The Russian military have no defence against these, and some variants have a range of 40km.
The cheapest variant costs only $6,000. I don't how how quickly they can be manufactured, but pretty rapidly I would have thought. If thousands - or even tens of thousands - of these can be supplied to Ukraine, then the Russians in occupied territory could see dozens of these raining down every single day until there are no more Russians left.
Yes. Using them to clear an area of Russian armor and artillery could go a helluva long way to helping Ukraine preserve their armor for the actual breakthrough stage of an assault.
I believe the commitment so far is more like 100
A mix of switchblade 300 (not anti armour costing circa 6k)... 10km limit of operations
And switchblade 600 cost a lot more is anti armor and operates at 40km
It may also include the unarmed s300 variant as well?
I'm actually surprised that only 74 percent in the UK and 60 percent in the US think Russia are to blame. Id expect it to be well into the 90 percent plus range
The US numbers are probably down to anti-establishment elements on both the left and right - the fringe left is largely anti-interventionist and the fringe right more or less vacillate between Trump's NATO skepticism to Rand Paul style isolationism. The US is a divided country so it should come as no surprise that there is a lack homogeneity on even something simple as who the bad guy is in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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OK, but you have to figure in those who say 'don't know'.' So in the UK for example, it looks like less than 10% blame Ukraine/NATO/the U.S.
The real standout for me is the 25% (?) in the U.S. who blame the U.S - due the influence of Fox News/Trump cult I guess.
Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...g-artist-russia-cultural-uncoupling-from-west
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...g-artist-russia-cultural-uncoupling-from-west
Mostly, but not exclusively. As you can tell on here, there’s folks on the opposite end of the spectrum from Fox/Trump who also blame the US.
The BBC reports:
"The Ukrainian troops defending the huge Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol may hold out for a long time with guerrilla tactics, using its nuclear bunkers and tunnels, a military expert says.
Justin Crump of security consultancy Sibylline told the BBC "they are really well set for defence", having had more than 50 days to fortify the site and build escape routes.
"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they’ll be there a long time - they could do nasty stuff at night, and go back in."
He estimates as many as 800 fighters are defending the plant, led by the far-right Azov Battalion - a group vilified by Russia as "neo-Nazis".
"The soldiers there don’t want to get captured, I don’t think they'll surrender. And Russia doesn’t want to go in and clear it out metre by metre, underground, that's horrendous," he said.
Ukraine has managed to resupply its beleaguered forces in Mariupol in very risky night-time missions, he said.
The steelworks is a key industrial site and, if Russia does get control of it, "maybe the Chinese will get them back in operation, as they want the steel", Mr Crump said. But it will take years to rebuild devastated Mariupol, he added."
"The Ukrainian troops defending the huge Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol may hold out for a long time with guerrilla tactics, using its nuclear bunkers and tunnels, a military expert says.
Justin Crump of security consultancy Sibylline told the BBC "they are really well set for defence", having had more than 50 days to fortify the site and build escape routes.
"I suspect that unless they are wiped out they’ll be there a long time - they could do nasty stuff at night, and go back in."
He estimates as many as 800 fighters are defending the plant, led by the far-right Azov Battalion - a group vilified by Russia as "neo-Nazis".
"The soldiers there don’t want to get captured, I don’t think they'll surrender. And Russia doesn’t want to go in and clear it out metre by metre, underground, that's horrendous," he said.
Ukraine has managed to resupply its beleaguered forces in Mariupol in very risky night-time missions, he said.
The steelworks is a key industrial site and, if Russia does get control of it, "maybe the Chinese will get them back in operation, as they want the steel", Mr Crump said. But it will take years to rebuild devastated Mariupol, he added."
Those defending Mariupol are tough as nails, has to be said. So weird for me to type that from the comfort of my computer while they're in a plant battling it out with overwhelming Russian forces. Bizarre.
Why do the Russians have such a hardon for Mariupol. What makes it so significant for them?
Vaguely reminiscent of the Battle of Stalingrad except in reverse. The Nazis had pushed through all the way to the Volga and one of the main pockets of Soviet resistance was a large factory area.
Take a map and look where Mariopol, Crimea and the borders of Ukraine and Russia are...
In the link is an explanation from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60825226
Thanks.
The first reply on the tweet shows it's fake. Why would factory have gardens???
The weapons that we are sending to Ukraine, are these coming from the existing defence budget? Or are we in effect selling them to Ukraine, or is it something tht tax payer will pay seperately?
Long thread(s) here, but reports of a Ukrainian counterattack east from Kharkiv that would seriously threaten Russian N/S supply lines out of Belgorod. He clarifies below report was from Ukrainian official and not the armed forces. Good news if true.
The tax payer pays the military industrial complex. Ukraine pays it back in the future if/when they can likely by deals such as allowing Shell etc to mine for gas etc. People who own Shell/military complex are the same people. Some elites somewhere
How is this allowed to be posted? Apparently it’s from a journo who had a chat with a Ukranian official so it’s nothing that should officially be known
Do you mean that it's giving information to the enemy? If so, I'm sure the Russians already know if and where they're being attacked.
Because if the settlements were retaken part of it has already happened, and the looming threat to Russian supply lines is just an obvious inference.
The correct answer is always that tax payer will be paying for it, rich elites will be benefiting from it.
But there’s a bit of strategy there as well added in to what they’re now trying to achieve.
I dunno, seems a bit borderline to me especially when its sort of off the record
Wouldn't it be some sort of set up similar to the USA involvement in WW2?
Wasn't it mid 2000's when the UK had made its last payment to USA?
We can only hope that the Russian Army is getting their Intel off of Twitter
I think we have to accept they know what they wish to release, and have their reasons for it. It wouldn't be unfeasible for this to be thrown out there to mislead the Russian forces. Or it could just be too late to make any real difference.
That's a really big storm it sank in.
I wonder who took those photos of the ship and how they ended up in the hands of the Ukrainians? I'd have thought that only Russian ships would be be allowed to get close to the scene of the disaster, in which case someone Russian leaked them.
Or maybe the Turkish coastguard was involved in rescuing some of the survivors?
Or maybe the Turkish coastguard was involved in rescuing some of the survivors?