TheMechanic

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[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

This war was lost over a year ago. None of their aims were achievable after that point.

To understand why it continues you have to understand two things:

Putin will cease to be leader if he ends this.

Putin believes in luck. The longer this continues the more likely of some random event going in his favour or of the West getting bored and withdrawing their support.

He's intentionally dragging out the conflict. The tactics they use are designed to do nothing more than slow down how much territory is lost over time.

Every so often they attack to achieve a little 'victory'. This is then twisted into a massive victory on every tv across Russia. This plus huge pay offerings, gives them endless volunteers. Particularly from rural regions where education is lacking.

Putin does not care how many of his own people he kills. They are nothing to him. The tactic putin is using is based on throwing 10, 20, 100 or whatever number to kill one Ukrainian. That is one less Ukrainian. That is what matters to him.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

The operator accounted for both the movement of the target and the fall time. These guys have been doing this every day for nearly two years now.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Archimedes constant for pi is good enough to get to the moon. Send it.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smart enough to nearly figure out a way to avoid a drone, not smart enough to stay home in his own country.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adblocker restricted

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cavalry crew are already all sex fetishists

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 133 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nearly 320K in the normalest units.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's the traditional Soviet arty command for fire. A song featuring it has become a hit and the term has begun to be used by pro-invasion Russians to comment on propaganda videos.

The Ukrainians are probably using it as a form of ironic comedy. Because Russians are the ones being fired upon.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

He wasn't a prisoner until he was disarmed and captured. Until then, he was an active combatant.

The fact he just used perfidy and then failed means the Ukrainians had valid excuse to make him and anyone else in that contact into cat meat. The fact they didn't, speaks volumes to their high character and professionalism.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The title states 'book says' making it sound like it's hearsay, but he admitted today that it was true:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/4649482

What an absolute piece of shit, he's not even ashamed of being a Russian agent.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This article seems extremely biased.

Although making the premise of the article about helping students, this change in rules allows universities to essentially hold students captive as their visa is entirely held at the mercy of the university.

While studying in Australia, many students work, have their families with them and try to live normal lives. They can have jobs that they depend on and kids that depend on them. By tying their visa directly to a specific university, it gives the university the power to charge what they feel like and hold over their visa as collateral.

I had a quick look to see the background of 'the pie', and it is clearly an industry-funded propaganda machine who does nothing but churn out pro-industry articles.

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