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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 7:51 am to trinidadtiger
Posted on 7/20/25 at 7:51 am to trinidadtiger
He admits they are freeloaders. Trump and Vance shocked them into reality.
Compared to the weakling Scholz this guy seems better but he is a total a-hole. Typical German: very direct and has little tact. I would take him anyday of the week before the losers Macron or Starmer though. Those two are charlatans who can't be trusted.
I thought that I would update Cope on the Taurus missiles. Scholz's party the SPD who is in coalition with this guy's CDU party, is the one blocking the Taurus missiles. They continue the same stance that they had under the weakling Scholz.
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Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:03 am to trinidadtiger
AI Overview
Numerous sources indicate that Russia is employing a strategy of drone attacks that target civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, apparently aimed at spreading terror and eroding the morale of the Ukrainian population
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This strategy involves:
Using drones to deliberately target civilians: Human Rights Watch and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) have documented instances where Russian drone operators appear to intentionally target civilians, causing casualties and injuries. The attacks have been described as a "human safari" in some areas, highlighting the alleged deliberate targeting of individuals by drones.
Targeting civilian infrastructure: Russian drones, including Iranian-made Shahed-136 (Geran-2) and Russian-produced variants, are used to attack residential buildings, hospitals, schools, and energy infrastructure. These attacks often occur at night to maximize psychological pressure and exhaustion amongst the civilian population.
Overwhelming air defenses with mass attacks: Russia utilizes large numbers of drones, including cheap decoy drones, to saturate Ukrainian air defense systems, making it difficult to intercept all incoming attacks. There are reports of potentially thousands of drones being used in a single attack.
Causing widespread destruction and fear: These attacks result in civilian deaths and injuries, as well as significant damage to infrastructure. The constant threat of attacks forces civilians to spend hours seeking shelter and disrupts daily life.
Evidence suggests Russia's actions violate international humanitarian law, particularly the principles of distinction and precaution, with some incidents potentially constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine have documented these violations and called for accountability for the perpetrators.
Numerous sources indicate that Russia is employing a strategy of drone attacks that target civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, apparently aimed at spreading terror and eroding the morale of the Ukrainian population
.
This strategy involves:
Using drones to deliberately target civilians: Human Rights Watch and the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) have documented instances where Russian drone operators appear to intentionally target civilians, causing casualties and injuries. The attacks have been described as a "human safari" in some areas, highlighting the alleged deliberate targeting of individuals by drones.
Targeting civilian infrastructure: Russian drones, including Iranian-made Shahed-136 (Geran-2) and Russian-produced variants, are used to attack residential buildings, hospitals, schools, and energy infrastructure. These attacks often occur at night to maximize psychological pressure and exhaustion amongst the civilian population.
Overwhelming air defenses with mass attacks: Russia utilizes large numbers of drones, including cheap decoy drones, to saturate Ukrainian air defense systems, making it difficult to intercept all incoming attacks. There are reports of potentially thousands of drones being used in a single attack.
Causing widespread destruction and fear: These attacks result in civilian deaths and injuries, as well as significant damage to infrastructure. The constant threat of attacks forces civilians to spend hours seeking shelter and disrupts daily life.
Evidence suggests Russia's actions violate international humanitarian law, particularly the principles of distinction and precaution, with some incidents potentially constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine have documented these violations and called for accountability for the perpetrators.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:15 am to CitizenK
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If tweet fails to load, click here. A court order from the arbitration decision will follow and Brussels can't argue with that. This is just the first of many awards to be given to Ukraine and paid from the frozen Russian overseas investment funds, which (now) total over $650 billion. Thanks Putin for the stupidity.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:17 am to trinidadtiger
Russia's sphere of influence is shrinking.
Syria - gone
Azerbaijan - gone
Armenia - gone
Iran - questionable
China - still funding Russia and going deeper into debt
N, Korea - still a podna
Syria - gone
Azerbaijan - gone
Armenia - gone
Iran - questionable
China - still funding Russia and going deeper into debt
N, Korea - still a podna
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:24 am to trinidadtiger
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Or do we think Russia is wasting drones dropping them on a car or a house, when they are obviously targeting the electrical grid and manufacturing/storage of weapons?
Either Russian targeting systems have 80 year old accuracy or they are targeting civilians as a terror campaign. Such a question is why the ignorant as phuck think that Darryl Cooper is a historian.
What did Russia do in Syria? Targeted civilians
What did Russia do in Chechnya? Targeted civilians
This post was edited on 7/20/25 at 9:35 am
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:38 am to trinidadtiger
Breaking news: Ukraine was invaded by a super power.
But since 2022 they have recaptured some of their territory.
And btw, it takes two to negotiate and it is obvious to everyone including Donald Trump that Russia doesn’t want to negotiate.
So three years and 5 months after their special operation Russia is resorting to civilian terror stacks, piecemeal attacks across the front, North Korean aid and hopes that the West will give up.
But since 2022 they have recaptured some of their territory.
And btw, it takes two to negotiate and it is obvious to everyone including Donald Trump that Russia doesn’t want to negotiate.
So three years and 5 months after their special operation Russia is resorting to civilian terror stacks, piecemeal attacks across the front, North Korean aid and hopes that the West will give up.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:42 am to Coeur du Tigre
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If tweet fails to load, click here. The Alabuga industrial park is in Tartarstan and was hit with a long range drone once before.
The "Alabuga Polytechnic College" seems to have a strange syllabus, offering "forced labor, including forced night shifts; students being denied sick leave; mandatory paintball sessions; corporal punishment; a lack of proper support from the administration in cases of personal difficulties; providing inadequate food and rest between required labour, paintball, and education; understaffed medical services; and being forced to miss classes for mandatory work shifts."
Also, heavy fines are levied against the students and the student's parents for non-performance of established production levels. I wonder if they are test optional?
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In 2021, Alabuga Polytech, also called Alabuga Polytechnic College, opened in the special economic zone. Despite being called a college, they are formally not an independent educational institution, but rather a division of Yelabuga Polytechnic College. General education subjects are taught by teachers from Yelabuga College.
Alabuga Polytech has been the subject of frequent criticisms and accusations, including: forced labor, including forced night shifts; students being denied sick leave; mandatory paintball sessions; corporal punishment; a lack of proper support from the administration in cases of personal difficulties; providing inadequate food and rest between required labour, paintball, and education; understaffed medical services; and being forced to miss classes for mandatory work shifts.
There have also been reports of insufficient general education, provided by Yelabuga College, with students remaining at a ninth-grade level of education in general subjects.
At the beginning of the school year, students must face professional paintball players in mandatory paintball sessions as a part of Russian "patriotic" education, allegedly even when physically unwell. Reports have detailed different punishments for losing teams: Running or digging trenches in the rain; expulsion (and a consequent fine); some shot at with paintball guns from three metres; others were reportedly tasked to "storm" a hill, without weapons, with the goal of reaching school faculty who were shooting at the students from the top. The staff were allegedly promised a financial bonus if none of the students could "capture" the hill.
The Alabuga Polytech employment contract stipulates that students who drop out of school or who are expelled are fined between 170,000 and 420,000 rubles.[a] The contract is tripartite (signed by three parties), involving Alabuga Polytech, the student, and the student's parents, meaning the student's parents are fined if the student cannot be reached.
The school had attempted marketing in African countries to attract young "mulattos", as they called them, to their education programs and to be used in labour. When conventional marketing failed to attract new students and workers, Alabuga Polytech opted to use students as actors on Tinder and Badoo in a deceptive scheme to convince girls to move to Russia for school. The school targeted girls, as, supposedly, African boys "could be too aggressive and dangerous". In fall 2022, the school managed to attract several dozen people through this scheme. The African students were initially segregated from other students, housed and taught in separate facilities. The African students were employed in low-skill work such as janitorial services, rather than technical work like other students, as the school has no maintenance staff and so the maintenance responsibilities are shifted onto the African students.
In 2021 and 2023, two students of the college, both minors, took their own lives due to harsh treatment and fear of expulsion.
Some students, as young as 15, are employed by the company Albatross in the construction of Russian-made Shahed drones at the Yelabuga drone factory, which are deployed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Students were instructed not to tell their parents about the assembly work, or they would be fined 1.5 million to 2 million rubles, per their employment contracts with Alabuga Polytech. Refusal to work would be met with expulsion and thus a fine. In a 2 April 2024 offensive, the drone factory was struck by an improvised Ukrainian drone apparently adapted from a civilian light aircraft, an Aeroprakt A-22. Russian media reported a nearby workers' dormitory was damaged, with 12 students injured.
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Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:56 am to Coeur du Tigre
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The tanks sent by Australia needed some adjustments to make it them suitable for Ukrainian conditions
This will take months.
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Posted on 7/20/25 at 9:59 am to Coeur du Tigre
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Is it just me or does it seem like this is a growing trend?
Posted on 7/20/25 at 10:16 am to CitizenK
Don't forget Venezuela. And a handful of African warlords. They're still Putin Bros.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 11:18 am to CitizenK
Posted on 7/20/25 at 11:25 am to Coeur du Tigre
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The Washington Post: "Putin is obsessed with Ukraine — the Russian dictator continues the war even as it significantly harms Russia itself."
"This war is a colossal strategic mistake for Russia. It's not a war Russia can win in the long run. The cost of the war is unimaginably high" — they have already lost a million people, and the war is objectively weakening Russia's geopolitical position.
Putin is “deeply enraged” with Ukraine because it didn’t become a submissive state like Belarus. This mindset is deeply irrational — even fanatical — and it’s one of the main reasons why Putin simply cannot bring himself to end the war.
Slow day at the Post? I think the words you are looking for are "obsessive sociopath".
Posted on 7/20/25 at 11:32 am to Coeur du Tigre
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AO Angstrem is a company closely tied to the Komsomol military-industrial complex and possesses one of the most advanced facilities in Russia for the development and production of semiconductor components. It is a leading manufacturer of semiconductors, modern microcontrollers, and microprocessors.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 12:58 pm to trinidadtiger
In war news, Russia now controls 75% of the Donetsk region. Also…
Zelensky is now calling for accelerated peace talks for the coming weeks.
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Russia has also entered the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine for the first time in more than three years of war.
Zelensky is now calling for accelerated peace talks for the coming weeks.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:24 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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Lots of unhappiness in Russia as Azerbaijan president Aliev accepts a gift
Azerbaijan is NOT in Russia. Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:37 pm to LSURussian
[quote]Azerbaijan is NOT in Russia.[/quote
They were part of CSTO and like their immediate foe, Armenia, have left that equivalent to NATO. While NATO gained two members since 2022, Russia lost two to its equivalent.
They were part of CSTO and like their immediate foe, Armenia, have left that equivalent to NATO. While NATO gained two members since 2022, Russia lost two to its equivalent.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:42 pm to LSURussian
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Azerbaijan is NOT in Russia.
Yes, correct. That could have been worded a bit better. The unhappiness is in Russia about the president of Azerbaijan accepting the gift.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:43 pm to texag7
Tex,
We arent interested in real reports from the front, we want to discuss some obscure Russian who died.
I see Russia also took another 61 square miles of battlefront in the last week.
Ukraine is losing any hope of holding the lines at this point.
zelensky needs to get serious about negotiations. Russia made it clear, if this continues their stance is 8 not 4 provinces. Looks like we are headed that way.
We arent interested in real reports from the front, we want to discuss some obscure Russian who died.
I see Russia also took another 61 square miles of battlefront in the last week.
Ukraine is losing any hope of holding the lines at this point.
zelensky needs to get serious about negotiations. Russia made it clear, if this continues their stance is 8 not 4 provinces. Looks like we are headed that way.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:46 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Small but significant steps. Someone had to tell Putin "no" this time.
Posted on 7/20/25 at 2:50 pm to Coeur du Tigre
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Trump continuing to arm Ukraine is one of the most popular things the administration has done, with all sectors of American society.
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