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Lol, I mean was there really any other choice this year?
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Xyls wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:29 pm Lol, I mean was there really any other choice this year?
Here’s who is on Time’s 2022 Person of the Year shortlist
  • Elon Musk
  • Xi Jinping
  • Liz Cheney
  • Volodymyr Zelensky
  • MacKenzie Scott
  • Ron DeSantis
  • Janet Yellen
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Xyls wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:29 pm Lol, I mean was there really any other choice this year?
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Interview with Advisor to the President of Ukraine Aleksiy Arestovich
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➤ 00:00 Situation at the front: no major changes. The enemy is shelling the Dnieper and Zaporozhye with rockets. The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down a Russian K-52 helicopter with a crew and a SU-34 front-line bomber;
➤ 02:23 Avdiivka, Bakhmut: a trap for the Russian army;
➤ 03:21 During the day, a large number of deployed Russian mobilized was not observed;
➤ 04:23 President of Ukraine Zelensky met with fighters on the front line on the holiday Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
➤ 05:41 Security breach in Kursk: airfield fuel storage damaged;
➤ 06:17 Putin fears retribution for killing Ukrainians;
➤ 08:27 Russian military potential is not protected: air defense on the territory of Russia did not work a single time in two days;
➤ 10:31 3 Russian aircraft destroyed in Engels and 1 damaged in Diaghilevo;
➤ 11:06 Historical Ukrainian land: the city of Engels was founded in the 18th century by Ukrainian merchants - Chumaks;
➤ 11:42 Hungary blocks EU aid to Ukraine: Orban's unfriendly act in the fight against the world;
➤ 13:52 Awareness of the West: there will be no negotiations with the Russian Federation. Everything will be decided on the battlefield;
➤ 15:55 The weather factor in Ukraine has a non-linear effect on the offensive and defense of Ukrainian troops;
➤ 17:46 There is no decrease in Western interest in the war in Ukraine;
➤ 19:05 Girkin summed up the results, returning from the Donbas direction of the front: no one in the Russian army knows what he is fighting for;
➤ 23:01 Ukrainian-German "Gepard" shot down a Russian cruise missile and effectively shoots down Iranian drones;
➤ 24:05 In January-February, the second wave of mobilization in the Russian Federation is planned, with the ongoing first wave;
➤ 27:07 Actions of the Legion "Freedom of Russia" against the grave: on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the movement of trains on the Krasnoyarsk section, transporting mobilized people, was suspended;
➤ 28:21 Kremlin publics spread fake information about the shelling of residential areas in the center of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
➤ 31:16 The frivolous rhetoric of the incompetent Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu about the temporary capture of settlements, and not about the removal of the bodies of the killed Russian military from the battlefield, because of the putrid smell of which it is impossible to breathe in the trenches;
➤ 33:38 Another exchange of prisoners of war took place;
➤ 34:33 Russia will soon lose the ability to inflict massive strikes on Ukraine's infrastructure. The Russian Federation spent 10 billion dollars to achieve tactical goals, left without a strategic potential;
➤ 39:23 After useless missile attacks on Ukrainian power plants, Russia has no potential for a war with NATO;
➤ 42:24 The Dozhd TV channel, infamous for its support of the Russian army, continues to broadcast on YouTube.
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Putin claimed that the threat of nuclear war is growing, but that Russia will not be the first to employ nuclear weapons. Putin added, however, that if Russia is not the first to initiate the first use of nuclear weapons, it will also not be the second to do so, because the “possibility of using [a nuclear weapon] in the event of a nuclear strike on [Russian] territory are very limited.” Putin reiterated that Russian nuclear doctrine is premised on self-defense and stated that any Russian nuclear use would be retaliatory.
ISW.
It is evident that Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons, again. What other reason could it be to mention nuclear weapons?, if Putin (maybe
anybody?) mentions nuclear weapons, it is a threat; obviously...


Time.
Elon Musk was in that cover... and G.W. Bush, and Trump, and Berlusconi... and A. Hitler.
Also, "The blunt reality of war in Vietnam" and "The gun in America". What's the value of a cover?, a bait to sell the magazine? Shouldn't we be a
bit more critical about the message in the media, no matter how glittering it is?
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ibm9000 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:46 am a bait to sell the magazine?
Exactly !! And for nothing else !!
ibm9000 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:46 amShouldn't we be a bit more critical about the message in the media, no matter how glittering it is?
From my point of view it won't help. :(
But it makes sense to increase education, for example, learn how rhetoric and journalism work.

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Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022.
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It is not a report, it is not History and it cannot be otherwise, we are still at war. It is only using Ukrainian data and estimates and we cannot know
how candid Ukraine is about it.
One thing specially "surprising" (for me at least) is when it's talking about deception. Deception is part of Russian doctrine (and not only in that army, obviously), but it seems that in this case they swallowed it all. You cannot show that you are not being deceived because then you are telling the other side that their deception is not working.
Still, no wishful thinking in that study, no arrows in a map.
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ibm9000 wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:33 am
Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022.
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Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022

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Vector wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:48 pm But it makes sense to increase education, for example, learn how rhetoric and journalism work.

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A midwit would take that meme as proof that different opinions on the same thing are always equally valid. The meme actually shows how different opinions on the same thing can be equally wrong if they are based on incomplete information.

The shape is not a square or a circle or a triangle. It's a complex fusion of all three. Dare I say that most people lack the visuospatial abilities to imagine it in their heads or to accurately reproduce its shape after having a chance to examine it.
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