Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Just now.

Closer look at fire at on oil depot area in Belgorod pic.twitter.com/0pC1fopTRs

— Special Kherson Cat \uD83D\uDC08\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDE6 (@bayraktar_1love) October 15, 2022

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Originally Posted By sq40:
Pentagon may pay for Starlink

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-pentagon-is-working-on-preserving-starlink-communications-system-in-ukraine/

Originally Posted By Prime:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfHlS7rXgAATpE_?format=jpg&name=small
Russian and pro-Russian social is crowing about the alleged killing of the CO of The Belarusian "Volad" Battalion.
Also alleged post-mortem photo shows an obvious tib/fib fracture/incomplete amputation.

Reportedly, a last footage of the Commander of the Belarusian battalion "Volad" Ivan Marchuk (call sign "Brest") who heroically died near Lysichansk at the end of June. Glory to the Heroes! pic.twitter.com/LOKkFi8muO

Giorgi Revishvili  (@revishvilig) October 15, 2022

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Originally Posted By sq40:
Pentagon may pay for Starlink

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-pentagon-is-working-on-preserving-starlink-communications-system-in-ukraine/

Originally Posted By Firefly1032:


Looked like he was hauling some sort of an AT system when he went down?

Originally Posted By TheLurker:

The glorification of Russian missile strikes in this intro to Gazprom-owned NTV's "Meeting Place" talk show from yesterday is just staggering

WARNING: The horrific Kupyansk footage features at 0:25 pic.twitter.com/yGerqscdXo

— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 11, 2022

Russian media .... wtf.

Originally Posted By TheLurker:

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IgorGirkin  (@GirkinGirkin) October 15, 2022

it looks like a moonscape. Not somewhere I'd want to be in a trench!

Originally Posted By Prime:
Ukrainian TG starting to refer to cope cages as "barbecue grills".

Damn that's cold.

Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
lol.  Dimitry said yesterday he heard rumors of this, so I didn't post because they were rumors, turns out he had a good source apparently.

He’s in the army now. pic.twitter.com/IbZAQUULn4

Dmitri  (@wartranslated) October 15, 2022

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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead:
On the topic of Russian propaganda and their infiltration into western institutions, this report is long but worth a read. You will note some tactics that we have seen in GD, and those on Twitter will absolutely recognize them.

https://www.underminers.info/s/Smagliy_Hybrid-Analytica_10-2018_upd.pdf

TL:DR
This report concludes that the Russian government pursues a coherent and well-coordinated "knowledge weaponization" strategy that has five inter-related components:1) engagement of Kremlin-linked Russian think tanks in the design of domestic and international communication strategies for the Putin regime;
2) establishment of influence centers abroad, which operate as think tanks, academic Russian study centers, cultural centers, various associations of Russian-speaking immigrants, etc.;
3) use of private, typically oligarch-sponsored, actors to promote the Kremlin's interests in the West;
4) reliance on Russian intelligence in the Kremlin's information warfare and infiltration of other countries through the network of agents of influence;
5) pursuit of a deliberate policy of employing Russian state or oligarch-controlled media as mul- tipliers, promoters and/or validators of pro-Kremlin narratives and messaging.



2.2. The Kremlin's Neo-Conservative Doctrine
The Kremlin's answer to this riddle took the form of the new ideological doctrine of "sovereign de- mocracy" (democracy without the rule of law, democratic values or the separation of power), which then evolved into the Russian "neo-conservatism doctrine," featuring the following elements:30
1) promotion of the concept of the superiority of Russians and the Russian state compared to other nations, and the glorification of Russia as the world's leading defender of "true" Christianity, morality, family and other conservative values;
2)revisionism of Russian/Soviet history and whitewashing of Soviet leaders, including Jo- seph Stalin; denial of Moscow's responsibility for mass crimes committed against the Rus- sian people as well as other nations of the USSR and abroad, particularly the 1932-33 genocide against Ukrainians; glorification of Russia's role in the World War Second victory over Nazi Germany and silencing the role of other nations in this success;
3)denial of Russia's responsibility for international aggression, including the war in Georgia in 2008 and the subsequent occupation of parts of its territory, de-facto occupation of parts of Moldova, and the ongoing undeclared war against Ukraine which has so far re- sulted in the illegal annexation of Crimea and the military occupation of Ukraine's eastern territories;4) 5) 6) 7)

4)dehumanizing Ukrainians; bashing Ukraine's culture and language; promoting narratives of fascist revival and anti-Semitism in Ukraine; misrepresenting Ukraine's current govern- ment as a Western puppet committed to neo-Nazi ideologies; discrediting Ukraine's post- Euromaidan reforms as incompetent; portraying Ukraine as a "failed" and "corrupt" state that is not worthy of Western support;

5)blaming the West for the Cold War and portraying Western sanctions against Russia as a return to a "morally bankrupt" and "unjust" "Cold War mentality";
criticism of the West for the "loss of its moral compass" and "degeneracy"; mocking Western concepts of human rights and democracy; accusing the West of double stand- ards;
6)hyperbolic focus on the West's economic and political troubles, which are misrepre- sented as inherent societal failures; support for anti-establishment groups and radical rightist and leftist ideologies in Europe and North America which are often misrepre- sented as legitimate voices speaking on behalf of whole societies;

Originally Posted By Capta:

Thing is, the conservative movement did forget the threat of the Russian Empire.  Or worse, they were co-opted by Russian influence operations to some degree or another due to domestic political hatreds.  I was one of those conservatives.  So were several other people here.
We got better.
The only political operatives here are low-post-count trolls who come in to try to slide the discussion in Russia’s direction.  We deal with them rather harshly.

Originally Posted By JaredC1:
Can someone catch me up on the last 2800 something pages?

I'm not reading all of that.

TL:DR

Originally Posted By RolandofGilead:
On the topic of Russian propaganda and their infiltration into western institutions, this report is long but worth a read. You will note some tactics that we have seen in GD, and those on Twitter will absolutely recognize them.

https://www.underminers.info/s/Smagliy_Hybrid-Analytica_10-2018_upd.pdf

TL:DR
This report concludes that the Russian government pursues a coherent and well-coordinated "knowledge weaponization" strategy that has five inter-related components:1) engagement of Kremlin-linked Russian think tanks in the design of domestic and international communication strategies for the Putin regime;
2) establishment of influence centers abroad, which operate as think tanks, academic Russian study centers, cultural centers, various associations of Russian-speaking immigrants, etc.;
3) use of private, typically oligarch-sponsored, actors to promote the Kremlin's interests in the West;
4) reliance on Russian intelligence in the Kremlin's information warfare and infiltration of other countries through the network of agents of influence;
5) pursuit of a deliberate policy of employing Russian state or oligarch-controlled media as mul- tipliers, promoters and/or validators of pro-Kremlin narratives and messaging.



2.2. The Kremlin's Neo-Conservative Doctrine
The Kremlin's answer to this riddle took the form of the new ideological doctrine of "sovereign de- mocracy" (democracy without the rule of law, democratic values or the separation of power), which then evolved into the Russian "neo-conservatism doctrine," featuring the following elements:30
1) promotion of the concept of the superiority of Russians and the Russian state compared to other nations, and the glorification of Russia as the world's leading defender of "true" Christianity, morality, family and other conservative values;
2)revisionism of Russian/Soviet history and whitewashing of Soviet leaders, including Jo- seph Stalin; denial of Moscow's responsibility for mass crimes committed against the Rus- sian people as well as other nations of the USSR and abroad, particularly the 1932-33 genocide against Ukrainians; glorification of Russia's role in the World War Second victory over Nazi Germany and silencing the role of other nations in this success;
3)denial of Russia's responsibility for international aggression, including the war in Georgia in 2008 and the subsequent occupation of parts of its territory, de-facto occupation of parts of Moldova, and the ongoing undeclared war against Ukraine which has so far re- sulted in the illegal annexation of Crimea and the military occupation of Ukraine's eastern territories;4) 5) 6) 7)

4)dehumanizing Ukrainians; bashing Ukraine's culture and language; promoting narratives of fascist revival and anti-Semitism in Ukraine; misrepresenting Ukraine's current govern- ment as a Western puppet committed to neo-Nazi ideologies; discrediting Ukraine's post- Euromaidan reforms as incompetent; portraying Ukraine as a "failed" and "corrupt" state that is not worthy of Western support;

5)blaming the West for the Cold War and portraying Western sanctions against Russia as a return to a "morally bankrupt" and "unjust" "Cold War mentality";
criticism of the West for the "loss of its moral compass" and "degeneracy"; mocking Western concepts of human rights and democracy; accusing the West of double stand- ards;
6)hyperbolic focus on the West's economic and political troubles, which are misrepre- sented as inherent societal failures; support for anti-establishment groups and radical rightist and leftist ideologies in Europe and North America which are often misrepre- sented as legitimate voices speaking on behalf of whole societies;

Originally Posted By 4xGM300m:


Not in one hundred years.