Russia invades Ukraine - 3 - from 23 Oct 2022

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Bellingcat are a very impressive investigative outfit. Interesting thread on the Russian team planning missile strikes.

My magic 8 ball says war crime prosecution likely.

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That has massive Catfish TV vibes. The bloke has been talking to this ā€˜girl’ for 6 years on chat, never done a video call.

The host drop the picture of the ā€˜girl’ into google image search. Bam fake

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More details of the Russian missile targeting investigation in this thread, but… yeah…

https://twitter.com/dalperovitch/status/1584659715937947648?s=46&t=UgjYXF5TTY_z0j-pzMRE6A

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Bump!

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Unexploded switchblade 300

https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1584666687835877376?s=46&t=UgjYXF5TTY_z0j-pzMRE6A

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There’s a lot of Ru sympathisers worldwide. This propaganda just adds more material for them to distribute and ā€œraise question marksā€. People just get sucked in.

A smart guy I know was chatting about the war and started questioning about US motives, why are the arming UA, etc. After a while, it seemed fairly obvious to me that he just hears lots of various reports, takes them all in and gives them equal weight. No filter or logic applied. So for him, he has taken the Elon Musk position - UA gives up Crimea, don’t join NATO or EU, a whole pile of concessions to just stop the war now.

This kind of general public position is surely what RU is chasing, the general western pressure to just end it all now and leave them in some kind of place where RU still finish up with some kind of annexed land in Crimea and Donbas. The Elon Musk proposal. And lots of people are eating it up it seems.

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I had someone like this telling me its all a conspiracy, and the proof was that Ukraine was fighting so well. ā€œThey are a 3rd world country, do you seriously believe that they can beat the Russians!ā€.

They also get off watching Russian TV to get ā€œthe truthā€. :rofl:

And a COVID anti-vaxer to go to boot.

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Looks unexploded at first glance, but it is only a grenade sized charge and looks like it has definitely done something.

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Reports that M777s aren’t relocating for days on end because Russian counter battery fires almost completely crippled by HIMARS.

https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1584690318812684289?s=46&t=s7JZue_J8JESXbNi27o-Dw

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Bump…

Found this interesting…

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The Belarus update: so it was saber rattling by Lukasenko and decided to withdrawal when Poland and Lithuania moved their forces to the border. The man is more bluff than anything else.

These are three people that I want taken away from power from this conflict (in order):

Putin
Kadyrov
Lukasenko

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