Mindhunter

Дураков на свете не много, просто они так грамотно расставлены, что попадаются на каждом шагу. )
A negative mind never gives you a positive life.

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

This is a very strange war, probably one of the strangest I've ever studied or witnessed.

Off the top of my head I can name about 20 glaring strangeness — about Ukraine and about Russia alike — that defy any reasonable explanation.

Most of those strangeness will have to wait until the war is over, but one — about Russia — I'll go ahead and name.

Russia's death toll is approaching half a million, and by the time you read this, it may have already reached or surpassed that mark.

Losses can sometimes be justified if they yield dividends — but that's not the case with today's Russia or the war it's waging.

I genuinely cannot understand why, after the failed take Kyiv, Russian leadership decided to grind its army year after year, head-on, into Ukraine's most fortified and defended lines.

History has rarely, if ever, seen anything like it — a massive army taken and methodically, year after year, smashed against a wall for minimal gain.

Someone might push back: Ukraine, too, attacked head-on into the most fortified positions in 2023.

True — but after getting burned, Ukrainians drew lessons. What followed was the Kursk operation (a change of direction), robotization, a search for new military solutions.

And before that came the Kharkiv offensive, the defense of Kyiv, the liberation of Kherson through bridge-cutting and encirclement — and much more.

Ukraine's strangeness lies elsewhere — but certainly not in operational art. There they've demonstrated what any cat knows: touch fire once, don't touch it again.

And don't blame Soviet-era generals — even Soviet generals understood and could apply not just the ABC's of military art but higher concepts as well.

But forget the generals — even stranger is why the army itself goes along with it.

Fine, the soldiers — they're terrified, ground down, and cowed. But what about junior and mid-level officers?

Don't questions occur to them — elementary, basic questions — that with a front and theater stretching over 3,000 km, with directions that are either poorly defended or vulnerable, choosing again and again, year after year, the most heavily fortified theater and axis is, to put it mildly, a deliberate strategy to destroy your own army?

The Ukrainians have been slowly falling back all these years, methodically building new lines while simultaneously destroying and grinding down the Russian army.

Looking at that half-million dead, the thought creeps in — the one some Z-bloggers themselves have written about: that this isn't a war, it's a human sacrifice.

Calling it a war in any genuine sense is indeed difficult — because what Russia is doing is simply not how things are done, even when you're Soviet-trained and don't know how to fight.

Because if a man picks up a sword and starts stabbing himself with it — piercing his own hands and feet — you wouldn't say: well, he just doesn't know how to fence — Soviets, you understand...

A lot of lyrical prose has been written about this, and even more clever arguments and attempts to explain it rationally — but all of it misses the point.

The Kremlin is hundreds of people if you count only the very top, and thousands if you include the rest of the apparatus — plus the General Staff, plus senior and junior officers — that's tens of thousands of people.

And not one of them had the basic thought that you cannot smash an army to pieces and burn hundreds of thousands of men alive, head-on, directly into the enemy's fortifications?

The only case we've seen where someone tried to break out of this sacrificial meat grinder was Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group.

How that ended is well known — but what's not clear is why everyone else is fine with all of this.

And this isn't about humanism — it's about basic utilitarianism. You need an army, an economy, equipment — especially if you have ambitions.

And Russia has them.

But Russia is hurtling toward the abyss and shows no sign of stopping — and fine, the leadership are idiots — but why is everyone else okay with it?

History knows many wars — successful and unsuccessful, justified and not, long and bloody, fast and short — but the war the Kremlin is waging today is not just stupid, senseless, and bloody. It is also profoundly strange.

[Eleonora 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 @EleonoraPioch]

На сегодня и на завтра.
Больше ничего постить не хочется.

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Kremlin propagandists continue to mock Donald Trump’s team.

In this video, Rybar admits that Russia is not adhering to the ceasefire and continues to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Russians despise America, which is why they so openly violate the agreement.

🔉Dubbed

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The new America

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Russia, one of the largest military powers in history, with active support from Iran and North Korea and the benevolent neutrality of China, has been unable to erase Ukraine from the world map for 12 years and now requires U.S. assistance to somehow choke it to death after three years of a failed full-scale war.​

Zbigniew Brzezinski would have gone mad seeing this.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Just let this sink in. Trump took away Ukraine’s alert system that warned them of an incoming Russian missile.

Trump removed this lifesaving alarm system knowing fully well women, children and men would die. How is this acceptable?

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

"You don't have any cards, monsieur Franklin, you're gambling with our relations with George III, and your country may not survive anyway."

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Former Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Donald Trump: “I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed…he is unqualified and unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.”

RETWEET if you stand with Secretary Gates against Donald Trump!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🙋‍♂️IF YOU THINK TRUMP IS A PIECE OF SHIT 🙋‍♂️

[Mindhunter @FlorianK776]

RT @StarshinaZapasa: Я вот одного не могу понять. Вот те люди из Кремля, которые руководили украинским разгоном и сейчас руководят грузинск…

[Вал Мишель @VALMICHEL7]

ТОЧКИ НАД І

Послушайте меня, ёбаные "хорошие" русские.
Семь лет и три года ваши блядские соотечественники уничтожают украинцев. Жизнь миллионов сломана. Сотни тысяч убиты. Их дети остались сиротами, не могут ни спать, ни учиться из-за тревог. У них не будет счастливой жизни.
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[Накипіло. Харків @nakypiloua]

As during the Second World War, the occupiers are not only destroying Ukraine’s history but also its people. Once again, part of the world observes evil, choosing to shake hands with it rather than standing up to confront it.

It’s time to let Ukraine strike back!

[Максим Мирович @MirovichMedia]

Олег Басилашвили: «Страшное дело – рабство из-под палки. Но ещё страшнее – рабство без палки. Страшен совок в ватнике. Но ещё страшнее – совок на иномарке, в импортных шмотках, отдыхающий в Европе и при этом ненавидящий Запад».

Просто схватил всю суть. Нечего и добавить.

[Олег Володарський @volodarskijo]

Оскароносна акторка Кейт Бланшетт презентувала свій документальний фільм про життя у прифронтовому Харкові "Ukraine: Life Under Attack" ("Україна: Життя під ударом").

Фільм показав британський Channel 4, Бланшетт також виклала його у своєму акаунті для безкоштовного перегляду.

[Проф. Преображенский @prof_preobr]

Через 20-30 лет ни один россиянин не сможет объяснить, за что погиб его отец, дядя, старший брат на войне в Украине.
Никаких объяснений, кроме "так уж было надо" и "это всё Путин", не будет ни у людей, ни у страны в целом.

Путин сдохнет. Фашистская концепция "русского мира" рухнет. Поджигатели войны либо помрут, как Путин, либо свалят в какой-нибудь Дубай.
Что же останется?

Останется общество, где в миллионах семей будет хотя бы один погибший или раненый на войне.
Останется страна, на улицах которой будут сотни тысяч инвалидов этой войны.
И никто в стране не объяснит, зачем нужны были эти миллионы жертв.
Никто не объяснит, как вообще стала возможна эта людоедская война.
А главное - никто не захочет объяснять, потому что объяснения будут крайне неприятны.

И сменщики Путина, и нынешняя оппозиция Путину во всём обвинят этого самого Путина.
И на этом всё. Скажут - ну вот Путин умер же, всё, давайте перевернём страницу.
Скажут - раз во всём виноват Путин, то теперь, когда его больше нет, ничто не помешает России быть мирной и демократической.

Если всё так и произойдёт, то появление в России нового Путина будет лишь вопросом времени.
Потому что дело не в Путине.
Дело в том, что Путин - как раньше Гитлер и Муссолини - не прилетел из космоса, а был взращён фашистскими, нацистскими и имперскими запросами общества.

Вспомните "крымнаш". Да, решение об аннексии Крыма принимал Путин. Но был же массовый взрыв радости и счастья в стране в ответ на путинское решение. Был, был. Именно массовый. Не всеобщий, но массовый. Путин сделал то, на что был массовый запрос.

Поэтому мало избавиться от Путина.
Важно избавить российское общество от этих фашистских и имперских запросов. Ровно как когда-то избавили от них германское и итальянское общества.
Но будет ли кто-то этим заниматься? Вы видите хоть кого-то, кто готов взять на себя такую миссию?

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

All these cities in Ukraine were destroyed by Russia.
All the Ukrainian people killed in these cities were killed by Russia.
All the homes shattered were shattered by Russia.

Russians at war committed all of this.

[Jerry Heil @thejerryheil]

CNN, the largest American broadcaster, highlighted the song #AllEyesOnKids, bringing the issue of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia to the attention of millions around the world. Let's keep posting about our children with the hashtag #AllEyesOnKids — it's making an impact!