Charlie

Water watcher.

[John Schindler @20committee]

This was an exercise to test the Kremlin bots and trolls; thanks for playing.

[Peter Martin @PeterMartinn]

Spadek aktywności rosyjskich botów po awarii Yandexu uderzył w AfD i Konfederacje mocniej niż jakakolwiek debata parlamentarna. Nagle okazało się, że ten wielki „zryw wolnościowy” i „poparcie prawdziwych patriotów” sprowadzały się do dwóch serwerowni pod Moskwą i jednego skryptu w Pythonie.

Wyobraźcie sobie minę Sławomira Mentzena, który rano wjeżdża na TikToka ze swoim ulubionym dynamicznym montażem, klaska w dłonie, czeka na miliony wyświetleń... a pod filmem cisza. Żaden user83920194 nie pisze już, że „Mentzen zaorał system”, a tysiące profilowych z polską flagą nagle zgasły razem z serwerem w Sasowie. Grzegorz Braun biega po Sejmie z gaśnicą i szuka spisku, ale prawda jest prostsza: po prostu ktoś po drugiej stronie granicy odpiął go od prądu. Nagle okazało się, że o „ukrainizacji Polski” dyskutowało nie pół miliona Polaków, tylko trzy przegrzane karty graficzne w obwodzie riazańskim.

Po drugiej stronie Odry wcale nie jest weselej. Alice Weidel i jej koledzy z AfD jeszcze wczoraj opowiadali o „niewytłumaczalnym geście pokoju z Rosją” i „upadku niemieckiej gospodarki”, a dzisiaj ich sekcja komentarzy wygląda jak opuszczone miasteczko z westernu. Gdy w Rosji padły superkomputery, z niemieckiego internetu wyparowało nagle pół miliona „oburzonych obywateli”, którzy w pięciu różnych językach pisali dokładnie te same posty o tanim gazie.

Nagle politycy, którzy jeszcze wczoraj pozowali na pogromców establishmentu, zostali bez cyfrowego dopingu. Cały ten ich groźny, antyeuropejski zryw bez wsparcia z fabryki trolli wygląda jak groźny pies, któremu ktoś wyjął baterie z ogona. Wygląda na to, że kiedy w Rosji wyłączą router, cała ta głośna „alternatywa dla Europy” zostaje z kilkoma prawdziwymi zwolennikami i zastanawia się, dlaczego te wszystkie miliony serduszek w internecie pisały po polsku i niemiecku, ale myślały w cyrylicy.

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

❗️Zelenskyy:

“Don’t attack us, don’t kill our children, we will stop attack your diesel. And I think it’s a fair, fair deal.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I don’t believe the volume of diesel Russia will export will affect the price. Moreover, we see that they can export from 300,000 to 500,000 tons a month today. Meanwhile, global consumption stands at 120 million tons a month. What kind of impact can that have? I don’t think it would have any. If some people think otherwise, so be it.

So I believe there are entirely different reasons behind these actions. If this is the approach, then why isn’t America making a “diesel deal” with Ukraine? Let Ukraine propose a “diesel deal.” We do have influence over whether these ships can sail or not, whether these refineries can operate or not. If that’s the case, then let’s do it.

Electricity is what matters to us. That’s clear. If we can be guaranteed protection for our power system, then we will not strike Russia’s diesel infrastructure in response. Electricity is first and foremost about helping people – keeping their lights on. It also means helping Europe. Everyone knows that we are connected to the European power grid. And if our energy infrastructure is not being destroyed, we can help some countries that are facing shortages by supplying them with cheaper electricity.

So, yes, let’s sign a corresponding “diesel deal” with the President of the United States.

From remarks at the Warsaw Security Forum. (1)

[Charlie @cloversKeeper]

wait. could Ukraine be interfering on our election?

nah. ;-)

[Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA]

With Yandex data centers under constant attack, I’m starting to worry that the White House will issue yet another demand to stop the strikes. After all, it would be a tragedy if Russia’s valuable bot traffic dried up just before the midterms.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

🤣🤣🤣

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Starlink shutdown coming

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It's all been bullshit. All of it. Diesel, energy deals, peace negotiations, everything between Trump Co. and Putin's mafia is a charade. All they're doing is laundering money and trying to lift sanctions. It's all they care about and all they know how to do.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List is how the United States sells weapons to Europe, which are then provided for Ukraine’s defenses. The price tag for these weapons is in the billions of dollars (upwards of $6.7 billion to date), orders of magnitude higher than what the Russian diesel deal is worth. Trump would be losing money — and costing the American defense industry revenue — for a sham deal with Russia that benefits none outside of Moscow and Miami. Just to give you a sense of his prioritized requirements.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Starlink is not used in Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries because it doesn’t work above Russia.
If Elon Musk decides to signal his dislike of Zelensky by turning off Starlink, it will lead to many thousands more Ukrainian deaths on the frontline, will severely damage the SpaceX brand internationally (countries will know they can’t rely on it in times of real crisis), but will have zero effect on Ukrainian strikes against the Russian oil and gas industry.
It will also not end the war.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Putin told Iran the locations of our warships.

Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine.

Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.

[Armchair Admiral 🇬🇧 @ArmchairAdml]

What a fucking headline! Well done @Telegraph

[Charlie @cloversKeeper]

@akoz33 fwiw. I'm pretty sure that's his golf caddy writing those posts.

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Hell of a record

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Zelensky says the ceasefire announcement came as news to him, but Ukraine will accept it too if Russia agrees, adding that if Trump struck this deal with Putin, Kyiv just needs to be told when it starts.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

The first Russian diesel shipment is reaching the US East Coast barely 24 hours post announcement, indicating the pact preceded its public reveal as the tanker Minerva Zen departed St. Petersburg back on September 22.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Misreading the room”? Get fucked. You started a needless war with Iran, it went sideways, and now you want to make Ukraine pay the price.

[Halli @iamharaldur]

Attacks Iran.

Spikes global oil prices.

Buys oil from Russia.

Russia funds Iran.

Art of the Deal.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

We can’t tolerate Ukraine interference in the midterm elections.

[La Flamme Rouge @laflammerouge16]

"Find me all the 4 Km @ 10% climbs you can in France"

(Prudhomme on the phone with Gouvenou, likely now)

#ILombardia