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  • The whole thing is sus:

    • Prigozhin stages a march onto Moscow
    • Putin runs away to St Petersburg, where a couple vans full of allegedly Prigozhin's money get found, so he just stops short of Moscow and turns around
    • Prigozhin runs away to Belarus, Wagner to split between "core" in Belarus and the rest getting incorporated into Russia's military
    • Russia blocks food export from Ukraine, holds a conference with African countries where it promises to send food
    • Niger sees a military coup, asks for Wagner help, Russia agrees, Prigozhin releases video of himself in Africa

    ...just a couple days later...

    • Prigozhin in a private plane over Russia, north of Moscow, in route to St Petersburg, crashes and dies along with other Wagner leadership

    ...wait, what? How? Why? Wasn't he just in Africa, and not welcome in Russia?

  • Well, don't do it in the open. I know the whole world and their uncle let RT run their media freely for like forever, but I can't believe Russia's information infrastructure is so tight that a well organized task force couldn't infiltrate it without being detected.

    Like, maybe in 2020 they could have me fooled, but after what they did in the Kyiv assault of 2022, when they fried their own comms, ECMd their own missile defenses, kept selling tank fuel for cigarettes and drinking the cooling liquid... that whole country must be a freaking clown town.

    What, do they need to send some clowns to blend in? Then do it, start some pirate news stations, get to the people and let them have an alternate point of view.

    Back during the Cold War, the East had Radio Free Europe to listen to. You could get arrested if they caught you, but people still did it. Tech has changed since then, but Radio Free Europe is still working, so they must have some infrastructure still in place. Use that, or whatever modern equivalent.

  • Right, porn... that's why all the Russian horny bastards can write in English!

    I know, we need to turn PornHub to Russian only! Force the kids to learn by searching for some hot бабушка porn, then they'll know something more than typing "CYKA BLYAT" in CSGO chat. The counter information task force of tomorrow is just a few faps away!

  • Duh, that's my point! Why isn't there Western propaganda in Russian?

    How is it the Kremlin can pay a bunch of people to write fake news in English and turn Western social media to shit, but the White House can't do the same to write fake news in Russian? So much CIA, MI6, all the EU agencies... what, you telling me they don't have the money, or what?

  • Well, it would come from "ver- schwind -en -ung", so the closest translation to English might be something like "for-dwindling"... but the English "for-" seems to have lost some of the versatility of the German "ver-", so the closest modern word that comes to mind is using the "shrink" meaning of "schwinden", and translate as "enshrinkening". Ultimately they'd all be synonyms.

  • Having your children or parents/grandparents, starve or freeze to death, can easily kill them. Maybe it's not 100% certain like shooting someone to death, but still, most people value their own people's lives more than someone else's.

    And it's not whataboutism, just a qualification on a scale: I haven't heard (yet) of Russians forcing civilians to torture each other, so they're like a step less depraved than the Saudis.

  • Beehaw: You should join our instance

    Where does it say that?

    This isn't Reddit/Meta/𝕏, they don't get paid for selling more ads. If you don't know why to join, then don't 🙂

    Beehaw: We're defederating from two of the largest instances.

    Is "largest" a good thing? Reddit is even larger, is that better?

    Not all people want to be with all others all the time, smaller instances of like-minded people make it easier to pick your own crowds.