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Trump/MAGA mistakenly believes the world freeloads off the US, that the US holds all the cards & trade agreements mean nothing.

China should wait until real shortages take hold in the US to make this lesson as PAINFUL as possible, b/c pain is sometimes the only way to get thru to stupid ppl.

Two Trump supporters at an Ohio Trump rally wearing T-shirts that say: "I'd Rather Be A Russian Than A Democrat". This picture was taken by Cleveland.com reporter Jeremy Pelzer at a Trump rally at the Olentangy Orange High School in Ohio on 4 August 2018. "Pelzer identified the two men as James Alicie and Richard M. Birchfield..." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-than-democrat-shirts/

...and they're proud of it.

When you don't understand a machine well enough, you shouldn't start carelessly pulling out wires & gears. The machine can become dangerous to the operator, increasingly expensive to fix or be rendered completely irreparable. They don't understand government well enough to fix anything.

Seeing a lot of sentiment that 🇺🇸 allies should form their own mil/eco alliance without 🇺🇸 reliance. An isolated 🇺🇸 w/diminished global influence is exactly what Putin & Xi wants. But when the world's most powerful country elects ppl like Trump twice, is there any other option but to distance from 🇺🇸 ?

That whole tech bros ethos of "Move fast, break things" might work with some start-up venture but not with a government and certainly not with government agencies whose duty is to keep the country secure & its citizens safe.

"rude", "very negative." 😆 Here's the pic I replied to & a link to my reply. Sure the pic's cute but when ppl can't tell a doctored image apart then that IS problematic. My reply only points out the alteration, makes no accusation, and only a warning to increase awareness of manipulated imagery.

A "psychic medium minister" blocked me for pointing out one of the pics of a squirrel & bird she posted had been digitally altered. She blocked me & everyone else in the comments who said same b/c of "negativity"🙄

I think we know why "psychics" don't like ppl who apply logic or critical thinking.🙄

I'd say Russia's advanced anti-drone radar was a success. It definitely found Ukrainian drones.

Black-capped chickadee perched on someone's hand. Chickadee is looking off to frame right. A pile of various nuts and seeds is piled on the person's hand.

Lower photo has been digitally manipulated. In the lower image, the black-capped chickadee's size is too small in relation to the squirrel.

This is how big a chickadee is in relation to an adult human hand.

Don't readily believe everything you see on the Internet.

If these two assholes are talking over the heads of Ukrainians, this won't amount to anything. With a Trump admin, 🇺🇸 can't be trusted. The EU needs to get off their collective asses, step up their mil-aid to 🇺🇦 unless they all want to be fighting 🇷🇺 troops on their own borders in the near future.

Video from that new series: "The Barely Walking Dead".

But seriously... I can't imagine the amount of loathing Putin has for 🇷🇺 citizens for him to not bat an eye while doing THIS to them. It's just insanity...

Trump's first disastrous 2018 trade war hurt 🇺🇸 farmers severely. So why would these guys vote for Trump again? There's just no hiding it now, no excuses to be made. They really liked Trump's white supremacist platform.

When you let hate override your judgment, you fully deserve the consequences.

I do agree it shouldn't have taken practically a whole year for the 🇺🇸 just to grant permission for allies to donate their own F-16s when time is of the essence. This is why it's vital that each country diversify its suppliers, more so now that the 🇺🇸 has an unpredictable admin.

The trickling in of F-16s was timed to synchronize with 🇺🇦 pilot & ground crew training programs to maximize their chances of survival. The same thing is happening with the Mirage 2000-F5 donations. They're being trickled in as more pilots & ground crew are trained & facilities prepared.

To be fair, you can't dump a tonne of new aircraft on a country at war. Before this war, 🇺🇦 never had F-16s so more support infrastructure is needed. Jets on the ground w/o enough pilots, ground crew & hardened weatherproof hangars are easy targets & will rapidly degrade in 🇺🇦's harsh winters.

The 🍊💩 tried the trade war stunt with 🇨🇳 in 2018 & it devastated 🇺🇸 agriculture. $27Bn lost exports, $28Bn taxpayer funded bailout, >500 🇺🇸 farms closed, rise in bankruptcies & Midwest farmer suicides, 300k+ 🇺🇸 ancillary jobs lost.

Why are people so incapable of learning from the past? 🤦‍♂️

There might be something to this. It's as if 🇷🇺 believes that 🇺🇦 is using automated drones that acquire targets based on motion & staying still makes them less detectable. Otherwise, I can't think of any reason why 🇷🇺 believes this is a viable tactic at all especially at close range. 🤷‍♂️

Wow, that's mind-blowing! 🙃

This will slow down already hampered 🇷🇺 logistics even further.

It's like a contemporary version of Operation Eldest Son where the U.S. seeded enemy ammo caches with exploding cartridges during the Vietnam War.

There are maybe around 27 to 32 Su-57s in existence. When you take into account that some are prototypes and some are held back for testing & parts, there are maybe 22 to 25 operational Su-57s.

Wire guidance for munitions has been in use in some form since 1945. Before fiber optic, thin copper wire was used to guide ATGMs and torpedoes. Fiber optic drones can't be jammed nor do they transmit any signal back to the operator so they're harder to detect. It's not dumb at all.

Load the video into a video editor and scrub the video back and forth. You'll notice that the wiggling is in sync with the video blurring of foreground elements like light sources. It's just camera motion.

Since I last checked its profile, it has made 50 additional posts. It makes posts with positive messaging to seem less bot-like, maybe to get a few likes. Check it's reply history, you'll notice the bot-like behavior.

Example of a foreign influence bot making an off-topic reply likely due to the presence of certain keyword combinations like "Washington", "deep state", "conspiracy". In the screen shot, a person was making post joking about the unusual weather in Washington DC being a deep state conspiracy. This bot follows up with an off-topic reply using an AI-generated cartoon in the same visual style as the AI-generated cartoons used by the Russian botnet Doppleganger. (ref: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3lfna4fhfds2o) The translation in the cartoon reads: "While the US sells warplanes and military equipment to Turkey, there are strict policies and contracts that follow. This is a strategy to control us."

🇷🇺 bot: lexygree345.bsky.social

- Off-topic replies mixed with anti-🇺🇦/🇺🇸/Zelensky/West posts.
- 🇷🇺 Doppelgänger botnet clues:
- similar AI generated cartoons.
- "Hayy love" in profile.
- Trigger words causing bot to make off-topic replies. See Alt text.

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The distillation towers are targeted which are very expensive, very complex, custom made, very difficult to repair. If sanctions remain in place & with the time it takes to replace a distillation tower, some refineries could be offline for many months if not a couple of years. 🇺🇦 has hit over 30!

Just adding that though 🇺🇦 has been quite successful hitting 🇷🇺 oil infrastructure, 🇷🇺 has a fairly large refining capacity. Estimates are 🇺🇦 has reduced 🇷🇺's refining capacity by roughly 17%. It may not turn off the tap but it does hamper 🇷🇺 troop movement & mechanized assaults.

🇷🇺 has proven adept at sanctions busting. 🇷🇺 kept its oil exports going via its shadow tanker fleet. 2024 🇷🇺 oil exports were actually up 6%, generating $108B. This won't last. 🇺🇦 is hitting energy infrastructure even more, the shadow fleet is under scrutiny & 🇷🇺 can't cook its books for much longer.

Putin needs the war to drag on because HE is the oligarch's scapegoat should 🇷🇺 lose the war. To stay alive, Putin needs the war to keep going until 🇺🇦 capitulates or an opportunity/miracle gives him a plausible exit strategy; which he may have gotten with Trump's re-election. Time will tell.

Trump destroys 🇺🇸 credibility, drives allies away, defunds scientific research, guts the FBI making the 🇺🇸 less secure, pulls troops from Europe, appoints loyalists not qualified ppl into positions of power. Each day Trump makes 🇺🇸 weaker. This is what Putin always wanted. Trump is 🇷🇺's greatest asset.

I was curious to see what kind of mechanism their drones were using to carry & drop munitions. That rotary system is cool.