TankieTanuki
@TankieTanuki@hexbear.net
A furry Marxist-Leninist varmint
- Comment on US intelligence say Putin wants Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, and more. Trump’s team says Russia wants peace 6 days ago:
Sector whose existence is predicated on fear says you should be very afraid
- Comment on US intelligence say Putin wants Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, and more. Trump’s team says Russia wants peace 6 days ago:
Trump is only marginally less Russophobic than other US politicians
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
The “human wave” was Hitler’s invented excuse for the defeat of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad after having promised the German people for weeks that the city was sure to be captured “very soon”. In truth, they were defeated by a pincer counter attack.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Good find; thanks! So it is repatriations.
I hope the US doesn’t do that, because forcing people into a war zone against their will would be even more cruel than the typical deportations already are.
Russia started the large-scale military invasion
This line made me laugh, because the author obviously started with the FULL-SCALE INVASION line that the Anglo media has been uniformly blasting for years, but—because academic work is less propagandistic than the news—they paused to give it some thought and correctly realized that there is no way to know or define what a truly “full-scale” conflict is, so they removed the absolute language.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Okay, I’ve had time to parse it a little.
Interestingly, the NYT chart and the pyramids website use the same data source!
It looks like you’re right that the two countries share the same same demographic “shape”. The culprit is Gorbachev and the catastrophic dissolution of the USSR which caused birthrates to plummet in all former Soviet states, so it makes sense that they would suffer similar fates.
It also looks like the war did, in fact, worsen the problem for Ukraine, which has a ~50% drop among fighting-aged men from 2021 to 2023 😦. Somehow they gained some people in 2024. I don’t understand how that’s possible TBH. Repatriations?
We would need it to compare it to the changes in Russia’s population over the same period to have the full picture. I’m going to go get dinner so maybe another comrade can help me out. I would expect a similar dynamic, but less pronounced due to the 4x population difference.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Thanks. We’ll need to dig to figure out what’s going on with the apparent disparity
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Do these graphs cite a source? I can’t make any out, but maybe it’s a text color thing.
The chart I shared is from the NYT, which is not known for a pro-Russian bias.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Russia views both NATO and Nazis across their border as direct threats. The former because they denied Russia’s attempted entry and have been steadfastly encroaching, and the latter because they slaughtered twenty million Russian civilians in WWII. Russian Ukrainians living in the east of Ukraine were attacked.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
I don’t trust any casualty tallies I’ve seen for either side, really—including the 1.7 million for Ukraine that was claimed by those hackers.
The real numbers are likely closely guarded. We’ll have to wait for the historians to sort it out 10-20 years from now.
However, we do have clues as to which country (if any) is facing a recruitment crisis and demographic collapse: One side has resorted to stalking men on the streets and press-ganging them.
Many include family members or friends fighting desperately to prevent their loved one being taken against his will.
the widespread and rising desertion rates from Ukraine’s armed forces only seem to provoke more violent recruitment practices and then civilian protests.
It’s beyond dispute, because we have many hundreds of videos documenting the practice. I’ll never forget this mother trying to save her son, nor this man’s scream.
Many Ukrainians are afraid to leave their homes. Several have died during their encounters with the “recruiters”, some of them choosing to take their own lives with grenades rather than be taken to the front, and some succumbing to injuries sustained while trying to resist. Ibid:
On October 23, Ukrainian Roman Sopin died from heavy blunt trauma to the head after he had been forcibly recruited
In August, a conscripted man, 36, died suddenly at a recruitment center in Rivne
In June, 45-year-old Ukrainian-Hungarian Jozsef Sebestyen died after he was beaten with iron bars following his forced conscription
In August, a conscript died from injuries sustained after he jumped out of a moving vehicle that was transporting him to the recruitment center
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Sadly^[I mean that earnestly. Having an entire generation hollowed out of country is tragic in any context.], it’s just ~1-2 years for Ukraine. It’s why they’ve resorted to busification.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 1 week ago:
Just one, actually
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 week ago:
I have a degree in chemistry and I never had to do this. 99% of the time you’re working with the same 5 elements. Many elements on the table literally only existed for less than a microsecond in a lab decades ago.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Is this a new Factorio unit? I haven’t played in a few years
- Comment on Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold — a memory kit disappears in the snail mail at four in the morning with a bogus signature 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad I bought my 128GB 18 months ago.
It’s ECC too. capybara-fancy
- Comment on The woods were full of mushrooms today! 4 weeks ago:
That’s the straightest mushroom I’ve ever seen
- Comment on Name your favourite prehistoric tree. 5 weeks ago:
Is there a Face Palm?
- Comment on EU confirms tighter visa rules for Russians to help stop ‘sabotage’ 1 month ago:
Western governments and intelligence agencies allege […]
Some Western officials stated […]
Western officials regularly cite […]
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- Comment on EU confirms tighter visa rules for Russians to help stop ‘sabotage’ 1 month ago:
There were a bunch of train derailments in Spain a couple years ago that were immediately blamed on Russia.
An investigation later revealed that “local radio enthusiasts” were responsible, and the headline of the article admitting so still made it seem like Russia was to blame.^[euronews.com/…/is-russian-sabotage-behind-20-rece…]
- Comment on i hate myself and i want to die lol 1 month ago:
- Comment on eel butts 2 months ago:
Pig poop balls vs. snail poop head
- Comment on Chinese Covid-19 whistleblower sentenced to 4 more years in jail, group says 2 months ago:
Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 months ago:
We’ve only got two billion years. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 3 months ago:
Oh no. Did the light hurt the castle?
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 3 months ago:
People are still doing this? Six years after Mueller? pain
- Comment on 451 error on Lemmy.zip media? ("Unavailable due to legal reasons") 3 months ago:
Which service of theirs do you use?
I’m just trying to understand if they can block traffic to servers run by sysadmins who’ve never signed up with them at all. I would think not, but the web is so centralized these days that I’m not sure.
- Comment on 451 error on Lemmy.zip media? ("Unavailable due to legal reasons") 3 months ago:
Does lemmy.zip pay for Cloudfare’s edge cache or CDN services?
- Comment on Working Overtime at the Disease Factory 4 months ago:
What is a gain-of-function experiment?
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
I assumed that they did that in their publications and letters to editors, not the YouTube comment sections. I guess I’m wrong.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 months ago:
In Don’t Look Up, DiCaprio’s character is shown getting into flame wars on the internet, and that struck me as something that an astronomer would be above.
- Comment on US-Russia plan truce deal that would cement Putin’s gains in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports 4 months ago:
Ukraine has run out of men—that’s why their army has resorted to kidnapping. They can’t be helped.
A majority of Ukrainians support ending the war in exchange for territory. Unfortunately, their voices cannot be heard, because the authoritarian Zelenskyy regime has suspended elections.
