That's the joke
I'm curious what would happen after the current war-time surge of jingoism cools down in Russia and people notice their material conditions do not improve
Unfortunately he's also been shitting on USSR and Lenin, from what I've heard from the Q/A
liberal hat on
"Akschually this is GOOD, because they're pro Russia and Russia is evil so they're pro-evil. You wouldn't allow a pro-nazi party so you shouldn't allow pro Russia and pro China parties! I am very intelligent"
Liberal hat off
Was talking to this fellow yesterday (distant relative, we don't interact much). He's been going from time to time to Donetsk region, hauling humanitarian aid. Showed some disturbing stuff.
Apparently he went to Yasinovataya recently to help distribute aid - macaroni, buckwheat, you know the stuff provided to civilians. Mind you, the town went down from about 70-80k population to about 10 by his estimate (wikifedia says 30).
When they returned home, the vehicle base they went from got attacked. Cluster munitions. He showed me a video from the balcony, you could hear the telltale multiple boom of the clusters. And another one, which he said was a drone - meaning the strike was directed from the sky, and not just blind. So the AFU knew exactly what they were attacking.
There weren't any military vehicles in that base. Even if there were - they'd be impervious to shrapnel from the clusters. Civilian vehicles - not so much. Freshly delivered bus had its windows smahed out. The driver was wounded. Dump trucks had tires torn to shreds, windows smashed, several had engines sliced. Hydraulics, fuel lines, brakes - you name it, all sliced by shrapnel. There was a tractor - now it has a hole in the bloody dozer. Water tank truck - holes. There was a Niva parked next to the office building of the base - it caught fire. Burned out entirely, fire spread to the building and torched the first floor. And as a final insult, there was a cat living there - it hid under one of the trucks when the shelling began and got killed.
But nah, the western media keeps screeching about heroic Ukraine and heroic west. Russian media thumps about all going to plan, and little to no casualties. Meanwhile, this is the norm over there.
or capitulation on Russia’s terms
Yeah, fat chance. I'm more inclined to believe in betrayal by Russian national bourgeoisie than that. Let's not pretend situation in Russia isn't difficult and that it's not getting more difficult due to aforementioned bourgeoisie. Gas prices keep rising, food prices keep rising (basic stuff, like buckwheat or macaroni). The talking heads keep talking about needing to expand industry and ramp up military production, but in the same breath admit a deficit of trained personnel (guess what, someone has to operate the machinery), and in the same breath still refuse to raise salaries. Why would someone go to be a welder or CNC machine operator, when they could go be a yandex food courier for the same money, with the same hours, and relatively less hassle? Capitalism, baby. Likewise the bourgeoisie - why not tear down the production line for short term profit? Why not demand more funds for existing lines? It's not like the government could refuse.
And now there's the threat of UAVs and bombs and whatnot. There's word that the ATACMS provided by the USA will have cluster warheads - as opposed to "normal" ones, that could be used against hard targets, like bunkers. Then why clusters? They're terrific at tearing apart unarmoured vehicles and human flesh. That's why.
Apologies for the rant. Point is, the west is unlikely to capitulate. Instead we'll just see more terror weapons. Them trickling down in such a meager fashion seems to also be on purpose. It's going to be jets to lob missiles at Crimea (look at the recent Sevastopol strike), long range missiles to murder civilians in Belgorod and Tver. AFU has already used chemical weapons on small drones - big warheads are the next step. White phosphorus. Dirty bombs. No cost is too great to maintain the hegemony.
IIRC the pro-nato channels that did mention it, claimed it was Russia shelling Ukrainian humanitarian corridors
X-22 with pigeon homing device
What is it about?
Never been there (on purpose). Heard it was some junk about "the establishment of democracy" and shit
Josephoartigasia monesi, the largest rodent known to science. Weighing more than a ton, it reached up to 1.5 meters in height. It dwelled in South America during Pliocene and Pleistocene.
Art by James Gurney.
Today I bring you something peculiar. Meet Tupilakosaurus. It is an amphibian that dominated western Laurasia in early Triassic, as the biosphere struggled to recover after the Permian extinction.
Tupilakosaurus was a small - just under a meter long - creature, with a long, powerful tail, short limbs and (apparently) external gills, like those of an axolotl. These fine animals lived in rivers without going ashore and hunted small fish or other amphibians.
Tupilakosaurus is a curiosity due to its particular circular vertebrae (pictured below), which is uncommon for their kind of amphibians. Indeed, when first discovered they were originally believed to be fish, and later to be ancestors to Ichthyosaurs.
Despite their short existence, Tupilakosaurus had quite a sizeable habitat, ranging from modern day Greenland to western Russia, such as Vladimir oblast, Nizhny Novgorod region, and all the way to Arkhangelsk and Vyatka. It would take later amphibians millions of years to carve the same range.
Today I bring you Benthosuchus - a relative of the Wetlugasaurus from the other week. Another Temnospondyli amphibian, its name translates to "crocodile of the deep". It's skull was ~70 cm long with overall body length reaching 2.5 meters. As with many other amphibians of this order, its eyes were closer to the top of the skull, aiming them upwards. This indicates that the animal was an ambush predator, waiting patiently just underwater until it was ready to strike.
The typical species, Benthosaurus sushkini, was logged by Ivan Efremov in 1929, with overall genus classified in 1936.
Thus I bring you Vetlugasaurus. Despite the -saurus in the name, it is in fact an Amphibian of the Temnospondyli order, which lived in what is now Russia and Greenland during the early Triassic period.
Originally discovered and categorized in 1920-s, it is named after river Vetluga - on the shores of which the first fossil was found. The skull measures ~22 cm, with overall body length ranging from 75 cm to 3 meters.
In 2018, a full skull was found.
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Bonus: artistic rendition of its looks
The gorgonopsid was named after the river Vyatka in the Kirov oblast, near which it's been found. Kirov, of course, has been named after Sergey Kirov.
Have this beautiful dromeosaurus I found on r/Sino
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I'm Russian Jew. If you think I even look Slavic, I have a bridge to sell.
As for your question:
You have answered it yourself. This is what is wrong. You're correct about Slavic neo-nazis and their apparent connection with nao-pagans. It's the same with other "heritage groups". If something is a common vector for reactionaries and outright Nazis, is it really "the duty of that group to stamp them out"? Or is it the growth medium?