Russia Surrounded

[Leo]

lots of talk now about how Russia is stalled, not enough troops or artillery to advance.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Let's imagine the Russian state had somehow tricked Nadine Dorries into doing something stupid, embarrassing, or deleterious to the wellbeing of the country. How would anyone know?

 

[Mr. Tea]

If some GRU operative had managed to get Dominic Raab or Gavin Williamson on the phone, I'm quite sure the results would pretty much have been this:

 

[Mr. Tea]

This chap reckons Poland will be next:

 

[vimothy]

listened to an interesting podcast yesterday which basically asserted that the post bretton woods system was over due to unilateral suspension of russian reserves by the us. my take here is that it was not unilateral at all but rather made by overwhelming consensus of western allies and therefore the death knell of the dollar was prematurely called

 

[Clinamenic]

listened to an interesting podcast yesterday which basically asserted that the post bretton woods system was over due to unilateral suspension of russian reserves by the us. my take here is that it was not unilateral at all but rather made by overwhelming consensus of western allies and therefore the death knell of the dollar was prematurely called

Yeah I think if the US was acting without the support of other non-US state and private actors, it may have still dealt a major blow to the Russian economy, but as you say it was this alignment of efforts that seems to have made it as severe as it is.

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[wektor]

This chap reckons Poland will be next:

this one goes hard too

Poland suffers from 'long-term, pathological Russophobia' and does not mind its cost 'if the shed burnt down, let the house burn down too'

Yet, there are no anti-Polish sentiments in Russia - quite the opposite, Russians have reacted with 'an outburst of sympathy and compassion' to Kaczynski's plane crash in Smolensk, and Russia declared a day of mourning to honour the victims

Mentioned plane crash was highly possible to be staged by Russian ops

 

[subvert47]

 

[wektor]

btw russian embassy in poland might be burning their documents rn

 

[Clinamenic]

I actually have a meeting today with the woman who started UkraineDAO. I'm with JournoDAO, and we're looking to help journalists monetize and control their product directly, rather than rely on current business models that rely on advertising and virality. We're thinking about testing out some of these tools with journalists on the ground in/near Ukraine,

 

[Clinamenic]

The ideal model would sort of be a continuation of the substack trend, but where the content producer has verifiable and perhaps even 100% complete ownership of their product.

 

[wektor]

 

[sus]

This chap reckons Poland will be next:

Russia invading Poland would be amazing, I'd pull out the popcorn

 

[Leo]

not sure that's the right answer.

 

[Clinamenic]

Yeah I was gonna roll with it in the banterish spirit of the (v)lad's whatsapp, but then I thought it best not to.

 

[toko]

I actually have a meeting today with the woman who started UkraineDAO. I'm with JournoDAO, and we're looking to help journalists monetize and control their product directly, rather than rely on current business models that rely on advertising and virality. We're thinking about testing out some of these tools with journalists on the ground in/near Ukraine,

this sounds really cool, do you guys have a discord?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Have an app for which journos write articles that are more or less automatically scrambled depending on your subscription level:

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$5/month: A RAW IRON SINUS
$10/month: NO RAW NI AISSUR
$200/month: ON WAR IN RUSSIA

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah I was gonna roll with it in the banterish spirit of the (v)lad's whatsapp, but then I thought it best not to.

Yeah, bloody hell Gus, way to totally overstep the mark.

 

[DannyL]

Can't help but wonder what this war would've been like if the Russian army wasn't an absolute piece of shit. I'm glad they are but it seems a bit too close for comfort to me.