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[Starver]

It's not just the audience that's assessed...

[Loud Whispers]

It's not just the audience that's assessed...

In a sign of the band's influence, police searching for political subversives have even forced patrons at a bar in Moscow to sing a Lyube song, as proof that they support the government.

YOU HAVE FAILED THE VIBE CHECK

[EuchreJack]

Interesting if true:
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-and-wagner-troops-clashed-deadly-shootout-ukraine-claims-2023-4?amp

[MaxTheFox]

Yo @Strongpoint how is the counteroffensive going? I'm getting conflicting sources even in Western media.

[Lord Shonus]

Nobody's going to know much more than you do, because the Ukrainian military is being extremely heavy-handed with operational security. The only information getting out to civilian hands is tiny snippets of report, and it is likely that a fair number of said snippets are deliberate disinformation, because Russia reads the same newspapers as everybody else.

[Strongpoint]

Yo @Strongpoint how is the counteroffensive going? I'm getting conflicting sources even in Western media.

I see a wonderful amount of tasty disinformation about the offensive and it warms my heart. It is how it should be done. (My favorite is - Ukraine is planning to assault Belgord in a surprise attack)

I have my opinion on where and how the counteroffensive will start but it is based (partly) on sensitive non-internet information and I, of course, won't share it. This is why I restrain myself from any speculations on how, when, where and if the offense will start.
 
One thing can be said for sure - The weather is uncooperative. It was a very wet April and I don't expect the ground to be hard enough until around ~10 May

[Lord Shonus]

It is very important to remember that intelligence agencies work by grabbing up every fragment of information they can find, sifting through it, and trying to figure out what is and isn't real. When Ibternet detectives decide to grab every nit of information they can, sift through it, and construct a narrative determining what is 9r is not real, you are doing a lot of the intelligence agencies' work for them.

Which is likely why a number of war trackers on Google and other services have very abruptly been deleted.

[scriver]

I heard from a guy the Ukrainians invented time travel and the counteroffensive is going slowly because in two months they will travel back to two weeks ago and surprise everyone

[Starver]

Yeah, that plan involves Ukrainean miners being primed to undermine the Russian fleet in Fokino, as part of a distraction move that will allow frogmen to reach and sabotage the railway and timber industry at Zima, whilst the whole airforce (including a number of airships, that have been covertly built in secret a cavern dug out beneath the Chornobyl Sarcophagus) simultaneously attack the base of the Kola SDB.

But this is obviously very secret information, that I'm only letting you all know in order to win an Internet argument I'm currently having in PMs with Toady, who doesn't even think I have Zelenskyy's wife's phone-number (and second best handbag, but that is another story). I don't think even the US three-letter-agencies know of this, yet, as it hasn't been leaked on Instagram (which I read all of). And clearly you shouldn't let anyone in the Kremlin know, Max, so keep it schtum!

[Strongpoint]

Damm... Everything is leaked nowadays. At least you don't know about our secret allies from Alpha Centauri allies who will land in Moscow on... ooops

[ChairmanPoo]

Kirov reporting

[jipehog]

Here is another scenario: STORM THE TRENCHES How Ukraine is preparing for a ‘BIG BANG’ strike to retake Crimea, bulldoze the Russians and humiliate Vladimir Putin
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21948049/ukraine-russia-big-bang-counter-offensive/

[Starver]

"ex-Brit Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon"

What a title! (And what a name too, but that's not their fault, or even his. I blame the parents...)

Typical of The Sun, and its tabloid shorthand, to somehow confusingly contrast with the immediately prior description of another merely "retired" British military person. To clarify, it seems that he's still a 'Brit', just an ex-colonel. And he has a wiki page, making it easy to clarify all this.


(As to the article itself, probably based upon wishful thinking, pandering to the D-Day desires of the editorial team and their prime readership, colouring and twisting the expert assessments. It'd be nice to see, but if even Sharpe and his Chosen Men couldn't free the whole peninsula, on their own[1], then it'll be a hard task. Even with the Army Of Drones assisting. A whole-lotta Dunkirk, and they'd need a much bigger chunk of Operation Mincemeat to somehow misdirect the local forces for long enough. Or maybe... just maybe... that's what Ukraine wants us(/Russia, by extension) to think. So which sleeve could possibly have all the aces up it? (Best not to answer that?))


[1] Though the production crew were offered a Nuclear Submarine, at one point, during some time off set during the confusion of the immediately ex-Soviet era...

[jipehog]

yeah its pretty clickbait-y title in the best of Sun traditions, iirc in the interview he said its a speculation not something based on data. Regardless its an interesting scenario to muddy the water on possible future plans and no one can claim that something posted in the sun will be news to Russia.

[Duuvian]

Worthwhile reading:

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/reframing-us-policy-debate-%E2%80%98long-war%E2%80%99-ukraine