The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: March 5, 2022, 6:05 PM
How You’d Do It
B-52 pilots looking at the satellite images of that 3 mile long armored column just chilling on an open highway and knowing they gotta sit this one out pic.twitter.com/znRIkcXIHt
— Bad Weapon Takes (@BadWeaponTakes) February 28, 2022
You wouldn’t hit that with B-52s. There’s a lot of cloud cover and the B-52s are way too vulnerable to the big-ass SAMs the Russians field. How you attack a convoy like this is that you have some cruise missiles take out the air defense radars, then fast-movers (FA-18s, etc.) hauling ass blast the front, rear, and a bunch of middle parts.
Then the A-10s arrive and brrrrrrrtttt with those absolutely terrifying guns of theirs and Hellfire missiles.
That’s how you destroy a convoy that large and long. Not B-52s.
Own What
I like how we are meant to see this as an own against Russia instead of the terrifying realization that a group of unelected tech oligarchs increasingly control most country's entire infrastructure. https://t.co/n1MEELb3ii
— Misheru Katorin 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 (@MKatorin) March 1, 2022
That is Very Bad.
Not Pret
I'm seeing this take all over my feed this morning, & the only thing my brain replies with is: have you filled up a gas tank or bought groceries lately? https://t.co/3DVj1Z6vxN
— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) March 4, 2022
No, Jon, these kind of people don’t shop for themselves and often don’t drive themselves so have no idea how much anything costs.
But I still do that stuff! So today, items I bought for around $40 that a year ago cost me about $25. So yeah, it ain’t pretty.
Postwar
Even if you just read the intro and opening 1 or 2 chapters of this, you'd be far better positioned to understand how devastating to European identity this past week has been, & to interpret these clips via something other than a US black/white race lens. https://t.co/gVIIznlf3O
— jonstokes.(com|eth) (@jonst0kes) March 5, 2022
Agreed. Americans tend to tiringly interpret everything through the lens of race and racism, in really deeply bizarre ways to much of the rest of the world. What’s happening in Ukraine has nearly nothing to do with race and simply cannot be understood through that lens. Thinking about it that way makes you vastly dumber.
MANPADS
A Russian helicopter is being downed in Ukraine.
Stunning footage. pic.twitter.com/MKN1VxNNzg— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) March 5, 2022
Looks like most likely real footage, shot from a drone (the footage, not the Mi24). The missile doesn’t quite fly like a Stinger. My guess is that it’s a Piorun.
Those MANPADS, as the Russians found out in Afghanistan, are devastating to low-level aviation. Looks like they are about to find out all over again.
Flighty
I think if they asked "Do you want to trigger a nuclear war by scrambling jets over the Ukraine to shoot at the Russian airforce?" less people would have said yes to that question.
— Sarah Tuttle, Princess of Quite A Lot (@niais) March 4, 2022
Dead right. “No-fly-zone” sounds cool and anodyne. Clinical. What a no-fly-zone actually consists of is that you’re in a fucking shooting war.
Dang pepole are clueless.
Punish and Commit
Also, the point of attempting to enact pandemic restrictions now is for leftie types to punish everyone else for not getting onboard with their radical social change.
It’s about retribution, not prevention. And it’s funny because it’s not working and it’s making them even angrier.
CY
Ian Welsh is a lost cause. Has nearly no real idea what he is talking about regarding Ukraine and/or Russia, after having completely gone off the deep end regarding Covid, too.
His thought had been going downhill before that, too, but it was still entertaining. Now it’s not even that — it’s just talking about how Ukraine brought this death and destruction on themselves and wanking on and on about how it serves them right to resist Russia, etc.
I’m beginning to really hate that guy. OK, not beginning. I do hate that guy. What a putz.
Match Set
The lib goal is to claim all attraction is sex trafficking unless algorithm-infused neoliberal capitalism approves of the match after judging it will increase profits.
There is nothing deeper behind it than this.
Efficats
when someone asks me "indoor masks forever?", I reply with "what level of daily death will you tolerate?" because its been above 1,000 per day for six months now.
— abdullah elementary (@AShihipar) February 26, 2022
And yet masks in most places provide marginal benefits at best (with a few exceptions). But for these people it’s just signaling anyway. Efficacy doesn’t matter. They wouldn’t even know what “efficacy” means in this context, or their ARR, etc.
They never advocate for better ventilation or smacking down anti-vaxxers, so you can tell what this is really about. It’s performative bullshit to virtue-signal to their blue state scoldy friends.