The Kremlin is pleased to report that their enormous ammunition depot and barracks have quickly and efficiently intercepted the enemy attack drone in a coordinated tactical strike.

Yes, and there are also videos of continuing, frequent secondary explosions when there’s daylight.

So, the explosions lasted a few hours, minimum.

Yes agreed, at this point Putin will look weak if he doesn’t get something out of all this. Which could give someone an opportunity to take him down.

They don’t really need more fuel reserves, but they want to prevent Ukraine from undercutting them on the market.

Putin’s bridge to Crimea has almost been destroyed already, and they’ve stopped even using it for a lot of military logistics. A land bridge isn’t vulnerable like that.

The purpose behind attacking Ukraine was to prevent them from joining NATO

NO, that’s Kremlin propaganda.

If the Kremlin was worried about NATO, they wouldn’t put everything they have against Ukraine and leave themselves so exposed like they are right now where Ukraine alone has been easily holding part of their territory for a month.

The reason for this barbaric war was to take industrial infrastructure in Donbas, secure a land bridge to Crimea, take recently uncovered fossil fuel resources, give Russians a common enemy to make them more nationalistic, and prevent Ukraine from flourishing as a democracy because then Russians might want the sameas their neighbors.

It’s interesting to think about “NATO vs Russia” framing.

When we think like that, of seems like there are these two similar entities opposed to each other. Not even close to true!

NATO = THIRTY TWO distinct governments representing many hundreds of millions of people who voted for them

Russia = One government that doesn’t properly represent its people and heavily relies on propaganda to survive

Yeah, and they’re even worse now. A scientologist for a lead singer… are you shitting me?

Fuck Linkin Park for that.

To try what? Seems like he was intent on sending a message and didn’t actually want to replace Putin.

“Pull back or we’ll slowly torture your family to death”

Agreed there are real people. Apparently the term is “useful idiots,” kind of sad

More direct support. I think a large portion of the accounts on those three instances are bot/shill accounts run by the CCP and Kremlin. I suspect the CCP runs lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Not sure about Hexbear.

To be clear, I generally don’t have a problem with Marxists or communists. I think that’s a facade used to cover up the propaganda. No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.

The fediverse is a fantastic place for propagandists. There’s no central censor, absolutely no budget for countering propaganda.

KremlinGPT cranking that propaganda hog.

Its an intentional move by whatever authoritarian piece of shit propagandist runs the instance and its bots/shills.

People have started calling them out and those instances have lost most credibility, so they’re trying to bring legit instances down to their level and spread confusion.

not sure what to do about it

Defederation from Hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml would be a decent start, but since they have support from the Kremlin/CCP it’ll probably turn into ongoing whack-a-mole.

SHOIGUUUUU!!! WHERE ARE MY EGGS!!

“As a black man Canadian…”

Uhhhhhh beans

I guess you didn’t see the news but the war REALLY heated up the last couple years

“leftists”

They’re not, that’s just a cover for spreading CCP propaganda.