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(Just heard it on a Boston radio station, couldn't resist)
Putin prepares to address nation since invasion of Ukraine tomorrow 9 News Australia
He was supposed to make a speech last night, canceled it at the last minute, now it's tomorrow morning, just a couple of hours from now. Been sitting on this, waiting for someone to post it. This is his first major speech since his rambling and off the wall justification for the invasion of Ukraine.
Possibilities: Major pep talk; full mobilization (which won't work, they can't feed, clothe, house, equip and train that many men and even if they could, it would take months); withdrawal, probably from everything but Crimea and maybe Luhansk; or just announcing his phony plebiscite within the next week in which they'll OF COURSE all vote to join Mother Russia.
My guess is that it's probably the first combined with the last. Mobilization will piss people off in addition to not working and his pride won't allow him to withdraw.
Still, there's the potential for many things to change tomorrow and don't say you weren't warned.
What Russian State Nedia Tell us about Ukraine
More than a little sarcasm from Niki Proshin:
Human Skin Didn't Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago
Excellent introductory article by Dr. Nina Jablonski, too much to encapsulate in 4 paragraphs. It's more accessible than her lectures since it doesn't delve into things like molecular biology.
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-skin-didnt-always-fear-the-sun-not-until-a-huge-change-10000-years-ago
This might be a gateway drug, her online lectures are wonderful as she neatly torpedoes "race" based on skin color.
World's Oldest Evidence of Surgical Amputation Lay Hidden For 31,000 Years
Uncovered in a limestone cave in a remote region of East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo, the skeleton was excavated in 2020 by a team of Indonesian and Australian researchers, co-led by archaeologist Tim Maloney of Griffith University.
On closer inspection, they discovered the young individual had had their left foot skillfully removed, probably as a child, at least 31,000 years ago.
Remarkably, it healed well enough for the person to live for another six to nine years before they were interred with their amputated leg outstretched and burial markers atop the grave.
https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest-evidence-of-surgical-amputation-lay-hidden-for-31000-years
Fascinating article with things even I can recognize, like the oblique cut still used and the fully healed callus on the end. Our primitive ancestors don't look so primitive. They were learned in medicine and likely had a large scale social organization that is completely different from ours.
Why Putin Became a Killer
Long, well worth it, and explains a lot about why he was so keen on TFG:
How's that rebranding working for ya, Putin?
This guy spent 9 gears living in the US and knows what the franchise is supposed to be, so he seems close to tears for a minute.
His other videos are interesting, lots of good history lessons, including a reading on restrictions on speech passed in order from 2011. They only had 30 years of relative freedom; we've had over 240. Hard to know if all our freedoms can be stripped from us as easily as they stripped bodily autonomy from women.
I found this delightful museum piece when I was looking for something else
If people under 65 want to know why the 60s happened, this wonde4ful example of The Rules explains why we all went right out and broke them, every single one of them, in sequence or all together:
Hippie dinner parties were bowls of food on the table, big spoons in them, people packed around the table serving themselves. Nobody gave a shit about anything but enjoying good food, good talk, good friends.
From the UNMITIGATED GALL files, OAN calls on liberals to save them
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1552092292537880576Russia about to run out of steam in Ukraine - MI6 chief
MI6 chief Richard Moore said Russia had seen "epic fails" in its initial goals; removing Ukraine's president, capturing Kyiv and sowing disunity in the West.
He was speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, in a rare public appearance.
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"Our assessment is that the Russians will increasingly find it difficult to find manpower and materiel over the next few weeks," Mr Moore told the conference in Colorado. "They will have to pause in some way and that will give the Ukrainians the opportunity to strike back."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62259179
First, please let this be true. Russia might dig in and try to hold what they've got, but I sincerely doubt that will work long term.
Second, given the incendiary problems at their enlistment offices, Russia is most likely having personnel problems. About all they can do now is scoop gopniks up off the streets and send them out to be targets.
Third, they have gotten roundabout help for off the shelf electronics and now the promise of drones from Iran. While the Iranian drones are likely to be better than the kludge jobs Russia had put together, they're still low altitude and slow and the optics and electronics are still reliant on off the shelf electronics and won't last long. Indirect supplies will take longer than the supplies the west is directly sending to Ukraine, especially if Erdogan smells blood in the water and refuses to let the ships through.
Enough is still getting out of Russia on YouTube to show they've had a real problem selling this war anywhere but the totally rural areas. The government still thinks the people don't matter. I have to think they're going to find out the hard way that they're wrong about that.
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