Wagner is desperately trying to recruit more cannon fodder. Lots of trickery as to who is who with radio coms, uniforms and deceit. Plenty of eyes in the sky and ambushes. We are entering the dark part of the conflict. Journos beware. Teams being tracked by cel. #DesperateTimes
Ukraine/"Other" sources are also feeding data into the system. gulagu-net.ru is getting leaked intel assessments reports and Christo Grozev of Bellingcat is putting up some translations here:
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1504725404048842761
Hackers abound. From Global Hawk vacuuming up ELINT to freelancers helping Russians. The badly labeled "cyberwar" is real. It seems like everyone is listening, watching and then attacking. Electronically or kinetically. thehackernews.com/2022/03/ukrain…
Soldiers, weapons, vehicles, civilians and even electrical use are heat mapping themselves from space, on the internet, via cel systems, on social media..creating trackable networks and location via cel use and living digital footprints to aid in targeting and planning.
Cel phones have become weapons. Not just for surveillance but for propaganda delivery. The battle for minds is just as important as land. And sentiment analyze and network mapping can quickly dig out the insurgents.politico.com/news/2022/03/0…
The Daily Mail drew us a picture but forgot the most common form of drone attack. Using a cheap consumer unarmed drone to locate and then bracket ground targets with old fashioned artillery, mortar or rocket barrage. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
This conflict may be the most "heat mapped" war in history. Artillery strikes, tracking Russian exercise watches or even where Americans think "Ukraine" is located. However this is not a clinical war and it has no clean "win" anywhere within it. 
One area that was successfully "hacked" by Ukraine was public opinion. Loathe to engage in Putin's wars, 35% of America now"favor U.S. military action even if it risks nuclear conflict with Russia". 47% approve of the Biden's handling, (39%) disapprove; pewresearch.org/politics/2022/…
Putin only has half of the Russian population behind him (if you can believe those numbers) and has to deal with the ruble being ground into rubble. He is not winning the data war or the real war. theguardian.com/world/video/20…
We are all combatants in this war. On social media it is clear that I don't like Putin or support the invasions. So someone is analyzing my (and your sentiment) and feeding numbers and "hooks" to experts. They fine tune messaging and hit us back. It's hell on the home front.
Most see "war" as bodies, fires, explosions, dirty teddy bears and crying widows. But we are fighting this war everywhere, all the time, on all fronts and despite the fuckery aimed at us to make us think that right is wrong and up is down..We will prevail. thecleverprogrammer.com/2022/03/15/ukr…
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