The Russian “liberal” university HSE funded drones for the RU army and gave them to the army@to kill Ukrainians. On their page the HSE says, they cooperate with Western universities. At least in cases @unipotsdam and my alma mater @FU_Berlin the HSE lies: cooperation was stopped.
The cooperation of the Western universities with the Russian „academia“ was a huge mistake from the very beginning. RU universities are not independent from the Kremlin. Compare to the open letter supporting the RU invasion, signed by most rectors of RU universities incl. the HSE
As my previous thread was repeatedly shared quoting only in the first part, where I mentioned the statement of the HSE, but ignoring the further tweets where I demonstrate that the HSE lies, I delete the previous thread and re-tweet it in edited more clear form. I apologize to…
…both Universities for my original tweet allowed these emotional reactions. Too many people blindly trusted the saying if the Russian university, and did not read the thread further, where the lie was debunked.
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Not tired yet of Russian state-funded Nazi movies? This week, a children movie "The (Russian) Kingdom vs. the Bandits" starts in RU. The enemies: a Black person, an antisemite-cartoon-looking lady, a Turk, and a gayish-looking Frenchman. The goodies: all the blond(e)s Russians.
A crazy detail: even the evil bird of the Bandits has its "jewish" nose and is clearly a migrant in Russia with its colourful feathers. A clear sign for the children, that the bird is the enemy.
The official poster says, one can pay the ticket with a subsidised "Pushkin card". It is understandable, as Pushkin is one of the Russian chauvinism's faces. He authored a fairy tail about noble and good brothers who had fun as they "had a ride around and decapitated a Tatar".
I am not an air defense expert, but I am am expert in Russian propaganda tactics and in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The “Ukrainian air defense missile” version reminds me totally the MH17 propaganda fog, as Russia flooded us with contradicting ridiculous versions /1
AFAIK, air defense missiles have a self-destruction mechanism to prevent course offsets and hitting ground targets. Ukrainian S300 never hit ground targets before. Russian and Belarusian S300 have a Surface-to-Surface modification and were massively used vs ground targets /2
If Russia wanted to test the NATO response, they would do exactly this. Hitting something with no military value, with a missile which CAN be attributed to UKR. The aim: to distort our processes, so we would hesitate, be unsure. To activate the voices against arming Ukraine /3
The narrative „it was a Ukrainian anti-air missile“ is from the same Russian propaganda box like „it was a UKR interceptor“ after the MH17 kill. In 9 mths of the war, we had no case a UKR air defense missile losing its course and hitting ground targets. But a lot of RU cases.
Expect that the Russians will FLOOD the info space with all possible „versions“: Ukrainian air defense, NATO conspiracy, explosion of a military transport, etc., all „proved“ with „leaked documents“, „interviews“, „photos“. They did exactly this with MH17. Aim: disrupt discussion
Most probably it was not an accident. The Russians are testing our response. They are in a win-in game: if they hit the power line, they strangle Ukraine. If not they say it was not they / it was an accident and see, how fast we react and where are the weak spots in our reaction.
Russian missiles hit Polish Przewodow directly at the electricity power line which connects the EU with Ukraine, close to Dobrotvirska power plant in Ukraine, an important energy hub. Map: courtesy of ENTSO-E, the EU organization of electricity network operators.
The narrative „it was a Ukrainian anti-air missile“ is from the same Russian propaganda box like „it was a UKR interceptor“ after the MH17 kill. In 9 mths of the war, we had no case a UKR air defense missile losing its course and hitting ground targets. But a lot of RU cases.
Expect that the Russians will FLOOD the info space with all possible „versions“: Ukrainian air defense, NATO conspiracy, explosion of a military transport, etc., all „proved“ with „leaked documents“, „interviews“, „photos“. They did exactly this with MH17. Aim: disrupt discussion
A random thought: sooner or later, Ukraine will decide what modern tank to use. With its 40+m population and 2,000km border to post-Russian space it will need not less tanks than Poland (35m population). PL buys 1000 K9 Tanks now. UKR will buy those tank it knows. Huge market /1
To understand: one Leopard2 costs €3-7m. One K9: €3m. One Abrams: €6m. So it is about approximately €4b market only for the tanks and only for the units, without ammo, maintenance etc.
The annual turnover of the whole German KMW, the producer of Leo2, is €2bn. /2
The country which sends its tanks to Ukraine first and makes them into the symbol of the victory over the Russian faZZism, will secure the market bigger than anything we know from the last decades. To arm Ukraine could be a recovery program for German economy, and a moral one. /3
The crucial difference between a developed city and a wild collapsing one is - how predictable äschre time tables. If the transport just does not arrive, people do not rely on it, or waste time on bus stops. Parallel transport companies appear, fighting for best routes /2
Try to read some studies about this development. It is amazing how fast collapse can come. Some studies are even in German and performed by Berlin scholars. You‘d better got educated s bit before decided to run the Germany’s biggest city. api-depositonce.tu-berlin.de/server/api/cor…