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@DoppelMark
Faster airplanes and zippier cars. Threads: https://t.co/qboQJ28sEE Unkempt thoughts: https://t.co/rKBNVpJuvN
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May 24, 2022 • 33 tweets • 14 min read
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 The article by @FischerKing64 refuses to question honesty of public statements by Putin.

Let's read carefully and see where this mistake gets him.

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 Author reads into Putin's statements "without immediately assuming bad faith at every turn".

Putin & his entourage us a mix of truth & dishonesty. The interviews are a couple years old, we can check them against reality.
May 19, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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 Let's talk a *slow* airplane for a change: Bayraktar TB2, a Turkish lightweight UAW ("drone") has been significantly successful in Ukraine.

The airplane serves both reconnaissance and strike duties.

Article provides interesting details:

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 Isn't she pretty?
In particular the Ukrainian maritime variant, with seabird decal.
May 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Unpopular take:
the federal government should focus on foreign policy; the states are the proper place for domestic policy. I could swear I saw you *correctly* punting domestic issues to states and away from the federal gov just yesterday.

Don't flip plop on the fundamental and important division of responsibilities.

May 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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 Remember the T-14 Armata? The russian tank that had a lot of hype for a couple years?

In the spirit of "zippier cars", let's discuss it a bit further. 2/
 #T14Armata, an innovative russian tank with crew fully enclosed in the front hull behind heavy protection, while a fully automated turret was located in the classic way.

Along with the tank, related T-15 IFV and 2S35 SPG were developed as shared platform.
May 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 Unpopular opinion:
the recent wave of "work from home" is the biggest and unique opportunity to "stick it to the boomers". Actually to do much better than that. 2/
 Good management is both about enabling your employees - and also about measuring their effectiveness.

Beyond "walking around & seeing butts in office chairs", actual measurement - and reporting both up & down the chain. "Work from home" pushes in that direction.
May 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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 >US commenced "invasion" in Ukraine by regime changing it

No.

2014: Ukrainians over-threw their government aligned with Russia - the Russia that for well over a century occupied Ukraine, drained resources & talent, suppressed culture.

"But muh USA" is wack revisionism. 2/
 You see people in Ukraine staunchly & resolutely defending their freedom for 2+ months now. That is a clear and strong signal. I support their defense of freedom.

As for democracy... whatever. Both sides are democracies with all the trappings & faults, and it helped neither.
Apr 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 Interesting analysis 👍 of #Ukraine-#Russia (#invasion). 2/
 Translates well into english, especially when taken through the Thread Reader
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519688…
Apr 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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 A potent plank of Russian propaganda:
dearth of long-term established non-government sources from Russia, to gather critical facts & paint a counter-picture to the rosy official ones.

This undermines western reporting critical of Russia. 2/
 By stopping critical russian sources from establishing themselves, Russia has pretty strong of *source-grade* information coming out of it. What we get is either propaganda or leaks that are hard to authenticate, hard to weave into consistent analysis.
Apr 21, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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 This:
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 What is the problem that's inverse of censorship?

Hyper-aversion to being wrong. Exaggerated importance placed on never-ever being wrong. No "soundbite chicken", no failed prediction, no professional slang that turns slur 10, 20 years later.
Apr 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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 Witness a leftist #bluecheckmark sitting safely in USA, posting opinions.

Here he's calling an actual reporter on the ground "journalist" in scare quotes, and mis-representing the tweet. The tweet is simple: a report, not "taking credit". 2/
 >Why?
Gonzalo Lira has disappeared disappearance. An opinion poaster and youtuber, recently posting spicy commentary on the #Russia-n #invasion. Last stationed in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

>citizen of the world
Citizens of the world unite? I don't like this.

Apr 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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 Amusing to see the #InformationCascade in real time: several russian propaganda accounts posting nearly identical text.

It is used to create illusion of "lies" from the opposing side - here with false equivalence/similarity. 2/
 The "dunk" is based off of the *dis-similarity* of those mobile bakeries and earlier reported "mobile crematoria".

I find both stories cheap propaganda, not very relevant to what is on the ground.
Apr 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 meme: Putin fighting "New World Order"
reality: Putin trying to establish a new world order

2/
 Russian plan: a country-level "you will own nothing and you will be happy".
Apr 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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 The pervasive censorship and the uniparty establishment are american wartime measures. #dmutc

In turn, keeping up the wartime posture is dictated by maintaining the #PaxAmericana. Which has certain major advantages. 2/
 The censorship is used to maintain a somewhat coherent foreign policy and posture in the face of strong internal dissent and plurality of voices.
Apr 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The western media just keep getting the #Ukraine-#Russia war wrong.

At first, but then: ImageImage And then, and finally: ImageImage
Apr 10, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
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 >the lawyer gets the last word
No. 2/
 In USA and several other countries, the people are the sovereign. The people have the moral and practical right and obligation to decide the *exceptions* to the rules.

We've seen that in action many times.
Apr 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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 There's an interesting pattern where Ukrainians claim that Russians did something unexpected & very wrong, even hardly believable. Denials, derision and accusations of "lies" come rolling in from experts, blue checkmarks and Ru MoD. Image 2/
 This particular story is hardly believable.
>Everybody knows not to dig there
>No real military value to digging in there (in fact the trenches were abandoned without being much used)
>The radiation there "isn't even that bad" after decades

AND YET

Image
Apr 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 This is bad. 2/
 This is *bad*.
About the only upside to this is slightly increased economic pressure for inshoring.
Apr 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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 Battle of #Kyiv - a well narrated thread, re-creating Putin's "Plan A" and "Plan B". 2/
 In particular this part is highly interesting 👀
Apr 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
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 It's a bit unfair to compare MANPADS (#Javelin) to a squad-level weapon (#Stugna) -
- but yeah there seems to be a *gap* in the known & observed effectiveness.

#RedEffect delivers:

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 The Stugna (aka #Skif) #ATGM system is pretty neat, especially for defenses, static warfare & prepared ambushes. Also has a vehicular derivative for mobile warfare - a remotely controlled station courtesy of yet another #Ukraine-#Turkey cooperation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skif_(ATG…
Apr 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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 Don't miss the Disney's evil story arch.

2/
 Fren is right 💯
Apr 1, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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 Much is being made of Putin's recent demand that "unfriendly countries pay in Ruble" for the gas exports. I see both a political and an economic angle to it. Image 2/
 The internal politics political angle:

Russian propaganda tells its followers that it hits western nations must now pay in Ruble, and that this strengthens the Ruble.
This strengthens Putin's position.