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Question: How bad/evil is Vladimir Putin, really?

Answer:  So bad that Switzerland wants to end 500 year's of strict neutrality and make closer ties with the EU and NATO.

Wow. That's bad. Europe has seen a lot of hard history in 500 years.

 https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-military-neutrality-defense-arms-sales-war-in-ukraine-vladimir-putin/

5 hours ago, frank83628 said:

anyone can edit wiki. 

That sounds like Russian propaganda. 

No, not the way you suggest. Everyone can edit Wiki and all edits are recorded in perpetuity. As soon as you add your pro-Putin propaganda, responsible community members will fix it and you too will be recorded in perpetuity along with discussions about your attempt.  That's one reason Russia's storied propaganda machine hasn't made headway into Wiki. 

Reference: Wikipedia:You can and cannot change Wikipedia

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

Lol, more like a fly bothering a giant for a few seconds. Wishful thinking at its best.

"Some military experts questioned the wisdom of Ukraine’s attack, given its weakness at other key points on the front, and they predicted that Russia’s far larger and better-equipped military was likely to oust the Ukrainians sooner than later."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/09/kursk-russia-ukraine-war-incursion/

 

That's what Washington Post said.  What the Russian State Duma say?

The Russian State Duma urged not to expect a quick victory over the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.  [reference]

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28 minutes ago, tgw said:

 

resources and people.

because Russia is demographically <deleted>

True. Russia's Central Bank recently raised its prime lending rate to a whopping 18% as the civilian economy continues to deteriorate.  At the time Elvira Nabiullina, head banker and the only official able to criticize Putin, declared in an open meeting:  [reference]

3 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

I haven’t seen or read anywhere that China is supplying weapons to Russia. Unless consider a shovel or a washing machine a weapon.

 

However, if the west stopped supplying weapons to Ukraine, the conflict will end immediately. As I posted 2 1/2 yrs ago. When Ukraine still had all its lands. And hundreds of thousands more citizens.

More Russian propaganda. Ukraine did not have all its lands in 2022. 

As for China, up to $600 million per month of high priority dual-use products that are essential for manufacturing weaponry like missiles, drones, and tanks. Per month.  REFERENCE

If the West stopped providing aid, Ukraine would be dead. Putin would have successfully stolen $14 trillion of Ukraine's natural resources, which is why he's killing Ukrainians with reckless abandon.

The only way it stops is Putin's immediately withdraw or demise. 

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

What a brilliant negotiating tactic! If we judge that you're not trying hard enough, we'll kill you. It is to laugh.

Perhaps your confusion lies in assuming any semblance of negotiating normalcy with the top man who oversaw/ordered the most heinous, inhuman terrorist attack the world has seen in modern times, who then publicly celebrated and praised the massacre. [WATCH]. Of course he had a target on his back.

Do you really think anyone can hold honorable negotiations with such an animal? Why would you even appear to support him?  

I do wonder what will happen now with the billions he stole from his own people.  [REF]

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Generally called "firing". Your link doesn't work for me  so I can't talk about what is on it.

However, you'll have to do better before concluding anything.

 

BTW I think this site knows more about it than you or I and they refer to your "shells" as rounds, and when all is said and done a 30mm cannon just fires big bullets, or in correct military terminology "rounds".

https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/a-10/?cf-view&cf-closed

 

I surprised you didn't mention Puff The Magic Dragon as that had actual artillery on it, but were you even in the armed forces to be trying to correct me?

 

BTW, here's an article about Puff, and please note the terminology used when referring to using the weapons.

 

The guns to be active for firing

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_AC-47_Spooky

from your first reference on Warthog: 

"The 30-mm shell  has twice the range, half the time to target, and three times the mass of projectiles fired by guns mounted in comparable close air support aircraft."  Disproved yourself, they are shells.  

Your 2nd reference on Puff talks about bullets (7.62 NATO etc) and guns and says so:

" "gun" for the use of rifle ammunition as opposed to autocannon shells."  They are firing bullets, not shells.

But all your comments only distract from my first and only point, that you wrongly tried to discredit a well known, well placed Ukraine authority using trivial semantic arguments and false arguments of authority. Please forgo the trivia until you can address my point. 

20 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Then he should get his scribbles proof read by an English speaker. If I was trying to write in a second language I'd get a native speaker to check it- not rocket science.

 

I never claimed to know everything, but I know the military having been in one for over a decade, and I know correct terminology, for the most part.

Here's an attack aircraft shell casing expert!  So, if a ground attack aircraft fires shells at ground positions what is it called?  

So we conclude Anton's English is better than yours? 

13 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If Anton Gerashchenko knows so little about warfare why is he posting about it?

Aircraft don't "shell" anything. That is artillery. Aircraft "bomb" or "fire at".

 

One aircraft destroyed a war does not win, but enjoy your small wins while Russia keeps advancing.

 You seem to make propaganda from thin air. He is not a native English speaker. 

Anton Yuriyovych Gerashchenko Anton Yuriyovych Herashchenko, born 10 February 1979) is a current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs He is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) from 2014 to 2019,^[3][5] and was the subject of an assassination attempt in part because of his actions, which was prevented by the SBU.

Obviously knows a whole lot of accurate information about Ukraine and the war. 

And your credentials?

BTW Russia tried to assassinate him.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Gerashchenko 

4 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

 

I did a quick fact check she was 82 years old lives in a high rise apartment and apparently according to the only other source I could find had been ill for a long time. Nobody , just nobody has mentioned this event except for this X account. Just like Pattaya falls I suspect Russian high rises have low balconies and as we know old people suffer falls all the time. Of course this is a common way for Putin to get rid of enemies - but as no-one had heard of her and given the circumstances I've just outlined I'm calling disinformation. Since nobody has heard of her why would Russia want her killed in this way even if she was a dissident and there is no evidence for that.  It would be easier for the KGB to poison her medication. That hasn't stopped that post spreading over X repeating the same commentary.

 

Under that post are numerous jokes and bad taste posts with just a few saying sources. The source is TASS btw which I won't post as it will get zapped.

TASS said it was accident? like every Putin adversary tossed out of a window?  And you believe? On the article's page Pravda writes "Kim Dotcom: Biden may strike nuclear blow on Russia", and you still believe state propaganda? 

Do you know anything about the Russian Academy of Science? Its prestige? I have friends that work there, nearly as old. RAS does not require retirement of important people, these are Russia's top scientists. [reference]

Had you researched you would see she is still relatively active publishing frequent articles up to the start of Putin's war. [ResearchGate] [GoogleScholar]. She was still a director of the N. D. Kondratieff International Foundation when she died. [reference] (refs translatable if required)

"Since nobody has heard of her why would Russia want her killed..."

It was reported throughout Russia, as you now see she was highly placed and widely renowned. The institute she helped run is similar to the Nobel Institute awarding medals in economics. 

Why?  You research why Putin kills so many. Respected economists opining about the tragic state of the civil economy would be a good guess.  

3 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Under that post are numerous jokes and bad taste posts with just a few saying sources. 

Let's first compare your research reliability. 

Igor Shusko, whom you belittle by saying "some X responses were jokes and bad taste" (your view) is a widely known, highly respected Ukraine/Russia expert fluent in Russian who even NEWSWEEK uses as a trusted source:  Leaked FSB Letters Reveal Civil War Among Putin's Allies

 "The emails were shared in full with Newsweek by Igor Sushko, the executive director of the Wind of Change Research Group, a Washington-based non-profit organization. Sushko has been translating the correspondence from Russian to English since they began on March 4."

Igor's post that I quoted received 436,000 views, 3,900 reposts, 9,424 likes and was bookmarked by 410 people. His part time X account has 323,000 followers in 1 day. He is widely quoted.  

So, I trust Igor's research more than yours.

The Russian economy has 3 parts, Putin's war, Putin's supporters, and the broader civil economy of the other 140M Russians, about which Putin's couldn't care less. According to many Russians, some I have presented here, the ongoing demise of Russia's civil economy will bring deep, long lasting damage to Russia and the lives of average Russians. 

How bad is it? 

Valentina Bondarenko, is the Leading Researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Economics and Director of the N. D. Kondratieff International Foundation, and well known for her publications. 

Guess we won't hear anymore bad news from her...

4 hours ago, tilaceer said:

and the bullet was photographed 
There is no proof that a bullet caused that air movement.
There was plenty of debris flying through the air as my previous post discussed, it did not have to be a teleprompter.

The old magical aliens disturbed the air conspiracy theory...

As you reject both experts and fact checks, I will prove it's a bullet and calculate its rotation rate and barrel grove specifications matching it to an AR-15 type rifle. I use an enhanced image of the bullet's path that shows periodic bright spots of light reflected from the bullet's rifling marks.  Barrels have rifling groves to spin bullets at a fixed number of rotations per inch. These leave flat groves in bullets which can reflect sunlight.

AR-15 specs
Muzzle velocity >3250 fps
Velocity at podium ~3000 fps or slightly less.
No. of rifling groves in barrel: 6 in 1 rotation or 360°
Rotation rate: 1 rotation per 9 inches. 

So a bullet rotates once per 9 inches and a new grove can be seen every 9"/6 = 1.5" of flight or 6 groves every 9".

If a camera's shutter speed is 1/3000, it will take 3000 frames/sec and a 3000 fps bullet will travel 1 foot or 12" in 1 frame.

First image bullet path (click to zoom)

Second image bullet rotational marks (click to zoom)

12 minutes ago, tilaceer said:

and the bullet was photographed 
There is no proof that a bullet caused that air movement.
There was plenty of debris flying through the air as my previous post discussed, it did not have to be a teleprompter.

Yes there is, I will post it after your edit time has expired.

Physical proof, as you seem happy to ignore so many fact checks.

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

You really think that a bullet like this will cause a little graze????

You really think that a bullet like this will cause a little graze????

Yes. Proven by physics. To blow something up, a bullet must dump a lot of energy into it by slowing down. A small piece of soft tissue can't slow it down enough.

Anyway, moot point.

Fact-checking the shattering teleprompter conspiracy theory at Trump rally
Fact Check: Hit with A Bullet: Glass from Teleprompter Did Not Injure Trump

If you don't trust fact checkers: There was no shattered teleprompter. Teleprompters were far forward of the microphone and out of the shooter's line of site,  and the bullet was photographed passing directly behind Trump's head as he turned right.

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