Without any objection to the music part being totally wrong in the video, allow me to disagree with you on the "one man ambition". I clame this war situation is much more Putin being hostage of Russian people ambitions than the opposite. Sure he made the decision, but the path to this decision was paved with genuine Russian sentiment of revenge for what these people see as humiliation. I mean USSR collapse and former Soviet republics gaining independence. And Putin himself, although being Russian, held much less of this sentiment than your average Ivan.
Russian public support for the war is in the high 70%s so hardly "one man's ambition". We've all heard the many intercepted phone calls from the front. Russian soldiers and their families only protest about the lack of training and supplies and the state of their equipment and quality of commanders, but never about the war. They are not morally opposed to the war.
There's absolutely no need to be an apologist for the Russian public's complicity in the actions of their public official representatives.
My concern is that of the joy some people experience when seeing or knowing that someone is dying or killed. In war the aim is NOT to kill as much as possible, but to disempower the enemy so that they surrender. Joy in watching a young man die regardless of his nationality is disgusting. Killing in self defence is the only time when it is acceptable and only a low base human being regardless of which side they are on feels joy at ending another's life. Unfortunately there are too many.
The watermark on the video appears to be Russian. Either way, the music was overlayed by the publisher of the video, not by Ryan so I dont understand why you'd make such a comment, especially when you can mute the video, happy or not.
The so-called Arthur Morgan is a Russian propagandist. And not a very good one not to be graphic, but he’s obviously never seen anyone or anything die. I’m not going to go into detail. But he is part of that Russian tactic to write all kinds of different stories as a propaganda technique to disguise the actual truth. His Twitter account is just full of all kinds of obvious propaganda.
The one that does disturb me, though, appears to be a short video of Ukrainians, shooting Russian prisoners. But they could very easily be the opposite. It’s too blurry to tell.
The best propaganda is the tidbits of truth. Russian bots only need to ignore the Russian war crimes, cherry pick the few enemy transgressions, and, as you said, mix in a whole lot of purely manufactured garbage to drown the information space behind a semblance of deniability.
"But this really the only advantage that chemical weapons give to a military - the ability to force an adversary into a higher protective posture."
This would be risky to do often, once your enemy knew this trick they could hit the area with non-persistent chems when the attack hit. Their people would be in MOPP and yours would be forced to withdraw or try to MOPP up in combat.
My thoughts are that the man died from lung injury caused by dynamite fishing type injury. When an explosion occurs under water the compression wave spreads out at perfect efficiency because unlike air, it doesn’t have heat losses from compression then expansion. When a pressure wave encounters a change of density, it partly converts to a shear wave. When a pressure wave arrives at your leg, most leg isn’t too far from water density. So ripping is modest. When it arrives at your lung, it stretches out the tissue with violence. Tearing apart lung floods the area with blood and you suffocate. Anyone here trained that “bullets are stopped by water but you die if you are in water and a mortar or grenade goes off at all near”? Example is protecting boats from frogmen by dropping a fragmentation grenade every few minutes. The steel fragments travel 20 cm, the pressure wave travels at lethal intensity maybe 25 meters?
I'm not really happy about the music that was playing while that man was dying in the water.
Yeah that’s sad to see. I know they’re the attacker but most are sent to die for one man ambition
Without any objection to the music part being totally wrong in the video, allow me to disagree with you on the "one man ambition". I clame this war situation is much more Putin being hostage of Russian people ambitions than the opposite. Sure he made the decision, but the path to this decision was paved with genuine Russian sentiment of revenge for what these people see as humiliation. I mean USSR collapse and former Soviet republics gaining independence. And Putin himself, although being Russian, held much less of this sentiment than your average Ivan.
Russian public support for the war is in the high 70%s so hardly "one man's ambition". We've all heard the many intercepted phone calls from the front. Russian soldiers and their families only protest about the lack of training and supplies and the state of their equipment and quality of commanders, but never about the war. They are not morally opposed to the war.
There's absolutely no need to be an apologist for the Russian public's complicity in the actions of their public official representatives.
My concern is that of the joy some people experience when seeing or knowing that someone is dying or killed. In war the aim is NOT to kill as much as possible, but to disempower the enemy so that they surrender. Joy in watching a young man die regardless of his nationality is disgusting. Killing in self defence is the only time when it is acceptable and only a low base human being regardless of which side they are on feels joy at ending another's life. Unfortunately there are too many.
The watermark on the video appears to be Russian. Either way, the music was overlayed by the publisher of the video, not by Ryan so I dont understand why you'd make such a comment, especially when you can mute the video, happy or not.
The watermark is the watermark/emblem of the Ukrainian 110th Mechanized Brigade. I'm guessing the song is meant to mock the Russians.
Thank you for letting me know.
The so-called Arthur Morgan is a Russian propagandist. And not a very good one not to be graphic, but he’s obviously never seen anyone or anything die. I’m not going to go into detail. But he is part of that Russian tactic to write all kinds of different stories as a propaganda technique to disguise the actual truth. His Twitter account is just full of all kinds of obvious propaganda.
The one that does disturb me, though, appears to be a short video of Ukrainians, shooting Russian prisoners. But they could very easily be the opposite. It’s too blurry to tell.
The best propaganda is the tidbits of truth. Russian bots only need to ignore the Russian war crimes, cherry pick the few enemy transgressions, and, as you said, mix in a whole lot of purely manufactured garbage to drown the information space behind a semblance of deniability.
Shit, I thought I was watching a home video of myself whenever my phone pisses me off..
"But this really the only advantage that chemical weapons give to a military - the ability to force an adversary into a higher protective posture."
This would be risky to do often, once your enemy knew this trick they could hit the area with non-persistent chems when the attack hit. Their people would be in MOPP and yours would be forced to withdraw or try to MOPP up in combat.
My thoughts are that the man died from lung injury caused by dynamite fishing type injury. When an explosion occurs under water the compression wave spreads out at perfect efficiency because unlike air, it doesn’t have heat losses from compression then expansion. When a pressure wave encounters a change of density, it partly converts to a shear wave. When a pressure wave arrives at your leg, most leg isn’t too far from water density. So ripping is modest. When it arrives at your lung, it stretches out the tissue with violence. Tearing apart lung floods the area with blood and you suffocate. Anyone here trained that “bullets are stopped by water but you die if you are in water and a mortar or grenade goes off at all near”? Example is protecting boats from frogmen by dropping a fragmentation grenade every few minutes. The steel fragments travel 20 cm, the pressure wave travels at lethal intensity maybe 25 meters?