Ukrainian War Developments

Friendly fire incident in Kiev, miscommunication between Ukrainian forces and Ukrainian National Guard convoy, which was mistaken as inflitrating Russians.

Russian T-72B3 destroyed near Chernihiv. Notice the makeshift cage armor against shaped charges. Quite a few Russian tanks can be seen with a similar contraption. Ostensibly to protect from top-down hits by Javelin ATGMs.

Strangelove said:

Abandoned Ukrainian armour T-64 & BMP-1 near Kherson


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Bad job by the soldiers. Before abandonment, the soldiers should have painted a white Z on their vehicles, then post photos on twitter.

taxiya said:

Bad job by the soldiers. Before abandonment, the soldiers should have painted a white Z on their vehicles, then post photos on twitter.

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At what point would the two quantum states of this war, the one on internet and the one in reality collapse down into a single observable state? When Kiev is taken?

siegecrossbow said:

They must secretly think China is a democratic country.

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Just a qucik question, do you think there is any chance for the population in say UK/USA to change the course of the foreign politics ?

The elections in the UK and USA means you can choose between the war party A or B side.

InfamousMeow said:

It's quite interesting that there are an emergence of a massive amount of newly created pro-west account in Chinese internet, some claims to be Chinese American, some is obviously Taiwanese pretending to be either mainland Chinese or Chinese American. I mainly use Bilibili (Chinese Youtube), and even I have personally seen 5 such accounts. It's freaking rampant! It's even worse on Weibo (Chinese Twitter) and Zhihu (Chinese quora). What's worse? It seems like a lot of established content-creators are either being paid to say anti-Russia stuff or sold their account. This is evident in the huge shift away from their ordinary contents and tones.

Why do the US even bother to influence the Chinese public? Do they think they can influence the decision of Chinese government?

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Besides the usual suspect of Chinese FangFangs, FLG, green Tawiwanese, Britain kisser in HK and oversea Chinese who married westerners or who just want to keep in line with their new friend circles, those "pro-west" accounts could also be from some of the Ukrainians in China. They could write Chinese well and they certainly have their Chinese friend circle.

There is an Ukrainian woman 伊琳娜·卡普特洛娃 Ірина Каптелова who acted in a Chinese TV drama. Now she lives in Ukraine. She posted her plea for supporting Ukrainian government in Chinese. A reply blaming current government got 1600s likes.Another reply against Putin got 1900s likes. If she can post in Chinese, certainly lot of the 1900s are not necessarily Chinese.

Internet is a mess and distorted world.

taxiya said:

Bad job by the soldiers. Before abandonment, the soldiers should have painted a white Z on their vehicles, then post photos on twitter.

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Why do that when you can just claim they are Russian saboteurs in Ukrainian uniforms?

For a country that supposedly hates Russia there seem to be a lot of them running around.