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The Russians continue their genocidal bombardment of Ukraine. Today they opened up on civilian targets in Pokrovsk:
No, these aren't WWII images. It’s Russian missiles in Pokrovsk, another frontline city that Russia aims to erase. pic.twitter.com/MYQRPj9LJy
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) August 7, 2023
Pizza place Corleone in Pokrovsk, a frequent spot for volunteers and foreign journalists, appears to be a target, much like Rio pizza in Kramatorsk. Only Corleone is located on the ground floor of the residential building. Russia was fully aware and attacked. pic.twitter.com/Kt0M1cW0Xe
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) August 7, 2023
And Kruglyakivka:
Today, russians dropped four guided aerial bombs on the village of Kruglyakivka, Kupyansk district, destroying several homes.Two local residents, a woman and an elderly man, were killed. Five people were injured. With the methodicalness of serial killers, as today in Pokrovsk,… pic.twitter.com/jHRtp61bjO
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
Today, russians dropped four guided aerial bombs on the village of Kruglyakivka, Kupyansk district, destroying several homes.Two local residents, a woman and an elderly man, were killed. Five people were injured. With the methodicalness of serial killers, as today in Pokrovsk, russians launched a second strike just as rescuers arrived. Two of them were injured.
Perhaps, one day, never again will actually mean something.
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.
Everyone who captures the occupiers at the front speeds up freedom for Ukrainians – address by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
7 August 2023 – 22:31
Dear Ukrainians!
A rescue operation is underway in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. After Russian missile strikes. Iskander missiles against ordinary residential buildings. All our services are working on the scene.
Unfortunately, there are victims. There are wounded, there are casualties. My condolences to the families and friends… Unfortunately, the second missile strike resulted in the death of an employee of the State Emergency Service. Colonel Andriy Omelchenko, Deputy Head of the State Emergency Service Main Department in Donetsk region. May he always be remembered…
I would like to recognize the rescuers today. Our employees of the State Emergency Service. Those who work in different cities of Ukraine for the sake of life. To make the Russian terror lose, because lives are saved.
Employees of the State Emergency Service of Kherson region: civil protection service Sergeant Vitaliy Murzenko and civil protection service Lieutenant Volodymyr Yavtushenko. Employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine of Kharkiv region: civil protection service Master Sergeant Serhiy Hladkyi and civil protection service Colonel Andriy Solianikov. Employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine of Dnipropetrovsk region: civil protection service Sergeant Kostiantyn Poturaiko and civil protection service Captain Vitaliy Denysenko.
All of them have repeatedly participated – directly participated – in eliminating the consequences of terrorist attacks, in saving the lives of our people. And, of course, all the employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa regions. I thank the entire staff of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine!
Today we have an important result for our team that deals with exchanges. 22 more men are back home in Ukraine. 20 of them are soldiers and sergeants, two are officers. They are servicemen of the Armed Forces. There are wounded among them. They were captured in different areas of the front. But now they are home. And we will do everything to bring back to Ukraine all our people who are now in Russian captivity. We remember everyone and are looking for everyone on the list of missing persons.
Fortunately, we manage to bring our people back. And it is important that this is a common task. It is a task for those who organize the exchanges: Yermak, Budanov, Malyuk, Klymenko. Thank you, guys! And the task of those who replenish the exchange fund for our country. Everyone who captures the occupiers at the front, who is active on the frontline. Each such warrior of ours speeds up freedom for Ukrainians. It is important to remember this.
The day began with a conference call. First of all, the military. A report on the situation at the front – our offensive actions, the capabilities of our movement and the dynamics of the movement. The Commander-in-Chief delivered the report.
Of course, there were reports on the supply of munitions and equipment, on our weapons production. The Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Strategic Industries. We are constantly increasing volumes! Both in supply and production. And we are constantly removing bureaucracy and making regulations more flexible. Our defense industry will reach the level that the state needs. Ukraine has this power. And I thank everyone who is working on Ukrainian production for this power!
Frontline. I would like to mention the Bakhmut direction. The 3rd and 5th separate assault brigades, “Fury” assault brigade of the National Police, the 92nd separate mechanized brigade. There are successes in destroying the occupiers, important successes. I thank you, warriors!
One more thing.
August 7. Every year on this day, the world remembers Russia’s aggression against Georgia. 15 years have passed. The Russian occupation remains – this wound on the body of the Georgian state remains. Many words have already been said that if the world had been decisive back in 2008, many things would have been different. Back then already Russia should have realized that the aggressor pays the highest price for aggression. It must definitely realize this now.
When Ukraine wins this war, it will not only stop the expansion of Russia’s aggressive appetites, it will not only save other nations from what we are going through – Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. Our victory will return normalcy to everyone – it will end the Russian occupation.
Ukrainians stand in solidarity with the people of Georgia, and I thank all Georgian citizens who are defending freedom with us! And especially those who are fighting as part of the defense and security forces of Ukraine!
Freedom will win, Georgia will win, Ukraine will win!
Glory to Ukraine!
More on Pokrovsk:
Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
Another war crime committed by the russians. Two missiles struck the city center. Several apartment buildings were damaged. Rescue efforts are currently underway. At least five people were killed, and thirty one were injured.
We will do everything… pic.twitter.com/9as308GiVs— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
Another war crime committed by the russians. Two missiles struck the city center. Several apartment buildings were damaged. Rescue efforts are currently underway. At least five people were killed, and thirty one were injured.
We will do everything possible to hold the murderers accountable for their crimes.
The city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Donbas, from which Russia is trying to leave only broken and scorched stones. Two missile strikes. An ordinary residential building was hit. Unfortunately, there are victims. Rescuers and all necessary services are on the scene. The rescue of… pic.twitter.com/zsIA7dR6HR
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 7, 2023
Here’s the full text of President Zelenskyy’s tweet:
The city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Donbas, from which Russia is trying to leave only broken and scorched stones. Two missile strikes. An ordinary residential building was hit. Unfortunately, there are victims. Rescuers and all necessary services are on the scene. The rescue of people continues.
We have to stop the Russian terror. Everyone who fights for the freedom of Ukraine saves lives. Everyone in the world who helps Ukraine will defeat the terrorists together with us. Russia will be held accountable for everything it has done in this terrible war.
I and so many others stayed at Druzhba, conducted interviews at Corleone & filed stories from both countless times over the years. They’re among the few places operating near the frontline. No doubt they were targeted by Russia because journalists & military have frequented them. pic.twitter.com/gQwPmxUUqr
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) August 7, 2023
Kherson:
russian terrorists continue to destroy Kherson. They hit a nine-story residential building at midnight during another artillery barrage. Also, several private houses were destroyed. At the moment, one person is reported dead. At least seven people are injured. pic.twitter.com/QPWeHoZelb
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
Robotyne:
Fighters of the 47th Brigade shot down a russian Ka-52 helicopter near the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhia region. pic.twitter.com/KVw2wfmAY4
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
Twenty-two more Ukrainian POWs have been returned home:
22 Ukrainian servicemen, including two officers, are coming back home after being released from russian captivity.
Welcome back, brave warriors! pic.twitter.com/ro2Am0gAZ2— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
A hero that has returned from hell. pic.twitter.com/mX6ddrChGe
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) August 7, 2023
The Financial Times is reporting that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is doing his Hamlet impression again.
Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz is under mounting pressure to provide cruise missiles to Ukraine to bolster its struggling counteroffensive against Russian forces.
Two politicians in Scholz’s Social Democrat party (SPD), which has often been more cautious than its coalition partners, have recently joined a chorus of voices calling for Swedish-German made Taurus missiles to be sent to Kyiv.
“The counteroffensive is faltering, the Ukraine does not have a significant air force to support it,” Andreas Schwarz, an SPD member of parliament, told the German news outlet Der Spiegel on Sunday. “That leaves only guided missiles such as Taurus cruise missiles, with which the Ukrainian army could overcome the minefields laid by the Russians and recapture territory.”
His comments were cautiously echoed by Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for the SPD in parliament, who told German newspaper Tagesspiegel that he did not “rule out” supplying systems such as Taurus in conjunction with the US.
Schmid warned, however, that it was vital to ensure that Ukrainian soldiers — rather than their German counterparts — could do target programming, otherwise it would bring Berlin “dangerously close to direct participation in the war”.
Further supplies of cruise missiles would offer a boost to the Ukrainian counteroffensive, launched in June, that has made only moderate progress towards its aim of liberating Russian-occupied far eastern and southern regions.
Equipped with German Leopard tanks and other Nato-grade weaponry provided by western allies, Ukraine’s infantry has struggled to break through heavily mined and fortified Russian positions.
In a bid to soften the ground, Ukraine’s air force bombers have used British Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, provided earlier this year, to repeatedly strike Russian weapons arsenals, fuel depots, command posts and logistical infrastructure including bridges.
Moscow has responded in recent weeks by heavily targeting air bases with air strikes in an attempt to counter the threat posed to its faltering full-scale invasion by the long-range missiles.
Last month, France announced that it would follow the lead of the UK by supplying Ukraine with Scalp missiles, the French version of the Storm Shadow, which have a range of about 250km.
But Germany, along with the US, has been more hesitant, with policymakers in Berlin fearing the risk of escalation that would come with supplying a weapon with a range of more than 500km that could be used to strike Russian territory.
Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius said last week that supplying Taurus missiles, which are produced by a joint venture between Germany’s MBDA and a subsidiary of Sweden’s Saab, “is not our top priority right now”.
He said that Germany, which is the second-largest supplier of weapons to Ukraine in absolute terms after the US, was not the only country to be hesitant about such a move, pointing to reticence from Washington. He added that German missiles had a “special reach”.
The debate has drawn comparison in Germany with the long and painful discussion about dispatching German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, which reached a peak in January this year after months of deliberations that drew frustration from Berlin’s international allies.
Schwarz said that he now had a sense of “déjà vu”, adding: “As with the tank issue, we are now refusing to hand over important equipment that will probably be delivered in the end.”
He argued that Ukraine could already target Russian territory with Mars and Himars artillery systems that have been delivered by Germany — but had not yet done so.
What could go wrong? This:
Depending on how many Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG ALCMs 🇺🇦 has received, and assuming Ukraine maintains its current rate of consumption of about 75 missiles per month, it will run out of long-range strike capabilities somewhere between October 2023 and January 2024. 1/ pic.twitter.com/BoZxt9eHwO
— Fabian Hoffmann (@FRHoffmann1) August 7, 2023
Yet, the United States is still deliberating about ATACMS and the German Minister of Defense openly says Taurus is not a priority. This is assessment is simply wrong. You cannot effectively fight a war of attrition in the 21st century without access to long-range strike weapons.
— Fabian Hoffmann (@FRHoffmann1) August 7, 2023
The cost:
Eight years ago today, a Russian mortar killed my friend, Daniel Kasyanenko, a 19-year-old Ukrainian solider who volunteered to fight for his country after Russia first invaded in 2014.
He was only 19, but Daniel had an uncanny ability to put the war in perspective. He… pic.twitter.com/SJhzK6uknb
— Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson) August 6, 2023
Eight years ago today, a Russian mortar killed my friend, Daniel Kasyanenko, a 19-year-old Ukrainian solider who volunteered to fight for his country after Russia first invaded in 2014.
He was only 19, but Daniel had an uncanny ability to put the war in perspective. He understood the toll that combat was taking on his young soul. It would have been better to go to war as an old man, he explained to me one afternoon while the sounds of Russian machine guns snarled in the distance, and bullets zapped overhead.
“At 19, now, I understand that I broke my head, I broke my understanding of life,” Daniel said. “I broke it in my 19 years. And this is really bad.”
For good luck, Daniel wore a crucifix necklace coiled around his wrist. He also kept a letter from his mother, Marina, tucked in the front pocket of his body armor vest. After seeing plenty of good soldiers die, he believed these talismans were the secrets to his survival. No other explanations made sense.
Daniel was committed to the war and believed he was fighting for his country’s independence from Russia. He also understood that he was spending the formative years of his manhood in a place where everything that life typically promised a young man — love, family, career — could be snuffed out in an instant.
“I want to get out of these battles,” he told me. “I want to forget it. But I can’t.”
I embedded with Daniel’s unit, and before leaving the front lines we pledged to stay in touch. Over a steady correspondence of text messages in the weeks that followed, we talked about the possibility of him visiting America one day, which was his dream.
Then one day, about a month after I’d returned to Kyiv, I received a somewhat disjointed note from Daniel. He’d been injured by a mortar, he told me, and had what the Ukrainian medics called a “brain contusion,” which probably meant he had a concussion, or more likely, a traumatic brain injury.
In any case, Daniel’s commanders gave him a few weeks’ leave in his hometown of Zaporizhia, located only a three-hour car ride from the front lines.
During his convalescence, Daniel’s parents, Marina and Konstantin, advised their son against returning to the war. And the truth is, he didn’t have to go back.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in the summer of 2014, Daniel, like so many Ukrainians at the time, had joined one of a number of irregular “volunteer battalions.”
Formed by the will of the Ukrainian people rather than government diktat, this coalition of civilian militias generally comprised young men and women with little or no military experience, including both native Russian and Ukrainian speakers from all regions of Ukraine. These volunteers learned how to be soldiers while in combat; a baptism by fire they jokingly referred to as “natural selection” boot camp.
Daniel, who was only 19 when he volunteered for war, went straight from living under his parents’ roof to living under Russian artillery and sniper fire. There was no basic training, no military academy, no time at a firing range, even, to serve as an interlude. It was like a jump cut in a film — straight from boyhood to war. To stay alive, he shadowed the older, more experienced soldiers, learning lessons they had themselves learned the hard way. And when he saw others die, Daniel would learn from their mistakes, too.
“It was crazy,” his mother, Marina, later told me. “None of the soldiers said no. They all went straight to the war no matter how young they were.”
While Daniel was home on convalescent leave, Marina would often watch her son sleeping. He’d changed so much in those few months he’d been away, she remarked. His hands, in particular, seemed to have aged decades.
“He went to war as a boy and came back as a wise old man,” she said.
On the day he was to return to war, Marina begged her son not to leave.
“Mom, I have to go back,” Daniel answered. “I have to go back to my friends. It’s my duty.”
Two weeks later, a soldier arrived at the door to the Kasyanenkos’ apartment. At the very first knock, both Konstantin and Marina feared something was wrong.
“Are you Daniel’s parents?” the soldier asked.
They said yes.
“There is no Daniel anymore,” the soldier said.
That’s enough for tonight.
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Some in my country like to write tweets or posts that I’m dead.They want more likes and shares, and I would like not to have messages with the question about my «death». When it will happen — my people will let you know. pic.twitter.com/i8y8X6tNWg— Patron (@PatronDsns) August 7, 2023
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Open thread!
Jerzy Russian
Thanks for keeping us up to date. It is exhausting reading all of this, one shudders to think how exhausting it is for you, not to mention to all of those living it.
Just restating the obvious: Patron is a Good Boy.
West of the Rockies
Open question to anyone who knows… is the world taking notice of Russian atrocities (bombing houses, blood transfusion centers, churches)? Are their French and Japanese and Italian (i.e., e.g.) editorials noting the behavior of Russian leadership?
dr. luba
Minor quibble–“Pokrovsk.” The name comes from Pokrova, the Protectress, i.e. the Virgin Mary.
Like many nations which had a traditional of goddess worship prior to christianization, the Virgin Mary is worshipped much more that the Jesus himself. There are statues of the VM everywhere; I have yet to see a Jesus statue in Ukraine…..
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: Fat fingered typo. You’ll notice I got it right in the additional material on the strike after the transcript of Zelenskyy’s address.
YY_Sima Qian
@West of the Rockies: I don’t think U.S./UK MSM are highlighting Russian atrocities & crimes against humanity any more. All of the editorial interest appears to be on the front lines.
It would be nice if one of the major news organization maintains a daily tracker of Russian attacks against civilian targets & the resulting civilian casualties, w/ a bit of analysis to inform readers which attacks are deliberate & which might be mistakes (very high percentage are the former), & from there an analysis of the intended effect of the deliberate Russian campaign (induce terror, shear bloody mindedness) & its actual effect (steeling Ukrainian resolve).
It would also greatly lighten Adam’s workload.
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba:
The Dianic cult as it is generically called. It was all over the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions and up into Europe and through the trans-Caucuses. Remember the part of the Torah where Miriam and the other Israelite women dance? This was a ritual from the Dianic Cult. The Irish folk tune Lord of the Dance? Same tradition. John Barleycorn? Same tradition. The Order of the Garter in England? Same tradition. All those dead English princesses and consorts royal every 48 years (for the Jubilee)? Same tradition.
Jay
https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF24AGsBaIAAfS46.jpg
Adam L Silverman
@YY_Sima Qian:
What am I, chopped liver?//
Adam L Silverman
@YY_Sima Qian:
I’m not holding my breath!
Adam L Silverman
For those on BlueSky, I went on a bit of a rant.
https://bsky.app/profile/silvermansecurity.bsky.social/post/3k4fpssxeii2l
There’s no embed function yet. I’m guessing because it is still in Beta.
Jay
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/07/i-wasnt-even-given-a-chance-to-say-goodbye-to-my-mother-new-documentary-abducted-childhood-exposes-russias-crimes-against-ukrainian-children/
dr. luba
One can hope, but there have been so many genocides since Never Again.
Alison Rose
God, what creeps are spreading lies that Patron is dead? JFC what is wrong with people. (Don’t answer that.)
Is russia still sticking to their bullshit that all the apartment buildings and pizzerias they bomb are like, super secret military headquarters or whatever? And does anyone whose livelihood does not depend on putin actually believe that for one second?
PILLORY HER IN CENTRAL KYIV AND THEN SHIP HER TO SIBERIA:
Bitch.
Thank you as always, Adam.
Ksmiami
Maybe we should just shut down Russian internet. A country made up of Alcoholic, criminal thugs and enablers
Bex
Adam, do you have any backstory on the Zelenskyy assassination plot? Not expecting you to respond right this minute…but if there’s more info in the coming days it would be interesting reading…also scary! Thanks.
Jay
https://nitter.net/ChrisO_wiki/status/1671253659668344832#m
YY_Sima Qian
@Adam L Silverman: Your daily updates have been invaluable, but it really is the MSM’s job.
I am not holding my breath, either. MSM is a business, chasing eye balls to sell ads.
dr. luba
@Adam L Silverman: I finally signed up for BlueSky–got the invite code a few days ago. Any suggestions on who to follow?
Frank Wilhoit
“…Perhaps, one day, ‘never again’ will actually mean something….”
The two most important words in any language. But we recall that it was customary, from time to time, for good citizens to be instructed to cut certain pages out of their copies of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia with a razor blade, and then burn the razor blade.
Medicine Man
Hey folks. Is there anyone here with information on the arrest of Yurii Sheliazhenko in Ukraine? Googling has produced mostly links to peace organizations demanding his release. My wife is an avid follower of Democracy Now and I’d like to have more information before my next fight with her.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@dr. luba: Start by following Adam. Then look at the list of who he follows and who follows him; you may recognize some names from here. Next, check out their following/followers list, and so on. I have several interesting political writers & academics, as well as a lot of historians & writers of fiction—and when you see an interesting post from someone new, check out their profile.
Adam L Silverman
@Ksmiami: They shut it down themselves all the time. Most recently about three weeks or so ago.
Adam L Silverman
@Bex: I do not. I’ll poke around.
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: Darth. TaMara. Cole’s got like three posts. Popehat for good legal commentary, as well as acerbic snark. Me if you don’t get enough here. I never used Twitter, so this is all new to me.
Adam L Silverman
@Medicine Man: Nothing from any site that isn’t like CounterPunch. So I’ve got nothing useful for you. Either this is completely niche or it hasn’t hit even the mainstream Ukrainian news media, let alone the US’s or Europe’s.
Origuy
@West of the Rockies: I checked some of the large Italian newspaper sites. My Italian isn’t great, so I looked at most of them in translation.
Corriere Della Sera appears to have articles almost daily about Ukraine. Ukraine-Russia: news | Corriere.it I didn’t see any editorials or columnists talking about it, but a couple discussed how dangerous the US is.
La Repubblica also had a lot of news, as well as a few items on the editorial section. Italia-Russia, condannare Holodomor and Il destino della Russia
To their credit, they have been covering the crisis in Niger more than I’ve seen in the US.
I couldn’t get anywhere with La Stampa, everything is behind a paywall.
FlyingToaster
@Adam L Silverman: I appreciated it. It’s been refreshing reading rants by subject-matter-experts over there.
Adam L Silverman
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio): I’m pretty sure Satby and you and a few others are on there and following me. I need to go through and do some follow backs. So if you’re on here and I haven’t followed you back, again, it is because I never had a Twitter account or used it and actually having an account on one of these sites and doing something with it is new to me. I’m not purposefully being disrespectful in not following you back!
Jay
@Medicine Man:
he’s charged with “justifying Ruzzian Military Aggression”, so in his articles, communications and social media posts he probably went well beyond advocating for pacifisim, non-violence, not supporting NATO and others support for Ukraine resistance and being anti-Russian sanctions.
Ukraine tends to use that charge against people who repeat and amplify Ruzzian propaganda, like Gonzo Lira.
Adam L Silverman
@FlyingToaster: You’re welcome. Like I’ve written to others, I need to go through and match up your accounts there with your nyms here and do some follow backs. It was so much easier when I just monitored social media…
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman: Same.
There’s nothing about him at the KyivPost or KyivIndependent either.
Dunno.
His article from February 2022 is about what I would expect for someone erasing Ukraine’s independent agency. Such arguments obviously don’t help Ukraine…
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: Nope.
Adam L Silverman
Just going to put this here in case anyone is interested. I’ve put it out on BlueSky:
West of the Rockies
@Origuy: Thank you for the effort and info! Russia should face a lot of work to restore its (never very) good name on the world stage.
Alison Rose
@Adam L Silverman: The tweet links are a little hinky, but the link to her shop works :)
Medicine Man
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks for checking, Adam.
Adam L Silverman
@Alison Rose: Not sure what’s going on. Most likely musk has them playing with the code again.
Adam L Silverman
@Medicine Man: You’re welcome.
Medicine Man
@Jay: Yup and Lira is a really *special* individual. But what I know of Yurii, he seemed more naive than malicious. Like Adam says though, most of the English-language search results on his arrest link to questionable tub-thumpers, so I haven’t been able to dig up specifics (my mono-lingual disadvantage no doubt is a handicap in this case).
dr. luba
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve followed you. Will follow the other toot sweet ;) !
Trying to recreate my Twitter list, but many are not on there yet. Many are Ukrainian accounts…..
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Adam L Silverman: That’s fine; I wasn’t too worried about it, especially given the amount of time you are devoting to other stuff.
Also, I’m very much of the opinion that following everyone who follows you can hook you up with a lot of people who just want a lot of followers to boost themselves, not because they find what you have to say of value. I can’t think why else that young woman with the alarmingly high pair of platform heels in the background picture is following me, for example.
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: I have seen that you’ve followed me. I’d be interested in the UA accounts if you want to email me a list.
Adam L Silverman
@a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio): Okay. Like I said, I’m knew to actually having the account and didn’t want to breach the protocols of reciprocity or something.
Origuy
@West of the Rockies: You’re welcome. I found a graphic of a poll in a Sicilian paper that had 61% of Italians in favor of supporting Ukraine, compared with 67% of all EU citizens. I couldn’t find any editorials in that one, though. There are a lot of regional papers and I didn’t bother with those.
Adam L Silverman
@Alison Rose: I got Darth – the red panda, not the master strategist – to amplify it on BlueSky. So hopefully that will help.
Jay
@Medicine Man:
specific’s won’t be available until the prosecution lays out their charges in court.
Adam L Silverman
@West of the Rockies: @Origuy: The Reagan Center (foundation?) has a new poll out that 90% of Americans are supporting the Ukrainians. I’ll try to find if for tomorrow night’s post.
Medicine Man
@Jay: Thank you. I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
dr. luba
@Adam L Silverman: I don’t have anyone on Bluesky yet. Ukes are still on Twitter, it seems. Will search some out tomorrow, and see if any have migrated over.
I follow many of those that you do on Twitter.
Adam L Silverman
@dr. luba: Makes sense. Until BlueSky comes out of beta, no way to really get the word out there the way one can on Twitter. Even in it’s currently degraded state.
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman:
Reagan Foundation Summer Poll
Excel crosstabs
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Traveller
@Jay: I would like to compliment Jay for his very fine nitter link…I didn’t so much laugh as raise my eyebrows as to maybe a profound truth.
Thanks again, Best Wishes, Traveller
Alison Rose
@Adam L Silverman: Wow — that kind of blows my mind, to be honest. In a good way!
Alison Rose
@Another Scott: LOL independents can go fuck themselves. Bunch of tankies.
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: Thanks! I appreciate it.
Eolirin
@Adam L Silverman: I guess Tucker losing his prime time slot had an impact on Republican sentiment on this.
Bill Arnold
@Eolirin:
There’s an academic camp that attempts to assert that online influence ops have no significant effect that they can measure (that’s perhaps their problem), and that by extrapolation, general influence ops probably don’t work either, maybe even including activities by star propagandists.
Perhaps they are (unwitting?) agents of Russia trying to reestablish propaganda greenfields in the west. :-)
(Being a bit harsh here, but those papers always get me very irritated. Causality can be very complicated and statistical.)