Being told this is fairly reliable for info on the situation in Ukraine. let me know if it isn’t. https://liveuamap.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#/media/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Patrick Armstrong with an interesting take that explains the surprising scope of the operation: Putin is expressly attempting to prevent a repeat of 1941. Predicts conditions Putin will offer and possible end states

    https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-1/

    • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      beautiful painting at the top of the page

      here it is big https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Levitan_nad_vech_pok28.jpg

      *edit: "Above the Eternal Peace" by the painter Isaac Levitan, 1894

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Hmm, kinda reminds me of the church in Disco Elysium. Especially in this [official?] wallpaper image: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/discoelysium_gamepedia_en/images/d/df/Church.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191127112306

        Wonder if they used it as inspiration.

    • Boflexgym [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      TBF I feel like people don't get that the USSR had to forcably annex the ukraine well before ww2, this isn't just a ww2 but lib this time wank.