Assuming twitter is showing my time then that is oddly bright for nighttime footage. As Google tells me this would be at 5 am if it is indeed at Rostov
It is the summer solstice, which is the longest day and shortest night.
Equinoxes are in spring and autumn, where the day and night are of equal length. Spring Equinox is a fertility festival; bunnies and eggs represent fecundity and new life respectively.
Autumn equinox is a harvest festival.
Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night in midwinter, and that is a festival to return light and life to the world.
I hope that peace returns and that one day you will get to see it. The parties in St Petersburg during "beliy noche" (white nights) are unrivaled on the planet.
A quick check lists Rostov at 47° north while Edinburgh, which is still further south than I am in Scotland, is at 56° north. It's bright very early here this time of year since we've just had the summer equinox solstice, and with the time coming up to half 5 in the morning it's still been bright for the last couple of hours.
I never trust social media for news, if I have time I DuckDuckGo the title when somebody posts Twitter as a source, in this case it turns out the news are right but I don´t know about the video.
"Prigozhin claims all military sites in Russia's Rostov-on-Don are under Wagner Group's control"
The CIA's code-breakers and computer crackers work just fine. They have been feeding Russian internal communications to those that will use it to do damage.
Even just supplying arms, intel and battle plans they have been plenty effective.
The issue isn't that the CIA is a bunch of buffoons; some are, but not all. The issue is that they are firmly in the Clintonite camp of the Democrat party. The CIA are political actors; they are no longer a tool of the state, but serve their own interests.
i am not suggesting that the CIA orchestrated anything. I am suggesting that they aided forces that have the right enemies; Specifically by giving those forces information, access to arms and in some cases tactical advice.
That is actually a Russian meme about Americans - that they are whores who will do anything for money. The Russians are not so and "honor" is a much bigger deal.
That the West does not understand this difference has been the major failing in politics.
Totally different context but that reminded me of the story of Elon Musk trying to buy retired ICBMs in Russia to turn into rockets, and in response to his offer they spit on his shoes and laughed.
And yet... Russia is plagued with thieves, pickpockets, muggers, and the like. Absolutely plagued with them.
I've been to many world landmarks. I noticed (so probably a lot more) SEVEN attempts to pickpocket me while I was at just one touristy destination in Russia. My local guide shrugged it off, just a part of living in Russia, you'll get robbed a LOT.
I could count my money at Niagara Falls, in the open, no problems, even at night. I've seen people leave ten thousand dollars on a table in Vegas to use as a "I'm still sitting here" placeholder, and it go untouched. It rings very hollow that Russians, so blase and used to mass thievery, would say that Americans are the money-hungry ones.
EDIT: Then again, they do nothing about it, so perhaps yes, they don't care about money. I guess if you cared, you'd care more when it is stolen...
A note on this, stealing from foreigners is not only accepted, but encouraged. Russia even famously will allow hackers to target anyone they like so long as they aren't Russian. They even will inform cyber criminals if they are wanted by interpol.
There has been zero monetary motivation for any Russian actions. The Ukrainian war, even if it was a swift victory, would have been a net loss monetarily. Pirghozin could have kept collecting money and just let his people die.
Wagner fought for money certainly from the government, but still in Russian interest. Thus their honor upheld.
Suggest that you read about the history of the cossacks, it will give much better idea of their mentality. If you played Witcher blood and wine, that was based on the cossacks of Russia/Ukraine.
Different factions with Russia have been jockeying for position as it has been perceived Putin is weakening.
The main two are Pirghozin who leads the Wagner mercenaries and Shoigu who leads the official military. Of the two, Wagner has generally been way more effective and most gains in Ukraine are due to them. Pirghozin himself is known for being in the trenches with his men (think General Mattis).
This touched off when a missile strike and helicopter gunship attack took out a Wagner base (perhaps an attempted killing of Pirghozin). Pirghozin publicly blamed Shoigu and started the coup
It's not clear that it's a coup, but some kind of nearly mutinous ... message.
The Army bombed a bunker this mercenary group was in, so they surrounded an army HQ building, and are now walking around in it """"making sure that the army isn't intentionally bombing them. """
I wouldn't call this a "coup", because Russia has had full scale coups in recent memory; including the August Coup which Putin was alive to see.
Assuming twitter is showing my time then that is oddly bright for nighttime footage. As Google tells me this would be at 5 am if it is indeed at Rostov
It's summer and far north. In another few weeks the sun will be up for 24 hours in St Petersburg.
The summer equinox was yesterday, it's called white nights. We're now on the downside of the sun across the northern hemisphere.
It is the summer solstice, which is the longest day and shortest night.
Equinoxes are in spring and autumn, where the day and night are of equal length. Spring Equinox is a fertility festival; bunnies and eggs represent fecundity and new life respectively.
Autumn equinox is a harvest festival.
Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night in midwinter, and that is a festival to return light and life to the world.
Don't know enough about the area so I'll take your word for it.
I'm just going to enjoy my popcorn before shit kicks up again as this shit is starting to become as farfetched as a soap opera.
I hope that peace returns and that one day you will get to see it. The parties in St Petersburg during "beliy noche" (white nights) are unrivaled on the planet.
I really admire Peter the Great and I like that St Petersburg still bears his mark. I'd love to walk through the streets and talk to the locals.
No one on earth tells stories like the Russian people. They have a grip on dark humor that no one else can match.
I have been told by a couple people that learning Russian is worth it, just for the literature.
A quick check lists Rostov at 47° north while Edinburgh, which is still further south than I am in Scotland, is at 56° north. It's bright very early here this time of year since we've just had the summer
equinoxsolstice, and with the time coming up to half 5 in the morning it's still been bright for the last couple of hours.Summer Solstice!
https://www.britannica.com/science/summer-solstice-astronomy
Derp, my bad.
I never trust social media for news, if I have time I DuckDuckGo the title when somebody posts Twitter as a source, in this case it turns out the news are right but I don´t know about the video.
"Prigozhin claims all military sites in Russia's Rostov-on-Don are under Wagner Group's control"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-24/prigozhin-military-sites-in-rostov-on-don-under-wagner-control/102520100
"I only believe what the legacy media tells me"
I pity you if your main source of information for life is Twitter.
The pity of a fool is the greatest compliment.
Meanwhile, Putin: "This is still a special military operation."
I've heard that the SAS just received a new recruit named Soap.
Since Pirghozin has about faced, much salt from anyone with eyes.
This appears to a be a coup, at least in part. This is like if Blackwater started attacking an army HQ over a dispute.
Pirghozin is more hardline than even Putin. The CIA is mostly clueless trannies at this point and couldn't organize a coup in a car dealership.
This was all obvious jockeying for power as I have posted about for months.
The CIA's code-breakers and computer crackers work just fine. They have been feeding Russian internal communications to those that will use it to do damage.
Even just supplying arms, intel and battle plans they have been plenty effective.
The issue isn't that the CIA is a bunch of buffoons; some are, but not all. The issue is that they are firmly in the Clintonite camp of the Democrat party. The CIA are political actors; they are no longer a tool of the state, but serve their own interests.
That's not the CIA who does "code cracking", that's the NSA and the two are more or less competitors. They don't necessarily get along.
The missile strike is perhaps possible to orchestrate. The helicopters less so. The years of political struggle between the two - definitely not.
i am not suggesting that the CIA orchestrated anything. I am suggesting that they aided forces that have the right enemies; Specifically by giving those forces information, access to arms and in some cases tactical advice.
Literally just pay the man. That works on everyone especially if they were already wanting to do the thing and needed a tiny bit more encouragement.
That is actually a Russian meme about Americans - that they are whores who will do anything for money. The Russians are not so and "honor" is a much bigger deal.
That the West does not understand this difference has been the major failing in politics.
Totally different context but that reminded me of the story of Elon Musk trying to buy retired ICBMs in Russia to turn into rockets, and in response to his offer they spit on his shoes and laughed.
And yet... Russia is plagued with thieves, pickpockets, muggers, and the like. Absolutely plagued with them.
I've been to many world landmarks. I noticed (so probably a lot more) SEVEN attempts to pickpocket me while I was at just one touristy destination in Russia. My local guide shrugged it off, just a part of living in Russia, you'll get robbed a LOT.
I could count my money at Niagara Falls, in the open, no problems, even at night. I've seen people leave ten thousand dollars on a table in Vegas to use as a "I'm still sitting here" placeholder, and it go untouched. It rings very hollow that Russians, so blase and used to mass thievery, would say that Americans are the money-hungry ones.
EDIT: Then again, they do nothing about it, so perhaps yes, they don't care about money. I guess if you cared, you'd care more when it is stolen...
Your examples in Niagra Falls and Las Vegas tell me the average American is a million times more honest than our filthy politicians.
A note on this, stealing from foreigners is not only accepted, but encouraged. Russia even famously will allow hackers to target anyone they like so long as they aren't Russian. They even will inform cyber criminals if they are wanted by interpol.
Interesting meme... although it seemingly didn't stop Russia from paying PMCs to do military dirty work.
It then seems fitting that the CIA and globohomo banksters made the PMC a better offer to turn on their former employers.
There has been zero monetary motivation for any Russian actions. The Ukrainian war, even if it was a swift victory, would have been a net loss monetarily. Pirghozin could have kept collecting money and just let his people die.
Wagner fought for money certainly from the government, but still in Russian interest. Thus their honor upheld.
Suggest that you read about the history of the cossacks, it will give much better idea of their mentality. If you played Witcher blood and wine, that was based on the cossacks of Russia/Ukraine.
Cyberpunk af
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/885/645/454.jpg
okay, but why?
Different factions with Russia have been jockeying for position as it has been perceived Putin is weakening.
The main two are Pirghozin who leads the Wagner mercenaries and Shoigu who leads the official military. Of the two, Wagner has generally been way more effective and most gains in Ukraine are due to them. Pirghozin himself is known for being in the trenches with his men (think General Mattis).
This touched off when a missile strike and helicopter gunship attack took out a Wagner base (perhaps an attempted killing of Pirghozin). Pirghozin publicly blamed Shoigu and started the coup
It's not clear that it's a coup, but some kind of nearly mutinous ... message.
The Army bombed a bunker this mercenary group was in, so they surrounded an army HQ building, and are now walking around in it """"making sure that the army isn't intentionally bombing them. """
I wouldn't call this a "coup", because Russia has had full scale coups in recent memory; including the August Coup which Putin was alive to see.
US State Department paid them off--they are mercs after all.