People have been posting that Russia lost the war since it ramped up recently. To my knowledge, the Ukrainian assault into Kursk is nothing more than forcing Russia to slow it's advances where it actually wants to hold territory to the South and instead focus more resources towards defending it's flanks.
The other main point and laugh thing I've seen is with the so-called cope cages and turtle shells made of scrap metal. Yes they do look somewhat ridiculous, but from everything I've seen they tend to work well at defeated suicide drones at the cost of some slabs of scrap metal plating. It's not the most high tech solution like the US is going to have to figure out, but it's cheap and effective enough to slap onto everything that can accept it.
he was citing historical precedent for Ukraine and Crimea.
Russia has a legitimate case for war, but this isn't it. Point to the pro-Russian candidate winning the 2010 election, being overthrown on the grounds that his opponent's supporters lived within rioting distance of the capital and his did not with the direct support of the US State Department via Victoria Nuland (in violation of the Budapest memorandum), the subsequent killings of thousands of ethnic Russians and the revolutionary government's declaration that two out of three democratically elected presidents are traitors against their anti-democratic rule. Point out that the American-backed coup to force Ukraine into the Western sphere of influence isn't the same as Finland or Poland choosing of their own volition to side with NATO but part of a deliberate strategy of regime change by Obama's State Department starting with Russia's allies in Ukraine and Syria that would have ended with the overthrow of Russia itself.
I don't really log into to Youtube and my browser (Librewolf) is pretty hostile to it's tracking. So I end up having fresh recommendations quite a bit. You can tell, because it's all mainstream shit when it resets, then it will morph into things closer to what I watch.
It's extremely rare that I watch political content on Youtube, I just don't care for rants of guys with Jesus hair agitating me. So I assume that's why I am pretty much never curated into a group being offered propaganda.
It's brutal when you look at it from a clean slate and it very much gives me validation that Youtube decides who they want to be popular. I'll go watch a random tech video and immediately it's steering me to only top channels. It is an algorithm, because it improves over time, although I do still get the weird one-offs. I think you might be on to something, it ties a lot more to things about history, because I noticed more politics at a time I'd been watching some Cold War things. I guess they have to make sure to inform me the truth about "real Communism."
No, but my youtube is relatively curated and I don't get political stuff there at all, so it doesn't mean much.
The "strange" channels are stupid "fitness advice" and "tech startup" for me.
But they're super obvious every time, cause I don't have anything like that in the rest of my recommendations, so I can easily click on "ignore this channel".
Decided to test this out myself on Youtube. I clicked on the weather forecast: "[Sunday] Tropical Storm Likely to Form Near Leeward Islands". Third video in the sidebar: "Ukraine's Invasion of Russia, What's the Objective?". Bonus anti-Trump video a few videos down from that.
If by "lately", you mean since 2016, then yes.
People have been posting that Russia lost the war since it ramped up recently. To my knowledge, the Ukrainian assault into Kursk is nothing more than forcing Russia to slow it's advances where it actually wants to hold territory to the South and instead focus more resources towards defending it's flanks.
The other main point and laugh thing I've seen is with the so-called cope cages and turtle shells made of scrap metal. Yes they do look somewhat ridiculous, but from everything I've seen they tend to work well at defeated suicide drones at the cost of some slabs of scrap metal plating. It's not the most high tech solution like the US is going to have to figure out, but it's cheap and effective enough to slap onto everything that can accept it.
Russia has a legitimate case for war, but this isn't it. Point to the pro-Russian candidate winning the 2010 election, being overthrown on the grounds that his opponent's supporters lived within rioting distance of the capital and his did not with the direct support of the US State Department via Victoria Nuland (in violation of the Budapest memorandum), the subsequent killings of thousands of ethnic Russians and the revolutionary government's declaration that two out of three democratically elected presidents are traitors against their anti-democratic rule. Point out that the American-backed coup to force Ukraine into the Western sphere of influence isn't the same as Finland or Poland choosing of their own volition to side with NATO but part of a deliberate strategy of regime change by Obama's State Department starting with Russia's allies in Ukraine and Syria that would have ended with the overthrow of Russia itself.
The US used to weld armor onto Humvees.
I don't really log into to Youtube and my browser (Librewolf) is pretty hostile to it's tracking. So I end up having fresh recommendations quite a bit. You can tell, because it's all mainstream shit when it resets, then it will morph into things closer to what I watch.
It's extremely rare that I watch political content on Youtube, I just don't care for rants of guys with Jesus hair agitating me. So I assume that's why I am pretty much never curated into a group being offered propaganda.
It's brutal when you look at it from a clean slate and it very much gives me validation that Youtube decides who they want to be popular. I'll go watch a random tech video and immediately it's steering me to only top channels. It is an algorithm, because it improves over time, although I do still get the weird one-offs. I think you might be on to something, it ties a lot more to things about history, because I noticed more politics at a time I'd been watching some Cold War things. I guess they have to make sure to inform me the truth about "real Communism."
No, but my youtube is relatively curated and I don't get political stuff there at all, so it doesn't mean much.
The "strange" channels are stupid "fitness advice" and "tech startup" for me.
But they're super obvious every time, cause I don't have anything like that in the rest of my recommendations, so I can easily click on "ignore this channel".
Scott Ritter is the only analyst worth following on Ukraine.
He was so accurate he got banned off most platforms.
Decided to test this out myself on Youtube. I clicked on the weather forecast: "[Sunday] Tropical Storm Likely to Form Near Leeward Islands". Third video in the sidebar: "Ukraine's Invasion of Russia, What's the Objective?". Bonus anti-Trump video a few videos down from that.
No matter which side you fall on, the move of attacking Russian cities is gripping and hasn't happened since WW2/great patriotic war.
No surprise it's popular.