Russia should confiscate officials' souls. A piece of paper won't make them win the "special operation".
You can't confiscate something they don't have.
Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
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Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#102> Russia confiscates passports of senior officials ... which passport? Russians have two passports, one is for the internal matters and other one for traveling abroad. Add: lol downwotes. Sure, guys, you are always concentrated and read the article, filled with the fillers and stating what the water is wet to the brim, because, you know, someone may wake up from 20 years coma and suddenly need to read this article. A…
The passports that the general (foreign) audience knows - the external/international one.
(sorry for answering here, replies are disabled under your last comment for me, I guess the flood/flame protection)
> Can you quote the update?
'civilian' is a direct translation of 'гражда́нский'[0] which would be a typical mistake for someone translating from Russian to English without context or the knowledge. So I think it's the internal one referenced here.
Honestly, taking the external passport wouldn't make sense, because the only place where it would be needed officially is after the border crossing and someone in the stop list would be stopped long before that by checking the internal passport. And at least some neighbouring countries allows crossing by Russian internal passport, so the external one isn't even needed.
But still the article reads as a cheap propaganda so until a more solid evidence shows up I would chalk it under the usual exaggeration of 'everything is bad there'.
> but this refers to the red-coloured external passport
I think both the red and maroon are referred as red there.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B...
Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Russia has many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks I've got a high quality 486 processor here but it still gets slaughtered by a cheap, ropey CPU I bought last year. A high-quality Soviet tank is a high-quality outdated tank that's very vulnerable to modern weaponry.
This comparison is not fair because tank's performance doesn't double every year.
Tanks' performance has improved a lot since the 1960s, though.
Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please quote the statement that I wrote that you think it's propaganda. I'll do the same: > Russia has gone backwards for a year now. This is false, Russia went backwards, and then went forwards. Maybe you meant to say "has gone backwards with respect to where it was last year". That is true.
Thank you for acknowledging what I wrote is true. When you have two interpretations of what someone write, and one is obviously true and the other is a strawman, please don't choose to argue against the false interpretation. It's against HN's guidelines.
Your haven't quoted me, and your original statement is still false.
Please write precisely, write what you mean, so others don't have to realize you actually mean something else than what you wrote
Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you talk about kamikadze drones then a simple fishing net can protect against them. Also, are Western tanks immune to $500 drones?
So you manage to catch a 180kph drone with a fish net. Impressive. Congratulations now you've traded a soldier with better reflexes than most professional baseball players for a $500 drone.
I have seen a video from Ukraine where they bragged that fishing net over a tank has caught two Russian kamikadze drones (they got stuck in it and didn't explode). That's why I wrote that comment about a fishing net.
Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you talk about kamikadze drones then a simple fishing net can protect against them. Also, are Western tanks immune to $500 drones?
I mean yeah they tend to actually have reactive armor and don't tend to be quite as vulnerable to the "turret tossing" as those operated by the Russians. But this isn't about western vs soviet tanks. The point was the "many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks" appear to be quite vulnerable to very inexpensive and widely available equipment that Ukraine have become adept at using.
> they tend to actually have reactive armor
Soviet tanks also have reactive armour. You can easily see those boxes on a photo of a tank. Or did you mean some other kind of armour?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
that agressive bully was much further west 30+ years ago and western europe managed fine then
> that agressive bully was much further west 30+ years ago And Putin wants all of that back. > western europe managed fine then But eastern Europe didn't manage fine, and they're the ones now pushing western Europe into putting more effort into stopping Putin. Western Europe mostly just wants to trade with Putin. This is most visible in Germany of course (technically central Europe, but the old east-west divide is su…
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Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean yeah they tend to actually have reactive armor and don't tend to be quite as vulnerable to the "turret tossing" as those operated by the Russians. But this isn't about western vs soviet tanks. The point was the "many thousands of high-quality Soviet tanks" appear to be quite vulnerable to very inexpensive and widely available equipment that Ukraine have become adept at using.
> they tend to actually have reactive armor Soviet tanks also have reactive armour. You can easily see those boxes on a photo of a tank. Or did you mean some other kind of armour?
Some soviet tanks are supposed to have reactive armour. The same way the Russian troops were supposed to be issued with body armor and the tank columns invading Kiev from the north were supposed to have fuel.
I don’t think anyone’s particularly hopeful about any breakthrough from either side, and the Russians do not seem to be the comically inept force they’re sometimes portrayed as. But it’s no secret that they’re poorly resourced and were ill-prepared for the conflict.
Re: Russia confiscates passports of senior officials to stop defections
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that agressive bully was much further west 30+ years ago And Putin wants all of that back. > western europe managed fine then But eastern Europe didn't manage fine, and they're the ones now pushing western Europe into putting more effort into stopping Putin. Western Europe mostly just wants to trade with Putin. This is most visible in Germany of course (technically central Europe, but the old east-west divide is su…
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Only Putin wants this war. US, UK, Poland, the Baltics and many other countries want to defend Europe against Russia. Nobody outside Russia would complain if Putin suddenly quit his war and withdrew from Ukraine.