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I hope they drone the shit out of the parade
nah, drone more oil refineries while all the air defense is busy with the parade
War against a stronger enemy is an exercise in allotting your military resources where they're most effective.
Officials are easier to replace than infrastructure, unless you manage to whittle the enemy supply of manpower, experience and training capabilities down so far that candidates are similarly scarce.
On the other hand, the optics of being unable to protect the literal military parade... Might change some Russians' minds about how good and strong of a leader Putin is.
Either one works, really.
Then drop something aimed at the will of the people, not the military power. Letters from captured Russian troops to their loved ones, candy for the children, propaganda...
Getting it all past their air defense sends a message to those who care about military strength. The letters may show that you're treating prisoners well (even if they don't all make it to their recipients). The candy... well, happy children are probably the most benevolent kind of psychological warfare.
Collateral civilian damage will be used to galvanise resistance. Hence, violent strikes may end up backfiring (but don't have to - nothing in war is ever quite certain).
So far russians hitting our civilian targets didn't do them much good. I can't imagine the reverse will help us.
I mean, the amount of competence in the Russian military was clearly already low.
I cant imagine how useless any replacements will be.
Why not both?
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Drones filled with glitter. Pink glitter. Dump it all over the parades.
hey let's not add more micro plastics to the environment please. Just use old fashioned munitions like a normal army.
Huh, I thought most glitter was glass, turns out its largely plastic/aluminum. TIL
I can only imagine what a horror show it would be if glitter was tiny flakes of glass. Makes fiberglass pale in comparison.
Sand is basically glitter, no? It is silica (glass), yet not sharp or irritative. In fact, there are pulverizing machines that turn glass bottles to sand that is nearly indistinguishable from beach sand. Just crush it a bit more? I donno. I'm not a glitteroligist
I'm not a glitterologist
Don't go to school for it, either. I'm $3.50 in debt and that was before this dumbfuck war! I'll never recover financially for that degree and only Mark Rober will hire me. I CAN'T WORK FOR PEANUTS, MARK, I HAVE LOANS!
I hear there's a lady that lives ~~in~~ on a lake that'll help you take care of that $3.50.
Glitter is really thin though.
Indeed. And powdered sand is dangerous.
Basically any sort of powder you can inhale is generally bad for you, any sort of rock powder especially.
So we ought to shower glass flakes over the parade instead?
You are concerned aboutplastics when refineries are on fire?
I am not happy for the environment but I see it as a justificable action by Ukraine.
Yes. For example if we have 10 million tons of crude oil in the ocean, it would still be bad to add another 10 tons into the ocean. War is bad enough for the environment, lets focus on killing the bad guys not destroying European nature.
Yeah Im all for the environment, just dont think having a view on a hypothetical prank during a war is necessary. It would have been easier to suggest confetti as an alternative and move on.
Blue and yellow glitter
Is glitter a chemical weapon? π€
I certainly wouldnβt care to have glitter lung.
Is that whatβs making the frogs gay?
No, and Alex Jones' dumbass comments aside, it is endocrine disruptors like atrazine the second most popular herbicide that are turning frogs hermaphroditic at concentrations as low as several parts per billion, and wiping out populations. To say nothing of the insect populations which are down 90% over the last 30 years, and that is worldwide. Something is fundamentally wrong and pollution is the main factor.
Cry havoc... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/tyrone-hayes-atrazine-syngenta-feud-frog-endangered/
And release the frogs of war.
Rathet drone the Kreml
Nice psy-op. Now Putin will have to order everyone to be there, and they'll all be watching the skies instead of his dumb parade.
Strategic ambiguity. Better keep all the AA near Moscow, Vladimir.
Oops. So mych critical oil infrastructure not in Moscow...!
I heard Transnistria is really nice this time of year.
Kyiv will for sure be present at the parade with drones, but i wouldn't be surprised if they sent chocolate and usb-sticks with information what is really happening at the front instead of explosives.
This would be the best approach. Just let thousands of USB sticks parachute down below into the hands of average Russians.
Bombing civilians has historically galvanised resistance rather than undermining the enemy. The supply deliveries by air and candy drops during the Berlin Blockade did way more for sympathy and morale. Give them chocolate and information and you'll achieve more than by confirming you're the cruel enemy they've been told you are.
Or just a flyer that reads something along the lines of: "If these were bombs, Putin would have failed you. Thankfully, we are more civilised than that"
Lol he's trolling so hard
All available air defenders are in Moscow, and St. Petersburg is sitting there begging to get leveled.
I hope they sabotage every single engine so that they break down in the middle of the parade.
Russiaβs annual Victory Day parade will be held on 9 May without military hardware for the first time in almost two decades because of fears of a long-range attack by Ukrainian drones.
Hahahahaha, thanks for that. I've missed it, it seems.
Maybe they could rent the hot dog mobile instead?
More like because they don't have anything working they can spare
Note they didn't say anything about soldiers marching. Because those are cheaper to replace than machines.
And russian mobile carriers reported possible outages on 5-9 of May in Moscow, probably to prevent drone operations. There is something in the cooking only intel agencies of these two countries know about. Either that, or a psyop to make people actually watch the parade four years into war.
I wonder what kind of surprises do they have prepared for the parade.