Ulara

Adorable people: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727774486756237686.html

He has been trapped in the propaganda bubble and has become delusional as a result of it.

It was the Soviet Union that developed the technology and produced the missiles. The rocket engineer, Sergei Korolev, was from the Ukraine. Much of the research and production was done in the Ukraine. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent decline, Russia lost much of its skilled labor and technologies. All Soviet production chains and skilled labor ceased to exist. Russia was unable to reproduce the best Soviet rocket engines.

In the 2000s, the Russian "Federation" (actually a neo-empire) restored some production using modern European machinery. Now, because of sanctions, Russia doesn't have enough of the essential components (e.g. ball bearings) it used to import from Europe. And it has a hard time maintaining European machinery without European engineers.

Russia spent a lot of Soviet missiles attacking Ukrainian cities to intimidate Ukrainians and leave them without electricity and heat in the winter. It didn't work. Now, in desperation, Pootin and his fellow criminals are trying to get more missiles from other dictatorships.

In any old empire, soldier's life isn't worth much. Fortunately, most of the empires are gone by now, and hopefully Russia will follow their tracks.

Russia applied the human wave attack tactics in WWII as well, and that war remains their benchmark standard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_wave_attack

Another reason is that it is much more interesting and impressive to create some super advanced and costly tech instead of maintaining huge stockpiles of simpler materiel.

Even though the Russians know that the elections are rigged, they desperately want to keep up the appearance that their country is the best and most democratic, and not at all an evil empire ruled by a crazy dictator. That is why they care so much about keeping up the election show.

Also, the dominant mafia group that runs Russia uses elections to prove to other competing mafia groups that they are still the strongest, able to manipulate millions of people without any protest.

Yes, the content is mainly the video of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AwAXcScds

He's from Canada: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/201811 Probably from Toronto, since he moderates "Toronto". He calls himself a Jew when his interlocutor tells he is a Jew: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/5227890

From the video of the shot, the delay seems even slightly bigger. Yes, this sniper must be good at math.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned both HAMAS violence and Israeli violence: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-president-says-he-rejects-killing-civilians-both-sides-conflict-2023-10-12/ So the Palestinian position is quite close to what the President Biden is saying.

There's more evidence: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18201