Russia was only trying to be peaceful for like several years somewhere from 1990 until Putin came to power and started genocide in Chechenya.
Give me another country that is that bad.

Taking a picture is good evidence, regardless of who took it, it's not like a claim from an unnamed source where it's integral to the claim's validity. There are military experts who can immediately see what a DNR tank model is versus a Ukrainian one or a Russian one, if there are errors in allocating losses this gets picked up quickly by the military history nerds on twitter

The bias is more likely to be that Ukrainian forces are less likely to take pictures of their own losses and post them online, in many cases its civilians taking the photos of destroyed equipment and the military showing what has been captured

Basically, you can trust the Russian figures on the blog as a lower bound of Russian equipment losses, and the same for Ukraine, which is documented here in the exact same way: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html

also, nothing on TV but we have this headline on our state broadcasting website: "Russia does 'not have a weapon' that could wipe out UK, Ireland"

This is of course, untrue, noting Russia has any number of nuclear missiles that could and would wipe out the UK & Ireland. Its small comfort that the UK would send retaliatory missiles in response.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 3 2022 07:15am

Both sides are using T-72 tanks for example. No, some random on Twitter can’t tell from a pic who the destroyed tank belongs to and we already know both sides are claiming various types of military victories which can be questioned.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on May 3 2022 07:36am

They are, but insignia and markings are usually present to avoid friendly fire, which helps identification

Biden sound like an condescending asshole in this video.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4842887/user-clip-1998-biden-chastises-weapons-inspector-ritter

In 1998, the former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee following Ritter's resignation after years of frustration in Iraq. In Biden's time after his opening statement, Biden chastised Ritter that the decision to go to war was above his "pay grade." While open to the idea of removing Saddam, Biden said the President and Cabinet Secretaries and people in "limos" get to make that decision, not a Weapons Inspector

The last seconds were awesome, he's the man who will crush all infidels who refuse freedom.

Like how these infidels crush the other infidels for screwing up their country and their "muslim brothers and sisters " ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack

Posts like this and the one above will detract some users from your other posts. its safer to state that you would express concerns with the content of the video. it is quite easy to pull video's on every leader of every country where they messed up to put forward such an argument. Using knee jerk media to create a reaction (say atrocities in Ukraine, or speeches or references to well documented terrorist activities) only gets the blood boiling and is usually counter productive.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 3 2022 09:14am