Thatās not entirely true, you should know that, how does the USA intercept for example communications in the region?
I donāt like to use the word evil, but this is just vile.
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The sheer scale of the NSA is hard to understand - and the primary constraint on their capacity is their ability to figure out what to focus on. The volume of cellular transmissions they capture daily is absolutely staggering. Snowden was a decade ago, and from the US point of view the only problematic element was the interception without a warrant for some instances. Consider how much technological advancement there has been in a decade. Canadaās CCSE is processing somewhere around 20x the volume of signals that it was in 2008.
In terms of how they intercept communications in the region, they have a wide range of methods - and Russian comms have been shown to be woefully insecure.
However, the really useful stuff now is a blend of satellite images and radio intercepts.
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The corollary is that there is a growing opinion that Russia is inherently an imperial state, and as long as it exists it will be a profound threat to stability. Russia as a nation-state has to exist, but the butcherās bill is being overwhelmingly paid by non-Russians, and the energy resources these talking heads are clucking about are overwhelming located in the territories added in the Russian era of colonialist expansion. It is deeply ironic that so many Africans condemn the various Western nations for colonialism and look to Russia, when the fundamental difference is that England, France, etc, left, Russia never did. Russian propaganda about this being a war of national survival is drifting towards being self-fulfilling.
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Oddly, that seems to be the same tactic as Texas and Florida. I wonder why.
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Now seen some more pictures of the Kerch Bridge. Itās steel, so takes some blast to rip that in two, especially from above.
It does look like a pretty lightweight design but still quite some blast. It might have gone at the splice between two lengths of main beams but the break appears to be close to midspan which is not where youād put a splice joint.
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Have you seen the clip on BBC News?
There is what appears to be a small vessel moving under the road bridge (I think) when the bomb went off. Presumably the rail bridge fire was secondary?
Iām no expert on these things so Iād be interested as to your thoughts.
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shame they missed one span. I see the footage, am not so sure thatās a boat bomb. Be thinking that truck came from Russia, maybe an ammonium nitrate explosion?
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Well , well , well ā¦
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He is getting manipulated but is to megalomaniac to understanf.
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For Musk read Trump. Itās just too easy.
Heās a pathetic man-child is what he is.
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He claims it is not true (he is still a pathetic man child even if itās not true).
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I would say the worldās richest man spoke to Elon Musk.
Putin has squirreled away untold riches from the Russian people, and in addition to all that, because he is the top mafia crime boss in the country, all the other oligarchs pay up to him, like the Sopranos.
Mind you, there are much bigger issues with Putin than his secret and ill-gotten wealth.
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Did he say that he has had no communication of any sort?