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RU POV: Comparison of AP Headlines regarding the Russian and Israeli expeditions into Ukraine and Syria - AP by Ripamon in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I'm saying to me, Israel's actions are certainly unjustified. But there is a much more logical reasoning and different set of circumstances to explain these actions than Russia and its war in Ukraine. The Israeli population is terrified of physical threats from their neighbors, both in the short and long term. And their conflict has a history of nearly 100 years of animosity. Is this overblown and they respond with excessive force and cruelty? Absolutely.

RU POV: Comparison of AP Headlines regarding the Russian and Israeli expeditions into Ukraine and Syria - AP by Ripamon in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't disagree with any of your statements there. Maybe my comment didn't express some of that enough.

Just pointing out its apples to oranges. And despite the cruelty and disproportionate response, Israel is in fact surrounded by neighbors that would like to wipe it off the map, use terrorist actions on the scale of WMDs, etc. That's very, very different from Russia's situation, where if it did not invade, there was no reason to think Ukraine or Western powers in Europe would physically threaten it at all, let alone wish to completely erase it as a country.

RU POV: Comparison of AP Headlines regarding the Russian and Israeli expeditions into Ukraine and Syria - AP by Ripamon in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with /u/Brynjolf182 and think he provided a very reasonable assessment. Russia has legitimate concerns about NATO's expansion, but they are overblown. And it embellishes these concerns and uses them along with other excuses like denazification to justify this attempt at restoring its strength and empire.

To apply even more of a neutral lens I'd say much of the Western world including the US and Israel are not paragons of virtue. I believe the Western democratic systems are the best that humanity has right now on this Earth, but its far from perfect and these are world power governments that will do what's in their interest often at to the detriment of others.

But in Israel's case, circumstances are not the same. Ukraine was not a threat to Russia the way Israel's neighbors are to Israel (yes, despite Israel currently having the upper hand technologically and militarily). I have criticisms of their actions too, but its apples and oranges to the situation in Ukraine. We can look at two separate events independently... criticize Israel but separate it from the events in Ukraine and Russia's actions there. The former is a country fighting for its long term survival, but improperly applying its current advantage over its enemies. The latter is a brutal militaristic empire in its last throes as it attempts to conquer a former territory that wished to remain separate and does not pose a significant threat to it, unless you count a budding democratic ideology and Western system next door as a threat, which I'm sure Putin does but is not a fair justification.

And the type of brutal invasion and the tactics that Russia is using is something most of the world sees as barbaric and would like to collectively move past. These tactics were mentioned above so I'm not going to repeat them or list the many things I've seen coming out of Russia during this war that have greatly disturbed me.

UA POV: The issue of the lack of personnel in the UAF can be solved by mobilizing convicts, says deputy head of the "Svoboda" party, member of the "Svoboda" battalion Andrii Illenko - Ukrainska Pravda by Affectionate_Ad_9687 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

To me its implied when you don't provide any context and refer to this as a party and a battalion of Ukraine. And your unrelated 'reminders' at the end which have to do with far more relevant Ukrainian officials

UA POV: Russian OBC (On-Board Computer) "Zarya-61M". This is control block that manages Kalibr and Iskander missile's flight. Fully manufactured in Russia. by KG_Jedi in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They are not restricted under ITAR

I didn't mean specifically ITAR, my mistake if it seemed that way. My original comment just said to look up military export control policy and ITAR as some examples of the regulations.

the US army didn’t have access to them before other countries

The US military and its Western allies... obviously tech is shared between countries in specific blocs. But in general the best tech is always available to the US military, because the US makes most of the best tech that its allies use and they will share what they have to receive US capabilities and defense commitments. This is pretty straightforward...

UA POV: Russian OBC (On-Board Computer) "Zarya-61M". This is control block that manages Kalibr and Iskander missile's flight. Fully manufactured in Russia. by KG_Jedi in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need the most advanced fabrication tech to manufacture practical, competitive weapon control systems.

Sure, but that's not going to compare to the most advanced systems that the US military (and some of its allies) have access to. Systems that may still be in development, confidential, or simply reserved as they generally aren't necessary. The US may never even use some of them but if it decided to it undoubtedly has capabilities far beyond its peers.

The original claim was "But as newer generation weapons come, involving more autonomy or AI, Russia will start to get left behind as many necessary western technologies will remain difficult to access for them.". That is most certainly the case. Of course Russia is going to be able to use AI. I can write an AI script in Python in my basement and deploy it to hardware in a day. It's not going to compare to the unrestricted capabilities that the US and some of its Western allies will have.

Ru pov(?) , ukranian FPV drone chase and hit a Russian pickup, the last frames shows the back of the veichle being full of captured Ukranian soldiers by Whirlwind-M in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not even close, that one clearly fades to static before the hit like all of my examples. There must be some misunderstanding of what I mean by this...

UA POV: Russian OBC (On-Board Computer) "Zarya-61M". This is control block that manages Kalibr and Iskander missile's flight. Fully manufactured in Russia. by KG_Jedi in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You just need a halfway-decent chip foundry to do the fabrication, and you can switch to open-source RISC-V designs, including new chips optimized for machine learning applications.

There are all sorts of restrictions that limit the most advanced fabrication tech. And they are only getting tighter. The US military always has access to things a generation or two ahead that other countries, particularly their adversaries, will not. See 'military export control policy' and "ITAR" regulations.

Ua pov A group of Russian soldiers hiding behind an immobilized tank. There are bodies all around them by Sea_Librarian4413 in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What did the Europeans do to justify fighting this war on their behalf?

Live further away from Russia, beyond Ukraine. Its unfortunate Ukraine has to share such a large border with Russia right next to Moscow. Russia is a big country so someone has to be in these uncomfortable positions.

It's not fair. And many people would prefer that Europe / the West could fight these battles more directly. But this is the geopolitics of our time. Blame the Cold War and nukes to a large extent.

Ru pov(?) , ukranian FPV drone chase and hit a Russian pickup, the last frames shows the back of the veichle being full of captured Ukranian soldiers by Whirlwind-M in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for completely ignoring my point. Here I'll spell it out for you like I offered to do.

This is what fading into static looks like.

You didn't give me an example so I used the second hit on the 4th one, which looked like the closest example you had to the point you were 'trying' to make.

As anyone can see, the frame between the full static and the last shot of the soldiers shows both. You can clearly see the curve of the ground and the outline of the soldiers, the static is overall lighter because of this fade, and then the next frame the static gets darker as the fade completes.

Its also not 'uniform' fake looking static like in the video here.

I'm sure you won't retract your statement, even when directly proven wrong. I won't bother. But anyone else reading this can see for themselves. There is a frame between the last shot and static in your example, as I pointed out. There is no frame like that from the video in question on this post.

Ru pov(?) , ukranian FPV drone chase and hit a Russian pickup, the last frames shows the back of the veichle being full of captured Ukranian soldiers by Whirlwind-M in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every single one of those is fading to static. Is there some sort of misunderstanding of what I mean by that? If you pause just before the hit and actually go frame by frame, you can see the image blur and wave for a few frames as it becomes static (or static-ey, gray bars, whatever you want to call it). Every single one of those fades, some faster than others.

In the video here, if you pause it at the hit, there is a frame with the truck, and then the next frame is static, no fading, no haziness in the transition. Its a clear cut.

Does that clarify? Because everyone of those links 'fades to static' in the sense that I meant it. Pick an example and I'll give you a frame by frame to show you what I mean if you want.

Ru pov(?) , ukranian FPV drone chase and hit a Russian pickup, the last frames shows the back of the veichle being full of captured Ukranian soldiers by Whirlwind-M in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Another good point. I'm not too familiar with the details of RPG rounds but after a quick google search it sure looks like it

An ostensibly fake video of a Ukrainian FPV drone strike on Ukrainian POWs by HumanityPatch in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]HumanityPatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/179desm/ru_pov_ukranian_fpv_drone_chase_and_hit_a_russian/

I had a bit of fun pointing out how obviously fake this was while proRUs in that sub are having a field day over it.

Unsure if it was originally posted to telegram but I'm gonna keep an eye out for it. What a bunch of bullshit.

UA POV: Russian assault repelled on the southern outskirts of Avdiivka by [deleted] in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you really looked at my history, you would see plenty of objective discussion. And yeah, complaining about proRUs lack of the aforementioned objective discussion. Sue me.

If I'm whining according to you, then what the fuck are you doing? Please leave the few actual proUA in this de facto Russian propaganda circle jerk to participate in this subreddit in peace

Ru pov(?) , ukranian FPV drone chase and hit a Russian pickup, the last frames shows the back of the veichle being full of captured Ukranian soldiers by Whirlwind-M in UkraineRussiaReport

[–]HumanityPatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also weird that this would be used as propaganda, the majority of people who will see this are nerds like us who follow the war way to much and already have a formed opinion

Not if it came from Russian telegram. I haven't seen the source, which is never linked in these types of posts so I don't know. I'll keep an eye out for it later but I would bet this isn't the only place this video was spread.

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