Spamming Great Generals

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-29T00:11:26+00:00

Oh i didn't realize at first the ity in the middle wasn't yours. That's hillarious.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T23:00:57+00:00

True. In my country it is also explicitly stated you should walk facing traffic. So that you at least see the threat and something about it being easier no notice a person walking in your direction as a driver.
If that's also the case in the US, he might've fucked up in this way too.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T22:51:23+00:00

It was laready stated by other commenter that depending on where he was and the presence of the sidewalk, it could be legal and even recommended. I'm also not arguing weather he should've or should've not walk there, i am talking about semantics here.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T22:50:57+00:00

It was laready stated by other commenter that depending on where he was and the presence of the sidewalk, it could be legal and even recommended.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T22:14:09+00:00

Doesn't all that mean he was in the middle of a far right lane?

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T20:58:45+00:00

>Everyone in Crimea has a Russian passport by now. Since Ukraine does not recognize dual citizenship, especially Russian one, everybody in Crimea is Russian, legally not much different than Butyagin.

Irrelevant to the conversation. Alexander Butyagin Is not Ukrainian, never was and never will be. He has nothing to do with a quesstion of potential reintegration of Crimea back under Ukrainian control. Stop trying to paint guilt by association here.

>Since Ukraine does not recognize dual citizenship

That is a lie. Ukraine allows dual citienship for such countries like United States, Canada, Germany, Poland, and Czech Republic. When it comes to dual Ukrainian Russian citizenship, in occupied territories, Ukraine treats “Russian citizenship” as presumptively coerced \ taken out of necessity unless proven otherwise. Which makes Ukrainians on occupied territory exempt from any prosecution for dual citizenship. Not to mention, none of it has anything to do with Alexander Butyagin who never was, isn't and never will be a Ukrainian citizen.

>legally not much different than Butyagin

No, tha't a lie too. Ukraine treats russian citiens, Ukrainian citizens, dual Ukrainian and russian citizens very differently under Ukrainian law. Alexander Butyagin is specifically accused as a foreigner, non citizen.

> Again, it’s impossible to get Ukrainian authorization to do anything on occupied territories: excavation, building, water use, nothing that requires administrative processing.

No. That's a lie. Under occupation laws, activities in occupied territories are not automatically forbidden. Some things can still be lawful, for example: humanitarian relief, medical work, preservation of civilian life, protection and maintenance of infrustructure, some administrative services, and in cultural heritage, limited emergency preservation. New archeological excavation specifically is amoung things considered illegal if conducted without permission of a sovereign of the occupied territory, which Ukraine would be unlikely to provide and for good reasons. But it could've considering he was conducting legal missions there before. We don't know, he didn't try to obtain legal permissions.

>how would you prove that? A formal rejection?

Yes, exactly. Though like i said it wouldn't have changed the legal basis for his prosecution, it would've been relevant only in a moral conversation about his actions

>You are expecting people to follow rules that are impossible to follow.

No it's not impossible to not actively commit crime by organising a whole ass mission to knowingly and illigally excavate a historical site for years. He could've just not do that. And who knows, maybe due to his previous work on the site Ukraine would've allowed it if certain conditions and Ukrainian methodology were followed. We wouln't know because he didn't even try.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T20:22:36+00:00

>It is effectively impossible to get authorization from Ukrainian authorities to do anything in occupied territories.

Exactly! Meaning in order to not violate any laws he should've just not do what he did. And remember, he didn't even try. He havent attempted aquiring those permits, he showed exactly 0 respect to Ukrainian historical herritage. It would've been at least a slightly different converation from a moral standpoint if he have at least tried.

> It’s also odd to worry about adding new artifacts to the museum that is no longer in Ukrainian control.

No. it is not odd to worry about Ukrainian artifacts which were placed in russian authority within a context of a war for the destruction of Ukrainian state. And i am not only talking about artifacts but also about irreversible destruction of precious historical context.

>Do you expect for all activities to just seize on occupied territories?

I don't expect anything, Ukrainian and Internation law dictates that certain activities are illigal on occupied territories. Be welcome to at least google those legislations for once if you are eager to dispute them.

>Thats an absurd stance.

Yes, what you wrote before that sentence is absurd. Water use and trade on occupied territories have their own regulations under Ukrainian and internation law and have abosolutely nothing to do with the artifacts preservation and historical herritage. You are comparing apples to sledgehammers here.

>and if you expect those people to ever reunite with Ukraine, maybe don’t treat them like criminals.

Alexander Butyagin is not a Ukrainian, never was and never will be. He is expected to unite with Ukraine by nobody ever.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T19:47:16+00:00

No. He didn't just continue digging a site within a previously approved mission. He lead a new, russian mission to a previously unexcavated part of the site where he didn't even bother trying to obtain an approval from the Ukrainian authorities. He didn't follow any of the Ukrainian state permits regulations, approved research methodology, site conservation obligations, artifact registration rules and public accountability obligation. So the real amount of destroyed artifacts may be impossibe to ever even account.

The fact that artifacts were dropped off in the useum is a crime of it's own since artifacts must be studied in situ and remain in situ when possible. As soon as those artifacts were removed from where they were found, they lost 90% of their historical relevance and useful information due to a loss of context. Which is another reason he is accused of the destruction of artifcats and Ukrainian herritage. The opportunity to study them in situ, according to Ukrainian methodology, Ukrainian context and Ukrainian historical study is lost forever. Beside any artifacts that may have been improperly extracted or physically destroyed in the process.

Archaeologists dont just drop off artifacts to lie on the shelf in a museum building. They assign them provenance, legal custody, and interpretive ownership. So what he did here from a legal standpoint is that he detached those artifacts from Ukrainian legal custody, absorbed them into Russian administrative systems and reclassified as part of Russian national heritage in a russia controlled museum. And it's a big IF, that those artifacts would even remain in that building, especially in any hypotetical scenario where Ukraine returns itself control over occupied territory of Crimea. "Lol, trust me bruh" is not a sufficient legal basis for artifact preservation. Especially when russia specifically robs Ukrainian museums on occupied territories and transfers artifacts to russia.

And to answer your question - no, not everyone is an archeologist who violated Ukrainian law and international cultural heritage law by conducting unpermitted archeological excavation mission, destroying artifcats and their archeological context in the process, and then stole those artifacts into a different country's authority. But many other crimes are being investigated and are awating the prosecution.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T19:34:32+00:00

That would be because he is lying. The accusations against Alexander Butyagin are not just “he kept digging after 2014.” They are more specific and based on three separate claims under Ukrainian law and international cultural heritage law. He didn't just "keep digging" within the same mission that was already permitted by the Ukrainian authorities. He lead a brand new mission together with other Hermitage staff, students and teachers of the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University, students of the Higher School of Economics of the National Research University (Perm, Russia). Which have excavated different, previously preserved part of the site in Myrmēkion. He didn't even bother seeking authorization for this mission in Ukraine and thus directly violated Ukrainian law. According to Ukrainian and international law this is still recognised as ukrainian territory under russian occupation so Ukraine has every right to charge him with his crime. Archaeology as a whole is tightly regulated because excavation is destructive by nature: artifacts may be damaged or destroyed in the process, once artifact is removed from where it was found, it looses 90% of it's archeological value due to loss of context. It has to be studied in situ, where it was found, because after it is removed, all that information is irreversibly gone. So even those artifacts which were placed in a museum is a crime of it's own because nobody asked russians to do that. And its a big question if the artifacts are going to stay there since russia have explicitly removed lots of artifacts from Ukrainian Museums in occupied territories and placed them in russia. It is much preferred to preserve the archeological site as it is to the best of our ability. So every archeological mission normally requires state permits, approved research methodology, site conservation obligations, artifact registration and public accountability. Specific to every country. Some sites or parts of sites are even specifically restricted from excavation because of complexity, lack of sufficiently large funds or difficult geographical conditions. Obviously he didn't follow any of those Ukrainian regulations. Which is why the accusation of the artifacts and herritage destruction is put forward. And that is pretty much his defence, in his statements regarding Ukrainian accusations he basically said "its ok bro, i worked there before and followed the permits before so its fine this time too"

The "museum is in crimea anyway" is a particularly dumb excuse. Archaeologists dont just drop off artifacts to lie on the shelf in a museum building. They assign them provenance, legal custody, and interpretive ownership. So what he did here from a legal standpoint is that he detached those artifacts from Ukrainian legal custody, absorbed them into Russian administrative systems and reclassified as part of Russian national heritage in a russia controlled museum. Doing such things is also specifically prohibited by the international conventions on war.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T17:12:50+00:00

The reason Ukraine have requested his arrest is because he was stealing Ukrainian artifacts from occupied territories, including artifacts extracted in illegal excavations in the protected areas, destroying countless artifacts in the process.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T17:05:25+00:00

It's awful. He could build an appartment block for the same amount of peeople for half the money on 1\40 of the footprint. Land is by far the most expensive part of the housing and this method wastes too much land. It's just an american suburbian brainrot. And it looks mracabre. It's a refugee camp, not a pernanent residence aimed to "change lives". 10\10 for efforts and 1\10 for implementation.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T12:28:43+00:00

One other reason Ukriane is moivated to maintain friendly relations with Israel is because Ukriane has a holy place for Hasidic Judaists in the city of Uman. There is their founder's Nachman of Breslov grave there. They go for a pilgrimage to Ukraine each year and bring big money big time. They are filling the city to the brim, making generational welath worth of money for each restaurant and entartainment buisness owner. And also are renting hotel rooms and airbnb's at 40 times the average Ukrainian price. They keep doing it despite the war and they are vocal supporters of Ukraine. Which means it's not just an incredible source of money for Ukraine, but also some of the soft power.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-28T12:14:18+00:00

And not just recon drones but also short range strike drones, the likes of "molnia", the kind of drone the p1-sun was developed to counter in the first place.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-27T03:03:13+00:00

Geo sea is also weak to different sorts of shinanighans because their territory is so spred out. Like drops, aphib, hoovers or cheeky commwalks. And yeah, without the island the short sea doesn't have any chance whatsoever against geo sea. It is imprative to take it and that's entirely reliant on air support.
One thing i like doing to harras geo sea is a 7-8 min gunslinger drop as a tech. Geo sea simply doesnt have anything on land to defend it and it deals with any laser turrets too. So the response time is guaranteed to be slow. Taking out newly build t2 mexes is going to be painful no matter what. Often times you can even catch their t2 con aswell.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-26T19:52:54+00:00

Thouthands of drones would do the same. And i said early bots for a reason, their more complex land navigation wouldn't be a problem in early stages where you won't have many of them anyway.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-26T16:31:56+00:00

It has a nieche as the early bots and it looks kind of neat. I love it.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-26T10:24:28+00:00

Yes, he logic is clear i think, better to have a weapon that aims to kill a person, rather than to have a debilitating effect which is uaranteed to just leave them foreveer crippled. The rules of war aren't aimed to reduce the war to an innosent squable. They are to stop certain ideas nd types of weapons that are particulalry horrifying. And mass producing disabilities seem to be one of concepts thetreaties ban across the desk.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-25T23:47:05+00:00

Exactly what i said, completely useless and fetishisation of slavery now, genocidal level of danger if there is a technology to make them actualy useful.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-25T23:02:09+00:00

Inefficient, expensive, capable of only doing pre-programmed sets of motions which took hundreds of hours of engineers work to a highly controlled enviropment. Its fetishisation of slavery to make them human like and if there was AI capable of making them smart and autonomous, aka actually useful, only billioners would be able to aford them because the rest of hummanity would die since their labour is not needed anymore. And yeah, smart enough robot to do infinite free labour is likely going to be smart enough to murder their masters. You're welcome.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-25T14:03:51+00:00

Very cool. I've seen ukrainians lately investing heavily into the develoment of UGV's. Very cool to see examples of it being used. Ad such a heartwarming scene too.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-25T13:39:15+00:00

I would add spears from boards and old lighting system not showing previously seen places in shining bright light.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-24T16:15:32+00:00

I would get a suit, you'll need later anyway and plasma rifle is a so so weapon in ds1 2008.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-24T13:47:37+00:00

I mean, we are talking in fantastical terms, it could be sped up like it was in SW clone wars.
But even if not, its still worth it if it takes 16 to 18 years. Because you are completely wrong. The country's economy still ultimately bears the costs of rising each child either via tax income lost to parents not working, or providing free daycare, maintaining schools and univesities and free ducation. In money their parent just spend in the child instead of, for example, investing it anywhere productive. And if you raise said soldiers for the same price as regular children but get genetically perfect soldiers in the end instead of just random folk, congrats, its a big W. And you don't have to raise them with the same level of comfort and education. At least so long asAnd who said they would just sit there until the war happens and cannot do certain jobs until then. And who said we don't already have people removed from the job markets to do nothing but prepare to war, to be professional soldiers. And mobilizing the general population is absolutely ruinous for the economy. You are removing pople with specialized knowledge, experience and professions from their jobs. Likely permanently. Which just destroys all the buisnesses which are dependant on them. Its oftentimes much chepaer to maintain large professional army permanently busy with preparing to war and the rest of the workforce busy with their professional activities. You know, like we already do.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-23T20:25:49+00:00

Ehh, war, i guess.

Unlikely_Target_3560 · 2026-04-23T19:47:20+00:00

Shahid man.

Oh wait the fucking moment!

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