Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
in February 2022 Russia recognised the LPR and DPR as independent nations. At their request Russia sent in troops to assist in removing far right militia groups and the Ukraine military. They also sent a strike force to the edge of Kiev to put pressure on the government to sue for peace. Russia withdrew the force threatening Kiev as part of the peace negotiations but Boris Johnson speaking for NATO (and usa) convinced Zellenski to scuttle the negotiations. Russia had gained significant amounts of territory initially but then things slowed down with lost of urban fighting.
In September there were referendums in Russian held ukraine on whether the civilians wished to join Russia. The vote was very favorable and Russian parliament ratified their entry.
In August 22 Ukraine made a counter offensive regaining a significant amount of territory and made a few strategic gains. Russia switched to a attritional method and the Russian advance slowed right down.
In 23 Ukraine started planning another counter attack, they broadcast every bit of the plan on loud speakers. In September they began the attack against the most heavily fortified area of the front lines. Ukraine was significantly less successful than anyone thought including the Russians. Ukraine burnt through a significant amount of men and equipment and gained a hand full of tiny villages.
Russia’s attrition strategy started to show its efficacy every day more and more after that. Long fought over towns and well defended fortresses started falling to russia one after the other with increasing pace.
In august 24 Ukraine sent a large force into Russia proper. They took a small town and some villages and have struggled to hold onto it.
The Russian advance is quickening every day. Towns that would have taken Russia months to occupy a year ago are taking weeks. Ukrainian mass surrenders, unorderly retreats, and refusal to follow orders are happening fairly regularly.
Yeah we should probably have a “mark as struggle session” mod tool.
I don’t have any idea how hard it would be to implement but something like
This
Once a post has been deemed a Struggle Session (maybe a number of mods/admin need to sign off) it should get set to not be publicly-federated so we don’t have non-community interaction, wreckers or alts. (maybe carving out a space for federated users that had commented before the struggle session was declared)
It should also be rate limited to 1 top level comment per user, and maybe a certain number of replies (maybe depending on how long the struggle session is in play.) no limits on editing your comments. So you can make your statement on the issue and challenge a certain number of other people’s views but do so tactically.
It wouldn’t have a thousand people stating the same things over and over and litigating the same points with 10 other users. and would be much easier to figure out what was going on and what the arguments on each side were.
