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Usually on my channel we focus on questions of defence economics - elements like national resources, production, stockpiles and logistics that feed into the ability of a nation to carry on a war.
But I also try to always flag the importance of political and social elements as well - the ways in which politics and the will to fight can complicate what would otherwise be a largely mathematical exercise. While those factors are important however, Russian politics is not my area of academic or professional focus.
Today I’m releasing an interview recorded with Danish military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen at the Royal Danish Defence College. Anders has long had a focus on Russia and the Russian military, and so I was keen to get his thoughts on Russia’s political and social divisions of power, attitudes towards the war, and how these might factor into Ukraine’s theory of potential victory.
All thoughts expressed are obviously his own personal ones (though all slide content was produced by me.)
I hope you enjoy this deviation from the usual format, but you’ll be back to hearing more of me next week.
How does this have 8 down votes in 3 minutes? Perun’s content is excellent.
I have noticed most things posted to this sub gets instant down-votes, followed by almost entirely upvotes over time. Reeks of bots unhappy with Russia’s poor execution of the war as the downers are not accompanied with people arguing a contrary view.
BombOmOm’s been getting at least 1 downvote/minute in his recent comments. I’d say this is some petty targeted hexbear activity, but you guys can’t see them and neither can him, because lemmy.world and sopuli.xyz have defederated with them, but there must be accounts in non-hexbear instances to circumvent defederation dedicated to downvoting all the stuff they don’t like. If this gets really bad, maybe it’s time to talk to the admins of the instance, because they probably know the accounts that are mass downvoting. They also like to find ways to get around being blocked to send you spam.
tldr: don’t worry about downvotes, BombOmOm, in my instance I can see your upvotes and downvotes and you’ve got 5 upvotes, keep posting.
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And thank you for the deeper explanation. It has been nice chatting with people here.
lol, this comment of yours got 4 downvotes per minute so far, you really angered their poor teenage souls. Well done.