I mean I have had an engineer raging on about how stupid not only Daylight Saving Time is, but how DANGEROUS multiple time zones for one country are.
You do realize that Tulsi Gabbard is not a reliable source of anything except Russian propaganda, right?
Could you provide a cite?
The author of that tweet has been and may well still be on Moscow’s payroll. She’s giving Russia cover to use bio/chem warfare if they deem it necessary to defeat Ukraine.
A statement from Tulsi Gabbard is proof only that Tulsi Gabbard really wants people to pay attention to her.
Tulsi Gabbard is no more reliable than Tucker Carlson.
No, I don’t think so. You forget that young Russians are more tech-savvy than their parents and grandparents:
“In broad terms, younger Russians are less likely to have anti-Ukrainian sentiments. We have seen that the anti-war protests have also largely involved younger people,” said Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center. “A lot of how you perceive the war depends on where you get your news,” he said. “If you watch television, you are simply more likely to toe the official line. And older people tend to watch more TV.”
In the past, polling has found that television remains the biggest news source for Russians, with more than 60% of the population relying on it for information. Russians over 65 are 51% more likely to watch television than under-25s.
(From The Guardian)
The information available to younger, tech-savvy Russians may get cut off, but it’s too late: they already know the truth. Furthermore, according to 538,
As the war rages on, Putin’s popularity may become more precarious, too, if history is any indication. Russians have tended to lose faith in Putin when faced with ongoing war, economic uncertainty or public protest against the leader.
“While examining hundreds of thousands of Russian public opinion survey responses from 2003-19, I have found that merely being exposed to public protest depresses approval of Putin and his regime,” Noah Buckley, a political science professor at Trinity College Dublin, wrote in a recent op-ed for The Conversation. “Members of the general public learn about regime misdeeds from these protests, and discover that there are more dissenters in their society than they may have previously assumed. In other ongoing research, my co-authors and I have found that when Russians find out that Putin’s approval levels are not as sky-high as they thought, their own feelings towards him sour substantially.”
[bolding mine]
TL;DR: Don’t discount the impact of the young, who are opposed to the war (only 29% of 18-24-year-olds support it), and don’t discount how easily Russians are deterred from supporting Putin.
Gabbard is almost certainly paid by Russia to advance their interests. She’s been spewing their propaganda for years. Nobody considers her a reliable source of information.
Labs are rated by containment levels (e.g. how dangerous of stuff they’re equipped to handle). Here is a map of BSL-4 labs (the most dangerous) on the planet:
https://images.app.goo.gl/FcLs6X2Gfu7HtqDj7
Levels 3 and 4 in Europe:
https://images.app.goo.gl/dqVp6GssN3t79UwF6
I don’t think that anyone cares about levels 1 and 2, really.
Also, for the record, an edutainment video from a random laboratory in the UK:
Biological labs are liable to be dangerous at probably any level and the US almost certainly does support some biotech projects in Ukraine. But that’s true of all countries on the planet, isn’t secret, and isn’t nefarious.
Someone in Russia took the obvious and incredibly mundane fact that Ukraine is a big country with (gasp!) laboratories and scientists that conduct research and, scariest of all, sometimes coordinate with other scientists around the globe and turned it into a conspiracy theory to help justify this atrocious invasion. Their useful idiots like Gabbard and Carlson are just repeating this bullshit, out of dishonesty, ignorance, malevolence, or all three.
They are not idiots, they are employees.
You are making a joke here, right? Right?
You can’t actually think that Russian propaganda, as parroted by one of their own is accurate, can you?
What evidence do you have they don’t work?
You claim Ukraine has 75% of its air force functioning. How ACTIVE are they? How many sorties? What impact are they having on ground operations? If they’re dominant, why is Russian artillery still attacking towns and killing civilians? Why isn’t the Ukrainian air force blowing them to shit?
Russia does not enjoy air supremacy because Ukrainian AA assets also work. We have no evidence the Ukrainian air force is operating with impunity, either.
The evidence so far strongly suggests that both air forces have reason to fear AA.
To be fair, it may also be proof that the Kremlin’s checks aren’t bouncing yet.
Or maybe they are bouncing, but she hopes for a change:
Yeah, that’s my understanding so far. Ukraine has been quite successful with their UAVs, it seems. But I haven’t seen any evidence of their piloted aircraft venturing too near to Russian positions.
Ooopsy!
I believe she lives in Hawaii, right? She probably takes her skiff out past the 12-mile limit to pick up her shipments of vodka, caviar and borscht from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, which is only a short ~3500 miles away.
Remember when Hillary Clinton commented that some American politicians might be Kremlin assets and Gabbard complained Clinton was talking about her even though Clinton never mentioned Gabbard?