The talk show host’s ‘Cops’-style ride-along with Trump ‘border tsar’ Tom Homan is the latest step in the TV psychologist’s political rebranding

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    I don’t report any comments.

    Rather unfortunate that censorship is disrupting our conversation.

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      Well Putin loves censorship, as all dictators do. That’s how he’s kept Russia from overthrowing him. Did you watch the video?

      Is that why you won’t condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine, because your government would punish you?

      Hey guess what, Kier Starmer is a massive steaming sack of shit who should never have gotten near power. So is Putin. Ah, we should look on the bright side of life, shouldn’t we. Things could always be worse.

      Oh, sorry, not to brag. I’m sure you’re just fine with being censored just like you’re fine with the rest LOL.

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        Well Putin loves censorship, as all dictators do. That’s how he’s kept Russia from overthrowing him. Did you watch the video?

        I am not unaware of Putin’s crimes.

        Is that why you won’t condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine, because your government would punish you?

        My opinions regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine come from the 2014-2022 era.

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          Did you not watch it because watching it would be a crime for you, as you’re trapped in russia? How did you not get conscripted?

          In the video Russians on the street say they aren’t allowed to talk about the war, they say they’re afraid, and they say that the situation would be much different if Russia had fair elections.

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            How did you not get conscripted?

            People conscripted into the Russian Armed Forces aren’t sent into the Special Military Operation Zone.

            This has been the case in previous conflicts involving Russia including when Russian troops were sent into Ukraine in 2014 and 2015 during Donbas War with only contractors being sent in.

            Heck, Most of Russian Armed Forces aren’t even in Ukraine, majority of forces in Ukraine are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia.

            Hence why casualties amongst Russian regulars are low:

            Motorized Rifles: 6,457

            VDV: 3,257

            Naval Infantry: 1,305

            Tank Crew: 1,806

            Artillery: 851

            Special Forces: 736

            Engineering: 291

            Navy: 291

            VVS: 265

            Other: 957

            Total: 16,216

            Source: MediaZona

            For comparison:

            US losses from 2003-2005 mainly against insurgents: 5175

            Source: Defense Casualty Analysis System

            In the video Russians on the street say they aren’t allowed to talk about the war, they say they’re afraid, and they say that the situation would be much different if Russia had fair elections.

            Neither can Ukrainians really without receiving a visit from the SBU.

            You aren’t even allowed to flip off TCC enlistment officers in Ukraine.

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              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War

              The real info for anyone interested. The Russians don’t even report their dead properly. If they don’t cremate them, they’re left to rot and be eaten by wild animals or feral packs of dogs. They don’t inform the families of the deaths and don’t report true figures on the amount of dead. I think Ukraine refuses to give figures, which is at least more honest.

              That’s why it made me laugh when trump said ‘Ukraine men are refusing to fight and deserting’ because Russian men did that all along. I remember the news of the rush for the border and the plane tickets being sold out etc. Not that I blame them. This poor guy didn’t answer about conscription but I’m guessing he was too young to run. RIP.

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                You only get substantially higher numbers if you include PMCs, irregular volunteer formations, etc.

                Even your own wikipedia source uses Mediazona and shows this LOL:

                According to BBC News Russian and the Mediazona news website, out of 97,994 Russian soldiers and contractors whose deaths they had documented by 13 March 2025, 4.9 percent (4,794) were officers, while 6.8 percent (6,636) were Motorized Rifle Troops and 3.3 percent (3,275) were members of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV). In addition, 11.5 percent (11,265) of Russian soldiers whose deaths had been confirmed were people who were mobilized, while 16.4 percent (16,075) were convicts.

                I don’t include ‘mobilized’ (which means BARS not conscripts btw) nor do I include convicts. My death totals only include the professionals.

                My numbers is a little older than March 15:

                hence: Motorized Rifles: 6,457 VDV: 3,257

                Yeah, the death toll is likely higher, but the professional death rate likely not so much higher as they are better documented than those from irregulars.

                I mean Mediazona also admits that irregular volunteer formations and convicts make up larger portions of losses than professionals:

                "From early summer and into the mid-fall season of 2022, volunteers bore the brunt of the losses, which is strikingly different from the situation in the initial stage of the war: in winter and early spring, the Airborne Forces suffered the greatest damage, followed by the Motorised Rifle troops.

                By the end of 2022 and the beginning of the next year, losses among prisoners recruited into the Wagner PMC increased markedly. They were formed into “assault groups” to overwhelm Ukrainian positions near Bakhmut.

                By March 2023, prisoners became the largest category of war losses. After the capture of Bakhmut, there have been no cases of mass use of prisoners so far.

                By September 2024, volunteers once again emerged as the largest category among the KIA. This shift reflects a cumulative effect: prison recruitment had significantly waned, no new mobilisation had been announced, yet the stream of volunteers continued unabated.

                By March 14, the death of over 4,800 officers of the Russian army and other security agencies had been confirmed.

                The proportion of officer deaths among overall casualties has steadily declined since the conflict began. In the early stages, when professional contract soldiers formed the main invasion force, officers accounted for up to 10% of fatalities. By November 2024, this figure had dropped to between 2–3%—a shift that reflects both evolving combat tactics and the intensive recruitment of volunteer infantry, who suffer casualty rates many times higher than their commanding officers."

                The only time when professionals bore the brunt of the losses amongst Russian forces was in winter and early spring of 2022, they were quickly beaten by the blood that was shed from irregular volunteer formations in mid-fall, the death toll amongst irregular volunteer formations were eventually surpassed by prisoners in 2023 before irregular volunteer formations again emerged as highest category among the KIA.

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                  If you read further the true figures are given. They give the Russian propaganda figures because it’s still valuable information to know what crap Russians are being told. It gives me hope that so many of the Russians on the street understood that they were being lied to. I guess they can share the truth and their real opinions in private (is there a word for ‘private’ in the russian language yet?).

                  So you said most of the conscripted weren’t sent to Ukraine. Are people being conscripted to do your job?

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                    If you read further the true figures are given.

                    Again, Russian casualties are only significantly more higher (in the hundreds of thousands range) If you include PMCs, irregular volunteer formations, etc.

                    I am only including Russian professionals.

                    From your wikipedia link “Men from the poverty-stricken regions of Russia’s Far North, Far East and Siberia were overrepresented among Russian war casualties.”

                    Yeah, because irregular volunteer formations rely on their local regional government to supply them with weapons and equipment not the federal government. This is well shown by the Tuvan volunteers who come from the poorest region in Russia which shows in their equipment:

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                    So they rely heavily on donations:

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                    Thankfully Chechnya has recently taken on the burden of training and equipping them (why you see them being shipped from Chechnya) as shown here:

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                    Chechnya training and sending more batches of volunteers from across Russia to the SMO zone:

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