from LuckyDevil@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 01:51
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/2171261/as-the-tide-turns-against-putin-beware-the-drowning-man
These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022, intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed, has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I. His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield; some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May. What gains the Russians have made have come at enormous cost: Last month, Anna Keast-Butler, the director of British intelligence agency GCHQ, cited new intelligence indicating that Russian war deaths had likely reached almost half a million; various Western sources put total Russian casualties at significantly more than 1 million.
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Archived link - https://archive.ph/idGqu
This site can’t be reached The webpage at archive.ph/idGqu might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
So slow, it times out on Firefox in all 3 lower 48 US timezones (tested via AWS and VPN).
But thank you for trying to provide an alt link none the less.
Odd, still working for me with or without a VPN. Here is another link through a different domain, but it’s from the same service so I don’t know if it’ll work any better for you.
https://archive.is/idGqu
That worked. I circled back and found my dns pihole list was causing it. Thank you!
Works for me
Site works fine.
Works fine ,here in Europe, try change your DNS to one from here ,test again
I don’t even click on archive.is (also .today, .md, .fo, .li, .vn, .ph) anymore.
Every page contains (and has for months) this code. It’s a DDOS attack on a blogger who dared to investigate who runs the site.
Further, archive.nn started altering archived pages:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
Do not use it anymore. It’s not enough that µBlock blocks the attack, because many people don’t use µBlock. Also you’re increasing archive.nn’s popularity.
I’ve heard that. I’d be happy to switch to something different, but this is the only one I know of that still works. Recommendations welcome.
Soviets fought Nazis in WWI?
News to me.
Maybe enjoy some education and history lessons specific.
While it sounds a bit awkward, I expect that the "Soviet fight against Nazi Germany " roughly-approximates to “The Great Patriotic War”.
Bro failed the history exam.Edit: oh my godTwo separate things. That sentence was totally unambiguous to me.
Found the American
They were being overly pedantic about a sentence in the article in the article that I found intelligible imo, but read their comment more carefully. WWI is the first world war, the one before the Nazis came on scene.
Goddammit it’s been over 4 years hasn’t it.
But the sentiment expressed in the first 2 paragraphs is nothing new. Collapse has been imminent for a while, but it’s happening too slowly. The Kremlin has employed all sorts of life-extending tricks in the past years and probably they can still keep it up for a while.
Arson cases?
oh no oh nooooooo dont pressure putin he might do. he might do Something
i like how that op-ed completely ignores ongoing stream of arson cases and other sabotage. no mention of baltyisk gps jammer either
Strange take. The article is in no way suggesting appeasement, and is entirely critical of Putin as a leader.
I’m pro-Ukraine and fuck Putin. I’m conflicted though because I’ve always loved Russian art and literature. That comes from the people though, not the power. The people are almost the same everywhere. If the people ever get their collective shit together then watch out power!