Bit of a reach, their internet may be restricted to a degree, but they sure do have internet... my partner calls and video calls their family back in Russia daily from half way around the world.
replyit's broken in the most retarded and cowardly way imaginable, which is perfectly representative of Putin's regime. they no longer block things via a kangaroo court order, but throttle and/or allow a few kilobytes to go through before cutting it off. Cloudflare is summarily blocked, breaking nine out of ten random websites, likely to habituate the population to the inevitably coming Great Cuckwall.
replydo not ever give up your guns, my American friends.
"Do not ever give up your guns", har-har. In the guerilla stage of the Second Chechen War one of the ways to deal with the insurgents who would barricade in a building was to drive a T-72 to it and fire a couple of HE shells at it. The house would fold in like, well, a house of cards; I believe there even used to be recorded footage on YT. I imagine a single fragmentation shell would be enough for an average American house. My point is, in the modern days having small firearms is not really going to help you against a government who would be willing to use its military on its own territory; you'd need automatic weapons and artillery at the very least, and a lot of foreign funding and training as well. Even then...
replywhat was the outcome of the First Chechen War?
replyWhy, the Second Chechen War.
replyokay, let me rephrase that: would it have taken two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's?
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