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aquamar2 | 1 year ago

Russia seem to be more reliant on TikTok these days https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/05/02/russias.... Make sense since TikTok is owned by their ally.

This flurry of social media ban might signal the start of the end of Putin's regime, with sudzha's fall by Ukraine. Right now Ukraine can seize artillery storage and destroy rail lines anywhere behind the frontline with ease, and Russia seems paralyzed. If they soften any of the frontline to reinforce the interior, that frontline will collapse.

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heraldgeezer|1 year ago

TikTok is a completely different form of content. (Worse)

Youtube has excellent documentaries, movies, news and commentary if you go beyond the default Mr Beast sloppa.

aquamar2|1 year ago

TikTok is focusing on longer videos these days via allowing the video length to be longer, because short videos are a money sink. Meta realized this already as well, as Mark mentioned that they're losing 1B a year on short form videos.

orwin|1 year ago

This is more complicated than that. First, you have alternative railroads, so while Ukrainians can (and will) make logistics harder, the won't be a big problem (seized munitions and fuel is though). Another issue are power plants.

They do have reserve troups. The main issue is that those cannot be redeployed that fast, the redeployment will show weakness and be costly, at least politically.

Also, they have to move their S400 first (which are easier to move than patriot system to be fair, but will have to be recalibrated). Which is why the Falcons are a huge deal and their arrival probably unlocked the offensive (depending on their payload they could also be useful as more than a threat).