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Can you explain "the usual psy ops" please? Who benefits from people incorrectly believing Russia's taxis are down?

7. We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable

Morelli explains this principle or commandment as follows: "With rare exceptions, people tend to join the victorious cause. In the case of war, the preference of public opinion depends very much on the apparent results of the conflict. If the results are not good, the propaganda must disguise our losses and exaggerate those of the enemy." [0]

It's the same in Russia, if you are wondering

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Pr...

Thank you.

Now after third Yandex datacenter got hit the taxi is down

I went online in half an hour but some non-essential services were shed.

GP is a russian shill that should have been kicked off HN long ago.

That may be so. As a pro-Western-values shill, who am I to judge?

[Edit]: I guess I meant to say, I'd love to understand Russians' point of view. I don't understand at all.

You're not going to get Russians' point of view from Kremlin shills. The Russians that I know are utterly disgusted by what is going on in their country but they are not going to speak out publicly for fear of reprisals on their families.

All the Russians I know are outside Russia, for obvious reasons. I have zero idea what an average Russian in Russia thinks. Some distant acquiantances wrote some scary stuff on Facebook some years back. Mind, highly intelligent and educated people.

And with all respect, I'd hazard an unsubstantiated guess: you don't really know what average Russian thinks either, as you're probably in contact with Russian intelligentsia.

I did not write nor did I suggest that I know what the average Russian thinks. I only wrote about the ones that I know.

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