wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]

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Cake day: January 23rd, 2021

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  • Every day for over two years now, comrade. They changed the name of the mega, but that’s mainly why I’m still here as well.

    The Avdeevka offensive kinda kept going since then, and went further than many of us were expecting. The RUAF pretty quickly took an additional ring of villiages past Avdeevka, then even more surprisingly took positions in the next ring of villages out from there. The AFU is managing to defend at that second line, but has been steadily conceding small amounts of territory there for a few weeks now. A similar situation is happening in the other villages surrounding Donetsk City generally. It seems like the overall objective of the RUAF in that area is to finally create a buffer zone around Donetsk City to protect it from artillery fire.

    Other that that, the RUAF has been making small gains to the west of Artyomvisk, and even smaller gains in the area the AFU carved out in Zaporozhia during their summer offensive. The AFU’s defense in the northern parts of the front lines has been more effective, with some back and forth there.

    Everyone seems to be expecting something big from the RUAF this year, but I am not going to try and make predictions. There have been some other developments in the Russo-Ukrainian not directly involving the front line. You didn’t ask about that though.












  • Embarrassing admission: I listened to the Mike Duncan series on the Mexican revolution, and heard Diaz’s name as “Perfidio” the whole time. I knew that “perfidy” was an adjective used to describe a person’s character in English, so assumed it was one of those names like “Constance” or “Grace”. A year later I heard the word “perfidy” again in a context that indicated that it was actually a negative thing, so I looked up both that word and Diaz’s name. I then felt very silly. All learning is language learning, and there is no such thing as fluency.