A coordinated online campaign has reportedly encouraged users to alter fuel station information on digital maps across Russia, creating confusion among drivers.
The activity involves changing station statuses by marking locations with available fuel as empty or showing closed stations as operational.
Supporters of the campaign claim the effort is designed to disrupt travel decisions, increase uncertainty, and create additional pressure around fuel availability.
Let’s call to mind the original comments: you mentioned that the people messing with the maps had plenty of time. I replied “Makes sense to use that time to further disrupt the enemy’s populace and hopefully sabotage domestic support further”. That is a comment on their activities and I really don’t think it’s a far stretch to assume that they view Russia as an enemy.
I’m not sure how to parse this. “If you can’t find a way to end hostilities, you’ll be enemies forever”? You’re aware that there are other options besides total annihilation?
There are plenty of reasons peace would be beneficial for all involved. It would mean an end to throwing conscripts into a meatgrinder of imperial ambition and a sovereign nation’s defiance thereof. It would offer opportunities for exchange of culture, knowledge, goods. It would allow a mutual enrichment of human experience.
So yes, I hope for a solution to those security concerns. Chief of these, right now, is an ambitious megalomaniac trying to seize by force what isn’t his to take. I should hope it doesn’t take hundreds of millions of deaths to stop him.
The United States are also a threat to our sovereignty, true. Not violently, at the moment, but economically, technologically and through plain old political corruption. They’re also an imperial power with plenty of blood on their hands. We can chat about the middle east at length if you’d like, or Venezuela, or Europe. You’ll find me just as ready to condemn them as I am here to condemn Russia.
But in this context, they weren’t the ones annexing Crimea, nor starting a “special operation” that escalated into open war. They didn’t shell Ukrainian cities, abduct children or continue to send soldiers into the meatgrinder.
The US backed Ukraine for entirely self-serving reasons, but they didn’t start this war.
This blood is on Putin’s hands alone.
What benefit? There is nothing to be gained for me in this war.
No. I’m not willing to demand anything of Ukraine. Whether they want to defend their country against a war of aggression is their choice to make.
The only demand I make is that the aggressor cease their aggression.
Put whom where exactly? Ukrainians into Ukraine? Russians into land that doesn’t belong to them?