So lets say they really affect anything internetty during the pseudomocratic farce called "EU election". Who cares ?

The EU "parliament" has almost no power at all while the intransparently inaugurated commission wields the majority of unchecked and not very limited power. Whatever the outcome of the "EU election" might be, its of no importance at all. The major directions like censor booster, prolonging the ukraine proxy war for as long as possible, even more absurd regulations and the usual EUrocracy nonsense keep being decided in the back rooms and will not change at all.

Germany will vote on paper, as usual. The oh so "important" pseudo election wont really be affected by any "hacking" attempt, until the bigmouthing bad guys get up close and personal and burn the ballot boxes.

If they want to "hack" everything in the Eurocracy, let them do it. Inability to make things worse would be an improvement.

Putin approves your post. All of it. That's how wrong it is.

Oh look, another anonymous "i am so perfectly right i dont even need to show my name" oneliner.

I dont care wether "putin" (or whatever bogeyman of the day sinks your boat) approves, i just dont believe the "democracy" propaganda concerning the EUrocracy.

Really, the EU "election" doesnt change a thing. Never will, never can, never has. If you dont understand (due to lack of information or severe propaganda infestation perhaps ?) the workings of the EU, what little power the "parliament" actually has and what overwhelming power the non elected commission wields, then i suggest proving me wrong instead of trolling.

So if any "hacktivist" group announces going against such an unimportant target, i dont consider this a threat. It is questionable, concerning the current and usual state of EU "efficiency" that any attack or other kind of delay will even be noticed. Just remember the abolishment of the daylight savings time nonsense. Didnt go too well now, did it ?

> Oh look, another anonymous "i am so perfectly right i dont even need to show my name" oneliner.

You know these ids aren't (shouldn't be) actually anyone's names, don't you? Railing against AC is just stooopid.

More plainly, rejecting an argument just because it came from an AC post is an ad hominem: you would be better served just by trying to defeat any arguments presented, then you can be taken seriously.

There is no "ad hominem" against an anonymous figure. And by "name" in a forum environment, i mean the username.

There also was no point in this silly oneliner. No point, no argument, no fact. Which makes a counter argument unnecessary if not impossible.

Perso, I would prefer that Putin and his cronies kept their noses our of our none business. Otherwise Ursula might get a little upset.

Missus von der Leyen is currently not too upset, as every investigation concerning her involvement with corruption and related crimes have been postponed until after the "election".

It will be interesting to see if they are continued.

Any links for this purported corruption and related crimes?

Of course.

https://www.transparency.de/aktuelles/detail/article/europaeische-staatsanwaelte-nehmen-von-der-leyen-wegen-impfstoff-deals-ins-visier

https://www.politico.eu/article/pfizergate-covid-vaccine-scandal-european-prosecutors-eu-commission/

The older corruption investigations from her time as minister of defense in germany were stopped when she escaped to the Eurocracy. Had a lot to do with "consultants" and selling of battle tanks for scrap value.

At least the pfizer stuff keeps coming back, too many other things are simply no longer talked about, pretty much like Olaf Scholz and his past with Wirecard and Warburg Bank/Cum-XXX where the leading investigator finally had enough and stepped down as state attorney.

The older corruption investigations from her time as minister of defense in germany were stopped when she escaped to the Eurocracy. Had a lot to do with "consultants" and selling of battle tanks for scrap value.

That one's resurfacing with the EU's 'cash for clunkers' scheme. EU nations 'donate' surplus kit to Ukraine and get reimbursed at replacement cost.

"EU nations 'donate' surplus kit to Ukraine and get reimbursed at replacement cost."

Yes, somewhat, but theres a little difference with each weapons system that was sold off previously.

While the netherlands augmented the "Gepard" (AA cannon tank), Bundeswehr sold them off and retired the whole system in the beginning 2000s. This is really nuts because the Gepard - with the right knowlegde and training - can be used in a multi purpose role, even having a good chance against battle tanks with ablative/reactive armor and able to shoot through a tow cable for the training target at a distance of around 3 kilometers (Hey HFw Gruner, good job in Putlos ;) ).

Many of the Gepards landed in portugal, were bought back and pseudonated to Ukraine. Then there was the issue of procuring ammunition. While the "Treibspiegel" ammo, a tungsten carbide core in a plastic shell developed against armored targets and usually placed in the outer magazine on the guns while the AA/"Spreng/Splitter" is placed within the turret magazines, could be procured, the AA ammo was only available in/through switzerland in that timeframe. The swiss, making a fuzz about their neutrality, didnt like their ammo landing in Ukraine so there had to be a merry go round to camouflage the origin of the bullets.

One other issue is that the Siemens/Oerlikon/Contraves conglomerate wasnt able to sell required spare parts for the older Gepards, so some were augmented, others cannibalized.

So in case of this AA tank, there was quite a back and forth and roundabout until some of them could actually be deployed and used. I still highly doubt that the ukrainian cannonfodder with their sped up pseudo training even knows what the flip switch "Hubschrauber Schnelleinsatz" on panel 4 might do and how it affects reaction time and precision of the targeting system or what this strange oscilloscope greenscreen on panel 3 might mean.

But hey, victory will come as long as more and more Wunderwaffen are sold.

Any links for this purported corruption and related crimes?

What, you mean you haven't seen anything in the news? Funny how that works. But here's a bit of an explanation..

https://www.politico.eu/article/5-things-to-know-about-ursula-von-der-leyens-pfizergate-court-cases/

"A Russian hacktivist crew has threatened to attack European internet infrastructure as four days of EU elections begin on Thursday."

And will anybody notice?

If you had any real experience of comparing broadband and mobile data inside and outside the UK you'd realise how ridiculous you sound.

Certainly if they target the UK's general election then nobody will notice. A choice of two dull, visionless, talentless bores. And the winner is likely to win simply because he's not the other bore, rather than for having any good ideas.

@AC

"Certainly if they target the UK's general election then nobody will notice"

I dont disagree

for everyone to hate Russia.

I tend not to hate, its clouding the little bit of judgement us emotionally unstable human beings are sometimes able to make.

> I tend not to hate

Hmm, looking back up the page...

There is a considerable difference between hate and disgust.

Then again, looking at wokists and similar ideologically affected minds, "hate" by their definition is everything they dont like.

*yawn* and here comes the typical contemporary bigot shibboleth - "wokists".....

I wonder what other "gems" you are going to dust off ?

Wokist is a useable general term for people who hate "old white men", and parasitically show off their proclaimed and unwanted "support" for their chosen minority of the day, usually making said minorities life a lot harder.

The terms "racist" and "fascist" (in the political meaning of bundling under an ideology), which would also apply to them describes only part of their intolerant ideology but if you have a better term for members of this atrocious ideology, feel free to share.

Russia is a big place, with lots of different people in it.

Just because the current leadership is vile and encourages little shits like these "hacktivists" doesn't mean "Russia" should be hated as a whole.

Hate the disease, not the body suffering under it.

The same goes for all the other countries, by the way.

and they're trying to make it bigger by sending a lot of different people into Ukraine.

I think you know that naming a country is shorthand for saying "the actions of the government of" that country. No one hates every individual Russian but there are a lot of people who hate the kleptocratic power structure there and many more who hate their military and criminal activities around the world.

"No one hates every individual Russian but there are a lot of people who hate the kleptocratic power structure there and many more who hate their military and criminal activities around the world."

If you hadnt included the word "russian", this could be confusing.

Seems your description is fitting several countries, some of them part of the so called "free west".

Instead of trying to elevate their country to a higher level of living/civilisation, Kremlin has found it easier to just try to drag others to their level.

After all, it is much cheaper to throw a million here and there to buy and support foreign Russophile politicians than to actually use billions for better infrastructure and social upgrades.

Hopefully Mick Wallace and Clare Daly will lose their seats this time around.

Well leaving aside who's right and who's wrong, I can't help but notice that whenever somebody with good intentions tries to do something, there always seem to be plenty of plonkers trying to scupper it.