the steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of the straw man argument. the idea is to find the best form of your interlocutor’s argument to test opposing opinions.
anonymous six months ago sent lesya ivanova from bihus.info hacked info from accounts belonging to ihor hladkovsky, son of first deputy secretary of ukraine’s national security and defence council oleh hladkovsky. the info detailed kickback schemes for supplying spare parts for ukrainian military vehicles.
anonymous provided SMSes, emails and attachments of unflattering mark-ups using front companies for scores of deals involving ukraine’s state ukroboronprom concern and its military production enterprises.
lesya hasn’t made the archive public yet, so we have to rely on her and bihus.info’s investigative skills. it’s taken them six months to sift through the leak to find the most damning bits, which they’ve squeezed into a four-part youtube presentation before the first round of presidential elections on march 31.
