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- shapesalad1
Presume they are still in Kyiv tonight.
- He feels stressed. Last weekend no one wanted to foresee where we are now. But those long tables Putin sat at... big big big red flag bruh.shapesalad
- I'd be stressed too if I'm an American trapped in Kyiv now. What will happen once Russia takes over?yuekit
- sted4
turn the sound on
- pinkfloyd2
Reports: Ukraine bans all male citizens ages 18 to 60 from leaving the country
- pinkfloyd-1
So the Ukrainian gov't had it's people believe that there won't be an invasion, and now that it's too late, they tell every man ages 18-60 they can not leave.
- Omg. They made its people believe there won't be invasion? You sure?pango
- They kept telling the American media to tone it down, then when it actually happened, there were lines of people trying to get out.pinkfloyd
- You are dead wrong about this. If an other country would invade yours they would introduce the same measuressted
- I read that as well they were not expecting an actual invasion, they thought it was just more sabre rattling_niko
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯pinkfloyd
- Look at the past events, Ukrainian government was one of the entities
that said that it will be an attack.sted - And they dialed back on that after the Putler and the putlermedia started saying that its just an exercisested
- NBQ003
Ghost of Kiev. Amazing if true. Hope he can continue the streak
- NBQ001
Russia telling Sweden and Finland they can't join NATO or there'll be consequences. Like a fucking bully.
If it wasn't for the innocent people I wish we could nuke the Russian government and Putin to ashes.
- So where is Putin getting the balls to all this now? One word "Bitcoins"pinkfloyd
- China. Russia has a big buyer of energy and food in the Chinese. They don't need EU. However, I'm not sure China won't pounce on a weakened Russia.monNom
- I think they would probably like to play this how the US did in WWII and come out smelling like roses.monNom
- russia is the biggest owner of dogecoinspinkfloyd
- Didn't work out great for russia last time they tried to go the Fins. cough *winter war* coughthumb_screws
- drgs2
- yuekit2
"Where is my child?" Conscript soldiers are being sent to fight against Ukraine, their relatives say.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/202…
Early in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation” on Ukrainian territory — in reality, he started a full-scale war against Ukraine. Several days earlier, Russian women began posting on social media that their sons, currently doing their mandatory military service in the Russian army, had been sent to the Ukrainian border and subsequently gone silent.
- sted4
Chechen military has joined the war.
- Hmm, a bit 'Hunt the Jew'.
Who're the Nazis again?Nairn - fuck!...oey_oey
- https://youtu.be/Kxa…pablo28
- ^
that doesn't look entirely fascist at allNairn - 10K battle-hardened Muslims after one comedian Jew. I don't fancy their odds, ultimately.Nairn
- They had to ask for them because rassan mothers are looking for their children.sted
- And they are great at fabricating evidence.sted
- Frustrated midget doesn't have the ability to do it himself?!?diavolu
- Hmm, a bit 'Hunt the Jew'.
- Nairn0
I think I now fear an antagonised, befeared and paranoid vacuum in a post-Putin Russia. Seems that shit could go south real quick.
Or not.
Hail China.
- Which is to say, I suspect Putin underestimates Western belligerence, irrespective of woke rainbow flag-waving.
So help us all.Nairn - Hopefully this will put the woke movement in its place a give a bit of perspective to what’s important.Chimp
- Isn’t Chechnya a region of Russia? Like asking the off-beat state of Mississippi to send troops to an American war?toemaas
- Oops, meant for other post.toemaas
- Which is to say, I suspect Putin underestimates Western belligerence, irrespective of woke rainbow flag-waving.
- sted1
Russia vetoes draft UN resolution condemning its actions in Ukraine. 11 votes in favour. 3 abstentions including China, India and UAE
- India is what i don't get in that 3sted
- I read that Russia provides a lot of military aid to India? But yeah disappointingyuekit
- India buys arms from Russia. Specifically the $5B purchase of the s400 air defense system.monNom
- I gather there's a networked element to that system that requires coordination with Russia. IE for radar signatures of stealth aircraft.monNom
- There was a hesitancy to deploy f35 fighters in the past because the US didn't want to give the s400 system too much data.monNom
- And a shitload of Sukhoi jet planes. Raskal is the backbone of the existing Indian fleet of planes.Nairn
- Basically it sounds like Creative Cloud for missile defense.monNom
- ^ Well that's evil thenyuekit
- UK Sends aid money to India. India uses money to by arms from Russia. Uk realises it’s cheaper to buy Arms from Russia and shoot own foot...shapesalad
- The funny thing is whenever the topic of China comes up, random Indian commenters sound like they are ready to personally fight WW3 against China.yuekit
- Wonder how they feel that their hero Modi is now aligning with China and Russia...also Pakistan is close to Russiayuekit
- Nationalist Indian commentators are some of the most batshit insane (and internecine) I've seen on the internet over the years. Almost UltraHan-like.Nairn
- ahahah yuekit i have the same experience, its just lovely how you can turn a discussion with that :Dsted
- even from this distance the ones i know are still jumping on it like they were back home already fighting.sted
- Thanks this makes sense.
lol@Creative Cloud for missile defensested
- yuekit2
Zelensky is still tweeting, he claims France finally supports cutting Russia off from the SWIFT payment system and will provide arms to Ukraine
- pr2-5
Amazing analysis (in Polish) of the situation on the ground.
Apparently Ukrainian Army is putting up a really though fight.- Would you mind summing it up for us?
My Polish isn't good enough for thissted - What percentage of the population is dying? Do they really need to defend themselves?palimpsest
- ^ WTF?monNom
- it isn't genocide, its an invasion.
and https://www.qbn.com/…sted - 1. Ukraine is huge country (1.5x bigger than France). You need massive forces to "conquer" it and Russia didn't amass this force.pr2
- 2. Ukrainian forces are getting fantastic real-life lintel from Uncle Sam.pr2
- 3. Russia didn't get air superiority, most Ukrainian Air forces are still operational and causing havoc.pr2
- 4. Ukraining Army is very well trained (continuous war in Donbass + wealth of Western advisers).pr2
- 5. Next 2 days will decided the outcome. If the Ukrainian Army prevails, the losses on both sides will be huge.pr2
- 6. Trust the data and do your own research.palimpsest
- We are already reading about the deeds of their air force. Everybody was thinking that it's completely destroyed.sted
- Thankssted
- 6. The Russian Elite Spet Netz units that tried to take over the airfield north of Kiev (around 300 guys) were annihilated.pr2
- Apparently most air force units were sent to air hours before the invasion. Wink wink Uncle Sam.pr2
- why would QBN downvote this post? someone who's giving you closer to the source information??hotroddy
- thanks for the hopeful news PR2hotroddy
- Brave pilots made those planes fly at the right time :) It is one that they took off but you have to be able to supply and land those planes.sted
- wink wink :D
@hotroddy I think that's for the questions by @palimpsest :)sted - also a nice example why u/dv doesn't makes sense.sted
- Oops, I did it again.palimpsest
- because you're an idiot, but a beautiful one.
can you check when did grafician posted the last time?sted - the air force was sent into the air and landed on secondary airfields that were not targeted by the rocket onslaught.pr2
- the Ukrainians actually send numerous rockets and destroyed numerous Russian fighter planes on the Russian side in Roston-on-Don.pr2
- the reason why you don't see many pics/videos is because Ukrainian forces that your cellphone gives you away = easy to triangulate for artillery.pr2
- Why is everyone downvoting this so much?yuekit
- yeah that would be very unwise, i have read that they ask civilians to take photos and send them to their friends in cities to tweet outsted
- awesome news pr2aliastime
- Hopefully the Ukrainians can hold out.Chimp
- Would you mind summing it up for us?
- hotroddy2
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- yuekit1
With all these events, I do wonder about the connection with the 2016 election and "Russiagate." Strange how almost no one in the media is even mentioning this.
The Mueller investigation didn't find any direct connection between Trump and Putin but it was very clear that Putin was responsible for hacking and leaking damaging info through Wikileaks to help Trump win. It also documented how Russia ran a massive astroturfing campaign to influence American social media.
Then in 2020 Trump loses and the Democrats are back in power. Right before Trump left office it was revealed that someone, most likely Russia, had gotten access to the entire US security infrastructure, major US tech companies etc ("Solar Winds" hack).
But actually these attacks and accusations between the two sides go back years since Putin accused the USA of meddling in the 2012 Russian elections. Then there was the Snowden leak, the Maidan revolution etc.
But think about it...if you are Putin and standing accused by the top levels of the US government of meddling in their election, would you not be feeling extremely paranoid? Of course Putin placed himself in this position but he may be convinced the USA will take its revenge one way or the other and therefore is desperate.
- khmspykhmsted
- I mean the complexity required to run a nation with a highly corrupt government, keep the military under your power and the satellite regions in close proximitysted
- Build diplomatic partnerships, show some face to the rest of the world and
<- do all of that.sted - is impossible without fanaticize goal.sted
- Bursima and the scions of the US establisment (10% for the big guy) is of more interest.********
- Russiagate was confected nonsense.********