Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- grafician-3
"BREAKING: Ukrainian official says Russian has begun a new military offensive in the east, along the 'entire front line of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions'"
- NBQ000
Intercepted all with a Russian soldier confirm the Azovstal in Mariupol will be wiped from the face of the earth. Potentially by bombers carrying 3-ton (bunker busting) bombs.
Too bad UA couldn't do more to help the resistance in Mariupol.
- it seems like yesterday when this this all started in Feb. EU, Nato etc need to grow some balls and get some troops in ukraine and planes.shapesalad
- Ukrainian forces holding out in Mariupol make a last-ditch plea for heavy weapons: https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- NBQ001
The Azovstal steelworks complex is huge and has bunkers and maze-like tunnels to whitstand a nuclear attack.
There are now about 2500 fighters and hundreds of civilians in there. I hope they can somehow hold out until UA figures out how to help them (/ counter attack).
- Way to go, nbq. Now the Russian have this drawing to help themGnash
- Yes I made it, and of course and the FSB and RU generals are browsing QBN.NBQ00
- :)Gnash
- https://youtu.be/31A…scarabin
- chill QBN is too influential, probably banned in RUgrafician
- and china!grafician
- Human animals have successfully created the scenario of Hell - right here on planet earth.shapesalad
- found Bin LadenYakuZoku
- Wolfenstein 3Dyuekit
- stupid, the sentence about chemical weapons, like it’s nothing to use them. there is always an alternative to chemical weapons. so please delete this graphic!api
- You know the context, right? The illustration is not suggesting to use chemical weapons and it's the Russians who'd want to if they could.NBQ00
- remember
https://lukebennett1…sted - I wanna play this mapscarabin
- With NINs Quake soundtrackNBQ00
- drgs0
May 9th is victory day in Russia with military parades and all. There is an obvious pressure for them to find a pretext for a victorious exit before that date.
It will be interesting to see if Putin will participate. Usually he is out there in the open overseeing the ceremony, but lately he's been hiding even from his own life guards...
Discuss
- PhanLo4
- Do people outside of the UK know what Shandy is?shapesalad
- It's a Radler in Germany. Lager mixed with lemonade.Continuity
- It’s a girl’s drink according to my step fatherIanbolton
- This must have been fun to layout/ edit. QuarkXPress 1.0?NBQ00
- i'm not surprised. shandy is ghastly. but it's made with beer, not lager. shandygaff if you use ginger beer instead of lemonade.
lager top for t'other pishhans_glib - On another another note, this tabloid article is phenomenally entertaining.Continuity
- I would have put him down as more of a bitter manGardener
- I thought I knew what a shandy was. Mixing lemonade and beer is an extremely revolting idea.CyBrainX
- utopian0
Activists projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C. - LOLz
- the white torch is the Russians trying to block it.shapesalad
- Russian embassy in Edinburgh has parking right outside it. Wish I knew someone with a huge van to park outside and could put banner on the side.microkorg
- NBQ001
Very cringe Russian propaganda video: https://twitter.com/maxseddon/st…
- Funny how China also made a shitty propaganda video using the same song
https://youtu.be/kmm…yuekit - trying to capture the view of the young and old?pango
- Sea Shanty the global anthem of authoritarianism https://www.youtube.…yuekit
- seems like the most straight forward unoriginal thinking process. oh it's popular. let's piggy back it.pango
- Funny how China also made a shitty propaganda video using the same song
- yuekit0
- Remember a month ago when people were insisting Russia just wanted to protect the poor peoples of Donetsk and Lugansk...that sure escalated quicklyyuekit
- CrazyYakuZoku
- So someone wrote some text, on some images on the Internet...ETM
- looks like an opinion debate to me. filtered by russian media monitor to highlight the bad guy (and get more views).uan
- 3 and 4, same image, but different caption.uan
- Here's the original -- these quotes are out of order but unfortunately the message is not that different.
https://twitter.com/…yuekit - https://twitter.com/…yuekit
- This cunt also suggested to nuke PolandNBQ00
- yuekit1
Putin's latest appearance. The giant table has become a tiny table, what does it all mean?
- He's decided he's no longer at risk of Covid? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Continuity
- big table: i want all of ukraine
small table: i'll make do with donbashans_glib - Lol the way he's holding the table, all anxiousNBQ00
- russian state mastered deepfake techuan
- Shoigu's heart attack was a lie?drgs
- Yeah people pointed out his right hand is clutching the table the entire time. Overall neither of them look or sound very happy.yuekit
- Why do they release these? Does it offer them anything other than the opportunity to build weightless assumptions on things we know very little about.Ianbolton
- proof of life?grafician
- I think Shoigu is the only man he trustsdrgs
- He looks like he just overdosed on Taco Bell and is desperately trying not to shit his pants.garbage
- Maybe he had a shandy ...Continuity
- First table: Megayacht
Second table: Dinghy
Third table: Is potatoAkagiyama - I think this is "canned" news, footage is probably some months olddrgs
- Said to have Parkinsons, video showing tremors has appeared on reddit. So could be holding the table to stop them becoming visible.comicsans
- shapesalad-2
Great insights, some I pulled out:
Germany expanding defence budget. Worrying repeat of history.
Massive food price increases, shortage and famine coming soon to Middle east, China, Africa.
Ukraine a net exporter, now and for next 5+ years net importer.
USA + West needs to arm Ukraine with all the Javelins etc and to turn Ukraine into the Killing fields for Russia conscripts, and we need to win.. else goodbye to Estonia, Lithuania etc. However, will be hard for Russia to hold on to those.
Putin likely the last leader of Russia, endgame for Russia playing out now.
Anyone with investments in Russia, stocks etc - expect those investments to go to zero with absolute certainty.
Not a good time to be a Russian man under the age of 50, as you are going to be conscripted very soon.
- and if you are Ukrainian, get out now. Russian solders will rape and kill their way across Ukraine. Removing any source of workers for farmers, causing famine,shapesalad
- starving out Ukraines in an attempt to defeat and concur.shapesalad
- A lot of Demographics and Geographic playing out here.shapesalad
- based on your "insights" clearly this man is an idiot
almost all of the insights are totally wronggrafician
- drgs0
https://www.stripes.com/theaters…
WASHINGTON — Russia has lost about one-quarter of its troops, weapons and military equipment originally sent to invade Ukraine less than two months ago, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday.
“We believe that [Russian President Vladimir Putin’s] roughly at 75% of his combat power that he had originally when he started,” the official told reporters at the Pentagon. “This is across all functions: it's infantry, its artillery, its aviation – both fixed and rotary – it's ballistic missiles, cruise missiles [etc.]”
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The U.S. official on Tuesday said Russia had started “some limited offensive operations” southwest of Donetsk and south of Izyum in eastern Ukraine, but cautioned more Russian operations are expected.
"We're not pushing back on the notion that offensive operations have begun, but we think that this is a prelude of larger offensive operations that are potentially still in the offing here,” the official said.
That’s because Russia is also conducting what the official called “shaping operations,” or preparations for a larger assault.
“In other words, they continue to reinforce to make sure they have logistics and sustainment supplies [and] continue to make sure that they have proper aviation and other enabling capabilities,” the official said. “So it's not binary – it’s not stop one thing and start another.”
Russia’s preparations could indicate its military is “trying to learn and adapt from some of the mistakes they made earlier in the war, particularly around Kyiv,” where Russian forces were stalled for weeks due in part to food and fuel shortages before retreating.
“They are trying to learn how to fix and overcome those logistics and sustainment challenges,” the official said.
- shapesalad1
Insightful macro view on this:
- Watch the answer from 39:11. Sorry time link didn't work.shapesalad
- Peter called the Russian invasion years ago. Smart guy and great communicator. I just finished his last book Disunited Nations which I highly recommend.mandomafioso
- Will do. Just came across him today. I love macro thinkers.shapesalad
- grafician0
"Spain has shipped 200 tonnes of military material, including heavy transport vehicles, to Ukraine: Spanish PM"
also US sending $800M more worth of heavy guns and drones
- NBQ000
3000 Wagner Group mercenaries already killed (out of 8000-10'000): https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/po…
- Nairn3
Seems like there's a few Important Sites across Russia mysteriously going up in flames today. Reminds me of all those unfortunate accidents that keep befalling the Iranian Regime's Important Sites. Such terrible coincidence... .
- link?grafician
- https://twitter.com/…sted
- https://twitter.com/…sted
- Plausible deniability's a wonderful thing sometimes...Nairn
- NBQ00-3
This reminded me of Milan. I wonder where he is now our pro-Gremlin troll.
- grafician-1
"Zelensky says #Ukraine needs $7 bn a month to make up for economic losses - AFP"
If EU transfers all that $300B+ of Russia's reserves into Ukraine's reserves, that's more than 3 years of reconstruction time...not bad
- grafician-1
"The German position - that its military doesn't have much to give - is real. Germany has steadily demilitarized for 30 years. Most of its little remaining equipment couldn't be mobilized with less than 6 months notice. "
"Its arms industry isn't even geared to produce weapons for Germany. It's primarily designed to sell weapons abroad. We can talk about how this is short-sighted and even stupid. But that makes it no less true."