Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- Nairn2
Article by Mikhail Khodarenok from the beginning of the conflict that pours cold water on Russia's ambitions.
- western media trying to make out putin has parkinson's. He could be faking it, for lol's, that's what kgb agents do...shapesalad
- but if it is true - he's looking like in early stages, and at that stage - you get super 'risky' into gambling etc. So the invasion could be a massive gamble.shapesalad
- drgs1
https://news.yahoo.com/former-tr…
Fiona Hill, an advisor on Russia under President Donald Trump, has described what it was like sitting next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at dinner, including an odd smell she says he exuded.
Besides noticing what she described as Putin's "very expensive watch," Hill also observed that the Russian leader "really could have done with glasses" because he used cards with huge words on them.
"I could read them all, cards telling him who was who and what he should say and things like this," she recalled.
Hill also observed that Putin "didn't eat or drink anything" during the meal.
Above all, however, Hill also said she took note of the Russian leader's smell.
"Now, this sounds really bizarre, but I could smell that he was freshly laundered," Hill said. "He wasn't wearing cologne, but it was almost like he had stepped out of some special preparatory bath or something, into the moment."
- I always bathe before I dine.shapesalad
- He bathes in deer blood and then probably has to shower with bleach to get it offNBQ00
- Oh course he doesn't wear cologne - it could be tampered with and some poison added. Like the one he sent to UK.shapesalad
- Probably same goes for soaps and everything else. so he probably on washes in water and very often. Paranoid life, must be...fun?shapesalad
- *onlyshapesalad
- He smelled good, must be a conspiracyscarabin
- yuekit1
"How Putin Decided to Go to War"...Russian journalist's account based on interview with FSB officials
- https://istories-med…Nairn
- We call Putin a sadist and a psychopath. I claim the opposite: he is not sufficiently psychopath to rule his country, he's too softdrgs
- utopian2
Not exactly the brightest looking bulb on the tree.
- He looks like a caveman.
One born with birth defects, and the rest of the tribe rejected him.Continuity - https://i1.sndcdn.co…dbloc
- Is that a Nazi Salute?NBQ00
- They're making a new Hunger Games?palimpsest
- there's a direct correlation between hair density and... well, being dense. Don't believe me - look at all the geniuses, they're all BALD! Fact-o-ramashapesalad
- Hobbit reboot looks shitfadein11
- einstein u bald geniusneverscared
- He looks like a caveman.
- Ramanisky213
Oopsies
- hahahaha fuckin' WOOPSBuddhaHat
- Jesus, wow_niko
- Orginal Gaffertank02
- HAHAHAHAHAANBQ00
- At least he corrected himself. Biden would have just kept bumbling gibberish.mort_
- HahahahhahaChimp
- Oooh. Wow. (╯°□°）jagara
- hahahamilfhunter
- @mort C'mon, that's some lazy whataboutism.garbage
- Tell me what relevance Biden's incompetence has on a war criminal trying to get a laugh off of his crimes.garbage
- If anything, the "Iraq too" joke is even worse, but I guess I'm not one of the 200k dead civilians from Bush's war, so what do I know?garbage
- Yeah not giving him a pass. Just pointing out that a president from 4 terms ago who gaffes is still more coherent than the actual current US president.mort_
- ^ now do Trump mort_Ramanisky2
- Bush just hitting y'all's with a preemptive strike. Keeping it 55th street.
#whataboutismspalimpsest - The Iraq War destroyed what remained of Bush's brain
https://inews.co.uk/…yuekit - I have work to do, but using Trump's years as a touchstone for how a president should be is a fool's errand.. He wasn't just a daily gaffe-master..garbage
- ..he's either stupid or compromised. He went "choo choo" on in a truck on the WH lawn, and he said:garbage
- re: Putin - “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK? Just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, alright?..garbage
- ..You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want.” - Donald Trump. Certified genius and accidental president.garbage
- stond aginGardener
- Still got itdrgs
- Incumbent also voted for that war, but please, whatever you do, don't trip yourself up with what-about-terry.Khurram
- Fucking admitted their atrocities with the "Iraq too". And about the votes to invade, the Bush admin stretched flimsy evidence to make their case.aliastime
- "Yeah, I did that"
He don't wanna be upstaged.
Big dick energy.palimpsest - That's the thing with the Iraq invasion. The aggressive dictators of the world are going to use that example as justification.CyBrainX
- Freudian slip!utopian
- LOLYakuZoku
- yup. Freudian slip. the guy has demons over his Iraq war. seen his paintings?inteliboy
- The weirdest part is how he quietly adds "hehehe...Iraq too," acknowledging himself as a war criminal in a bit of self deprecating humor.yuekit
- Pssh, if W has demons, he thinks they're pretty cool and has been riding with them for decades.garbage
- he needs a fat line like the ole days, his public speaking skills are as bad as Bidens.fadein11
- where is the throwing shoe guy?api
- shapesalad2
Even bigger Oppsies:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
Thousands of gallons of deadly chemicals from the damaged Azovstal plant could leak – causing the TOTAL extinction of life in the Sea of Azov and affecting as far as the Mediterranean, experts warn.
- Y'all see... this is why I need an [Edit] function, *Oopses* is the correct spellingshapesalad
- or alternatively, 'woopsy-daisy'BuddhaHat
- NBQ000
All Azovstal fighters are now in Russian captivity. About or more than 1600 of them. There are now rumours that most of them will be set for (fake) "trials" and possibly tortured to say what the Russians want them to say and many of them getting the death penalty.
Thread: https://twitter.com/igorsushko/s…
Osechkin’s Source: #Azovstal Prisoners of War, based on the orders of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), are being transported to pre-trial detention facilities in #Russia under control of the military counterintelligence & M departments of the FSB.
- Almost feel sorry for those neo-nazis.Khurram
- sounds like u got to much blows to your head.. dummy.neverscared
- *too manyKhurram
- https://economictime…Khurram
- Not that black & white, Khurram: https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- Thread https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- Well, nothing is really is it.Khurram
- mg333
This is such an arresting photo. Beautiful in some ways and immediately tragic. The contrast of the helicopter and the village that looks undamaged, the blue sky and clouds. It's powerful.
- The photos I'm finding interesting are the wide [literal-] field pans with hundreds of artillery craters from onanistic Russian overkillNairn
- Some of thie shit looks like WWI in colour.Nairn
- when you think about the journey all those elements took, from mine, to smelter, manufacturer, shipping, etc - then decayed back to earth.shapesalad
- romanticizing war? RamboII+ did a good job to the overlords.uan
- Who said anything about romanticising?
A bit simplistic.Nairn
- neverscared4
Ukrainian electric motorbike company Delfast has seen its electric bikes used for some vastly diverse tasks, such as breaking Guinness World Records and outfitting Mexican police. But their latest use is perhaps the bikes’ most important mission yet: helping Ukrainian soldiers strike a David vs. Goliath blow against Russia’s barbaric invasion of their country.
- https://electrek.co/…neverscared
- No-noise vehicles could change a lot in war (or any attack)formed
- Already has. Bin Laden got clipped thanks to whatever the stealth chopper that we've been able to keep out of sight for a decade.garbage
- https://www.wired.co…garbage
- Imagine crashing one of those near Bin Laden's compound and getting orders to destroy it immediately and then run for your life.garbage
- They didn't got a great job destroying that thing.formed
- IIRC it was "blow it up and haul ass" situation. It's kind of amazing that they've managed to keep it under wraps / obfuscate the facts for so long.garbage
- Likely a pimped-to-death Blackhawk. Scarier tech involved in the attack would be the Sentinel drone that was tailing them..garbage
- ..which is a Skunkworks UAV responsible for UFO sightings around the world, and only publicly acknowledged because we crashed one in Iran and didn't destroy it.garbage
- Iran now has their own clone of the Sentinel, and has used it in conflict. Those helis though.. they've stayed under wraps.garbage
- NBQ000
High ranking Azov commanders still at the plant. Saying they will do some sort of special operation soon (video).
- yuekit1
"Well, that's all. Thank you from the shelters of Azovstal - the place of my death and my life."
https://twitter.com/Kozatsky_D/s…
- NBQ002
- this guy has no fun personality and is... dry to watch.shapesalad
- I like some of his videos, but I agree.jagara
- Nairn0
The city of Rubizhne sits in the heart of the 'donbas' region, that Russia claims it is trying to liberate. I say 'sits', I mean 'sat' because they pretty much destroyed it. It once was a town of 60,000 souls.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine…
Well done, Russia. That'll do it.
- yuekit4
- Though i used to love Adam Curtis, he's too simple minded for me nowadays. My rejection of his simplistic understanding of the world actually started with thispr2
- ...film.pr2
- I agree to some extent but this clip is interesting b/c it talks about Putin's advisor Vladislav Surkov, the same one who manipulated events in Ukraine.yuekit
- https://i.imgur.com/…yuekit
- https://medium.com/d…yuekit
- I don't think Russia obscured that they had interest in those regions. They could have taken it even before, like they did with Crimea, but they didn't. why?uan
- There was already a Russian military base in Crimea (leased from Ukraine) so it was easier to seize Crimea. Taking over the entire Donbas regionyuekit
- is definitely not easy, as you can see Russia is struggling to achieve that now.yuekit
- So they helped create these "breakaway republics" in Donbas to destabilize Ukraine and serve as staging point for a future war.yuekit
- This is not even controversial if you listen to foreign policy analysts but somehow it never sunk in among the public.yuekit
- Article by a now-banned Russian paper
https://en.hromadske…yuekit - "Since fall 2014, the government has changed its tactics: it began forming the so-called armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic..."yuekit
- In 2014 the Ukrainian nationalists started attacking the pro Russia minorities. They applied sadistic and inhuman tactics.uan
- Ukraine was not able to hold them back. Part of the new Regime even encouraged this behaviour. That's why Putin calls them Nazis.uan
- There are docs from 2016 by german media (ZDF) that show the swastikas and ss tattoos of (some) azov soldiers.uan
- there is also the testimony of Anne Laure Bonnel, french journalist in Donbas about how the Ukrainian military is killing the russian speaking population.uan
- In 2014 Russia annexed Crimea and then sent their military and FSB operatives into Donbas to lead the separatists there.yuekit
- Did the French journalist mention that? It's unclear exactly why Ukraine wouldn't have the right to defend itself against violent separatists backed by ayuekit
- hostile military power with a history of enslaving and genociding Ukrainians.yuekit
- Yes some Ukrainian militias had far-right views, I don't think anyone is denying that. The point of the video is that you simply can't take Russia's narrativeyuekit
- at face value, they are carrying out what they call "non-linear warfare" or hybrid war.
https://cepa.org/the…yuekit - there is more than 2 narratives in this conflict. it's complicated. the russia bad, azov good narrative is being used to convince the west to send more weapons.uan
- "Welcome to Surkov’s Theater: Russian Political Technology in the Donbas War"
https://bit.ly/3MSoe…yuekit - Huh? No one is saying Azov good...they are saying this is a false pretext like Bush's "weapons of mass destruction"yuekit
- Seriously read the links I posted...if Russia wanted peace in Ukraine there's no way they would have carried out all these actions (while lying about it).yuekit
- I read the email leaks, and the hidden soldiers grave one. my intention with my posts was to add some information/context to them.uan
- and I am not pro Russian invasion in this.
let's see what the WEF guys will tell this week in Davos. How they are gonna react to this schism in global trade.uan - Sure I wasn't trying to say you were...I just think this is an interesting side of the story and if anything Western media has done a poor job explaining it.yuekit
- pablo280
- Putin is basically like Antifa... wherever he sees Nazis he has to start a war or an invasion. If it takes bombing a city totally into dust so be it.yuekit
- Useful idiots to fight those who really behave like Nazis. While it was known that Azov harbors such, not all of them are Neo-Nazis.NBQ00
- Still, 1000-2000 Neo-Nazis and hooligans don’t justify 25K+ innocent civilians bombed & killed in Mariupol alone and the city destroyed completely.NBQ00
- I hope they caught Dmitry Utkin too!Nairn
- Ok now strip all the Rassan soilders please...sted
- Pee Wee Herman?
https://youtu.be/9FZ…microkorg
- neverscared0
- he had cancer ?neverscared
- pretty dumb speculation going on in stones mind..neverscared
- Oliver Stone seems to love authoritarian rulers for some reasonyuekit
- CommieKrassy
- if you want answer zoom out, look at macro: demographics, geographic, energy. it'll tell you more than history and trying to guess putins mind.shapesalad
- true i think he should retire and become a man of letters...neverscared
- the vietnam war fucked up oliver stone as an impressionable young kid. everything that is anti-american = good. kind of like Utopian on QBNhotroddy
