Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- grafician1
"A Russian tank crew surrendered in exchange for sandwiches."
- Continuity1
Excellent breakdown of the Rusky military, and why it underperforms so breathtakingly.
'Russia’s underperforming military capability may be key to its downfall
Despite superior firepower, Russian forces have failed to fulfil their potential and face a dispiriting battle to regain the upper hand over Ukraine'
- sted1
Russian missile strike at industrial zone of Pivdenno-Ukrainska nuclear power plant, 300 meters to reactors
- NBQ00-3
Ukrainian sniper takes out 4 Russians in matter of seconds.
- PhanLo0
Nairn was right
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- I ended up watching a bit of the cortège y'day* and was thinking all the way through how much chaos could be wrought for a few grand's worth of droneage.Nairn
- * I was absolutely and entirely ignoring it, but caught my partner with my child on her knee watching it, then partner had to get back to work and I ended...Nairn
- ...in the kitchen watching another 20 minutes of that pointless misery as my child has had a week of apparent regal indoctrination at nursery :\Nairn
- (..and so was wanting to watch it. Amusingly, as a <4 year old, she has an at-best flawed handle on mortality, so kept asking when we'd see her, lol)Nairn
- But yes, the tiniest of tiny nukes in the very centre of town y'day could have had quite a dramatic impact on world politics., had someone wanted... .Nairn
- Britain is the root of all evil! LOL.. wow.. finally they got something right. Well done.shapesalad
- why have they got cotton buds stuck to the side of the faces?shapesalad
- NBQ000
"We are aware of reports Putin may be preparing to enact mobilization measures",
US National Security Advisor Sullivan
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/stat…
Putin will speak tonight and most likely announce Donetsk/ Luhansk referendums to happen in next days as well as possible mobilization.
Just shows that RU can't win on battlefield via conventional means.
- drgs0
So apparently, 1 hour from now Putin will officially announce a general mobilization
Putin understands that he has started a fire which he cannot put out, what he doesnt understand he will burn in it
- https://www.mirror.c…drgs
- "Exactly what he will say remains unknown, but his defence minister Sergei Shoigu is expected to join him"drgs
- Putin about to mobilize and PUT IN danger 2 million Russian reservists ?Krassy
- This is all of his military? i guess he didn't get the memo about Pearl Harbor.CyBrainX
- Putin is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. His failure here will mean his head domestically, and Russia and allies will look ripe for the picking.monNom
- Putin's address was scheduled 1 hour ago, but was postponed, which is already interesting in itselfdrgs
- Officially happened today: Russian parliament passed bill increasing punishments for desertion & insubordinationdrgs
- Unofficial rumors: from tomorrow men aged 18 to 65 cannot leave the countrydrgs
- faknuzsted
- hope they re gonna mobilise him ... as in mobilise him out office and into a nuthouse where his natural habit is ...neverscared
- drgs0
- Knowing him, it's not live but pre-recorded, before the summit he attended in Asia - he wanted to see the support he will get there - everybody ignored himgrafician
- so based on that, he will step up the desperate efforts - classic sunk cost fallacygrafician
- Looks like the speech has been canceleddrgs
- basically trying to cash out before UKR recovers even more of the occupied territories
A lot more people will die for nothing, really a huge mess...grafician - Zelensky should counter the rumours and himself order general mobilisation instead - the orcs will be scared shitless knowing 1M Ukrainians are coming for themgrafician
- grafician0
Russia can't do full mobilisation anymore...
"Paradoxically enough, it is much harder to conduct a proper mobilisation in the course of the foreign war. First, most of the capable officers who could've trained and led new recruits are in Ukraine. Many of them are dead already"
A long thread from Kamil again:
- But just because they can't really fully mobilise, doesn't mean they will not.grafician
- Step 1:
Quickly organizing "elections" and declaring the occupied teritories as part of Russiagrafician - Step 2: declaring Russia is attacked by UKR forces in the occupied teritoriesgrafician
- Step 3: declaring full mobilisation in Russia to repel the UKR attacks
By any means necessary.grafician - Probably...grafician
- grafician-1
"Putin's speech has been postponed until tomorrow, according to multiple people close to the Kremlin"
Oh no
- grafician-1
"BREAKING: Russia's Putin has declared a partial mobilization in his country, says the West doesn't want peace between Russia and Ukraine."
- "Putin claimed the West was trying to "blackmail" Russia with nuclear weapons and warned them that the "wind vane can turn in their direction.""grafician
- https://www.jpost.co…grafician
- "Attack Ukraine, torture and kill innocent people. It's all West's fault."NBQ00
- The remark about the wind must mean they will bomb Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and cause a nuclear disaster, their only cardgrafician
- I suspect any ‘accident’ at the nuke plant would make their warm water port/base at Crimea uninhabitable as well. Not a smart move.monNom
- NBQ001
Shoigu: "Today we are at war not so much with Ukraine as with the collective West".
Ok then.
- "It's all West's fault."NBQ00
- 300K reservists called upNBQ00
- So, he's pissed away his volunteer army and mercenaries, and now he's going to send all his reservists to die too, eh?Continuity
- Duh - Ther eis a term for it, it's called a "Proxy War"toemaas
- shapesalad3
When you ruin your economy by being evil and invading your neighbour, and you now have lots of unemployed angry men - who could very easily turn on you - send them I’ll prepared to the front line. Problem solved.
Why is everyone still listening to Putin? He sits in an ivory tower signing bits of paper and barking orders, y’all in Russia can choose to ignore him.
- Continuity0
I'm curious to know if either the Ukrainians or western intelligence saw this mobilisation coming in the last however long this war's been going on.
If yes, what's the plan, here?
If not, why not?
And, at what point will Nato have to get directly involved? Because, frankly, I suspect the time will actually come when Nato joining the fight on the ground will have to happen.
Because I'm not confident Ukraine can both defend itself and take back all of its territory (including Crimea) in the face of 300k more Ruskies, and Western matériel only coming in drips and trickles.
- Also: let's not rule out him calling up the rest of his reservists, and then instituting full-on mass conscription down the road.Continuity
- Are 300k people actually going to join the war? I don't think they have the ability to immediately mobilize that many people.yuekit
- The danger is that Russia stages a fake referendum, claims the Donbas is now Russia and then starts a nuclear war over it.yuekit
- For now only selling/ supplying weapons is realistic. Unless you want nuclear warNBQ00
- @yuekit I actually think Russian men would be outright stupid enough to join up in droves.Continuity
- In any case, they're calling up reservists, and I don't think they have a choice when a call-up happens.Continuity
- There are stories that soldiers are refusing to fight. Mobilization of the entire population could bring down the government IMO.yuekit
- Eh, I'm not so sure about that. Russkies are so indoctrinated that they'll swallow anything.Continuity
- Yeah but Russians are like the pro Putin cell on QBN, lots of tough words but in no way would they ever sacrifice anything for this war :)yuekit
- It's easy to support something from behind a screen or watching on TV. Like the tankies and far right idiots who spend all day supporting Russia on social mediayuekit
- how many would ever pick up a gun and be willing to give their lives for Putin?yuekit
- But by all means if they want to, I say let them do it.yuekit
- Well, you're not wrong.
Yeah, let's see how this pans out.Continuity
- yuekit2
At this point Putin needs to be taken out for the good of humanity.
As the guy in this video puts it, Russia is like "monkey with a grenade."
And those of you who supported him or tried to say Russia wouldn't invade, Russia wouldn't annex territory...how stupid and wrong could you have been? Time to go back and reevaluate everything.
- Surely, the CIA *must* have some helpful assets on the ground in Moscow ...Continuity
- yuekit2
There is also this false assumption that even if Putin is a terrible person there must be some kind of justification for the war, some kind of plan going forward.
But look at Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot...there's absolutely no reason to think that authoritarian leaders act rationally.
For all we know Putin is part of some weird Christian Orthodox cult and the reason he invaded was because of numerology or fortune telling :) He's the equivalent of crackhead with a gun holding people hostage.
- The most crackhead part is them constantly acting like they're in some sort of existential struggle when in reality... you started the war you moronsyuekit
- Underlying reason is Oil/gas. Ukraine found large reserves in 2014, and threatens to block Russian sales to Europe.
https://www.youtube.…inv - Might be a factor but the war itself is doing a great job ending Russian energy sales to Europe.yuekit
- NBQ003
Russia don't even have enough and proper military gear/ equipment for the DNR/ LPR guys. They're walking around in old Soviet uniforms and helmets and rifles.
The 300k will gradually just become new poorly equipped and poorly trained cannon-fodder.
- sted0
