Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- NBQ001
- seems rational.hotroddy
- You think Ukraine is just letting Russia get away like this? Maybe do the fucking poll or voting before the war.NBQ00
- Also Tesla stock down 9% while market up. Seems Tesla doesn't agree with Elon either.NBQ00
- Starlink down?grafician
- We now know they're capable of doing anything being useless drunks. Hitler would have used Nukes. Putin is in his bunker with his hands on the btnhotroddy
- NBQ000
Putin is set to demonstrate his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear test on Ukraine’s borders, defence sources have warned - The Times
- Nah classic fsb escalation tactics aka bluffing
You take the inverse out of everything he saysgrafician - reversegrafician
- He's *really* jonesing for Nato to fuck him in the ass dry, isn't he?Continuity
- Well, this from the Guardian's live feed:
https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity - I didn't think he'd invade Ukraine, but he did the mad bastard so who knows what he'll do? I just imagine the missiles to be powered by mentos and coke.PhanLo
- https://nypost.com/2…instrmntl
- Nah classic fsb escalation tactics aka bluffing
- NBQ000
Zelensky to Elon
- pablo28-1
Several official government representatives from Washington have increased pressure on EU officials to transfer money to Kiev to buy weapons from the US - €3.5 billion a month!
EU, wake up! Stop financing the proxy war provoked by the Yanks in Ukraine!
via https://prod.berliner-zeitung.de…
"The precarious state of Ukraine's public finances is causing unease in the U.S. government. The Financial Times (FT) reports that several official government representatives from Washington have increased pressure on EU officials to transfer money to Kiev.
Several meetings were held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, it said, at which U.S. representatives expressed displeasure with the slow pace of payments from Brussels. An EU official told the FT that Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal also met with European Council President Charles Michel to that end.
He said he told the EU that Kiev needed about 3.5 billion euros every month. "The one message was the urgent need to actually get the money," the official said. Shmyhal argued that this should happen "as soon as possible." Grants and loans are equally welcome, he said. Accordingly, U.S. officials stressed to EU officials that it is necessary to provide financial support to Ukraine as long as the Ukrainian offensive in the south is successful.
One problem for Ukraine could be possible Russian sanctions against Ukrainian state-owned gas supplier Naftogaz. Naftogaz is fighting a dispute against Russia's Gazprom Group in an arbitration court. Gazprom rejected all of Naftogaz's payment claims on Tuesday. As Reuters reports, Russia is threatening the Ukrainian gas supplier with sanctions. These would result in Ukraine losing its lucrative transit fees, further placing a significant burden on the state budget."
- Wikipedia:
'The Berliner Zeitung is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in East Germany in 1945'
Derp.Continuity - Well, a couple of right-wing victories in recent European elections should temper this insanity.Khurram
- And, perhaps, also Donald Trump's forthcoming reelection.Khurram
- The Z brigade has arrivedNBQ00
- Good point Khurram, Russia is aligned with the far-right, including actual fascists, in almost every country.yuekit
- But can either of you explain what the reason for continuing the war is? Looks to me like Putin is destroying Russia's future.yuekit
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- grafician2
"Number of men fleeing Russia is larger than Putin’s original invasion force in Ukraine, NATO says"
- aren't they suspicious of russian spys? what an occasion for getting sleeping cells into the west (wouldn't Hitler use this occasion?)uan
- Spy on who? Georgia? Kazahstan? Mongolia? Maybe Turkey as a NATO member but highly unlikelygrafician
- yeah, because spys don't know how to travel incognito and western security checks are focused on russia right now.uan
- Imagine how many red flags a Russian passport summons...grafician
- There was nothing stopping them from traveling to nearby countries in the past.yuekit
- grafician0
"Nine countries make statement in favor of Ukraine joining NATO.
The countries include: Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Slovakia."
So far so good
- NBQ000
lol
Drone dropped grenade fails to explode but still hits Russian Soldier On The Head.
Lucky bastard indeed.
- NBQ001
UAF are making speedy progress in Kherson region.
"Good lord, Russian front is apparently collapsing in the south.
I just can’t keep up with reports on newly-liberated towns coming every other hour."https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenk…
A few more days and they may be in front of Kherson city.
The psychological impact of the UAF success in the past week must be big on the Russians with morale going down even more and them getting whacked left and right.
- Problem is this will make someones shaky finger move even closer to the big red nuke launch button.shapesalad
- ^ To say nothing of the fact that there's no guarantee the UAF can actually sustain control over re-taken territory.Continuity
- @Cont: Like I said before Russians can hardly even just stay in a position let alone counter-attack. Not saying they won't try in future. Izyum/ Kharkiv regionNBQ00
- ...has been under UA control since weeks after liberating it and Russians have way other problems than attempting to attack again.NBQ00
- He has some good updates: https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- Also https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- We'll see. In case you've forgetten, reinforcements are coming, and even the most inept, amateurish, dysfunctional army can overrun defenders with sheer numbersContinuity
- Ruzzkis had 150K of "pros" allocated beginning of war. 60K of those are dead and most likely 30K-40K+ wounded. Now come the amateur, drunks.NBQ00
- Many of them don't even know how to handle or clean a weapon properly. They're just cannonfodder. But yes let's see.NBQ00
- Be that as it may:
• Don't underestimate the enemy or take him for granted
• Take the threat seriously, and prepare accordinglyContinuity - 200k shitty soldiers can't do shit if they don't have something approaching a functional logistical chain supporting them.Nairn
- And most of the reason Ukr's making so many gains recently is because it has hammered Russian's seemingly poor excuse for logistics.Nairn
- All Ukr need to do is ensure that Russian Railways are too unsafe to rely upon. Russia's apparently paralysed without trains.Nairn
- Even their primary nuclear centres up around Murmansk are served by a single railway line running south.Nairn
- yuekit2
It's amazing how over half a year in there's still no good explanation for why the war happened.
If it was a war against NATO it's a miserable failure given that two more countries joined NATO. The idea of "fighting the Nazis" was always laughable and now undermined even more after Putin exchanged the captured Azov battalion fighters for his friend in a prisoner swap.
Latest version seems to be Putin framing the war as an ideological struggle against the West, but instead of Marxism it's a sub-Fox News far-right conspiracy theorist worldview.
The only justification that really makes sense is to seize land and resources from Ukraine. But even then it's not clear that whatever Russia gained would be worth the cost of destroying ties with Europe and living under sanctions.
- When you only have yes men telling you how great your army is and that entire Ukraine will be in your hands within 2-3 days then that's what happens.NBQ00
- No good explanation? Check out Peter Zeihan on YT. Basically Demographics = this the last chance, ageing + declining population...shapesalad
- ..economcs, want that direct route into west. Political - Putin needs something to keep Russia together, else it fractions.shapesalad
- Add to the mix east vs west ideology, soviet dreams, and Putin tired of being paid in $ for his oil/gas, and having it devalued by the FED.shapesalad
- Regarding population, if Putin tried this in 7 years time, there's be less fighting aged men, in 15 years even less. It was now or never. Now they failed andshapesalad
- are drafting prisoners and retired military and anyone else, regardless of skill or ability.shapesalad
- Should say, sea route into west for shipping. If they had Ukraine as part of Russia it's a massive economic win.shapesalad
- Don't forget Russia is not one unified country, it's massive, people look chinese at one end, white at other. It's only ever been held together by strongmen.shapesalad
- It’s barely a country in any sense. A piranha state run by Soviet era mafiosos, a true kleptocracy. Which is a shame, there is so much potential for Russians_niko
- sted2
Reports of Russian train allegedly carrying nuclear weapons heading toward Ukraine appear to be FALSE based on US analysis, senior US defense official tells @JenGriffinFNC
- NBQ000
- The stable genius should build his electric submarine manufacturing plant in Crimea, because there are many narrow and shallow caves in the region.utopian
- “No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated”
― Elon Muskneverscared - give up ukraine... give vlad the land..neverscared
- NBQ000
Jesus, I hope this is just a bit of precaution.
Kyiv city council handing out potassium iodine pills to evacuation centers around the area in preparation for a possible nuclear attack, according to the Associated Press.
- https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- Agreed. This is going to continue to escalate.MondoMorphic
- USA showed the world you end wars with a nuke. That'll be Putins excuse.shapesalad
- I don't think so, NATO and even china would step in at that point. It's a red line.
Petraeus was saying that any radiation blowing onto a NATO country would_niko - ...be seen as an attack on that country and trigger article 5. Russia knows this and has been warned. The only way they nuke Ukraine is if Putin has lost his_niko
- ...mind and is ready to sacrifice Russia and its people...and all of humanity really_niko
- if? ffs it's clear he has already lost it.hans_glib
- inv1
A box of gold dental crowns allegedly found in a Russian torture chamber. Getting pretty grim...
- Never again? Apparently not...inv
- That’s a lot of people tortured in a relatively short period of time.Chimp
- That is pretty fucked up, it's been 6 months now - time for the West to put a foot down firm and stop pussying around.shapesalad
- :'(jagara
- Elon Mook can use all of those gold dental crowns to complete the circuit board for his next level robot.utopian
- NBQ000
Damn, somebody cheer up Solovyov. He sounds very depressed lately. What happened to "we'll invade Poland, Germany, etc..."?
- Continuity2
This sounds so incredibly infantile. Like a toddler having a full-on screaming tantrum in a supermarket, after the brat's been told he can't have candy and he has to put it back on the shelf.
'Waaaaaaah waaaaaah waaaaaaah! I want Ukraine!! It's mine forever!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!'
Unbelievable.
- "It's MINE!!" *pouty face, arms crossed, stomp foot*formed
