Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority

How well is the combat this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 46 6.6%
  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well planned strike with few faults

    Votes: 45 6.5%
  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 292 42.1%
  • ⭐⭐ Worse than expected

    Votes: 269 38.8%
  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 42 6.1%

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    694
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The prestige of reunifying ethnic Russians in Ukraine with the motherland.

If he's going for the whole of Ukraine, the prestige of reuniting the "triune Russian nation".
I don't think someone, even a lunatic, would mobilize his entire military and invade a country in 2022 for prestige.

This is why I'm so hesitant about this whole thing; I get the feeling we plebs don't "get" the whole story here.
 
I genuinely don't understand why Russia is doing this. What do they have to gain? What does Ukraine have that they want? Putin seems like too smart of a guy to just shell a country because he can. What's the real motivation for all this?
1) Re-establishing buffer state(s?) between West Europe and Russia.

2) Getting access to Black Sea and if possible, Mediterranean Ports

It's far from the first time Russia has tried to accomplish these two goals, in fact those were basically their entire foreign policy pre-USSR.

There's possibly some economic stuff too but I am not as informed on that.

Others have said its Putin's ego but he strikes me as the calculating type as opposed to the egostical type.
 
Can you really blame them for their cowardice? I didn't want Ukraine to crumble, but why sacrifice yourself when the world left you to die.

I'm sure Putin is just pacing back and fourth screaming angerly about his "Nord Stream 2", "How dare they take this to me, Just not fair". - but in Russian
Well he's not wrong. You push a bear into a corner, it'll lash out. NATO should've kept its dick in its hemisphere.
 
"Someone I know referred to this as America's Suez moment and it could be an apt comparison since the UK and France began the terminal decline for their empires while Israel, who was their ally, continued to paddle along and grow their strength."
Unattributed quotes are gay as fuck. Also, not a NATO country. Sorry but we're not the World Police. As silly as those "Join or Die" flags are they really kind of cut to the chase. At most, we really fuck with Nato homies, their homies (to an extent Ukraine but not a boots on the ground extent), and the Americas/Caribbean. A lot of that shit is getting burdensome as well. Just imagine if the US turned their defense budget south (later north) and sort shit out on our own continent(s). I frankly couldn't give a fuck about Africa and Eurasia.
 
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>Russian armored column moving through Donbass

>#Russian securities market headed south while the ruble dived on Thursday on the Moscow Exchange. #MOEX Trading on the exchange was suspended at 4:44 a.m. GMT.
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>Air raid sirens wail across Ukraine's capital

Time to step away, got stuff I need to do today. Hope the Ukranians weather this, either through repulsing Ruskies, guerilla actions or under occupation.
 
Massive inflation, $5 gas, awful rent, increasing debt, lack of wages, trillions stolen from the population during the pandemic....holy shit, who cares? This was entirely done to prop up Biden's admin by making him look 'tough' but instead he goes to bed as soon as it starts.
You see though, I've already gotten the script from CNN. Biden going to sleep is a brave move on the level of a spartan warrior. It takes a ton for a man to sleep though an invasion. When he wakes up we swear he will TOTALLY do something, and not shit himself too much this time. We swear.
 
Cringing real hard listening to boomers and women talk about war. They have no skin in the game. They both can't get drafted. War talk is for the fellas.

Childless women, maybe.

Some of us have sons. Our skin in the game is our flesh and blood; the gold stars in the windows are not something we want to bring back.
 
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