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%

  • Total voters
    694
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Wonder if Putin will deploy the GAS WEAPON or happily keep selling it despite the sanctions. Not sure what the calculus is there.
 
I will say, Biden is fucking this up less than I thought he would. Media releases and back-room got information out front. He still got caught pants around his ankles when the balloon when up (would it kill you to redeploy some Naval assets and make the Bongs & Frogs do the same?). Its been a few days and there is still a Ukraine.

The real issue is that Russia has clearly burned through the tardo conscripts and the real forces are about to start rolling up.
To be fair to the Americans, this is a European war so I can understand the U.S not wanting to become more involved then they need to. Hence why most of the support is coming out of the UK and EU.
 
"Latvian Troops"
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Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade's 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment board a C-130 plane at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Feb. 24, 2022. Unit members departed for Latvia on Wednesday and Thursday in support of a NATO mission to reassure allies concerned about Russian aggression following the Kremlins invasion of Ukraine. (Meleesa E Gutierrez/U.S. Army)

I can't believe the propaganda machine is this incompetent. And people are falling for it?
With the proper hashtags and enough fake follower accounts, you can get people to believe anything.

Joseph Goebbels would have a field day with Twatter and then some.
"sacred" "democracy"
What's with people sanctifying a form of governance? Remember when Merkel said that the storming of the Capitol was an attack on sacred ground? I remember hearing something like that on Bulgarian Media.
Some countries have an official state religion.

For some people, the state IS their religion.
 
Ukraine has allegedly declared they’re releasing prison inmates with combat experience and using them for combat.

Nothing out of the ordinary in a war but still.
No, that's really out of the ordinary, the only other time I've heard of it happening was Saddam to ensure the worst people were out on the streets for the Americans to clean up

EDIT: I guess the Soviets did it to but they kept them under close guard and used them to charge machine guns nests and walk over minefields
 
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Wonder if Putin will deploy the GAS WEAPON or happily keep selling it despite the sanctions. Not sure what the calculus is there.
Gas is only good to supply to a proxy country, No world power wants to get caught deploying gas in such a direct way.
 
Seen as no one asked... Here is my unsolicited and unqualified opinion on this complex situation.

Russia is right from a geopolitical perspective and wrong from a self-determination perspective.

Russia is right because the US and NATO have genuinely made plans and publicly stated that they intend to move weapons to Ukraine, including long range missiles and even chemical weapons labs. That isn't a meme. This is, as many people have said, no different to the Cuban missile crisis. If you think the USA acted appropriately in the Cuban missile crisis, you are probably going to sympathise with Russia in this situation.

Russia is wrong
because the people of Ukraine chose to pivot to NATO and the West voluntarily. Yes, we can argue that the full weight of the Western media pulled them in that direction. Yes, we can argue that the Ukrainian government shut down opposition news stations. You can argue that about any Western country as well, yet we still have to honour the decisions the public make even if they were manipulated because, frankly, we are being manipulated by all sides anyway. If you think the British public deserved to have their Brexit vote honoured, you are probably going to sympathise with Ukraine in this situation.

So my question is... I think that the USA acted appropriately during the Cuban missile crisis AND I think the Brexit vote should be honoured, so whose side should I be on?

I think I have an answer.

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A nation can't fight for self-determination if it doesn't exist.
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Especially during the early days of this conflict, when it seemed pretty volatile, I was a little worried about going to sleep; like I didn't want to sleep through the ~30 minute ICBM warning. Maybe less if hypersonic missiles are in play. Minor PL: I live in a probable nuclear blast radius if shit were to hit the fan. Crazy how boomers just dealt with ~50 years of that. Although I guess this is more comparable to distinct flare-ups like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From what i read about the Cuban missile crisis there were always back channels, normal people thought they could die any minute but in private both sides seemed to not want that and tried to bumble a way out between themselves. Except the cuban leadership who were massive pieces of shit during that whole ordeal and really wanted it to happen so who knows, there's always the chance that is not just agit prop and the world leaders are really that psicotic.

But oh well, is just like Game of Thrones, Valar Morghulis, Putin is Daeneris yadah yadah .
 
Did Russian Army send in new toys yet or is it still in house-clearing mode so that Ukrainians run out of Javelins and more Gypsies can get Nigger rich from scrap metal and build palaces a'la Huedin, Romania after this conflict is over?
Where does this shit come from? Do they have heating?
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You mean to tell me that the Russians have yet to send their best troops?

huh.

This isn't even their final form!

In addition to the Su-34 Fullback making an appearing it appears their DESTROYER OF INTERNETS electronic warfare trucks have now been spotted:

 
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