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

[Gay_nig_from_outer_space]

Sorry to ask a dumb question, but I see there's red along the Transnistrian border, did they just get involved too?

There are Russian troops in Transnistria, I haven't heard anything about it but I guess they got activated.

 

[Oxous]

Interesting thread (archive) from a guy who seems to have had a decent amount of experience in the Army with trucks.

As a tl;dr, he explains that you need to move a military truck once a month, to make sure there's no problems with tire inflation or lines leaking, stuff like that. Another concern is that if you leave a tire out in the sun for too long (like, for a few months) the tire - more specifically, the side walls - rot and the tire will rip itself apart if you put it on low pressure for any significant distance. He uses a photo of an abandoned Pantsir in the mud from a couple days ago to illustrate this:

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His personal guess is that this Pantsir hadn't been moved in about a year before it was sent to the front. The conclusion he draws from this is that if the Russian Army couldn't be arsed to move a vehicle as expensive/important as a Pantsir, they definitely haven't moved their regular trucks, and thus the Russians literally cannot go offroad while the ground is muddy. The tires on their vehicles will fail and they'll have to abandon them. As it happens, Ukraine had a mild winter so they're sorta beginning to enter rasputitsa right now.

The implications of this, if everything is what he says it to be, is that the Ukrainians would hypothetically be able to start going Finn mode and begin enveloping and destroying Russian convoys... with the one exception that this wouldn't work in southern Ukraine or Crimea, since it's drier there.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

I know people have joked about "Russia didn't take Ukraine in 2 days that mean Putin sharted and pissed himself!!!!!!" but how long can Russia realistically sustain the invasion without pissing and shitting and cumming?

Assuming full scale and the sanctions that are there stay and a couple new ones are added over time, maybe around 3 weeks to a month.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Because nobody ever reads boring news like this, so you can say whatever you want, and most people will believe it. The media could say that Boris Yeltsin was President until Putin took power in a coup in 2012, and people would believe it.

Nigga we have boomer zoomers referring to Putin and Russia as communist right here in this thread. That's how clueless they are.

Also Petraeus on Fox giving his glowie bona fides while still in the Army and saying the case for trying Putin as a war criminal in The Hauge Internal Court is being prepared right now. This is an astounding over-reaction and combined with all the other actions governments and businesses are taking in the West I suspect there is real, legit kompromat in Ukraine they are terrified will get out the moment Russia takes control. Occam's Razor and all that.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Soymen and trannies live so absolutely rent free in your heads that their cringe reactions are dictating your opinions on the war.

How is that even possible?

I think what really fucked this situation for me was it becoming a partisan issue. Republicans are apparently pro-Russian now. It got me thinking a bit more than the sperging about Russia being huwite saviors.

Everything becomes a partisan issue in America these days. If anything, the boogeyman Democrats have been building will become real.

Here's a reasonably decent video on how the sanctions will be effecting Russia's aviation industry:

Oh God an entire industry? And we Americans got a giant crime wave over booze industry being shot.

 

[Butcher Pete]

Oh wow Ukraine's newfound woke support base are turning on eachother? Who could have predicted this

I'm still enjoying Poland's "Whites Only" refugee policy.

 

[JosephStalin]

Yeah, that's the standard for Amtrak in the major metro corridors along both coasts; but San Diego & LA, or DC to Boston/NY is the absolute worst. And switching trains in Chicago always takes between 6-8hrs, if not longer.

If you do it again, try a steam/vintage scenic rail excursion; thanks to train spergs there's one in every state.

This. Many years ago took a vintage train through the Amish country in the Lancaster, PA area. Very much enjoyed it. Went in the summer, everything nice and green.

 

[Coccxys]

3.29 to 3.49 here overnight. and it was 2.99 a week or so ago.

It was $3.49 near me Friday and was $3.79 this morning.

$3.79 this morning, $3.90 now for me.

And if you're talking per US gallon, I paid the equivalent of $7.64 yesterday.

 

[capitalBBustard]

Why the fuck would they even want moldova? Is there gas there?

To liberate Moldova from Moldova and unify it with Moldova.

 

[JambledUpWords]

 

[Simpadoo]

Anyone who defends Putin in this shitshow is a faggot. Thread closed.

The facts
Are plain: the US fucked Russia and provoked this.

Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin

On September 27, 2018, Yale's Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism hosted Vladimir Pozner, the a...

youtu.be

Deny reality at your peril.

 

[Richardface]

To liberate Moldova from Moldova and unify it with Moldova.

Yeah but why waste the effort to rule over a bunch of failed Romanians if there's no useful resources to be had?

 

[Breadbassket]

From a few minutes ago, air raid alarms going off in the Ukrainian capital and elsewhere

 

[ColtWalker1847]

In the comments, people are saying that the Russian MBT's not being able to take direct hits from modern AT weapons means they are junk..............ok, so just like the Merkava Tanks taken out by Russian Kornet Missiles in Lebanon in 2006? Or American and American supplied Abrams tanks blown up by IED's or taken out by modern AT weapons in Iraq, Yemen and the Sinai?

No tank save the Challenger II can survive a hit from modern ATGM's, this has been proven over and over again. American supplied Abrams tanks have been blown up just as easily by Yemeni and Iraqi Militia armed with similar weapons.

Someone isn't aware of modern active protection systems. Russia is supposed to have Arena to deal with this but I guess they left it in their other pair of pants.

Israel successfully deployed Trophy during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The US has 4 armored brigades of Abrams equipped with the system.

Your stronkian bullshit is almost a decade out of date. Sorry.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

To liberate Moldova from Moldova and unify it with Moldova.

So, Babylon wages war on Babylon.

 

[AnaphylacticShock]

This. Many years ago took a vintage train through the Amish country in the Lancaster, PA area. Very much enjoyed it. Went in the summer, everything nice and green.

Strasburg Railroad...very nice.

 

[Fcret]

Why the fuck would they even want moldova? Is there gas there?

Prut River is an easier border to defend and it gives them a staging point to move into Romania in the future if they decide to push things.

Their ideal scenario would be securing (either via a puppet state or direct control) southern Romania, which would let them anchor behind the Carpathians and give them greater control over approaches to the Black Sea. Even just taking Moldova on its own though significantly shrinks the amount of borderland they have to seriously patrol.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Recent Kyiv explosion from another angle.
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Probably an SRBM, SS-21 or SS-26.
Basically technologically upgraded super-FROG missiles

 

[absolutelynotfbi]

doesn't matter, it worked in terms of propaganda, made it to the UN and tiktok

Jesus fucking christ I hate chinese spyware and the retarded troonery it inflicts on impressionable young minds

 

[Wrestlemania]

Happy 1600