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

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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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Rein in Ukraine's neo-fascists​

By David Speedie

Updated 1235 GMT (2035 HKT) March 6, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin says neo-fascist far-right groups are firmly behind the putsch -- coup d'etat -- in Kiev and questions the democratic credentials of "men with black masks and Kalashnikovs" who became the poster children of the Maidan for Russians.

Does this assessment have any truth to it? In the fast-moving and chronically complex course of events in Ukraine, the issue has been debated from the beginning: the role of the far right in the events that led to the toppling of the Viktor Yanukovych government and in the present and future disposition of political power in the country.

There are some known facts: First, far-right, anti-Semitic, anti-Russian and openly fascist groups have existed and do exist as a blight on modern Ukraine. A 2012 European Parliament resolution condemned the main -- but by no means most extreme -- ultra-right party, Svoboda, as "racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic."

The Russian position is also somewhat bolstered by the fact that Svoboda holds key posts in the interim government in Kiev, including that of deputy prime minister. Andriy Parubiy, the commander of the "Maidan self-defense," has been appointed the head of the National Security and Defense Council, and the leader of the Right Sector ultras, Dmitro Yarosh, is expected to become his deputy chairman. Svoboda controls the prosecutor general office and the ministries of ecology and agriculture.

 
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Map for Day 9 of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (03/04/2022)
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So has the attack on a nuclear powerplant story been recanted or are all the media conglomerates still reporting on it?
 
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This one is pretty crazy: Sky News journalists were fired on in Ukraine. Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay was wounded, cameraman Richie Mockler was hit twice but his body armor saved him. After watching the footage it's pretty miraculous no one was killed. The car is fucking shot to shit in the video.

I highly recommend watching the footage here: https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news...-violent-ambush-in-ukraine-this-week-12557585
 
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Coccxys said:
>Flagship
>Frigate

OK then.
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Actually, they usually are these days, even in major navies. In the technical sense of the word, "flagship" means a ship carrying a flag officer, a general or admiral (signified by their vehicles carrying a flag bearing their rank insignia). Using a smaller, faster ship for a flagship has various advantages, most notably speed and being less obvious of a target: if your admiral gets taken out alongside the carrier, then you've also decapitated command for the rest of the battle group as well.

All that said, yeah, it probably was the biggest ship they had anyway.
 
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Delicious Diversity said:
This one is pretty crazy: Sky News journalists were fired on in Ukraine. Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay was wounded, cameraman Richie Mockler was hit twice but his body armor saved him. After watching the footage it's pretty miraculous no one was killed. The car is fucking shot to shit in the video.

I highly recommend watching the footage here: https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news...-violent-ambush-in-ukraine-this-week-12557585
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I see Russia is going for the Lose the Propaganda War Ending Any% RTA like Germany did in WW1
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Russia's ban on Fertilizer...

That's not going to affect that crap that 18 wheelers now use as a fuel additive is it? I heard that shit mostly comes from... Russia? Am I remembering wrong? I know a shitload of 18 wheelers are stuck in the US cause sensors for that crap are backordered to the tune of months.
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Urea. Basically two ammonia molecules linked together. It isn't a fuel additive either. It's a pollution control. Injecting it into exhaust reduces NOX emissions. It isn't vital to operation. You could just fill the DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) tank with distilled water and it would run fine. It's not like anybody checks it for purity.

That said. The US doesn't import much from Russia. Most of the imports comes from the Middle East. Plus most of what we use is domestically produced anyways. The US is a major gas producer and gas is what is used to make ammonia.
The Big O said:
I want to share your optimism that this will actually be a boon to the USA in the long-run, but the Biden administration are almost guaranteed to bungle up any sort of economic prosperity that would come out of this. He's already restricted our oil output that we're no longer exporting. And despite how fertile our midwest plains are, well... you've seen how easily communistic countries persecute their farming class to the point that it leads to a collapse of their food production and resulting famines.

If you have an inkling that this will turn around for us, I'm all eyes and ears. Though honestly, I think the prosperity is only a given if 2022 swings the way of Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and a Republican president in 2024, specifically Trump. If we could weather pure hell for the next two years and both of those scenarios are achieved, then our economy may indeed surge once more.
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I can already hear the frackers revving up their engines. Unless he plans on shutting that down I don't see how it can be fucked up. The Keystone XL Pipeline thing was just typical DNC political theater to keep their eco-faggots distracted. None of that shit actually stopped operations. We are drilling like crazy and it is going to ramp up.

You have to understand that all of the "sustainable" green energy bullshit is just oil and gas by proxy. A way to sneak in gas plants to the energy infrastructure. A way to shutter baseload legacy coal and nuclear plants. It is greenwashing for an industry advantage. None of the energy policy people actually think it is going away. It is just how Exxon-Mobil sells their products to retard bug people. By talking them into buying a windmill that only works maybe 30% of the time.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
Found the redditor. You have to go back.

I'm not a farmer or wildcatter, most Americans aren't so we're fucked as high oil prices mean high prices, period.

We have a literal senile old crook as president, a confirmed cocksucker as VP, an ancient and perpetually drunk mafia princess as Speaker. There is a troon in a high position in HHS, generals that have never seen combat in the process of destroying the US military, the one thing we need to maintain hegemony and a SCOTUS jurist picked solely on the color of her skin which lays bare the hypocrisy of our government for all to see. Yes, this is a very different USA from 1985.

Swearing allegiance to another country may cause you to lose US citizenship (unless its Israel).
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We didn't even have this after 9/11.
A few unfortunate Sikhs got punched but there were no mass attacks on Islamics.

My quick visit ro CNN had our famous recently elected Virginia negro conservative, no idea what her name is, saying we nearly averted a nuclear disaster last night and that Putin must me stopped.
 
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Generic Retard said:
Are they wearing uniforms though? I know that you don't have to be in the regular army. France has the concept of a foreign legion too.
So far I didn't read anything about uniforms etc.
Only some LARP about signing a contract, so that sounds like mercenary work (do they even get paid?) up to that point.
Nothing about uniforms so far.
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Signing a contract isn't inherently indicative of mercenary work. Enlistment is still employment, so signing a contract detailing your duties and obligations when you go in is standard practice in any military with a (semi-)functional bureaucracy.
 
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Can anyone reach https://www.rt.com/ at the moment?
The Website is unreachable from Germany, but DNS still resolves.
Trying with different Tor exit nodes doesn't help.

Is this the Ukrainian programming socks brigade at work?

A_Callow_Youth said:
Signing a contract isn't inherently indicative of mercenary work. Enlistment is still employment, so signing a contract detailing your duties and obligations when you go in is standard practice in any military with a (semi-)functional bureaucracy.
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I meant it exactly not how you put it. We only heard of a contract (may be LARP, may not be), but not how those volunteers are (to be) deployed or if they are given uniforms etc.
So mercenary treatment is still on the table IMHO.
 
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