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

[LUNEKO]

This got me to briefly think about India. You know how the U.S. threatened to sanction India for not supporting Ukraine hard enough?

In 2017, a native Indian card company named RuPay had roughly 15% of the Indian market under its belt. The Indian government started shilling the fuck out of RuPay telling all the Indians to replace their Visa/Mastercard cards with RuPay cards because they realized letting American companies control your money is a bad idea.

By 2020, their market share was at 60%. RuPay grew so quickly that Visa filed an official complaint to the U.S. government whining that the Indian government was hurting Visa's business. Mastercard in 2018 told the Office of the United States Trade Representative that the Indian government was equating having a RuPay card to being patriotic.

So now we have 1 billion Chinese off the U.S. financial system's teat because Xi realizes that shit is fucked, 1 billion Indians moving away out of the U.S. financial system and onto their own system, and roughly 150 million Russians being given no choice but to hop onto the Chinese system. Seems like the ship is sinking fast, isn't it?

>Tfw the Poos refuse to be bullied by the Visa/Mastercard duopoly and built their own

Gotta grant it to them, they might not know what a toilet is but they managed to make their own payment processor free from globohomo and that's fucking hilarious

 

[AnOminous]

need to put this somewhere

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Ted's claimed he lied about that in the past in that High Times interview, that he was just fucking with the journalist. While I would normally tend to doubt his self-serving claims, the story is remarkably similar to a number of others that went around at the time. I remember one involving peanut butter because nobody is going to taste it to see if it's real shit anyway.

My opinion is Ted didn't actually do that. I think he just thought it was a funnier story to tell than whatever way he actually did dodge the draft.

 

[Matt Damon]

Probably late on this, but pay attention to what is getting bombed in Ukraine. Those targets are not random, especially the American owned ones.

Do they make a cock and balls shape when you graph them all on the map?

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Null has more justification to want to gruesomely kill bankers than 99% of the population, to be fair.

Yeah, fair point. I can see why.

 

[дядя Боря]

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to be fair, a lot is lost in translation here

Burgers have no cultural reference to Nazis, meanwhile western rusia and Ukraine was occupied and practically every family has plenty of stories to share. In addition, during USSR, Nazis got the all the rep, for all the shit they did + all the shit they didn't do, like Katyn (execution of 20'000 Polish POWs) was squarely placed on them and in fact Soviet Union dug all those bodies and paraded them to any member of Western press they could get hold on.

so, yes, to burgers Nazi is just a baddie, but it carries a far stronger connotation to people from former USSR or living on those territories.

 

[Happy Fish]

>Tfw the Poos refuse to be bullied by the Visa/Mastercard duopoly and built their own
View attachment 3048240Gotta grant it to them, they might not know what a toilet is but they managed to make their own payment processor free from globohomo and that's fucking hilarious

Not to mention they know how to run it since banks outsource all their fucking helpdesk/programming work to India.

 

[MeltyTW]

It's the damnedest thing in this thread that some people are just incapable of imagining themselves in the Russians' shoes. When you explain the situation via analogy, all they want to do is tell you all the ways the analogy is different than the situation being analogized rather than actually attempting to understand the situation.

Is this lack of any capacity for empathy or theory of mind just a symptom of severe autism?

i dont have empathy for putin he had pretty much every option at his disposal to avoid this, he did not. this has all been insanely counter productive for russia and its interests. the only things i emphasize with him on i think are actually much lower on his priority list in this whole thing vs whered it be on mine if i were him.

so, yes, to burgers Nazi is just a baddie, but it carries a far stronger connotation to people from former USSR or living on those territories.

that actually makes it much more retarded. fuck do i hate slavs.

 

[JosephStalin]

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Is this what some people are saying as "Russian using civilian vehicles for supply lines camouflage"? Seems counter-productive with those big ass Z on theie bodies
(Also the archive was slow, holyshit)

The Russians simply don't have enough trucks, buses, and other motor vehicles. Says a great deal here about Russian military logistics planning/procurement/budgeting. They apparently bet everything on a quick strike against little to no resistance. Now it's a grind and the Russians know they haven't enough. Remember, the Russians must maintain forces in other places besides the Ukrainian front. Can't strip them too much. Now they must take civilian trucks/buses, with the associated effects on the economy. You can bet militaries and intelligence organizations all over are paying the very closest attention to all of this. The Russian giant has, indeed, feet of clay...

 

[Rezza]

Do they make a cock and balls shape when you graph them all on the map?

I'm hoping for a swastika, since you know, "denazitification"

 

[The golden neckbeard]

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Is this what some people are saying as "Russian using civilian vehicles for supply lines camouflage"? Seems counter-productive with those big ass Z on theie bodies
(Also the archive was slow, holyshit)

Wtf is that humvee?

 

[AnOminous]

Probably late on this, but pay attention to what is getting bombed in Ukraine. Those targets are not random, especially the American owned ones.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy if we kept track of that shit and if Russian properties in Western-owned areas suddenly suffered a series of accidents, utility failures, and other damaging events, to a tit-for-tat reprisal strategy.

 

[Matt Damon]

he had pretty much every option at his disposal to avoid this

The US and NATO have done everything in their power over the last 30 years to corner Russia economically and militarily and take away their options.

 

[Very_sad_man]

Source: Twitter (archive)

 

[polyester]

I am going to make a few predictions:

1. Russia will invade Moldova after Odessa falls.
2. Russia will invade the Baltic states and Poland before the end of 2023 (maybe this year)
3. NATO will no longer exist in any meaningful way.
3, There will be a global famine by Q4 this year.

Nah.

You're right about Moldova in the sense that if the Ukraine invasion had gone super smoothly and without Western intervention, then Putin's army would have probably also made a small detour to Moldova to "liberate" the ethnic-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria there.

But Poland and the Baltics have no such breakaway regions (or significant Russia-friendly sub-populations, for that matter).
Trying to occupy and govern them would be an absolute pain in the ass for Russia, with little to gain.
No way Putin would want that.

We don't even know yet whether he wants to govern the Russia-friendly eastern parts of Ukraine, or just prop them up as independent buffer states.

 

[The golden neckbeard]

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Well there is always discover and diners club

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

How badly would breaking the US financial processing monopoly (VISA, SWIFT, etc) hurt the USD in terms of being a global reserve currency?

 

[AnOminous]

The US and NATO have done everything in their power over the last 30 years to corner Russia economically and militarily and take away their options.

As we should have. As Reagan did.

I honestly completely fail to grasp the insane lionization of Russia, one of the most shit countries ever to exist.

 

[Bananadana]

Wtf is that humvee?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigr_(Russian_military_vehicle)

 

[eternal dog mongler]

The Russians simply don't have enough trucks, buses, and other motor vehicles. Says a great deal here about Russian military logistics planning/procurement/budgeting. They apparently bet everything on a quick strike against little to no resistance. Now it's a grind and the Russians know they haven't enough. Remember, the Russians must maintain forces in other places besides the Ukrainian front. Can't strip them too much. Now they must take civilian trucks/buses, with the associated effects on the economy. You can bet militaries and intelligence organizations all over are paying the very closest attention to all of this. The Russian giant has, indeed, feet of clay...

When your entire logistics doctrine depends on easy access to rail and your tanks run out of gas because they're too far away from a railhead.

Oh well. Hell at least Ukraine uses Russian gauge track. Except for the fact that they can just blow it up.

 

[Tim Curry]

longtime lurker. first time NEWFAG

my autistic braincells are screaming at me to ask why this couldn't be an elaborate cover for peak oil to not alarm the public.

"ohhh no the Ukraine crisis is why we have to charge more for oil"

instead of, "oh yeah we're totally starting to run out of oil." Hence why Putin could be taking such drastic actions now?
He clearly seems to be acting like he's in some kind of "endgame" here.