Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 249 10.6%
  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I ain't afraid of no Ghost of Kiev

    Votes: 278 11.8%
  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 796 33.7%
  • ⭐⭐ Stalemate

    Votes: 659 27.9%
  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 378 16.0%

  • Total voters
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What are YOUR honest thoughts about this whole conflict? Like how do you guys feel about it?
My motherland has just Iran'd itself because she has huffed her own farts. I am losing everything I hold dear as I enter the cusp of adulthood, binging on martini and gore clips which depict people that could have been my neighbours. 7/10.
 
Dude. Putin just now being "revealed" to be "terminally ill" with something or other is such obvious propaganda I'm surprised you haven't seen through it already.
I had the opinion it was a possibility at the start of the war, it was strange how half of their vehicles weren't operation ready before they invaded.

You're probably right that it is propaganda, but it could also be true, there is simply no way of telling what's a lie & what's the truth.
 
Dude. Putin just now being "revealed" to be "terminally ill" with something or other is such obvious propaganda I'm surprised you haven't seen through it already.
Imagine reading obvious bullshit from the Daily Merchant about Putin's declining health when this is what the leader of GAE looked like in his most recent appearance.
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Pure cope.
 
That confirms it.

Anyone saying "Russia expected sanctions to be this bad" or "Trust Putin, he has measures that will make the economy just fine." is in pure Cope Mode.

The Russian economy is fucked, the war is lasting longer than Russia thought it would, is much bloodier than they probably thought it would, and an inevitable insurrection movement will take place if Russia occupies or puts up a puppet government in Ukraine, that will consume more resources of Russia's economy. NATO has become reenergized after decades of being a relic of the cold war.

Russia gambled on this to be quick deceive strike that won't bleed into the world, they'd get sanctioned sure, but it would put their economy back years, not decades.

The only winners in this will be other oil producing countries and China for gaining another pay bitch.
Oh please, this is just as destructive to the American Empire as it is to Russia, only the same grab bag of American puppet states are doing sanctions, all of the major players such as the BRICS group and OPEC+ aren't interested in such nonsense. They may do a perfunctory virtue signal in a UN session denouncing the invasion but they're not going to tolerate the US outright weaponizing the financial system in such a manner. Unlike your average Redditor and Twitterati the rest of the world knows the score and that this Ukraine crisis is largely pushed along by NATO. Saudi Arabia and a few others have subtly indicated that they're willing to consider dropping the petro-dollar, something they've threatened before back in 2019. Just look at Egypt, 75% of their food is imported from Ukraine and Russia, they're at a crossroads where they need to consider concessions to Russia, substantial ones, such as maybe closing Suez or run the real risk of a famine revolt and revolution.

Right now the world is walking a tightrope in high wind and the US has a geriatric that can barely walk on flat ground running the show. The world is going through rapid realignment akin to the post WW2 period or 1990s post Soviet period, there is no surefire thing stating that the US will come out on top or even in a top position. The US has A LOT of problems going on at once that were coming to the forefront before this Ukraine crisis and they suddenly do not disappear, they get worse.
 
I thought the Russian branch of Coca-Cola was technically owned by another company, and Coca-Cola proper was just a minority shareholder. So how can they suspend their business?
Yes, Russian coke is from Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company which is ~25% owned by Coca Cola "proper". So unless there is some legal gibberish in the contracts, this means squat unless HBC also say it.

Sidenote: Remember when Greece actually did shit apart from go broke and seethe? Those were the days...
 
That confirms it.

Anyone saying "Russia expected sanctions to be this bad" or "Trust Putin, he has measures that will make the economy just fine." is in pure Cope Mode.

The Russian economy is fucked, the war is lasting longer than Russia thought it would, is much bloodier than they probably thought it would, and an inevitable insurrection movement will take place if Russia occupies or puts up a puppet government in Ukraine, that will consume more resources of Russia's economy. NATO has become reenergized after decades of being a relic of the cold war.

Russia gambled on this to be quick deceive strike that won't bleed into the world, they'd get sanctioned sure, but it would put their economy back years, not decades.

The only winners in this will be other oil producing countries and China for gaining another pay bitch.
Cryptocurrency is the only way at this point, you can't kill a nation's ability to conduct commerce if everyone is using a self-regulated cryptocurrency that governments can't inflate by printing.

I'm honestly curious why many nations haven't instead opted to try to gain 51% control of crypto by mining it themselves given how much there is to gain, holding 51% of a crypto is just about the only way you could hope to regulate it.
 
What are YOUR honest thoughts about this whole conflict? Like how do you guys feel about it?
  1. Ukraine wanting to join nato so that it could pull it's own cuba missile crisis on russia was a bad idea.
  2. Z begging to NATO/eu for no fly zone and ground troops wanting to drag more countries into this conflict directly, funding actual nazi groups lol, not allowing adult civ men to flee and making them stay even if they are a liability to keep around, giving guns to a civilian society that has 0 experience with guns just to make them more of a target for the ruski military has destroyed any trace of sympathy i had for him.
  3. Pootin and his sidekicks willingly destroyed the economy of russia and peace in europe in less than a month.
  4. Innocent civilians from both sides are the most affected in the end and that sucks.
  5. Virtue signaling is the biggest cancer that affects the internet.
  6. This conflict proved that banks can turn off your money and companies will blacklist you if they deemed you problematic.
  7. The entire world economy will take a dive and it will be an ugly one in the following months.
  8. Ukraine won't be complete again after this ends.
  9. China wins again.

Yeah, those are my feels about this, and we are only like, 12 days in.
 
The sheer insanity of the world right now really puts into perspective what a lunatic madman Drurnold Prompf was not, doesn't it
His administration doesn't get much credit at home & abroad IMO. Even if one believed he was an orange cunt, they ought to have had the decency to admit that as far as running things, there weren't any super major disasters.

EDIT: Except maybe COVID lol.
 
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