Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Bob jensen]

Cat food is tricky. It can be done but they absolutely need taurine or else they go blind and die.

Chicken livers and legs.. use dark meat chicken and livers/gizzard. There are other sources but that's the obvious.

They also need certain oils.

 

[The best and greatest]

According to Glowie Central, 95% of Russian forces are still intact.

95% of Putin's forces still intact, plan to surround Kyiv: Pentagon update

Russian bombardment of key cities has increased as ground troops have stalled.

abcnews.go.com

Sounds about right if only a few thousand have been killed captured or wounded, if we're generous lets say 10k in total then that very roughly equates to 5 percent of 150k

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Resort to what? Bombing the shit out of cities or surrounding Kyiv instead of storming in? Both of those would be wise moves for any military, even if the American military could accomplish these tasks monumentally more efficiently.

My bad, I thought it said he was using all those remaining forces to just surround Kyiv.

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

"Get the fuck over it poorfag, your suffering is nothing compared to the brave Ukrainians."
The desire to fedpost is just reaching levels I've never experienced before, there's a special place in hell waiting for these people.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

To get rid of the Nazis and the weapons because if they joined NATO that would be a threat.

You know, they thing they said they were doing from the start.

Also, they do not consider this a war.

I know. If they had NATO on their doorstep they'd be in some serious, serious trouble. Can you imagine twenty years of having NATO on their border? They'd have probably already conquered them.

 

[XYZpdq]

They can also use the main highways in western Ukraine as Air Strips. The MIG, just like the F series in America is designed with the operational requirement of having to take off on a road repurposed as an airfield.

If you are ever driving down an Interstate in America and for some inexcplicable reason it widens out, goes straight and you see a gated exit to nowhere with a "stay out" sign on it, those are the designated emergency airfields. The drive off points in the tree line is where the air force can park its fighters and the interstate is the runway.

The Soviets did pretty much the same thing with their main roads. It's a simple and effective idea.

iirc that was basically the whole point of the interstate system in the USA, to provide easy mobilization within the Mainland if needed including landing spots

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

It wasn't on China's request. TSMC halted Russian orders.

I'm pretty sure he's point out that if that translation is correct, Russia just called Taiwan a country. Which is a stance that China disagrees with and frowns upon.

McDonalds will be back. They're actually sponsoring Russia, in that they will continue to pay salaries to laid-off workers (who are free to work for competitors in the meantime).

Losing Paypal actually hurts in the short-term because there are no alternatives for overseas payments. No one ever used Paypal domestically except Putin's #1 enemy Navalny, and Paypal halted domestic payments due to lack of demand a while ago, before the war special operation. Russia has insanely high plastic card adoption with zero/negligible fees and free private transfers and no checking culture at all, so Paypal was only ever a plastic card interface.

There are many more Ws. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Netflix, Starbucks, L'Oreal, Estee Lauder, LVMH, some streaming licensing shit, Apple of course, KFC and Pizza Hut (scope unclear), dick sucking lip implants, H&M, PVH and Inditex (Mango, Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear, Uterqüe, Oysho, Zara, Stradivarius, Bershka, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger), Kering (Balenciaga, Gucci), Levi's, (I'm copypasting this, I think it's all clothes), Puma, Abibas, Procter and Gamble (with caveats), Unilever halts imports and ads (continues domestic production), racketeers E&Y and Fitch, Fazer (child trooning/grooming propaganda sponsor), Airbnb, Booking.com (domestic travel extortionist; I'm very happy about this), Michelin (restaurant reviewer), Microsoft, Adobe, a shitton of easily piratable vidya; rutracker is unblocked.

Oh, Coke and Pepsi caved?

McDonald's, PepsiCo and other companies were called out by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
Before McDonald's made its announcement, DiNapoli emailed a number of companies represented in the New York State Common Retirement Fund, including PepsiCo and McDonald's, urging them to stop doing business with Russia.
"Companies like McDonald's and PepsiCo, which have a large footprint in Russia, need to consider whether doing business in Russia is worth the risk during this extraordinarily volatile time," DiNaPoli said in a statement.

Ah, that probably explains it. Nothing like politicians that could make genuine trouble for you to cause a change in stance. I suspect they'll be back as soon as they can get away with it.

Though the difference in press releases between Coca-Cola and PepsiCo is pretty amusing.

Coke, just few sentences saying they're suspending operations, hearts go out to Ukraine, will be monitoring the situation. Followed by a big ass "About Us" paragraph that's a glorified ad for themselves.

Pepsi, multiple paragraphs about their history in the region, how they'll be suspending their soda products but promise to continue producing the daily essentials they make there such as milk and other dairy offerings, baby formula and baby food; in part for humanitarian reasons and in part to keep supporting the livelihood of the 60,000 Russians their operations and supply chain employ. Followed by saying they suspended their Ukraine operations so their associates could seek safety. They talk of how much money they're donating to help refugees from the conflict, to which charities it'll be split among, and what they're doing to help refugees in the region in general.

Really says a lot about which company gives a damn about the region and has thought through what it'll be doing about it.

Of course looking through the twitter response, then you have assholes like these two who'd apparently prefer Russian babies starve if it means a more complete boycott:

https://archive.ph/O1COr

https://archive.ph/PsPGq

The maintenance, refueling, LOX,, medical, spare parts, food, berthing, it needs more than a stretch of highway with prevailing winds.

You can do most of that with some trucks and tents. Or just the tents if you're in a pinch. The important thing is having a place planes can take off and land, and a place the landed planes can park.

Because they don't want to kill the Ukrainian Government. It's really that simple.

They did, but this has dragged out too long, and been too bloody for them to do so. Now they need the government more or less intact if for no other reason than there being someone who can negotiate a surrender whose orders the army and the population might actually obey. Or more likely at this point, someone who can negotiate a "peace treaty" favorable to Russia that the rest of the country will be more or less willing to go along with.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

It's over, Putinbros, and/or normal people who just don't feel like dying or living through Great Depression 2.0 over which retarded Slav kleptocracy wins an extremely gay slapfight cheered on by sociopathic Western politicians and their corporate sponsors

When you've lost Richard Spencer, you've lost America

 

[Tim Curry]

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"Get the fuck over it poorfag, your suffering is nothing compared to the brave Ukrainians."
The desire to fedpost is just reaching levels I've never experienced before, there's a special place in hell waiting for these people.

I like how they use "rest of us" as if the less well off class is in any way a minority at this point.
Agreed. This shit and Colbert's quote recently make me thirst for upper-middle class and up blood... in minecraft

 

[TurdFondler]

It's me, the traitor. I betrayed the West by not filling my gas tank with the entirety of my day's wages.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

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"Get the fuck over it poorfag, your suffering is nothing compared to the brave Ukrainians."
The desire to fedpost is just reaching levels I've never experienced before, there's a special place in hell waiting for these people.

'It will hurt the poor people yes but the rest of us will be fine'

I want to believe that was accidental.

But it wasn't.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

It's over, Putinbros, and/or normal people who just don't feel like dying or living through Great Depression 2.0 over which retarded Slav kleptocracy wins an extremely gay slapfight cheered on by sociopathic Western politicians and their corporate sponsors
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When you've lost Richard Spencer, you've lost America

Every time little Dicky Spencer comes up I remember that picture of him with Laura Bush. What "Alt-Right" asshole worth his salt would ever be caught with a friendly picture of a member of the Bush clan, if it wasn't to mock Jeb? Unless they're just a grifting, globalist shill, of course.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Chicken livers and legs.. use dark meat chicken and livers/gizzard. There are other sources but that's the obvious.

They also need certain oils.

Gotta watch the Vit A in livers/organ meats-like I said it can be done but you have to absolutely have to follow guidelines and meet their nutritional needs with every single portion of food you feed them or else they get very sick and then they're dead. Cats are wired to hide signs of illness so there's that too. And they require meat. Not rice or greens or vegetable, but just meat. They are obligate carnivores.

Dogs are far easier to cook for and feed since they don't have the same nutritional needs as cats. You can feed them grains with meat.

 

[Superman93]

Friendly reminder that Null already explained 90% of the arguments in this and the last thread.

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That isn't exactly what happened. Yeah Ukraine sign a deal with Russia and the USA (and Germany, and Uk and France) to give their nuclear weapons to Russia however:

1. The made this deal with the Soviet Union not Russia. The people who were governing the USSR were way more logical, diplomatic and less aggressive than Putin.

2. It was never really their weapons in the first place. While the Ukraine was apart of the soviet union a majority of their arsenal especially pertaining to nukes were stored in Ukraine. So when Ukraine gained independence in August of 1991 a few months prior signing the treaty, it was expected for them to turn over something as big as a nukes back to their rightful owners. If they hadn't that would've been a huge no-no for other major powers as well especially the USA because we weren't exactly on friendly terms with Ukraine either at the time. If they hadn't they probably wouldn't be allowed or be somewhat limited into entering the world economy and their newly independent nation would've either crumbled or struggle tremendously. Obviously this was not an option for the government of Ukraine because again living under the USSR was hell.

3. Exactly 24 days after the treaty was sign the USSR collapse. Remember the USSR was on the same level of power and influence as the USA at time so there was absolutely no way anyone could've predicted that.


tl;dr Ukraine didn't have a choice and people who like to meme and shit on it are ahistorical tards who enjoy the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

 

[lakyus]

Interestingly, this article (archive) is suggesting that the one who first threw an idea of sending old plane was EU's Borrell, not Blinken

Oh, and if anyone still believing America refuses Poland's offer was because of the state of the plane, if you actually read the announcement, it was because the US rejected the idea of flying them out of Ramstein, probably because Germany is secretly opposing the idea

It was Ukraine's president, Borrell, US and the Brits who kept mentioning that. I believe Stoltenberg was against it though. The reason why I mentioned Blinken is because his addition to the topic received a very cold reception as far as Polish public goes.

And this result was probably part of the plan, going by Germany's previous behavior. Poland gets to say they made an offer but someone else rejected it - the hot potato is hopefully successfully passed on.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

It's over, Putinbros, and/or normal people who just don't feel like dying or living through Great Depression 2.0 over which retarded Slav kleptocracy wins an extremely gay slapfight cheered on by sociopathic Western politicians and their corporate sponsors
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The fact that every person I hate is siding with Ukraine makes me so happy. If they are calling me a bad person for my stance it has to be right.

 

[Retink]

Bold of you to assume that the kang in question won’t just eat the white girl.

Have you met a kang before? They only chimp out in mass when the media commands them to, otherwise they just stick to killing each other and eating fried chicken. It's some sleeper agent type bullshit.

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

Wait I thought the Russians were getting slaughtered like Dynasty Warriors and Sengoku Basara extras.

Given that Russia had ~175,000–190,000 troops built up for the invasion, plus ~20,000 troops in Donetsk PR, and ~14,000 troops in Luhansk PR, a 5% casualty rate is still somewhere between 8,750-9500 Russian troops dead or wounded; up to 11,200 troops if they're including the break away troops in the totals. That's just manpower. If they mean 5% of tanks, planes, and other vehicles as well, I'm not sure what the numbers would be offhand. Though for example, if Russia set aside 1000 planes to participate in this operation, a 5% loss rate would mean they've lost around 50 planes.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

Sounds about right if only a few thousand have been killed captured or wounded, if we're generous lets say 10k in total then that very roughly equates to 5 percent of 150k

It seems by intact they mean "still alive". How many are alive but out of commission or ran away?

 

[Jump]

Interestingly, this article (archive) is suggesting that the one who first threw an idea of sending old plane was EU's Borrell, not Blinken

Oh, and if anyone still believing America refuses Poland's offer was because of the state of the plane, if you actually read the announcement, it was because the US rejected the idea of flying them out of Ramstein, probably because Germany is secretly opposing the idea

Russia is showing the world how much of a clown show the EU and UN is. They can't even get on the same page what to do with a few old MIGs. All these different factions releasing all these different announcements and then another faction counteracts them.