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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Mykolaiv - Wreckage of shot down Mi-35M.
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Snihurivka - Russian prisoners of war.
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Kyiv - More empty shelves. She says bread and fresh water is the hardest to find at the moment.
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Brand new anti-tank weapons for Ukrainian defence.
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Those are AT-4 ant-tank rockets. Effective, but nothing special or expensive. The ones with the yellow stripes on them aren't real rockets though. They're a training version that shoots a 9mm pistol round which has a very similar trajectory to the real rocket. The real ones have a black stripe.
 
NATO tweeted this to mark International Women's Day by commending the bravery of the Ukranian women. Here is the tweet and the responses.

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Imagine supporting a bunch of unironic Nazis and then complaining they dress like Nazis.
If you plan to take over an airport, you don’t destroy the runways because you want to use them for your own planes. No one here or on Twitter knows the details, so why bother speculating.

This is the reporter you’re citing:
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A random NYT reporter who previously worked at Amnesty International and has degrees in International Relations and Political Science. No military experience or anything else that would indicate he knows what he is talking about. This is not someone who I would trust to speculate on what the Russian military was attempting to do with that airport or to know what bombs they were using and how accurate they were.

I wish people here would stop posting the dumbass hot takes of randos on Twitter. Just because they have a checkmark doesn’t mean they’re smart; if anything it means they’re a moron.

In some ways, I am disappointed that many are relying on Twitter for news in the war, given how much it's a weaponized propaganda machine.
 
Yeah, yeah, it's the Propaganda Independent. But I'm pretty sure this is being done to solve that whole "The foreign legion won't be POWs because they are mercs" issue.
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Yeah. The Russians put out an official statement within the last couple days that any foreign fighters would be considered mercenaries and denied POW status. The Russians talked about them being subject to "criminal justice". How the Russans would apply their own criminal justice in another country is not mentioned. The protections provided by the Geneva Convention in this conflict are themselves rather minimal. With or without the Geneva convention, anyone taken prisoner is in for a horrible experience. And westerners should be in particular aware of the possibility of being used as political bargaining chips if they are captured. POW status or not.
 
In some ways, I am disappointed that many are relying on Twitter for news in the war, given how much it's a weaponized propaganda machine.
OSINT Larpers have overnight gone from nerds who no one cares about to the "true and honest" source for information. its ridiculous that people who have OSINT--- in their name suddenly have become factual sources.
 
If you plan to take over an airport, you don’t destroy the runways because you want to use them for your own planes. No one here or on Twitter knows the details, so why bother speculating.
If you are a journalist covering bomb damage, one of the minimal things you should do is try to understand the target being struck with bombs. What the target is. What their goals likely are and so on. Its really basic stuff and its not that hard.
In this case, the target is the overall headquarters for the entire Ukrainian Air Force. Its not a frontline air base. Its command infrastructure. The runway is not the important target in that area. Its all the other stuff around it.
There is an incredible amount of information available on just about everything as regards this war. But the coverage provided by the mainstream media is totally retarded. You either have a dumb "war" reporter hold up in a hotel who knows nothing and sees nothing. Or you have reporters back in the United States who are incapable of even very simple coverage of stories.
And this is why I gave up paying for the New York Times around 2017. Their reporters know nothing and their stories are garbage.
 
To play devil's advocate, it's to make sure that Russia doesn't use the bio-research to make the next COVID.
Only a very specific kind of research would be useful for the Russians to capture and dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands; gain-of-function research. If they’re worried about Russia taking those labs, that means they just tacitly admitted to conducting GOF research in them.
 
OMG, I love Eddy now!

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So while this thread is circling the wheels until another BIG HAPPENING occurs, I'm going to just go off and state that while Russia is going to break off huge chunks of Ukraine, it's going to be extremely costly for them, even with Chinese help. Because people are going to see what China is doing to aid Russia, and all that anti-Russia hysteria might just start bleeding into anti-China sentiment as well. China is, in all likelihood, going to start taking sanctions up the ass for helping Russia.

To play devil's advocate, it's to make sure that Russia doesn't use the bio-research to make the next COVID.
The Russians in general have very strong bioweapons research.

The sheer quantity of smallpox, anthrax and plague they had accumulated made their nuclear arsenal seem small.
 
The USA can't place sanctions on China for the same reason Germany can't cut off Russian gas. There simply isn't a replacement.
Pressing X on that one.
China in feeding the pockets of most DC politicians. They own every Canadian one. They own half of the EU.
They own massive shares in most of Western media. They own shares of our infrastructure.
I am typing this on a Chinese made Dell laptop, thats connected to a Chinese made router that is connected to a Chinese made HFC node etc etc.
When I wake up in the morning I get coffee from my Chinese made coffee machine and drive my car full of Chinese made electronics and plastics to work. Your reading this post on a Chinese made computer or cellphone.

China and the west are stuck in a M.A.D. relationship now. We need them to make everything. And they need us to keep consoooming.
If we get in to an economic dust up with them they could just start doing things like telling Apple that next iPhone is going to be delayed 6 months. Or those EFI computers you need for your auto industry are 18 months out now. And it wont hurt them because they will make you pay full price when it does come in. What are you going to do? Nothing. Its not like you can pick up your whole supply chain and move it to someplace else. Wall Street and the consooomer wont want to pay for domestic manufacturing.

I think this ends with a big chunk of Ukraine now Russia. And Russia becoming just as co-dependent on China as the USA is now.
Western Europe is going to take it right up the ass with food and energy prices and America will continue on its steady decline.
Vietnam and India are always nice if you want cheap shit and Apple products.

Pieces of supply chains can always be moved with varying levels of rapidity depending on the situation.
 
If you plan to take over an airport, you don’t destroy the runways because you want to use them for your own planes. No one here or on Twitter knows the details, so why bother speculating.

This is the reporter you’re citing:
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A random NYT reporter who previously worked at Amnesty International and has degrees in International Relations and Political Science. No military experience or anything else that would indicate he knows what he is talking about. This is not someone who I would trust to speculate on what the Russian military was attempting to do with that airport or to know what bombs they were using and how accurate they were.

I wish people here would stop posting the dumbass hot takes of randos on Twitter. Just because they have a checkmark doesn’t mean they’re smart; if anything it means they’re a moron.

You also have to keep in mind someone like Robert M. Gates, former Sec Def (Bush 43 and Obama), former Director/Deputy Director of the CIA (Reagan, Bush 41) and Deputy National Security Advisor (Bush 41) said he was absolutely gobsmacked when he learned the USSR had a defensive posture, rather than an offensive one, towards the US and that almost everything the US intelligence agencies believed about the USSR, their military capabilities and hardware was wrong, way off the mark or outdated. I remember when he said this because I had just written my thesis on the USSR. Loads of documents and records had come out after the break up before it was shut down again which proved both sides were working on mostly false, inaccurate or outdated information.

I don't believe the various intelligence agencies have gotten better at reading Russia, especially since we've been so focused on the Middle East and our adventures in sand land. So just because the Director of the CIA goes on TV and says stuff doesn't mean it's accurate or even based on anything concrete. Maps on TV and media are based on guesstimates. No one really knows for sure.

Both JFK and Ronald Reagan went against the advice they were given and came out ahead. The former is the reason we aren't living Fallout/Stalker irl and the latter is the reason communism is history.
 
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