Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

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Oh, and I'll gladly take this moment to emphasize how important video quality is.

This is a still image of one video posted by two different sources, 51 seconds in. The left is from a Russian telegram, the other is from a pro-Ukrainian Twitter.

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I'd also like to add that low quality videos are easier to edit; you can make changes that quickly blend in with the environments in those videos since less detail is required.

This is why I didn't trust the Mariupol video when I first saw it from Tpyxa. I did see white markings on the trucks, but they were so blurry that I didn't know if they were Z's, and there was a big chance it could've been an edit.

 

[Butter Keks]

Hey guys in this thread let's not do the thing where we notice that page numbers are similar to the dates of historical events. We already did it in the last thread anyway... and every thread before. I'm sure our loving tyrant @L50LasPak will agree. Since he's threadbanning people for everything else, he might as well threadban people for something that is actually a waste of time.

 

[Meat Target]

Can someone enlighten me on why people feel the need to experiment with viruses like WuFlu and Marburg?

Gain-of-function research is ostensibly to learn how a virus is transmitted in order to learn how to prevent transmission.

But we all know that these bastards lie as easily as they breathe.

 

[Corpun]

Ironically, modern liberals are unable to comprehend any kind of "nationalism" other than territorial irredentism based solely on a central government with jurisdiction over UN-approved map boundaries, where the "people" consist of whomever happens to be living on that ground right at this moment, and the only enduring thing of interest is the state itself. Nationalism based on, well, actually being part of a "nation" is "fascism" and "racism" by their standard.

I think it was Jimmy Dore who mentioned before the war the Donbass rebels were referred to as Russians and there was always talk about ethnic Russians within Ukraine. Suddenly after the war breaks out, there is no mention of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, only Ukrainians and insurgents aiding the invaders.

Now you can argue semantics and say media is referring to nationality and I'd agree, but it seems to be a very deliberate attempt to mislead people into thinking Ukraine is some ethnically homogenous state and not one where a significant portion of the population speak and/or identify as Russian across the east and south of the country.

 

[Strix454]

As far as I'm concerned, a more damning comparison is not what the Chinese are doing to the Uyghurs, but what Putin has already done to the Ukraine and Georgia. I means seriously, Putin outright annexed the Crimea, granted it was practically bloodless, and the most the West did was give Russia a hand slap.

There were reasons for that. The annexation of the Crimea and the other Russia moves in 2014-2015 had the net effect of removing enough voters on one side of the Ukrainian political divide to ensure that US-friendly governments would be elected in Ukraine from that point forward. Nobody was happy with it on a philosophical level, but there were substantial policy benefits to the Russians having done it.

 

[Simpadoo]

You know what? I had just assumed they were modernized based off the first article and Poland's NATO status, but your comment made me take a look, and here's what I found:

I was wrong: Poland may have just pulled of the grift of the century

These Mig-29s are so old and shitty that they had to put out a grounding order because of all the accidents.

They didn't lift that order until 2019, when only a portion of the planes were found still airworthy, lol.

Poland might have just sent a haul of deathtraps to Ukraine, lol.


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Is Torba polish? Maybe it's in the blood.

 

[The Ugly One]

i like my anology better because HH actually had strength and a hot chick is more about getting her way through charisma and winning a genetic lottery, a lot like the US won the nat resources lottery. plus we have plenty of old strong men, I wouldn't get in a ring with Mike Tyson now, nor would i challenge Tom Cruise to a fight. a lot harder to find women who were considered hot in their 20s and 50s, plus its a lot more of a common thing. like that trope of the prom queen becoming a hag at the reunion. The literal getting rejected by muzzies is also more of a slap in the face to a woman than a man. We all know how horny middle eastern men are, imagine going from them filling your inbox to not even talking to you on the phone.

The USA used to have a lot of strength, too. While we're torturing analogies, the USA reminds me far more of a past-his-prime athlete who can't let go. Think Michael Jordan on the Wizards, Tyson trying to become relevant again after his prison stint, Terrell Owens talking about "comeback" at age 41, etc.

The Hulkster at least isn't jumping in the ring anymore. He seems to know he's old and just enjoys the hell out of being a personality and dishing out a "Rock on, brother! -HH" to anybody and everybody who tweets him a picture of themselves next to a Hulk Hogan cardboard cutout or a WWE-themed birthday party or something.

 

[Vesperus]

You think?
I have even worse one and you'll suffer with me

Congratulations. You are the next President of the Ukraine.

 

[IKOL]

Congratulations. You are the next President of the Ukraine.

Боже упаси, ебал я в рот управление страной-понадусёром, фу. Нахуй управление вообще любой страной.

Don't tempt me to drop the L.A.-bomb on you, you hear?

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

this war brings out the best milk from facebook libs



the IAEA says it's fine:

 

[Strix454]

The root of Ukrainian Identity from my understanding is some thousand year old states in Ruthenia and the Kievan Rus, who were Russian. Ukrainian identity is a joke identity that popped up in the late 19th century. The only real marker of Ukraine being independent before 1918 was Cossack states and they weren't exactly ethnically or culturally homogenous.

Ukrainians like to claim that they are the "sole inheritors" of "Kievan Rus", but practically speaking Russia, Belerus and Ukraine can all claim to be its descendants. "Kievan Rus" was founded in Novgorod, not Kiev. And it was founded by what amounted to a bunch of Scandinavian raiders and river pirates. The capital was moved to Kiev and stayed there for a long while, but claiming that it was Ukrainian because the capital of a middle ages state was there around 1000AD is kind of wishful thinking.
The modern Ukrainians can claim a linguistic and cultural identity. But their attempts to claim "Ukraine" as an eternal state back to the beginning of time is wishful thinking.

 

[mudwogg]

Besides the lack of oversight, putting the labs in those places gives ready access to easily bribed local authorities, plenty of human subjects nobody will miss, and a measure of stealth and deniability if shit goes sideways.

A biolab burning down in Anytown USA with all staff dead or vanished would be a big story, if it happens in Foreignland nobody cares even a tenth as much.

All made possible due to corrupt + puppet government. Ukraine's also a haven for illegal businesses, including but not limited to sex and organ trafficking, drugs, and other contraband.

If Jabba the Hutt was a Human on Earth, he'd be headquartered there.

 

[Reddit Gold]

Ukrainian N-word Civil War when? #TeamUkrenegro or #TeamEnergoatom?

 

[BradCarter]

this war brings out the best milk from facebook libs

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the IAEA says it's fine:

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God why do people think a single nuclear plant has the capabilities to destroy the world? Also if the plant wasn't designed to survive without power for a while that would be an insane fuck up. Fucking solar flares can knock out power. Ill bet money that every plant in existence can shut down relatively safely if cut off from outside power.

 

[mr.moon1488]

this war brings out the best milk from facebook libs

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the IAEA says it's fine:

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lol it's literally a downed powerline. Some drunk Slav probably smacked into a power pole with a BMP.

 

[mudwogg]

Ukie online virtue signalin' bitchin' and simpin' be like, "Am I doing enough"?

 

[Butter Keks]

Ukrainian N-word Civil War when? #TeamUkrenegro or #TeamEnergoatom?
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The power plant is no longer connected to the grid.

Therefore chance of a radioactive leak? What the fuck kind of drugs are these people on.

 

[Meat Target]

God why do people think a single nuclear plant has the capabilities to destroy the world? Also if the plant wasn't designed to survive without power for a while that would be an insane fuck up. Fucking solar flares can knock out power. Ill bet money that every plant in existence can shut down relatively safely if cut off from outside power.

Anyone who is anti-nuclear power has watched too much Simpsons. They think it's a tub that you dump glowing goo into that sometimes explodes for no reason, rather than a highly involved and regulated way of boiling water.

 

[IKOL]

Can someone enlighten me on why people feel the need to experiment with viruses like WuFlu and Marburg?

Short version: to fuck around and find out.

Actual reason: weaponizing newly formed\found\researched viruses is quite a common thing these days, Covid was a by-product of mixing up existing coronaviruses with a little grain of Ebola salt, afaik, thus we have witnessed the aftermath. It was quite dangerous at start and all the danger vaporized due time and the fact that each new strain got less and less of what is, essentially, a foreign element to your usual flu.

 

[3-2-1836]

Ukrainian N-word Civil War when? #TeamUkrenegro or #TeamEnergoatom?
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Probably a prudent measure since the Ukrainians are probably so suicidal at this point they might just bomb it out of spite to fuck Belarus and get back at Europe for betraying them.