Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Corpun]

any idea where he earned that 1.6 billion dollars and string of big houses in california?
playing dick-piano on ukrainski tv must pay well

Someone earlier posted it but the jist of it is he is the frontman for Ukraine's oligarchs and the US. He was named in the Panama papers and is likely stealing millions, if not billions, of his nation's money every year.

 

[Butcher Pete]

The Eternal Neckbeard—

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE]

You can just shoot yourself now

It's not nice to publically advocate suicide bro. Kill yourself.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I voted Blyatskrieg not because I actually believe it but it would be funny

I have heard cyka blyat more times in the past few weeks than I have in my entire lifetime, and I grew up around Russians. So Blyatskriege it is.

 

[Breadbassket]

Speech from President Zelensky of Ukraine, Mariupol is talked about extensively. (03/09/2022)

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

they're going to Marshal Plan Ukraine. What better way to get the population on your side after a war that destroyed most of your infrastructure where you gave them a shit ton of weapons tha

The Marshall Plan was funded by a fiscally stable United States with the benefit of a strong dollar and relatively low (compared to today) debt. It also opened up profitable European markets to US capital and exports, bringing US products to lot of valuable extra customers.

Current Year US can't even rebuild the US, and nothing we can get out of Ukraine is going to return our investment.

 

[JambledUpWords]

I am so sick of these oxygen thieves LARPing as if everything is another WW2.

Ukraine may not even see much of that aid to begin with. Quite a bit of it might just be pocketed by admins or special interest groups. Infrastructure spending in the US is similar, where a lot of that money doesn’t even go towards roads or building up rundown cities. I really hate these massive spending bills with a passion. I’d rather they spend money on the US than on Europe.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

New ISW map, which has been pretty spot on. Not much progress from the last couple days.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-9

 

[The Ugly One]

maybe they have some special secret recipe burger sauce that gets shipped in from america? but the core ingredients (beef bread vegetables potatoes etc) are all locally sourced i think. if the russian state decided to expropriate mcdonalds russian operation and spin it off into an independent russian company, it would probably work. whether it would remain profitable under that new management is a different question, but in principle it's feasible. it's not like electronics manufacturing where you literally can't operate if tsmc refuses to let you buy their chips.

Other countries can make chips, including Russia and China. They're just 5-10 years behind TSMC in technology (as opposed to Intel, who's like 2-4 years behind).

 

[naffatune]

Close-up of a Russian convoy in Melitopol. Should've posted this earlier but whatever (link)

Nikolsky mall in Kharkov got shelled yesterday; troops check out the rubble. I assume they are Ukies since this was first posted on a Ukrainian, Kharkov (or KharkIV)-specific telegram (link).

Lastly, here's another video from the Belarusian volunteer group fighting for Ukraine. Don't know where this was filmed, but the description says that they set up a battalion to defend Kiev (link).

 

[Strix454]

Um. Some really interesting stuff from 2005 about the US in Ukraine and the reason the US DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY was/is in Ukraine.

U.S. cooperation with Ukraine under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program was expanded Aug. 29 with an agreement to use U.S. CTR funds to improve security for pathogens stored at biological research and health facilities in the former Soviet republic.

Under the agreement, CTR funds will for the first time flow directly to projects aimed at securing pathogen strains and sensitive biological knowledge within Ukraine. The United States also will work to improve Ukrainian capabilities to detect, diagnose, and treat outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as determine whether outbreaks are natural or the result of bioterrorism.
....
Among the facilities in Ukraine intended to receive security upgrades are those once linked to the Soviet-era anti-plague network, which continue to store libraries of naturally occuring pathogens for the purposes of research and public health. Andy Fisher, spokesperson for Lugar, told Arms Control Today on Sept. 15 the anti-plague facilities “were threats and they are threats,”

2005 Article on DTRA activity in Ukraine

But this has to be fake news. The US army in Ukraine was just treating puppies and kittens in that lab.

 

[JosephStalin]

Why are they pouring water on it? What are they extracting, some kind of fuse?

I mean, my retarded ass will look out the window in a tornado.

Yes, fuse was being extracted. Water likely used as lubricant.

 

[DumbDude42]

Other countries can make chips, including Russia and China. They're just 5-10 years behind TSMC in technology (as opposed to Intel, who's like 2-4 years behind).

maybe they can make chips, but they can't use their homebrew chips to seemlessly keep manufacturing all the shit they were previously using state of the art tsmc chips for. you'd have to redesign a lot of the electronics to make your thing work with those homebrew chips, and end up with a less performant product.

meanwhile for the mcdonalds burger you can replace the imported Heinz Ketchup with local russian off-brand ketchup, and the burger will function just fine.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

More fresh boomer takes from the dinner table.

- The entire world is now against us! (spoken as if it was a good thing)
- Uh, yeah. Has it ever occured to you that MAYBE it is because we are in the wrong?
- No, it's because the entire world dances to America's tune and AMERICA HATES US AND WANTED TO BOMB US IN 1946. You are stupid.

I love my family but sometimes it is getting a bit too much.

Ask them what they would do if, for whatever reason, they saw an EVIL American on the street in Russia asking around for directions. Would they start screaming at them? Would they try to punch them in the face?

Its specially worse now that the US on top of this current fucking mess is still (to this day since Obama) supporting the Yemen genocide by the Saudis while refusing to sanction China for Uyghur genocide, after leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of "nation building".
There's absolutely 0 moral ground for the US to be intervening anywhere, much less for "Ukrainian genocide"

"Yemen genocide"? I'm pretty sure that's just the buildup of casualties (some avoidable, some decidedly not) during the court of the Yemeni civil war/Saudi intervention against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen/whatever the fuck is going on in that shithole.

Yemen is unironically better off under the control of Ethiopia anyway.

I'm gonna start wearing the mask again.

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Thanks, Obama.

Also, Russia is going to nationalize the Russia-located assets of all the business that are leaving Russia. So there's that too.

 

[TurdFondler]

Yes, fuse was being extracted. Water likely used as lubricant.

I found this on plebbit:

If I remember right, the Russians used to coat the threads of their fuses with picric acid, which dries and essentially makes it impossible to remove without setting it off. This may be a way to reduce the chance of that happening.

 

[Jump]

The biggest issue I can foresee with McDonald's is replacement parts. Almost all of the north American McDonalds equipment is made for McDonald's specifically. It's all digital and overengineered.

Where do you think all that stuff is made? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with CHYNA.

Most of the automation is only to cut back on labor costs and training anyways. Like you said you could cook a burger on a flat grill just fine. You just have to pay someone to sit there and flip them now.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

New ISW map, which has been pretty spot on. Not much progress from the last couple days.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-9

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Damn, assuming this isn't bullshit, they've managed to encircle Kyiv.

How many months before they take it?

 

[Vaclav]

Girl?
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Richard Spencer looked disgusting - doughy manteats protruding - in Grindr profile photo. Very very disrespectful.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

The Eternal Neckbeard—

Honestly to be fair, I kind of just want them both to shut the fuck up too.

 

[TurdFondler]

Where do you think all that stuff is made? I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with CHYNA.

Most of the automation is only to cut back on labor costs and training anyways. Like you said you could cook a burger on a flat grill just fine. You just have to pay someone to sit there and flip them now.

It's made in China but they'd have to secure a deal for getting them since daddy Maccas left. You can't just go and buy a piece of McDonald's equipment. It would mean slightly more leg work and a few months to iron out the supply chain.