Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Spicey McHaggis]

A meeting of both Foreign Ministers from Russia and Ukraine will start in under an hour in Turkey

Edit:
Interesting if Erdogan could become the peacemaker in this conflict, that's going to change the balance of power in the region. That said, Turkish economy is still shit right now, so...

The roach knows it will survive a nuclear war, so he has all his bases covered. I do wonder what his angle in this is, he's always been very willing to play all sides.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Apparently, a whistleblower put out these docs recently:

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The same Defense Threat Reduction Agency that funded EcoHealth Alliance's GOF research in China.

They should call it the Defense Threat Increasing Agency, since they appear fully committed to increasing the threat of bioweapons.

Can't claim there aren't biolabs in Ukraine anymore.

 

[Vesperus]

So the synopsis of Today\Yesterday was:
-Some rumor hit the internet a few days ago that there were bio-labs in Ukraine: Covid II, Big-Dumb-Igloo-Biodome Edition Number Two.
-Q tards and 4channers picked up on it pretty quick, as the tards do
-Media denies for a couple days
-White House\DoD denies for a day
-Moron Fat Potato woman goes in front of shill Rubio and admits it on record - "they aren't weapons....it's just research!"
-Cucker Tarlson freaks out, spins both sides, blames both sides, doesn't know what side he is on - so....he....
-...Immediately has Tulsi Fucking-Retard Gabbard on his show to explain nothing, but act smug and sanctimonious - so it's all good.

Did I get that right?

I swear to fucking god. Gaslighting morons. Everywhere.

I can't be bothered to look up her name, so from now onwards she shall be known as "Fat Potato Woman"

 

[The Other Baldwin]

I can't be bothered to look up her name, so from now onwards she shall be known as "Fat Potato Woman"

No disrespect meant to Potato Women.

 

[Fake News Anchor]

What in the living fuck are you talking about?

First we get rid of dead weight (XAXAXA), then we go to pancakes house in Kiev.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

Another poster in the thread mentioned it, but I'd love to know what the hell caused the immense hatred and enimity the elite of Germany have for Russia still up until the current year. It's so bizarre in light of the "special relationship" they have with Israel and also even more pathetic to me considering Schroeder and Merkel signed away their energy to Russia which is really biting them in the ass.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

TBH I don't see the US or most of Europe reversing course on shutting down all their nuclear. Germany just ruled out extending or reviving any of their nuclear and and will continue to switch all of it over to fossil fuels despite Russia either having them by the balls or cutting them off entirely, with the US loosely heading in the same way depending on how blue the state is.

Holy fucking shit, are they retarded? If I were Putin, I'd have the gas shut off right now just to cripple Germany so they couldn't interfere with Ukraine, no wonder he feels so confident in invading, they have all the fuel, and his political opponents are too fucking stupid to switch to nuclear immediately. Have these people never heard of logistics?

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

Babylon Bee's getting in on the Ghost of Kiev meme.

 

[The Foldless Brain]

Another poster in the thread mentioned it, but I'd love to know what the hell caused the immense hatred and enimity the elite of Germany have for Russia still up until the current year. It's so bizarre in light of the "special relationship" they have with Israel and also even more pathetic to me considering Schroeder and Merkel signed away their energy to Russia which is really biting them in the ass.

They're still both figuratively and literally assmad over the end of WW2.

 

[Wash away the rain]

They're still both figuratively and literally assmad over the end of WW2.

The rape of Berlin and then the fracturing of their country was primarily due to soviet greed for sat states unlike the west, russia wanted to punish the germs like the French did after world war 1 so their hatred grew.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

They're still both figuratively and literally assmad over the end of WW2.

That, and the preceding 800 years or so prior.

 

[The Other Baldwin]

They're still both figuratively and literally assmad over the end of WW2.

I think Germans just have a thing for getting it in the ass. Germany as a country has turned into the girl who goes for the most abusive shithead guy she can find. She secretly likes it, but actively screams victim after it happens. Then she strips for awhile, does more hard drugs, commits suicide by 40 - and rinse, repeat. Ad nauseum with the post-modern Germans.

 

[George Lucas]

Call me retarded but I think Russia is killing it. They’ve taken over an incredible amount of territory in a short time with minimal collateral damage. This is truly a splendid little war.

 

[Kane Lives]

Another poster in the thread mentioned it, but I'd love to know what the hell caused the immense hatred and enimity the elite of Germany have for Russia still up until the current year. It's so bizarre in light of the "special relationship" they have with Israel and also even more pathetic to me considering Schroeder and Merkel signed away their energy to Russia which is really biting them in the ass.

Funny thing is that historically, the German nobility and Russian nobility were inexorably intertwined, especially after Peter the Great. At least two Russian monarchs were of German descent, and Catherine the Great was said to be trilingual (Russian, German, French). Russian support was one of the reason why the Prussians were able to regain their continental supremacy after Napoleon embarrassed them thoroughly.

Of course, all that went away with World War I with the nobility of both sides overthrown, and any feeling of solidarity forgotten in the trenches of Tannenberg and Galicia.

 

[Sammich]

fyi Europe and the US get the same gas just graded differently. They use RON while we use AKI so their 95 octane is the exact same thing as our 90 or 89 grade fuel . Higher octane isn't even better, it's actually harder to set off and iirc has a slightly lower energy density than the 87 "pisswater" that low-compression engines normally need. This is because octane isn't a measure of purity or energy but rather a measure of resistance to detonation under engine compression. My understanding is that if you use 87 AKI in a forced-induction or high compression engine designed for say 93 AKI it's probably gonna detonate prematurely during the piston's compression stroke and create a knock, but if you put premium in a car designed for 87 you're at best just wasting money. You'll likely even lose fuel efficiency and have rough or loping idle as your engine struggles to adjust spark timing and fuel trim to ignite the more stubborn high-octane fuel, at least from what I've seen from a couple of morons who had problems after assuming it was better because number bigger and used it in their economy car

The higher price of high octane just comes from the fact that their additive packages suffer from lower economy of scale than 87, and that traditionally high-compression engines were found in sport or luxury cars whose affluent owners would gladly pay more if they thought the gas was inherently better. calling higher-octane fuels "premium" is marketing bullshit to begin with, well thanks to coming to my tedX talk about gasoline

My grandpa told me to always put the lowest octane i could buy in my car, told me lower was actually better. Asked him why once, he told me i was too fucking dumb to explain it to, just fucking listen.

 

[ditto]

I think my main takeaway from this shitfest is that no one should be in any office over the age of 65.

And no one should be allowed work in the West Wing if they've seen The West Wing.

 

[Wash away the rain]

My grandpa told me to always put the lowest octane i could buy in my car, told me lower was actually better. Asked him why once, he told me i was too fucking dumb to explain it to, just fucking listen.

An octane rating, or octane number, is a standard measure of a fuel's ability to withstand compression in an internal combustion enginewithout detonating. The higher the octane number, the more compression the fuel can withstand before detonating. Octane rating does not relate directly to the power output or the energy content of the fuel per unit mass or volume, but simply indicates gasoline's capability against compression. In broad terms, fuels with a higher octane rating are used in higher-compression gasoline engines, which may yield higher power. Such higher power comes from the fuel's higher compression by the engine design, and not directly from the gasoline.[1]

According to Wikipedia so take with grain of potassium salts


So what’s the realistic estimate of the length of this combat period , I can’t tell with how fucked Russian supply lines are then again Ukraine troops are also encircled in many places it’s like watching two starving hobos fight over a sandwich.

 

[SouthernBitchBob]

My grandpa told me to always put the lowest octane i could buy in my car, told me lower was actually better. Asked him why once, he told me i was too fucking dumb to explain it to, just fucking listen.

Yep. Your car doesn't benefit from higher octane fuel unless you were told it does when it was sold to you. Only performance engines are prissy enough to need the higher explosive resistance to run properly. Don't think of octane as energy, think of it as your car's pickiness rating.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Can't claim there aren't biolabs in Ukraine anymore.

Liberals keep complaining about right wing subversion or whatever, then use negative connotations.

Lets assume those labs aren't used for warfare, I doubt them personally, and are some sort of a result of a gay hippie research grant to help research into curing cancer or whatever.

Using words like "secret", "bio labs", "fearful" and "Russians" in a sentence raises giant red bloody flags even for centrists or independents. And then Rubio makes it worse for the Democrats by not following up on, what were those labs doing that had to be kept secret from the American taxpayer.

Liberals fucked themselves over this one assuming they telling the truth and I doubt them.

 

[Rezza]

TBH I don't see the US or most of Europe reversing course on shutting down all their nuclear. Germany just ruled out extending or reviving any of their nuclear and and will continue to switch all of it over to fossil fuels despite Russia either having them by the balls or cutting them off entirely, with the US loosely heading in the same way depending on how blue the state is.

Solar and wind can't function as primary, throttleable power sources, and hydroelectric is already running where it's possible, so much of the west, (with exceptions like France) will be reliant on fossil fuels for electricity for the foreseeable future.

Just use coal and let my country profit even more from this war, for fuck sake