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%
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Harlay de Champvallon said:
A VPN with Google, clearing cookies, remains practical. DuckDuckgo just isn't practical, too many useless results, also I have on a browser or two.
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Not the place for me to sperg but I disagree simply due to how proficient Google is at tracking and how many hoops you have to jump through to mitigate it without any guarantee you are actually mitigating it.
Startpage or Searx are the other main alternatives I'm aware of that may check the right boxes. Searx tends to be recommended by the privacy-focused circles and if you don't like one instance of it there are others.
 
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Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
You are retarded and don't know jack shit about cars.

Higher octane in an engine that isn't meant to use that octane will not give you higher temperatures and "bigger bangs", you fucking mongoloid. More octane means the fuel is less able to combust, which helps when your engine has high compression ratios and the fuel would, if not for that lower combustion ability, self-ignite when compressed and cause preignition or detonation.

Putting high octane fuel into an engine not built for it will give you slightly less power output (usually unnoticeable by the average user) and that's fucking it. Well, and a slightly lighter wallet.


The claim is "the Russian army has so far tried to limit civilian casualties as much as possible" and the proof is pretty self-evident considering we've even seen Russian columns stopping to let Ukrainian civilian cars cross the road before continuing, and haven't seen mass MLRS strikes on Kiev, etc.
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I thought that "(stop me if I get too technical here) " would have made it obvious to anyone smarter than a fucking cabbage that I was paraphrasing and generalising, but I guess I didn't allow for you.

Changing the detonation point in the piston chamber will shake off the residue that builds up in every engine, just by changing the shockwave fronts. No, you you don't want to do it all the time, the engineers who designed your engine will stick needles in your eyes for that, but as an in-field service technique it's perfectly acceptable.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I have not seen any of this shit you're describing and nothing is self evident.
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So you've not really done any research on the topic, you don't actually know anything about what's going on, but you choose to believe that the Russian Army is actively targeting civilians, unless someone else proves otherwise to you?

I think that's indicative of an obvious mental bias if nothing else.

Vesperus said:
I thought that "(stop me if I get too technical here) " would have made it obvious to anyone smarter than a fucking cabbage that I was paraphrasing and generalising, but I guess I didn't allow for you.

Changing the detonation point in the piston chamber will shake off the residue that builds up in every engine, just by changing the shockwave fronts. No, you you don't want to do it all the time, the engineers who designed your engine will stick needles in your eyes for that, but as an in-field service technique it's perfectly acceptable.
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Fuel burning in a combustion chamber doesn't detonate, there should be a smooth flame front moving from the center outwards. If you're seeing detonation and shockwaves, you're seeing knock, which again, octane is there to prevent.

Not that there's much to "shake loose" in any engine made after about 1980 that isn't eating a quart of oil every 800 miles thru weeping valve guides and worn rings. Putting a tank of Super into the car will do less as a service technique than the "italian tuneup" of ripping it up to redline from stoplight to stoplight for a few hours.

TL;DR nothing you said makes sense sorry for poking holes in your post
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
This turnaround is so soon after "BIOLABS are a conspiracy you Q tards!" that it's likely State did not check with the BIden flacks and DoD first, because Ukraine has been a State Department/glowie op from the start. Nuland and her fellow neocons would love nothing more than to have a casus belli to annihilate Russia, even using nukes if they have to, because Russia has been in their way since 2014. I suspect Nuland did this to force the White House's hand.

The warmongering neocons may do a biological false flag attack since nothing else (maternity hospital, orphans, pickle jars, sexy Zeklensky, nuke plant goes boom) gained traction. Poland isn't going to be their proxy. MBS isn't taking their calls. China isn't onboard. The sharp rise in gas prices means everything goes up also means their political death. I guarantee there is overwhelming pressure on the White House to order military action, and if means nukes, so be it. The Russians probably signaled through diplomatic channels they have the receipts. I can smell the desperation from my NYC apartment, and I am sure everyone else does too. Desperate people take desperate actions. I am equally sure their opposites in the WH are furious and threatening in return.

This is a very dangerous time, and it is clear a meat puppet like Biden can't be allowed to hold the office of President ever again, if we survive. Because if Nuland gets her way everyone here is pretty much dead. She goes to her NZ bunker, survivors get to live in a Fallout hellscape.
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I just hope I'm close enough to the air force base in the area to die from the blast and not the rads, but I doubt I'll be that lucky.
 
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Vesperus said:
I thought that "(stop me if I get too technical here) " would have made it obvious to anyone smarter than a fucking cabbage that I was paraphrasing and generalising, but I guess I didn't allow for you.

Changing the detonation point in the piston chamber will shake off the residue that builds up in every engine, just by changing the shockwave fronts. No, you you don't want to do it all the time, the engineers who designed your engine will stick needles in your eyes for that, but as an in-field service technique it's perfectly acceptable.
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Jesus fucking christ you two. What is this, Reddit?
 
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Well the peace talks failed unfortunately, I'm convinced in private the demands are something that will lead to Ukraine being dragged into the Russian Federation at this point. Reminder that Putin has made it quite clear in past statements that he doesn't consider Ukraine to be an actual country.

There's also the possibility that these peace talks really are all for show, since the Ukrainian FM said something along the lines that the Russian FM had no real power and still had to go over it with the Kremlin in regards to getting a humanitarian corridor set up (which will probably be shelled for the dozenth time, by which side I'll leave it up in the air)
 
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Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
So you've not really done any research on the topic, you don't actually know anything about what's going on, but you choose to believe that the Russian Army is actively targeting civilians, unless someone else proves otherwise to you?

I think that's indicative of an obvious mental bias if nothing else.
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Tell me, who's a good unbiased source to accept information from where everyone is trying to win you over? I'm going by historical precedent of what happens when Russia invades another nation. I asked for evidence and conceded the point when it was presented, that's not a bias. Everyone has a motive to lie, photos of previous conflicts in different regions are being presented as current evidence of this Russo-Ukrainian war, there is every reason in the world to want verification of a claim when it's made & all the reason in the world to doubt a narrative when it's presented. I have just as much reason to believe the face value that Russians are pulling their punches as you do that Putin has ass cancer.
 
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