Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Fcret]

I suppose that makes as much sense as anything.

I just can't believe it was all a grift for these former offensive contrarians - they didn't actually hold any strong belief about freedom of expression and have happily become the vanguard of the morality police they once railed against.

I don't want to derail the thread too much but a big part of Seanbaby's entire schtick was that stupid people shouldn't say anything. These edgelords from the early internet were never in favor of free expression generally. They just wanted it for themselves

 

[Disheveled Human]

More Panzerfaust 3's on route.

 

[Übertroon]

Man the Russians are getting absolutely blown the fuck out in irregular combat. If they don't stop fucking around and do something about these javelins, they're going to run out of vehicles.

Well it actually does seem that the Russians have more vehicles than the Ukrainians have missiles, but at this point I have to question the value of the whole affair. Day 1 the Russophiles were pretty adamant that this was all worth it and that they would sacrifice thousands of slavs to bring Ukraine under Russian control, but if they still believe that then they're blind to the actual cost of the conflict. One person suggested that Ukraine is rich in natural resources, which is completely laughable. The only resource in Ukraine is agriculture, and the Russians have plenty of unused agricultural land themselves. It would have been far better to spend the nations resources on developing Russian soil than dropping bombs on Ukrainian soil.

At some point the Russophiles will have to agree that it was rather stupid to turn Russian geopolitical fears into a self fulfilling prophesy, you do not dissuade anyone from joining the "anti-russia alliance" by invading those not in the alliance. China has done far better with a more underhanded approach to political influence rather than using force. And no, you do not get to justify Russian aggression because Moscow is "too vulnerable" if you can line NATO troops on the Ukrainian border. Almost anyone who isn't the US is in a vulnerable position in case of an invasion, and perhaps it would be better to secure the border through cooperation rather than giving every nation you border an excuse to hit back. Funnily enough the Russians are more in danger of losing territory to China than NATO. Only China is flooding Russia with its citizens and giving themselves a future excuse to secure Russian territory to "protect the Chinese people" just like how Russia is claiming Ukrainian territory to "protect the Russian people"

 

[Fougaro]

I always wondered what the internet would look like if it had been around in the 1980's. Not the phone-up 300 baud BBS's, but the actual internet.

Now I know.

It's even more faggoty than I thought it would be.

If we had the Internet back in World War II, the Germans would have had a much easier time hunting down the Jews simply by browsing Reddit.

 

[JosephStalin]

Man the Russians are getting absolutely blown the fuck out in irregular combat. If they don't stop fucking around and do something about these javelins, they're going to run out of vehicles.

Don't believe they can. If they could, they'd have done it by now. Gotta ask what the fuck their General Staff/Ground Forces Staff have been doing all these years. It is their job to develop doctrine and tactics for irregular warfare, and then to ensure the troops are trained accordingly.

I haven't seen everything the Russians have done in this war but simply cannot believe how inept they are. You have to work pretty fucking hard to waste so many/much lives/time/equipment. If this is the Russians' "A" team, the only thing saving them from being run right the fuck out of Ukraine is the numbers. If the odds were even the Russians would be beaten like red-headed stepchildren. Wonder if they would do any better in case NATO were to invade Russia. Not going to happen but food for thought.

Guess the rot and corruption in Russia has utterly taken over.

 

[naffatune]

Jesus christ, please don't tell the holhols didn't blow up the green colored Z buhanka.

That white Z buhanka be sneaking in behind those trucks.

APCs are temporary.

Scooby-doo buhankas are eternal.

 

[Lone MacReady]

More Panzerfaust 3's on route.
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Great, maybe the Russians can capture and reverse-engineer one of those. That's how the AK was made.

 

[Disheveled Human]

At this point in they may as well use sprinter vans with steel siding that can stop 7.62's over APC's since it all is falling apart like cardboard anyways. At least you get more miles per gallon.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

Pretty cool ambush by Ukrainian forces.
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Not sure any of the other stuff intercut is from the same action, but damn that was a good hit. I'm guessing the missile was remotely fired, because that's nasty close for one AT team to be picking on a convoy, both for avoiding detection and not dying immediately after.

 

[Jump]

Great, maybe the Russians can capture and reverse-engineer one of those. That's how the AK was made.

They have already captured a bunch. The video was posted yesterday.

 

[Drain Todger]

The Arab Spring was not caused by the CIA whatsoever people who say that are mentally retarded how does it benefit the CIA to throw their own guys out of power especially in Egypt

All of the protests were organized by agents provocateurs who'd been trained by NGOs like CANVAS, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Soros' Open Society Foundations, with the coordination of the US State Department, which cooperates with the CIA on all of this.

https://themillenniumreport.com/2016/08/middle-east-the-cia-operating-behind-a-web-of-pro-democracy-ngos/

It was basically the opposite of COINTELPRO; rather than dismantling activist groups, they created them from scratch. Weaponized social media was a significant part of it. Well over a decade ago, the US Intelligence Community already had access to tools that could be used to produce and control a plethora of sock puppets over multiple social media services.

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

www.theguardian.com

These tools were undoubtedly used to spread propaganda that would instigate revolution in the targeted countries. From the comfort of Langley, Virginia, they puppeteered hundreds of fake accounts of guys named Abdul and Kasem and told them exactly which street corners to wave signs on. I realized this well over a decade ago, as I was watching it in real time on the damn television. The media kept going on about how protests and riots in the Middle East were being coordinated over social media, and my first, instant gut reaction was that those were glowie socks, and that if they could do it in Libya, they could do it anywhere.

Why did they target Gaddafi? Because Libya was about to dump the US Dollar as a reserve currency, and that would have made the Rothschilds very mad. Why did they target Assad? Because they wanted a pipeline to bypass Russia, and Lebensraum for Israel. Why did they target Mubarak? Because he was old and he knew too much, and they wanted to pick another puppet to replace him before he keeled over.

and put in radical islamist out of hard to control you people need to stop getting all your information from Russia Today and Quack leftist conspiracy theorists
You people act like people don't have self agency

Islamic radicals are literally the CIA. ISIS was a joint CIA and Mossad honeypot operation. Why do you think their leaders apologized for accidentally crossing into the Golan Heights?

https://www.newsweek.com/isis-fighters-regret-attacking-israel-apologize-defense-minister-591020

That's because they know where their bread is buttered.

 

[rdrr]

Great, maybe the Russians can capture and reverse-engineer one of those. That's how the AK was made.

I'd be more worried about whomever got those parts of the helicopter used in the laden raid. Stealth Helicopter, not totally blown up,

 

[Disheveled Human]

Not sure any of the other stuff intercut is from the same action, but damn that was a good hit. I'm guessing the missile was remotely fired, because that's nasty close for one AT team to be picking on a convoy, both for avoiding detection and not dying immediately after.

Could be TOW missile systems over the past week I seen videos of them being used, Old tech but still works against Russian armor.

 

[Walrus and Carpenter]

Pretty cool ambush by Ukrainian forces.
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I think that the RWA podcast twitter account has the uncut version of this posted. The Ukrainians did take out one tank but then got shredded with automatic 30MM cannon fire. The close up shots of destroyed vehicles are obviously not even at the same location.

 

[Random Internet Person]

This shit isn't funny anymore. Powell spends two years saying inflation is transitory and wow a fucking miracle appeared actually it was Putin this whole time!

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Biden wants people angry.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Don't believe they can. If they could, they'd have done it by now. Gotta ask what the fuck their General Staff/Ground Forces Staff have been doing all these years. It is their job to develop doctrine and tactics for irregular warfare, and then to ensure the troops are trained accordingly.

I haven't seen everything the Russians have done in this war but simply cannot believe how inept they are. You have to work pretty fucking hard to waste so many/much lives/time/equipment. If this is the Russians' "A" team, the only thing saving them from being run right the fuck out of Ukraine is the numbers. If the odds were even the Russians would be beaten like red-headed stepchildren. Wonder if they would do any better in case NATO were to invade Russia. Not going to happen but food for thought.

Guess the rot and corruption in Russia has utterly taken over.

Think of all that training you did.

Think of all the times you ate dirt, lived in a ditch with water in it or in a concrete culvert, marched for miles to meet up with the main body.

Think of all the time you spent memorizing silhouette cards, learning the distinctive sounds of Soviet equipment. The days of running through the woods. How many times you slept wet and hungry.

Training, training, training. Weeks, months of it at a time.

How you learned to do your job with nothing more than just your hands, your weapon, and your bayonet. Think of how you learned to march on an empty stomach.

All that training on how to face the Soviet Bear.

How he had more armor. More jets. More choppers. More men. How they were all better than your stuff and the only thing you had going for you is a willingness to kill.

Think of the hellish standards you were held to.

Now... BEHOLD! THE RUSSIAN BEAR!

Fuck me.

I want my left knee back.

 

[Strix454]

Just fucking insane. Within the space of fourteen months more fuckups have happened under Joey's regime than probably any other regime/Administration. Price of gas started going up the day after Joey took power. They fucked up the response to the Chinese Flu. They fucked up the exit from Afghanistan. They got the inflation going. They fucked up the container ship situation. They did a couple of smart things when the war started but looks like they'll fuck that up too. Then we have Kamala, who makes imbeciles look like geniuses. What else? Jesus. More fuckups than I can even remember. The only way midterms won't be an epic bloodbath for the Dems will be if we're all radioactive ash. Don't even think Jesus Christ himself could fix Joey's regime.

- He managed to nearly destroy what passes for US relations with France over the Australian Submarine deal.
- He completely messed up the US southern border.
- He destroyed US relations with most of the countries in the Persian Gulf due to his irrational love of Iran. To a point where they don't return his phone calls.
- He sent his idiot secretary of state all around Asia trying to sell countries on his Cold War II plan of an American Bloc in Asia. Everyone politely told them to go away.
- He threw the military into chaos with a witch hunt for a Trump conspiracy inside it that doesn't exist and created political divisions within it.
- (this one is a positive but...) His entire legislative agenda was dead on arrival in congress.
- He refused to anything about the so-called "supply" situation
- He first denied that there was any inflation and then he proposed that the cure for inflation was more inflation in the form of spending.
- He administration had no policy at all concerning China.
- He ignored rising crime rates and rising violence in the country.

 

[Disheveled Human]

I think that the RWA podcast twitter account has the uncut version of this posted. The Ukrainians did take out one tank but then got shredded with automatic 30MM cannon fire. The close up shots of destroyed vehicles are obviously not even at the same location.

RWA is Pro-Russian Propaganda I am just looking at raw video with no spin, looks like the Russians took a loss and that column got re-routed. In short you are posting cope.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

Could be TOW missile systems over the past week I seen videos of them being used, Old tech but still works against Russian armor.

Actually, hell, you can see him in the video. There's a flash a little above the launcher about a second before the round goes off, and then there's what might be someone making a break from that position towards the woods. Yeah, they knew that was a bad spot to get caught in, so they rigged it up in a way they could set it off without standing right next to it. Still way too fucking close for my taste, though.

 

[Reddit Gold]

Who even cares about Russia and NATO anymore? This conflict has Nigerians, Syrians, Chechens, Redditors and Jewish Nazis duking it out like NPCs in a Skyrim mod.