Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Fougaro]

Cyrillic is just retarded roman alphabet with a bunch of shit backwards and some idiotic characters anyways. Can you really have something backwards when it shouldn't exist in the first place? Its entire existence is backwards.

Cyrillic isn't retarded. It's ЕСТЕТИК（彙こブ）as fuck.

 

[LUNEKO]

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the comments are incredible. twitter flipping out on biden like he has canceled the next avengers movie they were promised.

Well that's the final nail in the coffin, shit couldn't be clearer after several attempts at trying to proxy the war they finally gave up after everyone told them a flat "No, we ain't poking the bear in your stead".
Honestly? good the US has had enough shit from interventionism constantly blowing up on their people faces because geriatric oligarchs are too busy trying to LARP grand strategy games to realize even goatherders will rather fight to the absolute end than play their gay ass "4D chess".
I have come to respect the Ukrainian civilians and combatants. Not their puppet jew or his cabinet full of trust fund foreigners but the real people fighting with nothing but a leftover rifle from another country and javelin rockets, i have the feeling they hate their leaders too Ukraine wasn't exactly a paradise even before the separatist started stirring shit. Most of them probably didn't receive enough education to even know when their country began or why its a country, but they are fighting not for any of that shit they are fighting for their families and the place they where born and raised.
They won't win but whatever their fate might be i do hope they end up with something they deem worth it and at the very least leave Putin regretting it for the rest of whatever the fucker has left.
They are alone but is clear they never expected cavalry, bite hard you boars
Also i hope they purge their high command and install a new one that's not a puppet government but one thing at a time

 

[Strix454]

Map update

Some of the maps have not updated. At least not yet.

One shows Russian gains north of Mariupol. basically straightening out the line east-west. But that is about it. Slow day so far.

The two best maps IMO are still

Scribblemap
The Wikipedia Map

 

[Hell on Earth]

The Mongols might be the single most incompetent group of imperial administrators of all time. And that's saying a lot, because the Arabs managed to turn the breadbasket of the Mediterranean into a desert.

The black death fucked the Mongols, that's why their empires disintegrated or became wastelands.

 

[PaleTay]

The Ukrainian government is elected, so it's the government the people of Ukraine want. So I don't see how you can completely overlook the opinions of the people there. Also no shit the Ukrainian government is hostile to Russia, they annexed Crimea and sent weapons and combat troops to separatist regions in their country. You're acting like Ukraine is chimping out over fishing rights or something, lol.

I understand Crimea is strategically important to Russia, and I accept that Ukraine is probably at some point going to have to accept the loss of it as well as the DPR and LPR. But I don't blame them being afraid of Russia and fighting tooth and nail to resist the occupation of their country.


I disagree, it can be traced back at least as far as the Cossack Hetmanate that existed in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the autonomous Zaporozhian Cossack communities resisting Polish-Lithuanian rule before it. Perhaps even back to the Kingdom of Ruthenia from the 12th-14th centuries.

Yeah, good point. Politicians are known for their integrity and incorruptible nature, and elections are completely fair, particularly in underdeveloped countries. 15% of people supported Zelensky's government, who should deny them their ability to change their country?

 

[FatalTater]

My part of the country wasn't affected by niggers and commies chimping out. You have to choose your battles. Ask Kyle Rittenhouse about how going up against the Dem's brownshirts in Dem territory works out (hint, you get charged with murder in a clear case of self-defense).

Kyle won his self defense case.

The McCloskeys, who looked derpy as fuck BUT defended their home, had the charges against them dropped.

I feel like I should make some deep statement about drawing a line and defending it but I am so damn tired of this.
Kids? Don't let the bad guys win. No one will come out and tell you for certain who the bad guys are, so use your own judgement.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

So, turns out the TU-141 drone that crashed in Zagreb, Croatia a couple days ago had hastily scratched off Ukrainian markings on it. The piece of wreckage still has some blue and yellow on the tail fin, where the Ukrainian crest should be. But what really makes me think, is how this thing got across a bit of Romania, and all of Hungary, and through all of NATO's air patrols and AWACS, and hit within 100 meters of a student dorm and apartment building, and nobody did shit about it.

Source for the images

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Did it malfunction and just coast in a straight line? TFW you lose signal to your drone and didn't set the "go home" location.

But I don't blame them being afraid of Russia and fighting tooth and nail to resist the occupation of their country.

People would do the same thing in the US but people are incapable of making that comparison.

 

[Gondola Enjoyer]

Did it malfunction and just coast in a straight line? TFW you lose signal to your drone and didn't set the "go home" location.

Maybe he was trying to get it to go to Yarun but it ended up in Jarun.

 

[naffatune]

DPR forces capture a Ukrainian humvee. Location unknown. Digital camo indicates that it's a Ukie vehicle; "Z" was added afterwards (link)

People find Ukrainian Tochka-U that was left in the mud at Zaporozhye (link)

Footage of rubble after shelling in Saltvoka, Kharkov (link)

DPR soldiers reclaim Volnovakha (link)

Spoiler: death

jk (link)

 

[3-2-1836]

So who wants to take bets on what will be the flag of the Kherson P.R. since the FSB bydlos in charge of these projects are incredibly unoriginal.

 

[Oxous]

Sergey Khlan, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament and apparently a member of Kherson's regional council (can't quickly find verification of that though) claims on Facebook (waiting for an archive) that the Russians are preparing for a sham referendum where they will create a "People's Republic of Kherson".

Translation, Google Translate seems to have made a couple errors so my guesses at corrections are in brackets:

A referendum on the establishment of the People's Republic of China [pretty sure he means Kherson] is being prepared in the Kherson region.

The occupiers are calling the deputies of the Kherson Regional Council to ask if we are ready to cooperate with them. He [they?] flatly refused

I address to all deputies of the Kherson regional council.

Dear colleagues, I am sure that you understand the consequences of your decision.

The creation of the People's Republic of China [Kherson] will turn our region into a hopeless hole without life and future.

Don't give them a vote! Do not give them any opportunity to legitimize the People's Republic of China [Kherson]!

The whole state will look at you and there can be no excuses for cooperation with the occupiers!

I will not believe that you will be worse than ordinary people of Mariupol, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Gostomel who have been suffering inhuman suffering for two weeks, but do not give up!

Enter the history of Ukraine not by traitors who are not needed by anyone, but really by citizens whose names will be remembered by future generations

 

[The Foldless Brain]

The Ukrainian government is elected, so it's the government the people of Ukraine want. So I don't see how you can completely overlook the opinions of the people there. Also no shit the Ukrainian government is hostile to Russia, they annexed Crimea and sent weapons and combat troops to separatist regions in their country. You're acting like Ukraine is chimping out over fishing rights or something, lol.

I understand Crimea is strategically important to Russia, and I accept that Ukraine is probably at some point going to have to accept the loss of it as well as the DPR and LPR. But I don't blame them being afraid of Russia and fighting tooth and nail to resist the occupation of their country.

Ukrainian democracy is a complete meme. Show me a Ukrainian leader who hasn't tried his immediate predecessor for treason and either directly banned their party or quasi-banned it as well as shut down hostile media. This is without getting into how double nationality is about and like half the people involved are nationals of other states. Fattie Vindman was gonna be the Ukrainian defense minister, let's not forget. And in any case as regards 2014 it doesn't matter since the government there was appointed by the State department. It's what Victoria Nuland's leaked 'fuck the EU' call was about though the media and the people both focused on "Wow, Vicky said a mean word to our friends" though for different reasons.

As regards them fighting tooth and nail, I entirely understand the people on the ground who don't want their homes levelled and their kids shot. But their leaders have an obligation not to throw them into a lost cause and my sympathy for said leaders ran out when our own puppet government decided to handicap its economy and made my life worse on their behalf while their talking heads fill every airwave begging us to die in nuclear war for their non-country.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I've been saying that for ages. No one listens to a lil' potato anymore.

You ain’t alone

 

[Narcotics]

To anyone who wants to transplante rooski text, use deepL instead of Google translate, it's Miles better.
But deepL doesn't have holol so you'll have to stick to Google for that one

 

[Captain Autism69]

You mean when they kicked out the Tartars and moved in Russians to strengthen their hold on the region. Like they always fucking do? Or was it when they destroyed 1/4 of the Crimean economy by taking it over, hiding who they were like pussies? Or was it when they installed a puppet dictator?

Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense.

you sound very very angry. Fact of the matter is that Crimea wanted independence from 1991 onwards, and was stomped on by Kiev. Crimea was a shithole unitl the Russians started investing in it, and the people there are happy bunnies.

 

[Coccxys]

UK tabloids going full "you should panic, Russia coming to get you" mode.



Apparently this is an exclusive as opposed to a "no duh". Of course a modern military could hit us.

 

[Rezza]

Sergey Khlan, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament and apparently a member of Kherson's regional council (can't quickly find verification of that though) claims on Facebook (waiting for an archive) that the Russians are preparing for a sham referendum where they will create a "People's Republic of Kherson".
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Translation, Google Translate seems to have made a couple errors so my guesses at corrections are in brackets:

I know its on different places, but maybe this is why that Mayor from Melitopol got abducted. He refused to cooperate with the occupying force in creating these "breakaway republic"

 

[BULLY HUNTER_77]

My understanding is that one of the first things the Orange Nigger did when he came into power was to harden the main electrical substations against EMPs. It wasn’t too expensive to do.

I'm gonna press X to doubt on that one. Maybe he increased protections against conventional EMPs that a terrorist could conceivably smuggle into the country to wreak havoc on small portions of our power grid.

A High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) will result in a ~22-30 Kilovolts/meter energy pulse. Multiply that by thousands of miles of power lines and the current induced in those lines will be positively astronomical. Your outlets, computer, and that surge protector you bought from Walmart will literally burst into flames (this has been tested by the Air Force). Every single nuclear silo in the US has an Electrical Surge Arrestor (ESA) the size of a room (think the Walmart Surge Protector but 1000x larger).

The only way to protect your entire power grid from something like that is if every single power draw from the grid also has an ESA shed. This means every bank, server farm, house, apartment complex, government building, etc. needs their own ESA shed. Remember, the energy is being spread more-or-less evenly across continental United States. You can't just slap ESA sheds on substations because there's enough powerline between the substation and your house to fuck up everything you own that's plugged into an outlet.

We only have ESA vaults on Nuclear Silos and maybe certain critical government buildings because of the prohibitive expense. These are the only things that really need to work post-attack for the Mutually Assured Destruction to work anyway. Think about it - if the US truly had the technological capability to withstand a HEMP, the globalhomo would've eradicated Russia under the thinnest of pretenses long ago. The fact that they're throwing an economic bitchfit but refusing to engage Russia militarily and risk escalation should be telling.

 

[Mr Bunny]

UK tabloids going full "you should panic, Russia coming to get you" mode.

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Apparently this is an exclusive as opposed to a "no duh". Of course a modern military could hit us.

I will like to welcome the zoomer generation to the new cold war, where we were always threatened by the original mega-death. Bombs.

Ignore and continue on with your life, you're gonna die anyway no point in getting worked up over it.

 

[The Ugly One]

The black death fucked the Mongols, that's why their empires disintegrated or became wastelands.

Their empire began disintegrating immediately, because murdering entire urban populations, putting records to the torch, razing cities, tearing down dams, filling in canals, destroying farmland, and slitting the throats of administrators is the opposite of what you want to do if you want maintain anything you conquered. The Mongols simply destroyed far too much, particularly in China (where there's no evidence for a major plague outbreak) and Persia (where 90% of the population died due to the conquests, and before the plague appeared), to be able to run a large empire efficiently.