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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Apparently it might not even be a "failure" but rather yet more corruption. Reportedly the the FSB generals who were responsible for Ukraine have been arrested. Supposedly for embezzling money that was supposed to have been spent on agents in Ukraine.
Part of me wonders if there hasn't been some faction in Russia purposefully giving Putin bad information regarding assessments of Ukraine's capabilities. Surely after this long, there are plenty of people sick of Putin's shit and want to climb higher on the ladder.

Just a theory, but perhaps some group thought this would have muddied him up enough that he would have been isolated internally enough, and either retire or be forced out.
 
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This is why I still believe that Insurgency is still possible for the Ukrainian. Besides, as long as they have the will to fight, Insurgency will keep happening. Just look at the French partisans in WWII

The French Resistance that ended up killing more French Resistance members due to shitty gay infighting and personal score-settling than actually contributing to the war effort against Germany?

"Ignore what that government official said in front of the Senate on biolabs in Ukraine."
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DEBOONKED!

As a cold war state, Ukraine has tons and tons of bunkers, tunnel networks, and underground military facilities under its major cities. All likely packed with food, ammo, and other supplies for a long war.

The Cold War has been over for 30 years now, those bunkers have all been turned into MMA gyms, defunct internet cafes, zero-budget band rehearsal spots, or just full of asbestos and garbage.

I've been in many a Cold War era bomb-shelter in Eastern European cities, or what's left of them anyway.

Putin has committed well known political assassinations which have yet to become a thing in the United States

Yeah the Clintons just happen to be tied to 400 people who ALL mysteriously committed suicide.
 
I don't disagree with you, but I don't think it's dementia or age that's the issue. If that was all it was people wouldn't stomach something like Biden. In my opinion the issue is people have been bred to be too retarded to go out of the norm or to challenge the status quo, and those who often do at this point are so retarded their challenge is an absurdity in itself. I don't think the problems we're seeing now are unique to the USA, as they're probably the manifestation of people being to afraid to lose what little they have while having just enough to be mildly content as there's some kind of voice in the back of their head screaming in agony because everything has just turned into a sort of sludge being shoveled on top of them daily.
Good points, and I agree. I do think people are waiting for something, a signal or indication challenging the status quo can be done and bring about results. Sadly I think it will take something they can't ignore, like war in the continental United States and proof the senile cucks in DC were dithering around with some woke bullshit and too stupid to prevent it.
I don't know if he has or hasn't, but I do believe most of those "skripal poisonings" were bullshit and debunked long ago.

But what about America assassinating not just Americans but people all over the Middle East on the sleightest of hearsay evidence through drone strikes or whatever?
The US has done some bad shit since the post WW2 era and has never faced any consequences. The MSM does a good job of ignoring it as do our educational institutions. Not that I cared for him but our direct involvement in Patrice Lumumba's murder is something everyone has forgotten. Who can even tell you who we supplied and supported in the Angola Civil War, let alone who was directly involved on the ground? That's just in Africa, there's Asia, the ME and Latin America where we meddled.
 
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Someone's going to be real pissed.
These people really believe they are allowed to break the law because they think they're doing the right thing.
Did they get the idea from people joking they should send illegal immigrants to Nazi PigLousy's house?

The madlad is fixing to get cancelled. If he thinks he can get away with profaning every sacred cow something is up. Is the Current Year finally over?
Fuck your sacred cows, I want some beefsteak.
 
compared to the gigantic oversized american army, yes they are.
compared to the russian army, not necessarily. NATOs european forces combined have similar numbers of active duty soldiers as the russian armed forces have, and in terms of money they outspend the russians by a HUGE margin.

russia has a much larger nuclear arsenal than european NATO, but in conventional forces it is heavily outgunned.
I wish they never considered NATO and just wanted to join the EU so it was their problem.
 
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Part of me wonders if there hasn't been some faction in Russia purposefully giving Putin bad information regarding assessments of Ukraine's capabilities. Surely after this long, there are plenty of people sick of Putin's shit and want to climb higher on the ladder.

Just a theory, but perhaps some group thought this would have muddied him up enough that he would have been isolated internally enough, and either retire or be forced out.
No, the most simplest answer is that Putin surrounded himself with nothing but yesmen. They wanted to appease him, so the reports are nothing but positive things that Putin wanted to hear, hence why he believed victory in Ukraine would be easy and quick.

There is, of course, another element to this and that is extreme corruption. The money that should have been went to maintenance and logistics are pocketed by generals and officials to the point things barely went to their original purposes. For example, the current FSB chief is in house arrest because billions that was supposed to buy agents and influence to stage a coup in Ukraine was embezzled by him and the FSB
 
Of course he's Boogie sized. Though really his problem seems to be that he's just pissed about how retarded the sanctions are, and McDonalds is just the proxy for that sentiment. Though I do have to wonder if Russia just decided to nationalizes McDonalds and call it "Putin's Meat Palace" what can McDonalds really do about it? There's probably some international supply chains they'll lose out on, but we've seen places like Asia have their knockoff Starbucks and more, so why can't Russia have a McPutins?

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The biggest obstacle to nationalizing diners has always been corruption.
McDonalds owns it diners but others are franchisees. E.g. KFC has 80 places of its own and 1000 franchisees.

US franchises and Putin's government jointly operate a protection racket. You open a diner and call it Best Cafe, and the health inspector comes knocking and finds a rat. You are made to close for two months to clean up your act, then, bam, another rat, and two roaches in the cocktail machine. You get tired of it and pay for a Burger King franchise. Now it's a rat in a Burger King, and the Burger King Russia franchise owner (a mafioso) rips the health inspector a new one.

In contrast, the founder of Dodo Pizza (a Russian pizza franchise) got into legal trouble because a visitor was caught selling drugs at one of the franchisee parlors.

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These kinds of jokey knockoffs survive because they're extremely trashy places which don't share a market niche with McDonalds, and it's unprofitable and a PR nightmare to go for one (I think McDonalds did it once and came to regret it). But McD and the like's independent competitors get fucked hard as described above, thus good fast food only exists in places which don't see enough traffic for a full-sized chain diner. Here's a Chicken Burger (beef and pork is on the menu, too) in a pop 30000 town.

People are absolutely champing at the bit to replace US chains if Putin promises to stop fucking them over.
 


So when is the part where zelenskyy shows his feet to the camera for no particular reason?
 
Have you been paying attention to what the left has actually been saying? Like, at all? They have an insane degree of hatred for the old Slav warlord that far exceeds any rational assessment of what he's doing and how involved we have any right to be. Also, remember what I just said about invading and destroying Libya for no reason at all, to the point that the country still hasn't pulled itself back together over a decade later? Biden was VP during that whole debacle. He, personally, has no leg to stand on either. Or wouldn't if he was at all coherent enough to set policy on his own initiative.
Oh there was a reason for Libya.

They were getting ready to stop trading in dollars. Same reason Iraq happened (Afghanistan was, surprisingly, legit because the Taliban told us to fuck off when we asked them to either hand over bin Laden or let us come in to get him).

Anyway, as far as our government is concerned, we have to squash that shit out immediately before it gets off the ground if at all possible, because if the dollar stops being the reserve currency and petro trade currency our entire economy will collapse overnight from the loss in value of the dollar (which means, very likely a loss in power for the establishment and quite probably a balkanization of the US).
 
You might find this interesting. I can't assess the truth beyond mainstream media is running with it. But the Russian Warship seen in your picture. The one that attacked snake island, may have seemingly run into a spot of bother.
This continues to be not a good look for Vlad.
Vid you sent is old and this ship wasnt destroyed, whole island of 80 people surrendered and alive. Photo I sent is new. Just another round of twitter wars. Russia pr department was always shit, so twitter was lost to ukraine. Which is funny as fuck
 
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