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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Smity Werbenjagermanjensen said:
How much longer can the Russians keep this up? They're already sending replacements for their loses from occupied regions in Georgia and sending Syrians too, so clearly the losses are high enough they're worried about becoming unable to be an effective offensive fighting force in some regions, Putin is currently sperging about how everything is going to plan, and aid keeps flowing into Ukraine and it seems they're finally going to get some S-300s sent to them by Slovakia. Over the course of the war the key question has turned from when Kiev falls into if it falls.

Ukraine will still "lose" but at this point it's become by how much, instead of being decisive in regard to how many concessions they can get out of Russia.
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Well its their people and their land and their blood at this point.

They decided to "go for broke" on this one.
 
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More AWS-8Q Than You said:
Why does the outline of Ukraine include parts of Northern Caucasia? Are the Hohol morons claiming Circassia or something?
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it's the outline of the short lived independent ukrainian state in 1918
it had become independent as a result of brest litovsk, but quickly came under attack from the new red army. they asked imperial germany for help against the reds, and the germans sent troops and successfully fought off the reds, but later germany was defeated by the western allies who forced them to recall and demobilize their army, and without the germans to guarantee their independence the red army eventually took the whole country, turned it into ukrainian soviet republic, and annexed it into the ussr.
 
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Oxous said:
That is what's known as the Kuban region, a lot of Ukrainians ended up there in pre-modern times because Cossacks. They've been fully absorbed into Russian culture, ethnicity, whatever you want to call it now but you can still see some of them on this National Geographic map from the '70s.
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Of course, by the time this map was made most of them had been absorbed with the help of things like usage of Russian in schools.
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Hmm, interesting choice of words.
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Smity Werbenjagermanjensen said:
How much longer can the Russians keep this up? They're already sending replacements for their loses from occupied regions in Georgia and sending Syrians too, so clearly the losses are high enough they're worried about becoming unable to be an effective offensive fighting force in some regions, Putin is currently sperging about how everything is going to plan, and aid keeps flowing into Ukraine and it seems they're finally going to get some S-300s sent to them by Slovakia. Over the course of the war the key question has turned from when Kiev falls into if it falls.

Ukraine will still "lose" but at this point it's become by how much, instead of being decisive in regard to how many concessions they can get out of Russia.
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Any agreement that doesn't end in surrender to most of the othes side's demands won't end shit, it'll just postpone the war to a later date.

And by that time we could see a more horrifying war than this one.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I like how completely full of shit the left has been revealed to be as if we needed more proof.

All those years of the Anti-war movement during the Dubya Presidency and now those exact same people want a war.
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The neocons got pushed out of the GOP (mostly) and so they are back in the Democrat Party where they started decades ago.
 
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Oxous said:
That is what's known as the Kuban region, a lot of Ukrainians ended up there in pre-modern times because Cossacks. They've been fully absorbed into Russian culture, ethnicity, whatever you want to call it now but you can still see some of them on this National Geographic map from the '70s.
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Of course, by the time this map was made most of them had been absorbed with the help of things like usage of Russian in schools.
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Huh, hadn't realized the Kuban Cossacks were split from the Zaporozhian Cossacks. I'd just assumed the area would have been more local Caucasian ethnicities. Hell, I'd have expected more pockets of Greek in the Crimea, but I assume they ended up like the Crimean Goths and just absorbed into the locals.
 
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More AWS-8Q Than You said:
Why does the outline of Ukraine include parts of Northern Caucasia? Are the Hohol morons claiming Circassia or something?
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That's the Kuban, they formerly spoke Ukrainian due to being a Cossack Host until it was banned in 1932, see this Soviet demographic map from 1941, it was even proposed in 1930 for Kursk, Rostov and Voronezh Oblasts to be transferred from Russia to Ukraine.
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Dave_Ph said:
Do they have people obsessed with Piss and Cum
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Of course not. Twitter is a place where only sophisticated, intelligent people hang out. If you want a smart discussion where only triple-digit IQ-havers are present, Twitter is the place to go. You should go hang out there and let us pissboys and cumboys discuss piss and cum, as we are wont to do.
 
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Smity Werbenjagermanjensen said:
How much longer can the Russians keep this up? They're already sending replacements for their loses from occupied regions in Georgia and sending Syrians too, so clearly the losses are high enough they're worried about becoming unable to be an effective offensive fighting force in some regions, Putin is currently sperging about how everything is going to plan, and aid keeps flowing into Ukraine and it seems they're finally going to get some S-300s sent to them by Slovakia. Over the course of the war the key question has turned from when Kiev falls into if it falls.

Ukraine will still "lose" but at this point it's become by how much, instead of being decisive in regard to how many concessions they can get out of Russia.
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This war has now turned into a grind. As you have mentioned, Russia's losses are mounting. They are already having to strip garrisons in other parts of Russia to replace depleted formations and are bringing in foreign fighters. Flow of aid into Ukraine will only grow. Don't know much about Ukraine's manpower situation but they seem to have enough mobilized to make the war a grind for Russia.

Some say the Russians haven't used all their troops. Sure looks like they are rather close to doing so. There are manpower commitments in other places in Russia that must be met.

Kyiv could be the Stalingrad of this war. Russians could take part of the city but be eventually driven out.

Unless there's some sort of negotiated settlement this war could go on for months. Should that happen spring planting and harvesting of winter wheat planted this past fall in the Ukraine will be affected. Russia may have problems exporting their grain. Then Ukraine faces a large rebuilding job. We shall see charitable appeals for Ukraine for the foreseeable future.
 
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3-2-1836 said:
That's the Kuban, they formerly spoke Ukrainian due to being a Cossack Host until it was banned in 1932, see this Soviet demographic map from 1941, it was even proposed in 1930 for Kursk, Rostov and Voronezh Oblasts to be transferred from Russia to Ukraine.
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Based on ethnicity, it makes more sense than giving them Crimea. Also Tsaritsyn, shame they renamed it Volgograd, it's so boring in comparison.
 
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