Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Hell on Earth]

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[Meat Target]

The Pajeets beat them off with nothing but Sticks and Stones just last year. So I'm going to maintain a healthy skepticism regarding the Pooh Patrol's actual real world military capabilities. Yeah they are spending a lot. But how many Generals have they found with luxury mansions stuffed basement to ceiling with shrink wrapped pallets of money measured in hundreds of metris tons? Their money is not going to actual capabilities.

All those reports of Chinese supersoldiers and Wunderwaffen are just hype that the Pentagon uses to beg for more shekels.

The Chinese Army hasn't seen combat in almost half a century. The Dragon is made of papier-mache, corn cobs, asbestos, and spit.

 

[Mr Bunny]

All those reports of Chinese supersoldiers and Wunderwaffen are just hype that the Pentagon uses to beg for more shekels.

The Chinese Army hasn't seen combat in almost half a century. The Dragon is made of papier-mache, corn cobs, asbestos, and spit.

The only question with war with China is, will we run out of ammunition before they run out of warm bodies?

 

[Sicklick]

Even if Azoz didn't blow it up themselves, it was clearly being used to house military operations/personnel.

I've heard stuff about Azov/DPR using child soldiers.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Shot:


Chaser:

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

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What the fuck is Vegeta doing in a shit hole like Chechnya?

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

What the fuck is Vegeta doing in a shit hole like Chechnya?

VEGETA ALIVE IN CHECHNYA
VEGETA NO.1 SAIYAN IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

 

[GaryGrey]

Ukrainian government official Twitter posted their "Sorry your kid died in a war zone" note for an American "journalist". Is it a good thing or bad thing for a government rando to post the private note sent informing someone of the death of a loved one? Seems like this is the type of perfect face to help make a strong villain propaganda against Russian. "Take selfies not bullets" ( t | a )

 

[TurdFondler]

This is probably the first war we've ever had where you can see what's going on without propaganda, if you know where to look.

I'd be interested to see how many casualties will result from this siege, might be worse than Sarajevo once the dust settles.

 

[millais]

They just have to walk to one of the many open humanitarian corridors.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Tucker's interview with some Cuban neocon for today's show.

I have my idea for an annual vote to send a blue checkmark to a North Korean labor camp for a year.

I'm thinking:
2023- David Hogg
2024- Chris Cillizza
2025- Tucker Carlson
2026- Thomas Friedman
2027- Anthony Fantano
2028- Joel Osteen
2029- Cole Smithey doesn't have a blue check
2030- Ilhan Omar
2031- Bono


The program will be billed as an act of friendship and solidarity between the US and DPRK. The idea is that some people deserve to have their human rights violated.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

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.

Those same people supported war with Iraq when Clinton was president. They've always been hypocrites.

 

[Protistology]

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.

Which were the Scythians?

 

[Vaclav]

The bigger question becomes not whether Russia will win. They likely will overtake the majority of the country just from numbers and mass. But what will that leave in terms of the state of the Russian Military? They seem to be getting chewed up at an alarming rate.

Is there enough information to determine this? People have mentioned Russia pulling troops from other areas to assist, is this because they're losing so many people or because they want to reinforce their supply lines and mount overwhelming offensives in order to win with minimal losses? There can be multiple reasons for actions like this and Ukraine has every motivation to oversell the losses on Russia's side.

 

[John Titor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tfii0q/zelensky_asks_us_congress_for_nofly_zone_saying/

tl;dr-Zelenksy wants No Fly Zone, majority of Redditors commenting that it's a terrible idea for various reasons. Stopped clock, I guess.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Ukrainian government official Twitter posted their "Sorry your kid died in a war zone" note for an American "journalist". Is it a good thing or bad thing for a government rando to post the private note sent informing someone of the death of a loved one? Seems like this is the type of perfect face to help make a strong villain propaganda against Russian. "Take selfies not bullets" ( t | a )

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I'm not sure what you're saying? That a fifty year old man that died in a Uke controlled area with a fake press pass makes Russia a great propaganda villain? Or the other way around? I don't see anyone making a fuss over him tbh.

 

[Hell on Earth]

What the fuck is Vegeta doing in a shit hole like Chechnya?

And Goku is preparing for prayer day in Mecca.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Is there enough information to determine this? People have mentioned Russia pulling troops from other areas to assist, is this because they're losing so many people or because they want to reinforce their supply lines and mount overwhelming offensives in order to win with minimal losses? There can be multiple reasons for actions like this and Ukraine has every motivation to oversell the losses on Russia's side.

Well we don't know for sure, however after an offensive loses 10% of it's fighting force it starts to become unable to mount successful offensives against entrenched positions. Especially if much of those loses involve "force multipliers" such as aircraft, IFVs, and tanks, which we've seen plenty of. Russia may have a large stockpile of tanks, but they don't have nearly as many effective tankers to actually man them. Given all the causalities we've seen of tanks, IFVs, and aircraft, it's safe to say multiple fronts are starting to reach that 10% loss threshold if not surpassed it, which is why the frontlines have remained more or less static for the past week.

 

[DumbDude42]

Both for how effectively the (similarly equipped to their own) Russian Army is being chewed up by light arms.

does it really count as "light arms" when ukraine is getting pumped full of nato gear by europe and america?

And by the realization that all of a sudden the Siberian Oil fields seem like a softer target than Taiwan.

i think that there's absolutely no way china is going to take military action against russia. chinks know about russian nukes just like nato does.
what i do think is that russia being cut off from western trade makes it extremely dependent on china for trade, and china will abuse that situation by squeezing russia hard. don't need to invade siberian oil fields when you can just make the russians give you the oil and gas for super cheap because you're the only country that's still buying from them.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Which were the Scythians?

The Ossetians. Scythian -> Sarmatian -> Alani -> Ossetians. They've even got bizarre Neo-Pagan "Scythian" religion LARPers and Duginist Eurasian supporters.