Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Has anyone noticed a downturn in overt ukraine support recently? Because people hardly talk about now than they did in the first week

 

[mindlessobserver]

A non nuclear stalemate perpetual conflict zone is most beneficial for everyone.

Russia get's it's iron curtain, and can maintain absolute control of it's people

Western firms can price gouge and sell supplies.
China and India get to play both sides.

The best move for the Russians here is to hold and play balls to the walls mad iven. The west sending in bodies can be warded off with the nuclear threat.

What the Russians need to stop doing is taking casualties, because that is still hardest for them to replenish.

To be fair it is the University of Florida.

Russia cannot stalemate this without Kharkiv and Mariople. Neither city is optional, and so long as Ukraine holds both the war can't end.

 

[Safir]

Maybe the political ideology created from his writings will be canceled next.

Don't be a tard.
Your nation's enemies aren't commies even in the slightest, they "identify" as commies because they're your nation's enemies and they needed a recognizable brand.
I'm Russian. My nation's enemies identify as anti-communists.
They're the same people. Globohomos are naturally degenerates, and their vanguard will always be, openly, enemies of the nation.

 

[Psychotron]

Has anyone noticed a downturn in overt ukraine support recently? Because people hardly talk about now than they did in the first week

Go to linkedIn and find companies still late passing it,
"The current thing" kinda trickles though circles at differential rates.

 

[White_N]

Maybe the political ideology created from his writings will be canceled next.
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Good, can we cancel the whole UK next?

 

[H. Bergeron]

pissing and moaning about stickers is pretty fuckign weak, always has been.

Pissing and moaning about others being right and you being unable to handle it is even worse. Yet somehow you never stopped. Keep trying though, one day you might convince someone who isn't autistic.

 

[Meat Target]

Has anyone noticed a downturn in overt ukraine support recently? Because people hardly talk about now than they did in the first week

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Coronachan is soon to be back on the menu.

 

[No_one]

To be fair it is the University of Florida.

And?
Sorry, I don't want to sound rude, but I'm not that well informed on the differences between universities in the US and the nuances of their politics. Could you explain?

 

[The Ugly One]

This is the problem with burgerstani's, they actually believe that their debt soaked financialized economy is mirrored everywhere else, it's not. Russia has zero net debt, it runs a massive trade surplus, and it produces stuff that is fundamental to the global economy. Nation's can get by without Disney movies and KFC, electricity and wheat? Not so much. The stuff that Russia makes it's living from the west is still buying, will continue to buy and paying a premium for to boot.

America's biggest problem is that in the mid twentieth century, we did not realize that economists are witches and have them all burned at the stake. Somehow, the idea that you can overcome a crash in grain production by paying people to dig ditches sounded like something we should not have people burned alive.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

Good, can we cancel the whole UK next?

That's one way to celebrate St Patrick's day.

 

[H. Bergeron]

Not sure if this was posted yet, but someone caught a "corpse" of a civilian from a propaganda reel taking a smoke break.

https://t.me/TimeZed/2339

And I'm sure that will 100% turn out to be legit just like that last video where it claimed that the body bags were crisis actors.

Y'know what, if this turns out to actually be true, I'll buy you a coke.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Russia's issue is not equipment and supplies. Its got plenty of both. Russia's issue is getting both to the front where they can be used, and warm bodies too use them. They invaded a country of 40 million people with 125,000 troops. For comparison, the USA with all its advanced technology and total warfare supremacy invaded a country of 25 million with 500,000 troops in 2003. And even THAT proved insufficient in the long run. Russia's soldier to enemy civilian ratio is dangerously low. Especially when engaged with a peer enemy.

It underscores the fact that Putin assumed his quick decapitation strike was guaranteed to succeed. Russia has not brought enough forces foreword to actually close the deal. Especially since they opted for an invasion on all possible fronts instead of a more concentrated spearhead offensive. Russia has enough artillery to reduce Kharkiv and Mariople and make the rubble bounce, but that doesn't actually take those cities. In fact urban warfare experience during World War 2 indicates this actually makes taking the cities HARDER. Bombed out buildings make ideal cover and fortification emplacements because the weak structure fascade is knocked away, revealing the solid concrete bones capable of actually stopping incoming rounds. Even better, it creates an environment more conducive for camouflage and creates readily available material for building entrenched positions. You can't pound a city into submission in a month. Especially when said city (like Mariople) is being defended by units (the Azov Battalion) who have been told that they will be killed if they surrender. Why would they surrender at this point? You need to swamp them with a human wave and roust them out of their positions and kill them to the man. Russia can still do this, but the forces they need to do it are bogged down in Irpin and Kharkiv.

Russia doesn't have enough men actually at the front. They have more then enough men over all in Russia proper, but what good are they if they sitting in Abkhazia trading insults with Georgians instead of where the war is? If Putin had actually planned on a major ground war as this has proven to be, he would have brought foreword at least 3 times as many troops as he did.

How old is this war? Not even a month old. it's too early to make predictions for either side. Ukraine doesn't have trained personnel to work the weaponry and materiel they want, Russia has stalled, for whatever reason. The real issue here is the US and China using Ukraine as a proxy war. I think not just you but most people miss the forest for the trees. Actors other than the initial belligerents have the very real potential to turn this into a real shit show and cause WW3. That's what really irritates me about the "We stand with Ukraine" spreging.

 

[Beef Elemental]

Here's some good old gopro combat footage filled with Allahu akbars. I guess these are the Chechens? It's dated today.

https://streamable.com/k93xtp

Edit: File

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Russia's issue is not equipment and supplies. Its got plenty of both. Russia's issue is getting both to the front where they can be used, and warm bodies too use them. They invaded a country of 40 million people with 125,000 troops. For comparison, the USA with all its advanced technology and total warfare supremacy invaded a country of 25 million with 500,000 troops in 2003. And even THAT proved insufficient in the long run. Russia's soldier to enemy civilian ratio is dangerously low. Especially when engaged with a peer enemy.

It underscores the fact that Putin assumed his quick decapitation strike was guaranteed to succeed. Russia has not brought enough forces foreword to actually close the deal. Especially since they opted for an invasion on all possible fronts instead of a more concentrated spearhead offensive. Russia has enough artillery to reduce Kharkiv and Mariople and make the rubble bounce, but that doesn't actually take those cities. In fact urban warfare experience during World War 2 indicates this actually makes taking the cities HARDER. Bombed out buildings make ideal cover and fortification emplacements because the weak structure fascade is knocked away, revealing the solid concrete bones capable of actually stopping incoming rounds. Even better, it creates an environment more conducive for camouflage and creates readily available material for building entrenched positions. You can't pound a city into submission in a month. Especially when said city (like Mariople) is being defended by units (the Azov Battalion) who have been told that they will be killed if they surrender. Why would they surrender at this point? You need to swamp them with a human wave and roust them out of their positions and kill them to the man. Russia can still do this, but the forces they need to do it are bogged down in Irpin and Kharkiv.

Russia doesn't have enough men actually at the front. They have more then enough men over all in Russia proper, but what good are they if they sitting in Abkhazia trading insults with Georgians instead of where the war is? If Putin had actually planned on a major ground war as this has proven to be, he would have brought foreword at least 3 times as many troops as he did.

It would have been interesting if Ukraine had mobilized it's forces before the invasion. The vast majority of the ground gained by the Russains was from the first week of the war, when they had the element of surprise. If Ukraine mobilized before the invasion, we would almost certainly be looking at different lines on the map, and I think that's giving a lot of people a false impression.

Look at how much the Russians have advanced over the past week and a half, in many fronts it's a stalemate or at best capturing villages and towns of a few thousand people. After the element of surprise had worn off the Russian advance has been either massively slowed or outright stalled.

You can't really capture the second largest country in Europe, that 40 million people call home, that's also be given what amounts to a blank checks worth of weapons and equipment by much of the world, with only in the realm of 175,000 troops.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Maybe the political ideology created from his writings will be canceled next.
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The irony is that Karl Marx wasn't Russian at all, he was German. Also, don't Burgerstanis know that Russia hasn't been communist for about three decades?

This reminds me of Chris Chan's ignorance, who believed that Adolf Hiter was a communist, of all people.

 

[Mister Uno]

Started before the 2020s, even. Need a server? Instead of spinning up your own, just rent it from Amazon! What can go wrong?

Off topic I know, but people go to places like Amazon for server hosting because its cheap, convenient, and almost any retard could set up the most basic shit (some cloud providers have things that hold your hand to set up). But backups and fallbacks are basic admin shit 101.

 

[Psychotron]

The irony is that Karl Marx wasn't Russian at all, he was German. Also, don't Burgerstanis know that Russia hasn't been communist for about three decades?

This reminds me of Chris Chan's ignorance, who believed that Adolf Hiter was a communist, of all people.

Any excuse for the dean to tear down a marx statue is a good one.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

The worst part of this post is thinking Mearsheimer, one of the most important foreign policy theorists probably ever is a “failure” lmfao. He has influenced government policy, his book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics is very widely read, and will be even more so now that another of his theories has been vindicated. Some staffer at the DoD has far less influence than he does.

Of course Russia has agency. We’re just saying that Russia’s choice not to allow a former core territory to forever slip into America’s grasp isn’t some sort of insane and random act of aggression.

You’ll find that in modern history, it is often the beleaguered side of a conflict which starts shooting, because the side on offence is using non-military diplomatic/economic power against it.

Your post is funny because nobody here actually buys Putin’s narrative. Nobody here is calling it a “special operation” or making more than a passing mention of Ukrainian Nazis. You seethe about any attempts at even-handedness, not Russian propaganda.

But who else will take the time to remind Kiwi Farms 40 times a day that RUSSIA... is BAAAD amirite fellas?

Maybe the political ideology created from his writings will be canceled next.
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Epic homeless commie dude was actually based... and redpilled!

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

And I'm sure that will 100% turn out to be legit just like that last video where it claimed that the body bags were crisis actors.

Y'know what, if this turns out to actually be true, I'll buy you a coke.

There are hundreds of such videos and other evidence.

Are you really so naïve to believe they won't hide out in schools and other civilian locations?

 

[Meat Target]

I still say Putin has been pulling punches. He underestimated Ukraine and thought it could be taken with the scrubs.