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%

  • Total voters
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It seems they photoshopped this pic.
Not sure what is going on. You can see a head and then they wanted to hide the body?

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It looks like someone was tasked with editing the soldier out and simply used content-aware fill to do so and called it a day.

Here's an example of how it works.
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Produces a lot of weird artifacts and nonsensical shapes, but it's quick and does the job.

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Yep its correct to draw definitive conclusions from the limited and often deliberately distorted evidence available to us
So they distorted the evidence to just make it look like they lost two motor rifle divisions worth of equipment in three weeks. Including substantial quantities of the newest bestest gear and the cream of the VDV. It was distorted somehow. We could have simply deceived by those pictures of broken and captured BMD-4s and T-72B3(2016)s. A figment of our imagination. We also could be wrong that nearing a month into the operation there are about 20 BTGs around Kiev (noted by distinctive unit identifiers on distorted equipment losses) who are unable to surround it or move forward because the enemy flooded and mined and entrenched everything with, again, distorted evidence.

We cannot challenge narratives or draw definitive conclusions here. There could have possibly been a plan for this. They could have got 'em right where they want them because everything that says different is fake.
 
It looks like someone was tasked with editing the soldier out and simply used content-aware fill to do so and called it a day.

Here's an example of how it works.
Before
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After
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Produces a lot of weird artifacts and nonsensical shapes, but it's quick and does the job.

Legitimately impressive, not gonna lie. It'd pass muster at a glance and debooonking it will require time and effort.
 
So they distorted the evidence to just make it look like they lost two motor rifle divisions worth of equipment in three weeks. Including substantial quantities of the newest bestest gear and the cream of the VDV. It was distorted somehow. We could have simply deceived by those pictures of broken and captured BMD-4s and T-72B3(2016)s. A figment of our imagination. We also could be wrong that nearing a month into the operation there are about 20 BTGs around Kiev (noted by distinctive unit identifiers on distorted equipment losses) who are unable to surround it or move forward because the enemy flooded and mined and entrenched everything with, again, distorted evidence.

We cannot challenge narratives or draw definitive conclusions here. There could have possibly been a plan for this. They could have got 'em right where they want them because everything that says different is fake.
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Yep its correct to draw definitive conclusions from the limited and often deliberately distorted evidence available to us
I feel like I'm in the 2020 election thread again.

"No, it's not at all suspicious that ballots just appeared at 4:00 A.M. and the Republican poll watchers were shooed away, shut the fuck up."
 
I'm sorry lads, No more tiktok vids allowed.
It took the Ukrainian SBU almost a month to find out.

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I meeaaaaaan, I think it's fair enough he was arrested during an invasion, after disclosing military locations? The Russians aren't exactly known to be weak in the espionage game. No evidence he is being treated poorly apart from being arrested?

I've seen videos of people being literally taken by Russian cops on camera for expressing their opinions lol.
 
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It's because it is a dodge for what was an obvious colossal miscalculation and intelligence and tactical failure on their opening throw. We all saw it. Now the rhetoric shifts to "super-chessmaster-big-brain who planned this" after the initial offensive push went over about as well as a wet fart in church. It was a gamble that failed and people would stop mocking them (as much) if they just owned it.

They tried a Market-Garden and it didn't work. Nobody goes home for Christmas. Own it, keep your head down, and clear the Scheldt estuary. But pride prevents them.
Dude, @Sammich is right, you sound retarded. Ukraine is the Guatemala of Eastern Europe, a place with potential but run by corrupt and inept oligarchs overshadowed by bigger and more successful neighboring countries. Ukraine's most recognizable export are its people, Ukrainian immigrants in wealthier countries. It threatened its bigger and more powerful next door neighbor because they thought their kindred corrupt and inept US counterparts had them covered but nope. Oops, no honor among thieves. But here, give Langley and Co. a call.

This isn't a WW2 comparable conflict. If you want to compare it to other military engagements try the War of 1812. It's quickly becoming a proxy war so you could reference the Angola Civil War and the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. If it gets spicier, maybe the Rwanda Civil War. But this isn't Market Garden in any way, shape or form.
 
Is it fair to say after nearly a month of fighting, that whoever oversees Russian logistics operations is bad at their job?
No.

Honestly, saying that the Russian military is a genius simply because Russia is a Chess Powerhouse
No-one has said that. What they have said is that Russians are often good at strategic thinking, and the national propensity for chess playing may contribute to that.

I would say that and whoever the fuck planned that the invasion begin right when Spring, AKA Mud season was beginning
What makes you think it was planned for this time? I very much doubt it was planned for any particular time at all. - Russia made a preemptive move when she did because Russia was forced to by the belligerent actions of the US and its NATO/Ukraine stooges.
Keep in mind that Putin absolutely has information that you do not.
 
I'll take that as Ukraine won't accept any compromise that includes giving up any territory, considering Zelenskiy got elected because he promised to return Donbass and Crimea to Ukraine. Russia, of course, won't accept that since they need to gain anything substantial from this wae
 
I bring news from my father who was, back in the day, a prison guard at Spandau Prison, looking after Rudolf Hess et al. Possibly did other stuff.

"They're all morons."

Hope this helps.

No, Brave, I did not not mean Spandex Prison, but thanks for your input..
 
It's because it is a dodge for what was an obvious colossal miscalculation and intelligence and tactical failure on their opening throw. We all saw it. Now the rhetoric shifts to "super-chessmaster-big-brain who planned this" after the initial offensive push went over about as well as a wet fart in church. It was a gamble that failed and people would stop mocking them (as much) if they just owned it.

They tried a Market-Garden and it didn't work. Nobody goes home for Christmas. Own it, keep your head down, and clear the Scheldt estuary. But pride prevents them.
You are tilting at windmills. You make some outlandish claim, then you argue with the claim you made. Your house isn't a castle and Helen is not a princess.
 

LoL forget WWIII, turns out we're still in double OT of WWII:

Japan reacted angrily on Tuesday after Russia withdrew from peace treaty talks with Japan and froze joint economic projects related to the disputed Kuril islands because of Japanese sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia and Japan have not formally ended World War Two hostilities because of their standoff over islands, seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two, just off Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido.
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