Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Sexual Chocolate]

In December 2021 Russia stopped sending gas through Jamal pipe and Germany was running on their reserves.

Not the first time Germans have been fucked by Jamal

 

[Uncle Buck]

Germans have a special relationship with Ukraine.

Indeed:

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

It would be easier and more strategic to just let them leave. Can you imagine the whining?

"The Russian sniper will validate your gender. Just pop your head up from foxhole and tell me where he's shooting from"

 

[Reddit Gold]

One of the US's experimental superweapons in the 50-60's was a large, supersonic, nuclear ramjet drone with unlimited range, it would drop nukes on it's targets until it ran out, then used it's speed and low flybys to damage/poison cities with it's sonic boom and exhaust for months until it finally broke down, contaminating wherever it finally crashed.

It's also the closest thing to a real life Metal Gear that I know of.

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[bread n circuses]

Yes and?
At some point, the physicality of resources means that foreign policy becomes a zero sum game. For all the fanfare people spout about human rights etc etc, in the end no serious statesman cares about that. The few serious idealists are generally ineffective (e.g. Dag Hammerskjold). It is all about maximizing the gains and minimizing the losses for your side. American/western foreign policy has been pretty effective for the west. The west is incredibly prosperous, I'd rather be a hobo in the US than middle class in India or Pakistan.

This prosperity comes at a cost, like all things do. And the leadership of the west has decided to push that cost off on other nations. A very classical approach, establishing tributaries like practically every empire ever has done. International finance is a modern tributary system, enforced by the US Navy on the seas and countless glowies on the land.

You seem to think that "evil and destruction" is somehow an uniquely western foreign policy, while it is just the cost of western prosperity. If Russia was holding all the cards, or China, or India, do you think those regimes would be any less "cruel" in ensuring national prosperity? Of course not. This is just the nature of things. All in all, the west allows a fair amount of leeway in how nations operate internally, while still being beholden to the western world order. The mongols would have exterminated entire countries for some of the slights done towards the GAE in recent years.

The west is incredibly successful because the west industrialized centuries before everyone else not because America killed goatherders in Afghanistan. More cheap sophistry designed to trick people.

My entire point was that the west’s foreign policy was capricious and cruel because it caused a lot of death and destruction without any compelling security interest, not that war in the name of security interests was evil in general.

 

[No. 7 cat]

lollin hard that the losing team has just taken chernigov

Taken or taken, taken. Russia has raised their victory banner (the Commie flag) in places they still don't control.

 

[Mr Processor]

The President: "Our new policy in the Cold War is Mutually Assured Destruction, and we were wondering if..."
Nuclear weapons engineers: "Say no more. I've got just the thing."

"This one kills everything everywhere."

 

[JohnDoe]

Food supermarkets in Germany have introduced a new rule. The nominal price is valid only for one unit of goods in one hand (usually the most popular items are cereals, sugar, flour, etc.). The price for several units is much higher based on one package, and the difference in price, according to the ads, will be transferred to the Ukraine aid fund!
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Sounds like a great opportunity to separate your transactions.

 

[White_N]

Pinning a carpet to your wall is a symbol of wealth in Slavistani countries

Carpets on the wall are essential to attract babushkas in the wild.
Have a borscht.

 

[Retink]

This guy's giving himself way too much exposure, and it's going to get him killed.

For all we know he's not actually seeing any combat and just taking a few pictures before running off and hiding somewhere safe. If it ever does come out that he's just there for photo ops and hiding in safety otherwise people will just claim the moral boost he gave was more important than killing a few Ruskis, and they'll put up a statue of him next to George Floyd.

 

[Hell on Earth]

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SBU blockpost after Russian artillery shelling. Operator says that they had a case of ammunition blow out.
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There were videos of this infernal thing doing work sometime ago.
Here's supposedly the aftermath, a burned down Ukrainian defense position:

Spoiler: NSFW

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You don't fuck with thermobaric bombs, that's for shure.

Those things can anihilate infantry.

The guys in this thread that are proposing infantry based armies should reformulate their theories.

 

[Safir]

Russia hasn't achieved any of its military objectives.

We have water for Crimea.

I guess they are really grinding it out in Mariupol.

Russia is handicapped the way Ukies aren't. Russia doesn't want to cause "too much" damage because they (we) want to control / annex / liberate Russia-aligned territory. They don't want to bomb Mariupol because it's a friendly city (the Azov battalion was founded there to terrorize the populace), and they can't bomb hostile cities or their civic infrastructure because they need a mostly livable country to talk peace with.

This motherfucker has a PHD.

Why would they export shit if they're not getting paid ya dingus?

This motherfucker was the ambassador to Russia under Obama.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

As expected, contrary to propaganda, the repeatedly buried Canadian sniper Valli is still alive and even gives interviews from near Kiev, posing with his SAKO TRG-42 rifle.

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That's a LARPer if I ever saw one. Not a speck of dirt or mud on his costume or rifle. He's just taking pictures from his Toronto apartment, it seems.

 

[Wy4M]

/pol/s take on things.

 

[Three]

Arnold is speaking up about the war, but his teacup story sounds like total bullshit, it wouldn't surprise me if he is a closet tranny at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t4-AoXSl1A

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but there's a response to his video from a few days ago by Russian powerlifter Maryana Naumova.

[YT]

 

[Elbereth]

Russia is handicapped the way Ukies aren't. Russia doesn't want to cause "too much" damage because they (we) want to control / annex / liberate Russia-aligned territory. They don't want to bomb Mariupol because it's a friendly city (the Azov battalion was founded there to terrorize the populace), and they can't bomb hostile cities or their civic infrastructure because they need a mostly livable country to talk peace with.

Does that look to you as "not too much damage"?

 

[Chinggis Khan]

I know the Russian Officer Corps is bloated as fuck, but losing a senior officer basically every 2 or 3 days isn't exactly good for troop morale.

I don't know, depending on how he was viewed I could see it being a morale booster knowing he got whacked.

 

[Chongqing]

In the last thread, I made a post about a Telegram channel specifically focused on collecting photos of dead Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in order to identify them. They went by the handle "rf200_now".

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Recently discovered that all their content is gone and their subscriber count went down the drain. I have no doubt that certain people reached out to them beforehand.

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Let us know if you see it resurface elsewhere, please.

 

[Hitman One]

We are now four weeks on and the mighty Red Army is still trying to defeat bands of tranny redditors and Ukrainian pig farmers. Surely nobody can possibly take these krokodil addicted, barely sentient vatniggers seriously? Dropping an ICBM on Moscow would be an act of mercy at this point.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Does that look to you as "not too much damage"?
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Most of those buildings are still standing!