Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Uncle Buck]

Hey, wait a second, did I get a glitch and get sent to the Star Trek thread?

Use the proper terminology; transporter malfunction due to ion storm.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Hey, wait a second, did I get a glitch and get sent to the Star Trek thread?

Darn, L50 left us right when the thread moved to something up his alley...

 

[Tactical Wizard]

Doubtful. Not enough reason to flee yet. Plus if he'd "fled" it'd be difficult for him to keep doing his job without people catching wind of it.

Most likely they just don't want to admit he's hiding in a bunker just like they accused Putin of doing. That it'd be reasonable for him and the government to be staying in a bunker and running things from there doesn't matter. All that matters is that they want to hold their leadership up as brave, while calling Russia's leadership cowards.

Though it'll be funny if on one of these videos at some point he just walks across the square and back to prove there isn't a green screen behind him.

He already did that. He live-streamed himself in front of the Ukrainian Parliament building and told the Russians to come and get him after Putin hinted that they knew where he was at all times.

There was no follow-on air strike.

 

[Lone MacReady]

The idea that Iraq had an 'insane amount of casualties' just shows that people expect war to be bloodless for some reason.

How do you think modern Americans would handle Civil War-tier deaths, not casualties, but deaths from a single average battle?

 

[kim foxx]

How do you think modern Americans would handle Civil War-tier deaths, not casualties, but deaths from a single average battle?

they would absolutely lose their minds for a bit but once it becomes normalized and the media hides it people stop caring. the US lost over 1,000 fixed wing aircraft in vietnam and another 9,000 or so helicopters.

 

[Wash away the rain]

How do you think modern Americans would handle Civil War-tier deaths, not casualties, but deaths from a single average battle?

It’s all about how close it hits and for how long eventually people become jaded to horrific things even if they were horrified the first time. school shooters and spree killers seem bland now adays just another psycho who the media is gonna go on for weeks about.

 

[RussianBlonde]

Pay no attention to the amount of civilians the US has killed
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It's not comparable until it's covid.
Then if it saves just one life....

Im so sick of humanity. Why are people stupid? How does that happen?





unless it's

 

[cistendered]

Since Ukraine is obviously the fairest and most transparent democracy in Europe it would be absurd to think that a huge chunk of military aid is just getting siphoned off to be resold after the war is over.

 

[Random Internet Person]

They did have a mariachi band in one episode.

You know of the glories of Q?

 

[owTwo]

And they may be. What is their suicide rate?

Assisted.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Well what do you know, Madeline Albright just croaked. Almost on the anniversary of the NATO bombing campaigns of Yugoslavia, too. Press S to spit.

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Coronachan, get to work, she needs company.

 

[Retink]

Coronachan, get to work, she needs company.

Fucking Winnie the Pooh couldn't even create a plague waifu that would take out the disgusting boomers in charge of our government or the fatties on welfare and we all had to suffer because of it.

 

[Wash away the rain]

So are you winning (insert side) anyways any thing come out of the Biolabs thing except a bunch of soy pogging at them by everyone.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

The idea that Iraq had an 'insane amount of casualties' just shows that people expect war to be bloodless for some reason.

Casualties is does not mean dead, it means being injured in some way to take the individual out of combat duties. People were getting blown up at an insane rate, just because the US has a great evac system for wounded people does not mean they're not saddled with blown off legs and massively burned bodies. Relative to WW2, Korea and Vietnam the death rate was rather low but there was some serious fucking damage going on in Iraq and Afghanistan that largely gets ignored in favor of the small KIA number.

 

[BiggerChungus]

Experts say Russian casualties in Ukraine may now be in the hundreds of millions.
As there are only around 150,000 troops involved, this is especially devastating for Putin's regime.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

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Since Ukraine is obviously the fairest and most transparent democracy in Europe it would be absurd to think that a huge chunk of military aid is just getting siphoned off to be resold after the war is over.

While I am sure some of it is being siphoned off, I also believe they're going through supplies fast. It seems like supply use massively outstrips what was expected to be used in every recent war.

 

[Tactical Wizard]

So are you winning (insert side) anyways any thing come out of the Biolabs thing except a bunch of soy pogging at them by everyone.

No, just someone making the eminently rational call that maybe someone should do something with a lab full of samples of Anthrax and such in the middle of a warzone. Go to any area with heavy agricultual cultivation going on and you will be near a level 3 Lab.

 

[Übertroon]

Casualties is does not mean dead, it means being injured in some way to take the individual out of combat duties. People were getting blown up at an insane rate, just because the US has a great evac system for wounded people does not mean they're not saddled with blown off legs and massively burned bodies. Relative to WW2, Korea and Vietnam the death rate was rather low but there was some serious fucking damage going on in Iraq and Afghanistan that largely gets ignored in favor of the small KIA number.

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Well thankfully the Russians are not as cruel as the americans, and are letting the wounded expire just as God intended

 

[Derka Derka]

This gentleman would like a word:

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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

 

[kim foxx]

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Since Ukraine is obviously the fairest and most transparent democracy in Europe it would be absurd to think that a huge chunk of military aid is just getting siphoned off to be resold after the war is over.

why wait until the war is over? the huge transfer of arms over to cartels, gangsters, etc. will make fast and furious look like baby's first arms deal