Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Badungus Kabungus]

Russia has had warrants out for Soros for years and China first labeled him an "economic terrorist" back in 2021.

He's also banned from Israel. Dude just can't get a break.

 

[Kane Lives]

He's also banned from Israel. Dude just can't get a break.

Hol up. Isn't he jewish?

 

[Uncle Buck]

He's also banned from Israel. Dude just can't get a break.

If that's true it surprises me.

Though given how proud he's publicly declared he was of his time as a NSDAP sympathizer, it surprises me more that they haven't found a way to off him. They've summarily executed a lot of people inside and outside of Israel for much less.

 

[Hell on Earth]

Every time they try something new it goes pretty much nowhere. Russian and Soviet design doctrine for many systems has always been evolutionary, not revolutionary. The T-14 was the most revolutionary design they’ve had in a long time and it’s absolute trash. Warship wise? They don’t have the budget. Hell, they don’t have the budget or domestic industry to do a lot as is. The T-90 is just a gussied up T-72, the new flanker variants are interesting but stuck with the fact it’s still a Flanker, and the Su-57 is vaporware.

Honestly, the Russian military isn’t going to improve without massive purges and that is unlikely to happen any time soon.

How do you know the T14 is trash based on one video of it malfunctioning?

Tanks are complex machines.

You can't say that the Tiger tank was trash just because you saw one image of one stuck in the mud, that's just ridiculous.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Do you really need a reminder what a few hypersonic missiles will do to a carrier group?

MDA: U.S. Aircraft Carriers Now at Risk from Hypersonic Missiles - USNI News

This post has been updated to correct the spelling of the first name of the director of the Missile Defense Agency, Vice Adm. Jon Hill. U.S. aircraft carriers are already facing risks from hypersonic weapons that are now entering the inventory of American adversaries and the Navy has developed...

news.usni.org

Depends on if their missile is good enough to hit moving targets yet. I imagine that will be a priority. At the very least right now, they'd be great for hitting every airfield they can reach in the opening of a conflict.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/canada-exhausted-weapons-inventory-after-donating-ukraine/

Truckerbros, your time is now.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Do you really need a reminder what a few hypersonic missiles will do to a carrier group?

MDA: U.S. Aircraft Carriers Now at Risk from Hypersonic Missiles - USNI News

This post has been updated to correct the spelling of the first name of the director of the Missile Defense Agency, Vice Adm. Jon Hill. U.S. aircraft carriers are already facing risks from hypersonic weapons that are now entering the inventory of American adversaries and the Navy has developed...

news.usni.org

Keyword almost, the nuclear powered missile, the T-14 (and all the IFV and APC variants based off it's chassis), the SU-57. There's a reason Russia is using modernized variants of shit from the early 90s and late 80s.

 

[White_N]

A new video from Chechens near Mariupol.
They show a routine: they clean up the city, seize an ammunition depot, force the prisoner to apologize to Ramzan Akhmatovich.

Spoiler: Now I understand who the Chechens remind me of.

 

[Meat Target]

Keyword almost, the nuclear powered missile, the T-14 (and all the IFV and APC variants based off it's chassis), the SU-57. There's a reason Russia is using modernized variants of shit from the early 90s and late 80s.

"Muh hypersonic missiles" seem like the scary-sounding Wunderwaffen that the Pentagon hypes up to beg for more money.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Keyword almost, the nuclear powered missile, the T-14 (and all the IFV and APC variants based off it's chassis), the SU-57. There's a reason Russia is using modernized variants of shit from the early 90s and late 80s.

I mean so is NATO, to a degree. The difference is that we either are starting to field the replacements, or the replacements are on the horizon.

 

[Badungus Kabungus]

Hol up. Isn't he jewish?

If that's true it surprises me.

Though given how proud he's publicly declared he was of his time as a NSDAP sympathizer, it surprises me more that they haven't found a way to off him. They've summarily executed a lot of people outside of Israel for much less.

Soros funds the same shit in Israel as he does everywhere else. Undermining the country's institutions and replacing them with Marxist shit. That and him funding BDS doesn't sit well with most Israelis.

Israel backs Hungary, says financier Soros is a threat

Israel's foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary ahead of a visit to Budapest next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

www.reuters.com

 

[Tactical Wizard]

But why was it non-functional? Is it because the Karzai government was nothing but a kleptocracy that preached gender studies to a bunch of Muslims? If Liberal Democracy was all it's cracked up to be, Afghanis would have supported it.

While I don't think Trump would have bungled it as hard as Biden did, it still would have been considered a loss.

It was going to happen because the American people were frankly tired of it. With the air support that we promised, the best we could have hoped for would have been to have them be a dysfunctional ward of the international community for another twenty years.

As to liberal democracy? The neo cons made the mistake of thinking that everyone shares the same values: we don’t. Our values make it viable, theirs don’t. Authority in Afghanistan only ever extended to the city limits and the roads that ran between them and when that’s all that you have? You have a city state, not a nation. When I was over there, if you went up into the hills, life there proceeded as it had for thousands of years, irregardless of what flag was flying down in the valleys. Our failure to bridge that gap was let to the failure of the Afghan nation building project. The gender studies program at Kabul University was a bad joke but it wasn’t emblematic of the failure of our war effort, but rather the cancer that eats at the heart of our societies here.

 

[Chinggis Khan]

You're drastically overstating the cost of living in the states. Nobody is going "oh man I can't drive anymore". Yes gas is more expensive, but it's not even remotely close to the point of being unable to drive.

In my city rents have gone up 50-100% since pre-pandemic. Seen some wild scenarios of people paying $1500 and going up to $3500 in a single increase. These were people making like $4k a month after tax. Pretty much every week is somebody on the local subreddit, facebook groups, etc is somebody saying "Sayonara Folks! I've been priced out, its been nice knowing you all!". And it's not off to the burbs either, because those are expensive too, so they are leaving the entire region or even the state.

> Don't live in the city.

Well that's where the jobs and opportunities are. So good luck in whatever bumfuck town you're from trying to go up the ladder and build a good career. Also inflation is hitting there too.

And it will only get worse. Just a sign of things to come for the rest of the country which hasn't caught up yet.

Get a good job with a globohomo corp and buy a house now and maybe you can push the problem for yourself back another generation.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

If that's true it surprises me.

Though given how proud he's publicly declared he was of his time as a NSDAP sympathizer, it surprises me more that they haven't found a way to off him. They've summarily executed a lot of people outside of Israel for much less.

If Isreal did that, I wouldn't complain about the sheer amount of military aid we sent them nearly as much. I might even call it a good return on the investment.

 

[bread n circuses]

I live in a NATO country lol. The more neutered Russia is the better especially since the country in question is a large pile of resources. I hope Ukraine will stave off this invasion, they not only would make a strong NATO partner especially now that the west is glorifying them (rightfully so) and they are tough as nails but they are also valuable partners in business. Why would we give up on these people who have shown the world they are willing to fight tooth and nail against the Reds.

I’m going to laugh so hard when the reports of Ukrainian gangs leading to massive spikes in crime throughout Europe start to hit. My bets are that Ukrainians will be as hated as gypsies by 2030.

The west uses Ukraine as a place to launder money and profiteer, Ukraine is 3 times as poor as Russia now and was richer under the Soviet fucking union. You rhetorically sucking their cock isn’t going to make NATO treat Ukraine as anything other than a bitch. Even if Ukraine “won” the war its future would be bleak as fuck.

 

[Wy4M]

Kadyrov posted another vid of his Chechen liberators on their peace mission:

https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/1602

https://archive.ph/s9EdF

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

I mean so is NATO, to a degree. The difference is that we either are starting to field the replacements, or the replacements are on the horizon.

Not entirely like that either. Sure they're using modernized M1 Abrams and M4 carbines, but they got F-22s and finally got F-35s working, While ground forces wise NATO is still using modernized cold war equipment, their airforces are up to date.

 

[naffatune]

Ukrainian T-64s do some shooting (link)

Gigantic explosion in Kiev (link)

Abandoned Ukrainian helicopters have been found at Chernobaevka airfield in Kherson (link)

 

[Wy4M]

Lord Miles digging his own rabbit hole?

https://twitter.com/real_lord_miles/status/1507056751128064001

https://archive.ph/D9W0d

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Kadyrov posted another vid of his Chechen liberators on their peace mission:

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https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/1602

https://archive.ph/s9EdF

Ffs can he use all his Russian bribe money to get some good sound equipment for his propaganda?