Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Fcret]

-China will most likely ally with Russia and Russia will most likely rework their army and logistics if given time.

Anything else?

This is probably the most unrealistic part. The Chinese are busy trying to do shit at home and European Russia is extraordinarily far away to send any kind of support. The oil fields supplying the west are not physically connected to the pipelines that can reach China so selling China oil is going to require ludicrous amounts of investment and time or for Chinese tankers to enter a warzone (this last one won't happen).

At most, China might sell Russia more high tech gadgetry (radios, scopes, drones etc) but expecting large amounts of materiel is pretty unrealistic. China hasn't built its navy to do long-haul operations like this (preferring to focus on regional hegemony before aiming higher).

 

[DumbDude42]

The average slav retard doesn't care about bullet points. Ask any Ukrainian today about that shit that "ooga booga we never promised to protect you" they'll call you a backstabing faggot and the second worst thing behind Russia. That's literally what the rest of Europe will think about America from now on too.

not just the rest of europe, but americas allies in asia even more so

think about it - europe is weak right now because they're complacent, but if they wanted they could quickly change that. they have 3 times larger population than russia, and like 15 times larger economy. it would be very easy for them to match or even exceed russian military power on their own. and with france being a nuclear power, they can in principle provide nuclear detterence on their own as well, without america.

but with americas asian allies, this is not the case. countries like korea, japan and taiwan simply are way too small to match the chinese military buildup, it's completely impossible for them to do. also none of them are nuclear powers, so for these countries, american protection is 100% necessary, they are completely dependent on it and there is no way out of that dependence for them. watching america abandon its allies to its enemies one by one must be actually terrifying for these guys.

 

[76LD910]

In the mean time Yemeni armed forces stepped up their game against Saudi Arabia.
Yahi Sari, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces: We targeted the Aramco oil refinery in Jeddah and other critical targets in Riyadh with cruise missiles.

Probably unrelated so why am I even posting this here...
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Wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be Iran like the last time this happened in 2019. Some of the hardliners are just dumb enough to do this.

If so this will fuck them in the long run just like that incident did, it will just put more pressure the gulf states to open the taps and turn potential buyers of their own product away like it did with India.

 

[Meat Target]

I was told there would be cyberattacks and WMDs.

 

[Fcret]

I was told there would be cyberattacks and WMDs.

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There have definitely been cyberattacks. Lapsus$ is definitely the sort of irregular civilian operation that the Russians prefer to use so they can maintain plausible deniability. Not saying they're necessarily connected but the timing is pretty convenient.

 

[Gar For Archer]

not just the rest of europe, but americas allies in asia even more so

think about it - europe is weak right now because they're complacent, but if they wanted they could quickly change that. they have 3 times larger population than russia, and like 15 times larger economy. it would be very easy for them to match or even exceed russian military power on their own. and with france being a nuclear power, they can in principle provide nuclear detterence on their own as well, without america.

but with americas asian allies, this is not the case. countries like korea, japan and taiwan simply are way too small to match the chinese military buildup, it's completely impossible for them to do. also none of them are nuclear powers, so for these countries, american protection is 100% necessary, they are completely dependent on it and there is no way out of that dependence for them. watching america abandon its allies to its enemies one by one must be actually terrifying for these guys.

Japan is only nominally non-nuclear. It is generally believed that they have the materials and facilities to start manufacturing nuclear weapons at a moment’s notice, and can be armed and ready within four weeks.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Man Poland is still really salty about ww2. Germany better pray that they don't ever slip like this, because I have a feeling Poland would demand even harsher punishment for them.

Poland isn't doing shit against the forming caliphates, that would be bigoted.

 

[MadStan]

Russian forces haven't been stalled. They've been told to stay out.

Putin is about to unleash something horrid on the capital.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Poland isn't doing shit against the forming caliphates, that would be bigoted.

Well, Poles like their scimitars. Maybe they're just nostalgic for the Ottoman Empire.

 

[Fcret]

Japan is only nominally non-nuclear. It is generally understood that they have the materials and facilities to start manufacturing nuclear weapons at a moment’s notice.

It's sort of like how Japan doesn't have 'aircraft carriers' but maintains several Izumo-class helicopter carriers that could be easily modified to launch F-35s. Very coy about their capabilities those Japanese.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Russian forces haven't been stalled. They've been told to stay out.

Putin is about to unleash something horrid on the capital.

And do we have anything to support this?

 

[Wy4M]

I know there are a lot of mapfags in the thread.

So here is the first official map from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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I added the scale to get a better understanding of how much land they occupied. Might as well share.

 

[St.Davis]

I noticed that you completely ignored the part about naming their prime minister.

It didn't have anything to do with the idea of annexing The Ukraine, or of Kiev specifically.

I'm not sure how you wanted me to respond to it. "Yes"?

 

[Meat Target]

And do we have anything to support this?

Air and missile strikes seem to be getting more frequent.

 

[MrJokerRager]

It's sort of like how Japan doesn't have 'aircraft carriers' but maintains several Izumo-class helicopter carriers that could be easily modified to launch F-35s. Very coy about their capabilities those Japanese.

I read somewhere that the manga "GATE" and later on anime could be considered some sort of psyop by their JSDF, to warm people up to the idea of Japan being stronk again.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Air and missile strikes seem to be getting more frequent.

Yeah, but that's also standard practice before you move in to take an area. I'm curious where they got "ordered to stay out of Kiev", then implying something horrible was going to happen, which seems to be alluding to WMD use.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I read somewhere that the manga "GATE" and later on anime could be considered some sort of psyop by their JSDF, to warm people up to the idea of Japan being stronk again.

Isn't that the show where a SDF helicopter can kill a dragon?

 

[MadStan]

And do we have anything to support this?

Not at all. Just a disturbing feeling.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Can we get one for commie larpers to go to as well? Nobody has a better track record for eliminating them than other commies.

They already have Cuba right off the Florida coast but its commie so of course they won't go. No Funko Pops and everyone has to work.

 

[JambledUpWords]

If what the Ukes are saying about the Russian army being weak is true, we really don’t need to escalate things with a no-fly zone. If Russia is weak, they’d run out of steam before they even attempt to capture the western parts of Ukraine.