Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[kuuu]

Source?

Russian media confirms

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14194571

 

[Hell on Earth]

This is being passed around by Pro-Russian accounts.

As always, take it with a grain of salt.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

The Azerbaijani armed forces have entered the zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh — The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Can someone who doesn't live under a rock tell me why this is important/troubling?

 

[A_throwaway_name62919]

a thermal scanner will show who has a fever and who should be sent to a quarantine camp.

That's going to be a shit show. Reading someone's temperature from their skin isn't as accurate sticking a thermometer in their mouth. You get much more of a range, including some people running hot just because they've been somewhere too warm or are wearing heavy enough clothing to heat them up. Sheer scale would mean there'll be a lot of false positives.

 

[Reddit Gold]

Can someone who doesn't live under a rock tell me why this is important/troubling?

WW3.

 

[whothefuck]

Can someone who doesn't live under a rock tell me why this is important/troubling?

its like a mini balkans over in the causacus, and that should tell you enough

 

[Disheveled Human]

So now that Russia's "Phase 1" is complete they are scaling back operations they are winning now no major objectives completed, just 2 more weeks guys to flatten the curve. NATO to get involved if chemical or tactical nukes get deployed. What an amazing win for what is reasonably estimated 15k loss of troops and thousands in equipment including armored vehicles and aircraft for the Russians. Ukraine gets unlimited money and equipment cheats.

 

[Alba gu brath]

city of Kevin

Apologies, not meaning to insult ya here pal, but do you mean Kyiv, or Kherson? Kyiv would be a tasty slice, because it has historical ties to old Russia, orthodoxy wise as well, they could claim the seat of that church and so on. If Kherson, like others likely said, they dammed up the water way into Crimea, but if they take that, it means they can try and either push along the western/southern sea side, thus getting them some of those tasty warm water ports that the Russians just love.

 

[NynchLiggers]

So now that Russia's "Phase 1" is complete they are scaling back operations they are winning now no major objectives completed, just 2 more weeks guys to flatten the curve.

They did not say anything about scaling back tho.

 

[Reddit Gold]

That's going to be a shit show. Reading someone's temperature from their skin isn't as accurate sticking a thermometer in their mouth. You get much more of a range, including some people running hot just because they've been somewhere too warm or are wearing heavy enough clothing to heat them up. Sheer scale would mean there'll be a lot of false positives.

The Chinese state surveillance (and the tech that bolsters it) isn't that efficient at all. The point is to project power and since most people aren't tech-savvy it works.

 

[kuuu]

Apologies, not meaning to insult ya here pal, but do you mean Kyiv, or Kherson? Kyiv would be a tasty slice, because it has historical ties to old Russia, orthodoxy wise as well, they could claim the seat of that church and so on. If Kherson, like others likely said, they dammed up the water way into Crimea, but if they take that, it means they can try and either push along the western/southern sea side, thus getting them some of those tasty warm water ports that the Russians just love.

He meant Keeev.

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[Spicey McHaggis]

Can someone who doesn't live under a rock tell me why this is important/troubling?

It's not tbh. I mean it sucks for people living there, but not much chance of it spreading. Those two have been autisticly slap fighting for 30 years now. Even if we wanted to send one side aid, there's no way we can. But nobody in the US government gives a fuck about that frozen conflict.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

WW3.

Is there anything that doesn't lead to WW3 at this point? Even our cats are arming themselves if the daily war reports are any accurate.

 

[White_N]

Can someone who doesn't live under a rock tell me why this is important/troubling?

Potentially, Georgian War 2: electric boogaloo.

 

[Disheveled Human]

They did not say anything about scaling back tho.

Look at their ceasefire agreements week 1 vs week 4.

 

[Kane Lives]

The Chinese state surveillance (and the tech that bolsters it) isn't that efficient at all. The point is to project power and since most people aren't tech-savvy it works.

Aye. Easy to impress the country bumpkins with such tech, even if it doesn't exactly work all that well. I can imagine the folks I know there would be impressed by this show.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Potentially, Georgian War 2: electric boogaloo.

This is a much different situation. The puppet breakaway region is managed by Armenia, not Russia. The real reason Russian troops are there is as peacekeepers, they haven't taken involvement in the conflict in the past. In this case Russia is literally the only country that can be semi trusted by both sides and can practically deploy there.

 

[NynchLiggers]

Look at their ceasefire agreements week 1 vs week 4.

From what I saw they did not change at all.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

That's going to be a shit show. Reading someone's temperature from their skin isn't as accurate sticking a thermometer in their mouth. You get much more of a range, including some people running hot just because they've been somewhere too warm or are wearing heavy enough clothing to heat them up. Sheer scale would mean there'll be a lot of false positives.

This is China, a few false positives going to the quarantine camps are just people who can be used as spare parts for high ranking Party members. It's perfectly acceptable to the party and those people would probably just have gotten eaten by an escalator, fallen down an elevator shaft, set on fire when their scooters blow up, die in random explosions, get crushed or sucked into industrial machinery, or otherwise waste perfectly good organs. A few false positives is a sacrifice the Party is willing to make.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Oh so the most rich and well off countries lol.

Its the consumer nations that provide nothing but mechanisms to move money around. The economies that matter for Russia didn't sanction them, and even the European nations aren't so suicidal that they'd go full sanction and cut off the gas, if you paid attention to the news headlines it was quite hilarious watching the sanctions get watered down; nations like Italy were mandating that luxury goods would not be included, Germany mandating that gas was not to be touched. In the end very little did get sanctioned.