Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Lord Edge of Leetworth]

You've already been asked for suggestions on how to tackle the problem and you came up with nothing. I'm not sure exactly what you expect the Russian citizenry to do. Nice bait though.

What bait? This crisis is impacting me. I'm entitled to be shit-faced about it. I'm also not Russia's nanny and I'm not omniscient. It's their problem. The first step to solve any problem is to be able to identify it. They however choose to either ignore it or outright endorse the regime. Worse yet they flaunt that duplicity out in the open right now: "Yeah, we have huge problems. What, you can't fix it for us? Hahaha! Fuck off we're happy here!"

You do realize that centuries of living under extremely autocratic rulers will lead to a much different set of cultural values than the west right? Stop thinking like a westerner whose living in a country with at least a century of democratic tradition. The best way to put it, and I don't mean this as an insult to our Russian posters, is that the Russians may look like us, but they don't think like us.

Everyone thinks differently from you until you all smoke a joint and start laughing at each other's expense. Stop fetishising this fatalistic narrative. All of Russia's neighbours have suffered just as much as they have and yet none are wallowing in self-pity and self-harm.

All this cavalier attitude of sticking it to the man dissapears when your family is threatened with murder, torture and exile.

These have been the experiences of normal Russians for hundreds of years and you wouldn't be so courageous if you and your family are sent to slave camps in Siberia or dissapear due to the secret police.

You can't sympathise with Russians because your society has never experienced 1/10th of the pressure and extremes that Russian society has experienced.

Is Ukraine a mirage or something?

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

What terrifies me is that after this "fog of war" (or as I said in this thread, "mud of war") clears, the bodies may be far worse...

Those weeks old dead we saw last night were pretty bad. I hope both sides can get their dead cleared asap, because otherwise there could be a health crisis that could kill more people than the combat.

 

[WolfeTone]

Lol wtf, well i guess this answers my question I had about "What shitty politics" did I pump into my meme-f-t project. I assumed it was the jab at LGBTQIAAP+ crowd but I guess it was the Ukraine thing?

I don't know what you think my "shitty viewpoint" is. As you seemed to have already ran a background check on me, you know I only posted about this conflict on the day it happened.

Just so people who are in the dark, @WolfeTone is upsetti-spaghetti I had this line in an Aprilfools joke.


along with this image;
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I always thought calling this place the "Autistic Thunderdome" was a meme, but if @WolfeTone can read that entire OP and the 50+ generated images I made was all to dunk on Ukraine then bruh I really am kinda speechless.

And no, you can't have a "Nullie"

Nah, I'm sure you're able to shit out a bunch of garbage pixel art on the back-end of a shitty fake fad. That's not what I'm upset about. I'm upset that you lied.

 

[Freya]

Not gonna lie, I enjoy seeing war journalists and war photographers end up dead. Maybe I'm just a psychopath here but seeing journalists visit a dangerous zone for the first time in their lives and realising that they're not safe if Russia carpet bombs the truck carrying them (and 20 soldiers) before having to run home sobbing really gives me a justice boner.

Also props to the absolute grade A retards who are literally walking up to Russian tanks and trying to take videos. Your footage will live on long after they try and find your body parts.

Is that actually what's happening?
I imagine the journalists going to a war zone aren't the same ones that live on twitter

 

[Elbereth]

Ok, we had our laughs about putinbros cope, but now for real: why do I think that any cutting off gas won't happen?

1. The economic benefit for Russia is questionable. What difference it makes that EU will buy rubel and pay it for a gas, than for russia to take payment in euro and sell it for a rubel or use euro in any other way? FX spread. Maybe they have some plans for backstabbing EU by manipulating exchange rates, but if EU thinks they are going to do that, they definitely wont pay in rubel. Otherwise I suspect that it is just for internal purpose. To appeal to people by "look, those dumb eurofags pay us in ruble! haha, what an idiot!".
2. 2/3 of Russia budget are raw material exports. Majority of it is oil, which sells 20% less than Brent. It is huge hit to budget that might get even bigger as US is freeing their oil reserves in a biggest way. Next in budget incomes is gas. 74% of Russia gas flows to Europe. Cutting it off is another blow to already struggling budget. Not to mention that they already stopped selling bunch of other, less important raw materials as their countersanctions.
3. They cannot stop mining that gas, it is not physically possible to stop flow. They also cannot sell it to China or India, as thera are no gaspipes with sufficient capabilities. Building those takes years. Their only choice is to keep selling gas to europe or burn it.
4. Despite media's cry, cutting off gas to germany is not that bad. Most of those articles are written by chemical giants. And that would suck for industry, because it would increase their cost quite a bit. However, there is second side to that, written by scientists. And those point out that only small portion of Russian gas is truly irreplaceable. In short it would mean higher prices and a bit cooler central heating, not shortages of energy. Well, especially now as heating season is ending and there won't be bigger demand until next autumn or so.
5. And lastly, who was the first proponent of cutting off Russian carbohydrates export? That's right, Zelenskyy!

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

That's not what I'm upset about. I'm upset that you lied.

...about?

 

[Fougaro]

How will Ukraine ever fucking recover from this?

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Ukraine will recover. /uhg/ not so much.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

because otherwise there could be a health crisis that could kill more people than the combat.

The real cruel twist of fate would be a covid mutation originating from Kiev or another hotpoint: when a bunch of underfed, sunlight deprived and sleep deprived people all group into one shelter and seeing their immune systems getting hammered by the coof.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

the Chechens, who a few years ago got in hot water for having televised children's MMA fights

That's based as fuck.

 

[WolfeTone]

...about?

Ukrainians fleeing their homes? Nah man, those were tourists.
Ukrainians fought like we'll all need to fight.

 

[draggs]

The United States never should have saved the Soviet Union from Hitler.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Lol wtf, well i guess this answers my question I had about "What shitty politics" did I pump into my meme-f-t project. I assumed it was the jab at LGBTQIAAP+ crowd but I guess it was the Ukraine thing?

I don't know what you think my "shitty viewpoint" is. As you seemed to have already ran a background check on me, you know I only posted about this conflict on the day it happened.

Just so people who are in the dark, @WolfeTone is upsetti-spaghetti I had this line in an Aprilfools joke.


along with this image;
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I always thought calling this place the "Autistic Thunderdome" was a meme, but if @WolfeTone can read that entire OP and the 50+ generated images I made was all to dunk on Ukraine then bruh I really am kinda speechless.

And no, you can't have a "Nullie"

I saw it clearly as a joke going along with the "I support the current thing" meme, which matched the LGBT+++ stuff for your Nullies (PBUH). I always thought @WolfeTone was more aware of this (I love his animal posts everywhere). Now I'm sad (along with the bodies post I made a few minutes ago).

Grumble grumble.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Ukrainians fleeing their homes? Nah man, those were tourists.
Ukrainians fought like we'll all need to fight.

Not a single one fled?

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

The real cruel twist of fate would be a covid mutation originating from Kiev or another hotpoint: when a bunch of underfed, sunlight deprived and sleep deprived people all group into one shelter and seeing their immune systems getting hammered by the coof.

We're not talking covid shit, we're talking literal black plague level shit. Large amounts of dead bodies in the open is asking for a disaster. It's only been in the last 100 years or so that combat in war has been killing more than disease.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

What bait? This crisis is impacting me.

How is it impacting you, are you unable to keep stuffing cocks in your mouth or ass?

 

[WolfeTone]

Not a single one fled?

That's not how society works
Your nation is what lies beneath what people walk over

 

[kuuu]

I just can't take seriously a narrative about the evils of teaching children about weapons when both sides do it.

I'm confused. I didn't make an argument about that?
In a perfect world conscription would not have been a necessity. But this is not a perfect world.

I would have agreed if Russia didn't have conscription.
Alas, we do.

was a response to

That actually makes it worse.

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

Ukrainians fleeing their homes? Nah man, those were tourists.
Ukrainians fought like we'll all need to fight.

There's a holol in this very thread who fled.

 

[WolfeTone]

I was instantly sick of the dead internet fake reddit posts about zelinski fucking their wives. When that fake story-telling shit that's always fake and always story-telling is juxtaposed with civilians driving through artillery shells and appartments burning, it makes a man far sicker than the war itself. It makes a man hate the men who think it's wise to lie, to put down civilians, not just a government and country, civilians, when they're fleeing, crying, with their families.

Nothing but hate for the war shills, long live Russia, long live Ukraine, and long live the slavic people.

 

[draggs]

I was instantly sick of the dead internet fake reddit posts about zelinski fucking their wives. When that fake story-telling shit that's always fake and always story-telling is juxtaposed with civilians driving through artillery shells and appartments burning, it makes a man far sicker than the war itself. It makes a man hate the men who think it's wise to lie, to put down civilians, not just a government and country, civilians, when they're fleeing, crying, with their families.

Nothing but hate for the war shills, long live Russia, long live Ukraine, and long live the slavic people.

You could tell those were all fake because none of them said Zelensky fucked their wives through a hole in the sheet