Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[mindlessobserver]

Zelensky left Azov to die because they're clearly russian agents, even their name uses russian spelling instead of Oziv, as it would be in the native ukranny language

lol no it's not, "denazification" in the context of ukraine means taking care of the old banderist chestnut, and that in turn means breaking the nationalist power base in west ukraine, all the way in freaking Lvov

they're not even close, calling it quits after the meme battalion dies would be a big ol' failure on that objective

lol, Zelensky would get told to fuck off by everyone under him and maybe even end up as a lamppost ornament if he seriously tried to do that

people don't seem to realise just how much ukraine had it's overton shifted right, an officer calling some neon yazi a "banderist" is considered an outrage that requires apologies, an investigation and punishment for the offending officer

even had their equivalent of shitlib twitter and boomerbook outrage, with #IamaBanderite

Ukraine can't get to Mariople at the moment. Even if it wanted too.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

The politics in Africa regarding the USSR (and allies), the West and South Africa are complex, but don't you believe for one second anyone's primary reasoning was the welfare of black Africans.

Nothing I said implied that.

 

[Nationalistbrother1776]

Because they were the only colony that refused to hand over leadership to the blacks. Whites were only 5% or so of the population, but it was a way higher percentage than most of the African colonies. Basically they saw what had happened in all the other ones and said "fuck it, we're not seeing everything we built be destroyed". They declared independence, which was a massive embarrassment to the UK government.

I totally understand people being born there and and wanting to wanting to keep what their ancestors gave them in to make it better in Africa but I just can't wrap my head around being totally cool with being a small minority and controlling a large minority of people adversarial towards me for whatever reason.
Like modern Afrikaaners Who live in gated communities and have armed guards 247. And we're not even going to get into the farmers and what they have to Go through. Especially with the nationalist types who are talking about Europe for Europeans China for the Chinese and all that lol nobody believes in Africa for the Africans it seems

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

I totally understand people being born there and and wanting to wanting to keep what their ancestors gave them in to make it better in Africa but I just can't wrap my head around being totally cool with being a small minority and controlling a large minority of people adversarial towards me for whatever reason.
Like modern Afrikaaners Who live in gated communities and have armed guards 247. And we're not even going to get into the farmers and what they have to Go through. Especially with the nationalist types who are talking about Europe for Europeans China for the Chinese and all that lol nobody believes in Africa for the Africans it seems

Part of it is that it didn't start that way, there was lots of space for both groups without them running over each others toes. However one of the side effects of the colonists coming was modern medicine, which in turn nearly eliminated infant mortality. Black population exploded, because they kept breeding like half their kids wouldn't make it past their first year or two. Same thing happened in a lot of countries, not just in Africa.

 

[capitalBBustard]

Ukraine can't get to Mariople at the moment. Even if it wanted too.

that's what Zelensky wants you to think, but he's smarter than that

47 levels deep beneath the catacombs of K**v, he's forming the true kievan Oziv battalion to destroy the pretender muscovite glowop Azov battalion and reclaim not just donbass, crimea but also the don-kuban region and form Greater Ukranny

 

[JosephStalin]

Because they were the only colony that refused to hand over leadership to the blacks. Whites were only 5% or so of the population, but it was a way higher percentage than most of the African colonies. Basically they saw what had happened in all the other ones and said "fuck it, we're not seeing everything we built be destroyed". They declared independence, which was a massive embarrassment to the UK government.

This. The UK was outraged at what the Rhodesians called UDI, or Unilateral Declaration of Independence. However, since Rhodesia had their own army and air force, the UK could do nothing about it except push for UN economic sanctions. The sanctions were somewhat porous; Rhodesia traded a lot with South Africa, Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique at the beginning. South Africa provided military support/supplies, as well.

In 1974 there was a revolution in Portugal. The new government was tired of having large numbers of troops in Angola and Mozambique, so they left, granting both countries independence. The newly-independent Angola and Mozambique largely cut off relations with Rhodesia, allowing Rhodesian insurgents to use their countries as bases. In the end, the only external support came from South Africa, and even that support was tepid.

In the end, there was free elections, with Robert Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe. Things went fairly well for a while, then went downhill fast. White farmers mostly left or were driven off their land, and the new black farmers produced little, not even enough to feed the country, much less export. There was famine or near-famine in Zimbabwe for a while, and the Zimbabwean dollar inflated to Weimar Germany proportions.

While Mugabe's replacement has encouraged white farmers to return, doubt many have returned. From what I know, the Zimbabwean dollar is still rather useless, with US dollars and other hard currencies used.

 

[cistendered]

Column of Russian troops redeployed from the northern campaign headed to Donbass. I'm told the Ukrainian army is stronger and has more armor than when the war started, so I'm sure these reinforcements will be no issue for the AFU army stuck in the east.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

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Column of Russian troops redeployed from the northern campaign headed to Donbass. I'm told the Ukrainian army is stronger and has more armor than when the war started, so I'm sure these reinforcements will be no issue for the AFU army stuck in the east.

How is this the most orderly and safe video of Russians driving I've ever seen? Obeying traffic laws, observing right of way, and no speeding goes against every video I've ever seen of Russians driving.

 

[Fougaro]

2 million means each soldier would have to rape at least 10 woman.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Obrez pistol (sawed off mosin nagant) somewhere in Kharkov. This is one I really wasn't expecting to see show up

 

[Kickster]

*Dilating*

Fixed again

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

but don't you believe for one second anyone's primary reasoning was the welfare of black Africans.

Especially not the Black Africans

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Obrez pistol (sawed off mosin nagant) somewhere in Kharkov. This is one I really wasn't expecting to see show up

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When the first thing that comes up when googling a weapon is the fucking Battlefield wiki and Forgotten Weapons, you know that shit is rare.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

When the first thing that comes up when googling a weapon is the fucking Battlefield wiki and Forgotten Weapons, you know that shit is rare.
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They were last a big thing in the russian revolution. Improvised pistols basically.

 

[Simpadoo]

Look at post 26271. Long Cyrillic text, no explanation, no translation.

If you save this image and do an Image search on Yandex, it will translate it for you.

 

[kuuu]

They were last a big thing in the russian revolution. Improvised pistols basically.

Also used in the 90s. Gang wars and all that.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

They were last a big thing in the russian revolution. Improvised pistols basically.

With all these crazy weapons being a part of this, I want there to be at least one guy running around with a Type 99 Arisaka.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

With all these crazy weapons being a part of this, I want there to be at least one guy running around with a Type 99 Arisaka.

Possible actually, the soviets did capture them on multiple occasions.

 

[David Brown]

DAAAAAAAAAMN this video is bad ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYqFKDsK-tM

 

[just a banana]

Here's a what the Drudge Report's front page looked like a couple of minutes ago, including a low-salt take on the chemical attack report. The linked article has a somewhat higher salt content.
I think it would be absurd to use chemical weapons in most areas, where they can use the standard weaponry as effectively as they have been until now, human shields be damned-
but when they get right up to the factory they really really don't want to destroy, which supposedly has a multi-level underground bunker, it seems to my ignorant ass that pumping the factory and any holes in the ground in the area full of some nasty ass gas could be a way to hasten things along. If I saw equally unconfirmed reports of that sort of use of chemical weapons, I'd be more inclined to think they could be true, just because it would make more sense to me.

I guess they'd prefer to interrogate the alleged foreigners lurking there, and perhaps parade them on media, rather than pick through their dead remains, tho.


the article
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...eapons-ukraine-latest-vladimir-putin-mariupol https://archive.ph/uLA3V
clip from the article