Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Feline Supremacist]

Well that's the original point. The children who are being adopted into Russia likely don't have a Ukranian identity. The fact that there are ultranationalist militant goons prevalent throughout Ukraine willing to shoot anybody trying to show pro-Russian sentiment is only further proof that these children are better off being raised in Russia versus in Ukraine.

I mean just leaving them in a place know for trafficking children is bad so they're better off with a family.

 

[Elbereth]

Babushkas pushing past each other for sugar.

 

[kuuu]

 

[Based Boy]

Well that's the original point. The children who are being adopted into Russia likely don't have a Ukranian identity. The fact that there are ultranationalist militant goons prevalent throughout Ukraine willing to shoot anybody trying to show pro-Russian sentiment is only further proof that these children are better off being raised in Russia versus in Ukraine.

In terms of adopting young orphans, it is true. Kind of a Russian burden at this point, really, considering all the slogans.
Don't know how legal it is to adopt children from other nation without said nation consent, though. Russia itself banned adoption to some countries, because there was many cases of abuse against adopted children from Russia, if i remember correctly.
Hope that vetting of prospective parents going to be top notch.

 

[Titos]

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When is Zelenskyyyyy changing his name? He can change the Z to another Y and also add an L and be Yellenskyyyyy, get it, because he yells and complains alot? Fuck it I got nothing. This shit is mega retarded.

 

[cistendered]

Some feel good news - Ukrainian minesweeping dog Patron, who bravely searches for unexploded munitions carelessly left lying around by the half retarded hohol military (which they then blame on the Russians). He likes cheese and belly rubs.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

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Are they messing with a nigga's NAME? Oh HELL no

These slav niggers have done lost their minds.

 

[White_N]

The work of heavy artillery. What a lovely day!

Cat

 

[just a banana]

Madness and mayhem at the Ilyich plant in Mariupol

https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/status/1515318107832791053

 

[Chinggis Khan]

Tell me, where there are better standards of living:

1. In Belarus and Russia
2. Or in former Iron Curtain countries like Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland

If you think things are all just going fine and well in the West just wait until corporate leaders in your country state plainly that they will never hire or promote anybody of your skin complexion ever again.

Yeah people in my country once thought that was extreme and "this will never get that bad ", yet here we are.

 

[Wood]

If peoples revolution is strong enough, could part of elites decide that they might not agree with it, but they want to be on a winning side?

I don't know, can the people's revolution be strong enough to beat tanks with their bare hands? How come the people of Hong-Kong win their independence from China with their umbrellas? That one seemed like a strong people's revolution...

 

[pylosurf]

Z, then V now O, what does this mean milfags?
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Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy

 

[Lone MacReady]

Somalian Battalion has raised their flag over the Mariupol Police Station.

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@Starscreams Cape i get your point of view. i dont think there is super soldiers or something, i just think that the operational advantage is still with Russia and its allies, the Kiev front was a single army, the donbass has between five and eight sitting on it. and unless something major changes Ukraine is going to lose. sure there is cope from the Z side, i have coped before. but you would be lying through your teeth if you said Ukraine was all true and honest, hell its supporters have reduced themselves to calling Russians orcs as if its some magic power that will make them leave the donbass.

Is that dude wearing discount oakley gloves?

 

[Elbereth]

If you think things are all just going fine and well in the West just wait until corporate leaders in your country state plainly that they will never hire or promote anybody of your skin complexion ever again.

Yeah people in my country once thought that was extreme and "this will never get that bad ", yet here we are.

It would be rather tough for them, as during my entire life I've met only 2 blacks who were native polish speakers. One I meet at party and was doctor, other was studying at my year. Every single other black was tourist or foreign exchange student.

There is only one sizable minority in Poland: Ukrainians. And in period of one generation, they are no longer Ukrainians, but fully integrated into polish society. Other minorities are belarusians, some from region of Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and so forth. All of those aren't exactly sizable. It is difficult to play race card here.

One belarusian girl I know speaks polish so well, I could not believe that she wasn't polish. And she learned it rather late in life, half a year before end of high school exam.

 

[MadStan]

I think all the fearmongering over use of nuclear weapons is simply western way of painting Russia as completely unhinged.
In Russia itself there is more popular will to drop nukes on US itself or their vassals for supporting Ukraine, rather than on Ukraine. Plus, you going to deal with radiation from the nuke if you drop it on Kiev.

Rattling from the West and Russia is to be expected. It is a natural tactic to threaten the use of something as a deterrent to the other party not yielding, so on the face of it - yawn.

However, more interesting is the actual use of a small weapon in Ukraine rather than some swarm launch at everybody. The use of a singular weapon in the Ukraine is an interesting concept insofar as it is an event that can be contained and would not have to result in a Nuclear war across the globe.

The scenarios that unfold are fairly vast; but I do not see any of the scenarios that unfold would be to Putin's benefit - unless his goal is to indeed lock his country into a hermit kingdom and rule the decimated economic wasteland that would ensue. In that case, unloading on the Ukraine could achieve that if that is indeed what Putin wants.

If Putin or anyone else thinks that the threat of deployment or the actual deployment of a small weapon of such would actually make Europe and the West pull back, the exact opposite is true; and so for that reason I do not think that is his goal at all. Putin is giving NATO the unique opportunity to expand it's horizons vastly and we could see a number of countries jump onboard with NATO quite rapidly.

On a more conspiratorial note, the world is drowning in debt and wars have a great way of redistributing the burden towards the losers; and often in history, wars have been preceded by economic events not too far off from what the Globe is experiencing now; which I do not mean to allude to some masterplan but more or less to be a natural human progression from what was predicted when the COVID virus first emerged, in that it would in a world already attempting to push through the glut of 2008, could be in theory pushed into a no-win scenario with debt as a result of increased government spending and inevitably result in the split of globalism.

Whatever scenario Putin imagined that would somehow result in a stronger, united and financially more secure Russia from this invasion seems to be pie in the sky. And a launch of a singular weapon or the threat of such is not going to get him any closer. If he launches a singular weapon I do not see a nuclear war as a result. Don't ask me what happens though if he is brazen enough to launch 2 or more, then I think the response is inevitable as well the result for us all.

 

[White_N]

In the Vatican, during Friday's Way of the Cross led by the Pope, a Ukrainian and a Russian woman carried a cross together. According to the plan, this step should symbolize reconciliation and redemption between Ukrainians and Russians.

The cross was carried by Ukrainian Irina and Russian Albina, who have been living in Italy for about 20 years and working together in the palliative care department, Vatican News reports.

The day before, the idea of carrying the cross together was criticized by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash, who tried to explain why it was inappropriate.

 

[just a banana]

Z, then V now O, what does this mean milfags?
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I've seen this kind explanation once or twice, and someone pointing out that we can spell AZOV with the letters. I don't think I've seen the A or the X on anything so far though.

https://twitter.com/sallinger94/status/1498927359927656450

 

[Chinggis Khan]

It would be rather tough for them, as during my entire life I've met only 2 blacks who were native polish speakers. One I meet at party and was doctor, other was studying at my year. Every single other black was tourist or foreign exchange student.

There is only one sizable minority in Poland: Ukrainians. And in period of one generation, they are no longer Ukrainians, but fully integrated into polish society. Other minorities are belarusians, some from region of Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and so forth. All of those aren't exactly sizable. It is difficult to play race card here.

Have you been living under a rock since 2015? Germany et al have been demanding that you and the baltic states diversify your population and that you do it fast. Yeah i get that your current government is "based", but just like everyone else teetering on the edge it just takes one election to get a cucked leftist government and then it's permanently over.

 

[Elbereth]

Have you been living under a rock since 2015? Germany et al have been demanding that you and the baltic states diversify your population and that you do it fast. Yeah i get that your current government is "based", but just like everyone else teetering on the edge it just takes one election to get a cucked leftist government and then it's permanently over.

Well, the great mass of "refugee" from Africa, stopped. Last time they tried to go to Europe through Belarus and it was said that was attempt to destabilize EU by mass migration.

They were stopped and pushed back at Polish border. 2022 is not 2016. Those who were all about "refugees" then, are much more critical now. Angela Merkel is no longer at power. Even if there would be another mass immigration wave to EU and even if european leaders would welcome it, it would not worry me particularly hard. Social benefits in Poland are joke compared to social benefits in Germany or Sweden.

 

[cistendered]

I've seen this kind explanation once or twice, and someone pointing out that we can spell AZOV with the letters. I don't think I've seen the A or the X on anything so far though.

https://twitter.com/sallinger94/status/1498927359927656450

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This video has been posted before and I think gives a more plausible explanation. Notably in that graphic it says Chechen forces are marked with 'X', but in video that's been released you primarily see Chechens operating with vehicles marked with 'V' or 'Z'. This is because the Chechen forces were present in the Northwest of Kiev, and in the south around Mariupol. The 'O' designation was for vehicles operating to the Northeast of Kiev which are now being redeployed to the Northern side of the Donbass. A picture:

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