Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

How well is the war this going for Russia?

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blyatskrieg

    Votes: 249 10.6%

  • ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I ain't afraid of no Ghost of Kiev

    Votes: 278 11.8%

  • ⭐⭐⭐ Competent attack with some upsets

    Votes: 796 33.7%

  • ⭐⭐ Stalemate

    Votes: 659 27.9%

  • ⭐ Ukraine takes back Crimea 2022

    Votes: 378 16.0%
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Elbereth said:
The problem is with this energy source. Nuclear produces constant amount of energy, so when demand changes you can't really increase or decrease to fill it
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This is a common misconception.

Yes, it’s true that the vast majority of nuclear power stations can’t demand-match.

No, it’s not because you can’t make a demand matching nuclear power plant. The French have them.

It’s because like 99% of the costs involved in generating a kilowatt hour of nuclear electric power come from the power plant existing. Fuel and personnel costs are essentially static. Why would you demand match nuclear power when you can run it at 100% all the time at the same price?

The French have to do demand matching nuclear power plants because almost their entire energy source is nuclear. Another viable alternative is to have standby electricity demand (say, metal refinery plants?) to soak up the excess electricity production.
 
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There was a lot of talk about Russian readiness(24/7) to retaliate by bombing targets in Kiev if attacks on Russian territory occurred, but nothing so far. (Would not be surprised if Putin cucks out for the sake of "diplomacy")
So far only one strike on Ukrainian infrastructure this night was confirmed with video evidence.
Russia bombed energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk.

 
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Based Boy said:
There was a lot of talk about Russian readiness(24/7) to retaliate by bombing targets in Kiev if attacks on Russian territory occurred, but nothing so far. (Would not be surprised if Putin cucks out for the sake of "diplomacy")
So far only one strike on Ukrainian infrastructure this night was confirmed with video evidence.
Russia bombed energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk.
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there's also the fact that the Ukrainian government; whom have become notorious for their vindictiveness towards anyone who embarrasses them; made a law that recording strikes on Ukraine are illegal.. That would deter me and likely 95% of people from recording or even reporting most loud booms outside their windows.

Often the footage of big strikes in the last few weeks are posted by western msm before anyone else, because they oblivious to such laws/or feel immune to it.

Basically the true ratio is unknown, seems most calibrations just don't go on telegram.
 
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SomethingProblematic said:
You guys I have a Schizo theory about why places like reddit support Ukraine. But first I will have to take you back to the old days of 4chan, where a particularly popular shipost, would be using a gif of Piccolo (a character from a popular anime series "Dragonball Z") having anal sex with Vegeta (another character from the same series). The intention was to post this everywhere, and eventually 4channers dubbed it "the daily dose" as they would see it almost every day. They eventually developed a Pavlovian response to the simple color combination of green and purple.

Now this brings into question: What does this have to do with Ukraine? Well take a look at the flag colors. 🇺🇦

Now what popular media would have these same colors?

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This is a character from the popular children's game "Animal Crossing" specifically from a nsfw animation of the character "Ankha" created by a degenerate animator named "Zone". It was made in tribute to a similar animation from a pedophile named "Minus8".

However after a while, it randomly surged in popularity, and it seemed like nobody could escape this "Ankha Zone" which it was dubbed. Very similar to the daily dose in a way, both are porn gifs, and both would be realized with a simple phrase and some pixels....yellow and blue...

Notice how the tail, is almost reminiscent of a waving flag.

I believe that coomers are supporting Ukraine more so than they would normally, due to the Pavlovian connection of the cartoon cat porn, and the Ukraine flag, subliminally entranced as they subconsciously think of the cartoon porn cat every time they see the flag.
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I'm...not entirely sure how to approach this. I think you might be overstating the case, as well as connecting lines to dots that do not exist. It is an interesting thought nonetheless.
 
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What is happening in the US?
 
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Almighty Bukhanka said:
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What is happening in the US?
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People lost their damn minds. They simp for a country that has no legit American interests as our politicians were laundering money there and fucking Ukrainian whores, because "Russia bad".

When WW3 starts and the soycucks make the surprise Pikachu face when they're drafted, they will suddenly find everything wrong with it.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
People lost their damn minds. They simp for a country that has no legit American interests as our politicians were laundering money there and fucking Ukrainian whores, because "Russia bad".

When WW3 starts and the soycucks make the surprise Pikachu face when they're drafted, they will suddenly find everything wrong with it.
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Welcome to 2022 and the Glorious Internet.
 
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of the destroyed fortified area of Ukrainian nationalists and the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The positions of the Ukrainian units had an extensive network of trenches and equipped firing points.

Ukrainian nationalists who did not want to voluntarily lay down their arms were destroyed by artillery fire.

Retreating, the Ukrainian nationalists left small arms, ammunition, and more than 30 dead servicemen in their positions.


The saboteurs detained in Belgorod stated that they planned to damage the railways on which military echelons move.
 
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Tealeaf said:
This is a common misconception.

Yes, it’s true that the vast majority of nuclear power stations can’t demand-match.

No, it’s not because you can’t make a demand matching nuclear power plant. The French have them.

It’s because like 99% of the costs involved in generating a kilowatt hour of nuclear electric power come from the power plant existing. Fuel and personnel costs are essentially static. Why would you demand match nuclear power when you can run it at 100% all the time at the same price?

The French have to do demand matching nuclear power plants because almost their entire energy source is nuclear. Another viable alternative is to have standby electricity demand (say, metal refinery plants?) to soak up the excess electricity production.
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KonradCruise said:
>nuclear always produces a constant level of energy that can't be increased or decreased.

Do you think the control rods exist just so someone can cause an international incident by raising them fully?
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It would be fine, but Germany don't want nuclear ("Nucear? Nu-clear!" >:( ). They want solar panels and windmills. Even with control rods, you don't have enough control over energy supply to complement jumping energy supply from renewable.

I think it is stupid that Germany shut down nuclear power plants to replace it with solar panels and gas burners, but hey it is what they did.
 
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I've spent a couple days being told these were Russian Mercenaries.
White_N said:
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of the destroyed fortified area of Ukrainian nationalists and the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The positions of the Ukrainian units had an extensive network of trenches and equipped firing points.

Ukrainian nationalists who did not want to voluntarily lay down their arms were destroyed by artillery fire.

Retreating, the Ukrainian nationalists left small arms, ammunition, and more than 30 dead servicemen in their positions.

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The saboteurs detained in Belgorod stated that they planned to damage the railways on which military echelons move.
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Rumors about Russia attempting to hold a referendum in Kherson have been increasing, so don't be surprised if we see one announced in the near future there. In the meantime Russia's apparently announced new Russian approved government officials in the city so I'm not going to be surprised if we start seeing more reports of people being murdered for collaborating with Russia there given Russia seems intent on increasing the number of potential targets.

White_N said:
Sabaton song about DPR when?

It must happen. It will happen.
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I'd wager on them writing a song about Ukraine long before the DPR. But I doubt they'd write a song about either side until the dust has settled one way or another.

UVB-76 said:
It's important to remember that the nuclear triad always rebalances the equation into a zero sum game. Nukes in Ukraine would change absolutely nothing. There's no scenario in which a missile launch from Ukrainian territory would guarantee a win condition, or a "not as bad of a loss" outcome. The entire point of MAD is that even a knockout blow to Moscow would lead to bombers, silos, land based mobile launchers and submarines to retaliate.

I don't think they actually wanted this. Putin seems to be holding them "hostage" to the special operation so that they know they're fucked too if regime change happens.
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Judging by the number of Russian oligarchs who've died under suspicious circumstances since this started, I suspect Putin's doing a bit more than holding them hostage to staying in power.

Ted Gazynski said:
If Mexico was on the verge of joining a military pact with China that could see Chinese weapons systems moved there to reconquer the rightful Mexican clay of California I think the American military would have something to say about it.

It’s a threat to Russian security interests in Europe that the largest non-Russian European military has been built up and trained by Russia’s chief geopolitical rival for half a decade. Russia now has a militarized anti-Russia American puppet on its border that is aggressively derussifying and increasingly hostile to Russia. I can’t believe this needs to be explained to people.
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People don't need it explained to them. They just consider it a bullshit explanation. Ukraine like other former USSR countries has been interested in joining NATO due to Russia invading its neighbors, and increasingly making noise about how former USSR territories with significant ethnic Russian populations should be part of Russia. It's a "threat to Russian security interests" that Russia has created itself by poor diplomacy with its neighbors and denying its neighbors right to have security interests.

Almighty Bukhanka said:
What is happening in the US?
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Russia is currently doing the sort of things the US spent decades telling its people that the USSR would do(and sometimes it would do as seen in Afghanistan in the 80s). Given the people currently in power were adults or at least grew up during those decades, they are accordingly reacting to Russia as they'd react to the USSR. You have to go to "the millenials" to get a generation who weren't raised under the full threat of the USSR. Which only partially mitigates things as they were still raised by the generations that grew up being prepared for conflict with the USSR. Then you get to the younger millennials and generation Z, who mostly are aware of Russia in association with several hated Republican politicians who've gotten financial support from Russia. So little sympathy for Russia there, and indeed you instead see them reacting with the same sort of condemnation they put towards anything else they dislike.

In short, a mere few decades no more erased the distrust and preparation by the USA for conflict with the USSR or it's successor, than those decades erased Russian mistrust of the USA. It's just too reflexive in too many people, even if its been left latent. Putin made far too big a move in attempting to take all of Ukraine and/or capture undisputed Ukrainian territory. As a result he triggered those latent anti-USSR reflexes on Russia when his invasion failed to make conquest of Ukraine a fait accompli before his attack could enter into the American consciousness. Which in turn is partially his fault for invading Ukraine in 2014 and failing to get everything he wanted to keep then. That both primed people to see Russia as the bad guy, and triggered NATO supported reforms of Ukraine's military into something that could and would fight Russia in the future. Letting them hold out long enough that popular demand could force genuine international support.

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We need to bring some humor back into this thread. Working on it.
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Good luck.
 
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