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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Dammit Mandrake! said:
20 years of NATO encroachment and obvious military buildup
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American spend the last decade complaining that they didn't spend enough on build up. Because that's kinda what they did. Not until monkey pulled the lever.

Dammit Mandrake! said:
It's cool the Europeans are fucked and cucked and it is hilarious.
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Just the opposite.

Every single west European country has received thousands of young Ukrainian women over the last couple of months. However, because Ukrainians aren't cowardly arabs many of them are already turning back home. Pity, because having someone around to balance out the 2015 crisis would be a dream of mine. As dark as it might sound, I hope the newsreels of Russian failure is overblown so that Ukrainians will have to stay and settle western Europe.

Meanwhile, I don't think Russia will help with the army of Floyd kin you have roaming around.
America is making out like a bandit.
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mindlessobserver said:
Both sides artillery sucks. Russia in particular is proving to be so inaccurate the only way they seem to be able to hit anything is with a saturation strike. We are literally seeing a repeat of World War 1 tier trench warfare in places. If they were up against American Artillery they would be fucked by counterfire, where every American round would land exactly where it was intended too. Even the unguided ones, while the Russians would be left spraying impotently back and missing the US howitzers by a good 500 meters or more.

This war is going to come down to whoever shoots their rifles most accurately.
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Ukraine has demonstrated devastatingly accurate artillery targeting using drones to observe and make corrections. Russia seems to have no countermeasures to that or drones of their own (apart from a complete joke that you have to return to base, land, and take the SD card out of).
 
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GoPro said:
Back in 2014 Russia was peddling fake stories about Ukrainians crucifying people. There was an effort to push several of them, but only the story about a little boy getting crucified at Lenin Square in Sloviansk gained traction.
From what I remember, Deugin was the first person bringing it up and then Russian and other news outlets picked it up. It was the same Alexander Deugin who wrote Foundations of Geopolitics, works as a professor, and what Russia has been doing for the last two decades aligns with what's outlined in Deugin's book. Many Russiaposters will frequently claim that he is a loon, no one takes him seriously, and it's all western fear mongering.

After the crucified boy got a lot of traction, people got interested. There was no evidence of the story given in the reports other than testimony of one woman and Deugin's quotes. Multiple news agencies, including Russian ones, went over to investigate. Investigations found no track of any crosses, no dead bodies, no police reports, no one knew anything, no one claimed credit. Only woman to speak about it on camera turned out to be a wife of a separatist soldier. Several details regarding the overall situation in Sloviansk turned out to be wrong too. Russian government-ran Channel One even retracted the story - something that very rarely happens. Later they tried to deny that this compromising story was ever aired. Crucifixion news stories stopped after that fiasco. Russian attack this year brought back another attempt to push crucifixions, but yet again most people do not buy these.

Crucifixion and burning video is one of the duds that did not gain any traction. I only saw it covered by small sensationalist news sites or shilled in fringe political spaces. It resurfaced once in a while, but people pointed out the fishy intro and ending. Video posters would vanish afterwards. Every time that video resurfaced, it was trimmed more and more to remove obviously fake parts. I posted screenshots of the removed intro and ending portion in the previous thread.
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When I was a kid I heard about how at the start of World War I a story circulated about how the Germans crucified a Canadian solder. Of course, it was bullshit. It is even referenced in the book Johnny Got His Gun about how the story circulated to spin America into war.

100 years later, and our TRUE and HONEST journalists are peddling the same story for exactly the same reasons.
 
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Happy Piccolo Day everyone!
 
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Oxyjen said:
Ukraine has demonstrated devastatingly accurate artillery targeting using drones to observe and make corrections. Russia seems to have no countermeasures to that or drones of their own (apart from a complete joke that you have to return to base, land, and take the SD card out of).
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This is just factually wrong. The Russians were successfully shooting down Bayraktar's with Shell-C1 and other things from the start of the war. And their own drones are pretty good for artillery corrections.

Not sure wtf are you smoking



 
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JosephStalin said:
One notable post-nuclear book is Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank. Been out many, many years, read it as a kid. Deals with people in a Florida town when a nuclear war happens.
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Started reading it 2-3 years ago, pre-pandemic, as I had weird premonitions... Future turned out much more chaotic and darker than I thought.

Byala Tserkov' anons now report hearing explosions, though my sources do not really know if that's an attack or something else.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Both sides artillery sucks. Russia in particular is proving to be so inaccurate the only way they seem to be able to hit anything is with a saturation strike. We are literally seeing a repeat of World War 1 tier trench warfare in places. If they were up against American Artillery they would be fucked by counterfire, where every American round would land exactly where it was intended too. Even the unguided ones, while the Russians would be left spraying impotently back and missing the US howitzers by a good 500 meters or more.

This war is going to come down to whoever shoots their rifles most accurately.
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You are wrong because drones, basically and artillery is the king of the battlefield, specially in this day and age where you have eyes in the skies all the time.

Rifles have become the bayonet in terms of how casualties are inflicted, it wouldn't surprise me if they report that 10 % of casualties are inflicted by infatry rifles.

Yeah, let me know how infinitely superior those artillery batteries when Ukraine pits 100 of them against 5000 Russian batteries.
 
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White_N said:
Wasn't one used by Republicans from 2014 to 2015?
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The DPR restored not one, but two WW2 tanks during the Donbas War, IIRC, one IS-2 and one IS-3.


They claimed this IS-3 was restored, managed to shoot at a military checkpoint (where the fuck they got the ammo for it is anyone's guess), kiling/wounding several Ukrainians, and then they abandoned it.
 
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Givi said:
The DPR restored not one, but two WW2 tanks during the Donbas War, IIRC, one IS-2 and one IS-3.


They claimed this IS-3 was restored, managed to shoot at a military checkpoint (where the fuck they got the ammo for it is anyone's guess), kiling/wounding several Ukrainians, and then they abandoned it.
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The ammo was most probbly taken from the M1938 howitzer which was chambered in the same calibre size and is still in reserve for russians. I think you can shoot the projectile even if its length is quite a lot less?
 
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Since I was right about the parade might as well give my most likely to least likely of how this will end
1. Land bridge to Crimea + Donbass, lines on the map are basically identical until Donbass, which is put under full Russian control, after Donbass is full under Russian control Putin will declare victory and leave a "peacekeeping" force to try and ensure Ukraine can't launch a major successful counter offensive, war either ends officially soon after or becomes a stalemate. (Most likely by a land slide)
2. Basically the same, except the Kharkiv region is put under Russian control, thought this would be pretty likely but the past week's developments have nudged it down significantly.
3. Ukraine gets land locked, consider this extremely unlikely since the Mykolaiv-Kherson is a complete stalemate, and Odessa's eastern geography works to Ukraine's advantage as it has multiple very wide rivers that will prove a massive issue for any Russian offensive to just get to Odessa, much less encircle and capture it.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
Isn't the Road Warrior post apocalyptic and post nuclear?
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While the intro to Road Warrior/Mad Max 2 briefly mentions a nuclear exchange, I get the impression that society kept limping along and that the real death knell to civilization was Peak Oil type shenanigans. Beyond Thunderdome was a lot more overt that nukes messed everything up.
 
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