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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I never thought I'd live to see the day Mariupol was in a meme
 
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Gonzalo posted a video today basically throwing Scott 'Like 'Em Young' Ritter under the bus, as he recently turned and said that there's a large chance this war will drag on for a long time, seemingly thanks to the practical blank check that the US gave to Ukraine.
Better late than never to throw a convicted pedophile out of the Vatnik Circle on Twitter I guess. Even if it is for the wrong reasons.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
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I never thought I'd live to see the day Mariupol was in a meme
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Russia will not shoot any captured or surrendered Mariupol defenders. What Russia will do is take them back to Moscow and hold a "Azov Nazi war crimes" trial as propoganda for the vatniks, who are 5 times more nigger than black people in the United States.
 
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AnOminous said:
What does she mean "us?" People in the movie industry are interested neither in females nor adults.
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In addition, Russian soldiers are not interested in raping anyone over the age of 13. What a woke retard that woman is.
 
kidatari said:
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topless woman, only wearing panties crashes the Cannes festival
Her breasts are painted with a Ukrainian flag "stop raping us" and some red paint for blood

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French feminists be all "how can I use getting naked to show my support for current thing?"
 
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DumbDude42 said:
the chinese just lockdowned themselves into economic disaster, i really doubt they're in the mood to pincer anyone at the moment
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Chinese overreaction to covid is far greater than anyone else’s and far worse for their economy. Their coming demographic collapse will be the sharpest.

I suspect the world is going to be in decline across the board for at least the next decade, if not for the next 3.
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oh no not journalists.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
This is one of my major topics of interest. I have watched so many videos about it. I am also huge fan of war porn. Any time people are shooting at each other and blowing each other up I will watch it. I watched a lot of the footage from Syria. I also like military strategy games and geopolitics.
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I find war videos fascinating too, especially during the conflict with ISIS.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
Like a lot of people, I thought Russia would never invade. I also figured if they did Ukraine wouldn't last more than a few days. A week or so at the most. Not that I ever thought the Russian military was that powerful, but I thought Ukraine would fall quickly. A few days after the Russians invaded and I started seeing videos of Russian vehicles stuck on the side of the road out of fuel I knew something was horribly wrong. I read a lot of books about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 80's and I know guerilla style unconventional warfare is not something most powers win against. But I figured this was the kind of thing the Russians are good at so this would be over quick. I knew a little bit about the Ukrainian military situation as well. But it started to drag on and things looked like they weren't going as planned. I saw videos of Russian soldiers looting stores, stealing chickens and chicken eggs, even one video about Russian soldiers hunting nutria in Ukraine. Nutria is basically a big semi-aquatic rodent. The Russian vehicles sitting on the side of the road and the videos of them looting food, stealing livestock and hunting local animals for food told me there was severe problems with the Russians logistics and supply. I read in a book that the Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan would often steal stuff from Afghan farmers. It was so bad that they would boobytrap their own fields to try and keep the Soviets out. Even in Afghanistan the Soviet supply and logistic system was not very good.
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I suspect their military was better back then. Not just in terms of logistics, they did suffer clearly, but they seemed more capable.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
So, after watching some more I find out that the Russians are having supply issues. In their attempt to pull off a bargain bin blitzkrieg the Russians moved faster than their supply and logistics could keep up with. This one of the pieces of evidence that capturing Kiev and toppling the Ukrainian government was a goal despite what the Russians claim now. Now they say Kiev was never the strategic objective and Eastern Ukraine was the real objective and that's just not the case. The other issue is that the Russians depend on trains to carry their supplies to supply dumps wherever they are operating. The Ukrainians destroyed the train tracks that go from Russia into Ukraine. That was a very smart move. From what I have read the Russians still use the old Soviet style tracks and Ukraine uses them as well. The Russians don't have enough trucks to move supplies and ammunition around. So, they depend on trains to do this. The Russians can't supply their army that well 90 miles past their own border. They just don't have the number of trucks to do it. This goes back to the days of the cold war and the Soviet Union. The Soviet army was setup for defense. It was never meant to be used for offense, especially not what Putin is using it for now. Just like NATO is a defensive alliance and was never meant for offense. Both the West and the Soviets believed one or the other was planning an invasion and they would have to defend against that invasion. But back then the Soviet border kind of stretched all the way across to Western Europe. I imagine they replaced all the train tracks with ones that would work on Soviet trains in all the old Warsaw Pact nations. I don't have any proof of this, but I have heard that a lot of the countries in Eastern Europe have replaced those old tracks with ones that Russian trains can't use. So that would make it even harder for the Russians to do anything militarily in other Eastern European countries. When you have to decide whether to keep your BM-21's supplied with ammo or to keep your soldiers supplied with ammo or food you aren't going to win a war that way.
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Their logistics is wanting. I wouldn’t underestimate them when it comes to a defensive war though.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
Later on, I hear that Ukrainians are attacking convoys of Russian military trucks and I see videos of this. Then I hear about how the Russians are sending civilian trucks into Ukraine and I see videos of trains with flatbed train cars carrying Trucks from Russia and Belarus into Ukraine. I even saw videos of Russian soldiers riding around in the back of a garbage truck. So not only do the Russians not have enough trucks to supply their army with whatever they need they are also losing a lot of trucks to attacks from Ukrainians. This was weeks into the war and by then it was easy to tell that things were definitely not going how the Russians had planned. That someone had screwed up big time.
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I find it a bit weird that they have to crowdfund a lot more for basics. In addition to scrounging for essentials.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
Of course, there was a lot copium from the vatnik Russiaboo types. That it took the US like 3 weeks to make it to Baghdad and I even saw that guy CoachRedpill saying that Russia was attempting to conduct the war in a more humane way than America does warfare and that was why things were going so slow. The US could take all the time it needed to do the Iraq invasion and it didn't have to worry about crippling sanctions on its economy. It was all very ridiculous. There is a reason why America conducts wars in the way it does. The Russians are learning why.
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I’m not a big fan of the west but I live in it. I was expecting a curve stomping of Ukraine much like last time. Initially I was convinced that the 40 mile convoy or whatever would make it to Kiev. It never happened. As you say having seen so many raw videos I am perplexed by how much Russia’s armed forces seemed to have declined, even compared to the recent past.

I’m not surprised in the least by how much the Russian navy sucks. I was expecting that.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
A month or so later Russia ends up retreating from Western Ukraine and abandoning its attempt at encircling and capturing Kiev. Then they started claiming that it was all just a feint, and that Eastern Ukraine was the real objective all along. Which is total nonsense because they wouldn't have wasted all that time and all the resources doing that. They claimed that they were just there to destroy the Ukrainian military capabilities which is another lie because they could have done that by air and wouldn't have needed a large invasion force. Large ground force invasions are only used for one thing and that's occupation.
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They were going for the whole enchilada since they’re hoping to plug the gaps. Holding the eastern regions is more reasonable of a war goal and is attainable. But they did shift gears.
Tacitus Kilgore said:
That leads to the situation we have now with Russians in Eastern Ukraine. Like I said this is the same poorly trained, poorly equipped, and poorly funded Russian army that was in Western Ukraine. Moving them to Eastern Ukraine isn't going to make it a better army. The Russians aren't going to do any better in Eastern Ukraine now. Now the US and NATO has Western Ukraine as a corridor to freely ship weapons into and ship they have. The Ukrainians are getting some better Western weapons and they are even being trained to use them. It's not the fault of the stuff the Russians are using though. The Ukrainians are using the same stuff or just about and they have had better results. It's the people using the Russian stuff that are the problem. What they call user or operator error. Except when you screw up in a tank you end up dead. Also, I have heard that the condition of some of the vehicles the Russians have been using are quite poor. Like they didn't do the routine maintenance on them while they were being kept in storage.
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Wyald said:
Soooo... Who is winning?
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Turkey’s drones got a major boost and Russia is a regional rival, so anything that hurts Russia benefits Turkey.

China & India gets more natural resources. That’s a win for them I guess.

NATO’s goals are to bleed Russia as much as possible so they can’t project as much force. The longer the war drags on the better in their eyes. Even if Ukraine is a pile of rubble, if enough Russian blood is spilt & vehicles destroyed they’d consider it a win. The military industrial complex of course is going to profit from this too.
mr.moon1488 said:
>What are the implications now that the Ruble is the best performing currency of the year?
About a hundred pages of gloat posting that aged really poorly.
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My ageing father invested in the Ruble and made a killing. Good on him.
 
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Archive doesn't want to work so I will simply be posting a link to a twitter thread and doing a small write up.

Basically WORLD stockpiles of Wheat are between 20-33% of Annual consumption which translates to about 10 weeks worth. Russians are on track for a Good harvest this year while the US and Europe are either going to have unsatisfactory or bad harvests. Seems like speculation that Putin's plan is to starve the world into submission is correct.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
He gets shanghai'd by his own commanders for genuine, justified insanity.

There's literally no advantage to preemptively nuking a non-nuclear power, especially when you are actively trying to occupy the territory.
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I would say it wouldnt make sense because it would put the entire world on the brink of world war 3, unless he says he's only targeting countries allied with nato in which case there would be a rather funny situation where countries with nato bases or membership try to get out because lets be honest, if they get nuked then the nato nuclear club isnt gonna risk getting nuked in turn just to avenge them

Daily reminder that ukraine got their nukes taken away by the west under the promise they wouldnt let whats happening right fucking now, getting pwned by russia, happen never ever ever
 
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