Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[UVB-76]

Eliminating all of the opposition

Stop. The biggest opposition party reformed under a different name. They were not "eliminated".
You may now proceed.

It's this paranoid, hollow, Stalinist rhetoric

You couldn't even call it a "war" on Russian TV.
Zelensky didn't do even do a hundredth of what Putin does to the opposition.

that's an excuse to manufacture an artificially skewed representation of differing opinions in government

Again, the biggest opposition parties affected had a grand total of a combined 16% of the votes in the 2019 elections.

The blatant purging

The biggest sign of a purge is the politicians of a party simply reforming under a new name.
The more your political opposition is allowed to remain in the parliament the purgier it is.

Your bitterness and vitriol towards Russia has nothing to do with Ukraine becoming a de-facto one-party state.

I am not bitter about Russia nor have I ever spewed vitriol, I made it clear plenty of times.
I specifically mentioned Duginism, I guess in your mind this means all of Russia. Seems like a "you" problem.

What rules exactly? Unsubstantiated claims of espionage and persecutions in a kangaroo court?

Nigga, cruise missiles and artillery isn't democracy.
We joked about America delivering "freedom and democracy" to Iraq in the 2000s.
Same concept applies.

That is peak McCarthyism

McCarthy was unironically right. Where the fuck do you think the Soviets got the knowledge base for the A-bomb?

 

[Aidan]

Even if I'd provide sources from russia news you would shurg it off like you done multiple times in past. Even if I'd provide screencaps from this thread people saying this, you would still be "uh, it doesnt matter, they are not coping at all".

You missed the point still. It's not about what random people (eg in this thread) say, it's about news agencies. People make fun of "Ukraine says" because that type of sourcing has resulted in blatant lies being reported by major news agencies over and over.
That they keep doing it is funny is all.

Here's a freeby, you could get an old news article where Moskva's fate was unclear and Russia reported how totally fine it was and it'd be repaired in no time then the next day it sank.

 

[Wood]

The biggest sign of a purge is the politicians of a party simply reforming under a new name.

The party did not reform. You're talking about things that you don't understand because you're a burger.

 

[DumbDude42]

The party did not reform. You're talking about things that you don't understand because you're a burger.

yes they did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Life_and_Peace

headed by the same guy who headed the previous incarnation of the party (boyko)

 

[Aidan]

Here's an example of what that A&N thread is seemingly consooming:

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Damn skip 4 minutes in to skip his extended VPN shilling.
Azov was ordered to "leave" lol
AFU told to leave Popasna
"According to resources..." What does this even mean? He may have said "researchers" but even then it makes no sense. Literally "sources say"...
"Experts say..."
Lots of "Russia planned to..."
Mentions foreign aid in terms of weapons. Ignores verified Russian strikes where those shipments get consolidated.

This is indeed pro-Ukie cope material. Ignore Russian wins and misconstrue/ignore Ukrainian losses across the board. When you do this, no duh things are going to look extremely optimistic.
Viewers will just assume "Oh he's Ukrainian so he's an expert!" even though he's relying on the same sources as anyone else keeping up with this.

 

[Übertroon]

STALKER Bros, we're gonna make it.

https://www.eurogamer.net/gsc-game-world-resumes-stalker-2-development

It's going to be interesting to see if the war and the events since 2014 has affected the story or setting in the game.
In the past games the factions were basically divided between trying to destroy the zone or protecting it.
A new stalker might end up having factions tied into political turmoil outside of the Zone rather than simply being pro or anti the Zone

 

[CognitiveDeficiency]

The black see navy flagship - Moscow - was useless piece of junk

What did he mean by this?

 

[UmQasaan]

You couldn't even call it a "war" on Russian TV.
Zelensky didn't do even do a hundredth of what Putin does to the opposition.

I don't believe anyone who isn't a z-tard would try to propagate the idea that Russia is oppressive and authoritative. That isn't what this is about though, it's about being disgustingly gaslit into believing that Ukraine is marginally better.

Stop. The biggest opposition party reformed under a different name. They were not "eliminated".
You may now proceed.

Their platform was deliberately eliminated and fragmented so that even if they tried to rebrand they would have to build from the ground up. Don't be disingenuous.

The biggest sign of a purge is the politicians of a party simply reforming under a new name.
The more your political opposition is allowed to remain in the parliament the purgier it is.

There isn't a bigger sign of purging than officially banning entire political parties, not your short-sighted conjectures. Nice slippery slope.

McCarthy was unironically right.

Nigga, cruise missiles and artillery isn't democracy.
We joked about America delivering "freedom and democracy" to Iraq in the 2000s.
Same concept applies.

Are we even talking about the same thing here? The political parties in Ukraine aren't apart of the Russian armed forces

I am not bitter about Russia nor have I ever spewed vitriol, I made it clear plenty of times.
I specifically mentioned Duginism, I guess in your mind this means all of Russia. Seems like a "you" problem.

From your reply I interpreted the implicit desire to label dissidents of NATO/Ukraine/Western media as such because of your abrasive tone. My original reply has nothing to do with being fond of Putin.

Again, the biggest opposition parties affected had a grand total of a combined 16% of the votes in the 2019 elections.

That is nearly 3 million voting aged citizens. Do you really think unimpeded dissolvement of the political dissidents of which a substantial proportion voted for in 2019 is inconsequential, or are you just dense?

 

[Jarolleon]

no
an all-out war between china and india would probably not see much fighting at their direct borders, because they're up in the himalayas and you really don't want to try and drive columns of tanks across the largest mountains on the planet, but that doesn't mean that no major land war would take place at all. i think that both sides would try to conquer the indochinese peninsula because that's how they could march their armies towards each other without having to march over mount everest.
also, i believe that china would use its close ally (and arch-enemy of india) pakistan as a staging area from which to launch an attack on india, so that's another site for a major land war to take place.

Spoiler: detailed war plans drawn up by me, the supreme armchair general of the internet

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Would the military regime in Myanmar just let the Chinese pass through, thereby avoiding a Belgium situation?

 

[DumbDude42]

Would the military regime in Myanmar just let the Chinese pass through, thereby avoiding a Belgium situation?

i dont know enough about the region to say which ones of the SEA nations would side with china and which would side with india

 

[trailcamwhore]

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What did he mean by this?

"Muh dik," probably.

 

[Simpadoo]

i dont know enough about the region to say which ones of the SEA nations would side with china and which would side with india

Isn’t Myanmar the country that just made this huge deal with China to build a new sea port? If so, they may not have a choice.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

I don't believe anyone who isn't a z-tard would try to propagate the idea that Russia is oppressive and authoritative. That isn't what this is about though, it's about being disgustingly gaslit into believing that Ukraine is marginally better.

Ukraine isn't marginally better, it is astronomically better.

 

[naffatune]

Russian special forces eliminate Ukrainians in the Zaporozhye region (link)

Ukrainians use 1900's Maxim machine gun (link)

Alrite, yucky stuff

Spoiler: death

Dead Ukies in the Donbass (link 1, link 2, link 3)

Russians bury dead Ukies in Kiev that authorities refused to handle (link)

 

[kuuu]

Russian special forces eliminate Ukrainians in the Zaporozhye region

I've read earlier that this might have been a forward group that was guiding artillery fire.

And pictures of those dead soldiers remind me how Ukrainians taunted Russians on social media to "come and pick up your dead".

 

[Shovelbird]

Putin is a complete fucking moron and russian army is corrupt soyjak horde. Seriously? If "superpower" russian steppeniggers cant take Ukraine in 3 months on modern tech soytin should just kill himself

Bayraktar go brrrrrr

 

[Lards and Lasses]

Putin is a complete fucking moron and russian army is corrupt soyjak horde. Seriously? If "superpower" russian steppeniggers cant take Ukraine in 3 months on modern tech soytin should just kill himself

Bayraktar go brrrrrr

Russia isn't fighting Ukraine. It's fighting a proxy war with the U.S. and its globohomo allies.

Big difference.

 

[Shovelbird]

Russia isn't fighting Ukraine. It's fighting a proxy war with the U.S. and its globohomo allies.

Big difference.

Yeah I can see us divisions secretly tossing gay bombs. XD

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Yeah I can see us divisions secretly tossing gay bombs. XD

Are you a Turkroach? Is this you?

 

[Gay_nig_from_outer_space]

My friend fighting for the Russians in Ukraine has finally had the time and phone access to type out his thoughts on the war thus far, note that these are his words and not mine and I'm just reporting his thoughts. He's got strong political convictions and has fought in Donbas before so he's certainly not objective, but as he's actually at the front, his insights are more valuable then 90% of posters in this thread.

anywhy, here's what he wrote, translated

>im ngl im really disappointed how we're fighting this
>we should have gone dirlegang (reference to the Dirlewanger Brigade of the Waffen SS) twenty times over now
>instead they're hiring local artists to do this gay reconciliation art
(I've decided not to include the picture he posted for opsec/privacy reasons but it's two Ukrainian and Russian flag colored hands joining together on a white background)
Responding to a guy asking about a round of conscription:
>there's no conscription
>we're killing the ukrops with attrition just because we have like ten time the artillery
>but its going to take forever
>thankfully they're fucking retarded and letting themselves get serially encircled
>we're fighting an army of 400-600k with 100-300k

>we pulled out of the north because local mayors jewed us
>they promised they flipped to us but started raising territorial defence units in our rear
>so if we stayed we'd have gotten encircled
>the pullouts are humiliating but strategically correct decisions rather than staying in still like the ukrops in mariupol who are now surrendering in the thousands

>leadership is also still refusing to actually fight the Ukrainians, basically insisting on giving any unit they come across a chance to surrender before fighting
>cuz they're our brothers or some shit
>kremlins so far from the frontline just cant take this bullshit seriously

>Russian intelligence objectively failed in the preparation before the invasion of making sure the people who said they'd flip would actually flip.
>Putin paid the Jew mayor of Odessa a bunch of money to switch sides but instead of doing that he just pocketed the money and kept as is. He was a literal mafioso though so I don't know how they were retarded enough to trust him.

>at least they seem to be learning now. any area taken has the local leaders taken right to jail and new reichskommissariats (Yes, that is the term he used) are being set up

Responding to someone asking if Putin was hoping the initial shock of the attack would cause a collapse:

>well it could have, if they actually fought the war. but instead of just obliterating Ukrainians right in their barracks, they would first radio them in promising them to be treated nicely if they surrender.
giving them time to run out, disperse, etc.

>they had the right ideas but executed them in the completely wrong order, and wrong way
>in a way though, the war being dragged out will work for the better. they're trying to fucking drown us in blood, which just means that the most soy, most zog-serving wignat, most gay Ukrainians will all auto-eject from the genepool and populace and only true comrades in the white struggle will live.