Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread - Episode III - Revenge of the Ruski (now unlocked with new skins and gameplay modes!!!)

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Again retard where is your actual proof of any of this beyond hearsay

I hate to break it to you, my nigga, but hearsay is kind of how war reporting works.

 

[Fatniggo1488]

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Sometimes I kinda wish I lived in the world tik tok schizos do because it would be so much more interesting.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

First the person claims it was a T-72B3 but it is Ukrainian, it is a T-64. Notice the tank on left in foreground you can see it has a raised looking V pattern in front of tank which is only indicative of a T-64 which Ukraine only uses aside from a few captured ones in DPR. Moreover Ukraine marks all their tanks in same areas with similar patterns of lines. You cannot claim a Russian marking on a tank not in service with Russian military ie Z,O,V groups so it doesn't matter. While the pixel resolution is too low to discern what the markings are a T-64 is not a T-72B3.

Ukraine has captured over 400 Russian tanks.

 

[Makhno]

Ukraine has captured over 400 Russian tanks.

and they stored every single one of them inside your anus you fanciful fuckwit

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

and they stored every single one of them inside your anus you fanciful fuckwit

You were asking for a source that isn’t hearsay…

 

[White_N]

Auschwitz museum: Russia not invited to event marking camp’s liberation by Red Army​

Director of site says Moscow ‘will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination’ before it could possibly return to attending ‘gatherings of the civilized world’​

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ausch...o-event-marking-camps-liberation-by-red-army/

The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Thursday slammed Poland's decision to not invite the Russian ambassador to the events commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Red Army in 1945.

Maria Zakharova said on Telegram: "No matter how our European 'non-partners' contrived in their attempts to rewrite history in a new way, the memory of the Soviet heroes-liberators and horrors of Nazism cannot be erased."

"In January 2022, Russian diplomats were not given the floor for the first time. ... This year, representatives of the successor state of the USSR, whose soldiers saved the world from the fascist plague, on the anniversary of the liberation of the camp ... not invited at all," Zakharova said.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/r...ation-events-on-auschwitz-liberation-/2798100

Meanwhile, the Bundestag timed an event "in memory of people of non-traditional orientation who died at the hands of the Nazis" to coincide with the day of the liberation of Auschwitz.

A trans artist performed in parliament

Yeah sounds about right

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Also sidenote, why the hell are Nazis still supporting Russia? Putin has clearly been playing up the de-Nazification part of his propaganda, he literally hates you and wants all your "white brotherhood" dead.

Yes, I wonder why. Truly, it is a mystery.

 

[Burgerasssand]

Finlands pm is 100% a flousy druggie bitch (also a woman so grossly underqualified) but that has nothing to do with this.

shes also a young global leader of the WEF

 

[Fatniggo1488]

Auschwitz museum: Russia not invited to event marking camp’s liberation by Red Army​

Director of site says Moscow ‘will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination’ before it could possibly return to attending ‘gatherings of the civilized world’​

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ausch...o-event-marking-camps-liberation-by-red-army/



https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/r...ation-events-on-auschwitz-liberation-/2798100

Meanwhile, the Bundestag timed an event "in memory of people of non-traditional orientation who died at the hands of the Nazis" to coincide with the day of the liberation of Auschwitz.

A trans artist performed in parliament
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Yeah sounds about right
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Lol it is always enjoyable to see the Holohoax narrative butting heads with the modern narrative.

 

[White_N]

Lol it is always enjoyable to see the Holohoax narrative butting heads with the modern narrative.

Refusing to invite Russians to Auschwitz because they are baddies, when Germany sends tanks to kill Russians in Ukraine which is building their identity on a Nazi collaborator who killed Poles and Jews is a clown world for which I was not ready.

And well, instead, to arrange a trans-sodomite singing is the cherry on the cake.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Auschwitz museum: Russia not invited to event marking camp’s liberation by Red Army​

Director of site says Moscow ‘will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination’ before it could possibly return to attending ‘gatherings of the civilized world’​

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ausch...o-event-marking-camps-liberation-by-red-army/



https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/r...ation-events-on-auschwitz-liberation-/2798100

Meanwhile, the Bundestag timed an event "in memory of people of non-traditional orientation who died at the hands of the Nazis" to coincide with the day of the liberation of Auschwitz.

A trans artist performed in parliament
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Yeah sounds about right
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I really hate clown world.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Again retard where is your actual proof of any of this beyond hearsay

you won't have any from shitposter

 

[Overly Serious]

It will be backed with what? Rice? Brazilian stock exchenge? Will it be used on LBMA?

Currency isn't popular as a reserve becuause someone told that. It is popular due to size of economy of issuer, trust and usage.

USD is backed by US economy - $25 trillion GDP;
Euro is backed by EU economy - $16 trillion GDP and euro isn't a thread for USD;
ruzzia has around $2 trillion GDP. More than ten times lower than USA.

Combined ruzzia, China, India and Brasil haze around $24 trillion. But if they will be stupid enough to make common currency (thier are no such thing as "reserve currency by design" - read about SDR units and why that shit didn't become reserve currency) they will face two obstacles:

GDP is *at best* a wildly misused metric and imo, a blatant misrepresentation. It's essentially a sum of sales in a year. If your landlord puts your rent up, that's an increase in GDP. If you're forced to sell your car because you're broke, that adds to GDP. If you take out a massive loan that's an increase in GDP. That thing we all kept getting told about how immigrants increase GDP? Well no shit - they put more pressure on the housing and rental markets to house prices and rents go up which means GDP goes up. It is the bluntest of instruments. For the past decade, the Federal Reserve has been printing money. More accurately it has been lending money out at shockingly low interest rates. If you're a company like Blackrock you could obtain this vast amount of capital upon which you're paying <1% p/a and use it to buy houses which appreciate at 5% p/a. Ergo, you're making 4% p/a. profit. And GDP goes up. But is the economy stronger? No - it is weaker.

What people need from a currency is stability. You're wrong to say the USD is backed by the US economy. No, it is backed by the US tendency to blow up anyone who threatens its status. They occupied Iraq, they destroyed Libya (in partnership with the French whom saw it threatening their African francs currencies - look them up). If the US economy was so strong it wouldn't be dependent on exporting inflation to the rest of the world - and it is critically dependent on this by which I mean if it stops, the American economy goes boom. They have > $30trn in debt. They depend on other countries having to buy American dollars to offset inflation. Meanwhile Russia may have a lower GDP (crappy metric as discussed above) but its national debt is... a few hundred billion? And the basis of their economy is wildly different. Example, agricultural produce - the amount of wheat they produce per annum over the last decade went from around 40m tonnes to 80m tonnes (iirc). In the same time period the USA's own production did almost the exact opposite. But hey - it's all cool because immigration is causing house prices to soar.

What I want from a currency I use is to know it's going to be worth around the same next year as it is this. Russia is fighting an existential war here - if NATO wins they will continue to press for the destruction of the RF and try to make it a vassal state like multiple others. For the USA as a country it is probably not existential - but for American elites in the corridors of Congress up the upper floors of Goldman Sachs - it is. They're like Macbeth: "'I am in blood stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er". At this point, they can't turn around.

Though if I'm going to quote Shakespeare then there's a better one from Antony and Cleopatra: "Tis better playing with a lion's whelp than with an old one dying." The USA is ailing. Anyone can see that. And for a while, that makes it more aggressive. With mountains of debt, a largely service and financial economy (shout out for their research / IP sector which is strong) and a native population which is far from what it was in terms of work ethic, education and civic responsibility, it is NOT what I would want to base the world economy on. Hell, if they were that attractive a proposition they wouldn't have to use sanctions to prevent investment flowing into Russian industry, bonds and currency. People just wouldn't want to.

So in the economic side of this war it's not at all how you portray it.

On the day to day physical side of this war, Ukraine seems to be making some ground. I suspect this is a response to US pressure to pull back and focus on Crimea which is what the US cares most about (they want to take Sevastopol from Russia - this has been their overriding goal for a long time - both governments they put in place explicitly reneged on the agreement that Russia should lose it leading to the annexation of Crimea in the first place). I suspect the renewed Ukranian offensives in the East are them determined to show it's not lost there and prevent withdrawal. And they're having some success there. But with the recent bloodbath in Ukranian leadership I suspect the USA are clearing out dissenters and we'll see that drive to the South that the USA wants. Heck, probably already happening. That's my take on it.

 

[Elämällä on väliä]

https://streamable.com/6x4gho nice clip. As link, because some corpses in progress.

There is no doubt that UKR has made some offensive that have taken back their previously occupied positions, but in that particular case (Kherson) and the advances they made directly after the failed Turkish peace talks were literally because of a Russian withdrawl.

And why army is retreating?

First the person claims it was a T-72B3 but it is Ukrainian, it is a T-64.

Pr-war around 2000 T-64 was in ruzzkie storage facilities like posted you deepshit.

Yes, that mighty 10200 ruzzkie tanks aren't T-14 Armatas nor even T-90.

 

[Overly Serious]

And why army is retreating?

They wanted to consolidate on a smaller front and create more defensible positions. Their initial strike at Kiev wasn't an occupational force (couldn't be at that size) but an attempt to make a quick decapitation strike. Seemed to be an intelligence failure more than a military one. When it failed they came back and settled on plan B which was a slower and more steady approach.

Of course I suspect your view on it is that anything less than Russia being an unstoppable force that doesn't have to worry about actual strategy and tactics, indicates something negative about Russian capabilities. You have a media approach of first set up crazy expectations and then criticise that they don't meet them.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

Meanwhile Russia may have a lower GDP (crappy metric as discussed above) but its national debt is... a few hundred billion?

Russia's national debt is 478 billion buckaroos, or 8% of its GDP. The US national debt is 31 trillion George Washingtons, or 136% of its GDP. And the democrats are pushing to eliminate debt ceiling right now.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

The WHO is urging countries to start stockpiling medicines for ‘nuclear emergencies’ after the EU’s latest warning on Putin​

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidance on how to survive a nuclear catastrophe, just hours after the EU warned that Russia “is at war with the West”.
Included in the guidance is a list of medicines that nations should stockpile for “radiological or nuclear emergencies”.
The global health body also shared how the stockpiles which could “prevent or reduce exposure to radiation” should be handled.
Dr Maria Neira, WHO’s acting assistant director-general warned that governments need to make treatments for radiation and nuclear exposure available quickly.
“It is essential that governments are prepared to protect the health of populations and respond immediately to emergencies,” she added.
Potential scenarios considered in the publication include radiological or nuclear emergencies at nuclear power plants, as well as intentional uses of radioactive materials with malicious intent.

These emergencies could result in exposure to deadly radiation doses, yet many countries are underprepared, according to the document.
It stressed: “It is therefore extremely important that governments respond rapidly to such threats.”

Putin’s ‘war against the West’​

The document comes as Stefano Sannino, secretary general of the European Union’s European External Action Service, today announced that Russia has shifted the focus of its Ukraine invasion.
Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo as part of an Asia-Pacific tour, he said that Vladimir Putin has “moved from a concept of special operation to a concept now of a war against NATO and the West”.

He also defended the recent decision by Germany and the U.S. to send advanced tanks to Ukraine.
The EU is not looking to escalate hostilities but “just giving the possibility of saving lives and allowing the Ukrainians to defend from these barbaric attacks,” Sannino added.
Western allies have committed about 150 tanks to Ukraine, to reduce casualties and help restore dwindling ammunition supplies.
The Kremlin has described this as evidence of growing “direct involvement” of the United States and Europe in the 11-month-old war, something both deny.

I was tuning out of the whole Ukraine war thing, but maybe it's starting to escalate for real?

 

[Elämällä on väliä]

@Overly Serious

For the past decade, the Federal Reserve has been printing money. More accurately it has been lending money out at shockingly low interest rates.

As all big countries. You are thinking that ECB or ruzzkie money piggy is better? No, they aren't. Every single central bank was printing as crazy due to pandemic and other stuff like financial crisis.

And the basis of their economy is wildly different.

This didn't matter. Only thing which matters is what you can buy which such currency. With ruble you will have a little problem to buy anything even in ruzzia, because ruzzia needs foreign currencies to pay their foreign debt.

The whole thing about "backing by economy" is what you can buy and where you can buy with choosen currency. If we have USD we can buy nearlyt anything in the world and everything in USA. If we have ruble, we can buy something in ruzzia, if they didn't choose to say "no" because they need in certain moment USD, euro or something to pay out debts.

Amount of unmatured debt have nearly no signifancy at the end of the day - the only thing important is if one is able to pay of matured debts and interests rates. Whole evergreen panic was based on that the Chinka will not have USD for pay they interests.

So OK, lets talk how much countries need to pay in next years, but I refuse to hottaking 'that country has 1000% of GDP in debt, that other had 1%' because it mean nothing at all.

They depend on other countries having to buy American dollars to offset inflation. Meanwhile Russia may have a lower GDP (crappy metric as discussed above) but its national debt is... a few hundred billion? And the basis of their economy is wildly different. Example, agricultural produce - the amount of wheat they produce per annum over the last decade went from around 40m tonnes to 80m tonnes (iirc). In the same time period the USA's own production did almost the exact opposite.

And much of wheat produced in US and how much of that produced in ruzzia is exported? AFAIR ruzzia agriculture is mostly used on their needs and ruzzia is still importer of essential food in some sectors.

What people need from a currency is stability. You're wrong to say the USD is backed by the US economy. No, it is backed by the US tendency to blow up anyone who threatens its status. They occupied Iraq, they destroyed Libya (in partnership with the French whom saw it threatening their African francs currencies - look them up).

And in terms of stability USD is still one of most stable currencies on the world, mostly due to their judicary system. US is less likely to seizure goods or assets because politics when in EU we don't care about that - badboys will be ripped of when we figure it out how to due that.

Look at US dollar index - when stock exchenges are going down USD is skyrocketing in comparison to nearly all of national currencies or common currencies like EUR. For some strange reason when the storm is coming people and (more important) institutions are more likely to go for ol' good USD than fancy shits like euro.

Also with african franc you pointed a important question which currencies cannot be reserve ones - that which are used by too many poor countries (too big risk that central bank will take strange actions). Euro has this problem because a half of a dozen of currencies (CFP, CFA [both - XOF and XAF], bosnian mark, two small currencies used on atlantic islands like Kap Verde escudo and probably I forgott about some).

Potential BRIC reserve currency will have all this issues before it even starts and some more extreme problems (renmibi isn't freely convertible, and that is the reason why that shit have two ISO codes - you cannot just earn yuans in China and take it with you on a trip or buy them in Canada and just take a flight to Lhasa to spend them. Regardless than common currency for Brazil, China and ruzzia will get fucked in ass by OCA dillema, and non-wide used 'special reserve currency' will be just another SDR toy).

So yes, USD has some issues for decades, but still is best option to be used in international trade and for evacuation from exchenges (note: currency is only a temporaly tool of saving, nearly everyone is in fact changing currencies into assets ASAP so it is crucial for reserve currency to be wide used on financial markets). And I don't see any chances for non-USD reserve currency in next centaury.

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Problems with 'quote', so it might be non-proper in some places but I hope it is still readable.

 

[just a banana]

Let's see, she said, "we are at war with Russia," but now Russia is supposedly twisting her words for propaganda. WTF is wrong with these people?

Germany accuses Russia of twisting minister's war comments for 'propaganda'

Russia has twisted comments by Germany's foreign minister about the war in Ukraine for propaganda purposes, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday, stressing Berlin's position that NATO must not become party to the conflict.

www.reuters.com

 

[Elämällä on väliä]

Russia's national debt is 478 billion buckaroos, or 8% of its GDP.

It as around 381B USD (see first link) and ruzzkie GDP is 1780B USD (secoond link). Debt around 20% of GDP.

If they have debt 478B nd it will be 8% of GDP their should have nearly 6T GDP - their never have more than 3T.


1st https://www.cbr.ru/eng/statistics/macro_itm/svs/ext-debt
2nd https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=RU