Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

[Male Idiot]

It is generally a dangerous thing to kick a gold digger to the curb, regardless of ethnicity. When they smell the money going away, they'll do anything. Including murder and sucking your father's 80 year old saggy balls.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

Imagine using what one would imagine to be a fundamental right of a nation: border control, as a bargaining chip for foreign aid for a nation some thousands of miles away that do not have any discernable benefit to your nation.

If border control is not important in America, why do they bother keeping ukraine border intact?
checkmate atheists

 

[Fried-Rice12]

Not exactly sure as to the date of the footage, but ukrops are now welding tank hatches shut.

 

[kuuu]

Not exactly sure as to the date of the footage, but ukrops are now welding tank hatches shut.

That's from around autumn 2022.

 

[BikeLock]

Not exactly sure as to the date of the footage, but ukrops are now welding tank hatches shut.

That's beyond fucked up.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://archive.is/fwAa4

 

[Fried-Rice12]

That's beyond fucked up.
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It just shows how desperate they are. Their entire pre-war military is either KIA or POW, their navy doesn't exist anymore, and their air force is impotent in the face of Russian AD.

Anywhere, here's a nice tribute to Givi I archived from Pro-Russian twitter earlier in the conflict.
If only I were a few years older in 2014/2015 I would have gone and joined his unit, the Somalia Battalion, or his friend Motorola's Sparta Battalion. Both of them are now gone, but their hopes and dreams live on.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Lunch for the hohol battalion commander. You can be sure this isn't what arrives at der Saloreichführer's kitchen.

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Hohol trench. Packs of dead xoxols after the assault.

Spoiler: NSFW obviously

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[Napoleon III]

It just shows how desperate they are. Their entire pre-war military is either KIA or POW, their navy doesn't exist anymore, and their air force is impotent in the face of Russian AD.

Anywhere, here's a nice tribute to Givi I archived from Pro-Russian twitter earlier in the conflict.
If only I were a few years older in 2014/2015 I would have gone and joined his unit, the Somalia Battalion, or his friend Motorola's Sparta Battalion. Both of them are now gone, but their hopes and dreams live on.

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Didn't they get folded into the Russian Army?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Didn't they get folded into the Russian Army?

Yes, the LNR/DPR militias became part of the Russian military shortly after the SMO began, and it was cemented when those oblasts joined the Russian Federation.

 

[Muttley]

There's no comparison between these cunts and the women of the LNR/DPR who had been fighting sine 2014.

Well of course not. Kiev brought war to them, they didn't seek it out.

 

[Fried-Rice12]

Didn't they get folded into the Russian Army?

They did, after Putin finally got off his throne and decided to do something about the situation.
However, they still get the dredges in terms of equipment and they're always thrown first into the meat grinder because Putin doesn't want Russian boys getting killed and their grieving moms screaming in front of the Kremlin.
I recall an incident where the Luhansk units refused to advance beyond the borders of the Luhansk Oblast after it was fully conquered by Russia.

 

[Betonhaus]

They did, after Putin finally got off his throne and decided to do something about the situation.
However, they still get the dredges in terms of equipment and they're always thrown first into the meat grinder because Putin doesn't want Russian boys getting killed and their grieving moms screaming in front of the Kremlin.
I recall an incident where the Luhansk units refused to advance beyond the borders of the Luhansk Oblast after it was fully conquered by Russia.

That is actually a bit reassuring, as it demonstrates that the NATO hysteria of Russia doing a major invasion of the continent is clearly overblown.

If the soldiers are hesitant to go past the borders of their country, that demonstrates that leadership is imposing a mentality of protecting the motherland and not one of conquest. Once Russia gains enough land that Ukraine stops bombing cities in Russian held territory, it'll be very difficult to persuade the soldiers to fight any further.

 

[Fried-Rice12]

That is actually a bit reassuring, as it demonstrates that the NATO hysteria of Russia doing a major invasion of the continent is clearly overblown.

If the soldiers are hesitant to go past the borders of their country, that demonstrates that leadership is imposing a mentality of protecting the motherland and not one of conquest. Once Russia gains enough land that Ukraine stops bombing cities in Russian held territory, it'll be very difficult to persuade the soldiers to fight any further.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/1728

It was in the summer of 2022.
Above is the article describing the incident.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Ukie women will save crimea from evil vatnik infrastructure and services so their men can dilate.

As an aside there sure are a lot more ads advertising Slavic dating to American men on YouTube now. Hmmm.

I assume the Russian Mob will lose influence in the West.

If the Feds are willing to buck break Larry Vickers over trying to import fully automatic Russian made rifles.

I assume every Russian mobster in the United States, is going to get black bagged for trying to send money back.

And probably best time for the Ukrainian Mob to move in.

I would have gone and joined his unit, the Somalia Battalion, or his friend Motorola's Sparta Battalion. Both of them are now gone, but their hopes and dreams live on.

Did they ever dream that Russia itself would intervene directly?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Conscripts shooting officers and themselves.


A mobilized Ukrainian shot at the company commander and shot himself - says former deputy Mosiychuk. Local media reports that there was a conflict between an ordinary soldier and the deputy commander of the company for moral and psychological support.

During the altercation, the conscript grabbed an AK-74 and shot his opponent six times before blowing his brains out. They write that the problem is "lack of rotation and rest." Coincidentally, the new version of the mobilization law emphasizes that. Probably this is not the only case.
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Did they ever dream that Russia itself would intervene directly?

It was inevitable; of course they knew.

 

[Fried-Rice12]

Did they ever dream that Russia itself would intervene directly?

Russia was already giving permission for volunteers in their Armed Force to go and fight; Igor Strelkov comes to mind.
They were also quietly transferring some old gear to the Donbass units.
I'm guessing they hoped for more, but Putin was too cautious.
2014/2015 would have been a blitz, ukrops were completely unprepared, the west was still knee deep in the Middle East, and there was widespread support in Eastern Ukraine for the Russians.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

2014/2015 would have been a blitz, ukrops were completely unprepared, the west was still knee deep in the Middle East, and there was widespread support in Eastern Ukraine for the Russians.

Hmmm I always figured that was way too early because the west didn't quite decline to the extent it has yet and also russia needed 4 years to prepare themselves for the sanctions that would come.

 

[Vesperus]

A mobilized Ukrainian shot at the company commander and shot himself

Huh. A hohol I actually respect.
Today is special.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Russia was already giving permission for volunteers in their Armed Force to go and fight; Igor Strelkov comes to mind.
They were also quietly transferring some old gear to the Donbass units.
I'm guessing they hoped for more, but Putin was too cautious.
2014/2015 would have been a blitz, ukrops were completely unprepared, the west was still knee deep in the Middle East, and there was widespread support in Eastern Ukraine for the Russians.

Russia need time to hardened itself against the sanctions that would be imposed if they went in. They did a magnificent job and when they found out the Ukraine was going on an offensive to recoup Crimea in 2022, Russia was ready, and beat them to it.

The West is still crying how sanctions didn't have the impact they wanted and in fact, benefited and grew the Russian economy. That would not have been the case in 2014/15.