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Charlz Guybon posted:What is this even supposed to mean? "especially you, Andorra"
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Situation in Kyiv seems dire. Intense fighting in independence square.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:People have been saying that Russia apparently put its worst troops first and saves the good ones for later which makes no loving sense to me but I’m not a military guy and what part of Putin’s strategy does make sense anyway The standard cold war Soviet doctrine massively oversimplified: Keep your good forces in reserve, assault everywhere along the line simultaneously with the second-tier forces, then call off any assaults that face heavy opposition, send your reserve of good troops to go through whichever places the second-tier forces made best progress in, ideally get a solid breaktrough and fan out to wreak havoc behind enemy lines. People's opinions on what is happening might be somewhat colored by that. We have no idea how much this is still what the Russians do. At least some of the forces massed on Ukrainian borders are effectively police, suited for internal security but not for facing off against a determined enemy, so they are not all "good troops". Still, I would be shocked if there wasn't a solid "second punch" left still outside Ukraine.
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Charlz Guybon posted:What is this even supposed to mean? 
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CommieGIR posted:Someone hurt their feefees someone took their parisian apartments
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It is my kokoro wish that a bunch of Russians got hosed up, and in furtherance of that
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Charlz Guybon posted:What is this even supposed to mean? Just doing her deplorable job. But at some point we'll hear Flesnolk posted:Guys I already acknowledged the mistake, stop piling on
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Tuna-Fish posted:The standard cold war Soviet doctrine massively oversimplified: Keep your good forces in reserve, assault everywhere along the line simultaneously with the second-tier forces, then call off any assaults that face heavy opposition, send your reserve of good troops to go through whichever places the second-tier forces made best progress in, ideally get a solid breaktrough and fan out to wreak havoc behind enemy lines. These legions of Rosgvardiya and OMON must be really bored by now, since Russia is basically not gaining settlements at a rate worth mentioning.
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Concerned Citizen posted:Situation in Kyiv seems dire. Intense fighting in independence square. I heard what sounded like an insane rocket attack a few minutes ago, probably from Russian helicopters, on one of the livestreams. Just an insane amount of gunfire too. Things are definitely getting hosed up. 
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Feb 26, 2022 04:55
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Very good article from the Ukranian left perspective on the more...controversial statements from western leftists https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv/
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Concerned Citizen posted:Situation in Kyiv seems dire. Intense fighting in independence square. Sorry if I'm late but are there any live streams of this?
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Somehow this is all going to end with the Russian Communist Party overthrowing Putin.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I skipped watching video of the first incident (I think it was Grads, but I’m not certain), but the second incident was some nondescript large calibre fire hitting a hospital ward, including a thermobaric round into one of the rooms. OddObserver posted:https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/25/ukraine-russian-cluster-munition-hits-hospital So wouldn't this be considered a Geneva Convention violation?
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KitConstantine posted:Very good article from the Ukranian left perspective on the more...controversial statements from western leftists This is a phenomenal article about the idiot movements that have ran on appeasing the USSR ever since the Hungarian revolution. Their coat tail organizations are still the "peace movements" in places like Finland that oppose NATO to "keep Finland out of imperialism".
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Grammarchist posted:Somehow this is all going to end with the Russian Communist Party overthrowing Putin. That would make the leftists the big brain 5d chess winners for sure
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Relevant Tangent posted:Ukraine has already decided. It's weird how you keep posting as if Russia isn't the clear villain here, imo. Weird how you keep ignoring all the posts where I say they're the ones responsible for the invasion, and that the invasion is wrong. That doesn't mean everyone else is a hero. Stop being dishonest.
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Concerned Citizen posted:Situation in Kyiv seems dire. Intense fighting in independence square. It's outside of the center ATM and most of the fire on stream seems to be AA
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SourKraut posted:So wouldn't this be considered a Geneva Convention violation? Which part... the illegal aggression, the cluster munitions, or the hospital?
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Sorry if I'm late but are there any live streams of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZebYm-nenY Rewind stream to 5:47am local time.
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Grammarchist posted:Somehow this is all going to end with the Russian Communist Party overthrowing Putin. Can't wait. Watching everyone in the states in power melt down, and we go back to the good timeline where we expand into space to not get owned by the soviet over the next century would rock.
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SourKraut posted:So wouldn't this be considered a Geneva Convention violation? It would, and it would be far from the first literal war crime committed.
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Tuna-Fish posted:The standard cold war Soviet doctrine massively oversimplified: Keep your good forces in reserve, assault everywhere along the line simultaneously with the second-tier forces, then call off any assaults that face heavy opposition, send your reserve of good troops to go through whichever places the second-tier forces made best progress in, ideally get a solid breaktrough and fan out to wreak havoc behind enemy lines. Plus, I'd assume they would keep some of their best troops elsewhere anyway in the very slight chance they thought the "West" might say, gently caress it, and attack Russia elsewhere.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:These legions of Rosgvardiya and OMON must be really bored by now, since Russia is basically not gaining settlements at a rate worth mentioning. Yeah that's the funny thing, they've basically captured uh... one city? I'm not even sure about that. They mostly seem to be avoiding them like the plague aside from Kiev, which they clearly think has a magic "end war" button in it. If this turns into a "each city will need to be pacified to win" scenario then that will uh, I legit don't see Russia being able to turn this into a discernible victory without going full Grozny on like 15 different Groznys.
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Dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian. 
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CommieGIR posted:Its supposed to be vague and threatening. I know I am a bit scared of how crazy Putin might be; that said, gently caress them. You can't get what you want from the rest of the world by threatening people. I do have the feeling things are going very poorly for Putin right now.
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Bel Shazar posted:Which part... the illegal aggression, the cluster munitions, or the hospital? The hospital; cluster munitions aren't illegal under the Geneva Conventions, and "illegal" aggression is rarely addressed. Edit: should clarify, the US, Russia, and various other countries have not signed on the agreement to make cluster munitions illegal.
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https://twitter.com/stratcomcentre/status/1497408834536718339 https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1497411568899801088
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Grape posted:Yeah that's the funny thing, they've basically captured uh... one city? I'm not even sure about that. They mostly seem to be avoiding them like the plague aside from Kiev, which they clearly think has a magic "end war" button in it. russians don't know how to do urban warfare that isn't levelling a city, and they're already taking enough heat for collateral damage that they're trotting out the old human shields line
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:can't believe russians can't face sunlight. crazy. country whose national sport is dota 2 handles sun poorly, more at 11
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Every time I check the live cams everything is dead quiet, so I will continue to do so as much as I can #doingmypart
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:russians don't know how to do urban warfare that isn't levelling a city, and they're already taking enough heat for collateral damage that they're trotting out the old human shields line Yeah, Syria they could just level the cities, not so much in Ukraine.
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Grape posted:Every time I check the live cams everything is dead quiet, so I will continue to do so as much as I can Thank you for your service
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Grape posted:Yeah that's the funny thing, they've basically captured uh... one city? No real cities. They’ve captured some drive through villages in the south, and similarly around E101.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:someone took their parisian apartments Is that actually confirmed?
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Sun is coming up in Kyiv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZebYm-nenY
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