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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Please don't, spoilers will show inline on phone browser. NOW he tells me. How the hell do you post anything twitter related then.
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Relevant Tangent posted:he's going to kill a couple because why not? and they're going to take it because they're authoritarian strongmen and he's stronger, the strongest Who the hell thought the oligarchs were in charge? Putin's been unopposed now for like 20 years.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It's Russian armour, and the narrator is Ukrainian. Aren’t Russians all rocking the “Z” tags on the sides and backs?
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I'm American and many of my friends are in federal government/politics, and I haven't seen my social media feeds this "united" since... before social media existed? It's not surprising, but it feels significant.
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What is all this talk about Putin's cleavage, goddamn. Sanctions gooooooo, cleavage later
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coelomate posted:I'm American and many of my friends are in federal government/politics, and I haven't seen my social media feeds this "united" since... before social media existed? If you're American, please please call your local rep and urge them to push DHS to give Ukrainians temporary protected status.
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a sexual elk posted:Aren’t Russians all rocking the “Z” tags on the sides and backs? No, different fronts have different markings. We’ve seen Z, V, U, O I think, and a diagonal stripe over the entire vehicle.
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coelomate posted:I'm American and many of my friends are bin federal government/politics, and I haven't seen my social media feeds this "united" since... before social media existed? yeah seriously. outside the hardline trumpists and some tankies. everyone is united over this. its facinating. hot take but i think alot Americans have been unconsciously waiting for a big rally around the flag moment and this is the one, least for now.
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a sexual elk posted:Aren’t Russians all rocking the “Z” tags on the sides and backs? The "Z" probably just was some specific units in order to clearly designate them (and there's probably other kinds of similar desginations apart from "Z") and give them priority (or not) when it comes to moving at or near the front lines, for a historical parral the trucks and tanks of the tank group Kleist were marked with "K" insignia during the battle of France to afford them priority and ensure they got to the front.
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ZombieLenin posted:As I said earlier in this thread, I am a Marxist; and as a Marxist I do not know how anyone who claims to be on the left could do anything other than cheer on Ukraines people and Armed Services who, in my view, are fighting someone who is as close to a successor of Hitler as one can realistically imagine. Not a Marxist but  and I couldn't have said it better myself.(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Pook Good Mook posted:It's not just fuel, I mean parts and repair. You can't just pick up parts to repair a T-90 in a local auto store. The distances involved are small enough and as far as we can tell supply routes are not completely hosed that this isn't going to be an issue. If this gets prolonged and you get consistent and good attacks on supply convoys then maybe? Most militaries keep a poo poo ton of spares because you need them even when not in active combat.
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Pook Good Mook posted:It's not just fuel, I mean parts and repair. You can't just pick up parts to repair a T-90 in a local auto store. It makes me wonder if they would start asking China for vehicles to have a quick resupply, and in doing so how that would further stir the pot in global relations.
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I think we all reading and posting here have a bigger problem. https://twitter.com/bneeditor/status/1496887786980450313?s=20&t=paAAxvl93_pUOlWyEzdNtA Hope you all got full tanks of petrol today.
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The oligarchs are going to metaphorically kiss the ring, profess support for the war, and be reassured by Putin he will look after their wealth. None of them are going to be dropped into a tank of angry sea bass.
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Is there any reason to believe the Russians are really taking it in the chin here, or is it mostly just people cherry-picking Russian materiel getting toasted? The captured platoon tweet makes it sound like Russian ground forces thought this would be a milk run and were surprised to encounter resistance. This might be what cinci zoo sniper was referring to about the situation going off the Russian training script?
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sebzilla posted:What's Russia's ability to keep on truckin' in the face of sanctions from US/UK/EU like? Depends on the sanctions - Russia has been sanctioned for years now. It doesn't appear Europe is united on severe sanctions so.....
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1496886660440932352?s=20&t=xNz1hlFux6ynMrsC3oCq9Q we will see. stuff is too early. i can see it happening. biden is giving a speech about all of this in a half hour.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1496886660440932352?s=20&t=xNz1hlFux6ynMrsC3oCq9Q Capitalists.
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JerikTelorian posted:Is there any reason to believe the Russians are really taking it in the chin here, or is it mostly just people cherry-picking Russian materiel getting toasted? There’s fog of war and there’s also the fact that Russia you know uses Twitter to spread disinformation and sow chaos and so both sides are amping up their victories for morale purposes.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah seriously. outside the hardline trumpists and some tankies. everyone is united over this. its facinating. hot take but i think alot Americans have been unconsciously waiting for a big rally around the flag moment and this is the one, least for now. Putin hosed up massively. He is beyond a doubt a global villain right now and his memory will be damned for ending the Long Peace in Europe, especially over such petty pointless reasons Americans love a good rally around how much better we are than evil autocrats moments, it's what we are trained for by our propaganda.
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Telsa Cola posted:The distances involved are small enough and as far as we can tell supply routes are not completely hosed that this isn't going to be an issue. It's Russia however, and much of their equipment is poorly maintained, and many of the parts and supplies either didn't exist due to grift, or were sold by soldiers for money because no one checks poo poo.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why would you be surprised by Germany. They’ve p consistently been the most cowardly of the western block the whole crisis Pretty much, no surprise here. Germany has largely neutered any geopolitical willpower they had due to their increasing dependance on Russian energy imports.
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JerikTelorian posted:Is there any reason to believe the Russians are really taking it in the chin here, or is it mostly just people cherry-picking Russian materiel getting toasted? It's a huge battlefront so there will be lots of individual incidents that go one way for one side or another. The strategic situation is grim for Ukraine: check back in in a week. If a cohesive, stable line has formed on the right side of Kiev then the war is going badly for Russia.
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TulliusCicero posted:Putin hosed up massively. He is beyond a doubt a global villain right now and his memory will be damned for ending the Long Peace in Europe, especially over such petty pointless reasons yeah that and the chuds are too loving dumb to know when to shut the gently caress up about it. also cpac is going on so some of these dipshits will defend russia this week.
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selec posted:Capitalists. The Germans? more like Quislings, tbh.
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DandyLion posted:Who the hell thought the oligarchs were in charge? He's still exercising power through a number of high ranking officials, and he have to keep making sure it's a better calculus for them to have him in power rather than deciding to serve him polonium tea. Imagine how paranoid he must be, given his belief that everyone else is as cold and ruthless as he is himself.
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UCS Hellmaker posted:It's Russia however, and much of their equipment is poorly maintained, and many of the parts and supplies either didn't exist due to grift, or were sold by soldiers for money because no one checks poo poo. This has been a assumption for a long time but this really the first time we see how it impacts their military in a ground war, I believe. There is no good reason to assume that they are going to quickly run out of parts or fuel. It would be a historically bad example of logistical planning.
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"We already sent you helmets, what else do you want?"
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JerikTelorian posted:Is there any reason to believe the Russians are really taking it in the chin here, or is it mostly just people cherry-picking Russian materiel getting toasted? its still too early to tell though but we do have documented evidence of NATO members shipping over crates and crates of advanced portable missiles, especially javelins. these are the kinds of weapons which would really gently caress up an invader's day there is going to be an imbalance in social media coverage though because as the fighting is happening in ukraine, after the fighting pauses it will be ukraine civilians who come out to post clips of blown up tanks on twitter, which will naturally bias what gets shared and what goes viral
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Wibla posted:The Germans? more like Quislings, tbh. They didn’t make the choice because of some inherent Hun deficiency, good lord post like an adult. It’s money on the line, same as it is for everybody.
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JerikTelorian posted:Is there any reason to believe the Russians are really taking it in the chin here, or is it mostly just people cherry-picking Russian materiel getting toasted? Given it's been only what, 24 hours or so since heavy fighting kicked off it seems too early to say. Kind of not surprised that some Russian troops are getting wrecked but at the same time if Kviv were to fall tomorrow and everything collapses I wouldn't be surprised either. Everything's so chaotic and credible information is hard to come by so really who knows what the state of things are now.
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sebzilla posted:What's Russia's ability to keep on truckin' in the face of sanctions from US/UK/EU like? It’s fairly good, they done their homework. https://archive.fo/S1g15
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Morrow posted:It's a huge battlefront so there will be lots of individual incidents that go one way for one side or another. The strategic situation is grim for Ukraine: check back in in a week. If a cohesive, stable line has formed on the right side of Kiev then the war is going badly for Russia. Yeah, agreed. We are not going to know the final situation until either: Zelensky himself is captured or surrenders, or Ukraine manages to solidify a defensive line. That's gonna take a while, at least a few days if not a week.
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One of the reasons I was surprised Russia didn't invade sooner (as in like a week ago) was because of those arms shipments. Maybe they really were just waiting for the end of the Olympics, or they figured the arms shipments didn't outweigh having more prep time, who knows.
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The Russian military of 2022 is not the military of the Chechen war. There is no reason to believe this operation is not going to plan.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1496886660440932352?s=20&t=xNz1hlFux6ynMrsC3oCq9Q For those not familiar, the SWIFT network is pretty much how banks interact with each other. It’s not the entirety of the system, but I’d definitely say it’s the largest chunk of it. This would be a hell of a lot of isolation, and make any kind of money transfers into or out of Russia—particularly for imports and exports—a real pain in the rear end.
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Zlodo posted:He's still exercising power through a number of high ranking officials, and he have to keep making sure it's a better calculus for them to have him in power rather than deciding to serve him polonium tea. The calculus gets simplified if the oligarchs have FSB agents embedded in their organizations (or merely worry that they do). Putin didn't get to his current situation without threatening and backing up those threats regularly to each of the oligarchs that he deems worthy to serve him in some fashion. They are essentially indebted to him for both life and riches.
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