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facialimpediment posted:One tweet from an analyst was basically like "Putin sounds like he spent the entire pandemic reading crazy books." And considering how accurate the intelligence community got this whole thing, yeesh.
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stealie72 posted:If Trump infected Putin with brain worms, that would be a massive lol. Provided we all don't die. Or even if. They shared a burger in Britain while planning the election, I’m sure.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:They shared a shepherd's pie boiled in mint sauce in Britain while planning the election, I’m sure.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I think we're basically on the same page about them based on our shared use of quotation marks around "institute". Yeah sorry if I came in hot, like you said we're basically on the same page here. I'm just generally pissed off about this entire situation, and watching people/groups like that try to pretend this is actually America's fault and not you know, Russia's, drives me up the loving wall.
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A Kadyrowite general will usually probably be a huge rear end in a top hat so this seems like good news
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Some suggestions I've seen haven't been sane and likely to provoke a shooting war, such as NATO establishing a no-fly zone or sending carriers into the Black Sea, or pressing a button to admit Ukraine into NATO. Whenever I've seen anything like this get spouted by people it is the best way to immediately know that they are unknowledgeable and unserious about anything military or FP related
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Looks like Russia is getting booted from SWIFT edit: Partially, at least? https://twitter.com/SalehaMohsin/status/1497694500847767555 Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Looks like Russia is getting booted from SWIFT fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck 
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“Some Russian banks”, also most banks have already cut Russia off, Swift or not.
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has the ukraine invasion displaced brexit as the biggest self-own globally yet?
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:has the ukraine invasion displaced brexit as the biggest self-own globally yet? It's been iffy with Northern Ireland but Putin's not one to settle for second place.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:has the ukraine invasion displaced brexit as the biggest self-own globally yet? Pissing off the entire world while getting ~3,000 of your own soldiers killed in an invasion less than three days old when said entire world figured you'd just tap-dance into the end zone and spike the ball? Yeah, I'd say so.
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Cythereal posted:It was confirmed by the US. AWACS on the Polish border saw it. Thanks!
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Cythereal posted:Also: Ukraine's winning the poo poo out of the PR war with moves like this. Speaking of moves: https://twitter.com/NataliaAntonova/status/1497382464213241857 drat, getcha some.
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Jesus CNN just showed a video of Ukrainians lighting up a russian truck from an apartment building. Did not see that coming but after mostly seeing the reverse, I can’t really feel bad.
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psydude posted:Russian casualties so far, per Ukraine MoD (so take with a grain of salt, but they seem to have been fairly accurate so far): Because I'm bored and moderately drunk off some Wodka sold to me by a nice, elderly Polish gentleman at the local Polnischer Markt, I did some basic math. Russia deployed about 100 Battalion Tactical Groups, each with purportedly around 10 tanks and 40 infantry fighting vehicles each. If the numbers above are correct, that means Russia has already lost 10 percent of its tanks and over 13% of its armored vehicles that were initially committed to the war.
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boop the snoot posted:Russian soldiers probably get treated better as Ukraine POWs than they do as Russian soldiers. Do they get bread 3 times a day?
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There's still no official confirmation of the Ukrainians bagging Il-76s, fwiw. Anyways, have a partial SWIFT ban for certain Russian banks, and most importantly, a seizure of the Russian central bank's assets that they were going to ride out the sanctions with https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1497695982020145156?s=20&t=U5y0T7kXm9RaYMICfegcwg
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Arrath posted:Thanks! They may have lost two more tonight, though I haven't seen a reliable source yet. https://twitter.com/AsaadHannaa/status/1497699263119302660 Edit: Ukrainian news is backing it up. https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497700694429773825?t=GaeT4a_gEDRyzi7P2AEi4g&s=19 Cythereal fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:has the ukraine invasion displaced brexit as the biggest self-own globally yet? #ukranschluss
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psydude posted:Because I'm bored and moderately drunk off some Wodka sold to me by a nice, elderly Polish gentleman at the local Polnischer Markt, I did some basic math. Ukraine's numbers look less obviously ridiculous than the Armenian ones used to but you almost certainly still have to adjust them down by some fraction, we just have no idea what that fraction might be.
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What would "Winning" even look like for Russia at this point? Let's say they manage to capture Kiev, draw and quarter Zelensky, and install their own puppet regime. Do they expect everyone to just go "Welp" and return to business as usual under their new Russian overlords? When a sizeable chunk of the country has spent howeverlong awash with small arms and thirsting for Russian blood? e: aphid_licker posted:Ukraine's numbers look less obviously ridiculous than the Armenian ones used to but you almost certainly still have to adjust them down by some fraction, we just have no idea what that fraction might be. Unfortunately the UK MoD hasn't released a third party scorecard for the last two days, like they did on the first day, so it's hard to say. There might be some double counting or propaganda inflation, but some of the numbers (especially the aircraft) appear to be confirmed by independent footage. psydude fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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I can only imagine that right now they're trying to scheme up a way to weasel out of this fuckup. Meanwhile, let their invasion "plan" continue so that they can claim to have some sort of bargaining position if/when they come to the table.
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psydude posted:What would "Winning" even look like for Russia at this point? Let's say they manage to capture Kiev, draw and quarter Zelensky, and install their own puppet regime. Do they expect everyone to just go "Welp" and return to business as usual under their new Russian overlords? When a sizeable chunk of the country has spent howeverlong awash with small arms and thirsting for Russian blood? 
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Naked Bear posted:I can only imagine that right now they're trying to scheme up a way to weasel out of this fuckup. Meanwhile, let their invasion "plan" continue so that they can claim to have some sort of bargaining position if/when they come to the table. I'm guessing it goes something like claiming they succeeded in protecting the LPR and DPR and calling it a day. Except (and I'm going full wishful thinking here) if the Ukrainians have the Russians on their heels, there's no reason why they wouldn't move to retake both of those (along with Crimea), particularly since it sounds like the separatists have taken substantial losses themselves.
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That Works posted:What is Swift exactly? It's a Belgian LLC that serves as the global standard intermediary for transactions between banks in different countries.
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Prevailing wisdom currently is those are anti-air detritus, not silk parachutes. Regarding the US response, and touching a bit on "I thought Russia was god-tier at trolling/disinfo": The US's dramatic shift in posture of immediately declassifying and disseminating high-quality intelligence on Russian operations prior to the invasion took the wind out of those sails. All the attempts to false flag and invent cassus belli out of thin air were immediately revealed to be lies. This is not how the US has operated previously, and like so many other things, it seems like the Russians didn't know how to react so they just kept doing what they originally planned.
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That Works posted:What is Swift exactly? My understanding is that it’s the DNS registry but for moving money instead of pictures of a pig pooping on his balks.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:It's a Belgian LLC that serves as the global standard intermediary for transactions between banks in different countries. Thanks
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I got put in Twitter jail for tweeting at Putin that he should “eat poo poo and die”. 
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Wombot posted:Prevailing wisdom currently is those are anti-air detritus, not silk parachutes. That definitely makes more sense.
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boop the snoot posted:Russian soldiers probably get treated better as Ukraine POWs than they do as Russian soldiers. That was true for many German POWs in the US, and if they were being guarded by Black US soldiers it may have been a unique case of enlisted POWs living better than their guards as they could be served in restaurants in the Deep South, and if they were naturalized post-war were not likely to be murdered for trying to vote.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I got put in Twitter jail for tweeting at Putin that he should “eat poo poo and die”. 
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