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Sinteres posted:Gotta say if this is true I'm not expecting the invasion phase to last very long. Even in a crushing overall Russian victory over just a few weeks, that kind of seizure is really hard to sustain given the distance behind the front line.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Vasylkiv airbase has been targeted in missile strike Seems improbably risky when you can just drive on the city from Belarus. https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1496689463761817600?s=21
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Anyone seen anything else about the Belorussians getting involved? https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1496717859107618820
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Holy poo poo. https://mobile.twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1496585861110059009 Also, the time delay here is ridiculous. Five minutes would be much better
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punk rebel ecks posted:Unless Russia invades a major NATO country like Poland, I can't imagine any world power intervening.
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Majorian posted:Yeah, this is pretty much where I'm at. I'm hoping that the objective here is to force Ukraine to accept the independence of the breakaway regions and permanently dissuade any further attempts to drift into the Western orbit - that would be the sanest goal. But that second point in particular concerns me, too. I think he's going to try and take all the south and east. Basically everything that he called "Lenin's gift"
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Nenonen posted:Wellllll it's not that straightforward. Finland was also neutral in 1956, 1968, 1979, 2008, 2014... can you say that Finland is under more threat now than previously? Putin said Russia should not let the republics go in 1917. One of those countries was Finland.
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Feb 24, 2022 11:35
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Feb 24, 2022 13:11
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Violation of the rules of war right off the bat https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-sent-in-troops-disguised-with-ocse-white-peace-monitor-symbols-and-ukrainian-uniforms-says-kyiv
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Alchenar posted:On the one hand, parading POW's is a bit of a war crime, not good. Sure, but it's not nearly as bad as launching rockets into cities or dressing up your soldiers as the enemy. The later can get you summarily executed.
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Seems like the only place that Ukraine is doing well is near Kharkov, which I guess is to be expected since most of their military was bordering the separatist areas. T-80 with it's turret blown off https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1496808569890508802
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Russians are getting bloodied near Kharkov. NSFW - DEAD BODY https://twitter.com/veyselmidilli3/status/1496817380424617986
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Ola posted:loving lol if the Russians fail. Eh...the Russians aren't going to be as cautious and methodical as an American army. They want to blast through as fast as possible, and if that means losing a hundred men where we would lose ten, they'll do that.
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Feb 24, 2022 13:47
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ZombieLenin posted:I like Corbyn, I really do; however, right this very second—off the cuff commentary by Marcon aside—there is no risk of NATO involving itself in a shooting war with Russia. I feel this is more of a 1938 Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia after Munich moment. The 1939 moment will be next year when he invades the Baltics.
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Feb 24, 2022 14:29
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fnox posted:How can there be anything more Nazi than invading loving Europe? I don't understand, how the gently caress can those two ideas coexist in someone's brain? Ukraine has a Jewish president who won 73% of the vote. Facts don't matter to these people
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1496987322553876480 I need to see photos or video before I believe it. CNN was there. What do they say?
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:so is trying to capture kyiv now a risky gamble or was the thread's assessment that russia wasn't doing as well as it thought it would on day 1 wrong Kiev is not far at all from the Belorussian border. Even if they aren't doing as well as they hope, I would be extremely surprised if the Russians don't at least encircle the city within the week. Falling within 2-3 days still remains very plausible.
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Dog Friday posted:If things are looking grim on the conventional war front, will Ukraine at some point start pulling men/resources out of the battles to save for insurgency stuff later? If they're calling for civilians to prepare Molotov cocktails and recruiting child soldiers, they're already well on their way to preparing for insurgency. These things will not stop the Russian army, but they will provide lots of martyr's for the cause that will harden the feelings of the people to resist occupation.
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Fame Douglas posted:That's pretty easy to say when you're in a country that doesn't depend on Russian energy. Only because they foolishly shut down their nuclear power plants
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KitConstantine posted:Ukrainian defense twitter corroborating In 1904 the Russian navy on it's way to the Pacific sank a British fishing fleet in the channel because they were convinced they were Japanese torpedo boats. This is nothing new.
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EvilHawk posted:https://twitter.com/LindseyMastis/status/1497189682878291981 Two hundred!?
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khwarezm posted:What would he even do with him? Killing him would just make him a martyr. Sticking him in a cell seems particularly gauche in this day and age but then I suppose I shouldn't put that past Putin considering... everything. https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1497079265434685470
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OctaMurk posted:This is the largest ever war between two countries that contain McDonalds, incidentally What about Burger King? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlaK98w9jJE
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Randarkman posted:I think they genuinely weren't ready for the attack from Belarus, yes. Russia does have an advantage in terms of equipment, especially aircraft, but haven't really been able to push it decisively yet as quickly as they seem to have been hoping. It's literally a hundred kilometers from Chernobyl to Kiev. Not much they can do when they're that close.
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Holy poo poo, I didn't believe it. That's like 200-300 dead Russian paratroopers https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1497431853531381762
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wins32767 posted:So here's something I don't get. The mechanized attack on Kiev came down from Belorussia down the closest road, the one that took it past Chernobyl. That road goes along the Tetereiv river and the first bridge is at Ivankiv. From there, looking at google maps, you can tell by the road closures that the Russians took basically a straight shot to Kiev from there. The total distance is ~180km, which they've managed in 2 days. That says that the bridge wasn't blown and that no meaningful forces were put in front of them to slow them down. I don't get that decision. I guess the Ukrainians want to fight in Kiev? It's a really long single road logistical tether for the Russians to be pushing supplies and reinforcements down, so maybe that's it? Kiev is a really big city. WIkipedia says 839 km2 (324 sq mi) with 3.4 million in the metro. Unless they're outnumbered 10 to 1, defenders who know a city like that well can run rings around invaders.
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Captain Stalin posted:Man, this war is doing to paratroopers what world war 1 did to cavalry. I mean, this has always been the truth with paratroopers. They're huge risk, huge reward.
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Delthalaz posted:I'm rooting for Ukraine as hard as most but I'm trying to temper my expectations here. From what I understand Ukraine holding out a week, or two weeks, would be pretty remarkable considering Russian strength. (let alone 'winning' whatever that would mean. If Ukraine won the war it would be such a mind boggling humiliation Putin would be deposed and dead). It's been two days Ukraine is almost certainly still going to lose, but it seems like the KIA the Russians will take will be a lot higher than expected.
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Nazzadan posted:Independent of the actual conflict, these past 2 days have been home to some of the loving stone cold hardest statements known to man. Missed that one. Link?
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