Nooner posted:

Nooner posted:

Jakabite posted:

I’d be interested to know what arguments posters on that side of things actually have for the Wehrmacht comparison not being valid? I can’t actually work out what the argument there is and all I’ve seen so far is ‘so you’re saying these are exactly the same’ which isn’t really the case.

HonorableTB posted:

My fiancee has a British cookbook and theres an entire section devoted to beans on things beans shouldn't be on

fatherboxx posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HY50xw3WU

no joke this is every talk with a Z-moron i have a misfortune of having

beer_war posted:

Wrap it up, Ukrainailures, it's all over.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

One of the wildest things about Russian propaganda efforts is that they are not really sure how to cope with an actual war. They're used to wars on a far smaller scale, and in much smaller scale wars blowing up a few tanks are killing 100 guys basically defines the battlefield. However in a war of maneuvering like the one we are currently in, it takes far more for a counteroffensive to actually be stopped. So Russia brags about killing 1,000 guys and they think that that is somehow enough to convince Ukraine that it's time to end the war. It is not and clearly the propaganda is not capable of comprehending that. I mean Hitler and his boys were claiming to be wiping out entire army groups and losing a company, even though this is extremely weak and clearly bullshit it's far more understandable than what is happening in russia. There bragging about one leopard getting blown up like it's going to change the entire face of the war.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

A force with no planes and no long range capability has taken two oblasts and is moving towards the capital with little-no resistance. There are thousands of nuclear weapons in Russia. This is Cyberpunk. This is the future. Welcome.

beer_war posted:

https://twitter.com/leventkemaI/status/1672595767775707138?s=20 Kadyrovites are closing in on Rostov

Mrs. Dash posted:

If it's legit I assume that means nobody in the russian military was siding with him and he decided his 2-5k man convoy trying to take Moscow alone had worse survival chances than an agreement with putin and spending the rest of his life avoiding rooms with windows.

Deltasquid posted:

Putin apparently capitulating to Wagner's demands to reshuffle the MOD does not bode well for his strong man image. Putin rules by fear and at this point more than a few people must be thinking "if this Wagner dude can pull a stunt like this unopposed and get what he wants, maybe I can rock the boat as well"

greatBigJerk posted:

Or everyone involved is just really loving stupid.

InsertPotPun posted:

look this is all great analysis and all but can anyone phrase it as if it were a marvel movie?

Nelson Mandingo posted:

Godrey I'm gonna boil down your post. "Russia should be able to do bad things because it's hypocritical that America can. And it's a shame that anti-russian sentiment will be worse in Ukraine." Anyone who holds the idea that America is exceptional, gets a pass, or the positives outweigh the negatives (such as patrolling everyones shipping lanes for them) and so and so on....well, they're an idiot. America is bad.

And when another nation does it, it's still wrong. A war of imperialism is wrong. I support Ukraine because they are fighting for their self-determination. I hope that clears things up.


And yeah it's a shame anti-russian sentiment will be worse in Ukraine. Seriously. It really is! Maybe they shouldn't have committed genocide against them in the past, and tried again in the current date though. I think Russia should stop the war, and then pay reparations. It won't bring anyone back but an apology is better than nothing and healing can begin.

frumpykvetchbot posted:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-put-destroyed-nato-equipment-show-near-western-embassies-2023-07-12/

that will show those HATO westerners & they will immediately withdraw their support

Beard Dandruff posted:

Thats an odd way to describe stringing along Ukraine so that they continue to send waves of conscripts into an artillery fueled meat grinder?

Mokotow posted:

Another SA success story - one of our ex forum members is back in Ukraine, training soldiers.

kemikalkadet posted:

It’s a traditional British crisp flavour

Rust Martialis posted:

Forloren pindsvin

tiaz posted:

I mean they tried it in the very beginning with that fake video of ostensibly ukrainian infantry attacking their positions, filmed from the ukrainian perspective with dudes in mismatched uniforms (none of which were ukrainian iirc) firing tracers at something offscreen
absolutely nobody found it convincing so it was memory holed I guess

Dwesa posted:

Flavahbeast posted:

A famous cat torturer has been confirmed killed after being recruited to the invasion from prison: the case of Кузю the cat apparently drew national attention in Russia, a statue of Кузю was erected in St. Petersburg: https://russianfreepress.com/2022/11/07/in-st-petersburg-yesterday-opened-a-monument-to/

Some are celebrating Lavrentyev's death, others are saying he atoned for killing the cat when he signed up to kill Ukrainians

Tai posted:

Uh oh. Speaking out against the Government that your dad shills for.

Coolguye posted:

i'm FAIRLY sure that's a 'waif in his underwear' style quirk from russian to english. she's being translated directly but the cultural context is that orwell would have gone through the various phases of 'such is life' before getting actually sick from the putinesque crap, and as a writer who has thought about it a lot, orwell would have a lot of "such is life" to go through since he's thought of every ramificaftion 20 other people have.

i've never actually seen the other side of "such is life" described as being sick though so it's entirely possible i'm wrong.

Dwesa posted:

everyone knows toilets should be OUTSIDE the school

Der Kyhe posted:

Navalny was one of the other brands of "Russia should be allowed to draw its own borders"-buffoons, so not exactly a huge loss from the viewpoint of countries bordering Russia.

But more interesting questions is 'why now?'; The guy was already a write-off, spending rest of his life in jail unless Putin's regime topples, so why poison the guy now instead of using him as a living reminder for the people with similar ideas. Now there is a chance that he becomes a martyr to factions opposing Putin, and that surely cannot be what the ol' shitpants wants.