Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Lahis]

As a finn, I find it kind of hard to believe that we have basically a 3rd world country as a neighbor.

St. Petersburg and Moscow keep up an appearance of a developed and civilized country, but the further away you get from them, the Whittier it gets.

[zorkuus]

St. Petersburg and Moscow keep up an appearance of a developed and civilized country, but the further away you get from them, the Whittier it gets.

Look at what they did to Viipuri. Even though it looks mostly kinda idyllic, there's also lots of buildings that are just left to rot.

[ABEEnr2]

This video is fascinating about what's happening now in the Ukraine war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZioTavNy3c

[Specialka]

St. Petersburg and Moscow keep up an appearance of a developed and civilized country, but the further away you get from them, the Whittier it gets.

St Petersburg is basically like any western capital (at least, it was when I was there in the 2000's). Moscow is more like your stalin run of the mill capital with red cross on some building and such. It does not look like any western city, but it is still okayish to live in there by any low western standards. Outside those, the more you go far, the more you go back in time. Some town are still in the industrial age while in the countryside, you go back as far as medieval age since they have no running water nor electricity.

[Gorsameth]

Glad I did that. I don’t need a gun porn channel fucking up my recommendations.

hover over a video in your history, click the X to remove and stop it from polluting your history.

[Corvus]

Lievrov is at it again in his attempts to justify the war, basically saying France would invade Belgium if it banned French. Firstly, no it wouldn't, and secondly, Russian is not banned in Ukraine to start with.

[Iphie]

Glad I did that. I don’t need a gun porn channel fucking up my recommendations.

Yeah...I'm not very impressed with him considering he said that the Finnish army mostly consists of low morale conscripts and that the reserves are anything from fresh ex-conscripts to men in their sixties (by which he means: of questionable quality). Additionally his assessment of the Finnish artillery is similarly laughable. He's not done his homework when it comes to the Finnish army.

While the Finland does know conscription those who serve are anything but low morale.

[Fuiking]

Lievrov is at it again in his attempts to justify the war, basically saying France would invade Belgium if it banned French. Firstly, no it wouldn't, and secondly, Russian is not banned in Ukraine to start with.

The wallons would be angry but France wouldnt invade belgium haha

[Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang]

The wallons would be angry but France wouldnt invade belgium haha

On the other hand, if Flanders declared independence, a number of polls have shown substantial support among Walloons and French for reunification.

See Rattachism.

But anyway it would most likely be a hot topic of contention when it comes to the EU's stance on minority languages rights (a 40% minority at that).

[Corvus]

A French journalist has been killed when the evacuation vehicle he was on was attacked by the Russians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...ost_type=share

[Okacz]

Lievrov is at it again in his attempts to justify the war, basically saying France would invade Belgium if it banned French. Firstly, no it wouldn't, and secondly, Russian is not banned in Ukraine to start with.

Makes sense, after all currently every country is at war with every other country that's using a different language.

While it sounds like ramblings of a madman, many russians would only nod with understanding. For generations they have been told that the #1 thing that matters is the size, power and areas of influence of The Motherland, and the weaker should just get absorbed by it unless they wanna get hurt. How could they imagine same rules do not apply everywhere else in the world.

[Yunru]

Army uprising is happening:


Russan who shots this general will be a hero to Ukraine people.

[Lahis]

Army uprising is happening:


Russan who shots this general will be a hero to Ukraine people.

Will be a good day when Ruskies start shooting eachother.

[Iphie]

No missiles that can reach into russia

Given that russia was very clear about this I'm not surprised.

[Kaleredar]

"If there is no water in the tap, means Jews drank it all."

A quote from a satirical song by a well known Soviet actor, singer and songwriter Vysockij from many decades ago. The song basically was about various Soviet life issues and mocking of excuses for them.

Known issue from times immemorial. There is always some sort of conspiracy at work by the enemies or somehow it's not govt fault.

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This is by the way I keep telling here that what you see now is not Putin or something - it's the system that's there for hundreds of years that changes face and slogans from time to time.

This is why I am almost sure that eventually the system will drop Putin and pretend things are totally going to be different now - only to reveal another 2 decades down the road that nothing really changed... again.

The rest of the world would be perfectly content to let Russia continue to rot itself as it sees fit no matter who runs it, just so long as it stops going around invading and/or generally messing with other countries.

Various pro-Russia shills around here seem to act like everyone always has Russia constantly on their mind and Russia is this grand, looming presence they all fear and revere... when the simple reality is that nobody would give a single flying fuck about what Russia was up to, or what it was doing to its people, or how it was failing them, if they'd stop monkeying around in the business of other nations. They go on about how "Russia has to bully/invade/threaten others, or else NATO would invade them!" when NATO really only exists to temper Russia's constant ambitions of bullying, invading, and threatening others.

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A French journalist has been killed when the evacuation vehicle he was on was attacked by the Russians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-...ost_type=share

"Was killed by Ukrainians to make Russia look bad, just like every other person in Ukraine that has died since special military operation started, comrade" ~ Russia, probably.

[D Luniz]

The screws are tightened

Leaders Agree to Ban Most Russian Oil Imports
A draft of the agreement allows pipeline imports, in a nod to Hungary’s complaints. Even still, it would be the toughest action yet over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

[gondrin]

While this doesn't pertain to the Ukraine war, it still involves Russia and invading others.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...f07592551934ce

Russia Anchorman Known As 'Putin's Voice' Wants Moscow to Take Stonehenge

Russian state TV personality Vladimir Solovyov suggested that Russia invade the United Kingdom next, saying he'd like to see Moscow take Stonehenge.

Solovyov, who has close ties with Vladimir Putin and has been called "Putin's voice," said on his Russia-1 program, Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, that Russia could invade the U.K. next. When asked by Ukrainian political analyst Vasil Vakarov how far Russia would be willing to go before stopping, Solovyov replied, "Well, when we have to, then we will."

"Where will we stop? Well, as I was saying today, maybe Stonehenge. Liz Truss says she's the one fighting the war," Solovyov said according to The Independent.

Stonehenge, the historic landmark in England that lies in Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, is currently being used to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's 70th anniversary.

Truss, Britain's foreign secretary, has been at odds with Russian media since the invasion for refusing to compromise with Putin on the subject of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Truss told G7 and NATO leaders at a meeting in Germany at the beginning of May that "Putin is humiliating himself on the world stage. We must ensure he faces a defeat in Ukraine that denies him any benefit and ultimately constrains further aggression."

This is not the first time Russian state TV has threatened Britain or Europe in general. In April, the Putin propagandist Solovyov threatened the U.K. with the possibility of nuclear annihilation via the Sarmat, a Russian ballistic missile. Solovyov said on his show, "One Sarmat means minus one Great Britain because they've gotten totally boorish."

In another episode, accompanied on his show by journalist Margarita Simonyan, he comforted the world to the possibility of nuclear war. Simonyan said in April, "Everything will end with a nuclear strike is more probable than the other outcome. This is to my horror, on one hand, but on the other hand, with the understanding that it is what it is."

Solovyov added, "But we will go to heaven, while they will simply croak."

Besides threatening the U.K. on Monday, Solovyov was questioned on his show about his villas in Italy after he called Italians "fascists."

According to a roughly translated tweet, the TV host was asked why he purchased four villas in Italy if he thought Italians were fascists, to which he reportedly replied, "When I bought, the Italian people remembered and loved the Russians."

Solovyov has previously railed against the country of Italy on air after three of his villas were seized by Italian police as sanctions against oligarchs took place in response to the war in Ukraine.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian defense ministry for comment.

[Kaleredar]

While this doesn't pertain to the Ukraine war, it still involves Russia and invading others.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...f07592551934ce

Damn, I didn't know Russia had its own version of Alex Jones.

[Corvus]

Damn, I didn't know Russia had it's own version of Alex Jones.

It seems they've got nothing but Alex Joneses.

[Makabreska]

Heh, Russia mad that they are not being invited to a Hiroshima/Nagasaki victims commemoration.