Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Poopymonster]

A wry reading of that is that Finland’s pending inclusion to NATO also means that any Russian “just in case we want to…” invasion plans into finland are now basically gone as well, so there’s no reason for them to maintain any sort of real military presence there.

But in a more realistic sense, I think this qualifies as “scraping the bottom of the barrel”

We need that equipment and dead men walking more urgently in the Ukraine

[Mihalik]

Considering they're sending in artic fighting specialists I'd support that statement.

And Finland obviously has no plans of invasion so it's relatively safe, but still...

"Arctic fighting specialists" in Russia just means those guys have actually been given warm underwear.

[Corvus]

Not sure what Lukashenko is playing at, besides being petty, but he just had a memorial to soldiers of the Polish Home Army (the ww2 polish resistance) bulldozed.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/statu...53XkkCQ8IIB7wA

[Crispin]

Please allow me to complete the "...or something..." part:

Our 'defensive alliance' was bombing Yugoslavia for 77 days, w/t any UNSC or UN approval or what so ever
Our 'defensive alliance' is compromised by countries that have bombed the sh*t out of middle east, Asia and Africa
Our 'defensive alliance' when asked by Russia to sign a paper that guarantees that in the Mark-41 VLS in Romania, no Tomahawks (which are nuclear capapble) will ever be installed, never agreed to.

So yeah...

Your ignorance knows no boundaries does it.

Out og all those, the bombing campaign in Serbia might have been too aggressive and without the proper mandate.

The Afghan war was a no brainer, had they handed over the terror network, then it never would have happened. Libya was with a UN mandate.

Of course Russia does not dictate what missiles NATO installs, thinking they should clearly shows how ignorant you are.

Out of all of these, an action against a country commiting genocide 30 years ago might have a point, and that’s it.

Context matters you knob.

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russia's emptying the bases around Finland

So it seems Finland is so much not a threat that russia can just leave the border defense with less men...

Early on we had already heard that several units had gone to fight in Ukraine but now it appears that also the last base is sending troops.

Read that soldiers stationed in the baltics, saw Russian forces across the border reduced by 2/3rds

They’re throwing eveything at a win in Donbass

[Corvus]

The fact they are stripping defences bare where they face off against NATO sort of puts paid to the lie that NATO was a threat.

[Mekh]

The fact they are stripping defences bare where they face off against NATO sort of puts paid to the lie that NATO was a threat.

I was gonna point that out too. Glad I scrolled to the bottom first.

Yes, can't feel threatened by NATO -and- empty your bases when they expand. Doesn't make sense.

[Flurryfang]

I was gonna point that out too. Glad I scrolled to the bottom first.

Yes, can't feel threatened by NATO -and- empty your bases when they expand. Doesn't make sense.

Well the only reason the troops were there was to pressure Finland to not join NATO. Now that the process have started, they don't serve a purpose anymore.

[Lahis]

A wry reading of that is that Finland’s pending inclusion to NATO also means that any Russian “just in case we want to…” invasion plans into finland are now basically gone as well, so there’s no reason for them to maintain any sort of real military presence there.

But in a more realistic sense, I think this qualifies as “scraping the bottom of the barrel”

They just need more men to the grinder in Ukraine. Time to get last of them from the Finnish border.

[Logwyn]

Putin better watch out the Irish Prime Minister is meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv.
https://www.egyptindependent.com/iri...cials-in-kyiv/

[Shadowferal]

Some customers of Russia's rebranded McDonald's are not loving it according to images by social media users of orders that have contained some unexpected ingredients

But the Russian version of Happy Meals—called Combos—has reportedly left some customers decidedly unhappy at the additional protein served up.

Images posted have shown what appears to be insect legs and bugs in the burgers, while other pictures document creeping mold on the buns.

Another Twitter user posted a video clip of birds pecking at a stack of burger buns outside an outlet, citing it as a grim example of Russia's experiment with fast food import substitution.

Of course, there is no shortage of claims about insects being found in the food produced by fast food outlets in the U.S.

However, the reports were enough to prompt opposition politician and television personality Ksenia Sobchak to say on her Telegram channel that the new Russian chain "doesn't quite honor the standards of McDonald's, at least in terms of product quality control."

"Today alone, at least three cases have been recorded when burgers with moldy buns were sold to catering customers," she said, later posting that customers had also been given sauces that had gone beyond their best before date.

"Guys, you'll figure it out," she wrote, "you don't need to poison people."

No irony in that last statement, huh.

[Joszef Kiprich]

So slightly better then McD?

[Biglog]

Not surprised about the Russian clone McD's. They can't get more supply of any McDonald's food/drink/etc., so they can try to emulate something similar to McD's food but it isn't going to be very close at all. It sounds like that is exactly the case and worse than real McDonald's. I'd imagine all the cloned businesses are going to experience the same once whatever supplies run out that they had left, before the companies that pulled out had their property effectively nationalized Soviet-style.

[Shadowferal]

So making that special sauce extra special.

[Makabreska]

So making that special sauce extra special.

Szechuan Sauce???

[Makabreska]

I don't see or hear much about this anymore. Would anybody mind giving a brief synopsis of the past couple months and where things are currently at now?

Or better yet a credible link to such information?

Dunno, Wikipedia?

[Kaleredar]

I don't see or hear much about this anymore. Would anybody mind giving a brief synopsis of the past couple months and where things are currently at now?

Or better yet a credible link to such information?

My understanding of it is:

Ukraine and Russia have more or less turtled down. Russia has made advances but simultaneously lost ground elsewhere. They’ve resorted to basically indiscriminately bombing the crap out of their targets. Ukraine continues to tactically take out Russian depots and forces with long-range artillery supplied by western nations.

Internally Russia continues to financially crumble, propped up only in the short term by their continued heavily discounted fuel sales and internal market manipulation. And of course the entire time they’ve spun that Ukraine’s continues resistance to the invasion is a direct affront to Russia.

Sweden and Finland‘s inclusion to NATO seems all but certain now.

[YUPPIE]

I don't see or hear much about this anymore. Would anybody mind giving a brief synopsis of the past couple months and where things are currently at now?

Or better yet a credible link to such information?

Russia is winning right now, having claimed Lysychansk in a landmark victory.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ru...-of-lysychansk

Obviously, no one wants to hear the grim reality, hence you'll always almost only see headlines of Ukraine's successes, but Russia is slowly making an advance into Ukraine with their human wave tactics. It's like the Locust from Gears of War; they don't run out of people or morality, have no ethics, and yet pushed humanity to the brink.

[Makabreska]

Thank you for going out of your way and taking the time to specifically not be helpful.

???

There literally is a Wikipedia page about entire conflict history that is being updated daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...aine#July_2022

[YUPPIE]

I think no matter what happens at this point, Russia has already lost

let's look at this realistically in the danger they pose, yes?

[Makabreska]

let's look at this realistically in the danger they pose, yes?

You have yet to do this in this thread.