Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Kallisto]

Poor Oryx. This has emerged in Belgorod in russia, just over the border - a war vehicle graveyard with hundreds of damaged and destroyed russian armoured vehicles.



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pootie didn't have a good CTSO meeting. Nobody wanted to stand next to mr stinky. Armenia, after being abandoned by the organisation when it was attacked by Azerbaijan, refused to sign at the end of the meeting, prompting an outburst from a Duma deputy from pootie's party, calling Armenia 'an illegal state'.

And Kazakhstan has been pulling away from russia towards the West and China, telling russia to stay out of its affairs. russian state propagandists have said the next country 'nazis' would be found in as a result is Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, understandably, was not happy about it and wanted an explanation. russia's response, via pootie's spokesman peskov, was the Fox defence - 'not to listen to or watch russian propaganda.' The Kazakhs were not happy with that response.

Kazakhs when Russia yells and threatens them should pull up a recently signed agreement with China that basically has in mandarin "Fuck around and find out."

[Corvus]

The problem with trying to be a jack-booted thug threatening people into submission is that you have be 1) threatening and 2) have the ability to put people into submission.

Russia is neither.

Rather than speaking quietly and carrying a big stick, russia went with screaming incoherently and carrying a limp stick.

[jonnysensible]

so the fsb reported it had engaged and killed ukrainian saboteurs near moscow, turns out it was a bunch of russian airsoft players oooof

[Iphie]

so the fsb reported it had engaged and killed ukrainian saboteurs near moscow, turns out it was a bunch of russian airsoft players oooof

Oops...now I will say that going out to airsoft in full kit in that paranoid climate is probably NOT the best idea ever, but they obviously do not deserve to die for that.

[Gabriel]

Oops...now I will say that going out to airsoft in full kit in that paranoid climate is probably NOT the best idea ever, but they obviously do not deserve to die for that.

Yeah at first I was going to meme about it too but... I feel sorry for them.

[Crispin]

Via the Ukrainians, so could be grain of salt time, but they say that a russian MoD document called 'Conclusions of the war with NATO in Ukraine' has called for 5 million troops to be deployed for russia to win.

Yeah, they really want to go down the zerg rush route.

Crazy that they're following the tried and failed strategy of WW1 "Throw more men into the bullets for victory!"

I'm abit amazed at how much the west overestimated Russias military capabilities, Russia should have kept it at a "fuck around and find out" state.

[Lahis]

Crazy that they're following the tried and failed strategy of WW1 "Throw more men into the bullets for victory!"

They're hoping Ukraine runs out of bullets before they run out of men

[Saradain]

They're hoping Ukraine runs out of bullets before they run out of men

Russia can try. Would solve a lot of problems in the world if Russia runs out of men. Both for the war effort and whole population structure in future.

Unfortunately for Nazi Russia, bullets ain't gonna run out.

[Rasulis]

Yandex want out of Russia. Which is the equivalent of Apple leaving the US.

[Corvus]

The kremlin released a video showing pootie meeting what it said where 'mothers of the soldiers.' Problem was the whole thing was staged with some of the 'mothers' identified as state officials and pro-war advocates.

[enigma77]

The kremlin released a video showing pootie meeting what it said where 'mothers of the soldiers.' Problem was the whole thing was staged with some of the 'mothers' identified as state officials and pro-war advocates.

I am shocked and dismayed at this deception.

[Iphie]

Yeah at first I was going to meme about it too but... I feel sorry for them.

When even you feel sorry for russians you KNOW it's really bad.

[Gabriel]

When even you feel sorry for russians you KNOW it's really bad.

We moderates do tend to feel bad for the common folk that suffers.

[enigma77]

We moderates do tend to feel bad for the common folk that suffers.

I frequently see videos on reddit of the common Russians having nothing but hatred and contempt for the Ukrainians their government has savagely attacked and is still murdering

so don't feel too bad

here's the latest example

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarV...at_to_do_with/

[Corvus]

Need to find the video again, but there was one of a russian woman crying that she has trouble watching tiktok videos and wants the Ukrainians to murder zelensky and surrender so she isn't inconvenienced anymore.

[enigma77]

Need to find the video again, but there was one of a russian woman crying that she has trouble watching tiktok videos and wants the Ukrainians to murder zelensky and surrender so she isn't inconvenienced anymore.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarV...being_able_to/

[The Stormbringer]

I frequently see videos on reddit of the common Russians having nothing but hatred and contempt for the Ukrainians their government has savagely attacked and is still murdering

so don't feel too bad

here's the latest example

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarV...at_to_do_with/

So, we just ignore all the people who were protesting things and getting arrested before the conscription? Because it feels better to paint an entire country with the same brush than to accept the real world is complex? Okie dokie then.

[Azadina]

So, we just ignore all the people who were protesting things and getting arrested before the conscription? Because it feels better to paint an entire country with the same brush than to accept the real world is complex? Okie dokie then.

All the 10k+ in a terrorist state of over 140 million? Whoopdidoo.

[enigma77]

So, we just ignore all the people who were protesting things and getting arrested before the conscription? Because it feels better to paint an entire country with the same brush than to accept the real world is complex? Okie dokie then.

LOL

A couple hundred people probably protesting chiefly the conscription rather than the war itself do not represent their nation sorry, the vast majority and especially their government does, I'm sure Nazi Germany had a few good men, doesn't change the fact that their government was EVIL and that a whole lot of Germans supported the Nazis. Should the Allies not have beaten the Nazis because a few good people may have protested? Good does not reign in Russia, evil does. Evil supported either actively or passively by millions of Russians.

I'll consider Russians anything but terrorists/terrorist sympathizers, when we have MILLIONS protesting, engaging in civil disobedience and causing real change in their malevolent nation. More likely that change will have to be forced on them, by breaking them like the Japanese and German governments/populations were broken.

It's official now btw, Russia IS a terrorist state! So I will rightfully refer to any member of a terrorist nation as a terrorist until proven otherwise.

The 140 million Russians who allow, support and enable their government to murder Ukrainians will not be anything but terrorists. They are all guilty.

[Kallisto]

The 140 million Russians who allow, support and enable their government to murder Ukrainians will not be anything but terrorists. They are all guilty.

Again this basically tells Russians "Unless you mass suicide (Which is what protesting is) you're all scum fucks who even if you're in a village 1000s of miles away totally shot the gun that killed a kid that you never saw, never interacted with, never even had any thought about because like 99.99999% of humans you're just trying to live your life and realise that being alive no matter what is the goal of every life form as death means the every second of your life was meaningless shit and a waste of time."