Russian invasion of Ukraine

[ghotihook]

This...is...wrong. This is too much battery power for one person.

I would say too much power, period.

[Iphie]

So now that Finland joined Nato does this mean that they will send a Nokia phone armor vests to Ukraine solders

Finland sends vests, russia complains about violations of the Geneva convention.

[Voidism]

I wonder why Turkey is fine with Salih Muslim (co-chairman of PYD) has residency rights in Finland, but comes up with all kinds of silly reasons for not inviting Sweden.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

I wonder why Turkey is fine with Salih Muslim (co-chairman of PYD) has residency rights in Finland, but comes up with all kinds of silly reasons for not inviting Sweden.

Just political posturing in all likelihood. Eventually backed down on Finland which more or less protects Sweden with a land barrier. Then Turkey has its "elections" and the "strong leader" still has something to run on being a hardliner. Then in a year or so the protest silently gets dropped. Sweden is in.

[Corvus]

And in the latest issue of Whats On Fire in Muscovy - the Defence Ministry building in Moscow. Sadly it was only a little fire.

[Edge-]

And in the latest issue of Whats On Fire in Muscovy - the Defence Ministry building in Moscow. Sadly it was only a little fire.

So...no new pope today? That's what the black smoke means, right?

[Logwyn]

So...no new pope today? That's what the black smoke means, right?

Yes Black is no new pope yet and white is we got a new guy!

For the building fire... Who knows!!

[Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang]

Vietnam-Cambodia war in 1978

Can't think of another

jus ad bellum - edit... forgot no religion

That example is a particularly spicy one, as Vietnam invaded Cambodia after the latter had carried actual cross-border massacres on them. And perhaps more importantly, as Vietnam was firmly in the Soviet camp, not only Mao's China but the US and its allies supported the genocidal Khmer Rouge continued existence on the ground and in international organizations for over a decade...

[Corvus]

Yeah, that one was fucked up - everyone should have been supportive of Vietnam getting rid of the Khmer Rouge, but, you know, geopolitics...

It also led to China's last war. They staged a 3 week invasion of northern Vietnam to support their Khmer Rouge puppets, bit after each side suffered around 60k casualties in 3 weeks by Western estimates, they withdrew. Borders skirmishers continued off and on until 91.

[jonnysensible]

oof those leaked documents that have russian KIA double the amount of Ukranian KIA (the real ones not the badly edited ones).

get fucking wrecked 35k+ russian cunts.

[Corvus]

Which documents? Cause muscovy kia are way north of 35K. Ukraine is putting it at near 200k and some western reports put it at 100k, and that was a long time back.

[jonnysensible]

Which documents? Cause muscovy kia are way north of 35K. Ukraine is putting it at near 200k and some western reports put it at 100k, and that was a long time back.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status...38707216130050

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/u...an-russia.html

[Iphie]

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status...38707216130050

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/u...an-russia.html

It doesn't show a date does it? So this might be old inormation, still not something you want out of course.

[jonnysensible]

It doesn't show a date does it? So this might be old inormation, still not something you want out of course.

dunno but the stats seem about right, 35k dead = 105k wounded if we are doing 1:3. probably about 4 weeks old

[Azadina]

dunno but the stats seem about right, 35k dead = 105k wounded if we are doing 1:3. probably about 4 weeks old

Maybe right for Wagner, but for entirety of RuZZki forces over a year of repeated heavy losses? Not a chance.

[jonnysensible]

Maybe right for Wagner, but for entirety of RuZZki forces over a year of repeated heavy losses? Not a chance.

100 dead a day for a year? seems about right. Ukranians were saying they were losing 100 a day at one point when it got really bad and it would make sense Russia would suffer the same because for them everyday is bad. There was a massive lull in the fighting over winter as well while both sides reconstituted their depleted forces.

[Iphie]

100 dead a day for a year? seems about right. Ukranians were saying they were losing 100 a day at one point when it got really bad and it would make sense Russia would suffer the same because for them everyday is bad. There was a massive lull in the fighting over winter as well while both sides reconstituted their depleted forces.

russia has been losing over a 1000 men a day at times in Bakhmut during the last few months. So 35k is almost certainly way too low.

[Corvus]

Russia didn't rest over winter. They tried a massive offensive all along the lines that failed majorly and took staggering losses for pretty much no gain.

[Dontrike]

Looks like the sanctions hit one of Russia's banks really well, one posted a $7.7 billion loss.

Russia's second-largest bank, VTB, reported a record annual loss of $7.7 billion on Wednesday after it was battered by Western sanctions last year.

VTB was one of the first banks to be excluded from the SWIFT global payments system after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Both the U.S. and Britain placed individual sanctions on the bank’s chief, Andrei Kostin, who is a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

VTB announced on Wednesday that its total losses in 2022 amounted to 612.6 billion rubles.

Noting the challenges the bank faces as Western sanctions tighten their grip on the Russian economy, VTB chief financial officer, Dmitry Pianov, said: "As a leader in servicing foreign trade activities and in investment banking, we became the first target for the maximum possible sanctions.”

In 2021, VTB posted a net profit of 327 billion rubles ($4.1 billion).

The bank said it had suffered from an "unprecedented outflow of [foreign] currencies" as well as losses related to the disposal of its subsidiaries, including those in Europe.

VTB also said it was impacted by the Russian Central Bank’s decision to hike interest rates as the West pummelled the country with sanctions.

In 2020, VTB had 15 million clients in Russia and employed around 80,000 workers.

[YUPPIE]

I thought Crimea was the red line for Putin - one even the US ill-advised Ukraine to consider retaking - , but today Ukraine ominously warned Russians to leave it in peace or prepare for huge battle.

KYIV — Ukraine has not changed its plans for the return of territory occupied by Russia, including Crimea.

“Ukraine will choose the way to bring Crimea back, using political and military means,” Tamila Tasheva, the Ukrainian president’s envoy on Crimea, told POLITICO.

“To minimize Ukrainian military losses, minimize threats to civilians who live in occupied territories, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, Ukraine plans to give Russia a choice on how to leave Crimea. If they don’t agree to leave voluntarily, Ukraine will continue to liberate its land by military means,” Tasheva added.

Her comments come after Andriy Sybiha, deputy head of the president’s office, gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he said Ukraine might be ready to discuss the future of Crimea with Moscow if Kyiv succeeds in achieving its strategic goals on the battlefield.

Of note:

His planned proposals include the forced relocation of all Russian citizens who moved to Crimea after 2014