Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Corvus]

It's totally psyops. Paranoid pootie isn't going to be anywhere he can get offed, but he'll be worried about who in his circle might be involved.

And if he does go down, no one but a few tankies are going to shed any tears. Russia, meanwhile, will be in turmoil as there is no clear successor, which will really make the war hard to continue.

[Xarkan]

The fact there's talk of an assassination in the works on Putin by Ukrainian officials is troubling because it's unheard of to hear a world leader of an ex-superpower be the target.

Does not mean there is in fact an assassination in the works. But claiming you would kill Putin looks good in the press and who would fault Ukraine (or Georgia for that matter) for wishing the man dead?

Also it is funny in a way, Putin may realize it is most likely not true but now he has to live his life fearing another group of people will try to kill him.That is untill someone from the Duma suddenly draws a gun and kills Putin for refusing to nuke the Faroe Island or some crazy shit unrelated to anything meaningful

[Gabriel]

the problem with that is with the fact they're not making it hidden they're on the prowl for Putin's life; any comment like what you described would be a trollish admittance to the deed without directly saying it.

In any case, the Russians would immediately point to the Ukrainians for Putin's death and seek all-out revenge.

What makes you think the Russians would give a shit?

[Iphie]

What makes you think the Russians would give a shit?

Eh, there's still russians worshipping Stalin so I'm sure *some* russians will care. No one who matters obviously, but some in any case.

[YUPPIE]

What makes you think the Russians would give a shit?

I assume, like you, there is a significant portion of Russians that genuinely see Putin as some messianic figure.

News of his death at anything other than old age/illness would inspire an uproar against the West, as a result of all the propaganda and cult of personality he's cultivated throughout the century.

[Elder Millennial]

I assume, like you, there is a significant portion of Russians that genuinely see Putin as some messianic figure.

News of his death at anything other than old age/illness would inspire an uproar against the West, as a result of all the propaganda and cult of personality he's cultivated throughout the century.

He hasn't been in power for a century.

What some dumb chucklefuck out in the boonies thinks about Pootie is utterly irrelevant to what the people what actual power think, and they couldn't care less.

STOP.FANTASIZING.

If Putin died tomorrow, immolated in a ball of fire or with his throat slit, absolutely nobody relevant will give a damn.

[Milchshake]

What kind of sociopatic goblin...
Spends last week complaining that Velensky was traveling the world for support. And that Russian was not given chances by the west to assassinate him.
Spends this week complaining that Ukraine has some obscure contingency to kill Putin if the oppertunity arrises.

This person is already in the cult of Putin.

[Corvus]

Seriously, go watch the Death of Stalin. He had far more power and a far bigger cult of personality than pootie could ever dream of, and his corpse was still warm by the time he was forgotten and the power struggles began.

[Flarelaine]

Seriously, go watch the Death of Stalin. He had far more power and a far bigger cult of personality than pootie could ever dream of, and his corpse was still warm by the time he was forgotten and the power struggles began.

Those power struggles never ceased for a moment. They never do around paranoid dictators. You cannot stop digging up dirt on others because you can bet they're digging up dirt on you.

[Gorsameth]

the problem with that is with the fact they're not making it hidden they're on the prowl for Putin's life; any comment like what you described would be a trollish admittance to the deed without directly saying it.

Congratulations, your learning how international diplomacy works.

Everyone knows you did it, everyone knows your lying when you deny it and yet everyone will go along with the show.

[Nymrohd]

Those power struggles never ceased for a moment. They never do around paranoid dictators. You cannot stop digging up dirt on others because you can bet they're digging up dirt on you.

And by digging you mean planting or simply making it up and whispering it to enough ears that everyone thinks it is true.

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Congratulations, your learning how international diplomacy works.

Everyone knows you did it, everyone knows your lying when you deny it and yet everyone will go along with the show.

To be fair, that's how Russia does international diplomacy and why very few other states ever trusted them. Killing an enemy state leader is not a good idea. Not even implying you are planning to do it is a good idea. Imo it is absolutely morally right to kill an enemy state leader who conducts and unjustified war against your country; the moment a war starts the enemy government is imo NOT civilians targets if they are part of the command structure. If it is ok to kill a conscript who very likely had no choice in the matter (not everyone can flee, it takes money), it should be OK to kill the person who ordered him there. But the problem is, it gets people antsy. By that reasoning and moral standard, it should have been equally OK to assassinate several Western leaders in recent history. And that is not a precedent they'd want to argue for.

[Corvus]

The other day, russia said one of its ships had been attacked by drone vessels near the Bosphorus, but claimed to have destroyed all 3 and the ship suffered no damage. Of course, this is russia, so we know they were lying, just not as to what exacly.

Then video came out from one of the drone vessels that cut out at the moment it collided with the russian ship. Following that, there was tracking of a NATO surveillance drone doing circuits above the location, watching on, followed by the arrival of a russian rescue tug, one that basically hasn't moved for hours. And now another video reportedly showing the moment of impact.

The exact damage is uncertain but seems to be in the stern, which may have knocked out propulsion.

[YUPPIE]

Russia unleashes a vicious attack on a medical clinic in what is called another major war crime

Two people have been killed and 23 injured in a missile strike on a medical clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor says.

Of the 23 injured, 21 are in hospital and three are in a serious condition.

Two boys aged three and six were also among the wounded, governor Serhiy Lysak said.

Russian strikes on Ukraine have intensified in recent weeks ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Mr Zelensky posted a video of the damaged clinic that showed firefighters at the scene and smoke billowing from the building.

"Russian terrorists once again confirm their status of fighters against everything humane and honest," he said.

Earlier, Mr Lysak said the region came under a "mass attack...with missiles and drones" on Thursday night.

"It was a very difficult night. It was loud," he said. "Dnipro has suffered."

At the scene, fire crews were sawing down trees to get a mounted hose closer to the flames which had engulfed the large, three story building.

Meanwhile, amidst the rubble, rescue teams were searching for two missing people.

Ukrainian authorities said they shot down 17 missiles and 31 drones launched from Russia overnight.

Several drones and missiles hit targets in Dnipro and the eastern city of Kharkiv, including an oil depot.

Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, was also targeted and officials said fragments of intercepted drones fell on the roof of a shopping centre, while a house and several cars were damaged.

In Russia, a blast damaged a residential and office building in the southern city of Krasnodar, east of Crimea, on Friday morning.

The region's governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, said it was caused by two Ukrainian drones: "There is some damage to buildings, but critical infrastructure was not damaged. And most importantly, there were no casualties."

Russia's Belgorod region, which was the scene of an unprecedented incursion from Ukrainian territory earlier this week, was also hit overnight. The village of Kozinka was struck more than 130 times, according to its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

Mr Gladkov said one woman was injured. He said the Graivoron district, where the incursion took place, was subject to the worst attacks.

[The Stormbringer]

the problem with that is with the fact they're not making it hidden they're on the prowl for Putin's life; any comment like what you described would be a trollish admittance to the deed without directly saying it.

In any case, the Russians would immediately point to the Ukrainians for Putin's death and seek all-out revenge.

Lol. Lmao, even. You think the Russian people like him, let alone love him enough to do that? Yuppie, I try not to be a jerk to you (unlike some people here), but this is an incredibly braindead take. The percentage of people in Russia who actually obsess over their dictator-in-chief is almost certainly in the single digits... the low single digits. Sure, they'll probably pretend to mourn him in public until they know which way the new regime in power swings, but they'll be partying in private, guaranteed.

[gondrin]

I don't think it is needed to be pointed out that the US and NATO do wargames so often that it's impossible that they have not wargamed out what would happen if Russia dragged NATO into the war already. Likely at least once a month.

Didn't we do this in the 80s with a computer named after a sandwich? Didn't we also figure out that Tic-Tac-Toe is the perfect game to stop a rogue AI from gaining sentience in that same timeframe?

[Huehuecoyotl]

Didn't we do this in the 80s with a computer named after a sandwich? Didn't we also figure out that Tic-Tac-Toe is the perfect game to stop a rogue AI from gaining sentience in that same timeframe?

I think we've now decided that the best way to avoid an AI gaining sentience is to put Elon Musk in charge of it.

[Edge-]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner...mecoming-party

Even as Prigozhin on Thursday gloated over the group’s supposed success and seemed to taunt his rivals at the Russian Defense Ministry, news broke that a Wagner fighter freshly released from the battlefield was almost immediately shot dead upon returning home.

A man identified only as Yury S. was shot dead while celebrating his homecoming in a village in the Irkutsk region on Wednesday night, according to local reports.

Having returned from the war zone just a day earlier, Yury had gotten into a drunken argument with an acquaintance at his party when the latter suddenly pulled out a gun and killed him. It was not immediately clear what the two argued about.

Police are now reportedly questioning the alleged gunman, identified only as Konstantin in local reports.

It’s not the first time violence has quickly followed the return home of a Wagner fighter. Earlier this week, a man reportedly wearing a military uniform and a Wagner patch was accused of sexually assaulting two school girls in Novosibirsk.

The 10- and 12-year-old girls told authorities that the mercenary warned them he had a grenade on him and threatened to “blow them up” if they didn’t do as he said, Baza reported. Investigators are still searching for the suspect, and his status in Wagner has not been confirmed.

Things seem to be going great back at home. Mercs are getting offed by their drunken buddies and trying to rape young girls.

[zealo]

Didn't we do this in the 80s with a computer named after a sandwich? Didn't we also figure out that Tic-Tac-Toe is the perfect game to stop a rogue AI from gaining sentience in that same timeframe?

It's a regular practise in any professional military to do that sort of thing, but with real physical pieces on a big map.

Hobbyist tabletop wargaming have it's roots in what armed forces were and still are doing to train their officer corps and simulate potential scenarios going hot and how to respond to them on a strategic level.

[YUPPIE]

I'm gonna ask what, if anything, Belarus moving nukes from Russia means.

[jonnysensible]

I'm gonna ask what, if anything, Belarus moving nukes from Russia means.

it means some posturing