Russian invasion of Ukraine

[draynay]

You have to be able to articulate the risk to justifiably ask the question and expect to be taken seriously.

Some people should never be taken seriously.

[PhaelixWW]

Some people should never be taken seriously.

What can I say? I guess I'm just enough of an optimist to feel somewhat obligated to give them a chance.

[Kaleredar]

A good PR is still not doing the "right thing" for its own sake but again doing it because it suits us.

You were arguing "why should we care" and are now backtracking into "well the west is only helping Ukraine for selfish reasons."

If you want to believe that, then you answered question number one with statement number two.

[alach]

Not exactly sure where to post this, but I think we could all use a good laugh eh?

Russia's Kadyrov equips Tesla truck with machinegun for war

Aug 17 (Reuters) - The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video on Saturday of himself driving a Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab Cybertruck with what looked like a machinegun mounted on top, saying he would send it to the Ukraine conflict zone.
Kadyrov, known for extravagant publicity stunts, heaped praise on both the vehicle and Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk on the Telegram messaging app, calling him the "strongest genius of modern times" and inviting Musk to Chechnya.

I sure hope Ukraine is putting a bounty on this piece of garbage and is making sure they have space in their destroyed russian vehicles open air museum.

[Corvus]

Kadyrov is on the sanctions list, so whoever supplied it to him should be in trouble.

[Attackrabbit]

Well, this is the line you're backing Yuppers up on:

So... is that a statement you agree with?

Maybe backing Yuppie was not the correct phrase but he did accidently have a point. And for someone who tells people to 'crack a book and educate yourself' you seemed to be completely unaware that it is possible for fighting to leave land uninhabitable over 100 years later ^^

[Mayhem]

Should Russia be on such a verge or face outright defeat, Putin still has plenty of allies still standing to make life difficult for Ukraine. One of these allies is China.

Uhu, so if Russia is facing defeat China will swoop in and declare war on Ukraine.

Sure, because that makes sense.

[PhaelixWW]

Maybe backing Yuppie was not the correct phrase but he did accidently have a point. And for someone who tells people to 'crack a book and educate yourself' you seemed to be completely unaware that it is possible for fighting to leave land uninhabitable over 100 years later ^^

No, I was never talking about some random tract of land. I was talking about a country, which is what Yuppers' statement was. He said:

Ukraine is largely uninhabitable

Again, is that a statement you agree with?

Remember, your example of Zone Rouge is only about ~500 square miles, or like 0.2% of France. And as you said, a lot of that has to do with chemical weapons.

Is France noticeably troubled in terms of its rebuilding since WWI by Zone Rouge?

[Veggie50]

That's the best case scenario if everything goes well. Again, investment = risk, are we willing to take that risk ? Not my or our decision to make, but the question has to be asked.

Can you articulate the risk here? Because I don’t see it. Sure none of those factors will turn out in 100% success, but even a 5% success would be a gain.

[Corvus]

The second of the three bridges over the Seym has largely been brought down, leaving only one workable bridge left for the pocked west of the Kursk offensive.

Supply will be hard, so if the russian conscripts stay or flee is a tough question.

[Combatbutler]

Uhu, so if Russia is facing defeat China will swoop in and declare war on Ukraine.

Sure, because that makes sense.

I wonder if they'd just take Manchuria back, or swoop in and take much of Russias eastern territory at that point.

[Belize]

Not exactly sure where to post this, but I think we could all use a good laugh eh?



I sure hope Ukraine is putting a bounty on this piece of garbage and is making sure they have space in their destroyed russian vehicles open air museum.

Memes and jokes aside, electric vehicles in a war are actually a terrible idea, and a reason the ICE will stick around in some form even if we electrify cities

[YUPPIE]

Russia today carried out its third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month but preliminary data indicated most of the projectiles were shot down on approach.

"This is already the third ballistic strike on the capital in August, with exact intervals of six days between each attack," Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Popko said the Russians had most likely used North Korean-made ballistic missiles.

[Joszef Kiprich]

And that's different of their earlier attacks?
They've been using North Korean missiles since the beginning.

[Belize]

Ukraine is making themselves mightily hard to dislodge from their Krusk foothold.

There aren't an infinite number of bridges, and they'll be hard to fix while under HIMARS fire.

[Makabreska]

Yuppers attempts to paint this conflict as a WW3 with these sensational informations about 3rd party involvements are really something.

[YUPPIE]

besides the fact we should always bring to attention of North Korea actively supporting Russia in this war, judging by the desperation, Putin's response to the ongoing incursion (which also made further gains today) is to bomb civilians in Kyiv.

The fact they can keep bombing Ukraine's capital like that while Moscow is untouchable is infuriating, given people will always point out Russia instigated this war.

[Gorsameth]

besides the fact we should always bring to attention of North Korea actively supporting Russia in this war, judging by the desperation, Putin's response to the ongoing incursion (which also made further gains today) is to bomb civilians in Kyiv.

The fact they can keep bombing Ukraine's capital like that while Moscow is untouchable is infuriating, given people will always point out Russia instigated this war.

Stop advocating for the bombing of civilians so you can jerk of to more goreporn.

Go see a therapist.

[YUPPIE]

Russia is bringing in big numbers - bordering on a legion - to combat Ukraine's forces. Russia withdrew several brigades totaling up to 5,000 soldiers from Ukraine to repel the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region. Due to a personnel shortage, the Russian command has also reassigned Aerospace Forces members to serve as infantry in defending Kursk Oblast.

[draynay]

Cannibalizing units of engineers and mechanics who have no aircraft left to work on, sounds like the war is going well.