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02-24-2022, 07:47 PM #426Registered User
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02-24-2022, 07:48 PM #427
Sorry Lvovsky. Hold for a speedy and peaceful resolution.
I still call it The Jake.
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02-24-2022, 07:49 PM #428
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02-24-2022, 08:07 PM #429
The Snake Island 13:
At 22:00 (01:00 Moscow Time, UTC+2), the State Border Guard Service announced that Russian forces had captured the island following a naval and air bombardment that destroyed all infrastructure on the island.[4][5] Thirteen Ukrainian border guards, representing the entirety of the Ukrainian military presence on the island, were killed during the battle after refusing to surrender.[6][7]
When the commander of the Russian cruiser instructed the Ukrainian soldiers stationed on the island to surrender, or else be fired upon, the reply was 'Go fuck yourself'
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02-24-2022, 08:15 PM #430
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02-24-2022, 08:17 PM #431
It was never NATO, itself, that was the threat, it was the possibility of Ukraine joining the European Union (EU), thus leaving Russia's sphere of economic influence that disturbed Russia. Joining NATO may have served as a stepping stone towards EU membership as it did other Eastern European countries.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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02-24-2022, 08:32 PM #432Daniel Ortega eats here.
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02-24-2022, 08:35 PM #433
Duh a thriving democratic market oriented nation on his border is a threat to his cult of personality. The regular Joe Russian seeing his cousin in Ukraine with a nicer car and the ability to listen to The Pussycat Dolls made little Putin fearful. It wouldn’t have taken Joe Russian long to put 2 and 2 together and know that they too could have been freer and more materially well off if it weren’t for Putin’s consistent fear mongering and funneling billions to his oligarchs and himself.
I have hope that there is still time for the average Joe Russian to come to this realization and that Putin, although painfully and needlessly hurting innocents, is putting the nail in his own coffin.
Fuck Putin.
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02-24-2022, 08:35 PM #434
This is the opposite of the Ashraf Ghani. Zelensky is the man.
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02-24-2022, 08:37 PM #435
Ukraine
Kyiv being attacked: https://gyazo.com/2732df26e9dd8ddda0fe3d91f70f96d3
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02-24-2022, 08:39 PM #436Registered User
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... but what does Joe Rogan have to say about all of this?
Also, fuck Putin.
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02-24-2022, 08:43 PM #437features a sintered base
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02-24-2022, 09:02 PM #438
Odds #ghostofkyiv is real? And just one guy?
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02-24-2022, 09:07 PM #439
China (Chyyyyna for you Trumpese speakers) is the real wild card here in more than one way. Russia is their drunk distant cousin picking a fight with well-connected neighbors. China is not particularly tight with Cousin Pooty and has had family feuds with historically. Yeah, they're distant family but Chyna wouldn't mind seeing their drunk, annoying cousin get slapped around as long as they don't have to bail them out. They'll take family photos together but China isn't the first person Cousin Pooty can call for help and know that phone is getting answered. I don't see them taking any sides in this one.
And that's not even mentioning the whole Taiwan scene where the US has amassed much of its defensive naval forces and has more boomers and frogs creeping around than any other part of the world right now. That's the real tender box.
Until Pooty inches out of Ukraine towards a western European ally (Poland), it's all sanctions and talk. Maybe some weapons on the side, maybe some training and logistics. This will ironically be Russia's Vietnam and potential second Afghanistan, depending on how the Ukrainians hold out. Urban guerilla warfare is some bloody shit.
This is a gnarly family game of domino's with a very tangled web.
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02-24-2022, 09:09 PM #440
Lots of Ukrainians posting on his FB
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02-24-2022, 09:17 PM #441
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02-24-2022, 09:20 PM #442
Ukraine
Russian airplane shot down by Ukraine AA:
https://mobile.twitter.com/kc0392919...41581236371457
Edit: sounds like it was a Ukraine plane shot down by Russians.
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02-24-2022, 09:22 PM #443
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02-24-2022, 09:28 PM #444
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02-24-2022, 09:29 PM #445Registered User
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Re: Chernobyl
It makes sense to me that Russia would want to control the biggest wildcard in Ukraine. Chernobyl is very close to the border with Russia, and if Ukraine splinters into multiple factions or devolves into partisan fighting, there is a significant risk of something crazy and unacceptable happening to Russia via Chernobyl.
Also consider that the exclusion zone is an uninhabited area, it makes a wonderful guerrilla-free staging zone with which to set up for a drive into Kiev.
I am confused about why Pres Zelensky didn’t act sooner to call up reserves and take defensive measures before the invasion. He had a perfect chance for a “fight them on the beaches” moment and ask Ukrainians to dig tank ditches and have the armed forces wire explosives to bridges and prepare to mine border crossings in the days leading up to the invasion.
If he was wrong about the invasion he could have claimed their efforts deterred Russia from invading. If Russia invaded anyway they would have at least put up a bit more resistance than they’re doing now.
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02-24-2022, 09:30 PM #446
How is it that all the coverage, I really mean all coverage (I have watched NPR, CNN, Fox, Sky, BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, Aljazeera) have not mentioned one time the Holodomor?
Russia has been engaged in Ukrainian genocide for over 100 years in Ukraine.
Fuck Putin. Fuck Lenin, Fuck Stalin."Let's be careful out there."
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02-24-2022, 09:34 PM #447Registered User
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Hey; at least we don't have to worry about all the Nazi Ukranians anymore .
Fuck Putin with the Queen Mary.
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02-24-2022, 09:38 PM #448
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02-24-2022, 09:39 PM #449
i think he was sincere in trying to show that they were no threat and preferred peace. he refused to get drawn in to reciprocal fire in the donbas and he didn’t dig in defensively. hopefully the world, including all of the protestors in russia, took note and will punish ryssä.
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02-24-2022, 09:40 PM #450?
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Amazing how fast a story about 1200 Porsches burning falls off the news cycle
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