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  • God damn you to hell Mikhail Gorbachev

    This is on you

    You devolved power and unleashed Yeltsin on the whole Soviet people, opening the nationalist cauldron everywhere

    Ukrainian nationalism vs Russian nationalism, the fact that that's even an issue is a testament to your failure you arrogant bastard

  • Interpret this is in any way you want, but I'm an Arab Muslim and all Arabs and Muslims that I know are extremely angry and sad over the Western hypocritical response to this and are supporting Russia as a fuck you to the west

  • Do Americans really care about Ukraine or is it some kind of bizarre propaganda misfire? Half of Americans couldn't point to Ukraine on a map now I'm supposed to believe there's some kind of international cheerleading effort? Or is it just Russia bad mentality

  • Im gonna go insane Im gonna fucking go absolutely insane holy fuck.

    I just mentioned the Azov "muslim orcs" tweet to my dad and his instinctual response was "are you sure thats real?".

  • "On 6 June 2013, she and Putin publicly announced the termination of their marriage based on a mutual decision. The divorce announcement was made on camera for the Russian news media at the State Kremlin Palace during the intermission of a performance by the Kremlin Ballet, ending years of speculation about their relationship. In April 2014, the Kremlin confirmed that their divorce had been finalized"

    "Russia formally incorporated Crimea as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol on 18 March 2014"

    guys... I think I solved this. nobody considered the divorced guy energy factor...

  • I think reports about the russian attack slowing down, losing momentum, starting to actually lose and so on are pretty exagerated. Sure, the russians are suffering from some attrition and shit, but let us remember that this is the first conventional war between two very developed countries with professional armies in ages. The last conventional war was the Iran-Iraq war, and that shit was a complete mess, none of them had a full professional army but it still qualifies as conventional.

    This shit is quite rare, westerners have the images of the US led coalition rolling up on the honestly very weak Iraqi army of the 90s and 2000s and achieving total victory within days. Sure, the Iraqis had a fuckton of tanks (most old chinese and soviet tech) but their air force and AA defense network were lacking while the US-led coalition threw their entire arsenal at them (an arsenal that was, remember, geared up for a war against the USSR itself), so our perception of what is a war has been affected by that. We see war, but the war we see is low intensity and between a superpower and lesser countries, wars where the big power achieves total military victory and leaves (Grenada, Panama) or after the initial victory it gets wrecked if they decided to occupy the country (Iraq, Afghanistan). We haven't seen what conventional fighting looks like, between two sovereign nations with professional armies.. and imo it would look exactly like this, bloody and confusing.

    The russians are of course expected to take some losses, after all they're advancing on a nation with a well equipped professional army, they're no guerrilla. On top of that, they're being somewhat delicate on how they strike the ukrainians, focusing mainly on military bases and depots instead of using artillery indiscriminately that would absolutely wreck civilian infraestructure. They're also not attacking the actual ukrainian state, they're not targetting the different buildings that belong to the ministry of defense, or intelligence or whatever.. and lastly they're using late Soviet tech, let's be real, most of the equipment that we get to see on the russian side are old soviet tech, take the MT-LB armored transport... it's from the 1960s lmao, it should have been replaced 10 years ago. They still thrown in bits of modern tech here and there, but the bulk of it seems to be made up of older vehicles, which would explain some of the losses imo.

  • I feel like there isn't quite enough skepticism about Russia's ability to pull this off at the moment (no sources, I'm lazy, so this post isn't worth much):

    • I'll start by saying that the Ukrainian/NATO propaganda campaign is definitely running full speed, and it's difficult to cancel all that out to get a clear picture (it's not like there's a Russian English-language propaganda campaign to counter it, they've been pretty silent).
    • It seems that a lot, if not all Russian capitalists, and many military leaders were caught off-guard by the invasion. Shit is disorganized since they were originally doing "exercises" or staging for political pressure reasons.
    • There's plenty in the propaganda feed about "low Russian morale" and I think that it may be exaggerated, but it's believable. They're legit dying and I don't have a fucking clue, but this is a war with no inspiration for the infantry grunts. It's obviously political, and they are dying at the hands of a bourgeois enemy for the cause of the Russian bourgeoisie. People can be two-minded for sure, but they also tend to know when things are just hot air, even if they can't put their finger on it (Hypernormalization). If they don't believe in what they're doing, then it's just a matter of time before you cascade into chaos.
    • I'm seeing lazy shit like Russian AA getting struck by a Ukrainian drone which is embarrassing tbh. I do question why they don't have total air superiority by this point, and also why the soldiers are hung out to dry by their orders, their training, and/or their morale as to why they are killed while holding the very weapon they can use to defend themselves. Terrifying to think about not understanding the war you're a combatant in (or just not caring) and just getting taken out cause the reality hadn't even fully ingrained itself in your brain. Anyway this is just an anecdote, but I feel like it ties a few things together.

    We'll see how things actually turn out though. Invading was a fucking stupid move, I just am not sure how stupid, and probably won't even feel like I'm close for a couple years at least. On one hand, I know I'm a dumbass with an internet connection so anything I have to say on the topic is nothing more than speculation, but at the same time I'm wondering if this is just what a total global-scale fuckup looks like. We've seen them before, and we can't forget that Russia has capitalist brainworms that are fundamentally the same as what the US has, just a different color or something. It's totally in the realm of possibility for Putin to be overconfident in the outcome.

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    So Russia has reacted to the :eu-cool: closing all of its airspace to Russian owned or "controlled" air traffic, by doing the same to 36 countries including Canada, Britain, and the EU.

    This should create some interesting new supply chain issues and costs, but it definitely just boosted China's position in the supply chain again.

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