Should be confiscated and given to a relief fund.
WWIII Return of the Ruskie
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I'm undecided whether I should be Switzerland or Finland.
You really believe this is Bidens fault don't you?
I was supposed to have a Ukrainian family moving in over the weekend but their trip from Mariupol to the UK has paused in Warsaw because there's literally one person processing visa applications and a 40,000 people queue. They've decided to chance it in Slovakia instead.
It's the fault of a weaker us economy. Biden weakened the economy. I really couldn't give a shit if he did it on purpose, if it was because of dementia, if he's just an incompetent moron, or corrupt, I'm not his biographer. The people at fault are the idiots who couldn't predict the effect of Biden on their economy versus the effect of Trump on their economy, because all they know how to predict are their fweelings.
We can then have a new thread called Return of the Rosskie
The fucking state of this incoherent incontinent decrepit mess. You wouldn't put this guy in charge of security in your local supermarket. You put him in charge of global security, and act shocked when terrorists and dictators decide to help themselves to other people's countries.
Uyghur: No mate, that's just another normal day in 2022 repeating.
It’s even worse - they didn’t flee to Russia (it’s impossible to flee from an encircled city), they were taken there by force from a part of a city that’s been taken over and reportedly had passports confiscated or destroyed. They are now somewhere in Russia against their will - forced population transfers are of course a war crime.
What’s happening in Mariupol now will be in history books - it’s absolutely horrific, a 450,000 people city being methodically destroyed along with most of its residents.
How's he getting on?
Just been speaking to him again. He's living his best life as far as I can tell. Shooting Russians and loving the moment.
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"Pro-Kremlin site briefly posts apparent Russian toll: 9,861 dead and 16,153 injured"
First of all they said they were hacked. Then I believe they are blaming it on an anti-war employee.
It's probably close to the truth but the numbers will probably slow now, they are going for a war of attrition now.
Bunch of silly bints. It's like watching Loose Women talk politics. My ears are bleeding.
Because it basically is loose women talking politics.
The mood on Russian prime-time TV (with subtitles):
You kind of need to know the Russian mentality a bit to interpret this correctly - this is more of a putting on a brave face in a campaign they know isn’t going according to plan - that’s where they start making wild threats in all directions, they wouldn’t do it from a position of strength. As this war demonstrated, they have no military capability to attack NATO in a conventional campaign - they’d be wiped out in hours. The only real threat is the nuclear and the way they causally talk about nuking Warsaw and Berlin is of course concerning, even simply from the point of view of an average Russian TV viewer being desensitized to this possibility.
Obviously they leave out the part about Moscow and Voronezh being turned to ashes in case of a nuclear strike on a NATO country.
You kind of need to know the Russian mentality a bit to interpret this correctly - this is more of a putting on a brave face in a campaign they know isn’t going according to plan - that’s where they start making wild threats in all directions, they wouldn’t do it from a position of strength. As this war demonstrated, they have no military capability to attack NATO in a conventional campaign - they’d be wiped out in hours. The only real threat is the nuclear and the way they causally talk about nuking Warsaw and Berlin is of course concerning, even simply from the point of view of an average Russian TV viewer being desensitized to this possibility.
Obviously they leave out the part about Moscow and Voronezh being turned to ashes in case of a nuclear strike on a NATO country.
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That newspaper is traditionally close to the Army. What’s most likely is that they were forbidden to publish the real casualty numbers (according to Russia’s MOD it’s still like 400 killed, which absolutely no one thinks is anywhere close to the real number), so they released the internal # from their Army sources “by mistake” and then claimed they were hacked.
The Ukrainian estimate of Russian losses is around 14,000 killed - most experts I read think it’s closer to that number, some think even that is underestimation.
The problem with nuclear threat is Russia would literally have to have a strategic plan to target us on a few fronts. One attack to any Nato country and we'll go in, but it depends how long Nato want to carry on walking on egg shells with Putin. He knows collectively Nato has the firepower to end this, yet he knows we would be very reluctant to wage war in Europe, especially against a nuclear threat.
So he continues with the narrative of "leave me alone or be nuked", despite knowing any use of nuclear force won't end well for him. Either there's a backing there he knows he will be able to call on (Middle East, Africa, China), or he's kidding himself as much as he's kidding his people.
He won't let the sanctions go though, if he stops at Ukraine you can bet there will be underhanded attacks (poisonings, bio), which he will of course deny any connection to.
Judging by the past few weeks, most countries that spend a sizeable amount of their GDP on defence have the firepower to end this...
What’s clear is that in a conventional war, at this point Russia is just a larger, colder Iraq. Almost all of the “innovative, cutting edge” Russia-made weapons that made their war propagandists cum in their pants during parades turned out to be Potemkin villages existing only in concept form with the money earmarked for mass production pocketed by someone in Putin’s inner circle. Now with the sanctions in place those wonder-weapons will never be produced at scale. The small Azerbaijan-Armenia war of last year, which not many people in the West have noticed, was important in demonstrating the decisive advantage of modern drone-based precision military equipment (supplied by Turkey to its ally Azerbaijan) over modernized Soviet-era equipment Armenian forces got from its ally Russia. The armies were of a similar size and both highly motivated, but Armenians were quickly routed and lost control of a chunk of their territory.
In Ukraine too, the NATO-supplied precision weapons are having an absolute field day with the Russian tanks etc and even in terms of basics like shoes, uniforms, night-vision goggles, radios etc at least some parts of the Ukrainian army are much better equipped than an average Russian soldier (the problem for Ukrainians is that only a part of its army is thus modernized and they are currently racing to equip the rest to the same standard). For all the deserved accolades about Ukrainian fighters’ bravery, the story of this war is also about technological advantage, a small XXI century army fighting against a larger XX century one.
In Ukraine too, the NATO-supplied precision weapons are having an absolute field day with the Russian tanks etc and even in terms of basics like shoes, uniforms, night-vision goggles, radios etc at least some parts of the Ukrainian army are much better equipped than an average Russian soldier (the problem for Ukrainians is that only a part of its army is thus modernized and they are currently racing to equip the rest to the same standard). For all the deserved accolades about Ukrainian fighters’ bravery, the story of this war is also about technological advantage, a small XXI century army fighting against a larger XX century one.
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