Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022): Thread 1 - Ukrainian Liars vs Russian Liars with Air and Artillery Superiority

[GreeneCoDeputy]

Article 4 has been triggered. Depending in what country you live in, that's a fucking escalation that show it is indeed HAPPENING. It's a precursor to Article 5 being invoked. If you believe our lying politicians when they say anything, much less what they say about Russia, you're pretty dense yourself.

Edit: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have triggered NATO Article 4.

By that definition, EVERYTHING is a precursor to Article 5 being invoked. And Article 5 being invoked is a hell of a long way from a spontaneous draft and even FURTHER away from people being dropped into combat with "two weeks" of training, You're unhinged.

 

[Toothpaste]

Russian troops have captured a position in Mariupol from the veteran Ukrainian 53rd Brigade.

And, surprise. surprise, apparently they found a "Right Sector" (Ukrainian Far-Right group) hideout right under the Ukrainian positions in a literal basement. Apparently, the right sector guys just left their flags, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. -esque patches and literal membership cards lying around in there.

To me, this seems way too convenient to be anything but a Russian glowop to justify their narrative on the Ukranians.

 

[Tism the Return]

If NATO did things would that make them the biggest janny?

 

[Reddit Gold]

ARTICLE 5! ARTICLE 5! MY CIVILISATION FOR AN ARTICLE 5!

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

By the time Nato actually gets around to putting boots on the ground, Russia will have just celebrated its 10th anniversary of annexing Ukraine

 

[George Lucas]

It's absolutely macabre but I feel the same way. All the bullshit of the past few years could only come about in Western countries that had grown complacent, didn't know hardship and had too much idle time on their hands. Covid turned out to be a wet fart and only made things worse by forcing people to spend 18 hours a day on their PCs for 2 years.
If people panic about a possible hot war with Russia en masse or China starts making some serious power moves in a similar direction there won't be as much opportunity for folks to ponder whether "gay toupe cactus unicorn" is a gender or not.

Just make sure to stock up on pasta and toilet paper before some outlet reports that Russia could nuke pasta and toilet paper factories in the US.

Pasta requires water. It’s good for like natural disasters and general distress but for an actual war I think you’ll rather want MREs and the like.

The U.S. doesn't spent the most money, lives, and brain power on it's military for no reason. If the U.S. actually goes to for-real-big-boy war, they will 100% blow the ever-loving shit out of whoever is on the other side if only because it will make defense contractors big bucks. I say this as someone who thinks we spend way too much on our military.

Russia isn't a pushover, but you are comparing a country whose military budget is a measly 8% of the States. Political optics don't change those numbers.

Most of the money goes to absolute waste. We can’t just go by the numbers here. The F-35 is the worst example and is basically a useless plane.

NATO update:

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Holy shit. Niggers get in here! Confirm! Confirm! Confirm!

 

[killeveryonebombairport]

Ukrainian man decides to crash in on an Israeli news broadcast.

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based,

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Current British army (unofficial) opinion on events and quick summary -

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>wanting nato to provide air support to ukraine
I wanted to do a lot in 2022 and none of those plans involve dying in nuclear flames, NATO needs to stay tf out

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

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Does Trudeau realize no one gives a shit about what he says about Swift when America has taken it completely off the table?

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

they got my passwort...

I didn’t realize that Warrecker was a Russian surname

Mike Warrecker Extended interview (To Catch a Predator)

youtu.be

 

[draggs]

I would assume a good percentage of the personnel amassed at the borders are in support roles as opposed to combatants, but I'm not an expert by any means. I think I read recently that around only 10% of the US military is combat arms, with the rest being the rear echelon types. Not sure how the Russian military is organized, but I would guess they'd deploy with significant logistical support units as well.

This isn't the old WW2ish days where you'd have 3-4 soldiers in logistics and other support for every 1 soldier fighting

Mechanization and other modern logistics shit has cut way down on the number of soldiers you need behind the line to keep the fighting soldiers supplied in the field

If the number of Russian soldiers actually fighting was only ten or twenty thousand total across 3-4 fronts they'd have got zerged and there'd have been no successful advances into Ukraine anywhere

 

[Big Nasty]

I don't know what analogy best works for this war's footage.

Has anyone seen one of those terrible pornos where a man can't get a turn on, the woman fails to fake an orgasm and the producer turns out to be their prebubescent son?

Congratulations

You just made the most insane gay shit post in the entire megathread

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Of course they have, they know all about Russian hardbass shaking the earth of their homelands

This is sending a message to Russia we have friends so leave us alone ok

No one is invoking article 5 unless Russia actually attacks them which isn't gonna happen

Normally I'd agree with you but these aren't normal times, not when we have a literal senile President trying to shield his grifting crack son from scrutiny. It's a Clown World and we're all in it, so it might happen.

 

[Ancient Pioneer]

Putin decided to focus on the ethnic conflict and talk about "denazifification" because that is how you justify wars in current year.

In this case its actually true, this thread is full of people who have no idea how dirty the conflict got in 2014-2015 after the coup. The Azov Batallion, actual Neo-Nazis, went from village to village just burning down houses and liquidating people in the separatist regions. The Azovites have essentially been incorporated into the Ukranian military since then as well. For the first time since the 1940s a government does need to be de-nazified.

 

[Very_sad_man]

I want Poland to enter Nato like it matters or is a relevant force right now lol

Member states of NATO wiki

 

[Kane Lives]

Donetsk People's Militia has captured a position in Mariupol from the veteran Ukrainian 53rd Brigade.

And, surprise. surprise, apparently they found a "Right Sector" (Ukrainian Far-Right group) hideout right under the Ukrainian positions in a literal basement. Apparently, the right sector guys just left their flags, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. -esque patches and literal membership cards lying around in there.

To me, this seems way too convenient to be anything but a Russian glowop to justify their narrative on the Ukranians.

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Never let it be said that propaganda only runs one way in this war.

 

[Coccxys]

Wrong kind of refugees, I guess.
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https://twitter.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1497235831391719427

Well since the males age 18-60 order came in any males in that bracket turning up outside Ukraine are fugitives having deserted no.

 

[Anti-Intellectual]

"objective indicators of economics growth" aren't worth as much as some think

take for example a guy working at a steel mill making 1000 dollars, or a prostitute sucking dicks for 1000 dollars - one is doing productive work, the other isn't, but to the gdp statistics there is zero difference between those, both register as 1000 dollars of economic activity

"HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE MUH FWEE MARKET!?" - Lolbertarians.

Whenever you try to explain the difference in creating value to exploiting that value to fwee market proponents.

 

[Johnny Salami]

NATO update:

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Damn I'm willing to go now just to collect blue helmets

 

[LaxerBRO]

UN Security Council is live.