Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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All jokes aside, I would really respect that.
But that this is the only tank is truly embarassing.
No fly over apparently as well.
The US should be pretty happy about the combat data Ukraine is providing them. Especially against the hypersonic missiles. They can work on the weak spots and improve the Patriot system. That applies to the manufacturers of all delivered air defense systems. It wouldn't surprise me, if we see greatly improved air defense systems in the foreseeable future. Russia is providing them with enough combat data with their missile terror.
Seems like Prigozhin wasn't lying when he said Ru army fled area south west of Bakhmut. It probably took them half a year to take that.
Reality masquerading as parody
Jokes on us, there were actually 200 Armata tanks with the newest camouflage that makes them invisible.
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There is currently a video going around of a Russian soldier who commits suicide with his AK-47 after being hit by a grenade and realizing his leg is gone. I won't post it here, but Nexa on twitter posted it and you can also find it on reddit/combatfootage.
It's still incomprehensible to me, how heavily propaganda irradiated Russian people are to do this to themselves in a foreign country. Instead of just living your only life on this planet, you suffer and throw it away for a modern tsar, who gets a boner every morning in his 2 billion palace if Russia's border increases by a few meters compared to yesterday. There is no self-respect left. Modern slaves.
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Biggest major power geopolitical blunder since different acts of Axis aggression in WWII, 90% confirmed? I wonder what's effectively left of their military.
I wish there was even more being done to help Ukraine be able to liberate the occupied territories. They've borne such a huge burden and I don't think they will ever see adequate reparations.
I wish there was even more being done to help Ukraine be able to liberate the occupied territories. They've borne such a huge burden and I don't think they will ever see adequate reparations.
Probably one of the biggest blunders of all time. They had carefully built up an image of a restored great power which, while many suspected that it may have been largely smoke and mirrors, was still relatively convincing. Rather than continue that strategy of leveraging off old memories of Soviet/Russian might, they showed their hand in a totally avoidable conflict which has reduced them to a figure of ridicule and, geopolitically, to being a supplicant of China.
Apparently so. Different tweeter, same music. Deleting.
Music sped up confused me apparently.
You mean Museic.
Certainly no one wanted to really test them and find out of they were just a paper tiger, but they went ahead and decided to prove it all by themselves.
I'm trying to think of which actor or film character Prigozhin reminds me of. The best I can do is Darth Vader without the helmet at the end of Return of the Jedi.
I do wonder if Putin could go back to February last year knowing what he now knows would he abandon the operation altogether or just do things differently?
He would wait a year or two and massively gear up his military before the invasion, but he wouldn't abandon it. A democracy in a former soviet state such as Ukraine is a direct threat to his power, especially considering that Belarus nearly threw Lukashenko out and just waiting for another opportunity. And then there is also his imperialistic USSR dream.
He actually looks like Ukrainian MOD Oleksii Reznikov
He could have just escalated the ongoing fighting and I doubt the west would have moved up support like they have.
I'm out of ideas then, you could ask ChatGPT its smarter than me.
Escalated how? He escalated as much as he could, he threw everything at it including mobilization.
I think he would do it in 2019 or wait if in 2024 Trump would be elected. With Trump in power I think would have gone very differently. Without US response, Germany would still be sending helmets and other countries in NATO bar Poland and Baltic countries would not be so invested or nothing at all. Even Poland and Baltic countries probably would tone it down to not be next as Trump maybe would be threating to get out of NATO and this could be de facto a failed organization leaving eastern europe exposed. At the same time, I would not be so sure that Russia could beat Poland as seen by this war but as we would not see such a disaster, Putin could well try it
If he could go back, i think he would not invade. At the end of the day, Putin is still a rational actor and perfectly able to to weight the pros and cons of invading. If he knew going in he couldn't win he would've avoided invading, but kept attacking through other means (such as fomenting division inside Ukraine through Russian proxies).