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Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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Are the Russians that stupid? Do they really think they can take over Kiev?
I don't think they are stupid so it must be another scenario.
Why would NATO do this?
Reading some of the "hot takes" on here and online has been something else. When people have to pretzel themselves into overlooking a right-wing autocratic regime and its actions to "land a sick burn" on NATO/US in a twitter thread, I just sigh in despair. This clusterfeck has probably been the tamest response the "West" could've gone with, but if you point out that Russia is acting like any typical autocratic regime seeking to take land, extend influence, overthrow a country then you're a warmonger. Somehow.... in batshit insane leftist spaces, preferring sanctions as the response to invasion over World War 3 is somehow a hot-take.
Have people learnt nothing from appeasing an autocrat??
Der Spiegel has a good article about how all this unfolded.
Why would NATO do this?
Reading some of the "hot takes" on here and online has been something else. When people have to pretzel themselves into overlooking a right-wing autocratic regime and its actions to "land a sick burn" on NATO/US in a twitter thread, I just sigh in despair. This clusterfeck has probably been the tamest response the "West" could've gone with, but if you point out that Russia is acting like any typical autocratic regime seeking to take land, extend influence, overthrow a country then you're a warmonger. Somehow.... in batshit insane leftist spaces, preferring sanctions as the response to invasion over World War 3 is somehow a hot-take.
Have people learnt nothing from appeasing an autocrat??
Who are you replying to, I'm guessing it's not in response to the tweet that you quoted?
venting after catching up with the thread. Only the first sentence was a response to the tweet. Then kind boiled over into a "old man yells at cloud" moment.
Joe Biden is so convinced he’s on the brink of glorious destiny that he’d believe anything his handlers whisper to him.
At this point it’s very hard not to believe him
DNR & LNR have both announced global mobilization.
@Raoul did Russia invade Ukraine yet?
Maybe when Russia invades Ukraine, the USA can sneak into Putin’s office when he’s not looking and finally get the dirt on Trump they need to finally arrest him. There is still hope!
Can anyone point me to any good journalists worth following who are currently on the ground in eastern Ukraine or Kiev?
Also, both DNR & LNR have restricted men from the age of 18 to 55 from leaving their territory.
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Dmitri Trenin is a clown who has no insight into Putin or the Kremlin that's worthy of further discussion. Worst case, he's a tool of the Kremlin to promote pseudo-intellectual interpretations to satisfy the appetites of Western audiences that obfuscate what Putin actually intends to do.
Please, nothing Putin may/may not have on Trump would change anyone's opinions on Trump at this point
That guy is literally immune to any embarrassing information with his cult behind him. Merrick Garland would take years to analyze the evidence anyways making the whole effort a waste of time.So if I understood the situation correctly, CNN and the US have sent 3/4th of the Russian army near the Ukrainian border, and are making exercises with Russian ICBMs?
Nothing to do with Putin’s lust for foreign lands, and Russia’s tendency to occupy other places.
Am I right?
Nothing to do with Putin’s lust for foreign lands, and Russia’s tendency to occupy other places.
Am I right?
I don't think they are stupid enough to try and occupy Ukraine.
It's more like the Cuban missile crisis.
Way better put than me, but precisely.
Definitions matter. War is terrible so it should be avoided. Wise States will therefore try to advance their interests short of war. Conflating war and its alternatives is a category error.
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It seems like everything that is and will be needed for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in place, including numerous Field Hospitals.
And most believe that it would happen sometime after the winter Olympics closing ceremony.
Really difficult to see Putin abandoning the invasion unless there is an overwhelmingly significant concession from Ukraine and NATO.
And most believe that it would happen sometime after the winter Olympics closing ceremony.
Really difficult to see Putin abandoning the invasion unless there is an overwhelmingly significant concession from Ukraine and NATO.
is this it then? is this how we go out? a nuclear Armageddon after a global pandemic?
Russia attacking US troop locations in Europe or direct NATO confrontation is how we get to WWIII. If Russia goes into Ukraine, "the west" will hope that military aid makes the Ukrainian resistance extract a bloody mess and make the advance slow and drawn out.
Full Russian control of Ukraine will not bring about WWIII. Just make it more likely to eventually get there.
Careful, some people on here will see that as a tacit admission that the US is now at war with China over the Uyghurs.
Still willing to fall on my sword and stick with my original assessment.
@harms did you find any older versions of those decrees?
@harms did you find any older versions of those decrees?
He certainly has some insight but I'd agree that I wouldn't trust everything that he says, the Carnegie centre is de-jure independent but it's been generally loyal to pro-Russian sentiment over the past +- decade, which is why it's probably the only technically independent sociological institution that is allowed to work in Russia without much interference.
Nope, but I doubt that there would be much insight in those degrees. I'm sure that the real decisions wouldn't be as exposed to the general public.
This saying should be updated as I'm pretty sure that in this scenario it can literally take no idiots with a gun for a provocation to still, somehow, miraculously happen.
Why not? Everything else is being paraded publicly.
Only takes one choreographed false flag video on telegram of a fake Ukranian with a gun?
Its hard to keep track of what is happening right now. What a clusterfeck.
Russia trying everything to provoke Ukraine to slip up. Sepratists have killed a Ukrainian soldier with artillery fire. Russia is undertaking false flag "terrorist attacks" and then has been caught uploading a prerecorded response video. US hoping that by constantly claiming Russia is going to attack there will be no doubt that it is a lone Russian act of aggression.
Also massively disappointed with a lot of leftists simping for Russia. As if a Russian invasion is going to bring about a leftist utopia.
That's such a disingenuous, insiduous and quite frankly stomach-turning slander of dissenting or even just sceptical voices. "Simping for Russia", seriously? Where does that talking point come from? What an expression is that, really, does it originate from the same spectrum that brought us "universally adored legend" and such unpleasantly sexualized internet incel trash talk?
Shit’s about to get real?