Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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This is north of Izium: 49.289999, 37.231373 .... so it looks like the re-supply of the very large number Russian troops in and around Izium is in trouble.
If Europe is going to move away from Russian oil and gas in the next few years, who will become Russias new customers?
Is a pipeline to China in the works and do they have enough demand to cover all the lost revenues to Europe?
Is a pipeline to China in the works and do they have enough demand to cover all the lost revenues to Europe?
That's 5 Raptors now hit ...
Edit - Apparently this is the largest construction project on the planet and I haven't even heard of it til today
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This shows how important it was to get rid of the Moskva. Without their S-300 air defense offering long range protection every Russian item on and near Snake Island became a target. They should have brought some S-300 to the island before that incident, now it seems impossible for them to get the necessary reinforcement there to keep the island.
Don't know the version from the video but this is the song.
Do I get half a sweet?
You’ll have to ask @TwoSheds, I already gave it to him and I only had one, I wasn’t expecting such a rush.
Aww the fecking dissapointment... Almost worse than yesterdays result.
There’s good reason the Russians have previously not sold much to China. The transport infrastructure hasn’t been available and it was far easier to sell to Europe. Even this venture is likely to fail given that it will take too much time and China aren’t really incentivized and to use it as much as the Russians would like (imo).
This is the best version
Just east of the main N/S road and fairly close to Izium…nice. Hopefully that wasn’t the end of the barrage.
Looks like the Russians have enough
If this is true, they retreated from Snake Island, and even the helicopter that was destroyed there is claimed to have been intented to evacuate forces, not bring further reinforcements.
If this is true, they retreated from Snake Island, and even the helicopter that was destroyed there is claimed to have been intented to evacuate forces, not bring further reinforcements.
Can’t wait for the spin tomorrow from Putin.
Spin is a meaningless concept where lies are the norm. He will simply invent a lie that suits him and the propaganda apparatus will amplify it as needed.
Obviously the Russian forces there achieved their strategic goals and have just proceeded to the next step of Brilliant Strategic Plan.
German left continues to embarrass itself. Genuinely worse than Hungary by this point.
I don't understand german, what is the left connection to the police actions described in the tweet?
It says that it's a political decision by the SPD and Die Linke. No idea what they mean by that. Also no idea why they confiscated the flag, but given there are plenty of Ukrainian flags left unmolested in that video, I guess it has something to do with the size? Again, no idea what that has to do with the "German left".
The police seem to be enforcing what's been described in this post:
Though judging by all the regular sized Ukrainian flags that are still around they don't seem to be too strict about it. Maybe the other one was too big and too clear a political statement to look the other way.
Berlin (as in the (city)state) is ruled by a coalition of SPD "the Left" and the Greens, so I assume the Twitter user is blaming them for the particular rule that the police were enforcing. To be honest it doesn't seem like he has any deeper knowledge about this beyond what he's seeing in the video. And the German Tweet is from a conservative, who naturally isn't too fond of the work that (far) left politicians do.
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What's happening here is related to what was discussed earlier in the thread, see the posts below. I suppose Berlin is governed by SPD and Die Linke.
I just found strange the reference to the left, I mean, does the municipal police (or the equivalent) in germany act differently according to the party running the city? Aren't laws always applicable regardless?
I wouldnt be surprised if Russian command allowed this to happen, or put them in harms way in order to save future embarrassment.
This isn't exactly about laws as such - the City council made a ruling that the memorial for the end of WW2 shouldn't be mixed with statements about the current war and therefore limited the use of all flags there. A different City council majority might not have made this decision and therefore the police might not have needed to act.
One way or the other banning flags from sites is always a highly political decision. I don't know whose responsibility it was officially, but you can be sure that one way or the other the politicians had their say.
Thanks for the replies.
If that's true, then they can all burn in the deepest circle of hell.
We're still waiting for Joe...
Won’t happen for a while.
Meanwhile the second-highest ranking German politician is in Kiyv, the parliament's president.
https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubri...s-discuss-security-assistance-to-ukraine.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubri...s-discuss-security-assistance-to-ukraine.html
Yes, I understand. I am not saying it is easy, it is very hard, it is a dictatorship. However, if one million people protested in Moscow, things would be very different today. It never came close to that. How many Russian soldiers have died? Perhaps 20 thousand? How many Russian protesters have died? Sure, I know they aren't comparable situations, but I expected that we'd see clashes between protesters and Putin's police. I expected to see widespread revolt. Nothing like that happened. A few thousand people care about this war, but millions do not care.
And I also saw a lot of reports that people still trust Putin. Sure, they are against a war, but this does not mean they don't like Putin any more.
Majority of Russia's population do support Putin in this war. Even most of those citizens who left Russia after Feb 24 and moved to other former USSR states did so because they care about their businesses and/or are unwilling to join the army. None of those that are spoke to expressed any disagreement to what Putin has done to Ukraine.