Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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delta0 said:
So now Russia have committed pretty much all their forces into Ukraine with no further forces coming (apparently), what is Russia’s next move here? They aren’t progressing, are taking significant casualties and losing lots of equipment.
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He can call up reservists I guess but he still has the same problem in as much as getting them into the combat zones and being able to supply them ammo and food. Besides if Putin would be reluctant to do this anyway, just think of the optics. He's told the Russian public that his is a 'special military operation' two weeks on and he has to call up the reserves, that will not be a good look and might turn public opinion against him as people will put two and two together and realise things aren't go Russia's way and they've been potentially lied to.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Anyone got a good russian website that speaks the truth I have a friend in Russia in complete dental :(
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Er BBC is about the closest it broadcasts in russian almost everyone gets their news from state TV though and that/they are basically living on another planet i.e. Putin's alternate version of reality. Even facebook and twitter are being closed down soon even the global internet will be removed from russia so the only news they'll be seeing/hearing is exactly what Putin wants them to see/hear/believe they'll be getting their version of China's Weibo or something like it.

Controlling access to information is how Putin and his support structure stay in power. Pictures of bombed hospitals and dead children simply do not filter through to whats going on over there there its a patriotic war against nazis and people are welcoming russian soldiers liberating them (actually actors bussed in from elsewhere to feed the russian propaganda machine. For home audience consumption)
 
banbom44 said:
Everybody was praising Germany for sending weapons did you see the stuff they sent some 1960's old soviet crap and the anti tank missiles are basic as well basically RPG's while we are sending state of the art stuff they have done bugger all just like the French.
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Germany stopped the Nord2 pipeline and is cutting their dependence on russian gas and oil and is even upping their defence budget - they get most of their gas from russia so its a huge deal we get almost nothing so its an easy cut for Boris to announce - they've also welcomed large numbers of refugees where we've done bugger all -
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Er BBC is about the closest it broadcasts in russian almost everyone gets their news from state TV though and that/they are basically living on another planet i.e. Putin's alternate version of reality. Even facebook and twitter are being closed down soon even the global internet will be removed from russia so the only news they'll be seeing/hearing is exactly what Putin wants them to see/hear/believe they'll be getting their version of China's Weibo or something like it.

Controlling access to information is how Putin and his support structure stay in power. Pictures of bombed hospitals and dead children simply do not filter through to whats going on over there there its a patriotic war against nazis and people are welcoming russian soldiers liberating them (actually actors bussed in from elsewhere to feed the russian propaganda machine. For home audience consumption)
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Some English bloke on the radio today who lives in Ukraine and was talking about the BBC got punched out by a Ukrainian. Shouting "we hate the ***** BBC'...... Not sure why.
 
Semple said:
I'd really doubt that.
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This some people are trained or just born for such roles, just the same as some people can’t pull the trigger to defend themselves but others can pull the trigger to kill.
Blackjack Davy said:
Germany stopped the Nord2 pipeline and is cutting their dependence on russian gas and oil and is even upping their defence budget - they get most of their gas from russia so its a huge deal we get almost nothing so its an easy cut for Boris to announce - they've also welcomed large numbers of refugees where we've done bugger all -
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It’s about time they started sending more than just helmets and glad to see them increasing defence budgets whole world needs to unite.
 
Absolutely sickening and vile to see the devastation of the hospital in Mariupol. Putin has blood on his hands that will never come off. This sick dictator needs a very special place in hell.
 
caff said:
Absolutely sickening and vile to see the devastation of the hospital in Mariupol. Putin has blood on his hands that will never come off. This sick dictator needs a very special place in hell.
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if i was religious i would be saying Putin, his cronies, oligarchs and othodox church leaders would be all riding the flaming express straight down. Just waiting for the vatican to apply sanctions and damnation.. that should cause a problem in Brazil..

Personally i think putin’s corpse should just be disappeared.. his mausoleum have an accidental flattening.

It would be interesting to see the wives and daughters of the leaders rationalise the bombing of a baby hospital.
 
Will the west ever 'convert' Russia, bring it into the fold like they're trying to do with Ukraine. Once the old communist gaurd die out, will there ever be enough will and momentum to completely change Russia to become more aligned with EU or Western thinking?

I'm not saying it should change but I'm genuinely wondering if we will see a revolution in Russia in the coming years?
 
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