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

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ChrisLX200 said:
Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and would have done nothing to help had Hitler not attacked Russia in operation Barbarossa.
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A bit off topic, but the only reason Stalin signed a pact with Hitler was because the UK/France refused to sign a pact with him to stand united against Germany, he knew a Nazi invasion of the USSR was coming he was just trying to stall it long enough to build up the Soviet army. It worked as well because Hitler decided to take France first.
 
Dis86 said:
You really have no grasp of the politics of ww2, do you? Literally how close it came afterthought defeat if Germany to the western allies invading Russia.
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Grasp of english?
Ubers post above has a more nuanced accurate take on what happened. Doesn’t match the knee jerk posting.
 
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Rroff said:
Hmm Russian military comms very active tonight - can't tell if anything significant but they've been pretty quiet lately.

EDIT: Sounds like they are activating predetermined orders.
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Haven't they been activating predetermined orders the whole war though which is partly why they're in the mess they're in because have had zero ability to be flexible in their orders ?
 
'Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 23 March 2022'

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https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1506753922224074756
 
Chris Wilson said:
Perhaps Remembrance Sunday will have a deeper meaning after seeing what people have had to endure and fight against in your own lifetime?

But also, historically the Russian people gave many, so very many of their lives to supporting us in our fight with Germany, something many seem to conveniently forget. Especially when one in here openly calls them "Slavic peasants", something that grates with me more and more as I consider the sheer unpleasantness of such posts given Russian sacrifices against the nazis.
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I never once called them Slavic peasants, at the start of this war I was very sympathetic towards the Russian conscripts, but not any more for what they are doing to civilians, and let's not forget when the Russians 'liberated' Europe from the Nazis they raped millions of woman in these 'liberated' countries and then Stalin murdered millions more in concentration camps, far more than the Nazis did in their concentration camps.
 
Chris Wilson said:
But also, historically the Russian people gave many, so very many of their lives to supporting us in our fight with Germany, something many seem to conveniently forget. Especially when one in here openly calls them "Slavic peasants", something that grates with me more and more as I consider the sheer unpleasantness of such posts given Russian sacrifices against the nazis.
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I have huge respect for the Russian sacrifices during WWII, and it grates on me that America gets so much undeserved credit. Russia basically won the war for us and saved Europe by smashing Hitler's Eastern Front. However, this is utterly irrelevant to discussions of Russian culture and the national Russian psyche. I can criticise those aspects while still appreciating what Russia achieved 80 years ago.

BTW, my paternal grandmother was Polish, so if it's any consolation, I have Slavic peasant ancestry myself, and it's something I'm unashamedly proud of. But not all Slavic peasants are created equal. The Russians are a distinctly different breed.
 
Past hour or so:
*US State Department Spokesperson: On Wednesday, the US Embassy in Russia Received a List of Diplomats Labelled Persona Non Grata by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
*US: We Urge Russia to Stop Expelling Us Diplomats and Personnel.
*The UK Government Will Provide 6,000 New Defensive Missiles to Ukraine & Over $30M in Military Aid, per a Statement.
*This More Than Doubles Defensive Lethal Aid Provided by UK to Ukraine to Over 10,000 Missiles. UK Also Working to Provide Longer-Range Targeting & Intel
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1506760201185075202 ~ from 1hr ago

Now:
*The White House Is Requesting a National Security Budget of $813.3 Bln.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...o-seek-813-3-billion-national-security-budget
 
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