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

[Malevolence]

Looks like Finland might be applying to join NATO within a fortnight. Will be interesting to see what Russia does, or will all their silly little threats turn out to be nothing but hot air. I would say that they'd be absolutely ******* mental to open up a front on Finland considering just how ell things are going for them in Ukraine, but then this is the inept Russian military we're talking about. Surely they can't be that stupid, can they?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1521030642712129537

 

[HungryHippos]

Wonder if Russia remembers the winter war from back when they were the soviet Union.

 

[Hagar]

Wonder if Russia remembers the winter war from back when they were the soviet Union.

At the moment all the brass in Russia thinks of little else other than when they were the Soviet union. All those minions to order about and abuse.

 

[dunker]

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[bingham67]

If Russia opens another front there toast cant see it happening.

 

[Hagar]

Who would be Putins cancer surgeon? Which bit to cut out...and which to leave?

 

[StriderX]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1520853260059516930

Would you look at that... how very not-whatsoever-a-shock-to-anyone-with-common-sense.

 

[Malevolence]

Who would be Putins cancer surgeon? Which bit to cut out...and which to leave?

Surgeons did everything they could to excise the swarming vulgar mass of infected virulency (guess what I was listening to earlier ), so come May 9th there's nowt but a rotting tumour sitting atop the Kremlin balcony watching the parade.

 

[McBain]

Lavrov being a knob as per usual I see.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1520853260059516930

Would you look at that... how very not-whatsoever-a-shock-to-anyone-with-common-sense.

But but but no one was tougher on Russia than Trump!

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Germany has benefitted a lot since WW2 by not spending money on the latest big bang generals want.

Same with Japan. They were able to plough that money into the economy.

 

[Andrew_McP]

I haven't checked to see if this has been posted already. No apologies if it has; it's too good to miss. Long-ish read about a family that ends up sharing their cellar with invading soldiers. The fact the soldiers allowed this rather than resorting to horrors seen elsewhere may make it an outlier experience, but I prefer to hope they're more likely to represent the majority.

Anyway, great read.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

 

[ubersonic]

The age old adage about not putting all one's eggs in one basket is one the German government would have been well to heed

Germany's dependency on Russian gas isn't really the fault of their government (they knew it was a bad idea at the time) its the fault of the people. In the wake of Fukushima they demanded the country begin closing it's nuclear plants and made it clear that promising to do so was a prerequisite to getting votes, so the politicians had no option but to acquiesce even though it would require increasing coal/oil/gas generation thus making the country more dependant on Russian imports at a time Putin was becoming more hostile to the west.

 

[Turn]

Past 1hr:
*Senior US Defense Official: Russia Has Launched More Than 2100 Missiles at Ukrainian Targets Since Start of Invasion
*Senior US Defense Official: Russians Pushed 40 Kilometers East of Kharkiv
*Senior US Defense Official: US Believes Top Russian General Was in Donbas Last Week but Cannot Confirm Reports He Was Injured During Fighting

*EU’s Simson: Rejection Russia Ruble Condition Legitimate
*EU’s Simson: Paying in Roubles for Energy Through Russian Conversion Scheme Is a Breach Of Sanctions
*EU’s Simson: To Prepare Guidance on Russia Sanctions
*EU’s Simson: Level of Gas Storage in EU Is Over 32% of Capacity And Rising

*French Environment Minister: Regional Taskforce Will Be Put In Place to Monitor Gas Situation in Bulgaria and Poland, First Meeting Scheduled May 5
*French Environment Minister: We Can’t Replace All Russian Gas With Other Sources, so We Have to Change the Way We Heat Ourselves and Produce Electricity

*UEFA: Russian National Soccer Team Will Not Participate in 2022-2023 UEFA Nations League

*German Chancellor Scholz: Our Aim Is for Russia to End War and Withdraw Its Troops From Ukraine’s Territory
*German Chancellor Scholz: Our Aim Has to Be That Russia’s Policy of Readiness to Use Violence Does Not Succeed
*German Chancellor Scholz: Putin Will Not Get Sanctions Lifted Without Reaching a Peace Agreement With Ukraine
*German Chancellor Scholz: We Will Never Accept the Annexation of Crimea
*German Chancellor Scholz, Asked If He Will Sit At A Table With Putin At G20 Summit, Declines To Answer

 

[ubersonic]

Wonder if Russia remembers the winter war from back when they were the soviet Union.

Probably, the problem is all they remember about it is that they won and forced their enemy to surrender land and money. The amount of Russians who had to die to achieve that victory is a mere footnote to their history.

"Advance on the enemy until they run out of ammunition" Has pretty much been the main Russian combat doctrine for 200+ years now.

 

[Dis86]

Probably, the problem is all they remember about it is that they won and forced their enemy to surrender land and money. The amount of Russians who had to die to achieve that victory is a mere footnote to their history.

"Advance on the enemy until they run out of ammunition" Has pretty much been the main Russian combat doctrine for 200+ years now.

That's assuming they even reveal the true number of soldiers that died. They probably claim it was a near peaceful takeover.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Some horror stories coming from civilians returned to Ukraine by Russia

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1521107572262162433

 

[do_ron_ron]

Same with Japan. They were able to plough that money into the economy.

Yup and look what it has done for both these countries while we still pretend we are a force in the world. The MOD is the biggest hole for money of all Depts. Constantly having debts written off.

 

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Spoiler: *Physical Gas Flows on Yamal-Europe Pipeline at Mallnow Halt- Gascade Data — RTRS

Spoiler: *Ukraine’s State Budget Deficit Rises Sharply in Jan-Apr Due to War — RTRS

 

[ianh]

I thought we weren't allowed to post videos or has that changed.

It looks like posting videos of "bad" people dying is fine now, I'm sure the Mods must have all got togther and agreed this at some point and just forgotten to change the thread title.