Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They'll line the roads for us, they said. Hand us flowers...

Hitler saw parts of Poland the Czechslovakia as parts of Germany too so he decided to take it all because he could. He had no intention of ethnically cleansing them either. Just the undesirables like the Jews, gypsies and any who might cause him hassle.

Ad I said, I and many others would view Putins actions in these 4 weeks on par or exceeding the first 4 weeks of Hitlers jaunt through Europe. It was almost two years in before he unleashed his true horrors on the world. Let's hope this lunatic doesn't make it that far.

I suppose his point is that even the German army were a pale imitation of the savagery that Soviet Russia inflicted in the Ukraine and more than once and that Putin is consistently using the language of that time.

Gays, I knew it was them even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.

2M refugees in Poland

There will be courses of Polish language for Ukrainian teachers starting next week

Please go to https://1920.in and use the tool to send texts/emails/whatsapps to random Russians.

If you want to know why 1920:

and what was Squad 303:

You are right. The people who make the Hitler comparisons really look uneducated and feebly lacking in imagination. Nor is Putin Stalin, although some of the rhetoric is similar.

But Putin is Putin and we can't yet see him in his broad historical context. He's been in power for 20 years, most people here didn't know the first thing about him till one month ago and now they all seem to be experts on him and the laziest option is always the Hitler one

According to @Wibbs expert opinion. People in this thread are being willfully ignorant and listening to too much Twitter news and that Russia are merely acting battlefield stupid and not really battlefield stupid. Holding back large numbers of troops and cutting edge equipment to roll into cities and put them down. And that the might of the Russian machine wins out in the end.

It doesn't really matter that this opinion is contrary to all of the major national intelligence agencies worldwide.

We are consuming to much pro Ukraine twitter.. or something.

But hopefully Ukraine win. Etc etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if these successful strikes against Russian formations are based on US satellite or signals intel fresh out of the oven. Artillery needs to be directed by a spotter on the ground, in the air, or else very precise knowledge of the target's location. Unless it's true that the Sovxxx Russians are using insecure communications and the Ukrainians are doing the triangulation themselves.

The Chechens are putting a lot forward for the Russians. Things are not all roses for Kadyrov in Chechnya. There are still a lot of folks that want him removed/killed.

If you were Mujahedeen in the Caucasus, now would be a pretty sweet time to kick up a fuss.

America was actively in an antagonistic war with Russia when they were interfering with central and south America. They were fighting proxy wars against each other for decades. NATO has never been at war with Russia or instigated proxy wars between them.

Flip that argument over, why should Romania and Poland have to have Russian aggression right up to their borders after a takeover of Ukraine? Are their security concerns of less relevance than old, decrepit Russia? Russia is a lost power, it has no right to dictate how surrounding countries organise their own defence. They also have NATO in Latvia, Poland and Estonia already. So any idea that they are only pre-empting NATO aggression is a false premise for this war. It's partly a desire to return to the USSR glory days, partly to avoid the embarrassment of a democratic, capitalist economy outperforming Russia and causing other parts of the federation to look west rather than to Moscow. It's also partly to secure the recently discovered natural resources off the coast of Ukraine.

Would love to see that prick with a bullet or 50 through his skull. Would be nice if the Americans had some intelligence on him so he could get what’s coming to him soon

People also willfully ignore the fact that Hitler was not the architect of the death camps that defined the nazis extremely brutality. That gem was the brainchild of that other utter sh1t Himmler. In fact the entire Nazi machine was the extremely unfortunate coincidence of some of the most evil people in history co-existing in the same country and with similar political views. Hitler, himmler and goebels all brought unique elements of evil to the mechanics of the nazi movement. Putin doesn't have that around him. He's far more isolationist and even more dictatorial than Hitler.