No security guarantees from the UK and the Americans have also said no , looking like the only option will be joining nato
‘I can’t keep up’: Russia is losing so much military equipment in Ukraine that weapons monitors are overwhelmed"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-military-equipment-losses-b2046501.html and https://archive.ph/n3xrz
7 busses with Russian soldiers suffering from Acute Radiation Syndrome have arrived to a hospital in Belarus from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
They allegedly dug trenches in the highly radioactive Red Forest - UNIAN News Agency
Loses for Russia are spectacular
Just to compare between Afghanistan and Iraq America lost less than 10 tanks in a 20 year period ( open to correction)@Manic Moran
Could be just the opening Macron is looking for to win his election.
Pretty much everything he described is in Leaving Cert Physics.... no expertise needed.... and was pretty much on point.
But much like the COVID threads, people arguing back don't seem to have even Junior Cert level Science under there belt...
Bigger fcuking eijits for stick around there. If I was told we're going to war and you're going to be stationed in chernobyl I'd be gone MIA within the first two hours. Not only am I fighting a stupid war, I'm getting irradiated in the process.
Horrible death you mean, long and extremely painful. Most of them probably young recruits, with no idea as to what was going on.
A view from the other side, pro Russian account.
Translation...
Destruction of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system of the Ucronazi forces, by Russian Iskander missiles, in the kyiv region.
The Russians were a bit brutish, they didn't need so much missile, but they reached the objective of cour se
I'm presuming all the I.D cards they have from Azov Battalion, posted in the thread, are from soldiers they've killed? Or as they say denazified
I'd imagine they sent in there **SPECIAL** forces 🤣
Is that real? Maybe it's just the quality of Twitter compressed videos but it looks like CGI. Even so, seems like overkill to use something with that impact on a single target in a field.
I remember at the start of the invasion someone joking about Russian supersoldiers capturing Chernobyl and me thinking they can't just be sending the troops 'naked' into the exclusion zone, even the Russian must be taking some sort of protective measures...
Yeah they gave them shovels, great plan Vlad
Oh look, they've put the flags on the 'opinion poles' 🙄
Ukraine to ban the Russian Orthodox Church and nationalise their property:-
It really is gas reading the early part of the thread, almost a pity some of them can't reply any more. :P
Am currently watching a TV show called The Americans (spoilers ahead). Set in the 80s, 2 Russian agents sent to America to start a family and blend in and be operatives for Russian intelligence. Even just the premise, I'm sure there are some people (ahem) who would say "Oh that just shows how the over-the-top fear of Russia has seeped into American culture. Of course they got the idea from people who actually did it. It's kinda normal when dealing with Russian nonsense, most of what they say and expect just doesn't pan out. Yet they're sure next time it will. Before the invasion people who warned about the build-up were war-mongers. Because letting your mate know there's a junkie coming up behind him is aggression when the junkie is Russia.
Anyway, in the show there's an episode when Reagan is shot. Cue panic everywhere. But especially among the Russians. They firstly have to figure out if it was them who did it (since information was kept so walled) then they have to find out the president's condition and then there's suggestions of a coup because of someone else "taking power" in the White House. Between the 2 main characters the wife is convinced a coup has happened while the husband tries to convince her that America isn't the same as Russia. He's the one who's been most Americanised of course. She has a go at him asking why he thinks Americans are so pure and he says that's not his argument, just that things are different. The president was shot, the process moved along, media reports matched their sources throughout. He then says that the last couple times a Russian leader died the country was kept in the dark for weeks.
And this is the thing, I can admit that I've been influenced by "The West". Of fuckin course I have. But when it comes to "sides", this absolute nonsense of equivalence is just that. Even recently in the thread there was something about "Hahaha the West saying that TV stations are Kremlin-controlled, what about the BBC?" as if the 2 situations are anywhere close to being equivalent.
At the end of the day my views and opinions and very thought processes have been influenced by my life, but of course. However it's a sign of a lack of intellect with an awful lot of people who want to see "both sides" and they just can't quite get over the fact that looking at both sides doesn't mean you must give each equal weight. The Russians have been sending their poison around, they send their online poison around and they do what they like. Some guys find that oddly sexual but they can't quite put it into words so they "admire" Putin. Him swinging his dick around makes them think he's impressive and they want to see both sides.
As I've said before in the thread, when there was a chance Poland, the Baltics and the Central European countries all jumped straight into NATO and the EU as soon as they could. I don't remember Italy or the Norwegians clamouring to get out of NATO or the EU.
Interesting article on the evacuation trains:-
I said it before the fact you can admire Putin and spread Putin propaganda freely in western countries and the fact that you get 15 years in jail in Russia for something as innocuous as reporting the truth speaks volumes and shuts down any argument about both sides or equivalence.
"Special" Chechen forces, no doubt. Those Ukrainians seem to have given it a good wash and polish just before Kadyrov defeated them.
Why the hell would Russia invade a country where the ordinary motorists do this. No wonder the Russians are getting their asses handed to them!
Just like posing outside of a petrol station in Russia,but claiming to be fighting in Ukraine
Those aren't ordinary motorists, this was actually the final exam for students of an advanced driver training course. The lesson on how to react to an ambush on a desrted country road was even tougher and involved live rounds.
While we call out the Russian overkill explosion looking like CGI/computer game... the above looks like CGI also.
Well they have form for that already 😂🤣😂
Or it's just a decal applied to one of their own vehicles or it could just be Photoshopped.
Well if they didn't have special needs before this assignment...
You could say it was a "Special Driving Operation"....sorry I'll get my coat!
Ukrainians will remember this for a hundred years or more. Every generation and age group has been hit hard.
No end to sanctions until they do the right thing and get rid of Putin and his cronies. Russians need to reform.
Zero sympathy for Russians
First of all I never implied that I was ever anything other than " amateur sitting at a keyboard " no more than yourself. Also you seem to be letting your imagination running Away with you. I never suggested "lobbing missiles into Russian residential areas". However imo Russian military targets are fair game. You ask what I think Putin would do next? I don't know that but I do know what he's doing now. He's slaughtering Ukrainians. He will continue slaughtering Ukrainians as long as people like yourself adopt an " oh no let's not upset him " approach. The Russian people either don't know or don't want to know the truth of what's happening so it's time to give them a taste of their own medicine.
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