This is pretty much spot on
What the hell are you blathering about now? At no point did I dispute the mass grave story nor downplayed any Russian atrocities, so spare your condescending drivel for someone else
Having engaged with many Ukrainian refugees over the last months, I can tell you this obnoxious racism is something that unites both countries. There were also countless reports from PoC people trying to flee Ukraine early on about being treated like dirt by Ukrainian officials and that did not surprise me at all.
Yes. Of those 5 groupings they are typically the most arrogant and smug.
Maybe the further they are removed from Russian culture and influence the more normal they will become. I’m willing to give them that chance.
"swallows Russian propaganda like it's the jizz of the Gods"
No need to be so delicate if you're leaping to the defence of the idiots trying to soft peddle the massacres. Your call for chin stroking "objectivity" when we all know what we're looking at is a weasel words stance to take that gives you away.
You are firmly in the contrarian camp.
No one can help it if you feel condescended to. Put on your big boy breetches and deal.
Ought to be spread far and wide, the rashists don't like the truth
This from the man who claims his d*CK stays hard when fascists are in town. Seriously, how old are you, twelve?
And I'm far from in the contrarian camp, have condemned Russia from the start and never downplayed their crimes. So show me where I defended the "no mass graves" claim or shut up. It's not about being delicate, but I will stand up to slander and lies from self aggrandising gobsh*tes who make claims with no evidence
That's a great list. I'd add that many of them seem to be cranks and not especially nice people - their views tend to be more at the 'extreme' end of the scale.
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Satellite images show that the Russians are moving a large part of the air defense, along with ammunition, from the area around St. Petersburg to Ukraine, reports the Finnish service Yle.
Be shame if something were to happen to it enroute.
What a sign of absolute desperation ,it won't make any difference,the Ukrainans have been able to target multiple air defense systems around Kherson and elsewhere,
What's more so some the the claimed most deadliest air defense systems can't seem to shoot down any Ukrainian aircraft so now they are being repurposed for land attack roles
Saying it like that makes me imagine you as some kind of mafia-boss threatening the Russians:
Valeyard: Nice military you have here (kicks tire of an APC). Would be a shame if something were to….happen….to it.
(Leaves when the Russians pay him in «Protection Vodka»)
:P (I joke)
Casual racism is quite common in Eastern Europe but it's just that, casual racism. Ukrainian officials, especially border guards, treated everyone like dirt, because they were one of the most corrupt law enforcement to begin with. So don't make this into a bigger problem than it is, they just saw foreigners as an opportunity for a quick buck.
So Russia is making their flanks weaker by desperatly moving what they got to Ukraine.
Maybe its time for Finland to take back Karelia.
This video specifically mentions a mass grave containing the bodies of 17 ukrainian soldirs on one side and individual civillian graves on the other. It also mentions sites where torture was carried out and how the Russians had those exterminate civil society lists I mentioned very early in this thread and that anyone on those lists they found were disappeared.
I wish I believed there would one day be some justice, but I doubt it. If I had my way, there would never be any relaxation of sanctions against Russia.
It's almost as if NATO isn't threatening Russia, since they can move defenses off the border.
Sure they don't need them there now NATO is protecting the area. Changed from the start NATO weak people. Too NATO supermen only reason Ukraine is resisting.
A T-90M the most modern Russian tank in active service (outside of the 12 rolling t-14 armata prototypes are only ever used for parades)
Is now in Ukrainian hands.
Some Western intelligence will be having a field day when this get pulled off to some undisclosed warehouse for examination.
Doubt it ,
American and Nato tanks and vehicles are Years ahead of what I Russia has ,the yanks debunked all of the super weapons back in the 70s/80s
the war in Ukraine clearly weakening Russia's influence around the world. Add to this the NATO expansion which will probably include Ukraine in a few years.
The only thing stopping Moldova from joining is they'd have to relinquish the dispute on transdinistria.
Russias most «modern» tank captured,T90M
Russia ramps up the military aid to Ukraine, nice of them to keep donating tanks.
What's funny go back to just before the invasion,lots of media articles claimed Ukraine limited tanks and the inability to recruit new soldiers meant they couldn't stop the onslaught of Russian tanks when and if they invaded
looks like they just made a tank look modern and kept the older tech on the inside Dunno about the Gun But that's not really a technical issue gyro stabilisation of the barrel and target optics will be.
That is true, however, it does give western intelligence another chance to see what Russia's most advanced weapons systems actually look like, as compared to intelligence estimates and third-party reports. You don't throw away a chance like that.
More on Putin's cancer
Even if it were true, the people around him will be Manoeuvring around to take over from him. If he did something batshit crazy (again), the people around him would be associated with him. He would be whacked if he gave an order of permanent destruction.