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It was you who made the original snarky comments about people saying videos of the explosion were fake if not corroborated by Russia Today. I merely said there is not a single person here who says that. Which you know is true, which is why you pivot away and start talking about Twitter. If you didn't want to be called out, you shouldn't have posted the lie.
But yeah, we can drop this now, the facts are established
Unfortunately it looks like traffic is back crossing the bridge but hopefully this isn't the last attempt to disable it. Looks like real pressure will come to bear on the botox dwarf to respond from the hawks within Russia.
Partial civilian evacuation in Kherson.
Yeah, more psychological strike than anything else. But does make the jubilation look a bit premature.... I'm surprised how quickly repairs could be done
The Kremlin has announced that the air force chief General Sergei Surovikin is taking control of all of the troops in Ukraine.
A lot of posters here see and imagine things they want. We'd one yesterday talking about "putinbots disappearing from the thread" even though i've yet to read a single post in support of Putin. It's just bizarre carry on. I'd say some of these sort of posters would argue with in the mirror if the opportunity arose.
For a while until he too is blamed for Russia just being shít.
Of course he's going to try and respond, and that response will most likely be to hit Ukrainian supply/civilian infrastructure as hard as possible. What else can he do? He's hardly going to push the red button over a bridge.
Wasn't he the head man in Syria?
Putin: General, you are one who led our Air Force in piss-poor campaign against Ukraine?
Surovikin: Da!
Putin: You will now lead all ground forces!
Surovikin: Da! :)
Putin: ….from frontline. Without body armour.
Surovikin: . . . Da.
I would imagine traffic volumes are extremely low though. Nobody is going to want to cross a bridge that was hit by a massive bomb explosion just a few hours ago.
If they detonate a nuke in a populated area then yes, but if they detonate a nuke in a test range on their own territory it would be to show that they still have working nukes and that would be the highest level of escalation prior to actually deploying a nuke against a populated area or military target.
(Could also be a massive bluff if they only have a few working nukes in the same way the US only had 2 nukes and used them both to imply that they had more than they really had)
I don't think that is accurate. There have been no changes since Russia withdrew from certain positions a few days previously.
There was a few at different times.
A hamster could have been in charge in Syria though.
Ukraine is a different galaxy.
To use an ancient irish saying: good luck with that.
That didnt look like a truck bomb, that truck was still in one piece when the blast happened, any word on what actually malleted the bridge?
Actually ironically I only watch TV when I visit family for Christmas lol
Unless they have created an intersection we know one highway is out of action.
So, they’d need to turn the other 19km two lane into one lane each way.
Fine, but a lot of traffic going to go over it. If it wasn’t for damaged pride no traffic would be going over that without much inspection.
No way, seriously...
Ah look, I'm prone to lack for posting anything other than normal. I go off somewhere and I look back and it's oh no I took a wrong turn somewhere.
Feck it, why not :)
I'd say most people will try and avoid the thing for the next few days at least. People have absolutely no way of knowing if a follow up attack is planned and they are not going to put this to the test, certainly not a few hours after the initial massive explosion.
The US had 4 - "Little Boy", "Fat Man" and "Gadget' and another unnamed one often referred to as Demon Core (and were working on a 5th nuclear bomb at the time), they had the capabilities of making 3 x per month, the 4th was to be used on Tokyo only for Japan surrendered.
I think 1990 is the last time Russia (USSR) tested one.
putin has failed at every task , he has had no success in Ukraine at all , at this stage it’s hard to see any success, I feel he will do something drastic this month
Hitting the bridge was symbolic, Puttin saw it as his pride and joy. The Russians also boasted of it being immune from attack, with it having 20 different types of defence and all. 🤣
Ukraine wouldn't have the ability to do significant damage that would close it long term, yet.
If it was a truck bomb, some timing to detonate it beside a train full of fuel.
It's already open again. Just limited traffic, and good vehicles have to get the ferry.
It was jammed with contrarians and indirect Putin supporters for months (despite good moderating). Other threads have been far worse. Those on the extreme left hate and blame the West for everything as much as Putin does and therefore share similar talking points. Those on the far right admire Putin. Both sides are now generally "smart" enough to not to support Putin directly anymore, but do so by being systematic contrarians or concern-troll certain issues. Seems to have died down recently though.
@Crocodilian
I feel he will do something drastic this month
Like what? He's already done the mobilisation bit and he's been threatening nukes since 2 days into this invasion. What shock and awe is Russia holding back on out of the goodness of their hearts?
see they are back shelling the nuclear plant, I’m not surprised. Easiest way to create that buffer that Russia is seeking is to take that out. Nuclear wasteland and no one will be able to stay there. I put nothing past them, they’ve shown no brains and no shame thus far, why start now.
Likey Along with anything military related
I don't believe in Putin bots. Wums perhaps (with easy targets) but people are way too arrogant if they think Irish Boards is important enough for Russia to infiltrate with propaganda. It's a ludicrous assumption. Maybe I don't fully understand what a Putin bot is...this thread has become somewhat of a groupthink thread which is a shame. It was very educational at the beginning of the war, now it's mainly silly speculation and fear.
For anyone interested, or indeed paranoid, about Russia and it’s nukes, this video is quite informative
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