School Me On This Russia/Ukraine Kerfuffle

[fluid hips]

 

[sneeker]

Early in the war, people were saying it was all propaganda and fog of war and all that.
All the intel about corruption, lack of equipment, low morale, bad logistics etc all seem to be true and now they've confirmed heavy losses although this interview probably won't air in Russia.
I knew something was fishy when they didn't achieve air superiority in the first few days but who knows, maybe I'm not getting a balanced feed.

Let's see what happens now that the Russians are focusing on the Donbas region.

Meanwhile back in Russia



People want to know the truth. As sanctions begin to take effect, more and more people will want to know what's really happening.

seriously, Russia has been playing that game as old as time. you can't trust them.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[gry60]

France's Macron makes last-minute appeal to voters as Le Pen reaches all-time high in poll

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday appealed to younger, progressive-leaning voters in his last scheduled interview before Sunday's first-round presidential vote while his forecast lead over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen further evaporated.

www.reuters.com

With Le Pen getting close to Macron, Putin will be a very happy man if the far right can win the presidential election in a major European country.

For those who don't know, Marine once borrowed money from Russia to fund her previous presidential run, and every time the far right has lost has been because the French right and left have swallowed their tongue and supported unpopular, centrist presidents against the National Front. This time, things don't look so certain, and France might experience the kind of disillusionment that leads people to not participate in elections and let the FN take it home.

What a far-right victory in France will mean for Ukraine is a disruption of European unity against Russia, which will negatively affect the Ukrainian resistance (less money, less weapons, less human resources, and legitimization of the Russian position).

 

[Coupé It]

 

[gry60]

 

[lovehateself]

Russia really denying the attack on that train station
**** them

 

[sneeker]

Russia really denying the attack on that train station
**** them

they always deny everything. people of the world should know by now.

 

[Coupé It]

 

[tomdiginson]

Zelenks is the modern day Churchill

 

[gry60]

This week, we’re bringing you a vital history lesson that might not have made it into your high school textbooks. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in its second month, Yale historian Timothy Snyder joins to share much-needed context that often gets overlooked in coverage of the war. Hear the complicated legacy of the Nazi charges from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, how Ukrainians came to think of themselves as a nation, and whether Timothy Snyder thinks this is a war that can be won.

 

[Coupé It]

Putin “didn’t want NATO on his borders”. Now a whole slab of the Russian border will be on NATO territory.

Bozo

 

[ballinsam23]

That Russian tank Twitter video circulating is wild

 

[Coupé It]

That Russian tank Twitter video circulating is wild

You allowed to post?

 

[elpablo21]

 

[elpablo21]

 

[ballinsam23]

You allowed to post?

Dont think I can. Feds did a sweep last time

 

[8tothe24]

In the beginning everyone thought Russia was bringing the mobile crematoriums for their soldiers. Turns out they planned to treat their own like waste on the side of a freeway. The real intent was a planned genocide. Been working too much to keep up but I hope people are done defending these POS monsters now.

 

[gry60]

Soaring food and fuel prices are destabilizing countries on the brink

When people took to the streets in Egypt in 2011, protesters chanted about freedom and social justice, but also bread. The cost of pantry staples had jumped due to the skyrocketing price of goods like wheat, stoking fury with President Hosni Mubarak.

www.cnn.com

 

[keko jones]

As long as they are de-Nazifying ..... the can do as the please ... word to ..... smh

 

[D Double]

 

[tomdiginson]

Could be a lot of kgb and spies in the mix.

 

[fargin]

Russian cruiser Moskva - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[danikerhino]

Damn the Russians are constantly getting pushed back in almost every attempted operation they carry out. Ukraine has amazing resolve. I don't even consider them some underdog anymore, they've just been flat-out more effective at warfare, especially based off of the fact that they have less resources across the board. They aren't carrying out wide-spread insurgency to counter a more technologically advanced military, they are literally taking it to Russian forces in each battle and coming out victorious in a majority of them.

 

[sneeker]

Damn the Russians are constantly getting pushed back in almost every attempted operation they carry out. Ukraine has amazing resolve. I don't even consider them some underdog anymore, they've just been flat-out more effective at warfare, especially based off of the fact that they have less resources across the board. They aren't carrying out wide-spread insurgency to counter a more technologically advanced military, they are literally taking it to Russian forces in each battle and coming out victorious in a majority of them.

they never learned anything from WW2. Germany was technological advanced and superior in warfare but they still lost to Russia. never underestimate the resolve of a country that you are trying to invade.