Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

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This is horrifying, I'm so scared. We must now all support the Ukrainian Army and people in their fight for freedom.

Spare us the pearl clutching. Why are you scared? You're not in Ukraine. This war will not touch the USA. Gas prices will go up a bit, that's all. You're really that upset that the grand American ploy to surround and contain Russia has failed?

Again, it's amazing that on a forum that is so politically aware, the vast majority drink the Kool-Aid and accept the Western "freedom and democracy" propaganda as the inalienable truth.

You're f**king insane.

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And if Putin wants to go back to the Soviet Union days so badly, let's remind him what happened when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979. We shouldn't be putting boots on the ground, but do everything we can to make his life and the lives of his cronies as hard as possible.

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What would happen if Ukraine launched an attack on Russia that resulted in the death of Putin? It came to my mind that could happen.

How exactly would they do that?

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The invasion hasn’t been some type of unmitigated disaster but boy Russia is really doing a crappy job so far

I wonder if low morale among Russian troops is playing a bigger part than people think. Think about who they are - college-age kids who've been shipped off to kill innocent people on the whims of a delusional real-life James Bond villain.

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With the numbers, it’s unlikely Ukraine can hold out, but it’s looking allot bloodier and allot longer than it did on paper.

And if the whole situation (a wrecked economy and thousands of Russia's boys being sent to a meat grinder) ultimately results in Putin being ousted and China backing off Taiwan, it's one of the better possible outcomes.

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https://twitter.com/GuyChazan/status/1498009666093211653
It's the least they could do.

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Is Kyiv encircled or not?

Doesn't sound like it. But the mayor instituted a curfew preventing people from leaving the city.

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https://twitter.com/MarketRebels/status/1498101825370791943
Thoughts and prayers!

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I refuse to believe the Russian military is so incompetent that they are allowing this "40 mile convoy" that is on the front page of CNN to remain as it is. Either it's been moved already or it's a trap to draw out Ukraine's air force and the Russians have AA guns/missiles and fighters ready to cut down the air attack.

You may not believe it, but they really are that incompetent. Cope and seethe.

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United Nations GA resolution condemning Russia has been passed.

Yes: 141
No: 5
Abstentions: 35

No info yet on who the five dipsh**t countries were... probably Russia, Belarus, Syria, ?, ?.

Eritrea and North Korea too.

Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba or Iran maybe?

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https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1499948364988829700?s=21
Russia rushing headlong into totalitarianism.

You're saying this as some sort of gotcha, while at the same time Russia Today is kicked off the air in the West, while everyone is feverishly cheering it (see the thread in USGD). Hypocrisy is an allowed rhetorical technique but it sure makes you look dumb when you try to claim the moral high ground.

The Washington Post is neither owned nor run by the US government, but you already know this. You just choose to come in here to constantly spam the same asinine posts. So  off, kindly.

It's irrelevant whether the Washington Post is run by the US government or not because on this issue they are indistinguishable from an outlet that is run by the US government. They and other Western media have abandoned any pretense of neutrality in reporting and unabashedly doing pro-Ukraine reporting, to the point where they are reporting on Russian military movements while concealing Ukraine's. The Russian government is absolutely right to kick them out, and it is absolutely hypocritical to criticize that while feverishly cheering the ban on RT. Let's put it this way, the Chinese government has not paid me a dime, yet you still want me kicked out of here because I support them.

Very few things in international relations are black and white, but this situation is. Putin is unambiguously the bad guy here. He is trying to subjugate an independent country to fulfill his delusions of grandeur. He is the only aggressor here, and there is zero justification for what he is doing.

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https://twitter.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1510340727489892357?cxt=HHwWisC4_fa45_U...

But compucomp said Putin was justified because apparently all 2.6 billion people in China and India support him.