Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1650761560166649857?s=20

Oh sh**t a trans-dneiper assault?
The mad lads are actually doing it.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

2. A small minority of Portuguese people that are loud and still butthurt/resented about Brazil being independent global player with more presence than them that they like to be Anti-Brazil just for the sake of it.

Just want to savor the moment of the guys that’s cheerleading an imperial war of conquest because of something something west bad complaining about ‘Anti-Brazil’ sentiment.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1651604138168311813
Russia is convinced that Ukraine is going to attack their territory to swap it out for Ukrainian held land

But don’t worry they are going to take insignificant village a few KM from the front sometime in the next 9 months and then the whole war will be won.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

For everyone who has cited “muh NATO aggression” Putin has openly admitted that the war is about his Slavic version of Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1651977399486099457

Que the both sides brigade
 Ukraine isn’t offering education in the language of their colonizers, so that just as bad

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1655496507091480576?s=20

This is needed. So much of the commentary about the Ukrainian offensive is this idea that we will have one big war ending push and then we start the peace process with whatever lines are there afterwards.
We need to recognize that the likely scenario is Ukraine takes what it can without overextending, holds and reconsolidates for another push. Peace is not possible as long as any part of Ukraine is under occupation.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Suggest reading this thread - Very detailed about Russia's trench systems (specifically the south), what it's purpose are, and expectations for the counter-offensive.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1655642475489529856?cxt=HHwWgMDQqeeDg_otAAAA

Yeah that’s called defense in depth. Everyone figured that out in 1915

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

So the UK has apparently handed out all it's promised Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. Anyone have a number on how many? Only figure I can find is 14. If that's true, that's laughably low.

https://twitter.com/Lyla_lilas/status/1656661077244153857

They doubled it to 28.

That’s 28 times the number of tanks Putin rolled out on 5/9

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Merrick Garland has OK’d the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-attorney-general-oks-transfer-forfeited-funds-russia-oligarch-use-ukraine-2023-05-10/

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Russia tried to destroy US-made Patriot system in Ukraine.

Russia tried to destroy a US-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine last week with a hypersonic missile, two US officials told CNN.

The attack failed, and the Ukrainian military instead intercepted the missile using the Patriot system, the officials said, marking their first known successful Ukrainian use of the advanced air defense system only weeks after it arrived in country.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/12/politics/russia-patriot-missiles-ukraine/index.html

It's seems that Woody's hypersonic missiles failed.

Russian wonderweapons/marketing stunts failed to have any noticeable impact? I’m shocked, shocked,

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

The DRG group in Belgorod Oblast was caught committing a war crime today. They shot at a civilian car and seized it. Good job trying to convince people you're the "liberators"

https://twitter.com/rybar_en/status/1660641155384594434

Dude, your imaginary boyfriend is waging a genocidal campaign of conquest. No amount of collateral damage is going to convince anyone that the victims are the bad guys here.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

"air defense takes down a Russian helicopter near New York" is a real headline:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1660729994912333827?s=20
[There is a small town named New York in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It first appeared on maps in 1846, but the origin of the name isn't known. Presumably someone locally prominent enough to name a settlement had a connection of some sort with the United States.]

I can’t remember the name, but isn’t there some village in the Donbas named after a random Welsh guy?

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

It's almost as if leaders that start and fail to win wars end up becoming unpopular:

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1660723818304884736?s=20

I’m still predicting Putin ‘wins’ his next election in a shocking 98 point upset.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/ukraine-losing-10000-drones-per-month-to-russia/

"Ukraine losing 10,000 drones per month to Russian electronic warfare: report"

I’m pretty sure there aren’t 10,000 UA drones in the first place, but who am I to argue with America’s tabloid of record.
Keep coping bro

ETA: OK this look like a total including Amazon/Alibaba Express civilian market stuff thrown together.
Also the report paints a different picture across the entire front, NYpost and our most fascist cheerleading posters decided to run with one line.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

The governor of Belgorod Oblast has announced the end of the "counter-terrorist" operation. The remaining AFU DRGs who survived has retreated from the Oblast.

Now that it is over, what exactly was achieved here again?

...to show the world that Russia has left own territory undefended while most of its troops are in Ukraine

AFU could just drive into Russia and seize Belgorod if US and Europe gives the OK.

But that would be breaking he rulez! Russia gets to bomb you, you don’t get to bomb Russia. Fighting back if for terrorists.
What’s a whirlwind?

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://twitter.com/ricwe123/status/1661375358166237192

Literal whataboutism is so very rare.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/politics/us-intelligence-kremlin-drone-attack/index.html

"US intelligence indicates Ukrainians may have launched drone attack on Kremlin"

And?

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

I don't know who did it, but I am leaning towards Russia. Seems like a strategic play in their part. This morning (Ukrainian time) the Ukrainian garrisons finally withdrew from the islands located in the Dnieper due to the flooding. Crimea already taps other reservoirs for water and before the invasion they usually just shipped it off from Russia.

Seriously, you’re not sure have who blew the damn that Russia rigged to blow?

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

One way or another, had Russian forces stayed in Kherson versus pulling out in Nov 2022 and this dam was blown up, it could have been a military disaster for Russia with their forces being cut off North of the Dnieper River.  So regardless of who did it the timing of it was not as bad for Russia.  So in that sense, this is an argument for Russia being behind it

The other argument being that Russia mined the dam 6 months ago. It was discussed at the time.
When something blows up, assume it’s the people that rigged it with explosives until proven otherwise.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1665726445493026819
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1665824098520375300
The Collective West is starting to change narratives on this war.

It doesn’t evidence an epiphany or anything,  this stuff was on everyones faces from the start, but it reflects how they think it’s less likely for Ukraine to come off as fully victorious from this.

So they’re beginning to build this narrative of “OMG we’ve been lied to, there are Nazis there” in order to create a moral argument to drop support so that if Ukraine loses, it will be because the West has chosen instead of losing to Russia.

It’s a way so that only Ukraine is seen as the “loser” from the conflict and a potential defeat perception isn’t extended to the countries who gave it weapons and money.

https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1665944093472575488

JFC dude. ‘Oh noes, some kid put a Swastika on his helmet, I guess that means we have to ethnically cleanse Ukraine’ is only a thought that would occur to a xenophobic tankie trying to make the world conform to his knee jerk anti-American conspiracy theories.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

I don't know who did it, but I am leaning towards Russia. Seems like a strategic play in their part. This morning (Ukrainian time) the Ukrainian garrisons finally withdrew from the islands located in the Dnieper due to the flooding. Crimea already taps other reservoirs for water and before the invasion they usually just shipped it off from Russia.

Seriously, you’re not sure have who blew the damn that Russia rigged to blow?

How would you know 100%? You're just a guy from Illinois. Do you have the Russian and Ukrainian battle plans?

I know it was widely reported that Russia mined this dam after withdrawing from Kherson and we had a wide round of reporting re: will they do it and what will happen when they do and that they were in control of the dam.
Like it doesn’t take any specialized knowledge to figure out who blew up the dam that Russian army was guarding that had planted explosives in 6 months ago.