Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

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https://twitter.com/FT/status/1650911475618267164
Politicization of ICC backfiring with South Africa now saying they will quit the international court after the warrant that obliges its members to jail Putin if he visits their territories. Instead of bringing more places to their side, the Western desperation is pushing more places away from their organizations/influence instead, openly stimulating a global divide.

Notice how the current South African president is also more pro-western than previous ones and you get an idea of how broad this feeling is.

The BRICS summit in South Africa later this year apparently cannot be stopped.

Wow, the corrupt President of an impoverished country with lots of business with Russia decides to back Russia? This is clearly the total collapse of the Rothschild-Soros- sorry, "Global North" world order.

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https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1653093775944699905

Bakhmut Bob in shambles.

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I’m shocked Wagner isn’t a reliable source of information

You sure? Because not long ago you were quoting the same man like crazy when he was fearmongering.

Yes, I'm completely sure Wagner PMC is not a reliable source for a conflict that Wagner PMC is fighting in.

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I’m shocked Wagner isn’t a reliable source of information

You sure? Because not long ago you were quoting the same man like crazy when he was fearmongering.

Yes, I'm completely sure Wagner PMC is not a reliable source for a conflict that Wagner PMC is fighting in.

This logic is not inherently wrong, but it needs to be applied equally.

Ukraine is a democratic country, Wagner is a PMC staffed by convicts.

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I’m shocked Wagner isn’t a reliable source of information

You sure? Because not long ago you were quoting the same man like crazy when he was fearmongering.

Yes, I'm completely sure Wagner PMC is not a reliable source for a conflict that Wagner PMC is fighting in.

This logic is not inherently wrong, but it needs to be applied equally.

Ukraine is a democratic country, Wagner is a PMC staffed by convicts.

You think militaries in countries arbitrarily labelled as "democratic" are suddenly less likely to make things up or deny things?
You sweet, summer child...

A country is democratic when it has elections, a free press, and freedom of speech. Wagner is a PMC last seen executing one of their own convict soldiers with a sledgehammer. Yes, I do think the Ukrainian government is more trustworthy than Wagner.

That doesn't mean we should trust whatever the Ukrainian government says, but I believe them over Wagner.

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Certain Individuals (not referring to TimTurner here, to be clear) : BOTH SIDES BAD

Meanwhile in Russia:
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1653308775510556672?s=46&t=-ESy3CkbdQE...

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I’m shocked Wagner isn’t a reliable source of information

You sure? Because not long ago you were quoting the same man like crazy when he was fearmongering.

Yes, I'm completely sure Wagner PMC is not a reliable source for a conflict that Wagner PMC is fighting in.

This logic is not inherently wrong, but it needs to be applied equally.

Ukraine is a democratic country, Wagner is a PMC staffed by convicts.

You think militaries in countries arbitrarily labelled as "democratic" are suddenly less likely to make things up or deny things?
You sweet, summer child...

Yes. Having a free press ensures less graft and corruption within the armed forces. Putin learned this last year when he discovered the truth of just how ineffective his military is.

Ukraine probably has a more transparent officer corp within the military but they absolutely do make up random propaganda for the media which are obvious lies. Nothing wrong but ots whats happening

Sure. The fact remains that they're less likely to make things up than Russia.

How would you know, you're a guy from California.

How would you know, you're a guy from Berlin Moscow Virginia

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How would you know, you're a guy from California.

How would you know, you're a guy from Berlin Moscow Virginia

Maybe from Wumao City.

Wumao City is Belo Horizonte, actually.

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Bakhmut Bob has been mostly silent for once. I take it Comrade Pigozhin and his band of assorted nazi losers aren't doing well?

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meanwhile in the real world

https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1/status/1656336851534503936?cxt=HHwWgIDTgejlv...

It's over folks the Russian nazbol juggernaut is unstoppable. Ukraine should surrender since this small advance on an uninhabited and destroyed road is clearly the end of the war.

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What glorious news to wake up to.

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The mods are vile cowards! Raving hotcake cowards! They don't care about the rights of posters, they aren't even willing to care about activity on the forum! They are total scumhead scumbag cowards! There's even a moderator with Polack sympathies! Ban me, Virginia, you despotic Tsarina of this forum, if you please, because now everyone has heard the truth! I will return soon enough!

-Prigozhin, if he was an Atlas poster

Prigozhin already is an Atlas poster:
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=18362

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Prigozhin already is an Atlas poster:
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=18362

Prigozhin is not so pro-Kremlin, like him

Speaking of which, I'm thinking of doing a poll on how long it will be until he trips and falls out of a ten-story window.

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"Ukraine is winning". Meanwhile it's still losing it's positions in the city. Russia regaining some lost settlements in Kharkiv region.

https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/status/1658078068093624320?cxt=HHwWgICxqfrN1oIuA...

Russia took a f@cking street run for the damn hills

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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1658867809504329733?s=20

inb4 thousand word Jaichind and Red Velvet screed about muh global south russia economy doing fine.

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

Maybe Pandor should focus on the fact that her country is an under-developed, corrupt sh**thole with more wealth inequality than Cyberpunk.

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Чемодан-вокзал-Россия!

https://twitter.com/alinavictoriaw/status/1661745047279398915

Woodbury_IRL

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According to Mishustin, after a year of hostilities, Russia has so far issued passports to 1.5 million citizens of Ukraine in the regions it has annexed.

Did the Ukrainians want the passports?

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Чемодан-вокзал-Россия!

https://twitter.com/alinavictoriaw/status/1661745047279398915

https://twitter.com/kozako01/status/1661852178804363267

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Denazification in action:

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1664079800917536776?s=20

Well, Red Velvet wants us to remember that all countries have their differences, and shunning a nation for killing children is wrong because Iraq/Imperialism.

Nations should strive to be more like the true moral compass of Brazil, famous for its lack of income and housing inequality and refusal to elect far-right virulent homophobes to high offices.

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I'm surprised I've managed to beat Woodbury's take, which will quite obviously be that the heartless Ukrainian monsters blew up the dam to murder Russian civilians as revenge or something. This dam blowing up looks like a big deal and at this moment there are plausible cases for both Ukraine and Russia being the culprit to disrupt the other's plans. Either way, its going to be very bad for civilians on both sides of the river. Even if we don't have official word, I think a good indicator that it was actually Ukraine would be the use the floods and chaos to amphibiously cross the Dnieper.

Why would Ukraine flood Kherson city itself and make any counterattack south of Kherson all the more harder? This has Russian ecoterrorism all over it. Not to mention Russia ridiculous explanation for how Ukraine supposedly blew the dam

Regardless of whoever attacked the dam, fact is that dams can be effectively treated as legitimate war targets by either side. That's neither straightforwardly morally wonderful nor completely fair, but such is war.
If Ukraine blew up one of its own dams to try to stop the Russians I don't think I could indict them for alleged "ecoterrorism" either.

Except the Ukrainians are planning a counteroffensive in the coming days and the Russians are not.

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https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1666198309118042127

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"I've heard from people here: you liberated us, from what? From our houses? Our salaries, our lives?"

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1670015280284594176?s=20
 

These idiots clearly just don't understand class materialism.

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lol