Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

[Omega21]

I don't think fighter planes are supposed to do that.

https://twitter.com/NotWoofers/status/1518562372071436289?s=20&t=-REs53z1JcJ...

Lol, ignorant American.

It is obviously a Russian armed flying saucer prototype. It is decades ahead of its time, so of course, you Americans would not recognize such advanced Slavic technology.

[Storr]

South of Lysychansk, Russian and so called "LPR" forces have entered Novotoshkivske

https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1518279245264531456

Russians are now finally assaulting Lyman, but so far Ukrainians are holding their ground.

Source: https://t.me/hromadske_ua/20715

It would be nice if Russia was able to "liberate" towns without destroying literally every single structure.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1518565067771547648?s=20&t=Y46vGrYeqz1XLx...

[Storr]

Based.

The Stunga P missile system operators were several kilometers away so the Russians didn't have time to figure out where the strikes were coming from and shoot back or didn't even realize what was going on with how far apart the vehicles were spaced. The arabic writing is there because the systems were originally going to be exported, but the start of the war scuttled that.

https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1518662345706332160?s=20&t=lQlPFLq6Fcz3...

https://twitter.com/mdmitri91/status/1518663165260840961?s=20&t=lQlPFLq6Fcz3...

[pppolitics]

The Russians are just very clumsy.

That's why there are so many accidents.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1518429494478049283

[pppolitics]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1518665811023572993

[pppolitics]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1518642834169020418https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1518678391687467016

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1518719066910838784

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1518531980467482625?s=20&t=lQlPFL...

[2952-0-0]

The FSB was tasked with cooking up a fake assassination plot against Vladimir Soloviev, one of Russia's most prominent TV presenters. They were apparently ordered to make the assassins appear as neo-nazi meth-head Ukrainians.

The instructions apparently included "plant three SIMs", which was understood as Sims 3.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1518706131220283396

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The FSB was tasked with cooking up a fake assassination plot against Vladimir Soloviev, one of Russia's most prominent TV presenters. They were apparently ordered to make the assassins appear as neo-nazi meth-head Ukrainians.

The instructions apparently included "plant three SIMs", which was understood as Sims 3.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1518706131220283396

[Frodo]

Finally the Biden administration is coming to realize that their long-term goal should be to weaken Russia to the point of impotence, to knock them out as a Great Power once and for all, and deprive China of a key ally as the Second Cold War gets going:

Austin's assertion that US wants to 'weaken' Russia underlines Biden strategy shift

[NOVA Green]

[SNIP]

It would be nice if Russia was able to "liberate" towns without destroying literally every single structure.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1518565067771547648?s=20&t=Y46vGrYeqz1XLx...
[/quote]

Unfortunately Russia has appeared to taken the "destroyed the village in order to save it" to new extremes.

Although in theory it would not make any sense for an occupying and invading army to completely destroy everything in their path, including human beings, manufacturing & Power plants, critical infrastructure within the intention of "liberating" and converting the resources into a new profit center, it does really appear that Russia under Putin is no longer operating on a strict economical transactional argument and perspective, but rather something much much darker.

In theory, those communities within Eastern and Southern Ukraine tended to be most supportive of Russia back in the dayz.

Why destroy and level entire cities where the overwhelming majority of the population speaks Russian and not Ukrainian?

Even if Russia were to able to succeed in their project of an attempted permanent occupation and consolidation of permanent borders as part of their "Liberation of Ethnic Russians from former territories", the natural question would be "What have they won?"...

Pretty clear in my mind that as this point Russian Invasion and Occupation of Ukraine 2.0, looking more like trying to protect a revolution in Belarus and using Ukraine as a "test scenario".

Naturally it appears to be inconceivable that Russia will ever be able to fully occupy and dominate the overwhelming majority of Ukraine proper.

Chickens might eventually start to come closer to home to roost the longer the war goes on.

Naturally, pretty clear the overwhelming majority of Russian "Industrial Accidents" close to the War Front, are overwhelmingly a result of systematic underfunding of critical infrastructure, rather than any type of systemic Ukrainian or Western Sabotage activities.

Still, starting to look increasingly clear that the lack of Russian Air Superiority on the Eastern Front will likely make it increasingly likely that Ukrainian drone raids might well be able to strike increasingly behind enemy lines.

At this point no evidence of Ukrainian involvement in any of the alleged incidents... honestly would not be surprised if Russian Factory Workers in these facilities are deliberately sabotaging their own plants.

Not all Russians support Putin's attempt to Invade and Occupy all of Ukraine as part of increased "Breathing Room", and waging an elective war against their own extended family and friends.

Hopefully this is not a "Beastie Boys" style Sabotage from the mid 1990s.

Pretty clear that the days of the much vaunted super-power are well done and gone.

Exposed to the entire Global Community like "Paper Tigers", and an "Emperor with No Clothes".

Their military hardware sucks, they are effectively running a corrupt "petro-state" when looking at the levels of corruption, and all they have are nukes to back them up???

Still, despite the attempts of the authoritarian state to suppress dissent pretty clear they are perhaps more worried about influences moving over from Belarus than Ukraine...

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1518851658700234753

[Middle-aged Europe]

German Bundestag plans to pass a resolution in support of upgrading arms shipments for Ukraine to "heavy weapons", provided that such deliveries wouldn't limit the German military's own defence capabilities.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ukraine-hilfe-ampel-antrag-101.html

[Woody]

https://mobile.twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1518742310342778881

[Woody]

https://twitter.com/HN_Schlottman/status/1518683765584928770?cxt=HHwWhIC93dS1uZM...

[Woody]

https://twitter.com/AggregateOsint/status/1518849471492284417?cxt=HHwWgoCz-YHjhJ...

[Woody]

https://mobile.twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1518742329758306304

[Person Man]

https://mobile.twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1518742329758306304

I’m really hoping if they’re able to do something with Kherson, they will be able to eventually get back Crimea because then with less fresh water and the sanctions, there’s no real way that Russia can keep it.

[Person Man]

The FSB was tasked with cooking up a fake assassination plot against Vladimir Soloviev, one of Russia's most prominent TV presenters. They were apparently ordered to make the assassins appear as neo-nazi meth-head Ukrainians.

The instructions apparently included "plant three SIMs", which was understood as Sims 3.

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1518706131220283396

Rookie moves. They forgot the child pornography.

[CumbrianLefty]

One thing that Russia hasn't altered for the better in the last few months is the sheer amateurishness - at best - of their "false flags".

[Person Man]

One thing that Russia hasn't altered for the better in the last few months is the sheer amateurishness - at best - of their "false flags".

It definitely doesn’t look like they really understand how f***ed they are at this point.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

https://mobile.twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1518742329758306304

I’m really hoping if they’re able to do something with Kherson, they will be able to eventually get back Crimea because then with less fresh water and the sanctions, there’s no real way that Russia can keep it.

They managed it for 8 years. It’s worth the costs.

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1518586537893576705?s=20&t=feSXLlCG...

[Woody]

Croatia: No NATO membership for Finland & Sweden until election law problems resolved in Bosnia

Source: https://ba.n1info.com/english/news/croatian-president-no-finland-sweden-nato-membership-until-bih-election-law/

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic on Tuesday called Finland and Sweden's bid to join NATO "a dangerous adventure," adding that the two countries could not join NATO before the election law in Bosnia and Herzegovina was changed.

“As far as I’m concerned, let them join NATO… but until the issue of the election law in Bosnia is solved, until the Americans, the English, the Germans, if they can and want to, force (Bosniak officials) to change the election law in the next six months and give Croats their fundamental rights, the (Croatian) parliament must not ratify anyone’s accession to NATO,” he said.

Milanovic said “we are in a terrible situation” because Bulgaria and Romania cannot join Schengen, North Macedonia and Albania cannot begin EU accession negotiations and Kosovo has not been recognised, while Finland “can join NATO overnight.”

We are only asking that Finland and Sweden “tell the Americans to solve this,” he said. “For me, that’s a vital national interest of the Croatian state, nation and people, that Bosnia be a functioning state.”