Russia-Ukraine war and related tensions Megathread

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

Putin should seriously consider hiring Woody as a propagandist account because he does a much better job than the regular accounts most of whom are all depressed and dooming over Robotyne’s liberation

Putin can only do this after Woody is fired by his Chinese handler, Compucomp.

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1693889999018643941?s=12

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

Domino’s Pizza will close all 142 stores in Russia

Domino’s Pizza will close all its outlets in Russia, becoming one of the first major Western fast-food chains to exit the country since McDonald’s and Starbucks left more than a year ago.

DP Eurasia — the company that owns franchise rights for the Domino’s Pizza brand in Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia — said Monday that it would file for bankruptcy for its Russian unit, DPRussia.

The move highlights the increasingly hard choices facing Western firms that stayed in Russia after the start of the Ukraine war. The Kremlin has made it vastly more difficult and more costly for Western companies to sell their Russian businesses. And it has in some cases seized control of firms’ local assets, as with Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY) and French yogurt maker Danone (DANOY).

“With the increasingly challenging environment, DPRussia’s immediate holding company is now compelled to take this step, which will bring about the termination of the attempted sale process of DPRussia as a going concern and, inevitably, the group’s presence in Russia,” DP Eurasia said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/business/dominos-pizza-closing-russia/index.html

It seems to be a Turkish company, not a Western one.

[Hindsight was 2020]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1693998690124636304?s=12
Firing your most competent general is very on brand for Russia lol

[pppolitics]

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You're talking about this like Russians are just going to be sitting on their asses, I know this might be hard to realize, but they're still humans and not NPCs, so they are capable of adapting to the war too.

You're forgetting that Ukraine has next to no domestic production when it comes to armored vehicles & tanks. They rely predominantly on imports from NATO, that's not a sufficient way to conduct a prolonged-war when those you're depending on can barely scramble to give up it's own ones the first round. Ukrainians are facing the same dilemma, that's why the inevitable collapse of the Russian Army I have been hearing about for the past year has not happened.

Ukraine makes T-84 Oplot, BTR-3, BTR-4 and other vehicles, but don’t let facts get in your way.

[2952-0-0]

Putin should seriously consider hiring Woody as a propagandist account because he does a much better job than the regular accounts most of whom are all depressed and dooming over Robotyne’s liberation

Putin can only do this after Woody is fired by his Chinese handler, Compucomp.

Actually, the reverse is closer to the truth. The only foreign media outlet that's allowed to publish on Chinese social media networks is Sputnik. And when it posts things at odds with the official PRC line, it doesn't get censored. Remember that the CCP was founded as a branch of Comintern, and all of its dirty secrets for its entire history are safely stored in the KGB archives.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1693870274662253025
More significant than the destruction of at least 1 bomber (allegedly 2-3, including another attack in the last few days on a different base) is the relocation of such aircraft away from the base. The further they are from Ukraine, the more warning there will be when they launch missiles. I'll be interested to see if/when they return to this base.

[Storr]

A significant development, as the Orthodox NATO and EU countries (Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece) have been the some of the most hesitant in militarily supporting Ukraine due to religious and historic ties with Russia:

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1693701811784265847?s=20

[Storr]

It's always fun to laugh at Russian incompetence:

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1693247462633304075?s=20

[2952-0-0]

It's always fun to laugh at Russian incompetence:

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1693247462633304075?s=20

Don't laugh. Give me one space program that hasn't had expensive failures.

[pppolitics]

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1694045156863844602

[pppolitics]

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1694058667392286752

[pppolitics]

...and so it begins

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1694025355848298977

[pppolitics]

Ukraine might be getting the F-16s, but Ukraine still needs cruise missiles for them, specifically the JASSMs. (F-16s aren't compatible with the Storm Shadow or SCALP.)

https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1693980350869856583

[Storr]

It's not a surprise, but Ukrainians continue to be overwhelmingly against territorial concessions:

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1694070745263947897?s=20

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1693998690124636304?s=12
Firing your most competent general is very on brand for Russia lol

Surovikin is removing from his seat during two months along, I hope this news indicates the end of the process.

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

Putin should seriously consider hiring Woody as a propagandist account because he does a much better job than the regular accounts most of whom are all depressed and dooming over Robotyne’s liberation

Putin can only do this after Woody is fired by his Chinese handler, Compucomp.

Actually, the reverse is closer to the truth. The only foreign media outlet that's allowed to publish on Chinese social media networks is Sputnik. And when it posts things at odds with the official PRC line, it doesn't get censored. Remember that the CCP was founded as a branch of Comintern, and all of its dirty secrets for its entire history are safely stored in the KGB archives.

Stalin managed to quarrel with the Comintern and dissolved it long before he managed to put Mao at the head of China. In my opinion, you attach too much importance to the false wrapper of post-Marxists. And what do you want to say? Allegedly, Putin and his "KGB" control Xi? LMAO. The PRC turned the game around a long time ago and is now taking revenge on Russia for Stalin's gift.

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

A significant development, as the Orthodox NATO and EU countries (Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece) have been the some of the most hesitant in militarily supporting Ukraine due to religious and historic ties with Russia:

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1693701811784265847?s=20

They should be informed that Ukraine is also an Orthodox country. Since the 10th century to the present.

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

It's always fun to laugh at Russian incompetence:

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1693247462633304075?s=20

Don't laugh. Give me one space program that hasn't had expensive failures.

This is ridiculous because modern Russians preach their national exceptionalism and accompany this expedition with a record amount of booming pathos. It's as if a person put on a Superman suit and ran to save the world with the music of Hans Zimmer, but suddenly tripped over a curb and broke nose.

[Oleg 🇰🇿🤝🇺🇦]

...and so it begins

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1694025355848298977

Better late than never.

[Woody]

Came back to see what's up. 3 months and Robotyne has still not fallen.

[Woody]

Kliischiivka, Andriivka, Berkhivka, Bakhmut...

[jaichind]

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/daenemark-niederlande-kampfjet-f-16-lieferung-krieg-russland-ukraine-100.html

"What the F-16 jets mean for Ukraine"

ZDF argues that F-16 will help but Russian air superiority will remain and F-16 should not be viewed as a game changer.

[jaichind]

https://m.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/us-beamte-kritisieren-gegenoffensive-ukraine-muss-die-anti-russen-taktik-aendern-85141292.bildMobile.html

"Ukraine must change anti-Russian tactics!"

Bild reports that USA officials demand Ukraine change tactics and concentrate their forces in one attack vesus dispersing their offensive power.

[jaichind]

http://www.1prime.biz/news/_Putin_Russian_budget_to_have_surplus_in_July%E2%80%93September/0/%7B57389966-A52D-4107-BBFD-F2A09C3EBC8F%7D.uif

"Putin: Russian budget to have surplus in July–September"

Putin claims Russia will run a budget surplus in q3 2023 and keep the 2023 budget deficit at the planned 2% vs something like 3.3% that most outside expects. I am skeptical but Purin will have a lot more inside information to make thia claim.