Russia on brink of ... NOPE! Russia INVADES Ukraine!

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Ajay

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it ironically works better then Twitters normal site these days.
I tried it, but it was wicked slow. I'll give it another shot. Also, I have to used Firefox (used to be my goto browser, but it eats twice as much memory as Chrome with the same pages loaded).
 

Dave_5k

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Everyone: Twitter sucks and it's horrible

Also Everyone: *Keeps Using Twitter*
Meta/Threads isn't a real option for moving Ukraine news, as most of Europe is blocked from access, and legacy of reliable Ukraine war news accounts are still mostly only on Twitter ~ nothing even close to it still for quantity/quality and timely war news

(edit: although Musk has pretty much gutted all use of comments, by his mass demoting most quality sources and promoting paid trolls/bots)
 
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kage69

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with the unreliability of twitter and not being able to follow threads without being logged in, nitter is nice alternative , even better with this addon


in related news i saw this, Russian troops must not like these either

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Not recent, that was like almost a year ago. I posted it here in this thread, it's what drew whyitso and some of the other Putin sucking cykas to this thread.

I hope you didn't re jinx us! Thread is way better without the dictator fellatio by genocide fans
 
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kage69

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See, the great thing about mercenaries, especially ones that have been disavowed by their employer, is that you don't have to be diplomatic with them - you can just kill them.

C'mon Poland, let GROM do a little cleaning up around the neighborhood one night. These defintely not Russian troops pose a threat via infiltration and sabotage, can't have that.
 

Muse

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A lot of them do--and they all fled Russia back in February-March, 2022. The country is so completely fucked for generations right now.

Imagine that the only people left in Russia are complete MAGAT types of illiterate despot-worshiping sociopaths. That's all they're left with. And Russia is like 1000 times poorer than some of the worst of our own MAGAT territory in the US.
Well, then, the only way to stop them is to bleed them to death... militarily/economically. Wars aren't cheap, especially when you are the invader. It's not like Ukrainians aren't committed to slaughtering the Russian bear. And the west IS supplying the weapons. Russia can't keep this up indefinitely, doesn't matter what Russians think.
 
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Leeea

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See, the great thing about mercenaries, especially ones that have been disavowed by their employer, is that you don't have to be diplomatic with them - you can just kill them.

The Geneva Conventions declare that mercenaries are not recognized as legitimate combatants and do not have to be granted the same legal protections as captured service personnel of the armed forces.
Bullet to the back of the head.
 

zinfamous

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Bullet to the back of the head.

Would Putin even do anything if Poland mosies over the border into Belarus and just wipes out all of Wagner? It's not like they are attacking Russia and it sure as shit isn't going to convince him that responding by attacking NATO is a great idea.

I do think it's time to start calling his bluffs.
 
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fskimospy

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Would Putin even do anything if Poland mosies over the border into Belarus and just wipes out all of Wagner? It's not like they are attacking Russia and it sure as shit isn't going to convince him that responding by attacking NATO is a great idea.

I do think it's time to start calling his bluffs.
I don't think the answer to unprovoked aggression by Russia is unprovoked aggression by Poland.

If Wagner sets one foot into Poland absolutely, wipe them out. I don't think a preemptive strike is warranted because 1) it's sort of what we're against in Ukraine and 2) Wagner is not a meaningful threat to Poland. The US Army and Air Force would bomb them back to the stone age.
 

K1052

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Nothing majorly new in this piece but confirmation that the US is buying 155mm from Bulgaria who is retooling a lot of production for it as well as sourcing shells from South Korea and potentially Japan.

Probably should be noted US production did hit the 24k per month mark up from 14k ahead of schedule. It likely won't take until 2025 to reach the 90k per month mark.

US faces hurdles in ramping up munitions supplies for Ukraine war effort​


https://www.ft.com/content/b2c89d88-3e71-4787-920f-5385236aa684

“I personally sit in my office every morning and spend 30 minutes on 155[mm] ammunition,” US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said last month at the Aspen Security Forum.

Officials said the Biden administration had been aware for months that Ukraine’s high burn-rate of munitions would begin to stretch supplies and had stepped up efforts to get the shells to the front line as the war entered a crucial phase. European supplies have also become stretched, and the Financial Times reported last week that Ukraine had begun firing rockets made in North Korea.

“We are actively working as rapidly as possible to build out the production lines for 155,” Sullivan said. “We do not want to lose a day and there is not a tool, authority or dollar that we’re going to set on the sidelines to not being able to do that.” The US has already struck deals with Bulgaria and South Korea to supply the shells to Ukraine and is in talks with Japan to do the same, officials said.

But a US Army effort to increase monthly output of the crucial munitions to 90,000 will take until 2025, highlighting the challenge of ramping up such production quickly, particularly when the US had not previously been focused on it.
 
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Meghan54

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Nothing majorly new in this piece but confirmation that the US is buying 155mm from Bulgaria who is retooling a lot of production for it as well as sourcing shells from South Korea and potentially Japan.

Probably should be noted US production did hit the 24k per month mark up from 14k ahead of schedule. It likely won't take until 2025 to reach the 90k per month mark.

US faces hurdles in ramping up munitions supplies for Ukraine war effort​


https://www.ft.com/content/b2c89d88-3e71-4787-920f-5385236aa684

And a major unintended consequence of the protracted nature of Russia’s invasion was to expose how sketchy our munitions supply chain actually was…

If Russia had indeed completed its three-day timeframe for “conquering” Ukraine, the now-glaring resupply issues of a protracted war would still be unseen.

Thx, Russia, for pointing that out for us. 🤪
 

K1052

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And a major unintended consequence of the protracted nature of Russia’s invasion was to expose how sketchy our munitions supply chain actually was…

If Russia had indeed completed its three-day timeframe for “conquering” Ukraine, the now-glaring resupply issues of a protracted war would still be unseen.

Thx, Russia, for pointing that out for us. 🤪

The Chinese are probably not very happy this has drawn our attention to our standoff range stockpile and the clear need for it to be a lot larger than it is currently.

Pentagon doing multi-year missile procurement and paying industry to open new lines for all sorts of stuff is not a welcome development for them.
 
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zinfamous

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I don't think the answer to unprovoked aggression by Russia is unprovoked aggression by Poland.

If Wagner sets one foot into Poland absolutely, wipe them out. I don't think a preemptive strike is warranted because 1) it's sort of what we're against in Ukraine and 2) Wagner is not a meaningful threat to Poland. The US Army and Air Force would bomb them back to the stone age.

Sure,

But I'm starting to accept that Russia probably won't respond how we want to assume they will. I mean, mercs are mercs. It doesn't matter what happens to them. Poland or NATO or US just says fuck it, wipes them out in Belarus, ....I mean, maybe Russians really don't give a fuck? They just think, well, they were losers.

I'm only being half ridiculous...
 
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