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

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Roger Wilco

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"New: A senior Defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says that the Pentagon now believes Russian forces have lobbed more than 160 missiles into Ukraine. The official adds that the missiles are being launched from a mixture of ground and naval-based platforms."

The official said that the U.S. has seen indications that additional Russian airborne troops have arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. "Our assessment is still that there's active fighting going on there," the person added."

The Defense official says that it is not entirely clear why Ukrainian communications are still functioning in the country. The person says, "We don't believe that the Russians have employed the full scope of their electronic warfare capabilities and it's not clear exactly why."

 
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nicalandia

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"New: A senior Defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says that the Pentagon now believes Russian forces have lobbed more than 160 missiles into Ukraine. The official adds that the missiles are being launched from a mixture of ground and naval-based platforms."

The official said that the U.S. has seen indications that additional Russian airborne troops have arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. "Our assessment is still that there's active fighting going on there," the person added."

The Defense official says that it is not entirely clear why Ukrainian communications are still functioning in the country. The person says, "We don't believe that the Russians have employed the full scope of their electronic warfare capabilities and it's not clear exactly why."

Thanks for doing that for us Poor Souls that don't have access to Twitter from Work
 
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K1052

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All the reports out of Kharkiv seem to indicate there is one hell of a battle going on. Hard to discern much else.
 

Jaskalas

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Conservatives I know are talking out both sides of their rear ends.

1: How dare you sanction Russia, they are gonna nuke us any minute!​
2: What a wimp Biden is, if X were President we'd steam roll over Russia.​

Seriously. Within minutes of each other. It's rather disturbing at its incoherence.
 
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nicalandia

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Conservatives I know are talking out sides of their rear ends.

1: How dare you sanction Russia, they are gonna nuke us any minute!​
2: What a wimp Biden is, if X were President we'd steam roll over Russia.​

Seriously. Within minutes of each other. It's rather disturbing at its incoherence.
I used to Watch Fox News, they truly believed that China and Not Russia represent a real thread of world peace and USA's national interest... Turns out Putin is the Megalomaniac that is just started a war in Europe and one step closer to a Nuclear Apocalypse
 

Homerboy

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All the reports out of Kharkiv seem to indicate there is one hell of a battle going on. Hard to discern much else.

There's a lot of up and back reporting on the airport at Kyiv too
Some reports saying Ukraine has taken it back from Russia, but nothing confirmed. If they've taken it back, that's a huge W for the good guys.
 

Homerboy

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Conservatives I know are talking out sides of their rear ends.

1: How dare you sanction Russia, they are gonna nuke us any minute!​
2: What a wimp Biden is, if X were President we'd steam roll over Russia.​

Seriously. Within minutes of each other. It's rather disturbing at its incoherence.

Soooo..... business as usual from the GOPers?
 

[DHT]Osiris

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I used to Watch Fox News, they truly believed that China and Not Russia represent a real thread of world peace and USA's national interest... Turns out Putin is the Megalomaniac that is just started a war in Europe and one step closer to a Nuclear Apocalypse
I think CN is still the biggest long-term threat to worldwide stability, but RU definitely hit the accelerator for the short-term winner.
 
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nicalandia

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I think CN is still the biggest long-term threat to worldwide stability, but RU definitely hit the accelerator for the short-term winner.
All China wants to do is control the World and they are slowly and surely doing it... With Russia... Armageddon is at our doorstep knocking... I rather live on a Chinese Utopia than die on a Post Apocalyptic World
 

Pens1566

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All China wants to do is control the World and they are slowly and surely doing it... With Russia... Armageddon is at our doorstep knocking... I rather live on a Chinese Utopia than die on a Post Apocalyptic World

Armed conflict with either could bring about nuclear war, but China has much more economic impact. I also think that a conflict with them is much less likely to escalate to that (nuclear) level because of said economic concerns. Russia really only has nukes to lean on. They have middling (at best) power in other spheres. And even less if you remove fossil fuels.
 

dank69

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Conservatives I know are talking out both sides of their rear ends.

1: How dare you sanction Russia, they are gonna nuke us any minute!​
2: What a wimp Biden is, if X were President we'd steam roll over Russia.​

Seriously. Within minutes of each other. It's rather disturbing at its incoherence.
OMG, really?! Conservatives attacking from both sides?! Just when I thought I saw everything!
 
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Homerboy

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some great reading on what has happened thus far and analysis
 

Roger Wilco

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All China wants to do is control the World and they are slowly and surely doing it... With Russia... Armageddon is at our doorstep knocking... I rather live on a Chinese Utopia than die on a Post Apocalyptic World

What makes you think it will be a utopia?
 

Aikouka

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All China wants to do is control the World and they are slowly and surely doing it... With Russia... Armageddon is at our doorstep knocking... I rather live on a Chinese Utopia than die on a Post Apocalyptic World

I think China and Russia want the exact same thing: a return to historical glory for their respective nation. Russia wants to be the big 800lb gorilla that they were as the USSR striking fear into the hearts of people with the looming threat of the Cold War. China looks back on their history as a huge dynasty that was beset by the west in the form of direct intervention or indirect (i.e. drugs). Everyone has been willing to let China abuse its populace to serve as a manufacturing hub for the garbage that we just throw away in a year (tops), and they've now got good amounts of capital and production capability to use as collateral to avoid western mingling.