Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)
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Nah Russia ain’t with immigration like Western Europe is. Look I get it. America is what it is. But it’s diverse as hell even if there’s a racial hierarchy.White conservatives are the “last major non open minded culturally conservative society”?
You’re forgetting about the two most populous countries on earth.
American exceptionalism works both ways, you know?
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So many people I looked up to got this wrong
Json
Superstar
Saudi don’t like Biden and Dems cause they focused on murdering that journalist and ending the Yemen war.
Iran doesn’t trust the US because Trump pulled out on the deal and could just do it again. They are going to extract a high price now.
These MFs really running straight through ukraine
That started the clock to this shyt. That’s one of the things I didn’t forget from the Kiev Beyond Thunderdome thread in 2014. It was clear that Ukraine was a red line then and is still a red line now.
People are failing to understand that Putin is exactly what we have been joking about for years. Dude is hardcore ex KGB, he is not going out like Sadam or Gaddafi, dude has literally said he will take half of the civilized world with him.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Doesn't Putin have Parkinson's or something? Dude seems like a maniac rn. If u not gonna occupy Ukraine, then what r u going to do?
Gaddafi was the shot across the bow
Saagar admits he was wrong lmao
Dillah810
Flat Girther
Putin, warning against interference, says that Russia is a ‘powerful nuclear state.’
President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered Russian troops into Ukraine but made clear his target goes beyond his neighbor to America’s “empire of lies,” and he threatened “consequences you have never faced in your history” for “anyone who tries to interfere with us.”
In a rambling speech early Thursday, full of festering historical grievances and accusations of a relentless Western plot against his country, Mr. Putin reminded the world that Russia “remains one of the most powerful nuclear states” with “a certain advantage in several cutting edge weapons.”
In effect, Mr. Putin’s speech, intended to justify the invasion, seemed to come close to threatening nuclear war.
In the context of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, Mr. Putin said, “there should be no doubt that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.”
President Biden, who said Mr. Putin “had chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” has made clear that no American troops will be sent to Ukraine. Its European allies have taken the same position.
“We have made it clear that we don’t have any plans and intention of deploying NATO troops to Ukraine,” Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary-general, said on Thursday.
Still, history has demonstrated that European wars involving a major global power can spiral out of control.
For Mr. Putin, the invasion of a country bigger than France with a population of 44 million represents a high-risk gamble, beyond any of his past military adventures. It is easy to begin wars, much harder to stop them. The West’s economic sanctions, already coming into force, will be severe, and long-term Ukrainian guerrilla resistance to any Russian presence appears certain.
Still, after his short war in Georgia in 2008, his annexation of Crimea in 2014, his orchestration in 2014 of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine that created two breakaway regions and his military intervention in Syria in 2015, Mr. Putin has clearly concluded that Russia’s readiness to use its armed forces to advance its strategic aims will go unanswered by the United States or its European allies.
“Russia wants insecurity in Europe because force is its trump card,” Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador, said. “They never wanted a new security order, whatever the European illusions. Putin decided some time ago that confrontation with the West was his best option.”
Live Updates: Russia Pushes Into Area Around Chernobyl, Ukraine Officials Say
President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered Russian troops into Ukraine but made clear his target goes beyond his neighbor to America’s “empire of lies,” and he threatened “consequences you have never faced in your history” for “anyone who tries to interfere with us.”
In a rambling speech early Thursday, full of festering historical grievances and accusations of a relentless Western plot against his country, Mr. Putin reminded the world that Russia “remains one of the most powerful nuclear states” with “a certain advantage in several cutting edge weapons.”
In effect, Mr. Putin’s speech, intended to justify the invasion, seemed to come close to threatening nuclear war.
In the context of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, Mr. Putin said, “there should be no doubt that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.”
President Biden, who said Mr. Putin “had chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering,” has made clear that no American troops will be sent to Ukraine. Its European allies have taken the same position.
“We have made it clear that we don’t have any plans and intention of deploying NATO troops to Ukraine,” Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance’s secretary-general, said on Thursday.
Still, history has demonstrated that European wars involving a major global power can spiral out of control.
For Mr. Putin, the invasion of a country bigger than France with a population of 44 million represents a high-risk gamble, beyond any of his past military adventures. It is easy to begin wars, much harder to stop them. The West’s economic sanctions, already coming into force, will be severe, and long-term Ukrainian guerrilla resistance to any Russian presence appears certain.
Still, after his short war in Georgia in 2008, his annexation of Crimea in 2014, his orchestration in 2014 of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine that created two breakaway regions and his military intervention in Syria in 2015, Mr. Putin has clearly concluded that Russia’s readiness to use its armed forces to advance its strategic aims will go unanswered by the United States or its European allies.
“Russia wants insecurity in Europe because force is its trump card,” Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador, said. “They never wanted a new security order, whatever the European illusions. Putin decided some time ago that confrontation with the West was his best option.”
Live Updates: Russia Pushes Into Area Around Chernobyl, Ukraine Officials Say