Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)

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This is just the Russian version of "shock and awe." Hoping to push Ukraine to negotiating table before a full on invasion. Obviously this is compelling news so everyone will be talking about how this might be WoRLD waR 3!!!

The US and EU/NATO has known this day was coming for years.

If they actually cared to prevent this from happening they would've allowed Ukraine into NATO.

Most of the messaging coming out now from the US/Europe is for public consumption. They want you guys to think that they are "shocked" and "appalled" by Putin's behavior bc that keeps your energy on Russian misbehavior/belligerence, rather than the weakness (and greed) of SUCCESSIVE US and European governments which basically rolled out a red carpet for this invasion.

If you guys really want to understand this process you should go to WaPo Columnist Jamal Khashoggi killed by Saudis in Turkey; Senators Mull Magnitsky Sanctions

Remember when Khashoggi's murder was all that everyone wanted to talk about? How it was going to fundamentally change US Saudi relationship?

Remember how the media was all up in arms about one of their own being murdered?

Remember all of the big time CEOs pulling out of the Davos Conference being held in Saudi Arabia?

But then nothing happened, the world moved on.

I said this EXACTLY one month ago (JANUARY 24).



A week later I pointed out the following:



Whatever sanctions imposed right now will end up falling on the backs of ordinary Russians, not the power structure. And that is by design. These sanctions are again for public consumption purposes. It makes people think that the US/EU is standing up to Russia bc they are only looking on the surface. When push comes to shove any sanctions that would DIRECTLY attack Putin's power base are REJECTED. Germany is REFUSING to block Russian banks from SWIFT and the UK will never go after illicit Russian money/assets.

Germany made a big fuss of not certifying Nordstream 2, but again this is a MEANINGLESS gesture. First of all the pipeline is ALREADY BUILT and the EU financed it. There is ZERO percent chance that the Germans, Brits etc are going to be OK with having spent billions of dollars to build a pipeline and just let it sit unused. Secondly, the pipeline wasn't even scheduled to be open for use until the end of the year (by which point no one will even give a fukk about Ukraine anymore). Finally the EU has been preparing for this and have already imported a ton of gas from the US to make sure any short term supply issues can be mitigated.





EXACTLY. One of the things trump did successfully was to convince the Germans to create more space between themselves and the US. In their minds why provoke the Russians (who don't pose a danger to Germany) if in 2 years the next GOP president goes back to kissing Russian ass?





Russia has been crossing so called red lines since 2007/8 with no real response.



Breh why is everything the end of the world with you lol. Now that COVID is no longer going to kill us all now it's nuclear war :mjlol:



He's going to occupy big chunk of Eastern Ukraine. With US/EU tacit approval.

Said this Monday


Then in 6 months the media and a lot of you guys will move onto concentrating fully on midterm elections.





You're right, breh. It's not Putin killing Ukrainians. It's obviously Biden. I see the light now :ohhh:
 

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This is just the Russian version of "shock and awe." Hoping to push Ukraine to negotiating table before a full on invasion. Obviously this is compelling news so everyone will be talking about how this might be WoRLD waR 3!!!

The US and EU/NATO has known this day was coming for years.

If they actually cared to prevent this from happening they would've allowed Ukraine into NATO.

Most of the messaging coming out now from the US/Europe is for public consumption. They want you guys to think that they are "shocked" and "appalled" by Putin's behavior bc that keeps your energy on Russian misbehavior/belligerence, rather than the weakness (and greed) of SUCCESSIVE US and European governments which basically rolled out a red carpet for this invasion.

If you guys really want to understand this process you should go to WaPo Columnist Jamal Khashoggi killed by Saudis in Turkey; Senators Mull Magnitsky Sanctions

Remember when Khashoggi's murder was all that everyone wanted to talk about? How it was going to fundamentally change US Saudi relationship?

Remember how the media was all up in arms about one of their own being murdered?

Remember all of the big time CEOs pulling out of the Davos Conference being held in Saudi Arabia?

But then nothing happened, the world moved on.

I said this EXACTLY one month ago (JANUARY 24).



A week later I pointed out the following:



Whatever sanctions imposed right now will end up falling on the backs of ordinary Russians, not the power structure. And that is by design. These sanctions are again for public consumption purposes. It makes people think that the US/EU is standing up to Russia bc they are only looking on the surface. When push comes to shove any sanctions that would DIRECTLY attack Putin's power base are REJECTED. Germany is REFUSING to block Russian banks from SWIFT and the UK will never go after illicit Russian money/assets.

Germany made a big fuss of not certifying Nordstream 2, but again this is a MEANINGLESS gesture. First of all the pipeline is ALREADY BUILT and the EU financed it. There is ZERO percent chance that the Germans, Brits etc are going to be OK with having spent billions of dollars to build a pipeline and just let it sit unused. Secondly, the pipeline wasn't even scheduled to be open for use until the end of the year (by which point no one will even give a fukk about Ukraine anymore). Finally the EU has been preparing for this and have already imported a ton of gas from the US to make sure any short term supply issues can be mitigated.





EXACTLY. One of the things trump did successfully was to convince the Germans to create more space between themselves and the US. In their minds why provoke the Russians (who don't pose a danger to Germany) if in 2 years the next GOP president goes back to kissing Russian ass?





Russia has been crossing so called red lines since 2007/8 with no real response.



Breh why is everything the end of the world with you lol. Now that COVID is no longer going to kill us all now it's nuclear war :mjlol:



He's going to occupy big chunk of Eastern Ukraine. With US/EU tacit approval.

Said this Monday


Then in 6 months the media and a lot of you guys will move onto concentrating fully on midterm elections.
Why would Putin take control of western Ukraine only to give it away?
 

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