Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)

[Outlaw]

As long as this war doesn’t end with a nuclear holocaust, this may be the last war between two first world nations. This war will show that war is officially bad for business and is obsolete in the modern world.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

What I don't get about that is Ukraine is also white.

Doesn't matter because Russia was supposed to show their might so then they can come around saying "that's how WE used to be "

That's the whole narrative they want to push.

 

[MoneyTron]

Putin wasn't completely lying when he said ukraine got nazis in their ranks

Doesn’t everyone? Its still a bullshyt pretext to an invasion.

 

[yseJ]

A Russian Ruble is now almost equal as a Penny.

almost ? its less than a penny already

 

[Pressure]

this attitude is exactly why so few Americans learn from history fwiw

Nah, trying to contaminate every discussion is more harmful.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[Grand Conde]

I do not know if the comparison makes sense but in the 2003 Iraq War, Baghdad fell a month into the invasion and a after a week of battle in the city.

This may be a good point of reference to assess the curent progress of Russia's invasion, knowing that :
1. Ukraine's infantry is better than the Iraqis
2. Russia's technological superiority to Ukraine is relatively lower to US/UK superiority to Iraq
3. Iraq's army was outnumbering the invader by 4 to 1 (including reserve) which is more than 3 to 1 of Ukraine.
4. Weather for this war is winter/snow though it's only a week earlier.
5. Way less indirect ally support for Iraq than Ukraine has

There may be more divergences obviously but on the scale of operations and overall strategy, i see plenty of similarities and it seems to be the closest war we can compare to :
- Kurds being the local support like Belarus and Donbass/Lougansk separatists are
- Pincer strategy from 3 fronts
- Air superiority by the invader (Russia seems to be less efficient though)

With that in mind, I think it's probably too early to judge Russia's advance as the time frame to take Kiev should probably be a couple of weeks at least. We are having an orgy of information every hour since it's started but realistically most are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and we may not yet get the proper bigger picture. I think next week, we'll probably see clearer.

You are completely ignoring the international context between both situations - it has only been a few days but Putin is looking hopelessly isolated.

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

171 roubles per dollar? Ethiopian money worth more than they shyt sheesh….

Unless I’m misunderstanding what this means but it looks like one dollar is worth 171 rubles which is super ugly

If I'm correct as of now a Philippine peso & Thai baht is worth more. Those euro cacs can't even travel to third world countries and ball out.

 

[MushroomX]

Might be because of this.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

oh Jesus Christ



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[ill_will82]

When or if the Russian invasion of Ukraine is resolved, Putin needs to be bought up on war crimes. This nikka is crazy trying to act like a modern day Hitler.

I just finished watching CBS News and countries around the world aren't playing w/Russia either. Any Russian flights have been blocked from airspace and UPS & FedEx has blocked any packages going to Russia. This a$$hole Putin done had his country banks blocked and internet service crippled with a shyt ton of sanctions.

 

[Robbie3000]

Another angle to the picture of Putin and his generals.

Is he immune compromised? He seems to be taking extreme (hilariously even)Covid precautions.