Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I think people forget about the geography of Taiwan..a successful amphibious invasion (which I highly doubt China has the appetite for) is next to impossible. Strait of Taiwan is 180km wide, that's a lot of time in the ocean as sitting ducks, Taiwanese F-16's would eat.

Even then their economies are too interwoven for there to be a hot war. China views Taiwan as a breakaway province who made an incorrect decision, but that's still their fam.

it's like the drunk uncle in your family, you know they're lame, you feel ashamed, but you love 'em the same

I agree. China doesn't want a war with Taiwan. But the fact that we are sitting in their backyard telling them "hands off " shows the reach of our power and the limits of theirs.

As long as the US is calling the shots in their backyard, they can't be respected as a superpower and they know this. Which is why they are trying to increase their influence, not militarily but in other ways, similar to what the US does.

We have military might but we have influence over Europe not because of the power of our might, but the might of our power.

We don't have to force ppl to want to be next to us. They WANT to be close to us, because they want to be in the fold.

 

[Zime]

Spotify and Reddit are down. Did Russia take them down?

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Putin has already said a week ago that a world with no russia = no world

backing a rabid animal into a corner will only have that animal come at you with everything they have... nukes included... if he goes down, he's gonna want to take everyone with him

But who is trying to create a world with no Russia?

We only want him to fall back out of Ukraine. He can pull his military back within russian borders tomorrow and we will stop applying as much pressure. No one wants Russia off the board.

As I said earlier in this thread, if Putin pulled out, people would start doing business again with Russia the next day. That was of course earlier in the conflict before they started attacking Ukrainian civilians but I still think it somewhat holds true.

They would be taxed for what they did in Ukraine, have to pay reparations but they would eventually be accepted back into the fold (with new Russian leadership more than likely).

But again, no one is trying to destroy Russia.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Spotify and Reddit are down. Did Russia take them down?

Reddit ain't down for me.

 

[Good Guy Guevara]

the Germans are all in right now and have been arming Ukraine with anti tank munitions.
i don't think they will have a problem with this.

as for where the pilots take off from?
probably Western Ukraine....orrrrrrrrr, if NATO wants to get super spicy they can let Ukrainian pilots take off from NATO soil

and i think the pilots know how to fly the planes as is

Just because both countries fly the same airframe doesn’t mean the Ukrainian pilots can just hop in and fly off to battle. The weapons systems alone are different and require time to learn and train on.

They can fly from Ukraine but the Russians will just crater the runways and bomb the hangars and fuel depots for any airfield that’s been left untouched. Letting Ukrainian pilots takeoff from NATO airbases makes NATO an active participant in the war and the Russians will view that as a declaration of war against them. They will cut off the NG and oil to Europe which would throw the continent into chaos. It’s almost a guarantee they would use tactical nukes to defend themselves because they cannot beat NATO on their own.

 

[Leasy]

Spotify and Reddit are down. Did Russia take them down?

Admit you in Russia brehs..... You a paid troll breh

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Reddit ain't down for me.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Spotify and Reddit are down. Did Russia take them down?

We really got Russian agents in here

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Go tell this guy and whoever agrees with him go to kill themselves for real. Ain't nobody looking for that.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Guess Poland is all in.

Poland really put their country front and center because they know what is on the line

All of the EU and NATO lookin at russia like “oh these nikkas are food, all those years pump fakin like they were OGs and come to find out these clowns some pussies” They ain’t scared of them mofos no more

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Which is why they are trying to increase their influence, not militarily but in other ways, similar to what the US does.

Great post. Jumping off, they're going to struggle with that. They're a monoculture within an authoritarian government framework.

The reason that the United States has so much influence is that we can export culture all day, every day. Creators make what they want, it gets hot here, other people want in on it.

Black Americans have a worldwide influence that is far, far beyond our numbers because we influence so much of American culture, and it gets exported, as one example.

China doesn't have that and can't get it because they're suppressing their minorities, they're basically influencing a very specific idea of Chinese art, and no one gives a fukk about the CCP's ideas of art. That's why all these Confucian schools they're setting up in Africa aren't getting traction and why Belt and Road works much better. They can entrap poorer countries economically, but they have almost ZERO cultural soft power. You can't be a true world power with ZERO cultural soft power.

They should be ashamed that a tiny country on the tip of a peninsula like South Korea has exponentially more soft power than they do. Even though South Korea is basically monocultural, they have a free market of ideas and can therefore import culture from other places, put their own spin on it, and then export it back out.

To bring it back to Russia, this is one of the reasons the USSR failed, among many. You can't have an authoritarian state with rigid controls on art and culture that makes friends. No one is out here watching Russian soap operas and feeling kinship with the Russian people as a result.

One of the major reasons that the U.S. is a super-power is because we're multicultural and export all the aspects of our different cultures to other people for entertainment. That's why people want to visit here. That's why people get mad about shyt that we get mad about. Again, Black Americans had black folks in multiple OTHER countries protesting after George Floyd was murdered because we have been able to influence others through cultural exports.

Anyway, this is way off-topic, but I enjoyed your post and wanted to run with that part of it a bit.

 

[88m3]

Russia sending even worse armor now

 

[Leasy]

Great post. Jumping off, they're going to struggle with that. They're a monoculture within an authoritarian government framework.

The reason that the United States has so much influence is that we can export culture all day, every day. Creators make what they want, it gets hot here, other people want in on it.

Black Americans have a worldwide influence that is far, far beyond our numbers because we influence so much of American culture, and it gets exported, as one example.

China doesn't have that and can't get it because they're suppressing their minorities, they're basically influencing a very specific idea of Chinese art, and no one gives a fukk about the CCP's ideas of art. That's why all these Confucian schools they're setting up in Africa aren't getting traction and why Belt and Road works much better. They can entrap poorer countries economically, but they have almost ZERO cultural soft power. You can't be a true world power with ZERO cultural soft power.

They should be ashamed that a tiny country on the tip of a peninsula like South Korea has exponentially more soft power than they do. Even though South Korea is basically monocultural, they have a free market of ideas and can therefore import culture from other places, put their own spin on it, and then export it back out.

To bring it back to Russia, this is one of the reasons the USSR failed, among many. You can't have an authoritarian state with rigid controls on art and culture that makes friends. No one is out here watching Russian soap operas and feeling kinship with the Russian people as a result.

One of the major reasons that the U.S. is a super-power is because we're multicultural and export all the aspects of our different cultures to other people for entertainment. That's why people want to visit here. That's why people get mad about shyt that we get mad about. Again, Black Americans had black folks in multiple OTHER countries protesting after George Floyd was murdered because we have been able to influence others through cultural exports.

Anyway, this is way off-topic, but I enjoyed your post and wanted to run with that part of it a bit.

Impressive and correct brother

 

[The_Unchosen_One]

But who is trying to create a world with no Russia?

We only want him to fall back out of Ukraine. He can pull his military back within russian borders tomorrow and we will stop applying as much pressure. No one wants Russia off the board.

As I said earlier in this thread, if Putin pulled out, people would start doing business again with Russia the next day. That was of course earlier in the conflict before they started attacking Ukrainian civilians but I still think it somewhat holds true.

They would be taxed for what they did in Ukraine, have to pay reparations but they would eventually be accepted back into the fold (with new Russian leadership more than likely).

But again, no one is trying to destroy Russia.

That’s what we know…

but to him… we are coming to destroy him

that’s the problem with dealing with the mentally ill

 

[wingzboy]

Great post. Jumping off, they're going to struggle with that. They're a monoculture within an authoritarian government framework.

The reason that the United States has so much influence is that we can export culture all day, every day. Creators make what they want, it gets hot here, other people want in on it.

Black Americans have a worldwide influence that is far, far beyond our numbers because we influence so much of American culture, and it gets exported, as one example.

China doesn't have that and can't get it because they're suppressing their minorities, they're basically influencing a very specific idea of Chinese art, and no one gives a fukk about the CCP's ideas of art. That's why all these Confucian schools they're setting up in Africa aren't getting traction and why Belt and Road works much better. They can entrap poorer countries economically, but they have almost ZERO cultural soft power. You can't be a true world power with ZERO cultural soft power.

They should be ashamed that a tiny country on the tip of a peninsula like South Korea has exponentially more soft power than they do. Even though South Korea is basically monocultural, they have a free market of ideas and can therefore import culture from other places, put their own spin on it, and then export it back out.

To bring it back to Russia, this is one of the reasons the USSR failed, among many. You can't have an authoritarian state with rigid controls on art and culture that makes friends. No one is out here watching Russian soap operas and feeling kinship with the Russian people as a result.

One of the major reasons that the U.S. is a super-power is because we're multicultural and export all the aspects of our different cultures to other people for entertainment. That's why people want to visit here. That's why people get mad about shyt that we get mad about. Again, Black Americans had black folks in multiple OTHER countries protesting after George Floyd was murdered because we have been able to influence others through cultural exports.

Anyway, this is way off-topic, but I enjoyed your post and wanted to run with that part of it a bit.

What’s your educational stats? You a smart nikka