The Russia - Ukraine Conflict

Max B

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An informative article on the war so far:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-military.html


Some more important snippets from the article:


“We’re only in the opening days of this, and Putin has a lot of cards to play,’’ said Douglas Lute, a former U.S. lieutenant general and ambassador to NATO. “It’s too early to be triumphalist, and there are a lot of Russian capabilities not employed yet.”

Russia has seemed markedly restrained in its use of force and even clumsy in the early days, said Mathieu Boulègue, an expert in Russian warfare at Chatham House. “They were paying the price of their own rhetoric, that this was a defensive war against fascists and neo-Nazis,’’ he said. But now “we have an irritated Kremlin, and we haven’t seen yet what Russia has in store.”

In their effort to take Kyiv quickly, based on “terribly flawed assumptions about Ukraine,” the Russians withheld much of their combat power and capabilities and “got a bloody nose in the early days of the war,” said Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at CNA, a defense research institute.
 

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A lot of dudes tie their emotions to Russia, the last bastion of (white) masculinity and to keep hoes in line. Crazy, deranged shyt.

Facts. Its called "Mother Russia" for a reason. Russians dont even use that term, cac foreigners use it because the reasons you listed. BTW, fukk Ukraine too, let them cacs fight, they racist too
 

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I’m hearing Ukrainians forces got destroyed in Kherson airport and now they are having negotiations for their surrender. The whole city of kyiv is surrounded and it’s only matter of time zelensky surrenders.

No one is able to figure out how they kept marching to Kyiv...We were seeing nothing but images of those Azov dudes going all in, nothing from the Chechen's/Russians side. :yeshrug:
 

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Russia has a decent sized group of allies tho, nowhere near as united as NATO and the EU states. Team Russia is:

China
India
Belarus
Kazakhstan and the other 'stans
Armenia
Syria
Pakistan
UAE
Cuba
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Myanmar

Turkey and Hungary dont really count since theyre EU/NATO allied


Grouping India and Pakistan in the same bloc? :heh:
 
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