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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)
- Thread starter vegster
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Mr Genocide's efforts to subjugate Ukraine have been well documented by the BBC recently, and have made such depressing reading. The news coming out of Ukraine today has really lifted my spirits. I'm nearly 70, and turning cartwheels isn't a serious option, but I'm tempted to give it my best shot. Slava Ukraini !
GT49er
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Quote from the replies to that:
"But of you had done that then your war criminals wouldn’t have been able to kill as many civilians."
Yes they would - they'd have come back and been a danger to your own civilians. Rape; robbery; pillaging - there's a reason many of them were in prison in the first place, and now they've tasted blood - killing and raping without repercussions.
Hmmm......bit of a problem, eh, Vlad old boy?
Quite interesting... Vance's cousin fought in Ukraine for three years. Here's some feedback from him.
GT49er
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- Aug 24, 2020
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Looking at that figure of 988560 casualties, with an average day rate of 1200, I calculate that Russia will hit the 1 million mark some time on Wednesday 11 June.
- Aug 24, 2020
- 8,832
Maybe that's why JD Vance seems angry all the time.
- Aug 24, 2020
- 8,832
Very interesting - thanks. Russia might as well give up now.
To prove I was paying attention, I managed to keep up to the point where the motherboard can produce counter rotation (opposite corner propellers of the quad copter rotate in the same direction, but opposing direction to adjacent corners, to stabilse flight).
Unfortunately, my attention span peaked early, and the video soon left me far behind.
fly high
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- Aug 24, 2020
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What we haven't covered - or speculated on - is the internal investigation into what went wrong in Russia.
Will it be the military who are found guilty? Will it be the FSB? They both will be keen to deflect responsibility and blame each other.
Oh, and where is Putin? He has been very quiet. Absent in fact.
Here is Jason Jay Smart...
Will it be the military who are found guilty? Will it be the FSB? They both will be keen to deflect responsibility and blame each other.
Oh, and where is Putin? He has been very quiet. Absent in fact.
Here is Jason Jay Smart...
I haven't watched it yet
...nah, seriously, my technical design molecules bailed out about the same time.
Very interesting thanks. Two takes that I hadn't thought of before:
- the FSB and General Military will be blaming each other, with much possible fallout
- this greatly restricts Russia's ability to project power in the Pacific/Asia... China will have noticed (and probably applauded Ukraine)
fly high
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Will the infighting go towards the fall of Putin? Will it destroy the Russian Federation? Maybe not for now but soon. When will Putin be flying to a 'safe' country for refuge?
- Aug 24, 2020
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No, I hadn't thought of it either. According to JJS, the animosity between the military and the FSB goes back decades. As he says, the FSB will be keen to expose the corruption in the military, and the military will be keen to point out operation Spiders web was carried out under the noses of the FSB. I suspect this is why Zelensky was keen to share that his operatives had an office right next to the FSB in one region.
Is it too early to get the popcorn in?
- Aug 24, 2020
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If I knew the answers to your questions, I would be sharing them on here, quicker than a rat up a drainpipe!
Having said that, I do think the fallout from operation spider's web is only just beginning. Much of it will be hidden from the public, but there will be glimpses, hints, suggestions of what is going on beneath the surface. It could be a goldmine of entertainment.
Any idea why the operation was called 'Spider's web'? It's not just the nature and scale of what Ukraine has done is it? The implication is that there is much more to come, together with a denouement.
