Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

To be honest, I’m using Russians blowing up in ancient T-62s for entertainment. Saw a video the other day of a Russian tank where the turret must have flown 500 feet in the air after getting hit with an ATGM. It. was. amazing.

How about we show solidarity by properly equiping the Ukrainian who willingly endure these conditions to fight for their freedom?

Looks like Russia is selling oil to India at a huge discount. Another day, another way that Russia is failing.

Tick tock. 84 days and counting motherf*cker.

How about we pull our heads out of our azzes and show solidarity to the people of donbas who've been bombed by Ukrainian Nazis since 2014? What about their freedom?

^this is what happens when you get your information from picking out patterns from Bidens soiled diaper

Are you saying that the patterns in Biden's soiled diaper are more accurate than Kremlin-fed trolls like you?

Lemme guess, you just booked a Black Sea cruise on the Moskva?

What stategic reason would we have to provide material support to Russian proxy fighters especially given that Russia was already doing so?

It's ok that you're pro-Russia. It's insulting that you guys keep pretending you're anything else. Just own it already.

Fact: there are more Nazis in Russia and the Russian military than in Ukraine.

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This poster, already legendary for being useless and spouting idiot predictions on everything (2600), also posted the following in this thread.

March 18, 2022, page 6 - "the Ukrainian military is already strategically defeated"

March 19, 2022, page 12 - "The Ukrainian military is strategically defeated already and is being methodically dismantled. Man-portable missiles can't stop or significantly delay this."

March 31, 2022, page 70 - "Meanwhile the war is progressing just as I've said, mainly because I'm the only poster who knows how to find accurate information about it.

He posted even more idiotic stuff in another Russia thread (which is now unfortunately deleted) including that all the murdered Ukrainian civilians laying on the streets of Bucha (outside Kiev) that were videoed after the Russians retreated and fled the scene, were really just Ukrainian and NATO actors posing as dead civilians for a false flag American media operation intended to gather sympathy for Ukraine. Yes, he really is that batshift nuts.

He also posted in the previous thread, prior to the Russian invasion, that Russia would never attack Ukraine because Putin said they would not. According to Wigins, all media speculation that Russia would invade Ukraine was just American "psy-ops" propaganda. After Russia did invade Ukraine, he said Russia would only invade Donbas because Putin said so. Bad Wigins has shown a great belief that everything Putin says is true, while criticizing others for not consulting the undisclosed "primary" sources that he consults.

I don't have to "think" - I know: Russia is a Nuclear Super Power -5977 nuclear warheads. That's a lot of thermonuclear firepower that no nation wants to mess with:

thebulletin.org

Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does Russia have in 2022?

Susan D'Agostino

This Nuclear Notebook examines Russia’s nuclear arsenal, which includes a stockpile of approximately 4,477 warheads. Of these, about 1,588 strategic warheads are deployed on ballistic missiles and at heavy bomber bases, while...

Link:thebulletin.org/premium/2022-02/nuclea...

IDK how many more soldiers Putin is willing to sacrifice - does anyone? But I doubt he's going to order a cease fire, withdrawal all forces out of Ukraine, apologize to the Russia people for his colossal failure & then kindly turn himself in to the Ukrainian president for prosecution of war crimes. Lol

At this year's Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference, some members of the panel feel it's very possible Putin will resort to escalation with the usage of nuclear weapons in Ukraine since he won't accept defeat & he's backed into a corner. They also feel there's no possibility of a diplomatic settlement. This is a volatile situation. Desperate men take desperate actions.

carnegieendowment.org

Can Russia’s War in Ukraine End Without Nuclear Weapons?

Michael Mazarr, Patrick Porter, Kori Schake, Polina Sinovets

“For Putin, this war is a game of a chicken.”

Link:carnegieendowment.org/2022/11/03/can-r...

One of Putin's field commanders, Alexander Khodakovsky, (who's actually Ukrainian), states the war is unwinnable conventionally & suggests a nuclear only option.

google.com

Russian commander suggests nukes as "only" option to win war

Alexander Khodakovsky suggested Moscow could launch a nuclear strike if NATO crosses "certain boundaries" in the Ukraine war.

Link:www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/...

Right. Putin could go nuclear. Nobody saying that there's a zero percent chance of that happening. But, since roughly 2% of all missiles Russia has launched in the last 10 months have landed in RUSSIA, the question Putin needs to be asking is, "Is Russia will to take a chance with nuking itself?" Remember, Russia is being pushed out of Ukraine by NATO hand-me-downs. Does Russia really want to escalate? My guess is no, but Putin is a f*cking lunatic, so it's hard to predict what he'll do.

Another point to remember, Russian troops have very poor NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) training and equipment (especially LNR and DNR forces and recently mobilized troops). Russia, for the most part, doesn't have the ability to operate on a contaminated battlefield. Again, nobody can rule out Russia using a weapon of mass destruction in Ukraine, but I think the likelihood is low, with the exception of deploying some sort of WMD as the last Russian troops march back into Russia (and then I expect a chemical attack, rather than nuclear) as a final terrorist act.

I suspect Putin will off himself shortly after that.

According to your source, roughly 1500 of this warheads are retired (and while largely intact, they're not going to be launched any time soon).

In fact, the US has more nuclear warheads deployed than Russia and, if Russian maintenance of nuclear warheads is anywhere near as poor as their maintenance of tanks, only 10% of the 3000 warheads they have in reserve will be functional.

The Russian nuclear force is just as much a paper tiger as its conventional forces. And, US / NATO air defenses are vastly superior to anything Russia possess - as evidenced by the fact that Ukraine was able to fly drones 400+ km across Russia to strike the Engels air base, while more than 80% of Russian missiles are shot down in Ukraine.

Important, in-depth reporting. Essential reading for anyone who cares what's happening.

A free press that reports on reality, no matter how good or bad, isn't a nice luxury. It's essential to our survival. Continue to believe Russian propaganda and fringe websites at your own peril.

nytimes.com

Putin’s War: The Inside Story of a Catastrophe

By Michael Schwirtz, Anton Troianovski, Yousur Al-Hlou, Masha Froliak, Adam Entous and Thomas Gibbons-Neff

Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.

Link:www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16...

This one is also a good read, and came out in yesterday's Washington Post. I'll echo what my 2c wrote: Continue to believe Russian propaganda and fringe websites at your own peril.

washingtonpost.com

‘Wiped out’: War in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade

The bloody fate of Russia's 200th Motor Rifle Brigade in Ukraine is emblematic of Vladimir Putin’s derailed invasion plans.

Link:www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/1...

Excellent article^, excerpt below:

They never had a chance.
Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th
Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working
walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been
factory workers and truck drivers, watching an endless showcase of
supposed Russian military victories at home on state television before
being drafted in September. One medic was a former barista who had never
had any medical training.
Now, they were piled onto the tops of overcrowded armored vehicles,
lumbering through fallow autumn fields with Kalashnikov rifles from half
a century ago and virtually nothing to eat, they said. Russia had been
at war most of the year, yet its army seemed less prepared than ever. In
interviews, members of the brigade said some of them had barely fired a
gun before and described having almost no bullets anyway, let alone air
cover or artillery. But it didn’t frighten them too much, they said.
They would never see combat, their commanders had promised.
Only when the shells began crashing around them, ripping their comrades
to pieces, did they realize how badly they had been duped.
Flung to the ground, a drafted Russian soldier named Mikhail recalled
opening his eyes to a shock: the shredded bodies of his comrades
littering the field. Shrapnel had sliced open his belly, too. Desperate
to escape, he said, he crawled to a thicket of trees and tried to dig a
ditch with his hands.
Of the 60 members of his platoon near the eastern Ukrainian town of
Pavlivka that day in late October, about 40 were killed, said Mikhail,
speaking by phone from a military hospital outside Moscow. Only eight,
he said, escaped serious injury.
“This isn’t war,” Mikhail said, struggling to speak through heavy,
liquid breaths. “It’s the destruction of the Russian people by their own
commanders.”

Let me guess you booked a room on the 90th floor of the world trade center?

Do you even know what you're talking about? I'd think its hard to think when all you're doing is swallowing 24/7 flash bomb headline CNN shyt