Official Russia vs Ukraine War Thread

If you were more intelligent you'd understand that Putin doesn't care if they're corrupt so long as they're loyal to Russia.

Alas, you're a moron.

AITR? Why are they installing anti air defenses on Moscow buildings? What’s the fear?

Is this part of the “5 days, tops” plan? To get your capital attacked?

Personally, I don’t mind if 100 million Russians die trying to occupy Ukraine. The more the merrier, right?

Well, GDP down in 2022 and projected to fall further in 2023. MOEX down 50% from its highs, and 40% or so in the last year. Russia’s national wealth fund lost more than 15% of its value in December. And, there’s more inflation in Russia than elsewhere in Europe or the U.S. So, yeah, Russia isn’t having a great year. Not to forget the 100,000 or so Russians that have died, the hundreds of thousands more that are permanently wounded, the millions that have left Russia, the thousands of companies that have left Russia, etc… but, keep quoting the price of the Ruble!

Attacking Moscow is about the absolute dumbest thing the Ukrainians could do. The fact that normal Russians want no part of the war is one the best things going for them.

They are not freezing or without power in Russia.

it might not be the Ukrainians Putin is worried about, champ.

Could be a sign that Putin is worried about mutiny in the RU armed forces, or from Wagner.

That may be. But it doesn't mean that Russia isn't being weakened by inflation, using reserves to prop up the Ruble, slowing economic growth, casualties, diminution of arms and ammunition with limited sources for replacement. The fact that many Ukrainians may be uncomfortable now isn't the point. The near term aim of Western aid isn't to make Ukraine's people more comfortable than Russia's people. It is to keep Ukraine from being overrun by an aggressor, and to weaken the aggressor. At this point, it is bearing fruit. I make no predictions about eventual outcome.

You don't even know what's happening in America and you think you have Russia figured out?

Okay, sport.

The same is true for the majority of Ukraine.

Unless your point is that Russians as a**holes.

universal healthcare is cheaper and has better outcomes across the board. Your demands for for-profit deathcare are why covid proved america is really a third world country with a fake Gucci belt.

No country with universal healthcare has ever abandoned their single-payer scheme and switched over to americas deathcare. Here's why:

thehill.com

112 million Americans struggle to pay for health care: survey

Adam Barnes

Story at a glance The data was collected by Gallup and West Health through the Healthcare Affordability Index and Healthcare Value Index, which gathered the opinions of 6,600 U.S. Adults. The Healt…

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"Normal" Russians, to the extent there is such a group, would be a small minority of Russians.

The large majority of Russians worship Putin and his criminal gang with messianic intensity, and are all in favor of the Ukraine invasion and occupation. I know you love them, but normal Americans properly view Russians as inbred, drunken serfs with negative human value.

"How does billions sent to Ukraine help average americans in america?"

answers thus far:

~ it helps CEO's, board members, and share holders of MIC companies

~ it saves on storage costs for military equipment (which then need to be completely repurchased to replenish stocks)

In the end, average americans lose. They are not beating Russia (or Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia....)

This is why you got liberated, Azov

unicef.org

Families suffer seven years without water supply in eastern Ukraine

It has been seven years since conflict first broke out in eastern Ukraine and made access to drinking water a struggle for millions.

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You forgot entertainment value. You’re also ignoring that it’s old equipment that will be replaced regardless. I’m not surprised you can’t present an honest representation of that, on account of the fact that you’re a f*cking liar.

The Kremlin likely deployed the air defense systems in Moscow to generate inflammatory images that portray the war as more threatening to the Russian public. It is unlikely, however, that the Kremlin believes that Ukraine would target Moscow and it likely engaged in this ostentatious play to support intensifying information operations to prepare the Russian domestic information space for a protracted war in Ukraine and further sacrifices. This demonstration is also likely a part of the emerging information operation to contextualize the war in Ukraine in the Russian mythos of the Great Patriotic War, which is likely meant to increase Russian support for the war effort and further mobilization by absurdly portraying Ukraine as threatening Moscow and the rest of the Russian heartland in a way to the way Nazi Germany did during its invasion of the Soviet Union.

117,000 Russians got liberated, bruh!

It's no surprise that you CNN/Fox/MSNBC sheeple don't know why america even started this war. Ukraine is being used by america to destabilize Europe's energy security to further its own gas sales to Europe. Goal #1.

Now that america's gas is being sold to Europe, what's left is Goal #2: selling weapons to average americans who are on the hook for the billions in donations to a place they can't find on the map for people they could care less about.

Privatize the profits, socialize the risk. This is the american dream for most average americans.

Nobody in america wins except the american business elite of MIC and gas companies and their paid off goons in washington.

Average americans are the losers in the end, left holding the bag.

Biden vows US will ‘end’ Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Ukraine invaded by Russia

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Biden vows US will ‘end’ Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Ukraine invaded by Russia

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz indicated he would block operation of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine.

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Nord Stream pipeline carrying Russian gas was blown up in an intentional 'gross sabotage,' Sweden says

news.yahoo.com

Nord Stream pipeline carrying Russian gas was blown up in an intentional 'gross sabotage,' Sweden says

Multiple leaks were detected in the pipelines that brought gas from Russia to Europe in September, prompting allegations of sabotage.

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Why did Polish MEP post “Thank you USA” along with image of damaged Nord Stream pipeline?

euroweeklynews.com

Why did Polish MEP post "Thank you USA" along with image of damaged Nord Stream pipeline?

Chris King

"Thank you USA" posted a Polish MEP on social media, accompanied by an image of the damaged Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea

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45,000 americans get liberated every year, Azov. That's millions of dead americans over decades, because of trillions sent to (insert fake war for-profit).

You really got us americans good, Azov!!

news.harvard.edu

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

Harvard Gazette

Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public ...

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