Russia Invades Ukraine

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496906522080731139

Besides authoritarians and galaxy brained troll weirdos*, I don't see this war being popular with anyone. Silver lining is I feel like this is the beginning of the end for Putin.

And tbh, I think last night's events turned a lot of the far left brained weirdos I was talking about earlier ITT. I think there was/is definitely a "I didn't think he was actually going to go through with it!" mindset.

 

[AA484]

Russia's stocks down 40% since the invasion.

 

[tekcop]

I said this before, but outside of like Czechia and Slovakia, you'd be hard pressed to find two populations less interested in going to war against one another than Russia and Ukraine.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496951819641278467

She looks like Brooke Hogan if she fell into a pool of radioactive waste.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496951819641278467

She looks like Brooke Hogan if she fell into a pool of radioactive waste.

...I've heard some real bad takes already, but thus one is just so far outside of reality that I can't imagine someone who could dress themselves and speak coherently would have it.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496877541772062727

Gal Gadot exhales.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1496973447137746955

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Definitely scary stuff. It seems like the world just fell apart starting in 2020. So any chance this doesn't lead to World War III and Putin halts at Ukraine/Moldova instead of invading the Baltics/Poland?

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

The likelihood of Putin invading a NATO country is virtually nil. Putin doesn't want to go to war with NATO and he knows NATO would be backed into going to war if he did that. He's going to have enough problems holding whatever territory he manages to take long term.

 

[snuffbox]

I don't know if I want to give Putin credit for that much logic.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Yeah, I agree with CWM that I don't *think* Putin will invade a NATO country but I didn't think he'd launch an invasion at this scale of Ukraine so Idk. Regardless of how this war turns out, it's his last stand and it's obvious he's going out throwing haymakers.

I guess what will be interesting over the coming months is what China's involvement will be. Are they willing to risk their potential #1 world superpower status on the line to back Putin in a. fight against NATO? Probably not but maybe?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

He's already threatening nuclear usage and it's not empty. He's the kind of guy who if he doesn't get what he wants will try to take everything and everyone he possibly can down with him. He's an idiot and his military is not good so he won't be successful, which means...yea. hopefully he can be contained before he does too much damage, I have a feeling he will end up nuking someone though.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497189957395488778

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Russia threatens ‘military and political consequences’ if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO

Russia threatened “military and political consequences” against Finland and Sweden on Friday if they attempted to join NATO.Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned against othe…

thehill.com

Russia's threatening Sweden and Finland now. Seriously, what a bunch of dicks!

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

So much for stopping at Ukraine. He's really intent on starting World War III, isn't he?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Putin pissed off the wrong avant-garde film director.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Ontario directs LCBO to remove all Russian-made products from shelves

The Ontario government has directed the LCBO to remove all products produced in Russia from store shelves.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

we really are hitting them everywhere, unified response

 

[909]

Russia is trying to send in planes of paratroopers that are getting shot down because they don’t control the air. Very smart guy this Putin guy. 100+ dead from one crash.

 

[Dandy]

Sawbuck says Trump praises the move as strategic and smart as a whip.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

if they use up all their missiles shooting down planes they won't have any left!

 

[snuffbox]

Already looking Afghanistan-y.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497378325190393859

Putin, you loser.

 

[909]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497406017688113152

holy fuck

 

[geniusMoment]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497217276742979591

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I take casualty figures with a grain of salt generally but its very clear this is not going well for Russia. The people of Russia are being very vocal in speaking out which was not expected at all. Ukrainians are uniting in opposition. It's day 3 and all major cities are still free which again was not expected.

 

[AA484]

I take casualty figures with a grain of salt generally but its very clear this is not going well for Russia. The people of Russia are being very vocal in speaking out which was not expected at all. Ukrainians are uniting in opposition. It's day 3 and all major cities are still free which again was not expected.

Armor and air losses are a little less fudgible than manpower losses but, yeah, Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight so far.

 

[Dandy]

I haven’t been able to read about it a ton but it seems like their ability to keep the aerial attacks virtually out of the equation is allowing them to just destroy the fuck out of the invaders on the ground. Not sure how long that can last because of sheer numbers or if missiles get launched from afar, but this has been a surprising outcome in the early days.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think motivation has to play into it too. A country defending its democracy with everything its got versus a bunch of poor Russian conscripts that have been sitting in the cold for weeks.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Armor and air losses are a little less fudgible than manpower losses but, yeah, Ukraine is putting up a hell of a fight so far.

agreed but there ahve been several times so far where they initially identified them as russian losses and then realized it was Ukrainian etc. Also a lot of footage out there from other conflicts.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497428725478133760