re: The Official Thread: Russia invades Ukraine

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The Russian military is not your friend.

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While true, the left in this country aren't my friends either.

In fact, the left has more in common with Russia than I do, but you know........

the deep state is loving that this Ukraine/Russia Broadway production is dividing conservatives



they absolutely fricking love it


and don't forget about the pathological lying Biden administration being the first to broach the subject of "crisis actors"


since we know the most evil players accuse others of what they are guilty of


have fun siding with this pathological liar Zelensky cucks

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I've never voted for a liberal candidate, at any level, in my life. frick Russia

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Really, you sound like a leftist Reddit NPC rn lol

This is an interesting article discussing the shift to nato based weapon systems that Ukraine is starting to undertake. It points out the irony of the situation where Russia, in attempting to keep Ukraine from joining NATO, is going to end up pushing it into NATO.

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Ukraine has few options. At some point, the West will have no more Russian-sourced weaponry to offer. As the war continues, Ukraine must adopt Western weapon systems, making the transfer in midst a pitched and desperate fight.

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The present challenge is for donor states to maximize the time available before Ukraine’s older systems deteriorate, run out of ammunition, or consume some other key consumable. Take artillery—something that Ukraine has employed to good effect on the battlefield. Right now, Ukraine is largely dependent on Russian-derived howitzers and Russian-sized 152mm or 122mm ammunition. If more ammunition is unavailable, once existing ammunition stockpiles run out, Ukraine’s artillery—and all the support networks Ukraine has developed to keep those guns in the fight—will be useless.

To keep fighting, Ukraine’s artillery forces must move to Western-standard 155mm guns and adopt the West’s sophisticated artillery targeting systems. That’s not something that can be done overnight.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2022/04/18/ukraines-shift-to-a-new-nato-arsenal-is-unprecedented-and-inevitable/?sh=6862f4b174bc

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but nobody thought he couldn't capture Kiev in over a month with no direct help of Ukraine from the west.

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The west has been directly helping though

Brandon treating Zelensky like his favorite stripper atm

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Diversion scheme? Now that is some grade A spin on how terrible Russia's military has performed in this war.


Scott Ritter has been saying for two months that with 200k troops, they don't have the manpower for urban combat in Kiev and have to pin forces away with feints in order to eventually concentrate on Donbas. He had a good twitter thread on this. Call him a Russia apologist or pedo, I don't care. A handful of other intel and military analysts have been saying the same things on places like Grayzone. We'll see who is right in about a month.

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The Russian attack on Kiev wasn't a diversion, it wasn't a feint. The Russians got stopped dead in their tracks and had to completely withdraw from the North. The East is the only place left that they can make any advances.

This makes absolutely no sense militarily.

The Russians initially attacked across a huge front, they sent their top airborne units to capture an airbase on the outskirts of Kyiv and tried to do several thunder runs into Kyiv. But it was a diversion?

If it was a diversion, what was it's point? It's not like they made any real gains ANYWHERE after the 1st few days of the war. The diversion didn't allow their attacks to be successful anywhere else. Now they are taking what's left of the troops from the diversion and relocating them to attack elsewhere but the new attack is dependent on them having the troops from the diversion.

This diversion narrative you Putin bots are clinging to is just stupid, it makes you look dumber than a rock. Everyone sees it for what it is, an excuse for how shitty Russia's military is.

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This makes absolutely no sense militarily. The Russians initially attacked across a huge front, they sent their top airborne units to capture an airbase on the outskirts of Kyiv and tried to do several thunder runs into Kyiv. But it was a diversion? If it was a diversion, what was it's point? It's not like they made any real gains ANYWHERE after the 1st few days of the war. The diversion didn't allow their attacks to be successful anywhere else. Now they are taking what's left of the troops from the diversion and relocating them to attack elsewhere but the new attack is dependent on them having the troops from the diversion. This diversion narrative you Putin bots are clinging to is just stupid, it makes you look dumber than a rock. Everyone sees it for what it is, an excuse for how shitty Russia's military is.

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I look at it from three facts, I don’t care what RT or CNN fvcking says.

1). Russia never provided enough manpower & resources to capture and retain Kiev

2). If Russia wanted to, they could blow Kiev in to the next Stone Age with their missiles and Air Force…why didn’t they do capturing Kiev is so important to them?

3). Capturing Kiev would’ve resulted in more casualties and loss of resources for Ukraine to just move its government to Lviv(almost 400 miles away from Kiev) and potentially rally NATO closer to them because the Front would now be on EU borders. In addition, Russia would be in even more hostile territory than where it is now. Keeping the war East makes the most logical sense, this isn’t Putin cock sucking, this is common sense.