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[EviLore]

Here’s the footage:

 

[Pagusas]

Here’s the footage:

that melts my heart… but also makes me worried, will these people be arrested when they come back?

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Another two good analysis.


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Putin's revised victory should be he comes to terms with losing everything then kills himself freeing Russia of the war & sanctions.
Ukraine gets Crimea and all their land back. Russia pays reparations and earns forgiveness through putting their house in order and honest dealings.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

Kremlin vet says aides would kill Putin before sharing ‘bad news,’ now Putin orders house arrests​

msnbc.com/the-be...

Ukraine Is Doubling Its Army, While Russia Scrapes The Barrel For Reinforcements​

forbes.com/sites/...

 

[Nobody_Important]

Kremlin vet says aides would kill Putin before sharing ‘bad news,’ now Putin orders house arrests​

msnbc.com/the-be...

They would would they?


Interesting.

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

They would would they?


Interesting.

I bet it would be like this

aide: ....We ......are .....losing......... the .......war, sir.....

Putina: You say so?

Aide: No...... sir....it is the last report...

Putina: You know...bang

Aide......

Putina: If anyone brings me any fake news, expect the same....

And this is why they decide it is him or them....but now they are in-home arrest XD

 

[FunkMiller]

From 2005. Starts on Putin from 06:50 and onwards.

The man was a genius, and his death was a cultural tragedy. One of the great humanists.

Sadly we've been left with his moronic, doctrine fuelled, idiot brother.

 

[EviLore]

Americans and other foreigners at the front as private citizens in the foreign legion.

 

[Mokus]

This is what Putin fears. The russian cosmonauts in Kazakhstan have access to international press and they see what is really happening in Ukraine.

 

[Nobody_Important]

That right there is what bravery looks like. They know this is the end of their career and very likely their freedom if Putin's gestapo gets their hands on them. They did it anyway and that's all it takes. If a person takes a stand enough times you eventually have an army.


Hell yeah.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Yeah but what are the cosmonauts gonna do, drop a rock on him from up there?

 

[TransTrender]

Yeah but what are the cosmonauts gonna do, drop a rock on him from up there?

Bug Plasma for all we know

 

[Thaedolus]

This made me laugh because of the intended joke, the unintentional humor of the typo, and that if the Russians just nuked this airfield, I’ll regret not having 2 million SPF sunblock for a period of time before the void…

 

[Gp1]

Here’s the footage:

Definitely not a coincidence.
How long this guys will stay in the ISS?

 

[Nobody_Important]

This made me laugh because of the intended joke, the unintentional humor of the typo, and that if the Russians just nuked this airfield, I’ll regret not having 2 million SPF sunblock for a period of time before the void…

Jokes aside I have been inwardly cringing at the Olympus Mons pile of cash that the US has wasted to try and "keep up with the armies of the world". This conflict has exposed just how toothless some of the "major powers" are in reality despite reputations and posturing. Germany and Russia in particular have come out looking ridiculous from this.


Meanwhile the previously unknown to half the world country of Ukraine is almost singlehandedly holding off what was previously believed to be one of the greatest militaries on the planet. Putin could have flexed his muscles and claimed the "independent" territories of Ukraine and the world would not have done shit about it beyond a few sanctions. Certainly not anything like they have experienced so far. It would have been a slap on the wrist. Zelenskyy would have raised hell and denounced the west for their lack of action, but the world would have kept on spinning and the governments of the world would still believe in the mystique and the rumors of the Russian military. Their power and their ruthlessness. Their rugged resolve and reliable equipment.


Instead he chose to fuck his country into the ground by trying to commit to a wholesale invasion of what turned out to be a ruggedly brutal country. Exposing all of his armies shortcomings and problems. Putin showed that his previously feared and respected military to be seemingly made up of poorly trained and poorly equipped conscripts. Their vehicles getting stuck in the mud, being abandoned by the side of the road after running out of gas, and getting decimated by infantry because they are not properly protecting them. In one sweeping move of abject stupidity he exposed that all of the talk of their numbers and their fierceness was just a carefully crafted myth to hold the world at bay. destroying a carefully crafted image that goes back to Stalin himself. All because he thought he could roll over Ukraine in a weekend.


I mean look at this shit. Their soldiers don't even have optics on their rifles. Some of them have fucking Cold War era gear. Some even have fucking WW2 guns!!!!!

 

[FunkMiller]

Jokes aside I have been inwardly cringing at the Olympus Mons pile of cash that the US has wasted to try and "keep up with the armies of the world". This conflict has exposed just how toothless some of the "major powers" are in reality despite reputations and posturing. Germany and Russia in particular have come out looking ridiculous from this.


Meanwhile the previously unknown to half the world country of Ukraine is almost singlehandedly holding off what was previously believed to be one of the greatest militaries on the planet. Putin could have flexed his muscles and claimed the "independent" territories of Ukraine and the world would not have done shit about it beyond a few sanctions. Certainly not anything like they have experienced so far. It would have been a slap on the wrist. Zelenskyy would have raised hell and denounced the west for their lack of action, but the world would have kept on spinning and the governments of the world would still believe in the mystique and the rumors of the Russian military. Their power and their ruthlessness. Their rugged resolve and reliable equipment.


Instead he chose to fuck his country into the ground by trying to commit to a wholesale invasion of what turned out to be a ruggedly brutal country. Exposing all of his armies shortcomings and problems. Putin showed that his previously feared and respected military to be seemingly made up of poorly trained and poorly equipped conscripts. Their vehicles getting stuck in the mud, being abandoned by the side of the road after running out of gas, and getting decimated by infantry because they are not properly protecting them. In one sweeping move of abject stupidity he exposed that all of the talk of their numbers and their fierceness was just a carefully crafted myth to hold the world at bay. destroying a carefully crafted image that goes back to Stalin himself. All because he thought he could roll over Ukraine in a weekend.


I mean look at this shit. Their soldiers don't even have optics on their rifles. Some of them have fucking Cold War era gear. Some even have fucking WW2 guns!!!!!

US/Vietnam = Russia/Ukraine.

Hubris will get you every time.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Definitely not a coincidence.

Thanks, we wouldn't figure it out.

 

[Banjo64]

Russia, the Daily Mail and other news sites are saying Russia have used a hypersonic missile to flatten a munitions factory.

Overkill, and basically a show of strength to the West.

Was carrying a conventional payload but is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

 

[FunkMiller]

Russia, the Daily Mail and other news sites are saying Russia have used a hypersonic missile to flatten a munitions factory.

Overkill, and basically a show of strength to the West.

Was carrying a conventional payload but is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Hmmmm.

I’ll wait until independent confirmation on this one. Not saying it’s false, but I believe nothing coming out of the Russian government… for obvious reasons.

Also… ‘unstoppable by western defences’ eh? I mean, they wouldn’t lie about that, would they?

 

[IDKFA]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

 

[EviLore]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

Reportedly there was a 500 ruble incentive to attend.

 

[jonnyp]

Reportedly there was a 500 ruble incentive to attend.

Don't know if it's any better that they can be bought for 4 euros

 

[Mokus]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

If Putin would have had 10% approval ratings in a 10 million city like Moscow, still would have been enough to fill that stadium several times. And not to mention there are reports about people from the crowd being "instructed" to go to the event.

 

[M1chl]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

Such a wasted opportunity for some active shooter on the scene...

 

[M1chl]

Russia, the Daily Mail and other news sites are saying Russia have used a hypersonic missile to flatten a munitions factory.

Overkill, and basically a show of strength to the West.

Was carrying a conventional payload but is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

I mean could be anything, but I saw this on my feed. Certainly it has some glow, which apparently happens when you fly fast, but I don't know how high projectile is, because it looks kind of slow, but if it's flying from space or something then, damn...

Oh wow, the boom is not when it hit the ground, but sonic boom, alright, so it seems like it's legit.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Reportedly there was a 500 ruble incentive to attend.

The man can't even use fear like a proper dictator to fill empty seats, has to resort to pay for that

 

[QSD]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

I mean, rallies in North Korea are also very well attended I gather

 

[chromhound]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

Should have dropped a bomb in the stadium

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Ukraine might have to invade to defend itself. Start shelling Moscow.

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.
Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

That's the impression they wanted to give after raising the subject of the fifth column in an address the day before.

 

[Tams]

Russia, the Daily Mail and other news sites are saying Russia have used a hypersonic missile to flatten a munitions factory.

Overkill, and basically a show of strength to the West.

Was carrying a conventional payload but is capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

All that's going to do if true, is increase European, North American, Commonwealth, and Japanese defence budgets even higher.

 

[Tams]

From 2005. Starts on Putin from 06:50 and onwards.

I would wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have to say about all this, but that would be a pointless exercise as it's very clear what he would have thought.

I bet he would have been very disappointed, yet completely unsurprised, that it came to this. The worst part is that many foreign policy experts will have attended one or more of his lectures. And yet, they don't seem to have really taken home the lessons he was trying to teach them.

China might well be digging themselves a hole here. Even if some of this guy's comments could be still as Chinese nationalism, he's at least on the right side this time.

 

[ManaByte]

Reportedly there was a 500 ruble incentive to attend.

 

[RJMacready73]

Jokes aside I have been inwardly cringing at the Olympus Mons pile of cash that the US has wasted to try and "keep up with the armies of the world". This conflict has exposed just how toothless some of the "major powers" are in reality despite reputations and posturing. Germany and Russia in particular have come out looking ridiculous from this.


Meanwhile the previously unknown to half the world country of Ukraine is almost singlehandedly holding off what was previously believed to be one of the greatest militaries on the planet. Putin could have flexed his muscles and claimed the "independent" territories of Ukraine and the world would not have done shit about it beyond a few sanctions. Certainly not anything like they have experienced so far. It would have been a slap on the wrist. Zelenskyy would have raised hell and denounced the west for their lack of action, but the world would have kept on spinning and the governments of the world would still believe in the mystique and the rumors of the Russian military. Their power and their ruthlessness. Their rugged resolve and reliable equipment.


Instead he chose to fuck his country into the ground by trying to commit to a wholesale invasion of what turned out to be a ruggedly brutal country. Exposing all of his armies shortcomings and problems. Putin showed that his previously feared and respected military to be seemingly made up of poorly trained and poorly equipped conscripts. Their vehicles getting stuck in the mud, being abandoned by the side of the road after running out of gas, and getting decimated by infantry because they are not properly protecting them. In one sweeping move of abject stupidity he exposed that all of the talk of their numbers and their fierceness was just a carefully crafted myth to hold the world at bay. destroying a carefully crafted image that goes back to Stalin himself. All because he thought he could roll over Ukraine in a weekend.


I mean look at this shit. Their soldiers don't even have optics on their rifles. Some of them have fucking Cold War era gear. Some even have fucking WW2 guns!!!!!

Couldn't have said it better, this illegal war really has shown the world that Russia is a 3rd world country (about to get even worse) with an utterly laughable and embarrassing military, their entire command structure looks positively Dad's Army, NATO would roll right over them so badly it would actually be cruel to watch.

How can that fucker possibly stay in power after this disastrous campaign, you'd think someone would put one in the back of his head, if not a palace coup why not a military one as the balloon seems intent on sending more of Russia's young to the front line to face modern western weaponry inbound from NATO countries, heck does he really think all those incoming drones are being piloted by local troops and not by experienced pilots in the US and UK...

 

[RJMacready73]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

I dare say a lot of state workers where bused in and let's face it who wouldn't turn down a few rubles and a day off slaving in some steel refinery for a wee concert in a stadium lots have never been in

 

[Raven117]

The rally in Moscow yesterday where Putin gave a speech really shattered my impression of the Russian people's support for this war. Tens of thousands of pro-Putin supporters inside the stadium and tens of thousands of more packed outside.

Guess support for Putin is still higher than I imagined, which is worrying because I was hoping support for Putin would hit rock bottom and the people would rise up against him.

Don't if this has been posted already, but if anybody hasn't seen this mass brainwashing, here it is.

Oh, I’d take it easy…. For now. It’s like showing a trump rally and saying we are all like that. (For better or worse, we know we aren’t).

Yes, some people in Russia are for this. Others aren’t. And most are being fed propaganda almost every waking minute

 

[funkygunther]

Oh, I’d take it easy…. For now. It’s like showing a trump rally and saying we are all like that. (For better or worse, we know we aren’t).

Yes, some people in Russia are for this. Others aren’t. And most are being fed propaganda almost every waking minute

I think a more fitting parallel would be the George Bush rallies before the 2004 election




At this time USA had been three years fucking up Afghanistan, and one year into its invasion of Iraq

It would have been the same in the UK, except we don't really do stadium rallies like that here...I'm sure Blair would have loved that though

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Honours conferred at the request of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

 

[Darius87]

 

[Ballthyrm]

I don't know if it has been posted before but this long twitter thread gives a very good overview of why the Russian army is fucked.



The short end answer is that . it's by design because Putin doesn't any general to have any idea, the consequence are a shitty army.

 

[Chaplain]

Edited: Removing link to avoid further triggering.

 

[Bojji]

Looks like video game, but here you can't quick save.

 

[funkygunther]

"Real America's Voice" doing Putin's work for him

 

[Wildebeest]

Estimates in the Lancet say that Russia was actually one of the very worst hit countries by Covid, with more than one million actual excess deaths, and who knows how many more left with some serious long term medical issues. Even before Covid and this illegal war, Russia had pretty bad demographic problems. Are they really ready for a war of attrition against an army supported by most of the world? Seems too fantastic to believe.

 

[Bojji]

I loved the part about thousand year reich and actual Nazis from WW2

Polish people remember what barbaric acts Ukrainian nationalists did back in the day but we know that current Ukraine population had nothing to do with it.

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

Providing an example of "truth bombs" that you agree with?

 

[Chaplain]

Providing an example of "truth bombs" that you agree with?

I think the problem right now is like the 2020 election, COVID, and now Ukraine, everything is being politized and viewed with these lenses. Media outlets are not disclosing their biases and what narratives they are trying to sell to the public. Therefore, I only know what is going on in Ukraine by what the media publishes. Meaning, I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle (facts that all media outlets agree upon).

 

[RAÏSanÏa]

I think the problem right now is like the 2020 election, COVID, and now Ukraine, everything is being politized and viewed with these lenses. Media outlets are not disclosing their biases and what narratives they are trying to sell to the public. Therefore, I only know what is going on in Ukraine by what the media publishes. Meaning, I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle (facts that all media outlets agree upon).

Both sider conspiracy theorist. gothcha.

 

[Wildebeest]

I don't know if it has been posted before but this long twitter thread gives a very good overview of why the Russian army is fucked.



The short end answer is that . it's by design because Putin doesn't any general to have any idea, the consequence are a shitty army.

Putin has nightmares about Zhukov so keeps the military weak and disrespected.

 

[funkygunther]

I think the problem right now is like the 2020 election, COVID, and now Ukraine, everything is being politized and viewed with these lenses. Media outlets are not disclosing their biases and what narratives they are trying to sell to the public. Therefore, I only know what is going on in Ukraine by what the media publishes. Meaning, I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle (facts that all media outlets agree upon).

the problem right now being your American media's politization tells me everything about why you keep posting your facile culture war Twitter follows

 

[MidGenRefresh]