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Interesting thread and I do think the far right factor is probably similar to Eastern Europe and thus overblown by media imo. I do wonder if the poor performance of far right parties electorally is more down to Ukraine’s demographics than anything about the populace. I suspect Ukraine is a lot more homogenous, for example, there are very few refugees of the Syrian civil war residing in Ukraine (or at least having spent significant transit times) compared to other eastern European countries.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1511672385753255940?t=RLC_at4OaG4wqQine3rDAg&s=19
If those switchblade are coming over, they seem like a big problem for rear forces and perhaps cities within 30 km of the border.
https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1512239303291768832
https://twitter.com/SimonOstrovsky/status/1512305557830516739
This guy mark galeotti is a serious expert. It’s worth tracking down other stuff from him.
Here’s his podcast. 80 episodes starting in 2020. https://inmoscowsshadows.buzzsprout.com/
Today Russia blew up a railway station in Kramatorsk. It was full of civilians fleeing the coming offensive. Dozens are photographed dead, surrounded by their suitcases.
This was Kramatorsk yesterday. You can imagine what it is like today.
Warning
dead bodies
The rocket attack on the train station. Someone, most likely the Russians is my guess, had spray painted ‘for the children’ on the rocket motor
https://mobile.twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1512372628123754498
Another view of the train attack today.
The west must never remove sanctions from Russia for another 50 years.
I want to see bread lines.
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We should impose brutal sanctions on Russia, much like the Treaty of Versailles did on Germany, to make sure that they will never ever bounce back and inflict harm on Europe again!
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Just salt the earth? Give them a revenge holodomor I say!
They can grow their own potatoes in the ground.
Just a quick reminder to the thread, same as using Kyiv and not Kiev, please refer to it as Donbas and not the Donbas.
This sounds like a Fox News talking point.
Considering how dreadful this Russian army is, not even capable of taking more than 50km of distance inside Ukraine, I am not concerned with them waking up 20 years later from their bread lines to do anything.
Full embargo of russian oil and gas is going to put Russia at a 20-25% GDP drop which = great depression bread lines.
What are we waiting for.
To be clear, I am certainly on the side of sanctioning Russia. But it’s probably a good idea to do so tactically and strategically, not emotionally. Because the stakes are high.
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