Ukraine, Russia, and the West

I wonder how much intel Ukraine gets from the US/NATO. Satellite images? Real-time sat feeds? Signal intelligence?

All of the above.
Started months ago.

I wouldn’t be surprised if western special ops are in Ukraine right now.

They’re not as careful about their soldiers as the West, historically they have used their soldiers as shields for other soldiers. The key to this invasion is speed. They launched airstrikes and now want boots on the ground, airstrikes can’t take over a capital or even neutralize a resistance.

Just the dumbest shit ever. Can we make Trump president for just 24 hours so president business deals can broker a peace deal? That would be amazing! How could anyone not support that! Has Trump spoken to Putin and asked Russia pretty please to lay down their weapons? Could work?

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Remember the end of the Kosovo war when the Serbian army drove a ton of intact vehicles out of Kosovo after weeks of US bombing.

Looks like there’s gonna be a huge protest at Wenceslas Square. Gonna be at least a few thousand people there.

I’d go if I wasn’t planning on a vacation to Italy in a week. Don’t wanna risk getting covid before that.

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You and Joy Behar both.

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https://twitter.com/TheSimpsons/status/1497366451837190155?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1497366451837190155|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2F18hnzysb1elcs%2FLiveUpdate_499f7d08-969e-11ec-8988-2a8d4bca66c2%2F0

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https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497373443754397698?s=20&t=X-NQHkE41PF5r6WyvD-WdQ

A series of explosions can be seen on the livestream of Kyiv (lower right).

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1497368313873133570?s=20&t=wj8VmVg_p0K-4GGrc7rtmA

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you can’t believe what fell

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https://twitter.com/ignis_fatum/status/1497382718291816449?t=DDWSBJBF3K0WZM_Cx3jRMA&s=19

Hopefully they asked Kazakhstan for help because this is going poorly for Russia, not because they have plans beyond Ukraine.

Could also be as a deterrence against NATO involvement in Ukraine.

That’s weird for a different reason. Among other things, why does some Ukranian have Samurai armor?

Here’s the original tweet. His signature indicates he’s Ukraine’s resident ambassador in Japan.
He likely received the armor as a diplomatic gift.

https://twitter.com/KorsunskySergiy/status/1493377406811643904

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Sure, but not every country has an equal likelihood of having citizens of Japanese ancestry.

Japanese-Americans are very common. Japanese-Chadians would be weird (not in a bad way, just uncommon). But I suppose there is probably one out there somewhere.

Japanese-Ukranians are probably somewhere in between, but still uncommon, imo.

they likely didn’t deploy with parachutes. they were supposed to land and establish positions

Nope:

https://twitter.com/a_tsuwabuki/status/1493659461923520512

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