When did Chechens become noted as elite soldiers fighting for Russia? Seems like I missed a pretty big shift in geopolitics somewhere along the way.
allegedly Odessa is waiting for occupiers
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propaganda overtime. and they never lost against the russians with smaller regiments. so the mythos fit.
Flee the US? No, you wouldn’t have time. Flee a population center? Possibly, depending heavily on location, available roads, traffic, etc.
He has spoken out that he doesn’t want war and wants it to end but he can’t go further having family in russia still
he doesn’t want them to die ya know
it’s already past the turning point. russia lost the invasion. repelling them back may take some time, but itnwill happen. UA will retake donetsk and luhansk.
RU will try to slow down with talks. if i were zelensky i’d start talking about welcoming crimeans back in a couple of days. fuck yourself russian ship! never been more ashamed in my life. and i watched the whole US/RUS game in Sochi.
Churchillian in every sense.
I understand why they’d be considered elite. I don’t understand why they are (or are at least believed to be) loyal to Russia’s cause. If I were a Chechen sent to war in Ukraine I can’t imagine I’d be a particularly motivated soldier, regardless of what I thought of the Ukrainians.
They are autonomous and have their own demagogue leader. They’re being offered like 10 years wages to take out a Ukranian tank. They’re mercenaries, like the Cossacks.
Ah, ok. Rubles talk, I guess.
Can you elaborate? I don’t know a ton about him before this week. Before this week I knew his last name, that he was much more aligned with the West than with Russia, that he was a celebrity of some sort before he ran, and of course about the phone calls with Trump.
You personally have nothing to be ashamed of, and to the extent you feel shame for Putin’s evil, you can also take pride in all of the Russian people defying him by protesting this in the face of his thugs brutally arresting them. If you told me a week ago that there would be hundreds of Russians in the streets of St. Petersburg chanting, “Glory to Ukraine!” I would have told you you were crazy.
I dunno if I’d want to be getting paid in rubles if I were them…
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We have yet to see molotovs being used. There is plenty of footage of Russian convoys moving freely through civilian areas. That one tank that ran out of gas where a motorist simply drove up to and offered to tow them back to Russia… the soldiers didn’t seem to be particularly worried that someone could just pull out an AK and mow them down.
I am not looking forward to see how civilians fare against trained and fully equipped soldiers. If it really comes to that there is going to be a lot of casualties.
There’s video upthread of civilians hitting two tanks with 3-4 molotovs on a narrow street.
I have only seen one that was from the 2014 riot.
Anyone know who the guy in the video is and whether the translation is accurate?
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1497660516801650693
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1497654759972655108
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1497661173231239170
Between Zelensky’s tweets and the announcements of several NATO countries, it appears that NATO countries are going to participate in this as a proxy war. They won’t send actual forces, but weapons, other aid, and we can probably safely assume intelligence support are all in play.