Ukraine, Russia, and the West

intercepted radio during a bombing raid.

cliffs: nothing earth shattering. pilots keep referring to dropping bombs as “work” and thanking each other for doing it.

if you’re gonna post stuff in russian you could cliff notes translate it for the rest of us first

I guess we’ll find out. I assume this turns into a long protracted guerrilla war after Kiev falls.

i’ll try, but i can’t type that fast. it was kinda “routine” communications between pilots. i didn’t pick up any problems for russians.

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https://twitter.com/ChillStableGuy/status/1496901444435255304

I don’t know guys, I think it’s going to be canceled

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What did he do this time?

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This is potentially really important. The Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine are in a pretty tenuous position with troops coming in from Crimea and also Sumy/Kharkiv, so if the northern border holds out for a while, that hopefully gives the eastern forces time to reploy to a more defensible position.

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Decent-sized protest in Prague in support of Ukraine

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Oh no, a votic bloc of dozens

One of the Rusher experts, McFaul maybe, was saying that exactly this is the case, i.e., that the U.S. can’t overstep its bounds because we’re bigly outflanked on THE CYBER, a formidable attack vector for Putin. The only thing I could picture at that moment was an 80-year-old animatronic puppet being cheered on by his dinosaur team of corporate whores as they gift more trillions to “defense” than was even requested and how fucking pathetic that is.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1496899346490609669?s=20&t=sn2gKlnKEWeDNxUa1fPruw

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Yeah I was wondering what Ukraine will do defensively, assuming they can’t hold out across the country for an extended period of time.

Obviously I/We know shit about modern military tactics, but what are y’all’s thoughts on what they will do? Fade into an insurgency? Retreat West and hope that the threat of hitting NATO members acts as a deterrent?

He wants [someone] to ask the owners and advertisers why they’re platforming RWNJs who stan for Russia? What is that supposed to accomplish?

Telegram NEXTA posted a 4 minute video with a captured russian soldier, a member of 74 brigade, which apparently entered from belarus.

They chose to shut down a bunch of their nuclear plants a while back and buy more natural gas from Russia instead. Unsure, how much other power generation they have, but Merkel is smart so I’m sure they do have backup plans.

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https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1496904933014216711

Wait, I thought they were just doing some peacekeeping mission? :exploding_head:

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i think holding out for a week would allow enough time for eu to get their act together and close at least some of ukrainian airspace for russian warplanes.

Seems rather hopeful that the west would be willing to do that

got a link?

it might have been the 74th мотострелковая brigade.

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