Ukraine, Russia, and the West

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 9:49am

engineer that blew up the bridge apparently died. major props and respect to ukranian heroes. no matter how this goes

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:09am

damn

https://mobile.twitter.com/RALee85/status/1497148012858073091

https://mobile.twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1497144743553224704

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:14am

turkish uavs doing some damage

https://mobile.twitter.com/clashreport/status/1497147563929006081

Jalfrezi · February 25, 2022, 10:16am

We all do. Like we all want to believe his successor will be an improvement.

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:22am

i’m not ready to start calling anything but VSU are doing an amazing job. what a bunch of badasses.

Defense Ministry is putting out instructions for Molotov Cocktails. maybe they should update the name to Lavrov cocktails.

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:24am

every currently democratic country transitioned from authoritarian at some point

Jalfrezi · February 25, 2022, 10:30am

I was thinking more of the responsibility of having the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

Rugby · February 25, 2022, 10:32am

From the Atlantic article up thread.

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:33am

getting a bit tired to translate. just going to leave it here.

the gist is that those who are captured are not equipped as well as ukranians. russian army turned out to be shit. many are not wearing body armor, knee pads, goggles. they were sent in as the first wave like lambs.

StrontiumDog · February 25, 2022, 10:35am

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:42am

very interesting.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JanesINTEL/status/1497156448060649489

turkey doesn’t have nukes, so russia has no reason justification to use them. but they cannot strike turkey territory and not force nato in.

has vladimir thought this through?

VoteForSocialists · February 25, 2022, 10:46am

VSU calls on kyiv residents to block and resist invading forces. desperation or is this something that mobilized civilians can relatively safely do?

also russian bank cards are cutoff from apple pay and google pay.

superuberbob · February 25, 2022, 10:53am

So this is like Battle of Stalingrad when the Soviets sent out unarmed or poorly armed “soldiers” to fight the Nazis as what amounted to be human meat shields.

I imagine that this will not be the only wave of soldiers Russia will send in.