Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[Yossarian]

According to that, they've also invaded themselves.

It's definitely a country US troops have fought a war in.

 

[Spymaster]

It's definitely a country US troops have fought a war in.

Right, but it's a big chunk of red there that creates a false impression.

Your French map below it, for example, separates France.

 

[The39thStep]

I think we can add Kent to the USA map .

Apparently in 1972 according to records released by the National Archives, Air Commodore Brian Stanbridge circulated a list to UK defence chiefs, which was approved by the Cabinet Office, which contained a list of the potential targets in the UK for any Russian nuclear strike.

This included the Kent towns of Chatham, Rochester , Gillingham and Maidstone. Dover, a key port and radar station, was also listed. Dover Castle, long a strategic, fortified, base for military use dating back through centuries of conflict, was earmarked for use as a seat of government in the event of a nuclear winter. Manston Airport - then known as RAF Manston - was also on the list given its military use. The airport had, through much of the 1950s, been occupied by the US Air Force.

from kent online

 

[emanymton]

I think a map with all the countries the US has interfered or tried to interfere in over the last 247 years would just be a map of the world.

If you are going for that definition then it is true of a huge number of countries. It is the job of diplomats and spys to do just that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

According to that, they've also invaded themselves.

None-more perfidious

 

[DaveCinzano]

I think we can add Kent to the USA map

Did Kent painfully dump you when you were an impressionable wide-eyed teenager new to love or something?

 

[Pickman's model]

I think most refer to countries they've invaded or fought in.

Take WW2 out of the equation and half would likely disappear.

take ww2 out of the equation and the past 84 years would be very different

 

[StoneRoad]

How unlike Russia

apart from during WW2 the USSR, as it was then, were not actual allies - unlike the yanks, and their interference & level of influence was often of the "Reds under the Bed" aka largely imaginary by the right wingers.

 

[The39thStep]

Did Kent painfully dump you when you were an impressionable wide-eyed teenager new to love or something?

Nope , there was a girl who lived in Yarm though .

 

[Cid]

Did Kent painfully dump you when you were an impressionable wide-eyed teenager new to love or something?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

He certainly does look like a massive Kent doesn't he.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Moldova, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Estonia, Kyrgistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya and Dagestan, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan ...

Transnistria,abkhazia are defacto russia outposts

 

[sleaterkinney]

Didn’t the US try and attack Whitehaven during the War of independence, but stopped off in the pub instead?

John Paul Jones - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[StoneRoad]

Didn’t the US try and attack Whitehaven during the War of independence, but stopped off in the pub instead?

John Paul Jones - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Yes ! there's some monuments / replica guns etc and an ex-pub named after him.
But the local council don't really exploit the local history / tourist potential.
Actually, JPJ was born not that far away from Whitehaven.


O&S - spiked par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

 

[The39thStep]

Didn’t the US try and attack Whitehaven during the War of independence, but stopped off in the pub instead?

John Paul Jones - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Meanwhileatthebar - " but the temptation to stop for a quick drink led to a further delay"

 

[Sue]

Yes ! there's some monuments / replica guns etc and an ex-pub named after him.
But the local council don't really exploit the local history / tourist potential.
Actually, JPJ was born not that far away from Whitehaven.


O&S - spiked par StoneRoad2013, on ipernity

Ahem, other side of the border...

 

[WouldBe]

I think we can add Kent to the USA map .



from kent online

Going by that the US have also invaded Lakenheath (Suffolk/ Norfolk) and don't they also occupy Fylingdales in N Yorkshire.?

 

[StoneRoad]

Ahem, other side of the border...

I know, but in global terms, it's just next door - if across some wet stuff.
[been to the cottage in question myself, a few years back]

 

[Fez909]

Hmmm ?

 

[_Russ_]

Therefore, we commit to collectively pursuing delivery of an unprecedented set of donations including main battle tanks

Collectively pursuing............... yea fuck actually doing it

 

[A380]

I think we can add Kent to the USA map ...

One invasion we can all get behind.

 

[A380]

Didn’t the US try and attack Whitehaven during the War of independence, but stopped off in the pub instead?

John Paul Jones - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

1812

 

[ska invita]

found this interesting
" US now assesses that Wagner has about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that the company has recruited from prisons."

 

[maomao]

found this interesting
" US now assesses that Wagner has about 50,000 personnel fighting in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that the company has recruited from prisons."

That would be getting on for 10% of their total prison population (nearly 440,000 at the beginning of 2022 (Russian Federation | World Prison Brief).

 

[DaveCinzano]

That would be getting on for 10% of their total prison population (nearly 440,000 at the beginning of 2022 (Russian Federation | World Prison Brief).

Getting ideas from Sam

 

[Dogsauce]

According to that, they've also invaded themselves.

Tbf, the CIA have probably interfered in their elections, so that might count.

 

[Spymaster]

Tbf, the CIA have probably interfered in their elections, so that might count.

Nah. The CIA aren’t allowed to operate on US soil

 

[StoneRoad]

Nah. The CIA aren’t allowed to operate on US soil

"officially"

 

[weltweit]

So I guess we will get to see what damage 12 Challenger II main battle tanks can meet out, and perhaps see how effective their Chobham armour is against Russian firepower. Fight against Russian armour in Europe is after all what they were designed for.

Lets hope they don't sink in the mud, they being heavier.

 

[a_chap]