Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[TopCat]

Maybe one for the Why Time Magazine is going down the pan thread

Blimey, a lot of pop ups to read that shite

 

[AverageJoe]

you post but you haven't engaged brain. it's like the ss turning mob-handed to the russians and saying please forgive our former behaviour. like the auxies and black and tans saying to michael collins please sir can we join your mob. and there is no way on god's green earth that the russians are going to vote for someone like yer man in charge of wagner. a group so dismal they don't even have their own logistics.

That sounds fair.

The accusation has been leveled at me many times.

 

[The39thStep]

Because there's always one. Or maybe it's sanctioned.

Possibly sanctioned or just made up imo

 

[The39thStep]

Maybe one for the Why Time Magazine is going down the pan thread

Reached its peak in The Big Lebowski imo

 

[Idris2002]

Im wondering about the reluctance of western nations to outright pin the blame on russia for the dam breach - (this just in - it was russia). Is it becasue they would then have to do something about it and are not prepated to go any further in the escalation stakes (i.e. internatioanl humanitarian intervention - with the backing of force to stop shit like russia shelling the disaster area)? What Russia has done is not far off setting off a nuke in the destruction stakes.

The stench of malice that hangs over the breaching of the dam is what makes me suspect the hand of vlad. As for the west, I think they're waiting to see how far Ukraine gets with the offensive - and they're agnostic at best about the chances of that offensive. I suspect that if it gets "thus far and no further", there will be a "quiet word" in Zelensky's ear, telling him to be a good boy and accept the de facto partition of Ukraine.

Which I doubt he'll accept.

 

[TopCat]

The stench of malice that hangs over the breaching of the dam is what makes me suspect the hand of vlad. As for the west, I think they're waiting to see how far Ukraine gets with the offensive - and they're agnostic at best about the chances of that offensive. I suspect that if it gets "thus far and no further", there will be a "quiet word" in Zelensky's ear, telling him to be a good boy and accept the de facto partition of Ukraine.

Which I doubt he'll accept.

If that happens what would Zelensky do? Conscript pensioners?

 

[Idris2002]

If that happens what would Zelensky do? Conscript pensioners?

Probably!

 

[Raheem]

He'll stop at nothing!

 

[The39thStep]

The stench of malice that hangs over the breaching of the dam is what makes me suspect the hand of vlad. As for the west, I think they're waiting to see how far Ukraine gets with the offensive - and they're agnostic at best about the chances of that offensive. I suspect that if it gets "thus far and no further", there will be a "quiet word" in Zelensky's ear, telling him to be a good boy and accept the de facto partition of Ukraine.

Which I doubt he'll accept.

Great opening sentence for an AI Sherlock Holmes story

 

[Idris2002]

Great opening sentence for an AI Sherlock Holmes story

"There's a new spirit abroad in England, Watson", clanked Holmes, as I shovelled more coal into his difference engine. "The Muscovite usurper having been driven from the field of battle by His Majesty's Airships, it remains only for Gospodin Zelensky to sell his bathwater to the London mob."

 

[WouldBe]

He'll stop at nothing!

Why should he?

 

[Idris2002]

Why should he?

Why would he?

 

[Artaxerxes]

He'll stop at nothing!

He should just let Russia shoot them directly and save everyone time!

 

[The39thStep]

He should just let Russia shoot them directly and save everyone time!

Several posters on here will find it hard to adjust to civvy street when it's all over.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Several posters on here will find it hard to adjust to civvy street when it's all over.

I’m just waiting for my Putin Buckaroos to arrive in the post but I understand others do it for fun

 

[Pickman's model]

I’m just waiting for my Putin Buckaroos to arrive in the post but I understand others do it for fun

Buckaroo always far too sensible to align himself with vladimir

 

[_Russ_]

Hacker drains Russian special services wallets, transfers funds to Ukraine

A hacker gained access to hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets belonging to the Russian special services, and may have transferred stolen bitcoins to Ukrainian aid organizations, cryptocurrency experts now believe.

english.nv.ua

 

[Pickman's model]

Hacker drains Russian special services wallets, transfers funds to Ukraine

A hacker gained access to hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets belonging to the Russian special services, and may have transferred stolen bitcoins to Ukrainian aid organizations, cryptocurrency experts now believe.

english.nv.ua

There's a thread for this sort of thing Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap

 

[Cid]

Several posters on here will find it hard to adjust to civvy street when it's all over.

After the grandkids have gone, quietly climbing up to the attic. The old tin box with 'FELLA' in white print.... Taking out the NAFO cap badge, the piece of downed Sukhoi bought for a mere $1000, the receipt and pic of a shell painted with 'from a fella' and the Moskva stamp. Sitting there with these memories of times long passed and weeping for comrades left in the battlegrounds of twitter and reddit.

 

[TopCat]

There's a thread for this sort of thing Ukraine and the Russian invasion, Feb 2022 - tangentially related crap

There is another for baseless speculation.
We could move three quarters of this thread there.
Peel off the gratuitous insults and pile on’s by neckbeards with subs to Janes military magazines, plus throw out the wank about Putins health. It would be a tidier thread.

 

[cupid_stunt]

There is another for baseless speculation.
We could move three quarters of this thread there.
Peel off the gratuitous insults and pile on’s by neckbeards with subs to Janes military magazines, plus throw out the wank about Putins health. It would be a tidier thread.

You forgot to mention the removal of all your contributions to this thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

You forgot to mention the removal of all your contributions to this thread.

It's posts like this that lard the thread that ought never to have been posted. What do you think this sort of thing adds? If you're going to be rude to TopCat could you do the rest of us the courtesy of at least trying to make your insults entertaining instead of sharing banal drivel of which you should be ashamed

 

[sleaterkinney]

After the grandkids have gone, quietly climbing up to the attic. The old tin box with 'FELLA' in white print.... Taking out the NAFO cap badge, the piece of downed Sukhoi bought for a mere $1000, the receipt and pic of a shell painted with 'from a fella' and the Moskva stamp. Sitting there with these memories of times long passed and weeping for comrades left in the battlegrounds of twitter and reddit.

Maps and arrows, Russian logistics. Tank reversal speeds.

 

[Yossarian]

You forgot to mention the removal of all your contributions to this thread.

Maybe there's room for a "Just saying" or "I don't support Russia, but" thread

 

[Idris2002]

Maps and arrows, Russian logistics. Tank reversal speeds.

You saw the whole of the moon

 

[existentialist]

Maybe there's room for a "Just saying" or "I don't support Russia, but" thread

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Is this even about the war anymore?

 

[The39thStep]

Is this even about the war anymore?

The war within the war

 

[DaveCinzano]

The war within the war

Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning meme

 

[The39thStep]

Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning meme