Official Ukraine Thread: Putin On The Fritz

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  1. $P1

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    The power vacuum that happens if/when Putin unexpectedly dies/iscoup'd will not be pretty.
     
  2. BudKilmer

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    :roll:

    Russians in ROOINS

    RUOOINS if you will
     
  3. IV

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    Just cuz they’re poor now?

    I’ve been told being poor is not hard
     
  4. Jake Barnes

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    Is this a “shot twice in the back of the head” suicide or legit?

    Either way, seems like things are going swimmingly at the Kremlin!
     
  5. Gallant Knight

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    Dbl will be able to figure it out after thinking about it for 20-40 seconds
     
  6. Tarpon Nole

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    this is what confused me

    In the first gulf war, didn’t the US blow their post Cold War load and just let loose everything we had?

    really weird Putin hasn’t tried to “show off” their latest stuff. Maybe he’s holding it back? Maybe it’s shit and doesn’t work?

    real question is what did we know they were capable of doing?
     
  7. Cousin Eddie

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    Why are people acting like the war is over and Russia has lost? This war is only a few days old. It took the US 3 weeks to take Baghdad in 2003 and that was considered a very short time frame; acting like Russia has lost the war makes no sense.
     
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    I don’t know what to believe

     
  9. IV

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    I still say we send that Romanov cousin that is a cpa out in California to claim his birthright
     
  10. Imurhuckleberry

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  11. Bruce Wayne

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    Real shame
     
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  12. pperc

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    Yeah idk just wanted to stir some shit up here with speculation
     
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  13. electronic

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    Never seen you abandon your own hot take ship so quickly.
     
  14. BuckeyeRiot

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    Operation get behind the conscripts.
     
  15. Voodoo

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    There are unconfirmed reports of mass surrenders by Russian columns that have run out of fuel/food/ammo. Really hard to figure out what’s true and what isn’t.
     
  16. Jake Barnes

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    What can I say, age has taught me wisdom.
     
  17. Tarpon Nole

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    no one is acting like they are going to win on this war on the battlefield by themselves

    however, the Russians still haven’t taken the skies. They haven’t really taken any cities of importance. They are running out of fuel and look to have serious supply chain issues
     
  18. bro

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    Lots of big baby talk on Twitter of Russia’s lack of success and now severe sanctions is going to push him into a corner and that he may do something crazy to avoid embarrassment. The other option is to just give him what he wants? Let him take Kiev? Apply light sanctions? Fuck that
     
  19. Jake Barnes

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    They may take Ukraine (temporarily) but they’ve already lost. That happened as soon as the Ukrainians showed they would fight back.

    Putin gambled everything on the Ukrainians feeling like he did and he was dead wrong.
     
  20. IV

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    iraq also didn’t have the full support of the western world behind it and there was no risk of nuclear war
     
  21. bro

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    Because we want them to lose? Get with the program
     
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  22. shaolin5

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    Care to expand on why? I don't know enough about this subject to have an opinion, but I'm trying to learn and forms one.
    Edit : chuckmasterflex
     
  23. Aaron Hernandez

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    I do have to admit. I feel like it’s preseason and I’m getting worked up by the local sports journalist.
     
  24. a.tramp

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    And so it begins
     
  25. IV

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    Good analogy
     
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  26. joe-

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    there’s a large fire in southwest kyiv right now
     
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  27. THF

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  28. Shinzon

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    That’s my bad then. Didn’t read through since it was from ELINT News, and their tweets/info have been accurate so far. Plus saw something this morning that the VDV were expected in soon. Figured it was only a matter of time. Good news for Kyiv tho. But burst clouds compared to paratroopers should be easy to verify if they have sources in the city.
     
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  29. Cousin Eddie

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    Might be but Kiev is the city getting bombed right now, not Moscow. Way premature to say anything about Putin being deposed or whatever people have dreamed up.
     
  30. THF

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  31. Fecta23

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    Can’t be a lot worse than this, but still, yes, it will be terrible.
     
  32. chuckmasterflex

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    I was referring to Putin's decision to invade. Don't think he anticipated this much pushback.
     
  33. texasraider

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    I know there are easily accessible and basic reasons why the US isn’t sending assets to fight Russia in Ukraine but what I really don’t understand is why
     
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  34. Whammy

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    Ahhh to be suicided
     
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  35. shaolin5

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  36. Stagger Lee

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    What do you mean by “assets?”
     
  37. Can I Spliff it

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    I know it's days old, but if you haven't, you really need to watch the coverage of the invasion on Fox News the first day it happened.

    Clips really don't do it justice. It is fundamentally pathetic, and I have no idea how anyone with any amount of self-respect watches that channel voluntarily
     
  38. BuckeyeRiot

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    Shot himself twice in the chest and once in the head I’m sure.
     
  39. timo

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    couple of big salients there.
     
  40. chuckmasterflex

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    Pan-Slavism is back, baby
     
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  41. THF

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  42. Whammy

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    So crazy how powerful individuals and corporations have become. Sending my private space fleet to help!



     
  43. texasraider

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    Me and dbl are still thinking about what we mean
     
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  44. Fran Tarkenton

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    think we have some UAE lovers on tmb. Isnt there one Emirates airline aficionado?

     
  45. THF

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    This is going to going to get ugly for the Russians.

     
  46. IV

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    I in no way will hand it to him, this is probably just for S&G’s to him
     
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  48. pperc

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    Holy shit that gets a wow from me
     
  49. Can I Spliff it

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    But enough about crypto
     
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