Do you know where Siberia is? Hint: it’s not next to Alaska. Not even close. Siberia: Russian Far East:
I agree that generation exists but Tucker has been laying the Putin > groundwork and many pols have cozied up to Russia over the years. Has anyone explained why tf Russia Ron, Lindsey et al were in Russia over the 4th of July a few years back? If anything I think we’ll see pols who are fearful of kompromat lash out more wildly.
Those damn Ukrainian nazis. We will show them by blowing up the graves of the victims of actual nazis. Nothing more humanitarian than that.
Can russia shore up their supply lines and raise morale or is this morale attrition vs human attrition now?
This is what those flamethrower launchers look like up close fwiw This sort of thing isn't common because most countries don't build weapons whose primary purpose is terrorizing civilians
Way too crowded! Fun fact: This is the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. It is larger than Montana and Germany and has just 5,000 people living in it (Germany has 83,000,000). One person for every 30 square miles.
I dunno man. Giving your forces expired food on a surprise expedition as everyone begs them to go home while you shell civilian infrastructure is probably a lot to overcome, in terms of getting the troops motivated to fight.
That’s what I’m feeling too, I think if the Ukrainians make it to next Monday there a decent chance this thing completely backfires on Russia
they may be able to throw enough resources at this issue to improve supply lines in the short term but the morale issue is one I can’t see them fixing. Wouldn’t surprise me if we see Putin commit a major terrorist attack on his own people in Moscow and fake evidence that it was the Ukrainians. He needs something like that. Russian morale is decreasing every minute that this continues
It's tough to sift through the Ukrainian / US intelligence community propaganda and Russian propaganda to determine what's really going on. I fear that we've been gassing up Ukraine for a fight they almost certainly can't win without direct NATO involvement. And NATO getting involved, while it may not lead to nuclear winter, it leads to a period of world conflict that will worsen all of our lives. With that said, if it's the will of the Ukrainian people to fight to the end, it's very difficult to resist the urge to support them as directly as possible. And it's obviously an inherent disruption to world order when a sovereign country of 44 million is invaded. Idk man... it's tough to digest this shit.
It takes 12 hours to get to Moscow, 3 hours (?) to get to the border how is he going to make it believeable
A ton of those soldiers have to be throwing up or shitting themselves after eating that shit, only to get show by people keeping them out of their cities
to most Americans, everything to the right of the start of Siberia on the map is bumfuck Russia that we just call Siberia. Everything to the left is Russia.
We have had Alabama facts and Alaska facts. Arizona you are now on the clock. Arkansas and California get ready.
I wonder if Putin and the oligarchs are ready for Russia to become North Korea even if they take Ukraine. I have to think that's the only logical conclusion if Putin doesn't get got
It already has completely backfired. In every single bucket you look at Russia comes out of this strategically weaker, economically weaker, and more isolated. They can indiscriminately kill Ukrainians have a grand vision of breaking the country up. If they are performing this poorly on the conventional war, there is no scenario where they deal with insurgent Ukrainians if Kyiv and major cities were to fall.
sleeper terorrists that the Ukrainian “nazi terorrists” had sitting in Russia ready to kill innocent Russians. That’s right out of the Russian/Putin playbook. It will look like other stages terorrist attacks that the Russians have pulled off in the past. I doubt it works but that seems like the most likely move when reviewing putin’s previous decisions in similar situations. When in doubt, kill your own people And frame your enemies
I think Russia will have a much harder time not being part of the european community than NK does not being part of the greater Asian community
Its so frustrating that the world is watching Ukraine get invaded by two nations and can't do more to stop it. I'm not advocating troops as I know that would escalate it but fuck its gut wrenching.
Russia still has the world’s largest natural gas reserves (and that will only increase if it takes a majority of Ukraine). And of course oil. That alone differentiates them from North Korea.
Sure. But it seems like this has pushed a ton of countries to look elsewhere. Once that goes away it’s hard to get it back
perhaps they could be similarly isolated but they have enough natural resources to be able to make it work if their government wasn’t so insanely corrupt. I also don’t believe that Russia thought these economic sanctions were possible and are likely unprepared to juggle the economic chess and the war simultaneously.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/ukraine-russia-microsoft.html WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of “wiper” malware that appeared aimed at the country’s government ministries and financial institutions. Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe — from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it “FoxBlade” and notified Ukraine’s top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsoft’s virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases — “wipes” — data on computers in a network. Then Tom Burt, the senior Microsoft executive who oversees the company’s effort to counter major cyberattacks, contacted Anne Neuberger, the White House’s deputy national security adviser for cyber- and emerging technologies. Ms. Neuberger asked if Microsoft would consider sharing details of the code with the Baltics, Poland and other European nations, out of fear that the malware would spread beyond Ukraine’s borders, crippling the military alliance or hitting West European banks. Before midnight in Washington, Ms. Neuberger had made introductions — and Microsoft had begun playing the role that Ford Motor Company did in World War II, when the company converted automobile production lines to make Sherman tanks.
Seems like he shouldn’t do that whole invasion thing. But I don’t get paid 4 million dollars a year to teach econ.