Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Daniel808]

Ukranians do not need to run a propanda campaign to justify their illegal actions or propagate a false narrative - it is the Russians who need to do that as what they are doing is both illegal and immoral - and sites like "ASB News / MILITARY" are the vehicles of that Russian propaganda.

The lack of a picture - does not mean it did not happen either.

Russian are in the winning side.
That’s ukraine who needs propaganda to boost their morale.


Sorry, I’m not that stupid. Seeing is believing

 

[Ali_Baba]

Its clear the Ukrainians are taking it to the Russians. Not afraid at all

The video shows that the soldier was tactically poor interms of situation awareness and a bit too arrogant(imho) - he was lucky to not have gotten a sniper shot between the eyes given the amount of gunshots going off.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497595587197386765

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497596359091929096

 

[Dariush the Great]

Russia seems to be using only old tanks not t90 or t14.

IMO Putin is playing it very carefully as not to mobilize the whole West against Russia. But this is a wrong policy. The longer it takes for the Kiev government to fall the more negative consequences for Russia. A quick and swift victory will give the Russians upperhand in any future negotiations.

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497597103647854595

 

[Ali_Baba]

Dude is believing their own propaganda. If some Javelins and Manpads can stop Russia. We wouldn't need to invest so much. Real daft fellow here.

Manpads and RPGs is what defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan if i recall correctly - and of course - the Russian AK-47 for good measure, so it is a sound tactic that has been used on the Russians before.

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497590131661881345

 

[Daniel808]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497589610079297537

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497583590724575239

 

[F-22Raptor]

The video shows that the soldier was tactically poor interms of situation awareness and a bit too arrogant(imho) - he was lucky to not have gotten a sniper shot between the eyes given the amount of gunshots going off.

The point is Putin expected the Ukrainians to roll over. Its not happening.

 

[Daniel808]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497586216547540995

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497496972101664768

 

[Wergeland]

So the danger here is that we should be content with letting larger and more powerful countries dictate the independence of smaller and weaker countries.

Hold on...!!! Am not criticizing your argument but stating geopolitical realities. For ease of discussion, am going to conflate government and its people into a single entity -- for now.

Americans at large cannot identify with the fear of living with a hostile neighbor. For the entirety of the US existence, the absence of that fear is politically inherited from the previous generation, and from the previous generation, and regressively back to the country's founding. Political scientists have argued that absence is critical component of why Americans tends to be an optimistic and even overly idealistic people. As a naturalized US citizen, I have experienced both worlds, one where the people is constantly fearful of a neighbor and one where the people is essentially naive. Am generalizing here.

What you are asking for America to accept -- geopolitical buffer states -- is anathema to the American ethos, and here is the kicker, immigrants who came to America and established new lives, they cannot impart what they feared to their children. No way how. They left for America so that their children would not have to live like they have. The fear of an ever hostile neighbor can only be learned thru experience, never thru academia. It is like asking Mongolians to build a navy while disregarding the fact that Mongolia is landlocked. Even a riverine boatman have a better foundation for the seas than Americans can guess what it is like living next to an ideological opposite. And no one can ask Americans to imagine Canadians and Mexicans as angry giants eager to subjugate them.

But the American problem of geopolitical naivete is separate from what YOU and your fellow Euros must deal with, namely, how do you Euros are certain that Russia will be content with just a few buffer states? Does CONEUR history supports your contention that Russia will be so satisfied? You cannot dismiss history because all tyrants with expansionist dreams looked to history to support whatever might be their claims. That Ukraine resists should be seen as a challenge to history. Given technological progress, how far away is your Norway from Russia's expansionist threat? Not very, according to the map. If NATO is a shield, does it mean it is the only one? Or should it be the only one? Strengthening NATO is good, but several countries, including major France, have contemplated leaving NATO. What if NATO disband due to lack of interests? The US will be safe from Russian's aggression, but not your Norway.

In this little corner of the internet, you are willing to sacrifice Ukraine to Russia. So do many others. But their countries are far from Russia. Yours is not.

There is a clear ideological angle to your perception of this conflict. Which of course is perfectly ok. But for me, ideology is a mere vessel for transmuting the actual geopolitical goals into reality.

It is forexample a historical fact that the Soviet Union was one of the driving forces behind de-colonization, after the second world war. I regard every form of colonialism as tyranny thus in my book there was positive sides of Soviet Union. During this period the United States OTOH was often in support of the colonial master, be it the Dutch in South Africa with it Apartheid Regime or Portugal with its reluctancy to give up Goa in India or the French who of course till this day still treat west Africa as its own backyard.

Then he have US actions in Middle East the past 20 years, which is a chapter on its own. Just for the fact, about 3-10 million civillian people have been killed from the direct consequences of these wars. What is this if not tyranny? It certainly wasnt Russia who killed all these people.

So when you use ideological angel in order to try to legitimize certain political actions. It really isnt something i will buy immidiately. There is a reason for that; Man is greedy and always lusts for power, money, gold and of course women. Those are and will always be the REAL driving factors behind every conflict on this planet.

How to know if Putin will be settled if Ukraine and Belarus would have been agreed to made into buffer zones? Well we dont know. But that is irrelevant for NATO. Because we dont have to know what Putin wants to do. All we need to know is what WE want to do. Where OUR red lines are drawn. In my book that red line is any form attack on any member state is regarded as attack on all member states. Couldnt be any clearer than that.

 

[thetutle]

The irony is that in this cabaret, full of low-level humor and insults, the Turks being teased are one of the few countries that today lend a helping hand to Ukraine and the esteemed comedian president himself. Most of the spectators should be in the bunkers, too.

Ukranians are not a vary sophisticated people, the sophisticated ones were killed by Russians 100 years ago. So they might enjoy this type of stuff, but I dont think its mean spirited or belittling of turks. they probably find some of the things turks do and say funny. Its also a sign that they think about turks. They are making a show about Cambodians.

Being thought about is the ultimate compliment.

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497598973162528768

 

[Daniel808]

Seems Russian move fast.
Much faster than US and their crony in Iraq war

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497582704753356801