Try to keep the chatter contained here, folks.
Comment if you were here when the Russians dropped a bomb on our servers in Kiev. WE'RE BACK IN ACTION BABY!
Make sure to report comments that're overboard or sus.
It’s amazing how everyone’s reaction seems to be making a discourse/struggle session over which commentators were right which were wrong. The debate-brofication of the discourse has been a disaster for the American left’s ability to empathize and act. I want it to be perfectly clear that if your initial reactions to a literal war are “whoaaaa vaush was right and jimmy dore (or whoever) was wrong!!!” And making memes about it, you are genuinely fucked in the head and are a great example about how politics for many people is really just an extension of a narcissistic pre-occupation with themselves rather than something more substantial or unalienating
Congrats to Nato. This is what they’ve wanted and been gunning for for years. Disgusting for the working class of both countries
Time to sink a few Russian oligarch yachts, empty their bank accounts and confiscate their penthouse apartments and estates. Turn the Russian elites against Putin and make him very uncomfortable watching his back.
Time for Biden to sanction Russia back to the stone age
Reddit has literally the worst takes about this crisis. The libs are acting like sanctions and fines are nuclear weapons or some shit.
"putin is still angry at the west for the demise of the soviet union"
the collapse of the soviet union is pretty instrumental for his taking power lmfao who are these people and why is the bbc interviewing them
Success at containing the Russian invasion
This megathread: ✅
U.S. Sanctions: ❎
Reminder that you don't actually have to be worried about the libs being "right" about this while you weren't. 90%+ of libs believed this would happen because they believe that any enemy leader is a cartoon villain who is psychotic, eats babies for breakfast and only cares about their own personal image.
Making an analysis of how you think the situation would unfold based on shit like actual genuine cost-benefit and geopolitical goals and being wrong about that is always more correct than just brainlessly following leader focused propaganda that assumes Putin would do this because one guy in Ukraine called him a homo or something and that made him rage.
First of all solidarity with the regular Ukrainians who will have their lives fucked up by this conflict, but god I hope this finally ends the era of left-ish people posting about Putin being an epic anti-imperialist or owning Nazi Ukraine.
Reports that Neo-Nazis are immediately dropping their weapons and fleeing is the most compelling evidence I've seen that the USA has armed and trained them
I didn't think this was going to happen because I didn't think Putin had any realistic interest in conquering Ukraine. I had assumed it was all posturing for a lower fee on the pipeline and concessions from the west. Considering how quickly they started targeting military targets in the west, I think the "interest" is to show the west what Russia's modern military is capable of, which is even more cynical than I imagined.
im tapping out now (must eat)... i hope the casualties are low and this is over fast
basic synopsis:
russia has total air superiority over ukraine (to the point that many fighters have defected/run away and many air transports have been destroyed), they are advancing along the dneiper to encircle donbas and cut kiev from kharkiv. huge amounts of vehicles heading towards kiev as we speak. azov batallion tucked tails and allegedly went AWOL and there appears to be mass defections of ukrainian troops according to russian media
worried about my workplace ukrainian buddy this is from odessa hes there :sadness: we had so much fun trying to understand each other in czech and ukrainian
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1496748763397992449?s=20&t=KRkIeIbdQ_9OqwCa_-fCKg
