Yeah, man. Totally. :lenin-sure:
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They were able to acquire—the reports are somewhere in the neighborhood of over 3,000 square kilometers of territory. They’ve been able to retake in three days what took Russia three months to be able to gain control of.
Watching the triumphalism in the wake of the counteroffensive has been interesting. No one in the press sees numbers like this and thinks to ask "Gee, doesn't that seem too easy?" I would not be surprised to see a shot of an aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner at this point.
Literally, that's such a massive turnaround that your first thought, even if you believe it's true, should be "huh, how long ago did the Russians abandon that area? How long did it take the Ukrainians to notice that Russia had left?"
Russia conquers some 20k+ square kms.
Ukraine retakes some 3k square kms
Westerners and Ukraine: "My job here is done."
Every pro-Russian/anti-westerner: "But you didn't do anything."
No one in the press sees numbers like this and thinks to ask “Gee, doesn’t that seem too easy?”
In the Liberal worldview, the just are destined to prevail over the wicked. The world is shaped by ideas, and the Liberals are in power because they have the best ideas.
I'm sure they'll find some very recently dug mass graves after a few more days :shrek-pixel-despair:
"Russia killed all of these minorities several days ago!"
Territory grave is in occupies a space that was abandoned by the Russian military weeks ago
:so-true: Those dastardly russians are just like the orcs in the Rings of Power show! Digging tunnels to sneakily murder civilians!
My favorite in that regard was a Ukrainian general claiming the Russians have mobile crematoriums. Sounds just like the mobile WMD labs Saddam Hussein was supposed to have.
They're gonna shoot their way straight into Moscow, they just need another 50 billion dollars :so-true:
Losing team scores a single run in an inning, the score is still well in favor of the other team
Announcer: You're seeing it here folks an amazing comeback, a Cinderella story come to life.
no joke this was the american commentators during the winter olympics. Like during a nordic race where the leaders are like a Russian, a Finn, and a Swede there would be an american in like 8th place a full minute behind the leaders and they would be like "Are they going to make the comeback? They still have a chance!!"
Attention! Your attention, please! A newsflash has this moment arrived from the Malabar front. Our forces in South India have won a glorious victory. I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end. Here is the newsflash -
"Bad news coming, thought Winston.
And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners
Is Ukraine's counter offensive as big of a narrative changer as Lebron in Boston garden, game 6? But first, Pearl Jam.
Damn pro Ukr propaganda be going over time, but there's a lot of money to be made in grift so ofc.
My favorite part about all this is Libs actually cheering at Zelensky banning opposition parties and consolidating most of the media under his regime. Supposedly, that's why PuTLeR is a fascist dictator and that's why Zelensky is a heckin' wholesome elected politician
I earned my ban from world news by pointing out they call :maduro-gift: and :chavez-guns: dictators for doing the same thing.
Edit: do we not have emotes of tracksuit Chavez and Maduro?
Christ alive, I've been here for quite a while and seen that one hundreds of times. Is there a library we have that I don't know about? I just : and go for the glory
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Thanks, comrade. I'm not the brightest planet in the galaxy.
On another board I occasionally check, someone posted about a story that Russia is recruiting convicts and pulling people from jails to bolster their ranks and why this was inconceivable!!1! I pointed out that Ukraine did this months back, including major fucking demons guilty of crimes against minors and whatnot - something that was even reported on Ukrainian media.
The response was as you expected.
