oh yeah, russia definitely spent time, effort, and resources to covertly bomb their own pipeline instead of hitting the big button marked "stop"
I don't buy it either, but Europeans are the biggest US simps out there. America can only do good because it's a democracy. Any thoughts of it doing the opposite is Putinism.
the whole point of a false flag is to manufacture a reason to go to war. Russia's already at war, lol. A false flag would also require that people in this situation be willing to change their minds based on that false flag. They clearly aren't lol.
But considering Russia has been able to get Europeans to bend over without any false flags, why now?
I hate how asking this question often leads libs down the path of claiming that Putin is an inscrutable oriental at heart.
has someone already done the joke about not being able to drink a white russian anymore since (euro) russians are getting kicked out out of whiteness
On behalf of all Asians, I invite Russians to come hang out with us. We can compare vodkas and 白酒 and laugh at the collapse of the West.
Anything is possible after getting liquored up and singing Katyusha together.
tanks for Ukraine. Especially German ones....
German tanks have historically been war winning weapons against Russia.
German tanks suck. I work at a brewery and we ordered 5 german tanks we were really enthusiatic. But the damn tanks dont close properly so the air gets in.
Someone I know bought a really bougie German fridge once. Turns out it doesn't have the little buzzer that sounds if the door is left ajar and everything melted.
Damn thing cost as much as a car and didn't have a feature that cheapo Haiers come with.
I yeah I was reading Stasi State or Socialist Paradise and they specifically mentioned E German fridges as being of high quality and good manufacture.
Every weapons system given to Ukraine thus far has been both a war winning Wonder Waffle and not enough to actually win the war.
Remember when they were talking up HIMARs as the thing that would do it? Before that it was the M777. Before that the Javelin.
the HIMARS thing is particularly bizarre
"here's a slightly worse rocket artillery system than the russian one, and they have far more of their one than we're giving you. This will definitely win the war for you"
"It has a really long range on paper because of one specific missile that we're not going to give you. Please talk up how you're going to use that range to blow up Putin."
the weird memes around this stuff has been especially gross. This mixing of orthodox religious iconography with modern weapons as a sort of advertisement for death machines masquerading as a meme? Sickening.
All of the bloodthirsty memes for this war have been sickening.
In fairness to the Ukrainians (never thought I'd say that) the Russians also have the habit of bringing out priests to bless their tanks and guns. Maybe its more normal in Orthodox Christianity.
I was at a Russian history museum in Moscow and one of the old Imperial Russian WWI battle flags they had on display had a big ole icon of Jesus on it.
Seriously the most 40k thing I've ever seen.
the US airforce is full of evangelical freaks and american christians constantly prayed for the troops even in my parents' mostly shitlib "moderate" franchise when i had the misfortune of attending service back during the iraq war.
It's so cool how many of this planet's nuclear weapons are within arms reach of doomsday cultists.
ukraine is a southrpark megachurch pastor constantly escalating the things his congregation needs to donate toward
In 2021, over 700 baby girls were named "Khaleesi". I bet anything "Javelin" will be up there next year.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
Okay but please try to burn some slavers and free some slaves along the way.
Just one shipment of Leopard 2s bro I swear it doesn't even have to be the a5 just one shipment PLEAAAASE it'll win the war bro its 300% better than a T-90 this'll turn it around I promise
Six months later: "The Great Crimea Counteroffensive has stalled because our allies supplied us with inferior tanks and in too small quantities."
Aren't German tanks too heavy to drive on Ukraine's shitty road-system? In particular their bridges, which are all from the soviet era, where they designed for tanks that were significantly lighter than what the west had.
Pretty much all tanks are. Sort of the joke of modern armored cavalry.
Tanks, in general, are finicky delicate crudely engineered devices regularly prone to failure. So much of tank warfare is just about the supply lines necessary to keep the whole rolling front line up and running.
They're also really big easy targets for advanced artillery.
Tankies won't tell you this, but Tank Bad.
Supposedly most late Soviet tanks are lighter armored than contemporary NATO tanks specifically because the lower weight will allow them to be more mobile in Eastern European terrain. Can they stand up to a 1 to 1 with an Abrahms? No. But that doesn't matter when the Abrahms is buried in eight feet of mud.
I mean, it doesn't matter when modern warfare is just a bunch of random assholes with javelin missile systems hoping to catch your T-69-420-1337 napping.
High precision rocket propelled munitions do everything a tank pretends to do by replacing a durable piece of heavy machinery with a cluster of expendable idiots.
Aren’t German tanks too heavy to drive on Ukraine’s shitty road-system?
I'm told that US tanks are, too.
if anything, this would be in the interests of the americans as it guarantees the germans won't fold over like a fishing chair w.r.t. to sanctions against the russians no matter how bad the winter gets
I believe in rational actors and a rational actor probably wouldn't make it's geopolitical situation worse deliberately
everything is bad and at the end of it more Russians and Ukrainians will be dead, American companies will be richer and I won't be able to heat my home during the winter.
Or...hear me out....we can admit fossil fuels are a primitive energy source and we should switch to renewables ASAP, even if some meatheaded chavs and white trash can't compensate for their micropenises as easily?
Ever since the massive spikes in energy that happened over the summer, I've watched helplessly as my government has been attempting neoliberal half-measure after neoliberal halfmeasure in order to prevent the population from ousting her and putting her head on a spike. So far they've reduced the tax on electricity, and done some means-tested "if you live in these areas and primarily heat your home using electricity, you get a check for 6000 kr. (about $1000)". I have seen exactly zero discussion about maybe nationalizing that big fucking energy company (which is supposedly also hurting, but wont say how much) that her predessor (another useless social democrat) privatised. There is also very little talk about building more capacity, which I am going to assume is because we are being hamstrung by both the EU and the complete lack of ability that my country demonstrates on the daily. Apparently it's because a lot of people are complaining that windmills (our current best bet for renewable energy in this flat and open country) lower their property values :bear-despair:
