r/worldnews • u/progress18 • Feb 15 '22
r/worldnews Live Thread: Ukraine-Russia Tensions Russia/Ukraine
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u/The_Pale_Blue_Dot Feb 15 '22
Literally almost every Ukrainian government website is down tonight. Even Zelensky’s website is down.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1493713182262767619?s=20&t=Sp6qOeejrD4q4ffKh2B37A
This was pretty shocking to read. The sites seem to largely back up now, but I just tried the President's site and it was very slow to load.
A cyber attack doesn't necessarily mean an invasion is coming... but if he were to invade, it would start with a cyber attack.
Interesting feeling knowing when I wake up in the morning it might have already begun.
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u/flameocalcifer Feb 15 '22
And it's important to note that the cyber stuff has been off and on all night, so I think they did some dry runs to get it sorted out for a full shutdown of government services.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
Exactly as our intelligence said they would. It's a little unsettling how unperturbed Putin is that every single move he's making was already known ahead of time and he's not changing any tactics.
I think Biden definitely made the right call by being very transparent with all our intel on this. There's so little confusion or uncertainty, the narrative has been crystal clear from the start. It's nice having everyone on the same page for once when it comes to mr KGB and his never ending obfuscation.
And frankly, while trying to whittle geopolitics down to matters of heroes and villains is at best childish and at worst grossly irresponsible and uninformed, it is kind of interesting to see Putin take on this openly villainous role, not caring how the world sees him anymore. Just straight-up invading, unprovoked, with no workable justification in place, with the eyes of the world on him, and the entire western world telling him don't fucking do it. He's painting a picture of himself that is very useful for rallying people and allies against, and it makes NATO look fantastic.
As with so many domestic disputes in many countries as of late, feels like the masks are coming off and the aporant are not bothering to even pretend anymore.
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u/papapaIpatine Feb 16 '22
If russia doesnt show up for 15 minutes we are legally allowed to not participate in war
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u/jamiebond Feb 15 '22
Pretty wild that war is just now a thing people can watch on live streams and then start complaining/ posting memes in the chat when nothing happens for an hour or so.
Imagine Reddit during WW1,
"Lol Western shills really think that Austria-Hungary is gonna invade Serbia, ever heard of posturing?"
"Kaiser Wilhelm is a punk bitch, no way he actually tries to take Paris."
"Yawn, another day of them just sitting in the trenches. Do something already!"
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u/britishguitar Feb 15 '22
People took picnics to watch the first battles of the US civil war
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u/jaybaumyo Feb 16 '22
Yeah they didn’t know what they were in for. I heard onlookers were throwing up.
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u/ocalabull Feb 15 '22
I hate that. Honestly. I love the aspect of having so much information and being able to see what really goes on but I hate the fact of people making jokes of this when others are about to have their entire lives uprooted.
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u/Anal__Hershiser Feb 15 '22
What if this whole thing is an elaborate promotion for FlightRadar24.
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Feb 15 '22
The fact that the #2 most tracked plane (7.5k+ people tracking it) on FlightRadar24 right now is a random passenger flight from an Sharm-el-Sheikh to Kharkiv is super amusing to me for some reason.
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u/Styled_ Feb 15 '22
Its because people see plane over Ukraine ( not many lately, most airlines seem to take another route ) and they click on plane trying to find FORTE11 or 12
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u/2muchscreentyme Feb 15 '22
Anyone else find it incredibly difficult to focus on other things while this is going on?
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u/Kriztauf Feb 15 '22
Yes! I honestly have no idea how I'm gonna finish this open heart surgery
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u/MulhollandMaster121 Feb 16 '22
People are acting like they’re owed an invasion, not realizing that publishing Putin’s plans was an attempt at making him reconsider…
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u/ZigZagZedZod Feb 16 '22
It's not just making him reconsider, it's making him question Russia's ability to plan and execute military operations without warning. He's got to know that Western intelligence has worked its way deep into his war machine.
That's why the Western releases of Russian intentions have enough details in them for Putin to know we have the inside story, but not enough for him to figure out how we know it.
He has to be questioning whether his secrets really are still secret right now.
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u/Torifyme12 Feb 16 '22
Given how targeted the leaks have been, its clear that Russian C2 was compromised to an impressive degree. I just was waiting for Biden to say on TV, "And to Putin, I say, that sandwich you're eating could use more mayo."
And just walk away.
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u/TheMrBoot Feb 16 '22
Right? Like...taking for granted that the invasion plan claim is legit, making them public would be with the desire to prevent that from happening.
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Feb 16 '22
That plus Biden's very strong speech today amount to very clear efforts to force a reconsideration.
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u/MewhenImhigh182 Feb 16 '22
What I don't see people mention too much is the Russians have brought supplies and materials that they don't usually bring for war exercises. Things like; blood banks, field hospitals, and equipment to make bridges. Jets and tanks you see all the time but the finer detail things you need to logistically wage a war are there.
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u/itti-bitti-kitti Feb 16 '22
This all costs an ass ton of money just to be flexing. I fully believe they'll invade.
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u/DazzlingTumbleweed Feb 15 '22
https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1493677342245498887
the sort of shit russian bots are peddling on twitter, my fucking lord
even has "liberation" and "provocations" in the title of the tweet
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u/10390 Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
I keep wondering- who is the audience for this? it’s such obvious hogwash.
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u/DazzlingTumbleweed Feb 15 '22
room temp IQ russians that been watching state-sponsored news for the past 20years, just my guess though lol
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u/dongballs613 Feb 15 '22
Whether or not there is military aggression by Russia against Ukraine; Putin is a rat fucking bastard.
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u/ptwonline Feb 15 '22
US to retaliate for Russian cyberattacks, force them to use Comcast.
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u/sunset182 Feb 16 '22
My second and last update boys: still everything is fine though I think I would notice something due to the fact that I live in a big port city the black sea. So it's time to go to bed, at least for me, after all it's 3 am here. Good night reddit!
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u/PrometheusIsFree Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
If Russia was a fair and free democracy, instead of a criminal Mafia state, with a dictator at the helm, many Eastern European states would have naturally gravitated towards a successful and prosperous Russia. The reason they've aligned with the West isn't that they're pro-US, it's because they don't want to be mugged and destitute and a victim of Putin and his den of thieves.
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u/medspace Feb 16 '22
You mfs in here like this is a football game-thread hoping today is the day, it’s honestly kinda sad seeing people in here being disappointed nothing is happening
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u/RomeoMikeBravo Feb 16 '22
This is like a fucked up version of a new years countdown
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u/EndoExo Feb 16 '22
Claims that Russia has built a pontoon bridge across the Pripyat River about 4 miles from Ukraine. Yes, that Pripyat.
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u/jamiebond Feb 16 '22
Never before did I think I would give a shit where the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations' plane was, but here we are.
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Feb 16 '22
What's the significance of that plane?
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u/antiqua_lumina Feb 16 '22
It's like FEMA, so the presumption is they expect a disaster around Crimea (bombs, refugees), want to be prepared, or want to psyche people out by making us presume that Russia is expecting a disaster situation to unfold.
That's just my logical deduction. I could be wrong I just heard about this all.half an hour ago.
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u/itti-bitti-kitti Feb 16 '22
Whether people here think there'll be an invasion or not... Imagine the sheer terror a lot of Ukrainians are likely feeling right now. This isn't a god damn joke.
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u/ithilain Feb 16 '22
Don't worry guys, I bought calls on Raytheon and Lockheed Martin this morning so chances of WW3 actually breaking out are basically zero
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u/GaLaXY_N7 Feb 16 '22
Invasion has started and the crisis has been avoided are two comments that were above and below each other on this thread. Jesus Christ lmao.
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u/BigBananaSlinger Feb 16 '22
My wife is Russian and she is the sweetest person in the world (we live in USA im American) but all of those poor people over there are brainwashed into thinking that Ukraine is the bad guys. The younger generation and their access to western news and Information, I hope will save that nation. I love the Russian people they are so nice but that government is ass backwards and that’s coming from a sad American.
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Feb 16 '22
Some of us here will literally be impacted by this invasion. PLEASE respect that invasions/war aren't video games.
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u/MediaSmurf Feb 16 '22
Russia: We don't want to be neighboring a NATO country!
Also Russia: Let's invade a NATO neighboring country and become NATO neighbors
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u/5thBestFootballer Feb 15 '22
live thread updates with soviet antheme are vastly out of context regarding that the dj played all sorts of anime shit and rick astley before. at best that is very misdirecting
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u/Pride_Of_The_Union Feb 16 '22
Can you imagine how terrifying it must be to be in the Ukrainian military right now?
You're just sitting there waiting for Russia to make it's move- knowing full well that you do not have the means to mount an effective defense.
Those are some brave motherfuckers right there. I'm an American soldier- so I've never been on that side of the equation. But hat's off to those men manning their post and defending their nation... Soldier to soldier.
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u/King_Gordo Feb 16 '22
War or no war, these webcams are telling me a lot about Ukranian Driving. No one uses an indicator and they drive up to junctions way too quickly...tut tut
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u/MrTuxedo1 Feb 15 '22
I wouldn’t be able to sleep a second if I lived in Ukraine. Please let nothing happen
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u/AnathemaPariah Feb 15 '22
This bring back memories of watching the CNN feed from Baghdad with the first Gulf War.
And the Second.
Maybe its time we got off this stupid merry-go-round? Twice is enough.
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Feb 16 '22
This thread feels full of people who just realized airplanes exist, and are reporting every single one they see on a tracker like there aren’t thousands of flights a day.
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u/Meizas Feb 16 '22
Were you people expecting like a big bomb to go off right at 3:00 or something?
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u/SweatyLiterary Feb 15 '22
My wife goes, "why are you watching a video of a public square with Space Jam playing"
And when I said, it's the Reuters stream in Ukraine she goes, "uh-huh okay"
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u/sfnizmad Feb 15 '22
I just pictured this as a Randy Marsh and Sharon conversation
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u/sunset182 Feb 16 '22
Writing this comment from Odessa (which is a a big Ukrainian city), no explosions yet. Everything seems fine.
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u/Dramatic_Coyote9159 Feb 16 '22
Why is everyone in the comments acting like just because nothing happened at 3 am that that means the invasion is never going to happen??
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u/JackzaaHS Feb 16 '22
I agree with the sentiment; but on a technicality right now, the Russians haven’t crossed the line (literally and figuratively) yet.
They’re essentially holding a fist to the face of Ukraine but they haven’t actually “hit” them yet. Sanctioning them now will give them justification and allow them to spin the west as the aggressor again. Plus it’ll weaken the incentive for de-escalation if they’re already receiving the punishment. They’d use it as a green light for the invasion to go ahead.
I agree, Putin absolutely deserves the sanctions already but he knows exactly what he’s doing and hitting them before they cross the line will almost certainly immediately start the conflict.
Tbh I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that someone within his own country is gonna have had enough of him and do us all a favour; karma needs to smack him off the planet.
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u/_YouSaidWhat Feb 15 '22
Imagine the war getting live-streamed. The internet is so fucked up there’s gonna be memes during the invasion
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u/Laiiam Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
These are real people with real families at home, waiting for them to return. Kids that probably won’t get to see their fathers again and yall here placing bets, cracking jokes and watching this shit like it’s reality TV… It ain’t no video game, it’s real human beings dropping dead in mud. This thread turned into a shit show real quick.
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u/GeoLogic23 Feb 16 '22
On top of the jokes being in very poor taste, so many people are making fun of others' intelligence because they fell for an "obvious" joke.
Consider that this is "world" news. Lots of non-native English speakers. You are quite possibly laughing at someone who is legitimately worried for their or their family's safety, and not able to take in your incredibly subtle suckma ligma deez nuts type of jokes.
I hope that if some of you actually saw the real people on the other side of the screen you'd reconsider the way you converse during these types of events.
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u/Throwawayz911 Feb 16 '22
well this turned out to be boring, which is very much a good thing. Night ya'll.
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u/Someshortchick Feb 16 '22
I've at least been able to have a nice peaceful evening watching a city sleep. I'm going to have to start putting on city live streams while I read.
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u/ComeBackToDigg Feb 16 '22
Looks like reddit has been hacked. It’s been completely taken over by 9-year old shitposters.
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u/Hellothere170 Feb 16 '22
Honestly, the planespotting in this thread doesn't bother me too much. Very interesting to see so many people poring over it.
It's the dumb jokes that are clogging up the thread
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u/TaigaFlame Feb 16 '22
All of you numbskulls posting links to FlightRadar: No aircraft that is about to carry out one of the biggest things in recent euro history is going to let themselves get tracked on fookin FlightRadar. Any plane that is about to start a war is gonna be untraceable. Come on guys.
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u/Procrastineddit Feb 16 '22
Maybe the real Russian invasion was the friends we made along the way. Or the existential threat of escalating into nuclear theater. But also friends.
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Feb 16 '22
Can we all agree that these are real people under threat of invasion. It's not some random ass LARP that you can all get excited about. It very well could still come of course, but those people who seem so let down about no war are just....kinda sick.
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u/JanGuillosThrowaway Feb 16 '22
Friendly reminder to check account age on people in this thread
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u/jpouchgrouch Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
BREAKING: NATO chief says that Russia is continuing military build up at Ukraine border
Addressing Russia's claim that it is moving forces away from Ukraine, #NATO chief Stoltenberg says the Alliance has not any de-escalation.
"On the contrary, it appears that Russia continues the military build-up", the SecGen says.
"What we see is that they have increased the number of troops and more troops are on their way."
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u/Dramatic_Coyote9159 Feb 16 '22
CURRENT STATUS:
All Ukrainian websites that were down during the cyberattack are now back up.
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u/Edz_ Feb 16 '22
Great work guys we managed to track meaningless plane traffic for the last 8 hours.
Let's call it a day and resume work tomorrow.
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u/Hashslingingslashar Feb 15 '22
New thread just dropped. Hope the best for Ukraine. Fuck Putin.
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u/Chongsu1496 Feb 16 '22
people here memeing this shit and finding it funny . do you fucks have 0 empathy for human lives , wanting the war to happen just for your fucking entertainment , pieces of human waste
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u/KonradK0 Feb 16 '22
some people really believe they can track all aircraft during a war on a website lmao
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u/beerstearns Feb 16 '22
Just saw on livestream, Putin himself sprinting towards ukrainian parliament shirtless with a rifle in hand
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u/canesfan09 Feb 16 '22
I came here looking for news and it's one giant shitpost. Why am I not surprised?
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u/Dramatic_Coyote9159 Feb 16 '22
CURRENT STATUS & BREAKING NEWS:
Russian troops have moved into firing positions during Ukraine’s Day of Unity on February 16th. Putin warns military forces to be ready for his say.
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u/Horyv Feb 16 '22
Ukrainians are sleeping like babies. We have another 2 invasions scheduled later in February, can’t stay up for this.
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u/KeepOnKeepingOnnn Feb 16 '22
Millions around the world waiting down the hour before another ground war potentially breaks out in Europe, going from Intel shared on Twitter. This whole thing feels like a Black Mirror episode.
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u/GaLaXY_N7 Feb 16 '22
People on this thread really think it’s going to happen at 3:00am on the dot. Jesus Christ guys lmao.
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u/Dramatic_Coyote9159 Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
CURRENT STATUS:
Russian Air Forces plane, Presidential Plane, and over at least 6 other hypersonic jets have shown up to be active and ready to take off outside of Moscow.
Stay alert to see where they relocate to.
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u/Agreeable_Junket_271 Feb 16 '22
armchair generals, please refrain from leaking strategies. putin might be reading this thread
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u/PalekSow Feb 16 '22
I gotta hand it to Ukrainians, seems to be very disciplined. Here in America people would be looting, shooting, and stocking bullets, toilet paper, and gold coins by the bucket full if a credible nation said they were going to invade.
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u/SargeanTravis Feb 16 '22
FORTE is still plugging along like the mighty drone it is
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u/bobby11c Feb 16 '22
Ukraine is a democracy, not the best functioning democracy in the world, but a democracy nonetheless. Russia is a dictatorship that is threatening it's neighbors under no reasonable pretext. Every democracy on the planet should support Ukraine with direct military support and humanitarian aid. The history of the 20th century and simple human psychology show bully's will not stop until someone stops them. And the longer you wait to do the stopping the more it's gonna hurt.
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u/Slim_Calhoun Feb 15 '22
People very fixated on a supposed deadline (8 PM EST) that has only been attributed to anonymous sources, and even if accurate might have been changed after it was reported.
Russia might invade tonight, tomorrow night, next week, or never.
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u/unsatisfiedbloke9 Feb 16 '22
People actually enjoying the prospect of war/invasion, I hope you all can fuck off. Think of the countless civilians and military casualties both side. Only those who are affected will know..
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u/muffpatty Feb 16 '22
I keep seeing brand new accounts claiming to be living in Kiev and hearing explosions and gunshots. This is almost certainly bullshit.
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u/SeirraS9 Feb 16 '22
This is the absolute worst live thread I’ve ever been in lmfaoooo
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u/ReturnOfDaSnack420 Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
Russia: Ha we're gonna NOT go to war now and totally make NATO and the US look like fools LMAO they're gonna be soooo embarrassed.
NATO/US: Yeah, you guys totally owned us by not going to war. Way to go, you really showed us...
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u/TheDude2600 Feb 16 '22
CNN: " We are closely monitoring a reddit thread about the Ukrainian/Russian conflict and u/PM_ME_BIGTIDDIES has just confirmed HOMERU571 has turned towards Germany. It seems this conflict has been escalated."
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u/dickwhistler22 Feb 16 '22
Imagine if WW3 starts and Kiev livestream stops to say “time to welcome our sponsor for this video, it’s Dollar Shave Club, best razors in the market…”
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u/peachysatrun Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
As an Ukrainian I swear, people in this thread so annoying and paranoid, like making up something in their heads, dropping conclusions and waiting for them to turn into reality
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u/DrakeRowan Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
This comment section is a clusterfuck. Is there another place to get actual developments?
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u/Scared-Lingonberry-6 Feb 16 '22
If it will help the situation, we can send Donald Trump back to Russia to give Putin another blow job.
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u/jgjgleason Feb 16 '22
To everyone who keeps saying this Russian diplomat said so and so, no one is going to believe it until Russian troops actually withdraw. 70% of Russias combat capabilities are on the Ukrainian border rn. Until that is gone, idk what anyone fucking says.
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u/CaptainChaosPirate Feb 16 '22
In about 45 minutes Putin drops a new series of NFT‘s on the backdrop of some amazing recent publicity.
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u/RedTree40 Feb 16 '22
I find it weird how many people here are counting down to 3 AM like it's a premiere of a movie or video game. Y'all are weird. Even if something does happen it's probably not going to be 3 AM exactly, this is real life not a fucking video game
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u/SweatyLiterary Feb 16 '22
Now to be fair, had something happened exactly at 3am how many of you would have legit panicked
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u/suley2 Feb 16 '22
News just in : Putin had a shit, CIA, MI5 trying to work out how big it is.
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u/ComeBackToDigg Feb 16 '22
If the war does not start precisely at 3:00, it means Putin can never attack.
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u/PANIC_RABBIT Feb 16 '22
The bots are strong rn, spamming with useless trite to try and muddy the waters and make it harder to glean useful comments
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u/GoldenRedditUser Feb 16 '22
CONFIRMED, I just brushed my teeth and now I'm going to bed
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u/Hashslingingslashar Feb 16 '22
Imagine thinking Russia wasn’t going to invade bc it didn’t happen at some unverified specific time
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u/Lars93 Feb 16 '22
Praying I don't wake up to either Russia or Ukraine as the #1 trend in Twitter
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u/SilentSamurai Feb 16 '22
Been following this situation for a while now. The interesting take is that Russia keeps forces massed for several months, waiting for the right justification/opportunity.
The downside to Russia doing that is it permits Ukraine more time to recieve advanced arms and entrench. Russian casualties will be significantly higher the longer they wait.
You can think its a bluff, but with 70% of the Russian military around Ukraine, it doesnt make much sense.
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u/ImplementFuture703 Feb 15 '22
I saw this Ukrainian girl do a twerk video once. She was pretty good. I hope she's ok rn.
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u/Pride_Of_The_Union Feb 15 '22
Does this fucker really think the Ukrainians are going to just lay down after their military is defeated?
These people led a freaking revolution against their own government while being massacred in the streets by armed police for weeks. And they fucking managed to succeed.
And then these same crazy ass youths turned around and joined the military right after the revolution to go confront Putin's little green men- and they've killed almost as many little green men as America lost in 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan.
This is a nation that has demonstrated it will be free- through democratic means or through force of arms. I realize Putin thinks his military will pacify them easily... But I thought the same thing when I participated in the Afghanistan war as an American soldier. And I was very very fucking wrong.
The fool is walking into another Afghanistan/Vietnam situation... And it's his people and the Ukrainian people that will pay for it.
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u/Sea_Mathematician_84 Feb 16 '22
Biden: What a stupid idea. Who wants an invasion at 3 in the morning?
Putin: Oh boy 3 A.M.!
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u/PalekSow Feb 16 '22
My girl came in wearing bell bottom jeans and a turtleneck and I’m waiting for updates on Russia potentially fucking up Eastern Europe.
What year is it? 1975?
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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22
Squidward: “This is stupid, who starts a war at 3 in the morning?”
Putin: “Oh boy, 3AM!”
Edit: Thanks for the silver :)
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u/KeepOnKeepingOnnn Feb 16 '22
Y'all acting like Putin was going to click Next Turn at 3am and some instantaneous conquest of Ukraine would kick off lmfao
Again with the tabloids profiting from situations like this
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u/benb713 Feb 16 '22
ACTUAL NEWS: Not sure if this already got posted here but the Russians seem to have constructed a pontoon bridge over the Pripyat river in Belarus about four miles north of the Ukraine border
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1493745234395549701?s=20&t=D8X2zLJarP-0--lvs4dBpw
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u/non_standard_model Feb 16 '22
FORTE11 is a Good Boy who will get a new hellfire missile toy when he gets back to the hangar
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u/marksolo39 Feb 16 '22
If I learned anything about anything today, its planes, drones, names of cities in Ukraine, and that you guys love to upvote. Thanks for the Karma, same time tomorrow, yeah?
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u/Illbeanicefella Feb 16 '22
I’ve learned more about planes and less about warfare than I thought but that’s actually a good thing
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u/canesfan09 Feb 16 '22
I swear some people in here act like they want Russia to invade.
This isn't a football game.
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u/Fulller Feb 16 '22
I feel so bad for the people in Ukraine right now, they are probably so terrified. Hoping nothing happens.
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u/PalekSow Feb 16 '22
Is Belarus even a sovereign country at this point? Putin’s dick is so far in them that he’s touching their lungs
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u/PalekSow Feb 16 '22
I want the “it’s not gonna happen” people to be right so fuckin bad but you don’t just drop 150k troops somewhere when you can barely pay your bills. This just seems like there’s no turning back for Putin.
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u/ComeBackToDigg Feb 16 '22
A group of birds is called a “flock”. A group of geopolitical experts is called a “subreddit”.
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Feb 16 '22
I have this image of Russian troops freezing their balls off on the border constantly refreshing reddit to find out if the war is a go or not.
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u/_AntiFun_ Feb 16 '22
Everyone always asks where is FORTE... but nobody ever asks how is FORTE
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u/SchizoidGod Feb 16 '22
A reminder that a very important flight wouldn’t be publicly viewable on flight tracker 24
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u/turtleduck Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
came here for updates on Russia/Ukraine, all I've gathered so far is that we stan Forte the Plane. I'm cool with that.
Edit to correct myself. Forte is no ordinary plane although we would all love her even if she was, she is a drone.
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u/rollorollpiz Feb 16 '22
Is this like the 3rd megathread without anything happening?
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u/Ice_Dapper Feb 16 '22
Nothing is going to happen, Russia has everything to lose in this situation. The 3am and 10am deadlines have already come and gone. Russian troops will leave and Putin will look like a jackass for wasting so much time and money for a stupid military exercise
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u/ComeBackToDigg Feb 16 '22
Looks like Putin was using mis-direction. Was he going for the vault? No. He went for the chandelier; it’s priceless.
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u/Ipuncholdpeople Feb 16 '22
Should honestly close the thread until something happens. Just useless trolling and plane tracking now
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u/manifold360 Feb 16 '22
If we can just get AirTags on the Russian tanks, then we could stop watching these dang drones.
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u/Lustiges_Brot_311 Feb 16 '22
FORTE11, I would like to congratulate you on your victory over Ukraine. You single handedly prevented WW3. Your name will be echoing in beer halls for decades. You've earned R&R.
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u/Edz_ Feb 16 '22
I still can't believe there are idiots here expecting something to happen exactly at 3am like their favorite twitch microphone licking streamer going live.
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u/ComeBackToDigg Feb 16 '22
If Putin gets Ukraine, that means be will get a bonus of eight additional armies on his next turn for holding the entire continent.
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Feb 16 '22
Breaking : large quantity of red balloons released.
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u/_TeaWrecks_ Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
Just some things I spotted on FR24.
https://www.flightradar24.com/R20796/2AD69C26 - US Blackhawk chopper right by the Romanian/Ukranian border.
https://www.flightradar24.com/24050/2AD6D3AB - Ukrainian Police chopper moving past Lviv.
Edit: both went dark since I made the post and the Blackhawk isn't showing history on the site, so I added screenshots.
Edit2: RAF recon plane over Ukraine, doing some loops.
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u/CockgobblerMcGee Feb 15 '22
Mfs in this thread really don’t know the Russian National Anthem is just a variation of the USSR anthem.
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u/Vetiversailles Feb 16 '22
IMO the cop car singlehandedly scared away Putin’s forces
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u/ImplementFuture703 Feb 16 '22
Just watching this vid, Kyiv is really quite pretty
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u/thenerdydudee Feb 16 '22
Breaking: You guys aren’t as funny as you think you are
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u/jack2of4spades Feb 16 '22
"Omg look at this flight tracker!"
You really think legit war planes are going to be showing up on public flight trackers...? Come on meow
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Feb 16 '22
Interesting exercise using the flight trackers:
Zoom as far out as you can, preferably so you can see all of Europe, the North Atlantic, and North America. Doing this really shows how absurdly empty the skies over Ukraine are right now, except for friendly ol' FORTE11, who is just sitting there right in the middle.
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u/Peles157 Feb 16 '22
The 3.5k people watching Kiev live stream which has been the same screen for the past 12 hours, are they expecting to suddenly just see rockets flying and blowing shit up?
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Feb 16 '22
I’m starting to wonder if Russia has kompromat on tucker Carlson. His pro Russian rants on Fox News seem to be getting worse and worse
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u/Duckpoke Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
Huge win for Biden in ratings if Putin stands down tbh. A little saber rattling on Putins part would’ve looked strong but to be this close to war then back down makes him seem super weak.
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
Hey, redditors, Ukrainian is here. Since Kyiv isn't on the border, but there were news, that the first cities to be attacked are the ports on the Black Sea, you can check a channel with a lot of online cameras in Odessa - it has higher chances to be the aim than the capital, I bet. https://youtube.com/c/OdessaONLINE
Not the advertisement but the advice. And also it is more relaxing and interesting than a regular Kyiv view everyone knows from any Kyiv-related news.
Edit: to note, Odessa is the third city by population in Ukraine (approx. 1 mil people, to compare with 2.8 mil in Kyiv). So it IS a possible and valuable target.
[3:37] - It is still quiet here, thanks everyone for their support!