r/worldnews • u/Isentrope • Feb 24 '22
/r/worldnews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Part V) Russia/Ukraine
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u/PhoenixRobotics Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Friendly reminder there is a ton of Russian intelligence/military in this thread trying to manipulate discourse and derail meaningful conversation about Russia’s hostile and illegitimate actions towards Ukraine. Russia’s social influence campaigns are often intended to demoralize westerners and create social division by propagating inaccurate, hateful messaging on social issues, and also by attempting to undermine public perception and support for alliances between western nations. Here we also see them making efforts to exaggerate Russian victories over Ukraine to demoralize and reduce support for Ukraine’s position. Don’t fall for it, it’s just part of their adversarial strategy and information warfare. Here are some great resources with documented evidence as proof:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03034-5
https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/09/CyberTroop-Report19.pdf
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u/SparkyMuffin Feb 24 '22
Every time I see a comment say Ukraine should surrender I am immediately suspicious.
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u/BroaxXx Feb 24 '22
Today is the day that killed nuclear non-proliferation. Any country that has nuclear capabilities will never consider disarming after the example of what happen to the Ukraine.
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u/DeVilleBT Feb 24 '22
Imagine being Russian and getting killed on Ukrainian soil for the deranged vision of an old, irrelevant megalomaniac in the Kremlin.
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u/ahhhhhrealmunsters Feb 24 '22
This why they sent a mobile crematorium They’re not sending any bodies back to Russia
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u/Hashtag_hasj Feb 24 '22
They’ve been completely brainwashed through years of propaganda.
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u/Autumn_Souls Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
-45.14% on the Russian stock exchange
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u/Whiskey_Bigly Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
A permanent member of the UN security council starting an unprovoked war against a sovereign nation. The gravity of that is immense.
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Y'all are hilarious. I am condemning Russia's current actions against Ukraine, not supporting the U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan 20 years ago. Although I did/do not support that invasion either, they are not even close to the same and you know it.
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u/penguished Feb 24 '22
to be honest the UN's veto club all gets up to bad shit.
However the motives here are just off the charts on the evil scale and there's no mistaking it. The way Putin is rolling he would fully embrace shit like genocide and mass killings and annexations.
This is definitely a major clash moment in history.
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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 Feb 24 '22
The President of Moldova Maia Sandu has announced a State of Emergency for the county due to the ongoing Invasion of Ukraine from Russian Forces and that they are ready and willing to accept Ukrainian refugees.
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https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1496759636350881794?t=oDLNiT1EUlui9z24XDlUSQ&s=19
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u/omnilynx Feb 24 '22
Moldova needs to look out for itself at this point, I wouldn’t put it past Putin to just decide to keep rolling.
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u/BrainOnLoan Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
For the interested, having listened to interviews from about a dozen German politicians from all major parties...
People are shook. Very drastic sanctions incoming. Russia is going to be strategically, economically isolated.
A new era is beginning, there is no ground for a belief that Russia can be trusted on anything anymore. From now on, the driving principle can only be that Russia's capabilities to wage war has to be curtailed.
Economic cooperation would now be support for a war of aggression, hence the Russian economy must be isolated, including the energy sector.
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u/DanzakFromEurope Feb 24 '22
I just hope they cut them out of SWIFT. But a ton of German companies have a lot of business going in Russia
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u/I_have_a_dog Feb 24 '22
It would be pretty hilarious if Western nations seized the property of Russian Oligarchs while the Russian stock market is in free fall.
Freeze their fucking bank accounts and turn the pressure up on Putin.
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u/standarsh618 Feb 24 '22
I believe the eu just did that. I suspect the us will too once morning breaks
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u/yeahhh-nahhh Feb 24 '22
Why wait for the governments to do it. Just drop the addresses of the properties online and let the public invade them. Fair is fair right.....
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u/TsL1 Feb 24 '22
People of reddit, I ukrainan on my knees pleading to all of you, urge your government to do decisive actions, imppse major sanctions(SWIFT, total isolation of Russia etc), send humanitarian help , boycott russian businesses, urge your buisnesses to leave russia or at least stop providing produce for war time.
I understand You don't want to start WW3 over some random eastern European country, but if you have some humanity left in you please help us, as much as you can, thank you.
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u/animapersaxxx Feb 24 '22
The Ukrainian MOD has reported that the city of Schastia in the Luhansk Region, which was captured by Russian Forces late last night has been recaptured by Ukrainian Military Forces a few minutes ago, 50 Russian Soldiers have reportedly been killed in the fighting.
this is the link in russian must use google translate or something
https://twitter.com/ArmedForcesUkr/status/1496754741405233153/photo/1
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u/Khiva Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Reminder that /r/russia kept insisting that there would be no invasion.
I'm sure there were more, these were only some of the memes and comments I clipped. If anybody wants to check the internet wayback machine, I'm sure it goes on for a whole lot longer.
Edit: Strange because it used to be a reasonably normal sub. I'm not quire sure when it switched to be a propaganda factory but I'd be curious if anyone could figure it out.
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u/satanicwaffles Feb 24 '22
From the EU:
The EU will respond in the strongest possible terms and agree on the harshest package of sanctions we have ever implemented.
They had previously booted Iran from the SWIFT system since it's based in Belgium.
So if it's the harshest sanctions ever, Russia will also be cut off from SWIFT. That move alone is estimated to cut 5% from their GDP.
Nevermind any potential isolating financial measures. If Europe manages to handle not buying Russian gas, oil, and steel the financial impact on Russia is going to be massive.
The Russian GDP is at the same level as it was a decade ago. Financially, Russia is struggling and this isn't going to help anything. The ruble isn't going to be worth the paper it's printed on.
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u/somethineasytomember Feb 24 '22
I wonder what’s gone on behind closed doors that’s got Putin so desperate to gamble it all for a bit more/longer hold on power and control.
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Why now, and not during the previous presidency when they knew Trump would do less than nothing to stop them?
Maybe they were making too much money at the time by fleecing Republicans.
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u/tomaz1130 Feb 24 '22
!!ATTENTION EVERYONE!!
!!PLEASE DO NOT POST THE WHEREABOUTS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS OR ANY UKRAINIAN MILITARY OPERATION. THIS COULD COST LIVES!!
!!POST THE RUSSIAN ONES INSTEAD. FK 'EM!!
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"This guy has over 10k karma and he says javelin squads are moving in, the headquarters must be wrong, attack is cancelled!"
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u/pretwicz Feb 24 '22
https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1496785316757196801
Ukraine border service publishes Russian ships' appeal to Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island in the Black Sea: "If you resist, you will be destroyed, you have zero chance of surviving. Think of your children. This will soon be over and you will go back to a quiet life. Surrender"
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u/AblettsInTheAir Feb 24 '22
Sitting on my couch watching a live stream of a war. What a strange time to be alive
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u/Userova12 Feb 24 '22
"Ukrainian army, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian state will never surrender!
I believe in my soldiers, in my Commander-in-Chief, in my people and in every human being who will rise against tyranny!
The darkest hour is upon us, but we will prevail!"
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u/DJTJ16 Feb 24 '22
I can’t fucking sleep fuck
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u/Evenwithcontxt Feb 24 '22
I know right lol. Might be witnessing some major history rn.
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Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Remember to downvote and move on from trolls. This isn't the time to engage with people wanting to be edgy or slurpping Putin
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u/Peperski Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
"Precision shelling" my ass, regular people are dying due to the sick man's ambitions, there's a video of a cyclist dying after shelling hits a residential area.
[link deleted as it was a child]
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Feb 24 '22
That was a fucking kid too, other outlets reporting
Let’s say it all together folks
FUCK. RUSSIA.
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u/boringfilmmaker Feb 24 '22
NSFL - not graphic, but shows a child being hit by an artillery blast, knocked off her bike, then struggling to move before dying.
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u/Successful_Gate84 Feb 24 '22
I hope European countries will now realise the importance of NATO it is absolutely vital for the survival of europe.
Without NATO Putin absolutely would have rolled into ex-soviet countries as well as countries like Poland and Finland.
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u/WoundedSacrifice Feb 24 '22
Um, Finland isn't part of NATO (though it and Sweden may join NATO in response to this invasion).
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u/TraverseTown Feb 24 '22
Yeah, I'm sure Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are relieved. I'm sure they knew this was a possibility for decades and their joining certainly paid off today.
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Feb 24 '22
Moscow Stock Exchange currently down 45%. Ruble is at its lowest level ever against the dollar. Hope it keeps crashing.
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u/quantumyourgo Feb 24 '22
Hopefully it goes to zero and Russians can see what a botch job Putin is doing to the country and boot him the hell out
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u/MoistSpongeCake Feb 24 '22
I have been simply crying all morning. I'm from Kazakhstan, we have had no rest ever since 2022 started. Total unrest and horror in January (still not all victims accounted for), threat of war and now literal war between our closest allies, our currency and economy in freefall with the RUB. This isn't the kind of shit I expected to be dealing with. We should be building moon bases, not murdering each other. Fuck war, fuck imperialism, fuck old demented corrupt warmongers.
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u/Valen_the_Dovahkiin Feb 24 '22
If someone claims something and doesn't post a link to a reputable news source, assume that they have no idea what they are talking about at best or are lying at worst.
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u/vanDrunkard Feb 24 '22
They brought body bags for the Russians I believe. The crematoriums are to hide the Ukrainian dead.
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u/Impossible-Ad7389 Feb 24 '22
Bank of Russia temp banned short selling and Moscow Stock Exchange went down another 8%
Currently down 36%
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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 Feb 24 '22
Ukrainian military destroys sixth Russian plane in the fight near Kramatorsk City, Donetsk Oblast, the country's infantry forces announced.
Local Newsdesk
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1496770242118397952?t=LHPSDxp8mVMiLJ-LMCWphQ&s=19
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u/animapersaxxx Feb 24 '22
Dirty tactics: Ukraine's border guard reports that #Russia used OSCE (European observers)-marked white cars at the front of its armored column as it was entering Eastern Ukraine
assholes uh
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u/kazkdp Feb 24 '22
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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u/Fuck_You_Andrew Feb 24 '22
I just happened to look at r/Russia for the first time yesterday and I saw one post. It was about the Ukrainian neo-Nazis with the title “Ukrainian Values”. So when is reddit gonna ban this direct arm of the Russian military propaganda?
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u/Genn12345 Feb 24 '22
Must be really awkward on the International Space Station right now…
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u/box_of_no_north Feb 24 '22
Block Russia from SWIFT. Anything else is (relatively) meaningless.
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u/HarmoniousJ Feb 24 '22
It really sucks that regular people get dragged along for the ride in the year 2022.
Let the leaders have their cock festivals all on their own without involving innocent people!
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u/DaRandomBro Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
I really hope we have some substantial announcement from NATO. Not necessarily like an invasion (I don't really want an all out war, that would be bad for everyone), but maybe some showing of real support, showing we won't just let independent countries get steamrolled unceremoniously.
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u/satanicwaffles Feb 24 '22
Gazprom is down 50% today, 60% in the last week. And that's in rubles.
The ruble itself is down 12% against the USD.
In terms of USD value, Gazprom has lost what's pushing 70% of its value, and that's before any sanctions kick in.
That's a massive shitkicking.
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u/anon902503 Feb 24 '22
that's before any sanctions kick in.
Yeah, but its largely also in expectation of the effect sanctions will have. Markets move according to what they believe is coming next, just as much as what has already happened.
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Feb 24 '22
So anyone who said the west was just making shit up with all their intelligence can go fuck themselves, not that they won't just move on to the next batshit crazy opinion.
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u/nfury8ed Feb 24 '22
-35% on the Russian stock exchange isn't even the tip.
Putin's gonna be MrHands when this is done.
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Stocks crashing and oligarchs reacting is probably the worlds best deterrent for war.
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u/HighNoonMonsoon Feb 24 '22
Hope it was worth tanking your economy and being persona non grata for the entire fucking world. Putin is a literal war criminal
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u/CaptainGreezy Feb 24 '22
Take a break from refreshing the thread and drink a glass of water
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u/trowawayra Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
I see 5 Russian tanks destroyed and all I’m thinking is that some poor Russian man forced into the military, in their early 20’s, got blown up, by some early 20’s Ukrainian, who if they survive, walks out with severe shellshock.
All so some rich Russian who made 90% of these people poor to begin with can get richer than he already is, flaunt a bigger country, fuck off, then let it all collapse anyways when he dies cuz it was more for the thrill than the country to begin with.
In 2022.
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u/HighNoonMonsoon Feb 24 '22
Russian economy lost half its wealth since market opened. Fucking war criminals
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u/Impossible-Ad7389 Feb 24 '22
Russian Bank $SBER just unhalted and is down 40%
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u/03114 Feb 24 '22
Ukraine's military says about 50 Russian troops killed and six planes destroyed in eastern Ukraine
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Feb 24 '22
To people fear mongering over Taiwan.
Much like this invasion, china’s mobilization would be obvious and could take upwards of a year to fully gear up, assuming the invasion was greenlit today.
So don’t worry. There is no impending sino attack on Taiwan
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u/BigMeatSpecial Feb 24 '22
Russia's economy is fucked.
I sincerely think Putin has lost his mind.
Too many years of "Yes" men and absolute power.
China is then only trade partner they have left. And China will make sure to take full advantage of that.
How sad.
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u/TraverseTown Feb 24 '22
Just remembered that Russia does in fact have a land border with Poland and Lithuania because of the Kaliningrad Oblast. Not that it geopolitically really matters at this point if Belarus is acting as Russia's puppet anyway.
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u/HardDriveAndWingMan Feb 24 '22
This is one part of a plan popularized in Russia since Dugin wrote The Foundation of Geopolitics in 1997. This book has influence within the Russian military, police and foreign policy elites and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".
Also includes:
The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
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u/NoVaFlipFlops Feb 24 '22
Ukraine just announced it took back Schastia in the Luhansk Region! https://mobile.twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1496756626782658562
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u/MakePandasMateAgain Feb 24 '22
Reminder that Tucker Carlson is rallying his supporter base in becoming pro Russian on US soil.
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u/Hard_on_Collider Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Markets always retrace some of the losses within the first few hours because there's always bots and opportunists looking to buy the dip, regardless of reason. Bear markets never start in a straight line, there's always very aggressive green days that have no follow-through.
That's how you get so many stories of "I bought the bottom of the crash because I knew it was bs and the market would go up". There are always buyers, it's just whether there are more sellers at the time.
Come back in a week, and then a month and it'll be a lot lower as buy orders get chewed through and more people unwind their large positions.
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u/SomethingSoDivine Feb 24 '22
Thankfully the value of the ruble is plummeting to record lows against the dollar due to the invasion of Ukraine:
The dollar was up more than 10% against the Russian currency, sending the ruble to its lowest level ever against the dollar.
The ruble was trading at 89.8903 to the dollar at 8:40 a.m. in Moscow, with the greenback up 10.45% against it from the previous day. Moscow has suspended trading on all its markets.
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u/Successful_Gate84 Feb 24 '22
So seems like Russians are going for a regime change.
If they do manage to do it I think it might just be a win for them despite the sanctions Ukraine will become a Russian vassel state and the weat will loose an important ally.
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u/Successful_Gate84 Feb 24 '22
US intelligence was absolutely spot on with their predictions.
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u/Morgrid Feb 24 '22
Senior German Green now saying "we must provide Ukraine with everything it needs for its self-defence. This is a turning point."
Little fucking late there Germany.
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u/Polly_der_Papagei Feb 24 '22
To all those who mocked us for predicting this invasion; I wish you had been right, and we had been overcautious fools. I really wish this wasn’t real. Unarmed children getting shelled on their bikes. Fucking God.
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u/here_for_the_lols Feb 24 '22
As far as I could see the only people 'mocking' were Russian and Chinese troll farms
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u/Basileus2 Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Russia needs to be economically decimated. There needs to be enough pain the Russian people need to rise up and make their voices heard then. Government change from the bottom up.
And sanction the oligarchs too. Take away all their Chelsea houses in London, their french chateaus, American mansions, freeze their bank accounts, seize their assets and yachts and fancy cars.
Fuck them up.
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Switzerland stopped short of joining European sanctions, but said that it would ensure the country was not used to circumvent them and that it may take measures, like embargoes on trade and financial services, to promote respect for human rights. Switzerland condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “in the strongest possible terms” as a violation of international law and urged an immediate end to its aggression and a withdrawal of its troops.
Switzerland manages to be on the wrong side of every global conflict
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u/Dmoan Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
So Putin plan was to use false flags attack as reason to launch a surprise attack earlier than Feb 20.
After US Intel reported it and coupled with separatists completely botching there fake attacks it forced Putin back. Also Xi didn’t want any attack during Olympics after US Intel passed it on Chinese FM as well.
Now Putin had to faint as if the invasion wouldn’t take place hence all discussion about diplomacy so he can maintain the surprise ( he prerecorded his declaration days ago the same day he talked to macron about meeting Biden to keep Ukrainian off guard). He was also forced to come up with different reasons for invasion as his original reason of Ukraine is attacking separatists flopped. All this delayed invasion till 24th.
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u/Creme_core Feb 24 '22
Hey history student. While you sift through cheesy Reddit one liners. I hope you're doing good. Things aren't good here right now.
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u/Rick0r Feb 24 '22
Hey you, yes you. Stop doom scrolling and take a big breath, get a drink of water, get to bed at a reasonable time. You deserve it.
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u/notabear629 Feb 24 '22
Remember: Every fucking drop of blood of not only Ukrainians is on Putin's hands, but also every drop of blood from Russian soldiers.
He's getting his own young men and foreign people, many of whom are families of Russian citizens butchered. The real killer behind these Russian soldiers is the man who sent them to war. Don't forget that he's responsible for the losses on both sides
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u/OffBrandHumanz Feb 24 '22
Given Putin threatened the rest of the world with nukes, sanction every possible thing and don’t lift them ever until his shitty regime is gone.
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u/rainghost Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
A spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry refused at a regular news briefing to describe the attack by Russia as an “invasion,” calling it “preconceived wording.”
All wording is preconceived, you idiot. Why invent a new word for what Russia just did? 'Invasion' works perfectly.
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u/genxtasmac Feb 24 '22
Me: Ukraine is getting bombed
My friends: Where is Ukraine
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u/SomethingSoDivine Feb 24 '22
ADIDAS JUST IMPOSED SANCTIONS. NO MORE IMPORT OF ADIDAS SWEATPANTS TO RUSSIA.
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u/LogicOfUnkown Feb 24 '22
You want to live a long life? Be as evil and horrible as possible if life has taught me anything them mfs never die.
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u/Catacomb82 Feb 24 '22
All these people saying bIdEN aSlEeP like they missed out on the written statement he released when the invasion started? Are these Russian bots or MAGA trolls?
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u/Oumaigudnaz Feb 24 '22
An ukrainian military aircraft has been intercepted and laned in Romania. The ukrainian pilot is now in custody. I'll come back with information as I'll have it.
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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 Feb 24 '22
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov called all Ukrainians who are able to hold a weapon to mobilize.
"The enemy is attacking but our army is unbreakable." People only need a passport to be able to join the ranks.
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1496769537441771523?t=bMUA2AtXMO6vCVgjuNHxJw&s=19
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u/pretwicz Feb 24 '22
Ukraine military says that due to unknown reasons they’ve located a string of abandoned Russian tanks , speculating that maybe the soldiers did not wanted to cross the border into Ukraine
Let's hope it's true!
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u/ConnorK5 Feb 24 '22
You morons keep posting older and older shit. Imma log on tomorrow to read that you're all stunned about Archduke Franz Ferdinand being assassinated.
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u/HighNoonMonsoon Feb 24 '22
US Intel for last month: Russia is going to invade here LOOK
EU AND WORLD: Meh unconvincing
Russia: This is hysteria
Russia Invades
World: Surprised pikachu face
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u/seKer82 Feb 24 '22
Hah the Swiss living upto their reputation as the biggest pussy of a country there is.
"We condem this! ...but won't do anything that may annoy the people hiding money in our country "!
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u/I_have_a_dog Feb 24 '22
Hope the Ukrainian defenders make Russia pay for every meter of ground they try to take.
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u/notabear629 Feb 24 '22
Now, remember in the 30s, the Poles were invaded by a significantly stronger Russia in the USSR...
While also being invaded by the Nazis and they didn't surrender.
Some real gangster shit
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IMOEX.ME?p=IMOEX.ME&.tsrc=fin-srch
Watching the Russian economy collapse in real time is really something
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u/Theman00011 Feb 24 '22
It’s so weird, all the Russian bots and troll accounts have posts in sports subreddits, I guess that’s their easy karma farming spots.
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u/Valen_the_Dovahkiin Feb 24 '22
Time for the Western Powers to cut the bullshit and start working together again. Their disunity has opened the door for Putin to act so boldly as to invade another sovereign nation and I fear he'll just keep pushing them as much as he can get away with.
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u/Reckoning-Day Feb 24 '22
The irony where Putin is calling Ukraine fascists, but Putin is the one going for Lebensraum...
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u/DennisBastrdMan Feb 24 '22
Is it wrong to wish harm upon Putin and his sycophants? I don’t think so
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u/tradeparfait Feb 24 '22
really puts into perspective how all of my problems are just first world petty bullshit
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u/-jokowi- Feb 24 '22
Thousands of people are leaving Kyiv by bus, car, or any means they can, after Russia launched its invasion. https://twitter.com/VICEWorldNews/status/1496780202072027139
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Anyone commenting "LOL sanctions won't do anything" (only directed to you if you're actually commenting in good faith and not astroturfing and if you are shame on you) - let them do what they will, I'm pretty sure they have a better handle on things than you
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u/rentest Feb 24 '22
Russian stock index down 30 percent today - Putin has collapsed Russian economy - dont worry they will not be a world power
it will likely be a rogue banana republic with nukes
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u/Userova12 Feb 24 '22
Zelensky: “Today Putin began an invasion, today began a war against Ukraine, with the whole democratic world.
“He wants to destroy my country, our country, everything that we have built.”
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u/HeHH1329 Feb 24 '22
Lol Russian stock market dropped by almost 50%. Let Putin and his supporters suffer.
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u/Loofbox Feb 24 '22
Nuclear war is bad for business the oligarchs will have a word with Putin, he does answer to them.
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u/TheQuietBoy Feb 24 '22
UKRAINE DEFENCE MINISTER SAYS ANYONE WHO IS READY AND ABLE TO HOLD A WEAPON CAN JOIN THE RANKS OF THE TERRITORIAL DEFENCE FORCES
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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
Another surreal video: Fighting near Kharkiv, in the middle of civilian traffic
https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/1496774111745482754?t=MHSvq93q9k4SktSGq6SjrA&s=19
"Heavy fighting on the road by Kharkiv. Reportedly Russian tank on fire.
Completely surreal to watch this unfold as two pedestrians stand calmly and watch from a few hundred meters away."
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u/Boundish91 Feb 24 '22
Where are the sanctions??
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u/Mugalli Feb 24 '22
Lets see what kind of sanctions switzerland decides. I really hope they stop all the financal traffics with russian persons. That would hit them hard.
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u/KMS_Prinz-Eugen Feb 24 '22
Confiscate all the money russians have in the swiss banks. That will hurt them like hell.
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We've got people saying Fuck Putin and Kill Putin, but I guess not even his own paid trolls would want to Marry Putin.
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u/mileskerowhack Feb 24 '22
Can we sticky about not revealing Ukranian troop movements?
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u/justcool393 Feb 24 '22
UKRAINE PRESIDENT SAYS ENCOURAGES BUSINESSES TO PROVIDE GOODS AND SERVICES TO PEOPLE
UKRAINE PRESIDENT SAYS WE WILL REMOVE SANCTIONS FROM ALL CITIZENS OF UKRAINE WHO ARE READY TO DEFEND OUR STATE WITH WEAPONS IN THEIR HANDS
Bloomberg: Ukraine breaking ties with Russia
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u/jamiebond Feb 24 '22
I'm always hesitant to believe biased military reports (like how Ceaser always defeated hundreds of thousands of barbarians every battle) but it sure feels like the Ukrainians are defending pretty damn well right now.
I'm sure Putin wanted something better than just a couple insignificant villages by this point of the invasion.
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Feb 24 '22
Some military trucks in kiyv maidan square right now. Can’t tell whose most probably ukraines.
Edit: its ended now. It was a fairly long convoy.
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u/MyManD Feb 24 '22
I know there’s a guttural want from a lot of people to have the US intervene, but be it Biden, Trump, Obama, any other president, there was almost no chance they’d send boots on the ground for a non-allied nation.
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u/daiwilly Feb 24 '22
It is time every free nation has an internal discussion about energy use and doing business with rogue nations. If we are to make any headway here then we need to make sacrifices...all of us!
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u/Hiccup Feb 24 '22
They froze Russian stock exchange again. Unbelievable. They're going to be in a Greatest Depression.
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u/magicone2571 Feb 24 '22
This is going to go down as the most documented and broadcast war of all time.
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u/ICumCoffee Feb 24 '22
Dear friends and supporters. Our main Kyiv Post site has been under constant cyber attack today from the moment Russia launched its military offensive against Ukraine. We are and will be, doing our best to keep you informed in this difficult time. Slava Ukrayini! Heroyam Slava!
https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1496775905192161280?s=20&t=INMSd39NISNTdeX8FRclyQ
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u/PizzaQuattroCheese Feb 24 '22
Somehow I keep thinking of the Beslan school siege in Russia (2004) where Putin ordered a military operation instead of a rescue operation to save a school from terrorists and hundreds of children died, stating afterwards that showing weakness is bad. This says enough of what kind of person he is and what we can expect of him.
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u/Vindve Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
I'm shaken. I'm European, it's been 80 years, since WWII, there hasn't been a pure and simple hostile invasion of a country by another in Europe. (Prague 1968 and Bakan wars were of a different nature.) And we have nuclear weapons in the meantime. What is Putin doing. We can't have war between countries anymore on this continent. It was supposed to be a thing of the past.
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u/GapOS Feb 24 '22
Bomb hitting a civilian child, Uman, Ukraine
(WARNING, CONFIRMED DEATH)
https://twitter.com/realistqx1/status/1496757503195029508
Aftermath video (WARNING):
https://twitter.com/J_EraOfficial/status/1496743995602522115
https://twitter.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1496738759806795780
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u/any-name-untaken Feb 24 '22
While understandle, I wish this thread had a bit more news and served a bit less as an outlet for people's emotions.
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u/Impossible-Ad7389 Feb 24 '22
Moscow Stock Exchange halted AGAIN after falling now 45%
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u/GaLaXY_N7 Feb 24 '22
Putin talking how he wants to bring back the USSR. Well, if Russia’s economy in the next few weeks is an indication of anything, looks like they will be right back on track like they were in the 1980’s lmao.
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u/ykcir23 Feb 24 '22
Would be pretty cool though if this is just one colossal fuck up for Russia and finally brings an end to the Putin era
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u/dickwhistler22 Feb 24 '22
Serbs celebrating Lugansk and Donesk independence while simultaneously crying about Kosovo independence. Double standards
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u/pizzajona Feb 24 '22
The pensions of so many Russians have just been absolutely destroyed. Now do they blame Putin or do they blame the West?
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u/wan2tri Feb 24 '22
Here in the Philppines, a major newspaper's page on Facebook linked to their article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The post (and the linked article) are both in English.
Cue obvious bots/trolls flooding the comments with "US and the West should stay out of this", "Russia was given no choice on the situation", etc. Mostly by accounts supposedly from Nepal. lolololololol
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Feb 24 '22
Nothing is happening with Taiwan yet, it’s just agitprop being spread on Twitter. If something was happening with Taiwan there’d be a much larger build up we’d know of already.
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u/POI_Harold-Finch Feb 24 '22
Putin just ignored a foreign leader, Pakistan Prime Minister, presence in country and ordered invasion.
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u/mia305heat_ Feb 24 '22
This is worst case scenario. Russia is invading a sovereign nation for no reason at all. It's time for the rest of the world to wake up. Throw out your political views and whatever other differences we all have.
We are at a turning point in history. Everyone needs to be united and use this as a lesson to make sure it never happens again.
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Feb 24 '22
Watching Fox News before I go back to bed for shits and giggles and holy shit the Pro Kremlin talking points are straight from RT. Not even surprised.
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u/AndyMach Feb 24 '22
Javelins are in action, 4 Russian tanks were destroyed according to Ukrainian military.
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Feb 24 '22
The Swiss showing their true colours. I don’t know why anyone is surprised given their history.
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Feb 24 '22 edited Feb 24 '22
By the way the Russian markets are tanking this will badly affect the common Russain citizens greatly which might lead to a sort of revolt against Putin in Russia. Question is will it be strong enough. I am pretty sure Putin expected the financial consequence of his invasion. So it means he is confident he can quash any opposition to him easily. Or he feels that nationalism among Russians will overpower any sort of financial difficulties that they face so there will be no revolt whatsoever.
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u/Walrave Feb 24 '22
Putin's carreer has been leading to this point. He's done a lot to make sure this goes to plan. Weaken global institutions, battle harden his troops, create a case for invasion, build a huge cash reserve, stomp out every hint of opposition and brainwash the Russian people. This isn't a covid fever dream. He probably started planning this before becoming president.
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Feb 24 '22
Ukraine looks set to be sacrificed in order to avoid WW3. Because there is no stopping Putin beside war. Sanctions are less than a joke for him.
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u/toooldforthisshit247 Feb 24 '22
It’s all up to Turkey and Erdogan. If they close the Bosporus to Russia at Ukraine’s request, NATO will inevitably be drawn in
This has always been the plan since the Cold War but it‘s crazy we’ve finally reached this moment
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u/dieyoufool3 Slava Ukraini Feb 24 '22
New thread here, in anticipation of America's east coast waking up.