Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

Zhirinovsky is still alive apparently although in a bad way.

He used to be the crazy cartoon fascist in the Duma, advocating invading their neighbours. Now that is state policy. A man ahead of his time.
dont forget his drunken magnus opus

In a 2003 video,[75] a drunken Zhirinovsky threatened George W. Bush in offensive language. He called the United States a "second-hand goods store" filled with "cocksuckers, handjobbers, and faggots", and claimed that Russian scientists are able to change the gravitational field of the Earth and sink the entire country.[76] In the video Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and Condoleezza Rice are also mentioned. Zhirinovsky calls Condoleezza Rice: "a black whore who needs a good cock. Send her here, one of our divisions will make her happy in the barracks one night. She will choke on Russian sperm as it will be leaking out of her ears ... until she crawls to the US embassy in Moscow on her knees."[76]
 
Lots of rumours that Russia is going to use chemical weapons. Their officers are getting Pralidoxime shots. If this happens, I can see NATO intervening.



Russians may very well use chemical weapons. They used them in Syria and the West did nada. NATO will not get involved. The risk of escalation to nuclear is too big
 
hummm... suspicious

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Funny. When I recently stumbled upon this picture of Putin:

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I also thought of the HP franchise, but rather this guy:

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The nose, eye brows, chin, lips..
 
perhaps one of the objectives was purging the military command structure?

Purging the military command, getting rid of military equipment, getting rid of oligarchs assets, getting rid of foreign investment, starving the russian population etc.
 
Zelensky was invited to speak with EU council today and he clashed with Orban.



So far EU hasn’t been able to route weapons via Hungarian borders. Which Zelensky seems unhappy with, it was discussed that UA needs smoother and quicker weapon supplies.
 
Zelensky was invited to speak with EU council today and he clashed with Orban.



So far EU hasn’t been able to route weapons via Hungarian borders. Which Zelensky seems unhappy with, it was discussed that UA needs smoother and quicker weapon supplies.

Orban is pissing on the memory of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, too.
 
Orban is pissing on the memory of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, too.

He fell in line on sanctions, and I think he will end up falling in line on weapon deliveries. But I hope the voters in Hungary are paying attention to this and will bring more NATO/EU-friendly parties to the next legislature. EU is their home no matter what they think of it, Russia as it is now is the only threat to their security, and Orban has been ignoring that threat for years.
 
Zelensky was invited to speak with EU council today and he clashed with Orban.



So far EU hasn’t been able to route weapons via Hungarian borders. Which Zelensky seems unhappy with, it was discussed that UA needs smoother and quicker weapon supplies.

Hungarians have choices to make during the upcoming elections in April. If they still have Orban in charge EU should seriously consider its membership as another term might mean Hungary slipping into full scale autocracy.
 
There are some rumours from credible journalists in Poland that Roman Abramovich has just arrived to Poland.

Biden has arrived to Poland, too.

Interesting if true, given what Zelensky said about Abramovich a few days ago.
 
He fell in line on sanctions, and I think he will end up falling in line on weapon deliveries. But I hope the voters in Hungary are paying attention to this and will bring more NATO/EU-friendly parties to the next legislature. EU is their home no matter what they think of it, Russia as it is now is the only threat to their security, and Orban has been ignoring that threat for years.
I hope you’re right, and I agree completely.
 
The Russians are apparently saying that they're going to focus on the Donbas. Looks likely that they'll take the entire region, then call it a victory and go home. It also seems like they want to stay in Mariupol, but whether annexed or part of Donbas or set up an even more puppet government than Donetsk and Luhansk, who knows. Maybe they'll just straight up annex Donbas and the area around Mariupol. The sanction cat is out of the bag already.
 
That's good to hear.

At this stage, how anyone can believe Ukraine will ever be willing to demilitarize and drop its constitutional commitment to join NATO is beyond me.

I did like Zelensky's suggestion that he would have to put something of that nature to a national referendum. Its as good as just saying "Go feck yourself" while at the same time slapping them in the face with the thing they fear the most, democracy.
 
The Russians are apparently saying that they're going to focus on the Donbas. Looks likely that they'll take the entire region, then call it a victory and go home. It also seems like they want to stay in Mariupol, but whether annexed or part of Donbas or set up an even more puppet government than Donetsk and Luhansk, who knows. Maybe they'll just straight up annex Donbas and the area around Mariupol. The sanction cat is out of the bag already.

I gather that many of Ukraine's best troops are defending that region. Unless the Russians can encircle and cut those troops off from re-supply (which I think they'll find it difficult to do) the Russians are going to suffer massive losses in trying to occupy all of Donbas.
 
I gather that many of Ukraine's best troops are defending that region. Unless the Russians can encircle and cut those troops off from re-supply (which I think they'll find it difficult to do) the Russians are going to suffer massive losses in trying to occupy all of Donbas.

At this rate, I would expect the Russians to have trouble preventing the Ukrainians from winning back all of Donbas in a few weeks.
 
dont forget his drunken magnus opus
Daaaaaaamn!

Can you imagine how much of a shitstorm there would be if a top US Senator like Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell came up drunk at an event and used that many tropes to shit upon specific Russian and Chinese politicians? I swear Moscow and Beijing would be the first to moan, and that's not even counting the backlash in Western media.
 
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This - plus CNN also reporting Russians have stopped their advances on Kyiv

 
I know Russian advancements have been based on poor tactics and assumptions but to be holding the ground against a vastly superior army (2nd largest in the world) for so long shows Ukraine would instantly be amongst very best fighters in Nato.
 
I gather that many of Ukraine's best troops are defending that region. Unless the Russians can encircle and cut those troops off from re-supply (which I think they'll find it difficult to do) the Russians are going to suffer massive losses in trying to occupy all of Donbas.
To encircle the Ukrainian forces in the JFO they'll have to basically link up from Donetsk all the way to Kharkiv, is that about right? Which would be a deeper advance than any achieved by the Russian army so far.