Russia invades Ukraine

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@anon52120741

I just am really confused as to why he would do this after having seen us do it so recently.

Probably because he’s convinced he’s right and can do it better. I suspect he’d see mass casualties of Ukrainians as a feature, not a bug.

@anon52120741

I know that despite the claims of nth dimensional chess most of these guys are not special,

Yeah… I think I’ve said that several times, in fact in the past couple of days.

@Tamsin_Bailey

It could be something as simple as that Putin is just a massive asshole.

Today, there is no ‘legal’ route to the U.K. for Ukrainians fleeing Russian war crimes.

Fortunately, there are other countries just waiving any passport requirements for Ukrainians…

@GagHalfrunt

he’s getting 1979 Afghanistan: guerrilla warfare.

@GagHalfrunt

He thinks that they don’t have a strong sense of national identity or patriotism and don’t care who gets installed to govern them. Before 2014 he might even have been right.

One thing a foreign power occupying part of your country often does it concentrate a sense of who you are…

Absolutely disgusting and appalling comment from the Bulgarian prime minister. Really outrageous.

@GagHalfrunt, he’s also saying what other European powers who are less willing to show their racism were thinking, too. Not that the rest of Europe should not be doing exactly what they are doing, but they SHOULD also be doing that for Africans, Arabs, and Afghans fleeing from conflicts started by the west.

@gracchus

Not even buried at the Kremlin wall.

They didn’t kill him, at least… he got to live the rest of his life out at his dacha…

@mspie500

Happened hours ago

With regards to Turkey, that’s hilarious, because one of the major conflict points between the Old Russian Empire and the Ottoman empire back in the day was… access to the Black sea!

Russian forces are handing out gas masks to its troops in Donbas.

We successfully fought off enemy attacks

@VeronicaConnor

This is thousands of peoples’ lives ending. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, best friends, all ended because of one megalomaniac who would be dead already if there was a god.

@gracchus

If Putin loses power over this invasion it would only be just for his most prominent arse-licker in the U.S. media to get taken down with him.

@mspie500

Ukrainian morale seems to be high and the Russians seem to be taking far more losses than anyone expected…

I’m not surprised… I don’t think Russian people wanted this, except maybe a few hardcore Putin supporters, but I don’t think the majority of even the military was excited about this…

@navarro

it takes only a small rewrite of hegel to sound like them–

@docosc

I thought Putin was a student of history?

He’s a student of people like Dugin, who actively distort history to suit his own ideology…

Aleksandr Dugin | Ideology

@NukeML

People dont seem to realize that Ukraine has been preparing for a Russian invasion since they became independent.

@NukeML

I couldnt say whether they could have foreseen treachery from Belarus though.

Well, given its heel turn in recent years…

@mspie500

I also don’t think Ukraine will prevail, however I expected Russia would be able to take Kyiv right away.

I don’t know. Given some of the reports people have been posting here, I’m not so sure.

mtaibbi. “I didn’t bother to take this possibility seriously enough. To readers who trust me not to make those misjudgments, I’m sorry.”

@navarro - Taibbi LIVED in Russia in the early post Cold War days…

@jlw

Russian occupiers will find rockets and Molotov’s coming out of bushes and 4th-floor windows for as long as they are in Ukraine.

Right, and how long until the average Russian soldier decides that they’d rather flee than deal with that for a few years…

@NukeML

And i dont think anyone would have expected Russia to actually maneuver through the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

I think that’s the thing that scares me the most… that they did that. They don’t have to actually launch a nuke at all - they can just fuck up the exclusion zone…

@anon33932455

I suspect that the longer it takes for the Russians to prevail, the more likely a protracted insurgence. People will have hope, examples of bravery, heroes, international support, etc.

@jlw

Russia is looking to get a stark reminder of how Stalingrad went.

@mspie500

They are even mass producing Molotov’s

Great for the average person to throw out a window on invader’s heads.

@gracchus

This part of Taibbi’s genuine apology is worth quoting

Meh.

@DukeTrout

How many baby steps until he apologizes for marching in step with Greenwald’s run to fascism? Is it a walk across the room or a marathon?

I guess we’ll find out.

@gracchus

A quick look at Taibbi’s old TheExile partner Mark Ames’ Twitter feed shows that he hasn’t taken one baby step. He’s still blaming the EU and NATO for this.

@gatto

one of the many terrible things about this war is knowing that there are russian troops who don’t want to be there either.

Yep. I’m sure some are enthusiastic, but I bet many are not.

@chenille

But honestly…who cares? That’s the sort of thing you can sort out later. People are dying . They should please shut down the system.

Yep. Sanctions should hurt, and if we have to suffer a little blowback to stop this, then we should do so gladly.