Ukraine

[jono]

I mean, what does he believe in?

It's a repeat. But he believes in this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foun...of_Geopolitics

https://agdugintranslate.gitbook.io/...f-geopolitics/

[ötzi]

my bad, I thought Nihilists believe in nothing.

[jono]

Those are the fucking amateurs, unfortunately.

[highangle]

It's a repeat. But he believes in this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foun...of_Geopolitics

https://agdugintranslate.gitbook.io/...f-geopolitics/

Yep, he's jacked up on Mountain Duginism and Making Яussia Great Again. He's probably saving all his urine too.

[BmillsSkier]

I count no less than 4 jokes and/or interpretations thereof, on this page.

Well done.

[summit]

A strategic strike to blow things up but just a little bit wouldn't be the first time RU overestimated their ability. Apparent experts (did not dig into the person) don't expect that reactor design to explode like Chernobyl. Not that that should be the benchmark.

https://twitter.com/CherylRofer/stat...bf101d238e%2F0

Or maybe complete incompetence. Or both.

Didn't read your link, but I assume at this point the operators already shut it down. Hazards are if they lose external power AND their emergency diesel, or if uncontrolled fire destroys things like power hookups, or if artillery strikes spent fuel pools.

That Russian complex is a VVER reactor which is a PWR, so much safer than a RBMK in many respects (it has a negative voice coefficient a containment building). So your worst case is a Fukushima, not a Chernobyl.

[summit]

If RU is surgical they're wielding a butter knife.

A butter knife is surgical by Russian standards, as opposed to their regular method of giving a chainsaw to a Whirling Dervish

[Mazderati]

Imagine a country where ballet reruns and Fox News are the only things on television, radio, and internet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak..._do_they_feel/

[The Reverend Floater]

I talked to a friend in the Navy today, catching up about various stuff and had to ask if he knew anyone headed over. He said he's heard rumors of retired teammates heading over there on their own volition. When I asked why, he replied "for sport, I guess." God bless our operators. Those guys have been deployed more or less in nonstop in combat for the past 20+ years. They are not rusty.

[summit]

Putin's thinking: When gaslighting the world is not enough, try cherenkovlighting instead

[Cocximus]

^ this is why the US is the greatest country on earth. Where locals flee as refugees 'mericans go for sport. FKNA.

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[ill-advised strategy]

Imagine a country where ballet reruns and Fox News are the only things on television, radio, and internet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak..._do_they_feel/

I bought an engine from a guy who lived in Russia for most of the 90s. I hung out at this place for a week pulling the engine, pulling my engine, dropping his engine into my truck, drinking, listening to stories. The gist I got from him was that it’s a lot more acceptable to be drunk all the time there. Like, I don’t know if my impression is accurate, but my impression is a lot of people are drunk a lot of the time.

[Art Shirk]

It's pretty early days to be advocating joining the fight. The war's only been going on a week and steps that have been taken already may work. And further steps short of fighting are still available. It's not cowardly to try to be smart and keep our kids alive. Not to mention that one escalation could easily beget another.

I can’t link it because I’m dumb but there is a great stickied post in r/volunteersforukraine that lays out the realities of Montuckeys suggestions for “us” even though he’s every bit “us” as we are. It also shines a light on just how many Westerners are putting everything on the line to personally assist.

It’s a much more complicated situation than his analysis contemplates.

Maybe this will work:

TIPS for the reality of going into a conflict zone https://reddit.com/r/volunteersForUk...conflict_zone/


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[summit]

A butter knife is surgical by Russian standards, as opposed to their regular method of giving a chainsaw to a Whirling Dervish

Just to clarify, attacking a nuclear powerplant with armored vehicles and shooting the place up with artillery and mounted weapons falls clearly under Whirling Dervishes with chainsaws.

It's fucking insane. They are mad, or stupid beyond belief, or they have no control over their fucking forces.

[rideit]

Ummm…Cocximus, what, are you asserting the US invented mercenaries, and are actually good at it?
Laughable.
Mercenaries are everywhere, and have been since civilization (war) began, I suspect.

[ill-advised strategy]

Just to clarify, attacking a nuclear powerplant with armored vehicles and shooting the place up with artillery and mounted weapons falls clearly under Whirling Dervishes with chainsaws.

It's fucking insane. They are mad, or stupid beyond belief, or they have no control over their fucking forces.

And vodka all day

[AK47bp]

Ummm…Cocximus, what, are you asserting the US invented mercenaries, and are actually good at it?
Laughable.
Mercenaries are everywhere, and have been since civilization (war) began, I suspect.

Mercenaries are paid.


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[rideit]

Fair point. But there has always been military adventurism, as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I would support financing these dudes right now!

[Conundrum]

Rich people want war, poor people fight them, and dumb people watch and cheer.

[Flyoverland Captive]

From a Russian friend in Moscow:

“RIA Novosti accidentally published an article prepared for the successful completion of the operation in Ukraine. The article was promptly deleted, but the Internet remembers everything
https://web.archive.org/.../20220226...775162336.html
"Russia is restoring its historical completeness, bringing the Russian world, the Russian people together - in its entirety of Great Russians, Belarusians and Little Russians. If we gave up on this, allowing the temporary separation to settle for centuries, we would not only betray the memory of our ancestors, but we would also be cursed by our descendants - for allowing the collapse of the Russian land. "”

Link here, use Google translate:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220226...775162336.html

[highangle]

Putin's out to make Яussia great again. He can only double down.

[Benny Profane]

I bought an engine from a guy who lived in Russia for most of the 90s. I hung out at this place for a week pulling the engine, pulling my engine, dropping his engine into my truck, drinking, listening to stories. The gist I got from him was that it’s a lot more acceptable to be drunk all the time there. Like, I don’t know if my impression is accurate, but my impression is a lot of people are drunk a lot of the time.

I think it's not too much to imagine his best units fueled by stimulants and vodka.

[Benny Profane]

Fair point. But there has always been military adventurism, as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I would support financing these dudes right now!

They are. You just don't read about it in the news.

[rideit]

Well, duh

[skifishbum]

So many Putin cok gobblers who think it's preferable for him to take Ukraine than fight.

I hate war and death, but here's the thing. If Putin wins this, he won't stop at Ukraine. Anybody else remember their European history? So why don't you guys just hang out and watch as history repeats itself. First Germany took one little country and we watched. And they took another and we watched. So on and so forth until we were dealing with what we did.

Let's not repeat those mistakes. Nobody's suggesting we go into Russia to exact revenge. The world is just saying that Putin needs to GTFO of Ukraine. Not that much to ask. It will take force, tho.

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You must missed the part where me and the bros needed to go to the Duestchland and take care of the business of defending the motherland
And pillaging Der poopenhausens