I'm the sort of person that doesn't like to engage with people because it just becomes a shit show, but I find it a lot more entertaining to engage with people so that's what I do. I just poke the bear to see what happens, makes life more interesting. It just blows my mind that the majority of people think they actually know what they're talking about, it's their level of confidence. The more you are confident about something, the more suspect I get.

Been out for the weekend there's so many more pages but dragging this back :QQ:

I wasn't stating that over half are separatist fighters

The point I was making is over half consider themselves ethnically Russian, so they don't hate Russia, and even support them by voting with an Eastern mindset instead of a Euro centric one, and Russia sees them and in fact all ukrainians as Russians, so they wouldn't want a messy war because they don't want to kill citizens

To inv4n counterpoint I meant by forcing citizens to fight by arming them (thereby causing their deaths) it would make Russia target citizens, which Russia clearly doesn't want to do, in hopes to pull the world in with actual boots on the ground

Anyway /shrug think we've moved passed that

The other day friends in Ukraine shared some clips of POC being denied boarding on trains because they were saving the spots for white ppl

Now it hit international news

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60555650

As cool and as Top Gun as it may seem, it’s kind of fucked when you really think how absurd it is to have planes “fighting” in the sky lol

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone

I've been following The War Zone for their coverage.

The Ukrainian troops from Snake Island weren't killed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60554959

Posted that earlier in the thread.

Eastern Europeans being Eastern Europeans, pretty much.

I do believe she's wrong, but the second point is a somewhat interesting concept.

I know I'm completely wrong, but from watching this "war", it really doesn't seem to be a real one. It's almost like both sides are half in it, half not. The casualty numbers just seem so low for this to be a real all out war. You bombs, tanks, and people fighting with urban centers, and yet we're hearing casualties within the dozens?

We hear reports of troops attacking Kyiv, and yet I see the president and Vitali taking selfies in fatigues, and doing daily videos on the streets? It doesn't seem like there any real sense of imminent danger.

It just all seems quite odd, as opposed to the actually wars and rampant death and destruction we've seen in the past, and most recently in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don’t think you’d find many wars in the last 20 years where wars had more than double digit deaths on an average day, but I don’t know about that figure. I’m just going in memory.

Just looked. Afghanistan was averaging like 4-500 deaths a month in 2020-21 from war related conflict, suicide bombings and such, so this definitely doesn’t seem less deadly. It’s only been like a week.
352 civilian casualties so far in Ukraine. Soldier deaths are unreported, so this is definitively a very massive war crisis, I don’t see how anyone could think otherwise. It’s quite frankly catastrophic.

It must be a confusing time for some people on the right.

lol wat. wat r u smoking dude.

any war, you need to control skies and sea (blockade) to win a war. supplies/oil/weapons

:suspicious:

Unfortunately true, sat with my Polish friend in Poland before in a bar in Warsaw and had him tell me we need to leave cuz he can’t stand the table next to us laughing and talking in Polish wondering what the skin of a black guy in the bar a few tables over feels like…

Nevermind just Eastern Europe though, two years in a row I drove around all of Europe for a month with 2 different friends... first year was with the Polish friend, second year with a elementary school friend who happens to be Chinese… totally different experiences, so many problems, stops for questioning, border issues, denials of service or straight up poor service on the second trip with the Asian friend... sometimes even in the same cities or locations… it got to the point I was just laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.

My favourite one by far had to be me walking my way into the LV store on Champs D'Elysses and having them lavish service on me bringing me carts full of stuff to look at while my friend had to show his passport to prove he's not from China and was limited to 1 item at a time hahaha he was so fucking mad the whole rest of the day after he could barely speak. Rightfully so.

Granted this was 2005... I would hope things have changed/improved... but I'm not super optimistic about that.

...could be the beginning of the end here...

the size of this convoy...

Another announcement from Turd about providing more military hardware for Ukraine:

"Yesterday, we announced that we would be sending new shipments of military supplies, including body armour, helmets, gas masks, and night-vision goggles," said Trudeau, calling the Ukrainian fighting "heroic."

"Today, we are announcing that we will be supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons systems and upgraded ammunition."

Defence Minister Anita Anand said those anti-tank weapons systems will be 125 Carl-Gustaf launchers, taken from the Canadian military's inventory.

Trudeau said the Canadian Armed Forces will provided airlift support to transport supplies and aid and to participate in other NATO efforts in support of Ukraine.

Let's hope more and more will stand up and call for ceasefire and peace.


Two of Russia's billionaires call for peace in Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ys-2022-02-27/

Feels sad when even some of the Russian soldiers don't want war but are being used as pawns.

-heartbreaking to see these pictures of a child killed during this Russian invasion.

-from CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/europ...led/index.html

thank you for the warning, I do not want to see a dead child...

You know, you never seem to see this sort of article/picture when it's American bombs killing children...

I’m sure there’s plenty…. On their local news.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abj...-russian-yacht

Ukrainian Sailor Tried Sinking His Russian Boss’ $7 Million Yacht and ‘Regrets Nothing’