• InvertedParallax
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    They were losing a war to a bunch of tractors and their flagship was sunk by a country without a navy.

    It’s not Russian weakness, it’s Russian stupidity.

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        They stopped Russia with tractors.

        Now they’re pushing them back with real gear.

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            Yes… I am the propagandized one.

            Not the rural poor being marched off to die for half the price of a lada they’ll never receive for an oligarch’s pride.

            All I can say is: Please, PLEASE! Make sure they keep marching.

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              You claim they started with tractors. This is utter nonsense; the AFU started the war as a legitimate military, especially after it took the decade following the Minsk agreements to arm up in anticipation of this war.

              You also claim they are pushing Russia back despite the front not moving appreciably in the past year, even during the latest vaunted counteroffensive.

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                Remember, libs dont know anything about the context pre-war. It was all Putins desire to conquer ukraine.

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                You claim they started with tractors. This is utter nonsense; the AFU started the war as a legitimate military, especially after it took the decade following the Minsk agreements to arm up in anticipation of this war.

                Russia used to call itself the 2nd strongest military on Earth.

                Now they’re clearly the 2nd strongest military in Ukraine. And they’re sliding down.

                You might not understand this, but they literally only survived because everyone was terrified of them, ‘Crazy Ivan’ who snaps and does something stupid.

                That illusion SHATTERED with the failure to take Kyiv, it shattered and Europe’s fear turned to rage, rage at being intimidated for decades by a clearly broken joke of a power.

                Until last year Russia wasn’t worth our interest, there was nothing there of value or threat, it was a far away, annoying country but it was someone else’s problem.

                Now, Europe wants to watch them burn for fun.

                If they hadn’t invaded Ukraine they would have been able to hold this illusion for decades more while the oligarchs continued to rob the country to deposit into British banks, but now, Russia is a threat that needs to be dealt with.

                Fortunately, it’s not much of a threat, and this shouldn’t take too long, the only reason it’s taking this long right now is because we can only help indirectly through Ukraine.

                But Russia is stupid, hopefully they’ll do something Russian and pick a fight with the rest of NATO, because that’s just what they do.

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                  Now they’re clearly the 2nd strongest military in Ukraine.

                  Delusions like this are sending Ukranians to pointless deaths right now.

                  The worst part is you will never stop to consider the implications of being so wrong on this when the war is finally resolved (with Russia and Ukraine in basically the same territories as now). Instead, you’ll toss this one in the “history” pile with Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc., you know, the wars where you tell yourself you would have seen through the propaganda had you witnessed it in real time. Then you’ll cheerlead the next war because It’s A Good One This Time.

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                    Delusions like this are sending Ukranians to pointless deaths right now.

                    Delusions like “a 3 hour special military operation”?

                    Yeah, I’m the one with delusions, not the country that’s shooting itself in the dick, and literally assassinated several of its citizens in this post without any due process whatsoever.

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                  But Russia is stupid, hopefully they’ll do something Russian and pick a fight with the rest of NATO, because that’s just what they do.

                  I hope they don’t because that would in all likelihood escalate to nuclear war.

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                Russia is 5x the size of Ukraine, and called itself the 2nd most powerful army on the planet.

                Now it’s the second most powerful army in Ukraine.

                You’re bragging after they got their ass handed to them by their version of Canadians.

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                  no ones bragging here, the material reality of the situation is ukraines casualities are 3:1 and russia remains in control of the conflict and where the lines are; every ukranian advancement recently has come at heavy cost

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                    no ones bragging here, the material reality of the situation is ukraines casualities are 3:1 and russia remains in control of the conflict and where the lines are; every ukranian advancement recently has come at heavy cost

                    That’s not even close to true, unless you count civilians, which isn’t surprising because they’re literally fighting in their country.

                    So yes, be proud, Russia has butchered more civilians!

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                Well by the conditions the russian federation placed 18 months ago would mean that yes Ukraine is winning. The fact the front lines are static does not mean what you think it does.

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      were? so you admit that Russia is winning?

      besides, this is not what this thread is about, go cope to someone who cares

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        No, they were losing to tractors, and Moskva was sunk without a navy.

        Now they’re getting real gear and training to play.

        The only thing Russia ever wins are Darwin awards. Fucking being proud of almost hurting a country a fraction of your size right next door, like the US being proud of conquering Ottawa.

        Say hi to those F-16s for me.

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          Say hi to those F-16s for me

          We’re literally dumping decades old hardware on them just so we can keep justify buying more F-35s.

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            I agree.

            And I’m fine with this.

            We built those to fight evil Russians, they should get their chance.

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              We built those to fight evil Russians

              At what point do you realize that you have transformed into the jingoistic goobers who were cheerleading the Iraq War during the W. years?

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                Not that you have shame? But this post is literally about putin assassinating a citizen of his in cold blood with no trial alongside several other innocent bystanders.

                And you tried to use the word fascist to someone on the internet.

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                  The people that died were fascists and Mercs, why do you care how they died? Do you hate Russia or not? This was a truly successful denazification action if you wanna get silly with it.

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              “Evil Russians.” Jesus Christ. As if the West did not rehabilitate European fascists immediately after WW2 and end up on the side of imperialism in every conflict around the world for the rest of the century and beyond. Many of which they themselves instigated. Get a fucking grip.

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                  Definitely did not miss that. Whatever you think about the USSR, you cannot, without grotesque distortions of history, say that they rehabilitated European fascism. They executed nazis while the western powers were giving them citizenship, jobs, money, and weapons. And if you think soviet efforts to support revolutionary movements around the globe were “imperialism,” I’m not sure what to tell you besides please read a book.

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          Say hi to those F-16s for me

          I’m sure they’ll be just as effective as the Leopards, the ghost of kieyiev will destroy the entire Russian army

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          Fucking being proud of almost hurting a country a fraction of your size right next door, like the US being proud of conquering Ottawa.

          Look up the US attack on Grenada

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              The enemy is both strong and weak at the same time. Russians are simultaneously cowardly, repulsive and primitive (and evil, according to you), while also being barely held at bay because their innate savage brutality lets them ignore casualties, but like in an evil way, not the good heroic way we ignore casulaties when we drive our tanks headfirst into minefields. Gotcha.