Putin just addressed his nation and put forward a long, rambling casus belli. Looks like it might be about to kick off fairly soon.
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Spoke to my Ukraine friends, they are none the wiser, and life is normal for the citizens, at least an hour ago in Kyiv. They have not been issued any warnings or given any instructions. The Russian "threat" is a constant for them - for us we're hearing about it in the media so we think it's new. They tell me it's just media hype, and not to worry about them.
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Zelensky just addressed the nation live at 2am in the morning to say "we are not afraid" but probably nothing *shrug* |
It could be a ploy just to get fuel prices up. Manoeuvring armies use a lot of gas.
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And it's over, two territories taken from Ukraine, if I understand correctly. Gosh, what a brutal man. A Western war involves several years, trillions of dollars, and ends in failure and withdrawal.
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Er, it's probably not over yet. Putin may use 'aggression' against Russian forces in the Donbas as justification for an offensive. Same playbook was used in Georgia in 2008.
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^writing a date on a bit of paper doesn't prove that's the actual date
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If only the words "Biden" and "Ukraine" together didn't elicit groans and eyerolls and I don't give a fuck any mores. Maybe the US response would be a bit more... authoritative.
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I'd seen the pics before after the sinking - but they always claimed it was a look alike.
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Putin was just live on Russian TV at 5:45am Moscow time. Said Russia doesn't feel secure. "I have declared a special military operation: the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine". He's asking the Ukraine military to surrender. A declaration of war, essentially.
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Not clear whether he just means the Donbas region or wider Ukraine.
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All jesting aside, holy shit. I am so so glad that Ukraine gave up all its Soviet nukes. |
Cruise and ballistic missiles now hitting command-and-control centres in Kiev.
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This is just fucking horrible.
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From Axios’s summary of Putin’s speech:
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Hard to confirm but reports of a Russian landing operation in Odessa
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Which is why I am so so glad.
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It will be interesting to see how long China can keep walking the tightrope in this situation. It might depend on how stinging sanctions against Russia really are.
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War is hell.
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Reported attacks so far. Not just a few territories, and extremely close to NATO members.
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So Russia is going to try and round up Ukrainian political leadership, charge them with being Nazis, lobotomise the state.
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Putin wants to install a puppet government in the Ukraine, not let an actual democracy potentially ally with the West.
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Because internet I don’t think anything is true any more, but to go out with “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” is pretty damn metal.
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Do you think you'll ever see Zelenskyy (or his family) alive again if/when the Russians find him? |
The Nazi thing doesn't make a lot of sense. For a start, Zelenskyy is Jewish and had numerous family members killed in the Holocaust.
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Sounds like things are not going entirely Russia's way so far. They've lost a lot of armour, aircraft and soldiers.
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When it kicked off I was "Isn't that the comedian guy who ended up getting voted in, in an even more funny way than Trump?".
What they didn't report back then was his excessive scrotal capacity. |
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