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22nd February 2022, 10:23 | #1 |
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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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22nd February 2022, 13:15 | #2 | |
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https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/st...77460944203777
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22nd February 2022, 15:29 | #3 |
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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.
If they're not worried, I'm not worried.
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22nd February 2022, 16:33 | #4 | |
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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* |
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22nd February 2022, 16:43 | #5 |
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It could be a ploy just to get fuel prices up. Manoeuvring armies use a lot of gas.
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22nd February 2022, 23:31 | #6 |
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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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23rd February 2022, 09:54 | #7 |
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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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23rd February 2022, 14:39 | #8 |
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23rd February 2022, 15:18 | #9 | |
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23rd February 2022, 15:21 | #10 | |
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23rd February 2022, 15:28 | #11 |
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^writing a date on a bit of paper doesn't prove that's the actual date
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23rd February 2022, 16:28 | #12 | |
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23rd February 2022, 20:02 | #13 |
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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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24th February 2022, 00:19 | #14 |
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24th February 2022, 16:35 | #16 |
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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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24th February 2022, 16:37 | #17 |
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Not clear whether he just means the Donbas region or wider Ukraine.
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24th February 2022, 16:40 | #18 | |
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All jesting aside, holy shit. I am so so glad that Ukraine gave up all its Soviet nukes. |
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24th February 2022, 17:25 | #19 |
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Cruise and ballistic missiles now hitting command-and-control centres in Kiev.
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24th February 2022, 17:52 | #20 |
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This is just fucking horrible.
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24th February 2022, 17:56 | #21 | |
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From Axios’s summary of Putin’s speech:
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24th February 2022, 18:02 | #22 |
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Hard to confirm but reports of a Russian landing operation in Odessa
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24th February 2022, 18:10 | #23 |
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24th February 2022, 20:28 | #24 | |
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24th February 2022, 20:36 | #25 |
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Which is why I am so so glad.
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24th February 2022, 21:08 | #26 |
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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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24th February 2022, 22:11 | #27 | |
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24th February 2022, 22:22 | #28 |
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War is hell.
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24th February 2022, 22:57 | #29 | |
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24th February 2022, 23:07 | #30 |
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Reported attacks so far. Not just a few territories, and extremely close to NATO members.
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24th February 2022, 23:11 | #31 |
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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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24th February 2022, 23:26 | #32 |
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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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26th February 2022, 00:18 | #33 |
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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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26th February 2022, 11:22 | #34 | |
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Do you think you'll ever see Zelenskyy (or his family) alive again if/when the Russians find him? |
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26th February 2022, 12:08 | #35 |
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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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26th February 2022, 13:03 | #36 |
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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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26th February 2022, 17:32 | #37 | |
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27th February 2022, 16:54 | #38 |
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27th February 2022, 20:12 | #39 |
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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. |
27th February 2022, 21:45 | #40 |
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