▶Latest >ISW: Russian forces conducted unsuccessful ground assaults northwest of Slovyansk & west of Donetsk City >Russian missile strike on apartment block in Chasiv Yar kills 24 civilians >British Army begins training Ukrainian soldiers in the UK >Russian MoD: Russian forces in Ukraine are pausing to rest and regain their combat capabilities >Russian forces seize all of Luhansk Oblast >DPR authorities charge British aid worker with 'mercenary activities' >Russian forces withdraw from Snake Island >NATO formally invites Finland and Sweden to join alliance, Turkey withdraws objection >Missiles hit shopping mall in Kremenchuk >Ukrainian forces in Severodonetsk have been ordered to withdraw >Ukrainian forces attack oil rigs in the Black Sea >UK MoD: Consistent failures of Russian air force have significantly contributed to Russia’s limited success in Ukraine >Ukrainian forces sink Russian Navy supply vessel using western supplied Harpoon missile >Ukrainian sources: Russian forces control all of Severodonetsk >Ukrainian fighters inside the Severodonetsk Azot chemical plant ignored Russian ultimatum to surrender >DPR courts sentence two British nationals & Morrocan captured in Mariupol to death >Russian Mjr General Roman Kutuzov killed in Donbas, the 11th Russian General KIA this war
>Secret You kinda saw their official symbol, doesn't you? The Black Sun?
Easton Ortiz
Five reasons the Crimea "referendum" can and should be disregarded:
Illegal, violates Ukrainian Constitution >§10/Art.138 concerns only local level issues >Art. 73 actually concerns territorial changes - decided exclusively in nationwide referendum
Media propagandized, unfree and suppressed >large No. of pro-Russian media (domestic or foreign, financed by Russia) >other media was suppressed, criminals/gangs used to intimidate/beat people documenting >Propaganda: "Ukr. Nazis planning/doing terrible things"/"Ru-speakers'll be shot"/"NATO troops gonna seize ur apt." etc >Reality: fake, outrageous horror stories enough believed
Voting not free and anonymous >Ru military occupied key parts of Crimea >"Voting" with Russian soldiers watching >In addition to Ru Soldiers also Russian gangs. "Cossacks"/"Chechens" and also retirees brought to Ukr >proxy to preserve "good image" of Ru military and suppress/dispersed/beat/intimidate Ukr. protests/journos
Sham was prepared on short notice >20 days, no time for public discussion >ballots (printed@plain A4 paper) only three options; Crimea as: >>part of Rr >>part of Ukr >>"independent" state >Many actually believed it'd be a fair vote, wanting to stay part of Ukraine....point didn't even exist >No. of open polling stations much smaller than regular elections >>Ex.: many closed polling stations in Crimea, which always worked during the regular elections before >>Propaganda: long queues, suggesting through Russian channels "look how many people are at the polls" >>Reality: those that did vote simply had no choice and went to available stations, creating queues
No independent third party international observers >consequence of 1st point: occupation of Crimea is illegal >no country sent observers, because referendum took place within armed aggression >not "war" but as of 2014-03-16 Russian army was in Crimea - it's now an armed conflict >Accordingly, sending observes is a moot point, the referendum is neither legal nor legitimate
No. The parties worth mentioning are: >SPD: social democrats; kleptocrat cuckolds >FDP: liberals; pro-business homosexual weirdos >Greens: the outgrowth of a literal KGB anti-nuclear OP; meth users and pederasts to a mxn >Die Linke: the Stasi >CDU: Christian democrats; oligarchs and also cuckolds; the party of hated Angela "there can be no upper limit for asylum" Merkel >AfD: a "right-wing" Russian subversion project that's already well on the way towards total dysfunctionality and collapse >NPD: neo-Nazis who serve as a boogeyman and get 1% of votes Before the AfD, some fringe parties existed on the right like Die Republikaner existed, but the CDU, the party of eternal treason, always asserted that "no party to the right of it may exist", meaning that it was setting one boundary on political discourse permitted to the people (no such boundary exists on the left, and especially not one that the left-wing parties try to enforce), which is why the CDU must be destroyed as a wholly illegitimate legacy of the hated post-WW2 era.
Grayson Thompson
A child in a stroller, a hotel and trade center.
Ian Lewis
What kind of policy (changes) do you hope to get from a conservative party? t.ex AfD-retard
Brandon Hill
>ANOTHER STRELKOV ANOTHER STRELKOV >ANOTHER STRELKOV ANOTHER STRELKOV
>good guy Strelkov? edition
Despite the fact that - in general - I am not going to argue with "Murz" - I will nevertheless note that my some dissatisfaction with the death of civilians in Vinnitsa is caused primarily by the fact that these specific "collateral losses" (without which, alas, , no war is spared) were hardly necessary. Why? - Yes, because the House of Officers is hardly much more important than the critical objects of the so-called "Ukraine"'s transport systems. And also because every unnecessary death of civilians is an extra bitterness on the other side. They could be neglected, but after all, our Russian people are dying there too. Not the Germans, not the Japanese, but ours ... albeit reduced to the state of either "semi-zombies", or without "semi-". Not to mention the fact that for me personally is a mystery: "HOW is it possible to fully fight against enemies at the front and (at the same time) supply gas to" partners "on a permanent basis?" - In my opinion, neither the Americans nor the British during the Second World War, such courtesy to the Germans and Japanese (as well as Italians, etc.) did not render ... like the USSR.
We are well past the point at which there's anyone who could make any policy to help anyone, and that includes a hypothetical return of Hitler with 100% approval rating.
Hudson Morgan
Pathetic glownigger thread
Charles Butler
Why can't russia air force?
Michael White
but they are also cucks there aren't really good choices now desu. If you don't want tranny shit then you can't vote everything left basically. (they were always my personal fav tho) If you don't want old, stuffed men with limited political capability and ambitions you can't vote CDU/CSU If you don't want utter retards then AfD is not a choice either.
Thats because the russians are hitting civilian targets while the ukrainans are hitting ammo dumps, those secondary explosions are other piles of explosives/shells getting lit on fire after the initial attack.
Brody Wright
Because Ukrainians target military objects, while Russians aim at civilians.
Gavin Roberts
the attack at Vinnytsia was aimed at western arms suppliers and ukrenian representatives holding a meeting
>A child in a stroller, a hotel and trade center. The strikes just now? What the fuck. Why waste expensive gear on that.
Blake Brooks
Functional air force needs modern technology.
Bentley Moore
>kn my opinion, neither the Americans nor the British during the Second World War, such courtesy to the Germans and Japanese (as well as Italians, etc.) did not render ... like the USSR. Perhaps the final part is a mistranslation, but the USSR did, in fact, render a great deal of economic aid to Germany before Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, and there were talks in 1940 of a German-Soviet alliance which would have involved Russia supplying Germany with commodities for literally free.
Blake Morris
Sasha, an international relations student from Vinnytsia, has been murdered by kacaps yesterday.
It seems they can't get coordinates of military targets and use terror tactics
Sebastian Baker
Shoigu has stolen all parts so the air forces in reality are not as big as on paper. Remaining aircraft is too scarce to send directly against anti-air systems. Sacrificing all aircraft to capture a fucking third-world shithole is unwise if you plan to fight somewhere else.
Ryan Bennett
>what is a videoconference
Alexander Diaz
One of those just hit the ground near a school. Russians will of course claim that there were thousand Nationalists inside and that all of them are now dead.
Just check how holy saint Himars obliterate those vatniggers bro. Truly white men's weapon
Jose Lopez
Wunderwaffe Su-34 turned out to be kinda shit, so now they're weary about brining out other "new" stuff.
Jacob Johnson
That's what russians do. Historically they've been shown to favour hospitals, ambulances, schools, orphanages and groceries over established military positions. They also frequently mix up humanitarian aid and munitions, either targeting the aid instead of the enemy, or dropping bombs instead of bread baskets. Just russia things.
Lincoln King
Like hitting ground targets with S-300 rockets
Landon Cruz
God bless st Himars May it get rid the Eath of the vatnigger disease.
You need to have a good idea and good practice to fix problems with ideas. Russia is a cleptocracy
Carter Adams
There's a reason theyre called snow niggers
Nicholas Garcia
I think its one of three factors or even all combined.
1. terror tatics, high possibility that putin and generals see it as an effective tactic to cause terror amongst the ukrainans.
2. Crap missiles, how many videos of russian tech malfunctioning have we seen? Its been proven that the russians dont have their own military satellite systems or a none civilian gps system. So chances are the russians are targeting military targets but their missiles are so crap they miss by a few km and hit civilian targets.
3. The troops on the ground are just orcs. They get the order to launch their missiles towards the enemy, so they interpret these vauge orders as just launch missiles towarda ukrainan cities. They dont pick targets they arent given amy, they just larp as Soviets leveling berlin and laugh like monkeys when they press the red launch button. They are hitting military targets because they arent aiming foe them, they arwnt even aimimg for specific civilians targets, just towards the cities and towns.
So i think its a mix of all these factors.
Aaron James
I'll tell you more. The Japanese oil concessions in the Far East never stopped to provide Japan with oil. Like not for a single fucking second despite USSR was, de-facto, at war in Japan from 1938.
Brandon Clark
atlanticism localism and subsidiarity strong military fiscal conservatism opposition to mass migration soft euroscepticism (more national primacy in some ares) some moral conservatism but nothing too wild pro technological progress (nuclear) stronger emphasis on core civil rights and freedoms (freeze peach and property), stop the inflation of human rights and entitlements
Leo Reyes
Vs capitulating to Russia which is worse in every way?
The idea that Russia is sparing Ukrainian infrastructure out of humanitarian concern is cope and shill Anyway, they're not actually sparing infrastructure. They've repeatably made targets of civilian buildings and their ground strategy revolves around not only softening entrenchments with artillery, but isolating them with attacks on ground lines of communications. That, in peacetime, would be civilian infrastructure.
Russia is targeting civilian infrastructure according to how it is used by the Ukranian war effort. And they're right to do so. Targeting civilian infrastructure only to cause damage and misery is a waste, when you could be spending the ammunition on the guys who are trying to kill you. And it provokes sympathy in the west to continue arming your adversaries. Not that the Russians have been strictly utilitarian. Recent rocket attacks on places like Kiev are hard to justify as anything but retributive and spiteful responses to Ukraine's rocket attacks on Russian ammunition depots and command posts.
Also, Russia is trying to Annex captured territory. Anything they blow up is one less thing that's fueling their nation during and after the war. And as for rebuilding, we see how Russian government investment turns out. Very little of it reaches its intended target. We know that Russians have been looting grain harvests in captured territory. It's a sign of what's to come for the greater economies.
But their recent attacks on Kiev could be a sign of more to come. Russia would rather artificially raise prices on commodities that both they and Ukraine export, by controlling Ukraine's exports. If they have to do that through destruction, so be it. It's their land and their people in their eyes. They'll do with it what they like.
Putin's worst sin - worse than his schizophrenic and delusional reading of history, or his boundless corruption - is that he's incompetent. He's competent at being a politicians and that getting toadies to vie for his graces, but he is incompetent as a policy-maker. During his over 20 years in office now, he has failed to either revitalize Russia's economy or revert its demographic decline. In economic terms, he simply coasted on high oil prices during 2000-2010 while the Russian economy fell increasingly into disrepair and was continued to be plundered, this time by his underlings instead of the oligarchs of the 90s. In demographic term, his attempts comprised a cash-for-kids program that sent one-time cash payments to would-be mothers, which resulted in the explosion of the orphan population as these same mothers would immediately abandon the children for whom they could pay and did not want to raise, and some nice-sounding speeches about Europe. He is a dilettante who gave in on his efforts around 2008, and who thinks of his failure to solve the country's problems not as a personal failing, but as proof of their totally insurmountable nature that is beyond all human effort, despite lack of industrial output, corruption, and depopulation being problems that faced countries many times in history before. His legacy was destined to unravel due to the energy-independence of the US and the speeding demographic catastrophe finally crossing the event horizon, even without this war - and his awareness of this was likely indeed part of his motivation to start it -, but he's now decided to push Russia straight into the abyss in a fit of narcissistic rage that, if anything that a narcissist thinks he possesses is dying, he decides to kill himself.
