Real or not, The Ghost is racking up the propaganda points.
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Russia already borders Poland though…
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I wouldn’t put too much credence to that. A lot of the photos of fat soldiers are unconfirmed, plus why would you send crap soldiers to be repulsed and give time for the defenders to dig in. Current plans are about speed and hitting objectives. The paratroopers in Kiev would have been elite soldiers.
This is outrageous when you think of it. In 2022 a small country gets attacked without provocation in Europe…… and nobody is coming to their aid
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The issue everyone is scared of is Russia’s nuclear threat.
With how unhinged Putin is, who says he doesn’t launch a small nuke if Western forces try to assist.
That’s the fear he’s working on. The US and NATO countries can supply Ukraine with as many modern weapons as they want, but a direct contact between Russian and NATO/US troops and for all you know Russia will lob a nuke. Nobody in the West is willing to take that risk unless Putin does it first without provocation.
It’s a shitty situation for Ukraine having no allies to come in and assist them (Ukrainian Preside t has said as much) but Ukraine is the buffer zone between NATO and Russia.
If Russia looks like (or God forbid actually launches one) deploying a nuclear missile, then it’s all over Red River, World War III has erupted and were all fucked.
It’s all good and well to say Putin won’t risk that. But he did mention specifically they were a strong nuclear power in that rambling speech he gave just before invasion. You don’t drop that sorta rhetoric unless you’re willing to bring that into the equation (of everything goes pear shaped)
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The Russian paratroopers who got their arses handed to them at Hostomel airport were from the 11th Guards Air Assault Brigade. That “Guards” bit in their name is only given to the elite and you have to earn it.
They’re not all useless conscripts.
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For the tragedy that is the Ukraine conflict, and the fact that the platoon of 13 troops were all killed, I actually have so much respect for them.
Like you hear in that recording, one soldier says “Well, this is it”.
They knew that they were going to die. They knew they had no chance what so ever. To tell the Russian ship to go fuck themselves, they deserve every posthumous medal and recognition for Standing up and fighting back whilst in words. They knew reinforcements were coming. They knew they couldn’t hold off a amphibious attack. They knew there was only one end, and they died telling the Russians to get fucked.
Massive fucking respect.
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So ridiculously unnecessary too, when you look at the island and where it actually is. Absolute fucking insanity by the Russians.
After this is all over. Russia will be a massive pariah state, even more than they have been. They should be treated like North Korea.
They have already lost the Champions league final and the F1 race. Hopefully this is just the start
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Remember “Tank Man” from Tiananmen Square in 1989?
Seems the Ukrainians now have their own version.
This has haunted me since it started. It’s just so fucked and incomprehensible.
At the recent Winter Olympics PooTin and pingPONG cosied up.
Looks like an AXIS like agreement in the making.
Germany/Japan…Russia/China only the names have changed.
WW2 debuted Nukes…WW3 will bring the curtain down on them because there will be nothing left IF it goes full scale.
Zelensky’s spokemen stating on Ukrainian media that both sides are discussing a time and place for discussion.
The C*nts have stated that they’ve withdrawn the F1 and the tennis as it’s not safe for their athletes. Nothing about the host country invading a sovereign neighbour and running over citizens in tanks. If they were doing it, they should have made a proper statement.
Multiple teams have withdrawn Russian linked sponsorships in football. Man U removed their their Russian airline sponsorship, and some of the German teams with Gazprom linked sponsorships have withdrawn them. Putin also been sanctioned with a full asset freeze now
BP is being pushed to divest it’s Russian investments by the UK government and the UK looks to be pushing for harder sanctions.
Poland and Sweden have confirmed they’ll be supplying Ukraine with anti tank and stinger missiles with US confirming they’ll be sending more weapons.
Trump has stated this wouldn’t have happened after him. Forgetting of course the $400,000,000 he personally witheld when they wouldn’t dig up dirt on Biden
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Sweden and Finland re now in talks about joining NATO with Russia stating there would be dire consequences.
And lastly, Italy and Germany, the two main EU countries that were against this, have now indicated they are willing to ban Russia from swift
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Banning from swift is the key course of action
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This from a forum favourite:
He spent 4 years licking Putin’s boots, as if he could’ve stopped this. 