Any tankies wanna chime in? Defend this one?
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Well the problem there is you need tanks and guess what Russia is recently fresh out of?
Strategic bombers?
About those.... that was the primary target of Operation Spider's Web and if you don't know the details, it was a very successful operation...
According to the Financial Times, the damaged and destroyed aircraft made up around 20% of Russia's operational long-range aviation fleet. Many of the aircraft types affected, such as the Tu-95 and Tu-22M3, have not been produced since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, making them impossible to replace and exceptionally difficult to repair.[15] Military expert William Alberque said that replenishing these losses could take years or even decades, and that the attacks would force Russia to disperse its bomber fleet across multiple airbases, reducing its ability to carry out large-scale strikes aimed at overwhelming Ukrainian air defences.[60] Indeed, many sources report that Russia "has relocated dozens of its strategic bombers to more remote airbases across the country".[61][62] Fabian Hoffmann at the University of Oslo commented that the loss of the bombers attacked was particularly damaging as they were the most operational examples; many others were undergoing maintenance.[60]
I reckon the war will go much easier once we cut off Putin's copium supply
Be patient Vladdy, youβre receiving little bits of Ukraine with each drone that lands in Russia
He looks like he's wearing his skin as a mask. Like a Roboputin.


I want to take his face... off.
I think it's a very heavy makeup line. His actual skin colour is what you see under his hair.
I eagerly await the day I read the headline we're all waiting for.
Honestly, there's multiple headlines we're all waiting for.
If he really believes the two countries should be united, he could always decide to surrender to Ukraine and give Ukraine control over Russia. I'm sure Ukraine would do a better job of governing Russia than Putin has done.
If they are one people, then all of Russia is also Ukraine. And I happen to think Zelenskyy is a more legitimate leader.
I wonder if there's a localized zone where there is some sort of really great density of people who consider themselves Ukrainians. And I wonder if there exists some distinguishable boundary between them - culturally, societally, dare I say politically - where on one side an individual would expect to encounter a Ukrainian, versus on the other side, where they would more probably expect to encounter a non-Ukrainian?
Edit: Maybe an edge? A ridge? Something that describes a clearly defined boundary between two distinct areas that are closely related in many regards while also being clearly distinguishable based on the split that defines the division between said areas...
Edit again: I swear it's on the tip of my tongue. So frustrating. A line, maybe? That seems closer, but not quite there.
And you still have a lot of people saying that if we just traded more with Russia and didn't add countries to NATO, this wouldn't have happened.
"We have a saying⦠where the foot of a Russian soldier steps, that is ours."
So, Putin is saying everyone should fire upon Russian forces everywhere outside Russia with no hesitation or questions asked?
I thought it was because of Nazis. Or because of NATO. Or because of .
Not because of .
I think it's high time Finland retakes Karelia, on account of how thinly stretched Russia must be at this point.
That clearly shows, which value any negotiation with Putin have: none, none at all
He wants Ukraine to, all of it. No matter what.
From the Wikipedia article on Russia's playbook: "Foundations of Geopolitics"
Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.
Like with β3-day special military operationβ when Putin speaks itβs all foot.
Israel = russia Both using the same excuses to justofy occupation and genocide
Except nobody attacked russia. Just a tiny detail that, you know, breaks the whole ruzzian argument.
Is it just me or has the number of lunatics on Lemmy really spiked in the past week? I mean, look at this guy... Or have we "finally" been discovered by the disinformation bots?

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