Russian-Ukrainian War: Live Thread

[alloneword]

Well *somebody* just attacked the US base at Erbil Airport (northern Iraq).

I look forward to reading in the morning how Putin pulled it off. Assuming there even is a fucking morning.

[Belligerent Savant]

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@A13KCF

Watch the documentaries “Ukraine on Fire” and “Revealing Ukraine” by Oliver Stone.

It’ll shed a lot of light on how they’re absolutely gaslighting you about this country and our involvement in its corruption.

It used to be on Netflix, now it’s buried.

4:21 PM · Mar 12, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/A13KCF/status/15027 ... -LyH_2TTAA

Good thing there's Rumble, eh?

Ukraine on Fire:
https://rumble.com/vwxj95-from-executiv ... -fire.html

Revealing Ukraine:
https://rumble.com/vwy6pm-revealing-ukraine.html

[Belligerent Savant]

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/statu ... iuPmhunxLw

[Elvis]

Just in case some don't get the joke...

The Babylon Bee is a conservative Christian news satire website that publishes satirical articles on topics including religion, politics, current events, and public figures. It has been referred to in the media as a Christian, evangelical, or conservative version of The Onion. Wikipedia

[Elvis]

The "Ukraine On Fire" producers put the film on Vimeo as a free download. I grabbed it then, but now the Vimeo page has a "problem":

https://vimeo.com/global3pictures/downl ... fc672a9a8c

It's popping up on YouTube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxau6qeWZ4w

[Belligerent Savant]

Just in case some don't get the joke...

The Babylon Bee is a conservative Christian news satire website that publishes satirical articles on topics including religion, politics, current events, and public figures. It has been referred to in the media as a Christian, evangelical, or conservative version of The Onion. Wikipedia

Interesting wikipedia entry. Haven't had an inclination to look up Babylon Bee's 'origins' as they're not a news org. I generally find their satire amusing, and in instances like the above, on-point.

One needn't be 'christian', 'conservative', or 'evangelical' to appreciate it, of course.

[JackRiddler]

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So the original post on this thread, of the Putin speech declaring the war from Russian media, is no longer available. The YT speech scrubber is chugging along, eliminating historical documents along with the hated ungood commentary.

And now I must confess to my own CRIME! I went into that OP and corrected the OT, the original typo in the thread title (no first i in Ukrainian). Will you ever forgive me?

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[drstrangelove]

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And now I must confess to my own CRIME! I went into that OP and corrected the OT, the original typo in the thread title (no first i in Ukrainian). Will you ever forgive me?

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Appreciated, all good! I was/am dyslexic, or possibly just a victim of look-see, I don't know. I've never been bothered by being corrected on spelling or grammar unless it's a put down.

[alwyn]

https://twitter.com/willyloman1/status/ ... BurJMOxdCg Amazon is selling neonazi swag. WTAF?

[Joe Hillshoist]

Putin dies and goes to hell, or heaven, whatever.

After a while he gets a one-day permit for good behaviour. So he goes to Moscow, walks into a bar, orders a drink, and asks the bartender...

Putin: Is Crimea ours?
Bartender: Yes, it is.
Putin: And the Donbas?
Bartender: Donbas too.
Putin: And Kyiv?
Bartender: It's ours.

Satisfied, Putin leans back and sips his drink...

Putin: Thanks, how much do I owe you?
Bartender: 5 Euros.



Too soon?

[drstrangelove]

Ukraine: Briton who travelled to warzone to join military fight against Russia leaves over 'suicide mission' fears
Ben Spann tells Sky News he did not tell his wife or teenage son that he was going to Ukraine to "join the resistance" despite the fact he has never served in the military and has no ties to the war-torn country.

. . .

'My wife was pretty p***** off'

- https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-brit ... s-12566254

hahaha

[alloneword]

Not sure how long this will stay up:


https://vimeo.com/688605900

[drstrangelove]

Ukraine doesn't need them to fight, it needs them to die. Dead foreign nationals in the headlines is ammunition for the propaganda war, which is the only one they are really fighting. Reminds me of Churchill and the British designing those cruiseline ships that doubled as gunboats and munitions carriers. They packed American civilians onto those things for month, charting them through German submarine territory in the hope of bringing the United States into the war. Finally got their wish when the Lusitania sunk. I remember reading that the Germans were even taking out ads in the New York Times telling Americans not to get on these ships.

The British were sneaky like that. You never knew what they were up to, then all of a sudden they have all of your spices.

[BenDhyan]

So now negotiations can make progress. What a shame all that destruction and suffering had to take place to get here...

Zelensky concedes Ukraine unlikely to join NATO, seeks security guarantees


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday admitted that Ukraine is unlikely to join NATO, the Western security alliance that Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine never join, as he made a call for increased security commitments from the West.

In an address before the U.K.'s Joint Expeditionary Force, Zelensky said Ukraine was still seeking security guarantees short of joining NATO, Reuters reported.

The Ukrainian president said it was "clear" that Ukraine was not a member of NATO,

https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-concedes-ukraine-unlikely-join-211307113.html

[Joe Hillshoist]

So now negotiations can make progress. What a shame all that destruction and suffering had to take place to get here...

Zelensky concedes Ukraine unlikely to join NATO, seeks security guarantees


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday admitted that Ukraine is unlikely to join NATO, the Western security alliance that Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine never join, as he made a call for increased security commitments from the West.

In an address before the U.K.'s Joint Expeditionary Force, Zelensky said Ukraine was still seeking security guarantees short of joining NATO, Reuters reported.

The Ukrainian president said it was "clear" that Ukraine was not a member of NATO,

https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-concedes-ukraine-unlikely-join-211307113.html

Right now the most important thing is people stop blowing the shit out of each other. Everything else is secondary to that.