Invasion of Ukraine

Post anything related to the Ukraine invasion here

 

Good move, thanks.

 

Twitter threads I'm following

https://twitter.com/RichardEngel

https://twitter.com/maxseddon

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK

https://twitter.com/COUPSURE

https://twitter.com/Archer83Able

 

https://twitter.com/JackDetsch

https://twitter.com/RALee85

https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson

https://twitter.com/MarQs__

https://twitter.com/ralakbar

 

Al Jazeera English live feed

France 24 English live feed

Euronews live feed

DW News live feed (German network)

 

More than 150 senior Russian officials sign open letter condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine | Daily Mail Online

 

Subbed because I need more stress in my life

 

very worried for my friend in georgia, god willing putin doesn't set his sights on them after this

 

Biden giving an address, supposedly announcing the hard sanctions, in about two hours

 

I don't have the knowledge to confirm what kind of camo it is, but worth sharing I think:

 

Yeah it's going to be impossible fully verifying anything for a while

 

It's all confounding. The civilian bombing makes sense as propaganda, as gross as it is to say that.
But who's the audience for staging the tank wreck?

 

The premise makes sense - but it seems like most Russians support this. Seems like this is a risk in the coming decades, not years...but who knows

 

To be clear I am not claiming Ukraine did a false flag civilian bombing for PR purposes, mistakes or confusion among fighters or reporters seems much more likely, but yeah I take your point. Maybe the wreck wasn't staged, just the circumstances of it? Maybe for morale, to advertise small tactical win? Who knows

 

And I think it's impossible to predict how something like this conflict will end up playing out; this is the first true 21st century war between major powers (in a way). And we don't know what Putin's endgame is; does he actually want to take over the capital and remove Zelensky from power? Divide the country in half? Approach Poland/the Baltics and make threats? If it gets to this point, you could see even China dropping them as friends. Nobody will work with Putin at this point; economy will be fucked, he'll have thousands upon thousands of Russian troops dead, currency reserves will be massively depleted (with no hope of near term re-gain of reserves), tons of military equipment destroyed, etc. If he/the country starts to really feel the squeeze, could we potentially see a nuke option from him take place? Just pure madness from Putin right now, with no way to predict what's going on in his head

 

Worth mentioning that R.Politik is a Russia-based west-aligned think tank focusing on Russian politics.
They/she get quotes in places like Reuters regularly.

It's not a huge deal but there's a grain of salt to consider.