EPTRusso-Ukrainian War Thread - Page 909
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Manit0u
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War 49 years of conflict, 0 lives were lost, peaceful resolution was achieved  | ||
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Ukrainian intelligence released information about their recent operation. Some of you may be familiar with Denis Kapustin - involved with the Russian Volunteer Corps (Russians fighting on the side of Ukraine). Ukrainian intelligence has faked his death to oust an assassination attempt on him. Ukrainian agents who acted as would-be-assassins took $500m from Russian intelligence for this, money that is now being used to arm RVC. Latest Russian attack on strategic military target was successful. They hit a zoo in Kharkiv, killing most of the birds and wounding some lions. Two tigers are on the loose according to the reports. | ||
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$500m should have sounded untrue to you, it’s too big a number. | ||
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Billyboy
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On January 02 2026 09:46 KwarK wrote: $500k $500m should have sounded untrue to you, it’s too big a number. Yes, was a mistake on my part. Read half a million, wanted to write 500k but million was still stuck in my head. Brainfart. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8281 Posts
On January 02 2026 11:06 Billyboy wrote: Is the Putin assassination attempt hoax part of a plan to justify mass mobilization? The reason I ask, and kind of guess it is. Is that it was very easy to prove as false to even Trump, externally it does not seem to have much of a benefit to Russia. Nah, it's to stop the peace plan US and Ukraine suddenly agreed upon. Russia doesn't want peace, and needed a way out while not ending up seeming like the unreasonable party. "Yeah we would totally have agreed to peace by now if not for the evil Ukrainians! Who apparently went for a legitimate target in war, which is also the same thing we have tried 10 times already!" | ||
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Sent.
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Venezuela is in the American sphere of influence so Trump can do whatever he wants there and Russia should obviously just fuck off. Iran is in the grey zone, wants to have its own foreign policy and Russia isn't willing to sacrifice anything to help them, so he's okay with bombing Iran. Ukraine is in the buffer zone but Russia wants it in its sphere, so he's trying to find a way to rob the country together with Putin in a mutually beneficial way. Whatever happens in China or North Korea is no longer important as long as they stay away from the American interests. Belarus is firmly in the Russian sphere so he's okay with making deals with Lukashenko in exchange for lifting sanctions that don't directly benefit America. | ||
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On January 04 2026 04:43 Sent. wrote: I don't think it's strange. Actually I think it fits the Russian mentality that hasn't changed since the 19th century very well. Venezuela is in the American sphere of influence so Trump can do whatever he wants there and Russia should obviously just fuck off. Iran is in the grey zone, wants to have its own foreign policy and Russia isn't willing to sacrifice anything to help them, so he's okay with bombing Iran. Ukraine is in the buffer zone but Russia wants it in its sphere, so he's trying to find a way to rob the country together with Putin in a mutually beneficial way. Whatever happens in China or North Korea is no longer important as long as they stay away from the American interests. Belarus is firmly in the Russian sphere so he's okay with making deals with Lukashenko in exchange for lifting sanctions that don't directly benefit America. Well, Moscow has strongly condemned US action in Venezuela so it doesn't seem like they're really buddy-buddy. When it comes to China and Taiwan for example there's been a lot of conflicting messaging sent by the US. First they cut Taiwan's military support by $400m and now they want to give them $11b in military aid... Maybe Trump admin has realized that their military is only the best because of tech and 90% of their chips are made in Taiwan. All in all what's happening now all over the globe is actually crazy and it makes me really scared because there's no telling where and when this will end. | ||
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Nebuchad
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Yurie
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On January 04 2026 23:30 Nebuchad wrote: Oh no we know where it ends. The far right is rising everywhere, the far right requires war to be legitimate. Possibly there is also some calculations that with a few billion less humans we can deal with climate change easier. It ends in war. We've known for a while. I disagree that they need wars to be legitimate. They need an "external" enemy to deflect towards. Immigrants, jews, muslims, christians, lgbt or women can work decently even within your own country. | ||
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Acrofales
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On January 05 2026 04:11 Yurie wrote: I disagree that they need wars to be legitimate. They need an "external" enemy to deflect towards. Immigrants, jews, muslims, christians, lgbt or women can work decently even within your own country. There's many different flavors of fascism. Spain under Franco and Portugal under Salazar were not that interested in foreign conquest. Although Estado Novo policy was definitely to retain their colonies at all cost. But Nazism is without any doubt expansionist, as was Italy under Mussolini. And if we count Imperial Japan as a form of fascism, then that too. For modern examples, Putin and Trump's flavors are obviously expansionist. Erdogan and Orban not so much. You could say it's down to national historical imperialist notions, but both Hungary and Turkey were large empires in not too far a past, and an expansionist ideology could absolutely draw on that history in their rhetoric and iconography. But they don't. European far right seems more inward focused than expansionist. But if the AfD were to rise to power in Germany they may very well consider invading Poland or something equally unthinkable. They are truly insane. | ||
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Nebuchad
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In any case, if we read "fascist theory" for whatever it's worth, they typically see warfare as a good idea. It helps with the rejuvenation of the nation, forges identity, and so on. Political violence in general plays an important part in getting rid of the weak and weak-willed men that we have because of wokeness and liberalism. | ||
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zeo
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On January 06 2026 03:49 Manit0u wrote: It seems zeo moved on to the US politics thread. Maybe because despite all the Russian claims of Pokrovsk being under their complete control there were videos posted of Ukrainian soldiers launching fireworks in the northern parts of the city on new year's eve. Don't let this distract you from the Russian Santa Clauses in Myrnograd. P.S. How are you still coping over Pokrovsk? lol | ||
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Excludos
Norway8281 Posts
On January 06 2026 05:06 zeo wrote: Don't let this distract you from the Russian Santa Clauses in Myrnograd. P.S. How are you still coping over Pokrovsk? lol Zeo 2 years ago: "LOL POKROVSK!" Zeo 1 year ago: "How about Pokrovsk eh?!" Zeo 6 months ago: "No one's talking about Pokrovsk lolol" Zeo today: "God you guys still on that? Get a life" | ||
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Velr
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On January 06 2026 05:06 zeo wrote: Don't let this distract you from the Russian Santa Clauses in Myrnograd. P.S. How are you still coping over Pokrovsk? lol Thanks to you we had to talk so much about it, it kinda keeps being on our minds. Is Myrnograd your new lover? | ||
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![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/9DDZNLX.png) Aged like milk | ||
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