And that right there is a major hint of WW3. Sanctions are an act of War.
Lawmakers, Yellen mull freezing Russian gold reserves
A bipartisan group of senators is working with the Treasury Department to prevent Russia from liquidating its giant stash of gold, potentially blocking one of the Kremlin's last methods for circumventing punishing financial sanctions.www.foxbusiness.com
Ukraine - Russia Conflict (Original Title: Things are heating up in the Donbass)
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.475 A&M Magnum
Mariupol
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.475 A&M Magnum
Sit rep Mariupol
The AZOV battalion is holed up in a steel mill in part of the city. Half the city is under Russian Control. The AZOV battalion has been reduce by more than half and is totally cut off from resupply.
The AZOV battalion is holed up in a steel mill in part of the city. Half the city is under Russian Control. The AZOV battalion has been reduce by more than half and is totally cut off from resupply.
Dr. Evil
20×102mm Vulcan
I'd settle for freezing the lawmakers and Yellen instead.Lawmakers, Yellen mull freezing Russian gold reserves
A bipartisan group of senators is working with the Treasury Department to prevent Russia from liquidating its giant stash of gold, potentially blocking one of the Kremlin's last methods for circumventing punishing financial sanctions.
Catskillkid
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Sorry about the long post but there was no way to link to it so I cut and pasted it. Somehow or another I got put on the "Bob Livingston Alerts" email list. Oftentimes I ignore them but this one I read, and while YMMV, I think I agree with a good portion of this analysis. Worth a ponder in my opinion. Also posted elsewhere.
As many of my readers already know I am not the biggest fan of Vladimir Putin, and for good reason. No, the war in Ukraine is not a factor; rather, it's Putin's duplicity, or at the very least it's the manner in which he has been presented to conservatives. The notion that Putin is "anti-globalist" has been circulating within the alternative media for at least a decade now and frankly there's not an ounce of truth to it.
No, he never kicked the Rothschilds out of Russia, they've had bank operations in Moscow for many years. Putin has been close friends with Mr. New World Order (Henry Kissinger) since before he became leader of Russia, it's all described in his autobiography. And, Putin has been heavily involved in the World Economic Forum for many years, and only last year Russia joined Klaus Schwab's 4th Industrial Revolution Initiative. There are claims that this is all about Putin "keeping his enemies close," but that is just childish naivety. No one keeps the globalists close unless they agree with the globalists on a majority of concepts.
Yes, the WEF told Putin he was a bad boy for invading Ukraine, and Russia is not invited to their next big conference. However, the WEF did the exact same thing after Russia annexed Crimea, and a year later Putin was invited right back again. Fake squabbles between the globalists and their allies are for the benefit of the public, they don't mean a thing in reality.
Ultimately, the Ukraine war is immensely convenient for the globalists. Think about it... the very moment their COVID mandates begin to fail and more than half the world refuses the vax passports, suddenly the invasion of Ukraine happens, and all is forgotten? It's as if someone flipped a switch and the mainstream media's COVID propaganda machine just shut down, all at once. The war on skeptics of the vaccines is mostly gone. The push for mandates is gone. Even the masks are basically gone. All the restrictions which authoritarians argued were essential for "saving lives" now no longer matter. They have vanished because they never did matter.
Now we're on to the newer bigger distraction of potential World War III. This was facilitated by Putin and expanded on by NATO countries into the realm of economic conflict, which is where the real war is happening. The globalists have shifted from using COVID as the excuse for inflation and economic decline to using Russia and Ukraine as the excuse for inflation and economic decline. Again, it's all very convenient.
In the meantime, there has been epic amounts of theater and distraction surrounding the reality on the ground in Ukraine. I don't think I have ever seen propaganda narratives implemented in real-time on this level before. I'm talking about immediate agenda-driven lies developed the very moment any event happens in Ukraine and spread via social media. The disinformation is moving so fast there's often no time to examine it before the next event occurs, and maybe that's the point. When the public is bombarded with lie after lie, sometimes mixed with a little truth, they have no time to react or to think.
The general thrust of the whole situation, though, is that you are not supposed to think. All you need to do is accept the maxim that "Russia bad guy, Ukraine good guy." There are even a host of Republicans and fake GOP conservatives out there calling for U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine, or at least the assassination of Putin. Why should conservatives, or anyone else in the West, be so invested in Ukraine that we are considering WWIII? What does this conflict have to do with us? In terms of the general public, it has nothing to do with us. Not a thing.
To understand why, we need to discuss the many deceptions surrounding the Ukraine situation along with the many hypocrisies that undermine the narrative that westerners and specifically Americans need to be involved.
War crimes? The invasion of Ukraine vs. the invasion of Iraq
Before I get into this, I need to reiterate that Neo-Con politicians are not conservatives. They never have been, and they never will be. They are fake conservatives that wear our ideals like a costume in order to infiltrate and influence. Political frauds like John McCain (good riddance), Lindsay Graham, Mike Pence, etc. claim to be on our side but consistently support leftist and globalist initiatives in the meantime, all while actively seeking to chip away at our constitutional rights.
It's important to remember that it was these same Neo-Cons calling for U.S. involvement in Ukraine today that also demanded U.S. involvement in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East 20 years ago. Do you know that "War on Terror" that never ends and the search for "WMDs" that turned up nothing? Do you remember that? The Neo-Cons were primarily responsible for that. The irony of them demonizing Putin over his comparatively restrained invasion of Ukraine should not be lost on us.
The invasion of Iraq alone resulted in around 200,000 civilian deaths according to official estimates. The war had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, WMDs, or any associations between Saddam Hussein and any terrorists. In fact, there was no direct rationale for the U.S. to be in Iraq at all. Yet, we are still there to this day after an aggressive regime change and years of fighting which destroyed a generation of Iraqis. Was there a massive global push to "cancel" the U.S. in retaliation? Nope. Actually, nothing happened.
Even today, I have not heard a single media pundit bring up the point that accusing Russia of "war crimes" is hypocritical given the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the damage it caused. Why is no one talking about this?
Russia is losing the war?
Frankly, I believe that all modern militaries are overrated in terms of effectiveness. Reliance on technology has pervaded the new military ethos and made them soft. This includes the U.S. military which just spent nearly 20 years fighting a war in Afghanistan with top-tier drone technology at their disposal, and to no avail. Russia's military is closest to the U.S. in terms of technological advantages, but I think a lot of people have watched far too many movies when it comes to war and their expectations of how an invasion is implemented.
Invasions are usually not successful in a few weeks. They take time.
For example, Russia is clearly trying to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible (at least compared to the initial invasion of Iraq by the U.S.). They have kept a large amount of infrastructure intact, including the power grid in many parts of the country, which is what I would have targeted first if I am to be honest about the strategic advantages. The fact that Ukraine has had internet this whole time, even without Elon Musk's Starlink system, boggles my mind. It's as if Putin is trying to drag out the war.
Also, note that Russia is operating around most major cities instead of through them. I'm not really seeing the actions of a vicious blitzkrieg here. This is more like a slow and methodical assault, taking the country piece by piece. My suspicion is that the "Russia has failed" narrative is designed more for the western audience to give us a false sense of security.
Russia is isolated?
No, it's not. Not even close. At least at this time, Russia still has all the markets of the BRICS nations at its disposal. That means China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are all still trading vigorously with Russia and Russian exports are still flowing widely. India and China together hold 36 percent of the world's population; so please tell me again that Russia is isolated and is about to cry for mercy.
Not only that, but China signed a 30-year gas and oil deal right before Russia invaded Ukraine, and India is now developing an oil trade deal that cuts out the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency.
Why is the media and the White House claiming Russia has been cut off from the world? Again, I suspect this narrative is only for the benefit of conning the western masses into a false sense of security. They are trying to make people feel safe in the notion that international "cancel culture" is working when cancel culture is actually a pathetic and impotent strategy used by collectivists and cowards in order to avoid real confrontation while imagining they have power.
U.S. sanctions on Russian oil are causing high gas prices and Putin is to blame?
Uh, no. This claim is nonsense. Gas prices were rising well before the invasion of Ukraine, and the Federal Reserve is mostly to blame due to its constant fiat money creation and trillions in stimulus measures that have devalued the dollar. Any economist that argues otherwise is either an idiot or a liar and I'm happy to debunk them.
Official U.S. inflation hit 40-year highs in December of last year. Russian oil makes up only 3 percent of U.S. crude imports. The media and the White House continually lie about the effects of sanctions and try to divert attention over to Russia.
That said, there's something else the media does not talk about much, which is Europe's reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. If you want to see actual price inflation caused by Russia, let the EU ban Russian oil imports, or watch as Putin cuts off the supply. Europe is dependent on Russian oil and gas for about 40 percent of overall energy production. They cannot even survive a single year without it. If Russia retaliated and blocked energy exports to Europe, the EU would have to siphon oil from many other countries, reducing global supply dramatically. This would cause gas prices to explode to double or even triple current levels.
There are no Nazis in Ukraine?
It depends on how you define "Nazis." There is in fact a national socialist party called Svaboda and they are far more prominent in Ukrainian society and in politics than many people would like to admit. Of course, these days anyone that does not agree with the dictates of the authoritarian Far-Left is now called a "Nazi," so the accusation has lost much of its meaning. I just want to point out that the mainstream media back in 2014 was complaining about the "Neo Nazis" in Ukraine back in 2014, and admonished politicians like John McCain for traveling to Kiev and shaking hands with them.
The EU even demanded that the Ukraine government stop associating with Svaboda because of their "racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views." So, whether or not you agree that Svaboda is a Nazi-related entity, it is hilarious that the EU and the U.S. media are suddenly friends with the same Ukrainian government they disparaged back in 2014 as "fascist."
There are no U.S.-funded bio labs in Ukraine?
Yes, there are. The existence of multiple bio-labs in Ukraine has been openly admitted by U.S. officials including Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Nuland also indicated that these labs should not fall into Russian hands because of "research materials" they contain; she refrained from calling them biological weapons. It is also openly admitted that U.S. funding for these labs began during the Obama era (just as funding for the Level 4 bio lab in Wuhan, China began during the Obama era). Obama himself admitted that the labs contained anthrax and plague viruses.
The argument for U.S. involvement in the Ukrainian facilities was that these dangerous materials needed to be properly secured and "protected." Yeah, I'm not buying that, but at the very least it is absolutely and undeniably true that Ukraine holds multiple bio-labs, containing materials that could be used as biological weapons, and those labs have received ample funding from the U.S. government. THIS IS A FACT. The number of media lies and spin surrounding this one issue is truly impressive. Clearly, there is something about these labs that the government is trying to hide.
The truth matters...
Most of these disinformation campaigns in the media and by political officials from the White House to Neo-Cons in the GOP are obviously designed to accomplish one thing: American support for war with Russia. Frankly, Ukraine is not worth it. The displacement of refugees is saddening but war in general only ever serves the interests of globalists and power brokers. There are no "good guys" in this war.
NATO involvement in Ukraine, including military involvement, has been pervasive for over a decade, well before the Russian invasion of Crimea. It's almost like Ukraine has been groomed as a powder keg for potential global war. Now, it appears the globalists are falling back on Plan B in a desperate play to distract the public from economic destruction. Putin is a part of it, Ukraine is a part of it, and certain NATO governments are a part of it. The real war is not with Russia; the real war is with the establishment elites that play both sides of the conflict. None of this will end until they are removed.
As many of my readers already know I am not the biggest fan of Vladimir Putin, and for good reason. No, the war in Ukraine is not a factor; rather, it's Putin's duplicity, or at the very least it's the manner in which he has been presented to conservatives. The notion that Putin is "anti-globalist" has been circulating within the alternative media for at least a decade now and frankly there's not an ounce of truth to it.
No, he never kicked the Rothschilds out of Russia, they've had bank operations in Moscow for many years. Putin has been close friends with Mr. New World Order (Henry Kissinger) since before he became leader of Russia, it's all described in his autobiography. And, Putin has been heavily involved in the World Economic Forum for many years, and only last year Russia joined Klaus Schwab's 4th Industrial Revolution Initiative. There are claims that this is all about Putin "keeping his enemies close," but that is just childish naivety. No one keeps the globalists close unless they agree with the globalists on a majority of concepts.
Yes, the WEF told Putin he was a bad boy for invading Ukraine, and Russia is not invited to their next big conference. However, the WEF did the exact same thing after Russia annexed Crimea, and a year later Putin was invited right back again. Fake squabbles between the globalists and their allies are for the benefit of the public, they don't mean a thing in reality.
Ultimately, the Ukraine war is immensely convenient for the globalists. Think about it... the very moment their COVID mandates begin to fail and more than half the world refuses the vax passports, suddenly the invasion of Ukraine happens, and all is forgotten? It's as if someone flipped a switch and the mainstream media's COVID propaganda machine just shut down, all at once. The war on skeptics of the vaccines is mostly gone. The push for mandates is gone. Even the masks are basically gone. All the restrictions which authoritarians argued were essential for "saving lives" now no longer matter. They have vanished because they never did matter.
Now we're on to the newer bigger distraction of potential World War III. This was facilitated by Putin and expanded on by NATO countries into the realm of economic conflict, which is where the real war is happening. The globalists have shifted from using COVID as the excuse for inflation and economic decline to using Russia and Ukraine as the excuse for inflation and economic decline. Again, it's all very convenient.
In the meantime, there has been epic amounts of theater and distraction surrounding the reality on the ground in Ukraine. I don't think I have ever seen propaganda narratives implemented in real-time on this level before. I'm talking about immediate agenda-driven lies developed the very moment any event happens in Ukraine and spread via social media. The disinformation is moving so fast there's often no time to examine it before the next event occurs, and maybe that's the point. When the public is bombarded with lie after lie, sometimes mixed with a little truth, they have no time to react or to think.
The general thrust of the whole situation, though, is that you are not supposed to think. All you need to do is accept the maxim that "Russia bad guy, Ukraine good guy." There are even a host of Republicans and fake GOP conservatives out there calling for U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine, or at least the assassination of Putin. Why should conservatives, or anyone else in the West, be so invested in Ukraine that we are considering WWIII? What does this conflict have to do with us? In terms of the general public, it has nothing to do with us. Not a thing.
To understand why, we need to discuss the many deceptions surrounding the Ukraine situation along with the many hypocrisies that undermine the narrative that westerners and specifically Americans need to be involved.
War crimes? The invasion of Ukraine vs. the invasion of Iraq
Before I get into this, I need to reiterate that Neo-Con politicians are not conservatives. They never have been, and they never will be. They are fake conservatives that wear our ideals like a costume in order to infiltrate and influence. Political frauds like John McCain (good riddance), Lindsay Graham, Mike Pence, etc. claim to be on our side but consistently support leftist and globalist initiatives in the meantime, all while actively seeking to chip away at our constitutional rights.
It's important to remember that it was these same Neo-Cons calling for U.S. involvement in Ukraine today that also demanded U.S. involvement in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East 20 years ago. Do you know that "War on Terror" that never ends and the search for "WMDs" that turned up nothing? Do you remember that? The Neo-Cons were primarily responsible for that. The irony of them demonizing Putin over his comparatively restrained invasion of Ukraine should not be lost on us.
The invasion of Iraq alone resulted in around 200,000 civilian deaths according to official estimates. The war had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, WMDs, or any associations between Saddam Hussein and any terrorists. In fact, there was no direct rationale for the U.S. to be in Iraq at all. Yet, we are still there to this day after an aggressive regime change and years of fighting which destroyed a generation of Iraqis. Was there a massive global push to "cancel" the U.S. in retaliation? Nope. Actually, nothing happened.
Even today, I have not heard a single media pundit bring up the point that accusing Russia of "war crimes" is hypocritical given the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the damage it caused. Why is no one talking about this?
Russia is losing the war?
Frankly, I believe that all modern militaries are overrated in terms of effectiveness. Reliance on technology has pervaded the new military ethos and made them soft. This includes the U.S. military which just spent nearly 20 years fighting a war in Afghanistan with top-tier drone technology at their disposal, and to no avail. Russia's military is closest to the U.S. in terms of technological advantages, but I think a lot of people have watched far too many movies when it comes to war and their expectations of how an invasion is implemented.
Invasions are usually not successful in a few weeks. They take time.
For example, Russia is clearly trying to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible (at least compared to the initial invasion of Iraq by the U.S.). They have kept a large amount of infrastructure intact, including the power grid in many parts of the country, which is what I would have targeted first if I am to be honest about the strategic advantages. The fact that Ukraine has had internet this whole time, even without Elon Musk's Starlink system, boggles my mind. It's as if Putin is trying to drag out the war.
Also, note that Russia is operating around most major cities instead of through them. I'm not really seeing the actions of a vicious blitzkrieg here. This is more like a slow and methodical assault, taking the country piece by piece. My suspicion is that the "Russia has failed" narrative is designed more for the western audience to give us a false sense of security.
Russia is isolated?
No, it's not. Not even close. At least at this time, Russia still has all the markets of the BRICS nations at its disposal. That means China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are all still trading vigorously with Russia and Russian exports are still flowing widely. India and China together hold 36 percent of the world's population; so please tell me again that Russia is isolated and is about to cry for mercy.
Not only that, but China signed a 30-year gas and oil deal right before Russia invaded Ukraine, and India is now developing an oil trade deal that cuts out the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency.
Why is the media and the White House claiming Russia has been cut off from the world? Again, I suspect this narrative is only for the benefit of conning the western masses into a false sense of security. They are trying to make people feel safe in the notion that international "cancel culture" is working when cancel culture is actually a pathetic and impotent strategy used by collectivists and cowards in order to avoid real confrontation while imagining they have power.
U.S. sanctions on Russian oil are causing high gas prices and Putin is to blame?
Uh, no. This claim is nonsense. Gas prices were rising well before the invasion of Ukraine, and the Federal Reserve is mostly to blame due to its constant fiat money creation and trillions in stimulus measures that have devalued the dollar. Any economist that argues otherwise is either an idiot or a liar and I'm happy to debunk them.
Official U.S. inflation hit 40-year highs in December of last year. Russian oil makes up only 3 percent of U.S. crude imports. The media and the White House continually lie about the effects of sanctions and try to divert attention over to Russia.
That said, there's something else the media does not talk about much, which is Europe's reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. If you want to see actual price inflation caused by Russia, let the EU ban Russian oil imports, or watch as Putin cuts off the supply. Europe is dependent on Russian oil and gas for about 40 percent of overall energy production. They cannot even survive a single year without it. If Russia retaliated and blocked energy exports to Europe, the EU would have to siphon oil from many other countries, reducing global supply dramatically. This would cause gas prices to explode to double or even triple current levels.
There are no Nazis in Ukraine?
It depends on how you define "Nazis." There is in fact a national socialist party called Svaboda and they are far more prominent in Ukrainian society and in politics than many people would like to admit. Of course, these days anyone that does not agree with the dictates of the authoritarian Far-Left is now called a "Nazi," so the accusation has lost much of its meaning. I just want to point out that the mainstream media back in 2014 was complaining about the "Neo Nazis" in Ukraine back in 2014, and admonished politicians like John McCain for traveling to Kiev and shaking hands with them.
The EU even demanded that the Ukraine government stop associating with Svaboda because of their "racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views." So, whether or not you agree that Svaboda is a Nazi-related entity, it is hilarious that the EU and the U.S. media are suddenly friends with the same Ukrainian government they disparaged back in 2014 as "fascist."
There are no U.S.-funded bio labs in Ukraine?
Yes, there are. The existence of multiple bio-labs in Ukraine has been openly admitted by U.S. officials including Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Nuland also indicated that these labs should not fall into Russian hands because of "research materials" they contain; she refrained from calling them biological weapons. It is also openly admitted that U.S. funding for these labs began during the Obama era (just as funding for the Level 4 bio lab in Wuhan, China began during the Obama era). Obama himself admitted that the labs contained anthrax and plague viruses.
The argument for U.S. involvement in the Ukrainian facilities was that these dangerous materials needed to be properly secured and "protected." Yeah, I'm not buying that, but at the very least it is absolutely and undeniably true that Ukraine holds multiple bio-labs, containing materials that could be used as biological weapons, and those labs have received ample funding from the U.S. government. THIS IS A FACT. The number of media lies and spin surrounding this one issue is truly impressive. Clearly, there is something about these labs that the government is trying to hide.
The truth matters...
Most of these disinformation campaigns in the media and by political officials from the White House to Neo-Cons in the GOP are obviously designed to accomplish one thing: American support for war with Russia. Frankly, Ukraine is not worth it. The displacement of refugees is saddening but war in general only ever serves the interests of globalists and power brokers. There are no "good guys" in this war.
NATO involvement in Ukraine, including military involvement, has been pervasive for over a decade, well before the Russian invasion of Crimea. It's almost like Ukraine has been groomed as a powder keg for potential global war. Now, it appears the globalists are falling back on Plan B in a desperate play to distract the public from economic destruction. Putin is a part of it, Ukraine is a part of it, and certain NATO governments are a part of it. The real war is not with Russia; the real war is with the establishment elites that play both sides of the conflict. None of this will end until they are removed.
The more I think about this, the more I think it's going to lead to WW3.
IMO the only possible scenario that DOES NOT lead to WW3 is if there is a near immediate peace agreement or cease fire and I think that unlikely. The evil globalists and neo cons simply do not want it to stop. I think they are not so subtly trying to get dragged into this mess.
As an example, I saw a story that Poland was considering sending in "peacekeepers" into western Ukraine.
Guys if it's not peacekeepers, then it's a no fly zone or something else. It's going to keep escalating and dragging more countries into this debacle.
This isn't going to stop it's going to continue slowly escalating until one country feels too threatened and decides to try to decisively strike first and nukes start to drop.
IMO the only possible scenario that DOES NOT lead to WW3 is if there is a near immediate peace agreement or cease fire and I think that unlikely. The evil globalists and neo cons simply do not want it to stop. I think they are not so subtly trying to get dragged into this mess.
As an example, I saw a story that Poland was considering sending in "peacekeepers" into western Ukraine.
Guys if it's not peacekeepers, then it's a no fly zone or something else. It's going to keep escalating and dragging more countries into this debacle.
This isn't going to stop it's going to continue slowly escalating until one country feels too threatened and decides to try to decisively strike first and nukes start to drop.
spat
.950 JDJ
Sanctions are no more an act of war than a boycott is an act of violence.
A blocade is an act of war.
Sanctions can lead a country far enough into desperation that they feel they have no choice but to commit an act of war though.
ArmedCorgi
.475 A&M Magnum
Does anyone else have the feeling that the whole notion of ww3 having to be nuclear is bullshit? The idea of ww3 was birthed during the cold war, when everything was nuclear. They were even playing around with the idea of nuclear powered cars. So no stretch to surmise they where thinking nukes would be the go to for the next war... It just seems like the prescribed opinion here is that the second the US and Russia start shooting at each other, it will be less than 100 rounds of 5.56 shot before the first nuke flies. This just doesn't seem realistic to me. I can see nukes flying if a country thinks there is no other option, but to reach that point, they must be A: losing the war horribly and B: have no diplomatic way out and be facing annihalation.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
for a rocket thru your roof ... that floor looks pretty clean .. did the maid show up before the videographer ..
spat
.950 JDJ
It will be.
It may not be Armageddon though.
In the 50s people still understood that nuclear bombs are just really big bombs.
It wasn't until the 70s that people started thinking of them as magic death machines that will kill the whole planet of you detonate them.
We detonated a shit ton of them in atmospheric testing, and the planet is still here.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
oh crap .. TGA was ordered for a bombing run ..
Oh shit
Folks they didn't just post this yesterday for no reason. Read between the lines what they are implying and why.
I double checked, it is legit directly from our government. It's not photoshopped.
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
If the USA had already taken over a province in Mexico and one in Canada I would assume they are increasing their defenses.
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Here is a big Russian ship on fire, for your entertainment.
There is also talk, including from the UK ministry of defense, that the battle for Kyiv is going so badly for the fascists that some are at grave risk of being encircled by Ukrainian counterattacks.
marioupol is no longer an inhabitable city. Russia has just removed it. Lacking the ability to actually conduct combat competently all they can do is slaughter. They don’t have enough ammunition to do it to the entire country.
There is also talk, including from the UK ministry of defense, that the battle for Kyiv is going so badly for the fascists that some are at grave risk of being encircled by Ukrainian counterattacks.
marioupol is no longer an inhabitable city. Russia has just removed it. Lacking the ability to actually conduct combat competently all they can do is slaughter. They don’t have enough ammunition to do it to the entire country.
MothMan
.338 Win Mag
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
OMFG 
The reason ukranian forces knew where that ship was is because Russian media posted its location three days ago as part of its propaganda campaign.
gcaptain.com
The reason ukranian forces knew where that ship was is because Russian media posted its location three days ago as part of its propaganda campaign.
Russian Landing Ship Docks in Ukraine
Update: Russian Landing Ship ‘Orsk’ Destroyed at Port of Berdiansk, Ukraine Claims March 21 (Reuters) – Russia’s armed forces said on Monday they had docked a large, beachable landing support ship, the...
gcaptain.com
OMFG
The reason ukranian forces knew where that ship was is because Russian media posted its location three days ago as part of its propaganda campaign.
Russian Landing Ship Docks in Ukraine
Update: Russian Landing Ship ‘Orsk’ Destroyed at Port of Berdiansk, Ukraine Claims March 21 (Reuters) – Russia’s armed forces said on Monday they had docked a large, beachable landing support ship, the...
"Loose lips sink ships....."
That was literally the cover illustration on a "National Lampoon" magazine about 30 years ago. lol.
Blimey
.450/400 Nitro Ex
I don't know how they are this bad at war. Most people expected Russia to steamroll through Ukraine (at least its east) in 2-3 days. Instead we've seen the greatest display of military ineptitude by a major nation in generations. I cannot readily think of another such blunder. If Russia wants to even exist after this they are going to have to do a complete post mortem on their entire military apparatus and government. At first it seemed like Ukraine was lucky but now it seems like Russia is systemically terrible at what they are doing.
Having one of their large supply ships blown up at port in an area they ostensibly control because they posted it on media is a horrific loss and a great symbol of what they are.
Uninformed and Compliant
.450/400 Nitro Ex
OMFG
The reason ukranian forces knew where that ship was is because Russian media posted its location three days ago as part of its propaganda campaign.
Russian Landing Ship Docks in Ukraine
Update: Russian Landing Ship ‘Orsk’ Destroyed at Port of Berdiansk, Ukraine Claims March 21 (Reuters) – Russia’s armed forces said on Monday they had docked a large, beachable landing support ship, the...
A meme is born!
How it started...
How it's going...
holdover
.475 A&M Magnum
OMFG
The reason ukranian forces knew where that ship was is because Russian media posted its location three days ago as part of its propaganda campaign.
Russian Landing Ship Docks in Ukraine
Update: Russian Landing Ship ‘Orsk’ Destroyed at Port of Berdiansk, Ukraine Claims March 21 (Reuters) – Russia’s armed forces said on Monday they had docked a large, beachable landing support ship, the...
I have to say, it looks like the work of the SEALS.
Xae289
.223 Rem
Plus, Russia isn't fighting Ukraine. They're fighting Ukrainians being trained, supplied, equipped, and provided intel by, the U.S. and NATO. There's a very big difference.
Cavalry
.338 Win Mag
I never registered for selective service. I turned 18 while in basic training, I kinda figured they already had my number.
Dr. Evil
20×102mm Vulcan
Technically it would be WW4. "They" have been waging WW3 against Americans for some time now only without planes, guns, etc..
Still.... let's say that's the case, then they're getting their asses handed to them by 2 week trainees.
I've been watching this from the start, I have read nothing, or heard nothing from any credible sources that said three days.