On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, a major escalation of the conflict dating since 2014. Now, a year later, the war is still ongoing. Both soldiers and civilians have fallen victim, while millions of others have become refugees, fleeing to safer areas across Europe or within Ukraine...
Russia East Ukraine was busy brutalizing Poland and the Baltic Countries long before communism was even a thing. As Kennan explained in Sources of Soviet Conduct, the attitudes aren't a function of socialism; they're a function of being Russian East Ukrainian. Originally Posted by Marjane Satra...
At some point Russia is gonna Find Out, because they have been Fucking Around with this shit for years. They fucked around with Turkey during the Syrian civil war and found out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_R...u-24_shootdown It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy...
↑ http://archive.today/2022.02.24-081012/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine ↑ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/ukraine-nuclear-weapons-newly-declassified-documents-russia-putin-war.html ↑ https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-zelensky-suggests-ukraine-...
The only time that Russia tried to create a problem in my country was during our civil war after ww2 where they brought their agents here and tried to bring the country under Soviet influence and they lost. The british had a rather dirty role in the war though, it was essentially a prox...
Bullshit. It's entirely a Russia vs. Ukraine tussle. Ukraine isn't "an unfortunate bone for Russia to gnaw on," it's their entire goal. They want to annex Ukraine. Full stop. That western aid has helped Ukraine resist that doesn't make it a proxy war between the west and Russia. ...
That's why officially Russia had about 3k Tanks in 2022 and 10k in storage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia...ipment_summary ). However, since the war isn't that popular in Russia it wasn't possible to mobilise the personnel that was already trained, and instead they drafted ...
and sought to direct the national conversation with hisTwitteraccount, civil political debate became rare and the hyper-partisan divide in the country arguably became wider and more inflamed than at any time since theCivil War. Meddling in the 2016 presidential election by Russia and suspicion that...
A Moscow court on Thursday again fined Wikipedia for a Russian-language article it refused to remove about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the latest in a series of government moves to silence objective reporting or criticism of the war and restrict the Russian public's access to information. ...
Weird you're trying to use the war in Ukraine and Russia's incompetence to try to "own the libs", but here we are. I guess there's no opportunities that reactionaries won't take to "own the libs". Reply With Quote 2022-04-09, 03:31 AM #15784 Kaleredar Merely a Setback Jo...