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Lebronwon
02/11/22 1:39:18 PM
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https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1492203576260759561



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MelbuFrahma4
02/11/22 1:44:01 PM
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They are going to do this in the middle of the Olympics China is gonna be mad.

Wouldnt be surprised if China stops covering for Russia and several of their top athletes get busted for doping.

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MFBKBass5
02/11/22 1:46:29 PM
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MelbuFrahma4 posted...
They are going to do this in the middle of the Olympics China is gonna be mad.

Wouldnt be surprised if China stops covering for Russia and several of their top athletes get busted for doping.


lmao its in chinas interest for Russia to invade. Its a good distraction to let china do whatever they want

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ScazarMeltex
02/11/22 1:47:54 PM
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Russia didn't spend all of the money, time, and infrastructure to move that stuff there for no reason. We aren't just talking troops and smalls arms. We're talking heavy equipment that had to be moved via rail.

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AngelicRadiance
02/11/22 1:50:02 PM
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MFBKBass5 posted...
lmao its in chinas interest for Russia to invade. Its a good distraction to let china do whatever they want
It's a test for China if they wanna invade Taiwain. If Russia invades and conquers Ukraine and the response from the West is weak they know they can in turn take Taiwan.

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COVxy
02/11/22 1:51:44 PM
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Classified information or it didn't happen!

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MFBKBass5
02/11/22 1:51:54 PM
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AngelicRadiance posted...
It's a test for China if they wanna invade Taiwain. If Russia invades and conquers Ukraine and the response from the West is weak they know they can in turn take Taiwan.

exactly. Its a litmus test for china to do something similar

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Zikten
02/11/22 1:54:03 PM
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Which is why we need to respond. We can't let Taiwan or Ukraine down
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__starsnostars
02/11/22 1:54:06 PM
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China already did something similar when they annexed Tibet.

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ScazarMeltex
02/11/22 1:56:15 PM
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AngelicRadiance posted...
It's a test for China if they wanna invade Taiwain. If Russia invades and conquers Ukraine and the response from the West is weak they know they can in turn take Taiwan.
It's also a test to see just how robust the Western response will be if they invade the Baltic States. They are NATO members but Russia can overrun and occupy them faster than NATO can reinforce them. Which means that any conflict that results is going to to be a NATO offensive trying to liberate Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania which will be a hard sell in America.

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s0nicfan
02/11/22 1:59:23 PM
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Russia invaded Georgia during the 2008 games in China.
Russia invaded Crimea right after the 2014 games in Japan.

They have a habit of using large international events as a smokescreen for targeted operations. The only difference this time around is nobody's actually watching the Olympics this year so people are free to continue focusing on russia.

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Unsuprised_Pika
02/11/22 1:59:55 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
It's also a test to see just how robust the Western response will be if they invade the Baltic States. They are NATO members but Russia can overrun and occupy them faster than NATO can reinforce them. Which means that any conflict that results is going to to be a NATO offensive trying to liberate Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania which will be a hard sell in Amerdoor.

You'd think a revival of the Soviet Union would be an even harder sell.

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Kaiganeer
02/11/22 2:05:19 PM
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the response should be to use economic sanctions and blockades to choke the life out of russia's populace and to goad them into revolting and tearing their country apart from the inside, because the only thing putin really fears is his own people
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ScazarMeltex
02/11/22 2:06:45 PM
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Unsuprised_Pika posted...
You'd think a revival of the Soviet Union would be an even harder sell.
Not really. There is a reason that Putin is doing this now. After 20 years of expensive and pointless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq there is absolutely zero American public interest in a war. Especially one in defense of another country, regardless of the treaty obligations involved.
No one wants it, which doesn't always matter but there is also not a ton of money to be made off of it. There isn't going to be an occupation so there is no money in it for defense contractors, and there aren't resources to exploit since it's going to be in a first world European country (so it won't be allowed) so there is no money in it for mining or oil companies.

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Sharashaska
02/11/22 2:07:33 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/5/AAc4wZAAC6hR.jpg

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Questionmarktarius
02/11/22 2:10:39 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
and there aren't resources to exploit
about that...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/9/AAEhCpAAC6hV.jpg
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Smackems
02/11/22 2:16:27 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Russia is hugely uninhabited as well, also Ukraine is big and also also

Questionmarktarius posted...
about that...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/9/AAEhCpAAC6hV.jpg


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AngelicRadiance
02/11/22 2:16:30 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

If I recall it's that they consider Ukraine as part of Russia and it'd be the equivalent of the US invading Ohio if it seceded

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pogo_rabid
02/11/22 2:16:43 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Access to warm water ports, buffer zone between between russia and nato countries, ect...

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ScazarMeltex
02/11/22 2:19:19 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
about that...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/8/9/AAEhCpAAC6hV.jpg
Oh I know Ukraine has plenty of resources to exploit. That's what Russia is in this for, that and prestige of their former empire. I was specifically talking about the Baltic states.
The same thing could be extrapolated into the Ukraine situation though. Supposing the US puts troops and equipment there to defend Ukrainian sovereignty, we aren't occupying anything and Ukraine (and the rest of Europe for that matter) isn't going to allow American companies to come in and take the natural gas from the pipeline.

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Zikten
02/11/22 2:20:45 PM
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During the Soviet era, they called Ukraine the bread basket of the USSR. They want all that farmland. Apparently it's much easier to grow food in Ukraine than Russia
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Smackems
02/11/22 2:21:41 PM
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Zikten posted...
During the Soviet era, they called Ukraine the bread basket of the USSR. They want all that farmland. Apparently it's much easier to grow food in Ukraine than Russia
And then they fucked it

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Questionmarktarius
02/11/22 2:22:21 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
I was specifically talking about the Baltic states.
Probably not a whole hell of a lot of pipelines running through Estonia.
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Unsugarized_Foo
02/11/22 4:04:55 PM
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Stuff them and push them back. Russia ain't got enough goods to get Ukraines goods.

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Smackems
02/11/22 4:05:43 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Probably not a whole hell of a lot of pipelines running through Estonia.
Estonian women are really hot

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Nukazie
02/11/22 4:06:16 PM
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so are they actually doing it or nah

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Smackems
02/11/22 4:07:43 PM
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Nukazie posted...
so are they actually doing it or nah
Well they didn't put all those troops there for nuffin

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UnholyMudcrab
02/11/22 4:08:28 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Please don't call it "the Ukraine." The term is a holdover from Soviet times and undermines the independence of the country.

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BlackOmnimon
02/11/22 4:08:52 PM
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I hope people who say "we" need to do something are enlisting right now.

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ElatedVenusaur
02/11/22 4:13:37 PM
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BlackOmnimon posted...
I hope people who say "we" need to do something are enlisting right now.
People are awful eager to go to war with Russia and nobody ever thinks of the cost. We are incredibly well-conditioned to forever war in this country. The winner of a NATO-Russia war would be China and China alone.
Assuming it doesnt end in nuclear fire, of course. Though Im sure the Ukrainians will still be grateful for being liberated from Russian oppression into the beyond.

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SauI_Goodman
02/11/22 4:13:42 PM
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I dont believe any conflict will happen and everyone will just let russia take over. Just like theybdid crimea. Unfortunate for ukraine. :(

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Humble_Novice
02/11/22 4:15:10 PM
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On the other hand, Russia is seeing more COVID cases lately despite Omicron slowly dwindling in other parts of the world: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/
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ScazarMeltex
02/11/22 4:56:45 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
I dont believe any conflict will happen and everyone will just let russia take over. Just like theybdid crimea. Unfortunate for ukraine. :(
I mean Ukraine will fight but they don't have the manpower or equipment to resist for long.

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AngelsNAirwav3s
02/11/22 4:59:06 PM
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Humble_Novice posted...
On the other hand, Russia is seeing more COVID cases lately despite Omicron slowly dwindling in other parts of the world: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/

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Smackems
02/11/22 5:20:34 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
Please don't call it "the Ukraine." The term is a holdover from Soviet times and undermines the independence of the country.
The Ukraine is in dire straights

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Unsuprised_Pika
02/11/22 7:59:12 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
I mean Ukraine will fight but they don't have the manpower or equipment to resist for long.

They should fuck the utter shit out of all the pipelines that go to Russia the moment a single soldier steps over the border.
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Intro2Logic
02/11/22 7:59:51 PM
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Unsuprised_Pika posted...
They should fuck the utter shit out of all the pipelines that go to Russia the moment a single soldier steps over the border.
The pipelines go from Russia.

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Unsuprised_Pika
02/11/22 8:05:23 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
The pipelines go from Russia.

I mean if they are going to fall might well inconvience Russia as much as possible.
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Ratchetrockon
02/11/22 8:06:25 PM
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holy shit

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Intro2Logic
02/11/22 8:08:18 PM
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Unsuprised_Pika posted...
I mean if they are going to fall might well inconvience Russia as much as possible.
The main thing this would inconvenience is Germany, which relies on Russian oil.

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RenescoStCewl
02/11/22 8:15:01 PM
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Intro2Logic posted...
The main thing this would inconvenience is Germany, which relies on Russian oil.
Maybe Germany would actually help out some then.

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Unsuprised_Pika
02/11/22 8:15:23 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Probably.
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Antifar
02/12/22 1:10:31 PM
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Update:
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1492555081509703681


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LostForest
02/12/22 2:03:38 PM
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Antifar posted...
Update:
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1492555081509703681

14,000 of those retweets are probably Russian bots.

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Antifar
02/12/22 2:26:09 PM
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LostForest posted...
14,000 of those retweets are probably Russian bots.
X doubt

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