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Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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Even the preparatory airstrikes were mainly conducted at dawn. This is a big asymmetry vs how the US has fought conflicts for the past 30 or so years, with the US preferring to do offensive actions at night.
Yeah if that's even true it won't last. Like Russia has the luxury of taking their time over this.
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Ouch! Talk about wasting many lives in one go.
If true, Ukraine's population is absolutely going all in to defend their country.
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Not in India's interests to work against Russia at the moment. Abstain is easy way out.
Countries true colours are certainly coming out during this.
I read a few more reports about similar stuff. There is feeling that Russian equipment seems a bit not modern enough when compared to other countries.
I bet around 99% tweets regarding battles from either side range from blatant fake news to half truths.
Which begs the question why are we following them ? Some of the videos of aircrafts firing, tanks blown up etc are old videos.
Which begs the question why are we following them ? Some of the videos of aircrafts firing, tanks blown up etc are old videos.
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There's a couple of twitter accounts that generally get it right and don't show old videos. Some reddit subs are also good at recognizing old videos. Not all the time, but in general.
Indeed your countries true colours were shown when churchill starved millions of Indians to death. And in case you come up with a half arsed defense that that was ages ago let me inform you that in the 70's you lot sent in your navy into Indian waters to bomb us in hope of helping pakistan who was at the time genociding bangladeshis. So spare me your "true colours" bollocks.
I saw one yesterday where it was artillery fire shooting into the night sky to attack war planes above.
The war planes were WW2 models and it was from a fecking Call of Duty video game.
I’ll drink to that.
You say that like you assume I’m proud of that history.
When did Kiev become Kyiv?
Get fecked Russia
What have you done about it then ?
Why don't you pressure your govt right now to cut ties with the saudis who are murdering civilians in yemen right now with the military hardware given by your govt ?
Fantastic. Now do it for the media channels and they will be forced to disconnect from the servers and so they can't publish more shit
I wouldn’t say a few kids making petrol bombs is a population going all in.
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Almost all collective sanctions will hurt normal people to some extent.
Regarding the hesitation, it was related to other fears as well. Including the risk that CIPS the Chinese system rivaling SWIFT stand to benefit from these sanctions. These articles answer a few questions.
https://www.dw.com/de/was-ist-swift/a-60915890
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...nternational-payments-network-russia-sanction
Of course. Hating Russia, even without Putin, comes naturally for the Western countries.
Not every country can afford the luxury, unfortunately. They can't afford to destroy their economy trying to pick sides in a war that they are not directly impacted by.
Which is why every country does trade in billions of $ with the Saudis. It doesn't matter what they do to their people or people not serving their interests. Every big country looks the other way.
Anyways, that is nothing new in world politics.
I don't think most people would be proud of that now, and would rightly condemn it. That doesn't have any bearing on India's decision to abstain though which will be based on trade at the expense of lives.
Presumably around the same time as Vienna became Wien
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Wrong thread. We get it, any big country nowadays will have blood on their hands to have got to where they are but this is Ukraine invasion specific.
Kiev is the Russian name for it, Kyiv the Ukrainian. Pronounced differently too.
Apart from trolls both the countries are also putting out information in order to demoralize the other, its information warfare.
Follow the right accounts and you only get the stuff that is either verified, geolocated or posted by somebody who has a reputation for posting authentic footage.
That would come back at a huge cost for Russia for many years to come, wouldn’t it?
China abstains cause just putting sanctions does not solve the issue, but the situation should be solved by negotiation.
China supports Ukraine's territorial integrity.
China mentions that NATO's extension is one of the causes of the problem, and the security of a country/group should not come at lowering the security of some other country.
China supports Ukraine's territorial integrity.
China mentions that NATO's extension is one of the causes of the problem, and the security of a country/group should not come at lowering the security of some other country.
It's all gone a bit beyond that, hasn't it?
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Precisely, think napalm in jungles type, however against dense urban area. Grim stuff, hope someone pushes back on the madman.
Thats the Germanic name, I doubt anyone in the UK says Wien or pronounces it correctly
It's the local name. I doubt many in the UK will say Kyiv as opposed to Kiev.
Kinzinger advocating for a NATO NFZ over Ukraine on CNN now.