world war 3 thread

[gauchojake]

Not going with I must break you is a huge oversight imo

[sonatine]

Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly rejected a note from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeking peace in the more than a month-long conflict. When the note was hand-delivered to him by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, Putin reportedly replied instead: "Tell him I will thrash them."

[sonatine]

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5001140...g-ukraine-war/


really cool shit except all of putin's core power brokers are in nuclear bunkers atm so maybe lets not stop praying.

[sonatine]

couple of other tidbits... 1) wagner group is now being moved into place, 1000 fighters + senior leaders. and 2) russians are confiscating cell phones from UA citizens, UA citizens are reporting the thefts, UA security are monitoring the stolen cell phones and are picking up absolute gems naturally.

[sonatine]

todays the deadline for russia to return leased planes. if they dont, they are either going to have to manufacture parts for them or get them on the black market.

and no matter what they do, its unclear who would ever lease them planes again at anything other than exotic rates.

[sonatine]

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[Sanlmar]

KGB did everything but leave a note

[sonatine]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/roman-a...ng-11648480493

[sonatine]

UA just doxed 600 FSB operatives in EU.

https://gur.gov.ua/content/sotrudnyk...yy-evropy.html

[sonatine]

apologies if im repeating myself but whenever i hear ukraine going off about how 'the west / nato' are failing them, it feels scripted and basically something being done to sweeten the pot so RU can withdraw and say 'well we have exposed how weak and useless NATO is, mission accomplished', despite the majority of arms being used to obliterate their military being NATO sourced.

like every time UA is like 'give us no fly zones and send in nato hardware to enforce them' im like yeah thats basically a psyop because no one and i mean no one wants nato fingers pulling nato triggers to send live hot rounds into russian flesh. because the second that shit starts, russias going to be like 'ok cool lets vaporize berlin and see who really wants to take this to the next level'.

[betcheckbet]

Seems like Russia going to have to concede and go for consolation prize of eastern Ukraine.

Russia military reputation been destroyed. Apparently they don’t have dedicated communications and they are literally using cell phones to issue orders. It also sounds like they have major gaps in mid level sergeants. Lack of sergeants may also be why we are seeing so many generals killed in battle.

[sonatine]

Joke doing the rounds in Russia. Wife & husbard talking:
W: What's this "special military operation"?
H: It's a proxy war - Russia vs. NATO.
W: How's it going?
H: We lost 15k troops, 8 generals, 500 tanks and 100 planes.
W: Wow. What about NATO?
H: They haven't showed up yet.

[betcheckbet]

Also for anyone questioning Putin's fitness imaging living a life like this for decades where people treat you like a literal 2 year old and like you can do no wrong. His recent life is the definition of participation medal.

Oh and what an absolute shitty hockey player he is. They gave him a white helmet to make sure the other team knew not to stop him.

[sonatine]

[sonatine]

official war update out of russia.

obviously the trick is to look beyond the posturing and face saving and suss out the shifts in sentiment behind them. those are generally a far more accurate compass for whats coming next.

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