Russia/Ukraine conflict

[SwedishAdvocate]

Allegedly:

A week after German defense company Rheinmetall's Director had his home burned, they announce shipment of 100km range artillery shells to Ukraine.

Now, THAT'S how you deal with Russians.

twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1787168633300431311

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787168633300431311

 

[SwedishAdvocate]

A random post on X?... Allegedly:

I met a guy in Canada who was from Romania in 2018. He laughed at how Americans apparently did not know that lies and propaganda were Russia's "largest export" as he called it. He said Romanians were so used to it they were all shocked at how gullible Americans were.

twitter.com/tdub909/status/1787194660609241397

EDIT:
Removed the embedded tweet since it was on of those 'two tweets in one' embeds. You can still find it by copy/pasting the URL above.

 

[navguy12]

And now the Russian Dictator's 'Turtle Tank' has a Cope Cage... (The bottom tweet. Don't know how to isolate it...)

twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1787160680036000012

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787160680036000012

A new Dreadnought era is dawning…maybe.

 

[navguy12]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787081590499102815

 

[bobby g]

That chart has 8mm. I don't think anybody has made 8mm since Yugoslavia came apart. My partner has an 8mm rifle and I couldn't find ammunition for it.

A .22 doesn't have much kick. A reasonably large drone would have enough mass and power to absorb that kind of recoil.

SAW and M16 use 5.56 aka .223" which strangely isn't there, a bit of kick

 

[DanCar]

Shell production in Europe still ramping.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787107286491566168

 

[navguy12]

“Fatherland”. Vaguely familiar sound to that rhetoric.

• In his Easter message, Vladimir Putin did not explicitly mention the waras he attended a Moscow Easter service led by the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. Instead he thanked Kirill for “fruitful cooperation in the current difficult period, when it is so important for us to unite our efforts for the steady development and strengthening of the fatherland”.

Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks kill three during Orthodox Easter

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges prayers for soldiers on frontline amid attacks in Kharkiv and Sumy regions; Xi Jinping arrives in Paris under pressure to harden stance on Russia. What we know on day 803

www.theguardian.com

 

[navguy12]

 

[Crutonius]

Twitter Publish

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Sup dawg, we heard you like missiles so we put an a2a missile on your drone so it can boat while it shoots down air frames. I think I did that meme right.

Also, why the aggressive music on all of these videos? It's already a war. Why not Enya or something?

 

[blckdmp]

Isn't Russia already declared a terrorist state terror sponsor by EU, what more do they want?

Probably more about broadcasting it widely, so if there is an attack who's origins are disguised Russia will be the goto suspect in the public consciousness

 

[DanCar]

From history we know that hitting the enemies economy works well.

Russian oil exports fell to a post-pandemic low due to UAV attacks on Russian refineries | УНН

УНН War ✎ Russian oil exports in April 2024 fell to their lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic due to drone attacks by Ukraine on Russian refineries.

unn.ua

Although this is disappointing:

Russia saw its oil revenue double in April despite Western sanctions

Strong global demand and supply fears driven by geopolitical risks have helped bolster Russia's energy trade.

markets.businessinsider.com

 

[DanCar]

Have the Falcons been unleashed?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787508707401560370

 

[cusetownusa]

From history we know that hitting the enemies economy works well.

Russian oil exports fell to a post-pandemic low due to UAV attacks on Russian refineries | УНН

УНН War ✎ Russian oil exports in April 2024 fell to their lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic due to drone attacks by Ukraine on Russian refineries.

unn.ua

Although this is disappointing:

Russia saw its oil revenue double in April despite Western sanctions

Strong global demand and supply fears driven by geopolitical risks have helped bolster Russia's energy trade.

markets.businessinsider.com

Aren’t the 2 articles somewhat contradicting? If exports are at a low, how can revenue be at a high? Are they basing these numbers off of what Russia says? Can’t trust anything out of them.

Either way, it does suck that the world is so dependent on oil that Russia can print money no matter how much havoc they cause in the world.

 

[DanCar]

Vlad speaking with a forked tongue:

1. F-16s won't make a difference
2. We will treat F-16s as nuclear capable

 

[SwedishAdvocate]

BREAKING: Russian opposition leader and Washington Post columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza, wins Pulitzer Prize. A valuable recognition of his bravery and a big help in keeping the spotlight on his unjust 25 year sentence for calling Putin a murderer.

twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1787563492863783137

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787563492863783137

 

[wdolson]

SAW and M16 use 5.56 aka .223" which strangely isn't there, a bit of kick

Longer round with more charge than a .22.

Vlad speaking with a forked tongue:

1. F-16s won't make a difference
2. We will treat F-16s as nuclear capable

Russia has found that if they rattle the nuclear sabre the west clutches its pearls.

Somebody posted a Ben Hodges interview a day or two back and I just had a chance to see it. He addresses the constant nuclear sabre rattling and makes a strong case why Russia won't use nuclear weapons.

Both the US and China have told Russia there would be consequences and there is little upside to nuking Ukraine. During the cold war the Warsaw Pact had units that were equipped and trained to exploit an opening created by a tactical nuke. These units had special equipment to allow the troops to move through a gap in a front line created by a nuke. But the Russians have decommissioned most of that equipment and nobody gets the training anymore.

There is no tactical advantage in using one now. And if they nuke cities, it could wipe out those cities, but it will just enrage the west and make the Ukrainians fight even harder.

 

[navguy12]

 

[navguy12]

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1787514779571200080

 

[navguy12]

“Casey was warned that in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory with British weapons, any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and abroad” could be targeted, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.

Russia threatens UK military and orders nuclear drills after ‘provocation’

Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine war

www.theguardian.com