'Embarrassing for Putin': Russian territory is under occupation for the first time since WWII
'Embarrassing for Putin': Russian territory is under occupation for the first time since WWII
Go Ukraine, fuck Russia.
A not very wealthy country of about only 120 million people wanted to play superpower.
They were offered peace, cooperation and prosperity, but instead they chose corruption and confrontation.
Russia could very possibly have been the biggest economy in Europe by now, if they had chosen cooperation. That would have made them more powerful and influential than all the bullshit they've pulled to undermine the west and their neighbors.
I totally agree.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were handed everything they wanted on a silver plate.
They could have been Poland on steroids.
But they chose to reject it, so stupid.
Russians have been brainwashed for centuries by their elites to thinking corruption is the natural order of things.
They can't believe that western nations can have shows of wealth and quality of life standards they do, because that means the way they and their ancestors have lived for decades isn't how people are supposed to live.
Their elites steal everything, ensure education standards are low as possible so their workers can just barely manage to operate in a factory, on a farm or in a mine, and then encourage them to stay drunk as possible during their waking hours.
And then they wonder why Russians who manage to emigrate west never go home and sooner or later cut all contact with their backwards motherland.
Frankly if it hadn't been for the advent of Nuclear Weapons, and Soviets stealing designs for them from America, Russia never would have been a Superpower at all and probably collapse in on itself in the 60s.
wanted to play superpower
As someone who is from that region, it's not even that. A whole lot of countries want to play superpower, and they are only mildly hated for it. The US, the French, even the Chinese are an abstract economic threat. The Russians want to play 18th century superpower and that makes them a concrete military threat.
The stupid thing is, just by looking at the state of the world right now, they totally would have won the long game if they went soft power only. Putin is a failure that way as well I guess.
At some point we’ll probably have to admit that they’re culturally not inclined to do good. That and the rampant alcohol abuse is holding them back.
How quickly we forget the first satellite, first man in space, first nuclear power plant, first fusion reactor, and the MIR space station.
Something has indeed been holding them back since those things were created, and their culture hasn't significantly changed since then.
Russia could very possibly have been the biggest economy in Europe by now,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Countries are at war with each others.
What's your point? It clearly states the cold war ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Most of eastern Europe chose to democratize, and they are way better off today than in 1991. But Russia chose to undermine the west and the countries around them, instead of cooperation.
Countries are at war with each others.
That's not a law of nature by any means.
To my knowledge, it's the first time in history that a non-nuclear power invaded and occupied territory belonging to a nuclear power.
So, that's even more dubious history Putin played a part in.
A very nuclear power at that.
Well, if you consider Israel to be a nuclear power…
As long as no one’s nuclear trigger fingers get itchy, I’ll be happy.
My preferred fictional outcome is Putin orders a full launch, but almost all the missiles just do a small fart in their tubes as no maintenance was done, and the ones that launch end up reaching escape velocity and disappearing because the people in charge of the silos had long since sold the payloads for yacht money...
Putin knows that if he's gonna press any big red buttons, it better be all of them because gloves are gonna be taken off against him.
Putin is finally making history, his legacy will now be remembered forever. What a great accomplishment! They said it would be over in 3 days, over two years later and now Ukrainian troops are in control of Russian territory.
Amazing what Ukraine has managed to pull off here. Watching closely to see how this unfolds.
You mean Putin, the Poisoner of Underwear?
Marvel are really running out of villains for their new movies...
Another chance to use my new Ukrainian Riker!
(He's Rikrainian.)
Ukraine and Russia are uniting into one country. Just not the way Putin envisioned.
He wanted a war, so he got one.
I mean right?
Fuck around and find out and all that!
"special military operation"
Oh no, poor Putin
But remember, when god closes a door, he certainly opens a window...
The amount of scrubs skits involving a window makes this even funnier
Wowee, all he had to do was not be a shitter and this wouldn't have happened. Now it will be his eternal reputation in history books.
This is all history will remember him for. A botched violent and illegal invasion of a peaceful country for absolutely no good reason whatsoever!
that and running russia for what 30 years now with Medvedev, starting a war on an alleged false flag attack and then running some kind of invasion every handful of years like clockwork.
What's funny is before Alex Jones became a giant putin simp he had, possibly correctly, suggested putin blew up some russian buildings to start a war in 1999
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
Yes, it's the embarrassment that's really important here. 🙄
Surprisingly, yes. For that kind of people, public perception is everything
It really is. The only way for this to end, is for Putin to lose support internally.
Its part of it. There's also the better negotiating position, possibility of flanking the Kremlin's defenses, and forcing them to respond in a situation where Ukraine has the momentum and defensive stance.
OK, yes, but how are the front lines further south going?
Russia has undeniably made gains. Avdiivka is comparable in size to the Russian territory taken by Ukraine. Except it took Russia a year and 30,000 casualties and hundreds of armored vehicles losses. Ukraine's push into Russia has happened over days and Russia still hasn't pivoted with a coherent response.
History has the tendency to repeat itself.
History never repeats itself....but it often rhymes.
So is this the game rulers are playing? Embarrass each others at the expense of millions of people?
The ruler of Ukraine is playing a game called “Defend my country from foreign invaders”.
Putin embarrassed himself by allowing it to get to this point. Russia is into year three of the war that was supposed to last a few days, over what is ostensibly his ego alone.
The ruler of Ukraine is playing a game called “Defend my country from foreign invaders”.
You are saying it in a sarcastic way but for them it's pretty much a game. Rulers don't fight their wars they send peasants to die for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine#2024
"As of 26 April 2024, the Polish government has offered, and the Lithuania governments is considering, repatriating Ukrainian men living in their countries to Ukraine. So that they can be drafted into the Ukrainian military"
Its pretty much a tale as old as time. Read the "little nicky" letters sent between rulers leading up to World War 1. Like shitposting commenters online faceless, nameless people are just cannon fodder to these people.
First they were the second most powerful army in the world.
Then they were the second most powerful in Ukraine.
And now they are the second most powerful in Russia.
I like they way this is going 🤗.
Second most powerful in Moscow 🤞😬🤞
Second most powerful in Putin's dreams
Would be wild if they took over Russia and Zelenskyy became the president of Russia.
Second most powerful in all of their military bases.
they made a classic blunder- the one slightly more well known than getting into it with a scillian when death is on the line! Getting into a land war in Asia!
Wait. But aren't they Asia? Lol
In Asia? Ukraine isn't in Asia, even western Russia isn't considered to be in Asia...