Ukraine Invasion

[Saz]

[Kane]

Agreed. I'm wondering if China and Russia severely underestimated the wests resolve - China seems to be walking back their support (which makes sense - without significant continuing government intervention their entire property market collapses).

Gotta wonder what India is thinking right now - I know they have a great relationship with Russia but it's quite clear that it's a losing proposition. Perhaps even Russia' decline here will have India re-evaluating things...which could be one of the many impetus' for this unified reaction.

[Kane]

Oh damn

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 022-02-27/

Turkey agrees to restrict Russian access to the black sea...

[Kane]

Wow.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bp-exit- ... 42464.html

BP exiting Rosneft stake. While these responses are warranted hot damn they're coming fast now. What will push Putin over the edge?

[The Comrade]

what i'm seeing from certain...people....is the wholesale acceptance of the russian modernization propaganda lie that has been going around since 2008. the russian army f**k sucks and ive been saying this, on this very website, since georgia, since crimea, since syria. and now your'e all seeing, first hand, what myself and others have stated about the russian military for years. just look into the t-14 debacle. the tank doesn't even exist. millions, possibly billions, spent on some tank treads and "Armor" that will be delivered "soon". it was all skimmed into bank accounts. now extrapolate that to the rest of the army and it shouldn't be surprising why t-80s are running out of fuel and VDV are getting blown out of the sky by the hundreds. they lost one of their "6th gen" fighters to a crash for christs sake.

[Kane]

That should be more unnerving not less - they have over 3,000 nuclear weapons.

[Saz]

Damn feel for the Russians this shit is really going sideways. This isn’t Iraq, Russia itself is going to be devastated by this.

[Saz]

[Saz]

God damn my transferwise has the rouble at 160 to the dollar. Was 120 yesterday and was well under 100 before the invasion. I don’t hold roubles (obviously) but Jesus that’s devastating

[Saz]