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Warpy

(113,130 posts)
Thu Mar 14, 2024, 01:39 PM Mar 2024

Ukraine Started Shelling Belgorod, Russia With Artillery! Ukraine War Update



Ukraine isn't shelling so much as they're sending carefully targeted drones in to destroy Russian oil and security infrastructure.

Russian troops, who were trauned by Ukraine and fought in Ukraine, are the forces now in Russia. Artillery is theirs, self propelled and towed. This isn't the hit and run force o last year, it's Putin and his gang of thieves getting a little of their own medicine, armed and well trained separatists taking some of his turf away from him, acting out his own playbook.

The war is expanding. The one thing that kept it from expanding for so long was the list of conditions on US aid. Michael Johnson, with TFG's hand up his ass, has removed the brakes on war exoansion. Poland is armed to the teeth and the trigger finger is getting itchy. The Baltics are tired of waiting to be invaded. Europe is gearing up for another massive land war and there is now nothing we can do about it, thanks to TFG and his little boy Johnson.

Fuck.
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Ukraine Started Shelling Belgorod, Russia With Artillery! Ukraine War Update (Original Post) Warpy Mar 2024 OP
With everything that russia has done, I would have no problem with large areas of than country Crunchy Frog Mar 2024 #1
Not going to happen soon Warpy Mar 2024 #2

Crunchy Frog

(26,977 posts)
1. With everything that russia has done, I would have no problem with large areas of than country
Thu Mar 14, 2024, 04:01 PM
Mar 2024

ending up looking like Gaza. Honestly, if we're okay with Israel doing it in response to a much smaller provocation, we should have no problem with Ukraine doing it after getting punched in the face over and over and over and over. I don't like the double standard.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
2. Not going to happen soon
Thu Mar 14, 2024, 05:03 PM
Mar 2024

because the training they got in Ukraine stressed going after targets vital to the government instead of flattening homes and non government businesses.

The wild card is in the Russian version of the National Guard, something Putin is afraid of activating yet since that's where Wagner survivors ended up. There is a huge danger they'd join the invading forces and at that point, the Russian lack of training and discipline might take over.

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