Russian invasion of Ukraine

To be truthful this feels like the culmination of a decade or more of hybrid information and influence war to destabilise and sow doubt and blunt possible retaliations with shitloads of cash..

Brexit, Trump, Catalonia + Scottish independence, GOP/NRA, ex-Prime Ministers of multiple Euro nations placed on the boards of Rosneft, buying Premier league football teams, Skripal, Tory party and on and on and on.

Or Putin's got something terminal and doesn't give a fuck.

I don’t know if it was his plan all along but it gave him the space to do it. When you’ve got the right wing populists blaming the Ukraine for being invaded on TV and social media, you realise the money went quite a long way.

Puzzled to why the EU G7 nations don’t want to kick Russia from the SWIFT system. Surely a massive overreaction in terms of sanctions is what’s needed, not a slow built up. Slow is fine before the shooting starts but it smells a bit like some people are hoping it’s all done and dusted on the ground before they have to take any really damaging actions.

Ukrainian woman confronts Russian soldiers in Henychesk, Kherson
region. Asks them why they came to our land and urges to put sunflower
seeds in their pockets [so that flowers would grow when they die on
the Ukrainian land]

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1496866811110834176

To add insult to injury it looks like China are flexing their military muscle over Taiwan today too….

I saw somewhere that SWIFT is needed for the oil and gas that nations are still buying from Russian companies.

saw somewhere that SWIFT is needed for the oil and gas that nations are still buying from Russian companies

Yeah, I doubt they'll do that. Besides, the banking folk are suggesting that Putin's plan B is just to use China's Swift replacement.

Anyone got their eyes on Argentina?

Link?

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-reports-nine-chinese-aircraft-its-air-defence-zone-2022-02-24/

China would have a significantly harder time invading Taiwan than Russia to Ukraine. They've spend decades building defences.

been passed this : https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi

Being an island has significant defence advantages.
Can't just drive thousands of tanks through an open border.
I expect anti air defences to be significant also.

Aren't USA a protectorate too? As in they would send troops, ships, planes etc. Can't see that ending well for China.

Canal already unblocked and flowing again apparently
https://twitter.com/OSINT_Ukraine/status/1496905848219656204

This is coincidence, China do it all the time and Tiawans air defence extends over the main land

Looks like large anti-war protests in multiple Russian cities

Anti war protest in Moscow.

Anyone got their eyes on Argentina?

Whats their beef ?

edit.: my bad.

The comments claim the video is from 2016. Lots of fake stuff out there

So much of this, videos from other conflicts and posted as new

Lots of confusion understandably as well as things move so fast, case in point is it appears Antonov airport has been seized which is very bad as has a 3.5km runway (to allow Antonov cargo planes to land) so can act a bridgehead for a huge airdrop and is only 15km from Kiev but throughout the day it appears to of changed control several times so you get people posting definitively that people are wrong or out of date

It is worth reading RT for some semblance of insight into Putin's(Russia's?) thoughts:
https://www.rt.com/russia/550493-ukraine-donbass-military-operation-prehistory/
KP and other Ukrainian sites still down.

Challenges the EU face on agreeing sanctions, in this case Italy's reliance on Russian gas
https://twitter.com/Mij_Europe/status/1496892887732297730