Russian invasion of Ukraine

Yep, going to reward you for snitching as well

https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1499118355973816330

really late to reply to this comment, but i just got to my nightly routine of reading through this thread.

One more thing Brits and westerners are not familiar with is - Russian work ethic.

It's kind of "couldn't care less - just doing what i've been told - not really care about the outcome" kind of attitude.

this sprung to mind.. and this is the product of a company that has army contracts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6svzFhN4ng

From the guardian live update:
China asked Russia not to invade Ukraine until after the 2022 winter olympics had concluded, revealing that Chinese officials had some knowledge of Putin’s plans for an invasion of Ukraine, reported the New York Times’s Edward Wong and Julian E. Barnes.
If is true it is horrendous.

Survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, arrested by 8 police in St Petersburg for asking for an end to the war
https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1499107740869926920

Football/war crossover continues, Alisher Usmanov mega yacht seized in Germany

Just hours after Sweden said it was sending 5,000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, four Russian jets enter Swedish airspace near Gotland.

The impact of sanctions on Russian (and Irish) aviation companies
https://twitter.com/janedvidek/status/1498723248183382020

That or they’re toeing Chinas line (more likely).

That huge, incredibly slow convoy...I hope the speed is partly because the drivers are reluctant to get in the fight anf might perhaps be inducing some reliability problems.

A thread on Russian vehicle maintenace procedures and why their tyres are falling off or ripping in mud.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499164245250002944?t=cnFHhDUmXiJLnkiARFEp4g&s=19

Good article from Craig Murray (ex-amabassador to kazakhstan).
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/03/the-universal-boosting-of-putin/

TLDR - Russian military nowhere near as strong as is portrayed in the west. Has been talked up to boost arms manufacturers and other interests. Same thing happens in Russia - NATO threat talked up.

Russian map on Twitter showing where they think they control and where the Ukranian army is.
If this is true, presumably main Russian effort will go into trying to cut the Ukranian army off.

1 Attachment

Good twitter thread on why maps like this are the wrong way to look at things:

https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1499265035293581314

has anyone mentioned this yet?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/russian-businessman-puts-1-million-bounty-on-putins-head-2022-3?r=US&IR=T

Just read this.

A great eg of how often twitter is an extension of drunken pub chats where you generalise to fuck and everyone else is so locked on to making their own drunken point they cba to listen or engage what you're actually saying so they just let your nothing point slide.

Just without the fun, atmosphere, and human interaction.

Someone has found the Michelin military tyre copies in the thread above on Alibaba

1 Attachment

Read a thread the other day on tank tracks having really short service intervals when used on roads and again is likely to be causing issues

This looks worth a listen:

https://twitter.com/pcaruanagalizia/status/1499289115342385157?s=21

Not to mention the incredibly short service interval for the road itself!

This is a decent explainer from Ian Dunt on how the US and EU are attempting to damage the Russian economy:

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/putin-is-facing-the-most-severe-assault-on-a-major-economy-in-modern-history-1493840

This is useful to read along side, as to why the rouble hasn't collapsed further:

https://twitter.com/LevMenand/status/1498650794463277056

Dunt touches on some of these points but doesn't elucidate them.

More financial insight here: https://twitter.com/DmitryOpines/status/1499157917399977987

"My scientific conclusion... is that the Russian economy is fucked. Double fucked, because most Russians don't know what's coming."

Anyone else stuck refreshing this thread, r/ukraine and the usual news sites? Finding it very hard to focus on work

Yeah. I’m also struggling with this and in and out of panic over the possible conclusion it’ll reach.

Anyone else stuck refreshing this thread, r/ukraine and the usual news sites? Finding it very hard to focus on work

Yeah...

Which is sad because there's not a whole lot we can do about it. It just is until it reaches its conclusion.