The War in Ukraine

Looks like it was a lorry bomb rather than a missile.

Got to do what you've got to do.
 
It does speak to the major takeaway from this war though - Russia's military might has been exposed as so much smoke and mirrors. Rampant corruption, very shaky infrastructure and hopelessly outdated equipment have left them extremely vulnerable. That's going to be very difficult to come back from, even if they find a way to end this war without losing everything.
 
It does speak to the major takeaway from this war though - Russia's military might has been exposed as so much smoke and mirrors. Rampant corruption, very shaky infrastructure and hopelessly outdated equipment have left them extremely vulnerable. That's going to be very difficult to come back from, even if they find a way to end this war without losing everything.

And an army where only a fraction of them share Putin’s vision
 
The level of spinning from the Kremlin's news agency is SOMETHING ELSE.

Just a temporary closure due to a small fire.

An object believed to be a fuel storage tank has caught fire on the Crimean Bridge, but the viaduct’s navigable arches sustained no damage, an aide to the head of Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov, said on Saturday.

"According to preliminary information, a fuel storage tank is on fire. Navigable arches were not damaged. It is too early to speak about causes and consequences. Work to extinguish the blaze is under way," Kryuchkov wrote in his Telegram channel.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Taman management of federal highways of Russia’s Federal Road Agecy (Avtodor) told TASS the movement of vehicles across the Crimean Bridge has been suspended due to the incident.

"Traffic has been temporarily suspended, personnel of the Russian emergencies ministry and the road service are working on the site to contain the blaze," she said.
 
Good thread on the implications of this bridge attack.



What I took from that is Basically it forces Putin to redeploy resources and troops to the South to fix the vulnerability of Crimea, thereby thinning his defences in Eastern Ukraine and allowing Ukraine to take back more occupied ground

War strategy is fascinating (and also horrifying)
 
Yep, the Ukrainian tactic of spooking the Russians and making it very difficult to predict where they'll strike next is proving to be very effective.
 
All the while China must be eyeing the vast far eastern Russian territory. Not that it would happen anytime soon but with Russia’s military flop and demography collapse there’s no chance in hell they could keep or defend their eastern parts the day a mighty Asian country would want to annex it.
 
It does speak to the major takeaway from this war though - Russia's military might has been exposed as so much smoke and mirrors. Rampant corruption, very shaky infrastructure and hopelessly outdated equipment have left them extremely vulnerable. That's going to be very difficult to come back from, even if they find a way to end this war without losing everything.
I’m amazed so many people didn’t see this earlier. Russia is not a superpower - it’s arguable whether it has ever been post the end of the USSR. It’s a middling economy (the same size as Spain, which is no shade to Spain), dependent on a narrow range of industry, with an ageing population, a declining birth rate and a massive neurosis.

It’s absolutely knackered :D
 
All the while China must be eyeing the vast far eastern Russian territory. Not that it would happen anytime soon but with Russia’s military flop and demography collapse there’s no chance in hell they could keep or defend their eastern parts the day a mighty Asian country would want to annex it.
Is there anything there worth annexing?
The greater prize would be to make Russia even more dependent and subservient to China’s wishes. Two seats on the security council for Beijing.
 
Is there anything there worth annexing?
The greater prize would be to make Russia even more dependent and subservient to China’s wishes. Two seats on the security council for Beijing.

Good point. Still, all the natural resources and direct access to the increasingly strategic Arctic ocean are not too bad.
 
I’m amazed so many people didn’t see this earlier. Russia is not a superpower - it’s arguable whether it has ever been post the end of the USSR. It’s a middling economy (the same size as Spain, which is no shade to Spain), dependent on a narrow range of industry, with an ageing population, a declining birth rate and a massive neurosis.

It’s absolutely knackered :D

Mind you, most of that applies to the UK too :D (not saying you’re wrong either)
 
Are there any semi-autonomous regions of Russia that might decide they prefer their own sovereignty in the forseeable future?

Obviously there's Chechnya, but that will never happen while that cunt Kadyrov is in power.
 
Give Kaliningrad Oblast to Lithuania :disco:
They don't WANT IT!

tainted don't want GIF
 
Are there any semi-autonomous regions of Russia that might decide they prefer their own sovereignty in the forseeable future?

Obviously there's Chechnya, but that will never happen while that cunt Kadyrov is in power.
The old Soviet Union's divide and conquer tactics I think have left a lot of the Autonomous Regions dependent on Russian funding and alliance. Certainly those left outside Russia anyway (e.g. South Ossetia). I wonder if the inevitable retreat out of Ukraine is fully complete, if Putin's or his cronies are still around, that's where they'll focus their next mad power grab as an appeasement and propaganda campaign to the Russian public...
 
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Are there any semi-autonomous regions of Russia that might decide they prefer their own sovereignty in the forseeable future?

Obviously there's Chechnya, but that will never happen while that cunt Kadyrov is in power.

There are several ethnic majority republics that are surrounded by Russian territorry, don’t know how much their secession would affect Russia.
 
The green parts are ”republics” with ethnic majorities. The Caucasus ones are the most likely to become independent but they’re far from homogenic territories and would most likely lead to war within each entity.

The easiest one is Karelia would should be given back to Finland.
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