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russians do mobilize young men just as much, don't forget about autumn conscription, which this time was basically mobilization under another name. They get about 200k (on paper, as is usual in Russia) future young war criminals semi-annually anyway - in orderly fashion.

I'm not sure losing half of the whole tank force (when comparing to numbers on paper, probably much more than that in reality) and completely wasting 80% of its tactical missile reserves is "cheap". Russia is forced to buy back its own old artillery shells from DPRK - not sure if they give a high discount to make it cheap. And also that minor, little thing of having total (aka "partial") mobilization going on for the past half of a year where they grab people off the streets sometimes literally (as evidenced by videos).

Worth noting that all the stockpiles were made by USSR to occupy the planet (or at least a huge chunk of it) by smashing whole combined NATO army - not to have all of it wasted completely on a formerly occupied country without much effect.

Belarus hasn't entered the war yet? Good. Irpin and Bucha is just a bad dream then. Missiles and drones they launched at us are also just a fruit of my imagination I guess.

At least we found that mythical decent russian invader our tolerant friends keep talking about - that definitely was a whole sir knight right there. Let's hope the good knight's sword is not far from his other body parts.

Isn't russia a very good lesson of what happens when you rely on your enemy too much for important things? Sure in the case above it's just a genocidal gas station that produces nothing else but gas and death, but China is certainly a lot more and when it decides to go to war and pull the plug on your goods - you may not get to "sanction yourself" in time.

That wouldn't work. To a common russian victory is only when Ukraine is no more. They went into this war declaring that they will occupy whole Ukraine in 3 days - how exactly losing the war and leaving all territories including Crimea can be considered "victory" by a common russian, on which putin's dictatorship (and life) depends?

Before 2014 90% Ukrainians considered russians to be OK. Now only 11% (which is 11% too many). No idea what happened. We just got pissed all of a sudden at good people. But I guess when a rapist inserts his dick into the victim and the victim cries for help - she's just using a tool to dehumanize the attacker, naughty girl.

So these soldiers are killing Ukrainians because they are being good people then? No seriously tell me - how the hell a guy who took a gun and came here to kill me, my relatives, my friends - is NOT evil? This is a serious question - because I perfectly understand why russians are what they are. But I just don't get people from the West who watch someone kill, rape, steal and say "well maybe he's a good person". How does it connect in your head man?

putin decides literally nothing at this point. Russians would tear him apart should he try to order a full retreat. It's not "putin's war". He allowed russians to be russian, to finally let what they suppressed for 30 years out - the barbaric nature of their culture. Russians are out for blood and trying to somehow punish only one of them has no effect at this point.

It must be obvious to any sane person that when somebody takes a weapon and goes to another man's house to kill him to take that house for himself - that that somebody cannot be a "decent person" by any definition. No amount of propaganda can change this fact. Only if the person himself thinks that somehow killing and stealing is above "decent". Propaganda may only add fuel to that world view. And even then the fact is - there's simply no possible excuse for russian soldiers being here - therefore it's absolutely normal that they all must die since they don't want to stop killing Ukrainians.

I mean unlike russians he can afford a car to fit that all in

What the hell is this? Any russian soldier came to Ukraine with weapons to kill Ukrainians - but that soldier somehow may be a decent person? Are you effing serious?

happy new year to all the russians who got dead

Worth noting that "do not have any common with Russia" has nothing to do with it. When Lenin became the new emperor of Russia - one of his first decrees was to actually not have anything in common with the evil capitalist west - so the decision was made to move to a "new calendar" - and so russians started celebrating Christmas on Jan 7th and New Year on Jan 13th. Yes it was that damn stupid - it was like Jan 12th 1918 and then Jan 13th 1919. So eventually they had to bring back Jan 1st as New Year to make things a little less retarded. But they kept Jan 13th as "Old New Year" day so nice try. And that's how Christmas after New Year came to be which is even more 'nice try'. So when russians finished occupying Ukraine in 1921 - they forced us to celebrate Christmas on Jan 7th, but most Ukrainians still celebrated it the right way way into the 1930s. So it's about restoring the Ukrainian way of celebrating Christmas. Also Stalin replaced Santa with a murderous frost demon in 1937 that killed people left and right instead of putting coal into the sock - but that's just a bonus to underline how messed up things were.

Yes, that's how it looks in western media. 10 mln of poor belarussians being oppressed by a single evil Lukashenko that has no popular support. It's a very cozy, comfortable worldview that so many had towards russians back in March but "sadly" was stripped away, isn't it? It's also helped by the fact that in western world you don't have the "luxury" of talking to belarussians, who, after yet another attack on our people from THEIR territory, come to our groups and start condescendingly "supporting" us, telling us how they are sorry and how they are all victims of the occupation just like us. Oh yes getting paid for providing dentist services to those whole 9000 russian mobiks that your military buddy living across the street also trains for money - in a well lit, warm town is absolutely the same as dying to their bombs in Mariupol. Imagine the horror of getting paid by russians themselves to deliver looted washing machines back to Russia, how can anyone survive that? Maybe I just don't get how anti-war they are because they aren't writing "we are victims just like you" on artillery shells they keep delivering to Russia. So yeah keep living in your pretty fantasy world with evil dictators and poor oppressed population, I will just keep considering belorussians to be absolute effed up assholes they really are.

no different from you telling me that people who are invading my country are in fact against the invasion then

I'm sorry - "bias"? Seriously? Folks from Russia are fighting in Ukrainian army too. So that means russians are against the war? Of course not. Same for belarussians. Folks from Belarus are fighting in Ukrainian army. But have you ever wondered why are they here? You know - HERE. In Ukraine. Does it make any sense if you think about it? Shouldn't they be fighting their own government then? But they are not. Do you know why? Because they are outcasts, hated by their own population and considered traitors by the typical belarussian citizen. As for "sabotaging rail network" - I'm sorry but putting two logs on top of a rail, making a few photos of it is not "sabotaging", especially while the rest of your population provides russian soldiers with: food, medical treatment, supplies incl. military like ammunition and weapons and accommodations. To this very day. Oh and did belarussians sabotage much of the rail which belarussians in belarussian delivery services used to deliver looted washing machines and electric teapots to their new russian "owners"? You see even if we do believe that "sabotage" wasn't just a staged discount attempt to pull Belarus from under incoming sanctions (and when they happened regardless - all "sabotaging" stopped) - you seem to think that if 10 or 20 people are doing something differently from the majority - it suddenly whitewashes the whole majority. It does not.

Belarus is a russian ally, there will be no coup, just like there was no coup in Italy in 1943. Russians and belarussians are training together and belarussians happily provide logistics to train russian mobiks. Belarus is already taking part in the war and there's zero opposition to it from both military and general population. They just know their army alone is not numerous enough to make any difference (whole army of Belarus across its whole border is smaller than what we have on the northern border). Their whole army is 60k or so, which means they can dedicate 20k troops at most. Russians had 3-4 times more in the north and we know how well that went. Unless russians send them 100k of their own to help - no invasion is happening (or it gets to be very short lived). But spare 100k troops isn't something russians even have at this point.

Yep, we ordered a petrol generator and Starlink here and gonna move to gf's parents' house in Cherkasy area so we can keep working. russians ruin everything

Dunno, russians are much happier when civilian infrastructure is bombed and civilians are killed than when their army actually takes some small village. So now they are definitely getting more of their investment back than even their kleptocrat masters

Too soon.

If it wasn't very believable and casualty numbers for russians included wounded, not just dead - russians wouldn't be running total mobilization, considering their whole standing army pre-mobilization is 800k. Losing 100k dead and wounded would've meant nothing and they wouldn't need to conscript anyone else for the past 4 months. However with 100k KIA and 300-400k WIA - total mobilization is mandatory. Likewise if Ukraine suffered 1:1 casualties of russians (e.g. 100k exactly KIA "officers") - russians would've been somewhere near Ternopil at this point, not losing huge chunks of ground monthly instead. They have a bottomless pit of zero life value serfs, we don't.

If USA recognized Russia for what it is - sure. But just yesterday they mentioned they won't do it.

I believe you give russian soldiers, propaganda effects on them and their logical conclusions way too much credit. To them any land they invade is a place to rob and let out their frustration and sadistic needs, so they don't need any more reasons from propaganda to do it other than that they simply can. And it's not about some "justice", it's about acknowledging the probability of faked russian surrenders. Since the start of the full scale invasion russians have been coming at our troops waving white flags, but as they came close enough - they were opening fire point blank leading to a huge loss of life. We lost many many people this way. Add to that soldier's growing, untreated PTSD for 9 months due to brutal fighting, witnessing actual russian warcrimes times the number of faux white flags - and you know it may never equal any other outcome once gunfire happens in the middle of surrender. It's just the reality of things that will not get better until this is over.