Россия invades Україна | UPDATE (30 May 2024) - Biden gives Ukraine permission to strike some targets inside Russia with American weapons

[CitizenVectron]

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

Looks like the EU isn't the only place giving weapons to Ukraine.

[CayceG]

 

 

Just incredible. Since before 2014 Ukraine has wanted this and Russia has not. Russia's actions have directly led to this. 

 

I'm very interested in how the EU is going to send arms to Ukraine. Josep Borrell Fontelles was very coy about this. Especially the fighter jets. Will they be flown by Ukrainian pilots? Will they be linked to NATO systems (the AWACS operating over Poland/Romania)? Will they be based in Ukraine?

[CitizenVectron]

 

[osxmatt]

14 minutes ago, Comet said:

 Edit - likely not a field nuke, so you’d think it’s thermobaric but that doesn’t look like the explosions I’ve seen from those weapons before. 🤔 

I think the most terrifying part is the absolute silence after the detonation. Waiting for the blast wave to reach you.

[CitizenVectron]

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

33 minutes ago, Comet said:

 Edit - likely not a field nuke, so you’d think it’s thermobaric but that doesn’t look like the explosions I’ve seen from those weapons before. 🤔 

 

Informed speculation is that the munition hit a fertilizer depot.

[Comet]

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Informed speculation is that the munition hit a fertilizer depot.

Yeah it was giving me West, Texas/Beirut vibes

[Chairslinger]

16 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

I think the most terrifying part is the absolute silence after the detonation. Waiting for the blast wave to reach you.

 

 

Despite that dude's idiotic and nearly indecipherable Tweet about Millennials and nukes most of us on this board that are 40 give or take remember growing up in the 80's and so still got a taste of what the Cold War was like.

 

So for me explosions like that still trigger a gut reaction not of fear of a concussion blast or burning....but of nuclear fallout that would melt you from the inside after seemingly surviving the blast.

[CayceG]

And it's giving half of Twitter vibes that alternate between "omg thermobarics?" or "omg tactical nukes?"

[CitizenVectron]

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

[LazyPiranha]

4 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

 

[legend]

4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

EU banning RT?

 

 

 

Now do Fox News.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

6 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

The year in the document is 2020

[CitizenVectron]

 

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

[Air_Delivery]

Those drones carry quite the warhead.

[Brian]

 

[silentbob]

4 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

 

That was beautiful.

[CayceG]

If Russia's state news agency TASS is reporting these numbers, things must be apocalyptic for Russia's war effort:

 

 

[mclumber1]

 

[CitizenVectron]

 

[mclumber1]

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

Very stupid question... when they say Russians are going after / Russian banks are running out of "dollars" do they mean USD or a generic term for cash?

USD.

[Anathema-]

30 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

 

It is with a heavy heart that I admit I will never know what it's like to destroy a SAM battery from the air. It must give you the most historical boner known to mankind. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I just want to say thanks to all you guy updating this thread. It's been my primary source. I'm not really much for Twitter, so I appreciate y'all posting them here.

 

While I'm horrified by these events, I feel a sort of sympathetic patriotism for the Ukrainian people. The resistance they're putting up is heartening.

[SaysWho?]

6 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I just want to say thanks to all you guy updating this thread. It's been my primary source. I'm not really much for Twitter, so I appreciate y'all posting them here.

 

While I'm horrified by these events, I feel a sort of sympathetic patriotism for the Ukrainian people. The resistance they're putting up is heartening.

 

And while there have been some slip-ups, I think the board's been doing a good job trying to post relevant tweets, accurate tweets, etc.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

32 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

That's a "poison pill" for any foreign investors in Russian financial instruments right there.

[Anathema-]

 

[SuperSpreader]

10 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

And while there have been some slip-ups, I think the board's been doing a good job trying to post relevant tweets, accurate tweets, etc.

 

I'm sorry I got Melania's birthplace wrong. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

Between this and the UAE abstentions at the UNSC, I don't know what further evidence is needed to convince Washington that these alliances with Gulf Arab states have long outlived their usefulness.

[SaysWho?]

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

Apparently from February 24. But I hope I see even bigger ones once markets open.

[SuperSpreader]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Between this and the UAE abstentions at the UNSC, I don't know what further evidence is needed to convince Washington that these alliances with Gulf Arab states have long outlived their usefulness.

 

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