Putin is Russia

**Cail** · 2022-03-12 10:37

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status...01160561201157

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/sta...62781807603715

**Cail** · 2022-03-12 10:59

https://twitter.com/mattia_n/status/1502665834203820034

**Mrbeansman** · 2022-03-12 11:12

Originally Posted by Day

https://twitter.com/casio_juarez/sta...5whYD9Qbg&s=19

Truly there is no greater stupidity on the left then ethical consumption.

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**archibaldcrane** · 2022-03-12 11:22

Hopium thread about "stop the invasion" rhetoric even making its way onto Russian state television.

https://twitter.com/MaximAlyukov/sta...M0hrffS5Q&s=19

**Forte** · 2022-03-12 12:15

Russia will target U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine, Moscow’s No. 2 diplomat warns

We are officially in the "Fuck around and find out" phase of this god damn war.

Please, Russia, start attacking shipments outside of Ukraine. Please use your weapons to attack NATO. I'm sure it will fucking end spectacularly well for you, you pathetic cowardly little midget.

**Cail** · 2022-03-12 12:16

I'd prefer WW3 didnt start

**Rhyis.** · 2022-03-12 12:27

i think in the geneva convention dropping weapons to a nation taking part in a war technically takes you out of non-combatant status. so i think russia would be allowed to fire upon those weapon shipments and it wouldn't constitute as an act of war against the us. i believe it's only medical/religious personnel/shipments that are protected

its like if the russians killed those uk soldiers that went awol to join the fight. that wouldn't be considered an act of war against the uk, but if you killed a uk medic it might

**kuronosan** · 2022-03-12 12:51

Originally Posted by Forte

We are officially in the "Fuck around and find out" phase of this god damn war.

Please, Russia, start attacking shipments outside of Ukraine. Please use your weapons to attack NATO. I'm sure it will fucking end spectacularly well for you, you pathetic cowardly little midget.

Your posts really are insufferable.

**Boyiee** · 2022-03-12 13:19

Originally Posted by Forte

We are officially in the "Fuck around and find out" phase of this god damn war.

Please, Russia, start attacking shipments outside of Ukraine. Please use your weapons to attack NATO. I'm sure it will fucking end spectacularly well for you, you pathetic cowardly little midget.

Top 5 dumb posts in this thread.

Might make it onto bg leaderboard.

**6souls** · 2022-03-12 13:44

Originally Posted by Cail

https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/st...26065674149892

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60711211

They're being recruited via Telegram and VK. At least 400 mercs of the Wagner group have already participated in the invasion so far.

The BBC has spoken to a serving mercenary and a former fighter with close links to one of Russia's leading mercenary organisations, who have shared details of the recruitment campaign.

The serving mercenary said many veterans of the secretive Wagner organisation were contacted on a private Telegram group a few weeks before the start of the war. They were invited to a "picnic in Ukraine", with references to tasting "Salo", a pork fat traditionally eaten in Ukraine.

The message appeals to "those with criminal records, debts, banned from mercenary groups or without an external passport" to apply. The message also included that "those from the Russian-occupied areas of Luhansk and Donetsk republics and Crimea - cordially invited".

The serving mercenary who spoke to the BBC said new recruits are being placed in units under the command of officers from the GRU, the Russian military intelligence unit of the ministry of defence.

He stressed that the recruitment policy had changed, and fewer restrictions were applied. "They are recruiting anyone and everyone," he said, unhappy with what he described as the lower professionalism of the new fighters.

He said the new units being recruited are no longer referred to as Wagner, but new names - such as The Hawks - were being used.

The serving Wagner fighter explained that in the first days of the invasion of Ukraine he was sent to the country's second city, Kharkiv, where he said his unit successfully completed a mission without revealing what it was.

"We were then paid $2,100 (£1,600) for a month's work and returned home, to Russia," he told the BBC.

Jason Blazakis, senior research fellow at the Soufan Centre, describes using mercenaries as a "sign of desperation" to keep the Russian public's support. Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has stirred several protests in Russia. Thousands have been arrested. Blazakis added that using mercenaries allows the Kremlin to "keep the death toll down because mercenaries are used like cannon fodder".

**Rhyis.** · 2022-03-12 13:57

Jason Blazakis, senior research fellow at the Soufan Centre, describes using mercenaries as a "sign of desperation" to keep the Russian public's support. Blazakis added that using mercenaries allows the Kremlin to "keep the death toll down because mercenaries are used like cannon fodder".

i mean america has used dozens of different private military contractors for everything they've done overseas. it's common practice

**mallister** · 2022-03-12 15:14

word round the campfire says that Putin has placed Sergey Beseda, the director of the FSB’s foreign intelligence section 5th department, and his deputy under house arrest. apparently he's being accused of not telling putin that the ukraine would fight back lol.

**Andalusian girls** · 2022-03-12 15:50

who could have foreseen this coming asks delusional tyrant in charge of aging and low morale military built around quantity and war crimes

**Zealot** · 2022-03-12 16:16

I gotta wonder how foreign fighters are going to factor into things. Both in terms of being a nightmare for other countries and actually mattering in matters of combat and logistics. I'm reminded the Continental Army was a bunch of farmers more concerned with not shitting themselves to death before the French and the Dutch sent some non-combat people over.

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