Easy way to stop this, leave Ukraine entirely.
In Putin’s Russia, Ukraine invades you!
Yakov Smirnoff being Ukrainian makes it that much better!
Did not know that, thank you for improving my day with that little fact!
Hopefully the Ukrainian military thought this all through in advance and had a good idea of where those reinforcements will come from, and have some surprises in store for them.
To armchair general for a bit- they send out small, fast, agile squads in all directions that make a show of fighting then rapidly retreat. The enemy follows into dug in positions and a sky full of drones. Repeat until you’ve put enough of a dent into the enemy then massively counterattack the direction most of the enemy is coming from.
Why counter attack (with the majority of forces) right away? Russians have shown poorer abilities when organizing offensives compared to defending. The incursion into Russia by Ukraine forces the Russian military into attacking. This is as opposed to sitting behind a thousand minefields in unmoving lines inside Ukraine.
Ukraine can set up elaborate layered defenses and enjoy the defensive advantage to grind up more Russian military assets. This also gives Ukraine opportunities for small detachments to hit the Russian reinforcements on the move, which is something they’ve already been doing.
Sounds like a special military vacation
Look ma, drones everywhere!!
In many ways this gives Putin an out from this incredibly stupid war that he created.
Agree terms with Ukraine, peacefully take back the land they lost, declare victory, and stop this war for good. He can save face and maintain power until he dies while Russia stays a pariah to the world. Ukraine will still naturally join NATO, but without the threat of war Russia can just sit on what it owns.
IMO, this is the ideal time for some final sanctions on Russia by heavily fining all western companies that don’t leave within 30 days. Cut them off entirely, and then bring them to the table to negotiate the return once Putin is gone. I don’t see a progressive candidate entering Russian politics any time soon, but a non-KGB candidate without ties to the Kremlin might find power by having the west on their side - they just need to stay away from radiation and balconies.
He can’t do that. Losing Crimea would be a death blow for him. Some trash human standing close to him has already picked out the window he will fall from and he knows it.
That fucker doesn’t let anyone near him.
There’s probably not a single window in any building he lives or works in that could even be opened.
It will be a pity when they fall from the window on their ground level house and still die from it.
At the risk of once again offending the people who read this as actually Cyrillic, this calls for another Rukraine post.
R?dui? D ?ocja iote?
Has no fresh ones in stock it seems
Pretty much how I called it a day or two ago. Putin will now have to put more troops on his border with Ukraine permanently. Ukraine can continue to harass those troops. First though putin has to put together a successful attack to stall and repel Ukraine’s advance. Meanwhile the troops already engaged with russias invasion may be able to put enough pressure on what remains to push them back.
It reminds me of when rome did the same against hannibal and carthage
K now launch invasion of Crimea while they’re busy with kursk
Misleading title; the article says that he pulled some troops out of Ukraine.
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Putin needs to find Jesus. He needs to read scripture.
EDIT: This seems like just another online liberal echo chamber! What a joke!
Yeah, because Christianity isn’t the biggest echo chamber in the history of humanity 🙄
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Nice slur, bronze age fairy tale believer.
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I’m not religious
(X) to doubt
if there was no religion you wouldn’t be able to post your retarded comments on the internet
First of all, that’s patently false. Religion might have played a significant role in education back in the dark ages where they wouldn’t LET anyone get an education anywhere else, but that hasn’t been the case for centuries. The only relationship religion has had with modern science and technology is an adversarial one, neutral at best.
Second, please cool it with the r-slur. You calling me that says nothing about me and everything about your bigotry and refusal to evolve with the times.
Citation needed
5 day old account using Jesus as an argument for every discussion. Obvious troll is obvious.
Wow. This comment is just another liberal echo chamber. 🙄
You appear to be speaking nonsense words, they all have meaning and some groupings in your comment do too. In its entirety though this comment makes no sense. An echo chamber is a place that many individuals may go to reinforce their views, with other members backing them up and attempting to remove any naysayers or disagreement.
A comment cannot, by definition, be an echo chamber.
Edit: What I find most odd is that your other comments seem to be very sensical. I generally agree with what you have to say, so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.
so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.
It’s because I didn’t include the “/s” at the end of the comment.
432 is definitely a troll/bot account. He calls a lot of comment sections a liberal echo chamber.
That makes so much more sense lmao. I’m definitely guilty of being bad at spotting satire in text.
What does any of this have to do with the article? You’re being down voted for making a weird comment about Jesus, nothing to do with being liberal.
Shares stupid opinion.
Everyone points out how stupid it is.
“This place is a liberal echo chamber!”
Putin is Russian Orthodox.
Another one? Is it common for people to find it annoying when you suggest religion is somehow a solution for things?
Lol 🤣 what a terrible take.
Merging the head of state and head of religion is how we got here in the fist place.
Not everything is about religion, and god botherers need to not get so pissy about it.
Sky fairy can save: Neanderthal conservatives
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I find it ridiculous how downvoted you got. Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions. Also it actually has excellent philosophers and thinkers that integrate a scientific world view in theirs.
Lemmy is very ridiculous in this regard. People have intense opinions on things they have no deep understanding of. It’s like how MAGA people react to things like gun control or vaccines. They preach tolerance of some things and not others.
The thought of Putin finding Jesus could have led to a funny and weird conversation, and yet you were just met with hate. It’s so sad.
Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism
When did this happen? Because I still see a lot of self-righteous hate and bigotry from Christians all over the world.
Coming from a country - Portugal - which was very Catholic not that long ago, I would say that the children of Catholic parents went through a great process of “self-reflection and criticism” and dropped Catholicism.
The religion itself is pretty much as backwards as ever.
What happened is that the number of actual practicing Catholics (you know, people who actually go to church and spend time thinking about that stuff) has fallen steeply, even if there are still many who just because they got baptized (which is something one has no choice on), get counted as religious.
Even with the Christian sects dominant in places like the US and Brazil trying to get a foothold over here, there’s nowhere the level of dominance of religion in public life there seems to be in the US. It’s funny that a country which maybe 50 or 60 years ago was, IMHO, very socially backwards compared to the US, is now more socially evolved than it.
It sounds like Christianity didn’t go through self-reflection, it sounds like Christians did and many of them stopped being Christians.
Exactly.
My kind interpretation of the previous poster’s comment is that he or she may have confused the latter with the former: looked at highly religious places, saw them moving forward in social terms and thought it was the religion moving forward when in fact it was the people dropping the religion and thus moving forward.
Ever heard of the age of enlightenment? Holy hell. Also, you can make jokes about Christianity publicly without having to fear for your life. Lots of preachers have problems with their churches and are progressives. What is wrong with you people.
The Age of Enlightenment was when intellectuals abandoned Christianity for Deism.
And yes, you can absolutely be punished for joking about Christianity publicly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law#By_country
Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions
Christianity is responsible for the crusades…
Well thanks to Socratic tradition of critical thinking, I’d say that the reason Christianity had self-reflection is precisely because of it. If it so happens that Socrates did not exist or his works weren’t passed down, Western culture would be totally different from the one we know now.
What is he met Satan? Christianity, the only religion of Satan. Literally!
What if he met zeus?
This is a liberal echo chamber but reddit fucked me off.
Anything more neutral? Something with a sense of humour. This are some of the most boring fucks I’ve ever met on the internet. They all got their panties in a twist on their high horse.
But I am left leaning so I don’t want a right wing echo chamber I just want free speech and banter.
There are some “free speech” focused instances of different Activity Pub based platforms. You all can go there. I don’t remember the names of them but I’m sure some other Lemmy user can help you with that.
Thanks.
I would like to know more.
How can your comment get so downvoted? I just don’t get it
He’s clearly farming downvotes by simplistic antagonism.
Idk what people get from farming votes, negative or positive, but it seems people do do it.
