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[–] [email protected] 214 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No people deserve to be invaded. The warmongers deserve to have the war brought to their mansions.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are people who deserve to live their lives in peace. And then there are people like Putin, who deserve to have their dick put in a blender. Rarely do these two match up.

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Classic elementary school bully bullshit. Mercilessly pick on a kid until that kid punches them square in the nose. Then all of a sudden they (the bully) are the poor helpless victim. Cry me a fucking river.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As Russian military continues to purposely destroy supermarkets, homes, schools, hospitals, energy infrastructure, entire towns, etc.

I wonder how many "innocent" Russians know of any of that. Or that their soldiers kidnapped and raped women and children. Tortured and executed others. "Fake news" I'm sure they'd conveniently claim. Ignorance is bliss, until the bombs start dropping on their town.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They raped men too. "They rapin e'erybody out here!"

[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Invansion? No. It's a special military operation. There is no invasion here.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

I thought it was just some normal folks on vacation

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The Kursk people's republic needs to be liberated.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 months ago

Maybe they shouldn't have invaded Ukraine then.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago

Get fucked, Russia.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago

So, Russia, how does it feel when peaceful people get invaded?

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seems like the 901st day of the 3-day special military operation isn’t going too well

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is massively embarrassing for Putin. Getting counter-invaded by your small, theoretically much weaker neighbour is a joke. And the Ukrainians have faced relatively little resistance. If Putin wasn't the evil bastard that he is, he'd call time on this pointless, wasteful war.

The concerning thing now is that he can use this Ukrainian incursion into Russia as justification for his claims that the west is trying to destroy Russia, even though he set off this chain of events with his actions.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

That’s not concerning at all.

They’ve made up shit to justify everything up until now. They don’t need a justification to be made for them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (11 children)

He can't back down and survive. He's all in.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That fiddle is much too large. I hope he is playing 'My heart pumps piss for you pooty poot"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or the Spinal Tap classic, Lick My Love Pump

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Russian babushkas who chatted in a friendly manner with the Ukrainian mobile cav passing by didn’t seem to take issue with anything, and they were left alone - as civilians should be in a conflict, to the greatest degree possible.

Not to mention, life in a Ukrainian oblast is probably going to be nicer than life in a Russian oblast, long term.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The babushkas have seen too much to be fazed.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago

Borders are for suckers, haha!!

...900 days later...

No, not like that!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

Are those the same peaceful people that think that the Ukrainians should be exterminated? Yeah cry more Russia.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aww did leopards eat your face?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No, sadly leopards are eating the proletariat faces, but they're his proletariat faces

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he's right. It's not the people's fault he's a piece of shit and should get out of Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It's not some people's fault. Like the ones blowing up Russian infrastructure.

Everyone else aren't fundamentallly different from Germans pretending they didn't know what was going on in the town's concentration camp.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Lol, stfu and get your shit out of Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Shoulda considered that before intimidating the peaceful population of Ukraine. I have a friend who completely uprooted her life and career trajectory to manage humanitarian aid to her home country. The fact of the matter is peaceful Russians are want enables the Orkish horde. My view is that they've been kept in the dark about the truth of their reality. Their lack of concern is a result of not knowing what is and isn't real (and to many degrees us Americans live in the same situation with regard to our actions throughout west Asia). All Ukraine is doing right now is bringing truth to Kursk. I hope it doesn't turn into reprisals. From what I've seen, they're trying a winning hearts and minds strategy. But the bottom line is Russia initiated total war. They have no one to complain to about that there's a total war going on at their borders

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agh, figures that the Russian Volunteer Corps was apparently in on the action. It just never fails to boggle my mind that the majority of the anti-Russian militias that are fighting in Ukraine are so far right that they think Putin isn't fascist enough.

Like, yeah, it's great that they're fighting Russia, but holy fuck is it this hard to find people in Russia who aren't complete pieces of shit and are also willing to fight Putin?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Special military operation

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand the nuances well enough to know, but the thought control is still pretty strong in Russia. I do wonder if the populous will see this as the manifestation of what Putin has been saying all along, which is that the Ukraine means to bring violence to them and all efforts so far have been to keep this at bay. If so they will double down on their support for the dictator.

I often think about how much brain washing the Trump group has been able to do in the US even with free press and open access to the rest of the world. Imagine the power of the mind control one could achieve with an entire infrastructure built to support just that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Putin is going to use this to the extremes. He's going to spur more enlistment, perhaps a full mobilization if he can spin enough outrage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Nothing will make a difference unless it reaches Moscow or st Petersburg. Most of the population is too poor/oppressed to make a big difference at this point. The people Putin needs to avoid upsetting are all living in the cities, at least according to an ex-pat friend of mine

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree. The peaceful people in Russia don't deserve to be invaded. Pity there's not many of them, though.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Do Russians not have the fucking Internet anymore? If not, I know what Eve Online sov I'm invading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I wonder how a vote to join Ukraine in the occupied region would go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People don't deserve to be invaded, but Putin sure does. Get fucked, Putin.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I agree.

HOWEVER…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
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