International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster

[Nintex]

When an entire economy goes HODL
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1499661587787153409

[Transhuman]

They're using the "LA LA LA, I can't hear you" strategy. Bold.

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/romero/status/1499172470330437633

[who is ted danson?]

  If you only watch 1 news clip this week, please make it this one, and please watch until the end 

https://twitter.com/skbozphd/status/1499298691156705282

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1499721875429154819

Except Boris a liar so this was probably the cue

[Kurt Russell]

Sainsbury's renames 'Chicken Kiev' to 'Chicken Kyiv' in solidarity with Ukraine

Russian Standard vodka will also be withdrawn from the retailer's stores

Sainsbury’s is renaming Chicken Kievs to match the Ukrainian spelling of the country’s capital while JD Sports has become the latest British retailer to pull out of Russia after it launched the war in Ukraine.

The supermarket chain said it would start rolling out new packaging in the coming weeks using Chicken Kyiv, rather than the Russian spelling Kiev.

It will also stop selling all products that are sourced purely from Russia, although it only sells two Russian products.

Sainsbury’s shoppers will no longer be able to buy Russian Standard vodka and Karpayskiye black sunflower seeds when the products are removed from shelves.

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/sainsburys-renames-chicken-kiev-to-chicken-kyiv-in-solidarity-with-ukraine/240270

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/B_Right/status/1499715667804803082

They also took the oil

Maybe not launch failing military missions from countries that have nothing

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/polinaivanovva/status/1499716607471460356

Stockholm syndroming nations

[Kurt Russell]

It raises an interesting point though:

If Russia were to immediately, unconditionally and unilaterally withdraw - would things be more or less back to normal in a month?

In that scenario, I just couldn't see the Germans continuing to reject Russian gas, or international leaders continuing to push for an ICC appearance. I just don't think there are any world leaders with the stomach for a protracted fight with Putes.

[Nintex]

He could keep the Crimea and a good chunk of the Donbass if he did so. And Nuland already said US would lift the sanctions. Relationship with the EU however won't be the same.

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1499373653372420099

[BisMarckie]

https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1499373653372420099

So Aeroflot will not operate outside of Russia,Belarus, China and the -stan countries ever again. Great plan

[james]

In all seriousness, why cant a non-NATO country like Sweden do a no-fly zone?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1499373653372420099

So Aeroflot will not operate outside of Russia,Belarus, China and the -stan countries ever again. Great plan

Not outside Russia or Belarus. China or the Stans are not about to become rogue states.

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1499783085055004680
Pretty soon Germany and France will have enough of this shit

[Nintex]

Now THIS is a boycott

https://twitter.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1499807380804190215

[Pissy F Benny]

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In all seriousness, why cant a non-NATO country like Sweden do a no-fly zone?

I doubt they want Big Bad Vlad to start fucking with them

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/meowmeowmeuw/status/1499436959294537733

[Nintex]

(Image removed from quote.)


In all seriousness, why cant a non-NATO country like Sweden do a no-fly zone?

It's like WW2 all over again. NATO is the new Maginot line.

The solution to this crisis is simple. The Russians fear that any deal will be moot after a new election. So we send a bipartisan group of the most likely future presidents to negotiate with Putin

Donald Trump
Kamala Harris
Mike Lindell
AOC
Tucker
Joe Rogan

He either blows his brain out or starts to prepare for armageddon.

[Nintex]

The Russian Call of Duty LARP is still going

https://twitter.com/vcdgf555/status/1499847310313881601

[james]

https://twitter.com/MorningsMaria/status/1499030968115548161

[who is ted danson?]

This war has to be in the top 5 bigget self owns of all time

Up there with Neogaf/Malka, and REEEE getting sold out to Moba

[Nintex]

Shell's buying the dip

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1499781089962901505



https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1499860089838186504

US public support fo a no fly zone at 74%. Oil ban supported by 80%

[james]

BAN CARS

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AdamJSchwarz/status/1499838905960521734

Big support for Zelensky from Prague

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/SkyAndyHughes/status/1499863194575200268
Russians ambushed and nearly killed a SkyNews team.

Not much going on tonight but there are rumors that Ukraine is starting a counter offensive in the East. That's probably why Zelensky wants the no-fly zone.

Might be slowing down because the Russians will run out of the supplies they brought Sunday.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1499872184382234636

The head of Aeroflot resigned and left.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499881303159758851

[james]

Russian media say the threat to Ukrainian civilians doesn't come from the Russian armed forces, it comes from Ukrainian nationalists using civilians as human shields.

I swear I've seen this excuse before.

Anyone know where? Filler?

[team filler]

  If you only watch 1 news clip this week, please make it this one, and please watch until the end 

https://twitter.com/skbozphd/status/1499298691156705282

 

I thought I recognized the ron paul guy, but it still didn't register until he started crying at the end 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1500033163879456771

Back to the living standards of the Great Russian Empire
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1500076752797843456

[who is ted danson?]

FUCK COCA COLA   

https://twitter.com/mi6rogue/status/1500092826545270788

[Pissy F Benny]

Russians get Lilt but you can barely find it over here?

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/1500096009069895680

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500106999236902918

https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1500114144120422404

https://twitter.com/madism78/status/1500106292798623745

If looks could kill 

It's like Berlusconi and Hitler had a baby, jesus christ

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1499860406843625472

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1500109526581891072

https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1500084750761013258

At this rate the Tsar will invade Poland on horses.

This seems to be the result of their new strategy, to use helicopters and planes to escort the columns and defend them from anti-tank ambushes and UA drone strikes.

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1500147285136658436

[Nintex]

First unconfirmed report of a strike in Russia

https://twitter.com/ilya_shepelin/status/1500073553055657986

In Nizhnekamsk, workers went on strike because of "underpayments" as a result of a jump in the exchange rate

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1500147285136658436

that was fast 
https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1500152639304122380

[Nintex]

Everything is going to plan

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1500154812343758848

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1500148968944291842



https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500132163920048132

[Nintex]

Record yourself doing war crimes brehs

https://twitter.com/Meanwhile007/status/1500158680427384839

The Russian Ministry of Defense has capitulated and closed their Twitter account 
https://twitter.com/mod_russia

[benjipwns]

NATO hoax footage of a helichopper getting anti-aircrafted:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1500090155092299776

[close]

[Nintex]

"You're making us all look bad"

https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1500173369525870593



Some wild theories about this video. Some say it was a green screen edit but the most likely theory is that Putin wasn't at Aeroflot at all but simply in his bunker and they livened the place up with some plants.

Plus there is real doubt that all of these girls are actually flight attendants. People have noted that some are wearing suits and not the proper Aeroflot attire and even if they are wearing it they are not wearing it correctly.

[benjipwns]

Another "Foreign-policy analyst | Lawyer | Fmr. Visiting Researcher at @MGIMO University | Featured in: @ForeignPolicy @WashingtonPost @FoxNews @BBC @DatelineNBC" posts big long thread of "proper" war analysis based on a map from Russian TV that doesn't even have the cities labeled correctly:
https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1500029926765780993

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1500134216113266689

[Nintex]

Another "Foreign-policy analyst | Lawyer | Fmr. Visiting Researcher at @MGIMO University | Featured in: @ForeignPolicy @WashingtonPost @FoxNews @BBC @DatelineNBC" posts big long thread of "proper" war analysis based on a map from Russian TV that doesn't even have the cities labeled correctly:
https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1500029926765780993

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

The guy that did the analysis on the tires had a very detailed and plausible explanation of why Russian tanks and trucks can't seem to advance more than 5 miles a day.

Interesting how after meeting with Putin world leaders start to panic call one another
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1500181445477904390

[benjipwns]

The guy that did the analysis on the tires had a very detailed and plausible explanation of why Russian tanks and trucks can't seem to advance more than 5 miles a day.

The winter mud of Eastern Europe has slowed more than one invasion, most notably Napoleon going both ways, yet the dude wants to dunk on some amateur Twitter armchair analyst with an Explainer™ based off of not even good Russian propaganda but something a Russian news channel threw together without even checking the cities.

[Kurt Russell]

[Madrun Badrun]

[Nintex]

It's quite something to see an army completely fall apart because of corruption and poor logistics.
Some drive into battle with what seem to be fake anti-rocket measures, tanks from 1970 and 1950 anti-tank weapons.
They've now put wooden barriers on their trucks as if that works against guided missiles.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1500160062354034689

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/shawnalaree/status/1500201738258849801

[who is ted danson?]

Remember - no Russian.

https://twitter.com/CarloPaski/status/1500039135431737344

[Nintex]

I read about that, they turned the power off and trapped them in the elevator.

[Nintex]

This is some crazy James Bond shit, he was even part of the negotiation team.

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1500192565764763652

[Kurt Russell]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1500093773535010820

Also, in a further effort to demoralise Russia, Deep Silver have announced that the new Saints Row game will be pulled from release in every region except Russia.

[Nintex]

A quick and dirty Google translate of a possible FSB leak:

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500197460626624513

18+ One of the insiders from the special services of the Russian Federation, I will publish without edits and censorship, because this is hell: "" I'll be honest right away: I have hardly slept all these days, almost all the time at work, my head is a little floating, as if in a fog. And from overwork, sometimes I already catch states, as if all this is not real.

To be honest, the Pandora's box is open - a real global horror will begin by the summer - global famine is inevitable (Russia and Ukraine were the main suppliers of grain in the world, this year's harvest will be smaller, and logistical problems will bring the catastrophe to a peak point).

I can’t tell you what guided the top when deciding on the operation, but now we (the Service) are meoa oa e We are scolded for analytics - this is very much in my profile, so I will explain what is wrong.
Recently, we have been increasingly pressed to customize reports to the requirements of management - I once touched on this topic. All these political consultants, politicians and their retinue, influence teams - all this created chaos. silly.
The most important thing is that no one knew that there would be such a war, they hid it from everyone. And here's an example for you: you are asked (conditionally) to calculate the possibility of human rights protection in different conditions, including the attack of prisons by meteorites. You specify about meteorites, they tell you - this is so, reinsurance for calculations, nothing like this will happen. You understand that the report will be just for show, but you need to write in a victorious style so that there are no questions, in a condescending style so that there are no questions. In general, a report is being written that when a meteorite falls, we have everything to eliminate the consequences, we are great, everything is fine. And you concentrate on tasks that are real - we don’t have enough strength anyway. then suddenly they really throw meteorites and wait for everything to be according to your analytics, which they wrote from the bulldozer.

That is why we have a total piz_ets - I don’t even want to pick another word. There is no protection from sanctions for the same reason: well, it’s quite possible that Nabiullina will be sewn on negligence, oree, a switchman. No one knew that there would be such a war, so no one was preparing for such sanctions. This is the reverse side of secrecy: since no one was told, then who could calculate what no one told about?

Kadyrov is going crazy. The conflict with us almost didn’t even start: perhaps even the Ukrainians threw in misinformation that it was we who had handed over the Kadyrov’s routes ei oi eiah eioha eiikhe. let's go: it was the FSB that leaked the routes to the Ukrainians. I do not have such information, I will leave 1-2% for reliability (it cannot be ruled out at all either).

itz-krieg failed. It is simply impossible to complete the task now: if Zelensky and the authorities were captured in the first 1-3 days, they seized all the key buildings in Kyiv, they gave them the order to surrender - yes, the resistance would subside to the minimum values. theoretically. oh alsha? Even with this ideal variant, there was an unsolvable problem: with whom to negotiate? and demolish Zelensky - well, with whom to sign agreements? If with Zelensky, then after we demolish it, these papers are worth nothing.

refused to cooperate: Medvedchuk is a coward, he fled. There is a second leader there - Boyko, but he refuses to work with us - even his own people will not understand him. They wanted to return Tsarev, so even our pro-Russians turned against him. Ovic return? ak? and we say that it is impossible to occupy, then any of our authorities will be killed there in 10 minutes, as we leave. irate? where do we get so much for her? Commandant's offices, military police, counterintelligence, security - even with minimal resistance from the locals, we need from 500. and more to her. not counting supply systems. And there is a rule that by covering the poor quality of management with quantity, you only spoil everything. this, I repeat, would be with the ideal option, which does not exist.

oh now? we cannot announce the mobilization for two reasons:
1) Large-scale mobilization will undermine the situation inside the country: political, economic, social.
2) Us logistics is overstretched today. We will drive a many times larger contingent, and what will we get?

Aina is a hefty country in terms of territory. And now the level of hatred towards us is going through the roof. Our roads simply won't be able to handle such supply caravans - everything will come to a standstill. managerially we will not stretch - because chaos.
And these two reasons fall out at the same time, although even one is enough to break everything off.

about the loss: I don't know how many there are. who knows. The first two days there was still control, now no one knows what is going on there. you can lose large units in communication. They can be found, or they can dissolve due to being attacked. And there, even the commanders may not know how many of them are running around somewhere nearby, how many died, how many are in captivity. the number of those who have gone around is definitely in the thousands. Maybe 10 thousand, maybe 5, or maybe only 2. Even at the headquarters they don’t know for sure. Must be closer than 10. We don’t count the LDNR corps now - they have their own accounting.

Now, even if Zelensky is killed, captured, nothing will change. There Chechnya by the level of hatred

[Nintex]

Zelensky upped the stakes

In his latest speech he calls for Ukrainians to rise up in every city like the people did in Kherson.
He also calls for those not brainwashed by Russian TV in the DNR/LNR to rise up against the Russians now that they've seen the devastation of Kharkiv and to help him free their land and unite the country.

Zelenskyy: It is necessary to go out and chase this evil from our land, so that they don't make new "LPR" and "DPR," where normal life is simply impossible - only slavery and only "on the knees".

https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1500195497629397000

[who is ted danson?]

https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1500232483324968970

 

[Nintex]

These claims are supported by sources in No10 at the time

This time you'll get him Dom!

[Mupepe]

(Image removed from quote.)

https://twitter.com/shawnalaree/status/1500201738258849801

Russians love their kfc. That shit is everywhere and my coworkers talk about it like it’s americas greatest gift to them.

[team filler]

I read about that, they turned the power off and trapped them in the elevator.

this war is turning into a home alone movie 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/kunthavi05/status/1500232195432411136

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1500233460165844995

Looks like the Russkies will just bombard the airwaves with meaningless propaganda until they finally figure out what to do.

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1500238754438594564

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1500128256477089792

[Nintex]

Zelensky wrecked Putin this is king shit

https://twitter.com/llamedos77/status/1500237736845926400