The Ukraine war thread

[Wim]

@Renauda 'Prosit' as in 'ein Prosit der Gemūtlichkeit'?

[Renauda]

No it’s the third person singular form of the verb просить (procit’) meaning “to ask, request or,as in this context, beg”.

[Wim]

@Renauda I should have seen the link with 'prosim' (Slovakian for please).

[bachophile]

[jon-nyc]

Lol

[Renauda]

Kerch Bridge Operation breakdown:

https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/53942

[Mik]

This is what the Iraq insurgency might have looked like had they had the West's intelligence and weaponry behind it.

[Mik]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-navy-officers-sabotage-submarines-in-black-sea-fleet-as-putin-faces-army-unrest/ar-AA1Gs9Ke?cmp_prftch=2

[Renauda]

Amid all else happening in the world at the moment, the Kremlin continues its nonsensical demands and posturing:

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/54607

In other news Trump admonishes Obama and Trudeau over excluding Putin from their number:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-g7-russia-china-added-carney-canada-2086202

Fact check

It was Harper, not Trudeau who was Canadian PM when Putin got the boot:

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/trump-says-trudeau-responsible-for-russias-g8-removal-which-took-place-under-harper/article_8b0c1406-a17f-5e7a-a2c6-8c5f168d3eb1.html

[jon-nyc]

So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and Trump still cut off previously funded weapons supplies.

A lesson to all here.

[89th]

Trump would never mislead, what are you talking about?

[Mik]

He may be trying to shut the war down, hoping that the recent events in Iran have given Putin pause. If so I think he’s wrong.

[Renauda]

@Mik

He may be trying to shut the war down, hoping that the recent events in Iran have given Putin pause. If so I think he’s wrong.

Ya think? I am more than certain Trump is dead wrong. Just last week in the wake of the US strike on Iran, Putin stated:

On June 20, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, he said just that: “I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian peoples to be one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours.” He went on to add: “We have an old rule. Wherever a Russian soldier sets foot is ours.”

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/55622

[Wim]

Both Putin and Netanyahu smiled.

[Wim]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/deputy-head-russian-navy-killed-by-ukraine-kursk-official-says-2025-07-03/

[Mik]

We keep reading about Russia being hit by devastating blow after devastating blow, but they keep coming.

[Renauda]

…..And Putin and Trump keep having self congratulatory telephone conversations.

[Tom-K]

@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

…..And Putin and Trump keep having self congratulatory telephone conversations.

It's why psychopaths RULE THE WORLD.

[Axtremus]

@Tom-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

It's why psychopaths RULE THE WORLD.

Well, did you vote for one of those psychopaths?

[jon-nyc]

People who are able to draw causal connections between different things might think that withholding weapons from Ukraine and not making progress with Putin might actually be related.