How should west respond to Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[barbos]

So, it looks like CIA is admitting planning the attack on Valday residence of Putin

It doesn't "look like" anything of the sort.

It looks like no such attack even occurred, and the whole thing was an invention made up from whole cloth by the Russian propaganda machine.

You are, as usual, delusional in your entirely unsupported assertions; You are also very late in making them - don't let your boss know you only just got around to it, or you could be in trouble tor drinking on the job again.

What part of "CIA admitted taking part in the attack" you do not comprehend?

The CIA have also admitted that you are a poopyhead.

No, they did not.

Well, there's exactly as much evidence for that as there is for your claim.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/31/politics/cia-ukraine-drone-putin-residence

This is the admission that attack took place. They just say it was not the residence.
(Ukro-nazi scum claim there was not any attack at all)
Secondly, US admitted that they plan all ukro-regime attacks. That's just an obvious fact to anyone with more then one functioning cell in the brain.

US was caught with their pants down.

It does not matter what US say, everything you say would be a lie.

I personally think that there is good chance that someone convinced your orange imbecile that it could work.
Trump has propensity for that kind of BS.

 

[DrZoidberg]

For all you military nerds. Here's a good channel talking about military hardware. There's a whole bunch of good videos. The most interesting thing imho is how combat has changed with drone warfare.

MilitaryRated

A channel dedicated to rating armies, kit and power projection across the globe with a particular focus on the Nordics and Europe. We also upload geopolitical videos every now and then. We're four guys from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, with three of us either being active military...

youtube.com

My main takeaways.

Artillery has been the most important factor since Napoleon. But that's even more true now. The most important shift in warfare that drones provide is that artillery is much more accurate now.

The biggest adaptation is that everything is way more mobile now. Everything is more heavily armoured.

And its made infantry more important, because they're able to hide from drones.

Both Ukraine and Russia were probably the least well adapted armies for modern drone warfare. This has been in the works since the first Iraq war. Armies around the world have done their best to adapt to it. But Ukraine and Russia inherited huge Soviet era arsenal while being too broke to modernise them.

A pretty alarming stat is that Russia has lost 100% of the tanks it started the war with. All its now operating tanks were built after the war started.

 

[barbos]

A pretty alarming stat is that Russia has lost 100% of the tanks it started the war with

BS, everybody knows that Russia lost 100000% of the tanks.

 

[barbos]

Russia (gas station masquerading as a country) surpassed Canada in export of buckwheat to US!

Россия стала крупнейшим поставщиком гречки в США, обогнав Канаду

Россия в январе-октябре 2025 года стала крупнейшим поставщиком гречки в США, сместив с этого места Канаду, подсчитало РИА Новости по данным американской... РИА Новости, 12.01.2026

ria.ru

 

[barbos]

Youtube deleted Neutrality Studies:

 

[barbos]

Mayor of Kiev officially told people to evacuate.
Checked the weather in Kiev, Day/night: -11/-16.
My place is currently -29/-37 but this is not normal.
Of course heating is working here.

-11 in winter here is practically summer

 

[ZiprHead]

Mayor of Kiev officially told people to evacuate.
Checked the weather in Kiev, Day/night: -11/-16.
My place is currently -29/-37 but this is not normal.
Of course heating is working here.

-11 in winter here is practically summer

Well, at least you got this one half right.

The evacuation order is not for Kiev. It wasn't the mayor of Kiev who did the order.

“We made a difficult but necessary decision -- to mandate the evacuation of children together with their parents or legal guardians from five settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region,” Oleksiy Kuleba, a deputy prime minister of Ukraine announced on social media.

Kyiv Orders Evacuation of Children From 5 Frontline Villages

The front line in Zaporizhzhia was relatively stable for months, but Russian forces appear to have since stepped up their assaults, pushing towards Zaporizhzhia city.

www.kyivpost.com

 

[barbos]

Mayor of Kiev officially told people to evacuate.
Checked the weather in Kiev, Day/night: -11/-16.
My place is currently -29/-37 but this is not normal.
Of course heating is working here.

-11 in winter here is practically summer

Well, at least you got this one half right.

The evacuation order is not for Kiev. It wasn't the mayor of Kiev who did the order.

“We made a difficult but necessary decision -- to mandate the evacuation of children together with their parents or legal guardians from five settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region,” Oleksiy Kuleba, a deputy prime minister of Ukraine announced on social media.

Kyiv Orders Evacuation of Children From 5 Frontline Villages

The front line in Zaporizhzhia was relatively stable for months, but Russian forces appear to have since stepped up their assaults, pushing towards Zaporizhzhia city.

www.kyivpost.com

Mayor of Kiev absolutely told people (who can) to leave Kiev.
Also some buildings will be abandoned and people relocated into other buildings.

 

[barbos]

Yep
journalist asks people people about leaving Kiev.
Interesting that most people answer in .... russian.
And most of them give wrong answer.

 

[barbos]

Speaking of energy and heating. Pentagon removed official statement from its site regarding Yugoslavia bombing explaining why they were bombing infrastructure on the day one of of NATO aggression.

 

[barbos]

Meanwhile in Russia:

 

[DrZoidberg]

Here's a good podcast episode from The Rest is History with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on the relation between Ukraine and Russia.

Initially they are the same people, the Kievan Rus. Capital in Kiev. Very much aligned with Constantinople, therefore Orthodox Christianity. Ca 900 AD.

Constantinople loses in prestige and the Rus seeks trading partners elsewhere. Two distinct entities are formed, the Musivites and the Kievan Rus. Muscovy is conquered by the Mongols and the Kievan Rus by Lithuania.

After a lot of everything Russia conquers Ukraine in 1776, and immediately tries to extinguish the Ukrainian separate identity. And fails. They never stopped. Putin style historical revisionism (paroted by Barbos) has been ongoing for centuries now, and Russia never succeeded.

In the Soviet era Stalin tried to Russify the empire by transplanting large numbers of Russians into other ethnic territories. That's why there's so many ethnic Russians in east Ukraine.

Putin’s narrative is that Ukrainian identity was created by the Bolsheviks. That's about as crazy a statement as most other things Putin tells us.

Ukraine and Russia

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[barbos]

After a lot of everything Russia conquers Ukraine in 1776, and immediately tries to extinguish the Ukrainian separate identity

There was no identity to extinguish there. Ukraine as an entity was formed in the 19th century.

In the Soviet era Stalin tried to Russify the empire by transplanting large numbers of Russians into other ethnic territories

Bullshit. Stalin did exactly the opposite. He tried to ukrainize Russians which had to be moved into Eastern Ukraine regions which were underpopulated. And Eastern Ukraine was Russia. Ukrainians did not want to work in mines.
And Russians were forced to learn ukrainian and were constantly complaining about that to Stalin.

Putin’s narrative is that Ukrainian identity was created by the Bolsheviks

That's just historical fact.

 

[barbos]

Modern day "Ukraine" is 30-year long project by CIA scum to create anti-Russia which has failed.
Russia will either occupy whole place and slowly denazify these idiots or install pro-russian government in most of it.
I prefer full occupation.

 

[barbos]

Meanwhile Maidan Darling Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested.
And during court proceedings she called Kiev Regime fascist
Apparently she was trading votes in the Parliament. Not surprising, everybody does that there.
But this time she went rogue and Zelensky decided to send her to prison.

Former Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko charged amid anti-graft investigation

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was charged on Wednesday amid an anti-corruption investigation for allegedly offering bribes to members of the Ukrainian parliament.

www.euronews.com

 

[barbos]

Yeah, Another one bites the dust:

 

[barbos]

LOL, EU exceeded their own self-imposed quota on import of aluminum from Russia:

Document

 

[barbos]

Two russian propagandist discuss British problem with Russia.

 

[Harry Bosch]

According to Rubio, peace is just around the corner in Ukraine:

MSN

I don't think that Russia is serious about peace. I think that they are jerking Trump's chain. They want Ukraine to voluntarily retreat from their most heavily defensible positions. Then they'll re-invade in 6 months is my prediction. If Ukraine agrees to this plan, everything will be dependent upon the security guaranties. Pouring more defensive weapons into Ukraine. They need to make defensive boundaries that will make it too painful and deadly for Russian troops to invade. Or we're just going to have a forever war with Russia.

 

[barbos]

I don't think that Russia is serious about peace. I think that they are jerking Trump's chain.

Bloody hell (pardon my british) You are so out of touch with reality.
Nobody is jerking any chains. Nobody in Russia expects anything from any negotiations. They openly admit just going through the motion.
What peace are you talking about when Elensky says he wants everything (including Crimea) back, plus reparations plus $1.5T?
I want that clown and his government dead, period.

Rubio is a fucking liar and is merely placating Trump.