if it's true, it's another escalation

What?

npr.org/2022/03/11/1085427380/ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-zaporizhzhia

bUt iT wAs a diFfErEnT bUiLdInG

NPR that’s fake news

All these sanctions really just going to make it easier for Russia to keep the American hate morale high. Such short-sightedness

satire is really dead

maybe for the soldiers, but i dont think the majority of the regular people there are head over heels for this war to begin with, espc since it's become an obvious pride war after putin failed to win quickly

It’s f*** Putin but the Russian people had nothing to do with this s*** just like we got nothing to do with these sanctions. A handful of people really exerting global pressure and setting back future relations that the subsequent generations are going to have to clean up (if we even get that chance)

They already did this with covid. Shouldn't be surprised.

i think that's what they're supposed to do, unfortunately. from what i understand it's supposed to be a heavy deterrence measure of "hey stop/don't do this ever again". there isn't quite a way to target only putin/ppl around him in a real way that deprives him, just like there wasn't a real way for russia to only target ukrainian officials. they're both playing/paying via collateral damage

Who predicted this war to end quickly?

If Russia's only objective was to "win quickly" this would have been far more brutal from the start.

thought russia did, even remember news from like 4 days after the conflict began where some russian outlet accidentally posted a post-war article in their favor, though maybe that ended up bein misconstrued or something since then

regardless, "win quickly" is really not a relevant thing to argue about

Why everything seem on 10 all of a sudden

They trying to close the working week with a reminder this s*** still going on something

So Ukraine wasn't fibbing? We saw plenty of reports non-russian backed saying Ukraine was over blowing it a few days after the initial attack happened

I wonder what "high-threat" pathogens could be? I am sure its not a dangerous virus. I am sure the US wouldn't create a dangerous virus in another country. Because I have never seen or felt the ramifications of that. Because they simply wouldn't do that

The vast majority of military a***ysts and war experts have said that it’s clear Putin had expected a quick victory and underestimated.

Well yes Putin didn't expect every country to send weapons, Ukraine to free prisoners to fight and call everyone from every country to come help

The end outcome still looking grim

Ok? But the question was who was expecting this to end quickly? And I answered it.

expectations vs reality

there is no way to know what putin expected

I mean he definitely didn't expect the world to do nothing

Not a single bomb has been dropped on Russia has it not?

India shooting pakistan
china talking korea

Africans and middle easterns joining russia in arms

no one could predict any of this is part of my point

all of these governments are dirty af