SWIFT ban

Man I don't got the energy to even look through this thread

Obviously what I'm about to say applies to a lot more than just this conflict

But how could you as a Russian soldier think that you were doing the right thing? I just don't get how you could do it. Putin evil but I'm sick of pretending soldiers ain't complicit in the atrocities we call wars that they carry out.

I consider myself a peaceful person and not a tribal type at all but when I see the Ukrainian prime minister talking about the citizens fighting back it makes me wonder what I would do. My emotions rn are that I would be all IRA up in this b**** tbh. I never understood that mentality before until now.

The ramifications if this will be massive

In what way

Many Russians have been surrendering saying they thought this was just a training exercise

It looks like the first wave of troops was mostly young recruits who were given old equipment and tricked into invading

Jesus

This can't be true right??

S/o people itt who are just ignoring things they disagree with
Much more self control then I have

What the f*** is Russia trying to do here how do you expect to hold onto a country that you’re doing this to

For starters it will make buying Russian energy impossible. (Rumor has it the reason Germany and Italy were holding out is cause they had one last shipment coming in today).

Pretty much any international transaction with Russia will be borderline impossible

I think Russia is f***ed lol

Ussr/russia has never been the best at soft power

i read this report from cnn hours ago, unless something changed since then this guy is paraphrasing in a fear mongering way

the article i read said that the us said that ukraine said that the russians said this

or something like that lol

Clip with better sourcing

This is only gonna force Russia to go rogue this will be terrible for the caucusus and Central Asia

Fr

His higher ups are influencing a lot of his views, so if one of them took over it could be worse

Plus that happening would further aggression

You a Zionist this whole time