Russia has decided to carry out a 'special military operation' in Ukraine, Putin says

[Wicked Blue]

Source: Washington Post


Today at 1:30 a.m. EST|Updated today at 10:12 p.m. EST

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Kremlin had decided to carry out a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

“The situation requires us to take decisive, swift action,” he said in an early morning speech, adding that Moscow would carry out the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine and end eight years of war in eastern Ukraine, where Kyiv government forces have been fighting pro-Moscow separatist militants.

Explosions could be heard in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and Kharhiv, in the country’s northeast. Putin told Ukrainians to give up their weapons and to return home.

Senior Russian military commanders gathered in Moscow in the early hours of the morning, according to a U.S. government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.




Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/23/russia-ukraine-updates/

[PortTack]

1. He means war...and not a cold war. He has to be stopped

[blue-wave]

2. He's doing it

The man is crazy and someone needs to stop him.

God Bless Ukraine, God Bless the United States of America and all our allies.

To my Ukrainian friends:

слава україні, слава героям! (slava ukrayini, slava heroyam!) (Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!)

May the name Putin forever burn in hell with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and all the other evil totalitarian dictators that ever lived.

[underpants]

5. Yep

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216388270

[Pachamama]

18. [phone]

[underpants]

3. denazification huh?

Sounds like the History Channel “Did Confederate ghosts influence Hitler?”

[Wicked Blue]

6. He should try denazification on Trump and his supporters nt

[underpants]

10. That for Russian consumption.

They lost somewhere between 20,000,000 and 27,000,000 people in civilian and military deaths.
Mostly at the hand of Germany.
The Cold War persisted mainly because the old guard there wasn’t about to let Americans “win” without a shot when they lost so many to Germany.

[blue-wave]

28. Yeah, go figure

He wants "denazification" in a country that duly elected (in a landslide election) and is presently run by a president of Jewish descent.

[underpants]

29. Internal

That’s for Russian consumption.
They lost somewhere between 20,000,000 and 27,000,000 people in civilian and military deaths in WWII.
Mostly at the hand of Germany.
The Cold War persisted mainly because the old guard there wasn’t about to let Americans “win” without a shot when they lost so many to Germany

[BlueIdaho]

4. May the name Putin be cursed for all eternity. nt.

[vercetti2021]

7. He needs to be taken out

ASAP. This shit has gone on long enough. Hes divided America, hes trying to destabilize the west and NATO countries. It needs to fucking end before WW3 erupts

[CloudWatcher]

8. A friend of mine in Kyiv

... is hearing artillery firing.

[orleans]

11. oooh--i'm sorry. hope your friend stays safe. nt

[yaesu]

9. Multiple reports are coming in of the sounds of explosions being heard across Ukraine, this morning.

“Two booms heard from my apartment on Khreshatyk, Kyiv in the past 3 minutes,” CNN reporter Neil Hauer said.

Other reports of a large explosion in Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine are also filtering through.

this may be targeted hits against military infrastructure and not part of an overall invasion, just not hearing, seeing followup after the first reports.

[orleans]

12. "Moscow would carry out the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine"

denazification?

is he trying to win hearts and minds?

he's the fucking monster.

[Martin68]

15. Russian propaganda has always portrayed Ukrainians as Nazis because they welcomed the German army's

liberation of the country from Russian dominance. If anyone is a Nazi, it is Putin.

[blue-wave]

27. Some Ukrainians

did welcome the German army, a mistake they realized too late. They thought they were getting rid of one mad man, Stalin, who murdered millions of Ukrainians. Instead, they got another mad man. They were between a rock and a horrible hard place.

[Martin68]

13. Here it comes. Putin is determined to go ahead and invade Ukraine. I fear for the lives of

thousands of Ukranians.

[Wicked Blue]

16. He's a fucking madman

I wish a bomb would land on him

[jgmiller]

14. Sorry I don't want massive war

but we've let him go about his business too long, it's either take care of him now or take care of him later when it's harder. 3/4 of the Russian military is surrounding Ukraine, that's tiny compared to what they used to have and they won't all be in one place again for a long time....

[Wicked Blue]

19. It would be fitting if some country decided to invade Russia from the south or east

while most of his military is busy invading Ukraine

[slightlv]

17. These two areas in the east of Ukraine

that want to join Russia... I take it they're like our MAGATs, here. If there could be a way for all who would NOT want to join with Russia, who identify as Ukrainian to move to other cities further west, would it not be a way to avert WWIII?

On one hand, I see it as much of an appeasement as letting these stupid MAGA truckers do their thing on our roads. But we're letting them, aren't we? The one thing I can argue against this is, where does the road west stop for Putin? We give in now, he roils up trouble in the next two regions and here we go again. I agree with whomever said on another thread he must be taken out. And I reiterate it saying "in all haste." But sanctions have no effect on him. Like Trump, he just doesn't care. His own people could starve and he wouldn't care as long as he gets his 15 minutes of fame and gets to put a boot on the neck of democracy someplace. I don't want to see us drawn into a war - by proxy or otherwise. But I gotta tell you, at this point, I don't see any way we're going to keep from it. Putin isn't going to let it go until he either rebuilds the old USSR or we sit him down on his ass. My fear? We can't deal with a tin pot dictator like Trump in our own country. How in the hell can we deal with a Putin? (without WMD, of course!)

I'm open for walking back, cause I sure don't like what I came up with!

[IronLionZion]

22. Hitler's excuse was there were Germans living in the countries he invaded

Russians live everywhere because the Soviet Union encouraged them to settle there.

[IronLionZion]

20. What "demilitarization and denazification"?

Russia should try it at home first.

[Texaswitchy]

21. I bet Putin does Parkinsons.

No sane person would do what he is doing.

My mother went insane and mean with it.

I think he knows the clock is ticking on him and he doesn't give a damn.

He is about to take on NATO.

That is insane.

[OnlinePoker]

23. A reporter on (I think) MSNBC pointed out something about Putin's statement

He was wearing the exact same suit and sitting in the exact same position that he sat in during his speech on Monday. This is all theater that has been prerecorded for just this eventuality.

[crickets]

24. The entire thing was preplanned and scripted. Vile. nt

[jgmiller]

25. They say he has become paranoid

He's probably in a bunker somewhere so that was pre-recorded.

He probably should be paranoid, if we take down his cronie's access to their money they might come looking for him. He's run a crime family for 20 years and he forgot the number one thing ever crime lord knows; war is bad for business.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. The bloodthirsty, punk gangster...

dreams of empire so much...

I can only hope that he gets the full experience of being the czar, especially the ending part.

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-forest-bones-confirmed-to-be-last-tsar-of-russia-and-the-romanov-family/a-54223877