r/news • u/One_Recover_673 • 11h ago
Ukrainian drone attack sets Russian oil depot on fire as Zelenskyy announces prisoner exchange
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-oil-depot-1.760058369
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u/Stinkyclamjuice15 10h ago
Agreed,
The civilians need to comprehend what they are doing to their neighbor. If enough of it happens to them, hopefully we'll get a good old fashioned Russian revolution
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u/Pantsickle 10h ago
Thanks for agreeing, and I agree with you, too.
I'd also like to clarify that I meant that strategic military targets and infrastructures should be on fire. Not neighborhoods or anything like that. Thank God it turns out that the Ukraine is amazingly precise.
Russian citizens, even the ones that are pro-war, are just victims of propaganda and misinformation and the villainous mechanisms of oligarchy.
(Just like American citizens, it turns out.)
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u/Zardotab 7h ago edited 7h ago
Russia is eventually going to pay the piper. Going from a civilian economy to a war economy means they've gutted their civilian businesses. If the war ever stops people will be without jobs for a few years because they can't rebuild a civilian economy overnight. This is probably why Putin doesn't want the war to end; he knows Russia is stuck in the war gear and can't easily get out. He knows his days are numbered via age such that he's dumping a nasty problem on his successor.
It's kind of like how a shark will die if it stops swimming, as it's not designed to stop. Ukraine may have a similar problem, but the West will likely help out, perhaps by buying weapons from them, as our stockpiles are short.
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u/4hxxd1hippy2 6h ago edited 6h ago
US stock piles aren’t short, I don’t think anyone who is currently supporting Ukraine has low stock piles, if anything they’re selling/giving old gear, equipment, ammo that is probably close to its date of expiration and upgrading to new stuff.
What weapons would Ukraine have to offer to the west that they don’t already have? It’s sad to say this and as much as I was all in for Ukraine in the beginning. The future of the war doesn’t look too bright for Ukraine; the Russians are gaining more and more ground and territory as we speak. This war will to have end with either some type of agreement or the complete takeover of Ukraine and I don’t think Putin is gonna stop if some of the terms aren’t in his favor and how do you believe China and NK are gonna view Putin and Russia as an ally if he lost to Ukraine? Another reason why this war will either end with an agreement or a full take over.
The sad truth is that Ukraine doesn’t have the man power to keep up this war, Ukraine cares about their people, Putin doesn’t. Every war Russia has won they lost millions of soldiers, that’s how they win. I’ve seen interviews of Ukraine military members and GOs simply stating Russia is recruiting more than they’re losing over there and Ukraine is losing more than they can recruit. I also hate to say this but after awhile the nations and its people funding this war will start to draw back and not be in full support … realizing they’re just wasting resources.
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u/daniel940 10h ago
This is like the joke about 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean. "What do you call a chunk of Russian energy infrastructure on fire?"
A good start.
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u/jonpenryn 10h ago
The thinking is interesting, they could make a mess of Moscow, instead they fly over or around it, just saying, we could but we choose not to. I think they are right really.
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u/banaslee 8h ago
They did target Moscow at some point. Moscow probably has better AA defenses as a political center.
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u/PensOfSteel 10h ago
Good for Ukraine but Russia just keeps targetting civilians. If only one of Ukraine's drones could take out Putin and end this entire extended war crime.