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He did also straight up say we will continue to send aid to Ukraine… very mixed messaging. I guess that’s par for the course.

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1 minute ago, B00M said:

He did also straight up say we will continue to send aid to Ukraine… very mixed messaging. I guess that’s par for the course.

He also has a history of trying to get Zelensky to lie on his behalf to better his domestic political situation. Granted, that is moot because Trump is effectively a monarch now

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Any day we will see that new, tough attitude. 

JD is your couch-fucking huckleberry

PARIS—Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv’s long-term independence.


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@Schulz2.0 I was just coming to post about that.

Russian Drone Damages Radiation Shield at Chernobyl, Ukraine Says
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.

Russia’s military used a drone with a high-explosive warhead to hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging the protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday.

In a post on social media, Mr. Zelensky called the damage “significant” but said that there were no signs of increased radiation at the plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. Denys Shmyhal, the Ukrainian prime minister, said Friday morning that emergency crews had extinguished a fire at the site. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had attacked the plant.

The structure that was damaged was designed to seal in vast quantities of radioactive isotopes from the fire and meltdown in 1986 at Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4, and was intended to last generations.

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The strike comes as pressure grows on Ukraine and Russia to sit down at the bargaining table three years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion. It also comes as world leaders are gathered in Munich for an annual security conference where the war in Ukraine — and recent statements by President Trump and his team indicating that they want to pursue a quick peace deal — will probably dominate conversations.

Many attending the Munich conference will remember the radioactive clouds that spread over parts of Europe after the accident at Chernobyl, which happened when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The accident was initially covered up by the Soviet authorities.

“Now the atmosphere is such that everyone is very angry about this news here in Munich,” Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office in Ukraine, posted on social media. “Not ‘concerned,’ as is often the case, but really angry.”

Mr. Yermak noted that the whole world had helped the Kremlin rebuild after Chernobyl. “Then the whole world invested in the shelter, and today these Russian idiots have launched a drone at it,” he added.

The Kremlin denied that Russia’s military had struck the plant. Its spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said, “The Russian military does not do this.”

“Most likely, we are talking about provocation and fraud,” he added.

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The structure at Chernobyl that was hit on Friday is a huge arching shelter covering what remains of the crippled reactor. The meltdown spewed radiation into the atmosphere and contaminated an 18-mile zone around the plant that residents were forced to leave.

The protective structure, which resembles an aircraft hangar, was completed in 2016. It covers another structure known as the sarcophagus that was built immediately after the disaster.

The exploding drone breached the outer shield but did not damage the older, interior containment structure, Leontiy Derkach, a radiological engineer at the site, said in a telephone interview.

The explosion sprayed shrapnel into the space between the two structures, damaging both, he said, but did not spread radioactive materials. Emergency crews responded at about 3 a.m., he said, as the fire still burned.

The first people to approach the site were workers with radiation meters, to ascertain if radiation was leaking, he said. “We are not kamikazes to immediately go into the danger zone,” he said.

Air samples determined no radiation was leaking, Mr. Derkach said. Ukrainian military chemists and radiation specialists are still working at the site to gain a fuller picture of the damage. By around noon, he said, crews had not yet entered the outer containment structure for a closer view.

The drone, he said, had hit about 60 yards from where protective plates covered highly radioactive debris from the 1986 accident. Had it hit at that location, he said, the exploding drone could have spread radiation at least inside the outer containment structure.

Emergency crews, Mr. Derkach said, were assessing how to repair the hole. “The Russians caused us great damage,” he said. “The whole world built this shelter and the Russians destroyed it in one second.”

Greenpeace, the conservation group, issued a statement on the strike on the Chernobyl plant, saying it was “a further escalation of the threat to Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and must be condemned and punished.”

Chernobyl was among the first locations targeted in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, as the Russian army captured and occupied the decommissioned plant and used the site as a base for attacks on Kyiv, to the south.

Radiation levels rose for several days, most likely from columns of heavy weaponry stirring dust. During the monthlong occupation of the site, Russian soldiers dug trenches in irradiated soil, and electrical power to a cooling pool for nuclear waste was briefly cut, raising alarms.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said that its staff members at the site of the former nuclear plant had heard the explosion overnight.

The strike on Chernobyl, about two hours north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the recent increase in military activity around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied zone “underline persistent nuclear safety risks,” said Rafael Grossi, the agency’s director general.

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17 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Again I'll ask.  Why in God's creation did a 7 yo Parliament lie awake at night worrying about these dipshits?

Same. I feel like between Afghanistan kind of breaking them in the 80s and them losing the Soviet Union, and therefore Ukrainian manpower, it’s been a shadow of what we thought they were ever since.

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56 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Tfg wets his pants when Putin does anything that smack of nuclear war.  This is clearly meant to scare him.  If only he realized we have the power, Russia is on its back foot, and we should just say "get out in two weeks or else."   

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17 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

Any day we will see that new, tough attitude. 

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Yup.  Still waiting to see how that works.  Although, Vance payed lip service to it the day after that drunk Hegseth went all bruh-talk about realism and gave away the game.  We are not a serious people.  

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22 hours ago, Parliament said:

Again I'll ask.  Why in God's creation did a 7 yo Parliament lie awake at night worrying about these dipshits?

Because they had nukes and we weren't sure whether or not the Russians loved their children too.

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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Fair.  And now we know the Russians do not love their children too.  Mom will trade her boys for a new Lada sack of potatoes and a chance at a used washing machine.

 

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I'm putting down 10k at the online casino that -- for some unknown reason -- we'll see and hear a lot fewer racist remarks about the stupidity of this dude Caleb compared to Brittney Griner.

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6 hours ago, Chopper said:

I'm putting down 10k at the online casino that -- for some unknown reason -- we'll see and hear a lot fewer racist remarks about the stupidity of this dude Caleb compared to Brittney Griner.

Doubt it

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On 2/14/2025 at 8:46 AM, Parliament said:

Again I'll ask.  Why in God's creation did a 7 yo Parliament lie awake at night worrying about these dipshits?

Because 1980s TV had us waiting for this.  I don’t know why the fuck so many parents let us watch The Day After.

 

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Because 1980s TV had us waiting for this.  I don’t know why the fuck so many parents let us watch The Day After.
 

My parents didn’t let me. I felt so left out of the conversation at school the next day because everyone else had.
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6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Because 1980s TV had us waiting for this.  I don’t know why the fuck so many parents let us watch The Day After.

Because Gen X.  Children tramatized at small levels grow up to be resilient adults.  (Now get off my lawn.)

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48 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Because Gen X.  Children tramatized at small levels grow up to be resilient adults.  (Now get off my lawn.)

You all grew up afraid? What? These fucks beat their best. And they brought their only ally.

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For at least a week, Russia has been stalling near pokrovsk and Ukraine has been counter attacking.

Ukraine really continues to impress as they showcase effective, modern tactics. 

Now is the time to go for Russia’s throat. More sanctions and stricter enforcement (looking at Europe) and surge equipments to Ukraine. Make it clear to the Russian people that this war isn’t ending any time soon unless they stop accepting signing bonuses to die for nothing. Russia is seeing a slight up tick in volunteers now as many Russians believe Trump will stop the war quickly 🙄

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https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DGI4GZyoMyH?xmt=AQGzIr7gf_inVWDINr7gGjG73i2fICGqJ0qQwVBkjnzcUQ

️The 47th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has destroyed a column of the Russian Armed Forces' 155th Brigade with red flags in the Kursk region.
Using FPV drones, Ukrainian forces are destroying armored vehicles with Soviet flags near the settlement of Nikolsky. Russia has deployed more than ten tanks for this attack. Russian military bloggers have called this assault a betrayal and the killing of their own.

https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DGJN385ocva?xmt=AQGzIr7gf_inVWDINr7gGjG73i2fICGqJ0qQwVBkjnzcUQ

😳A Russian soldier took a preemptive step-upon hearing a Ukrainian drone, he simply shot himself.

 

^Effective but he could've done that at home.

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3 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

 

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Killing all those Russian men is disembowling Russia’s demographic future, and hastening their inevitable demise as a cohesive nation.  But at this rate we aren’t killing them nearly fast enough.  

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12 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Killing all those Russian men is disembowling Russia’s demographic future, and hastening their inevitable demise as a cohesive nation.  But at this rate we aren’t killing them nearly fast enough.  

Nothing that functional power-merger with the US, thus enabling Russia to grow demographically by conquest, won't solve.

That's the play.  It's the whole play.  And it has worked.  Just waiting on it to fully play out, but the die is cast.

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4 hours ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DGI4GZyoMyH?xmt=AQGzIr7gf_inVWDINr7gGjG73i2fICGqJ0qQwVBkjnzcUQ

️The 47th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has destroyed a column of the Russian Armed Forces' 155th Brigade with red flags in the Kursk region.
Using FPV drones, Ukrainian forces are destroying armored vehicles with Soviet flags near the settlement of Nikolsky. Russia has deployed more than ten tanks for this attack. Russian military bloggers have called this assault a betrayal and the killing of their own.

https://www.threads.net/@_nickmelnick/post/DGJN385ocva?xmt=AQGzIr7gf_inVWDINr7gGjG73i2fICGqJ0qQwVBkjnzcUQ

😳A Russian soldier took a preemptive step-upon hearing a Ukrainian drone, he simply shot himself.

 

^Effective but he could've done that at home.

Then his wife does not get Lada.

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Apart from everything else, the French and British are showing that they sense an end to American hegemony, and it opens an avenue for a Franco-British alliance to take over as the primary players running the Western Alliance.

Their play is to put troops on the ground and expect that will turn the weight of the fighting in short order and force Russia to seek an armistice.  And in so doing, they basically remove the United States as the driver of Western security going forward.

It’s honestly a good play.  Ukraine has softened them up. Now the Brits and Frogs get to come in and get the credit and benefits of the big win just like we did in 1918.

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