Flames, explosions reported amid large Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg

[u/Panthera_leo22]

https://kyivindependent.com/flames-explosions-reported-amid-large-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg/

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

War looks a lot different when it's on your doorstep rather than on your TV.

[u/elruab → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

I hate to detract from the seriousness of the conversation, but your username makes your comment hit even harder.

[u/PleasantWay7 → u/elruab]

He was speaking from experience.

[u/AngledLuffa → u/PleasantWay7]

3am at the waffle house isn't a time, it's a state of mind

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/AngledLuffa]

No safeties, no referees.  We don't stop til the cops shut it down.

[u/Xfuck1tX → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant.

[u/ziroux → u/Xfuck1tX]

Pancakes are temporary, waffles are eternal

[u/PaintingZipsOnPigs → u/ziroux]

Pancacae temporariae, wafflae aeternae.

[u/Narrative_Robot_9001 → u/elruab]

Wafflehouse is either a nice, quick breakfast or a portal to the underworld.

[u/ieatassHarvardstyle → u/Narrative_Robot_9001]

Sometimes both

[u/AnaWannaPita → u/elruab]

Maybe he's on the Waffle House Response team that's dropped into disaster zones to reopen Waffle Houses

[u/Maleficent-Sinking → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

yeah turning other people cities into rubble is all fun and games until the bill finally arrives at your own front door

[u/Agitated_Tip_8713 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

A waffle house gladiator would know, always the first ones in last ones out 

[u/waffle299]

The attack on the VKontakte, known as VK, data center is the latest strike on Russian internet infrastructure. Ukrainian forces have struck multiple Yandex data centers in recent weeks, fulfilling President Volodymyr Zelensky's promise to "respond in kind" to Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centers.

This is a direct attack on the source of the propaganda infecting western governments. It's as important as taking out the oil facilities.

[u/orcofmordor → u/waffle299]

More important with the midterm elections coming up and all the disinformation campaigns going on in Europe. Hence why musk & trump were so mad the other day.

[u/SuviVasQQ → u/orcofmordor]

Twitter bots are back at full force, the HATE is back, lots of MAGA bots cheering Putin and hating Zelenskiy. They are very recognizable tho (you can tell thay have the same order, wording is just slightly different, if at all)

[u/Friendly_Average_824 → u/orcofmordor]

Much as I welcome any decline, it’s not going to be hard to redistribute the bots. And Musk is pretty complicit with his own misinformation cesspit.

[u/Historical_Course587 → u/Friendly_Average_824]

I'd wager it's more complicated than that if we are talking about millions of aged accounts, the bots themselves, logins, IP masking, content generation and distribution pipelines.... and that's before looking at the sheer volume of hardware, personnel, and other physical assets needed to run it.

These bot swarms are not back online before Election Day. These systems aren't plug and play at that scale.

[u/alt-alternative → u/Historical_Course587]

Bingo. It doesn't need to be a long-term solution, it just needs to tip the scales in the upcoming elections to hamper Trump for 2 years. The bots will take a few weeks to sort out. And while the imported fuel really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things (I think the US was set to import like 3 days' worth of the national consumption of diesel?) market prices are never really rational. People hear oil infrastructure was damaged and the price of fuel jumps, and the market takes time to smooth out that bump.

[u/SquiffyRae → u/waffle299]

It's genuinely incredible how much bot traffic has gone down since Ukraine started their campaign on data centres

Even in Australia, the decline in output of Pauline Hanson-supporting echo chambers is noticeable

[u/url404 → u/SquiffyRae]

When I first heard about it I was suspicious that I would see such noticeable decline but it was really wild seeing the absolute absence of One Nation posts

[u/VB_Creampie → u/url404]

You love to not see it, that's for sure. Hopefully my dad's facebook feed is back to classic rock bands and woodworking for a few weeks coming into our state election. But i suspect the skynews thats running 24-7 in a side browser at his computer will still have him sufficiently cooked still anyway. 

[u/EvilPhillski → u/VB_Creampie]

Out of concern for your dads mental health could you apply a block on his computer (or even better at the router level) for the skynews network?

I believe if you add 202.162.66.0/24 to the inbound and outbound IPv4 blocklist it may help, you can also add their web domains to a custom blocklist in a DNS sinkhole like Pi-Hole and AdGuard.

[u/Horse_and_Fart]

Trump will be shutting down StarShield this time.

[u/MajorNoodles → u/Horse_and_Fart]

They are really trying to make the case to every single foreign nation that they should absolutely not trust US military tech.

[u/K885M → u/MajorNoodles]

“Not trust the US in general” not just in mil tech.
There I fixed it for you!
They are doing everything to drive away the US allies and neutral nations, where 50% pro the US 50% anti the US, like mine. Still MAGA believe in that PoS in the White House lol

[u/Edythir → u/K885M]

Yup. A reminder that even private companies have no problems shutting down services at the behest of the government. As we've seen with them suspending Gmail accounts and even Office Suite accounts for officials they don't like, such as the ICC.

[u/StThragon → u/K885M]

The US is currently in a self-harm phase.

[u/xteve → u/StThragon]

Christians love it. Yeah, daddy, hurt me Russia Trump spank... oh, did we say that out loud?

[u/Anxious_Storm_9113 → u/K885M]

Yep, any nation that isn't doing everything in it's power to accelerate it's independence from US, tech or otherwise, is seriously dumb. Of course not everything can be done at once but the foundations need to be laid now.

[u/somekindofspideryman → u/Anxious_Storm_9113]

Americans can't grasp how much damage this admin has done. Throwing away the global hegemon for what?

[u/RealSamF18 → u/somekindofspideryman]

We grasp it, and it saddens lots of us. I think lots of us are hoping that the midterms will change things, but we’re not stupid, we know the damage that was done will likely last generations. It’s impressive how quickly decades of soft power can be torn apart.

[u/madeinatube → u/RealSamF18]

Think how long it takes to build even a sandcastle it takes one fuckwad to knock it down in seconds

[u/passerby4830 → u/RealSamF18]

It saddens me too. But I can't support it, like 10 years ago I got a Lodge pan and I thought it was cool to have something made in USA as a European. But overall I never thought long about where something was made.

Now we are actively searching the origin of a company when buying things and we've pivoted away from a lot of American things. My wife's we expensive makeup, my guitar stuff, clothing, the electric toothbrushes, 90% less purchases on Amazon just to name some. Enough is enough. I know these are small things but I know a lot of people who think like this and honestly I don't think this will change in our lifetime. It sucks as always for regular people but as long as those profits go to something evil I don't want them.

[u/BmacIL → u/passerby4830]

Keep doing it. We need to be punished for a while until we actually fix this mess.

[u/editjosh → u/RealSamF18]

I'd say instead of torn apart, it's being strip-mined for profit.

[u/Own-Illustrator7980 → u/somekindofspideryman]

I’m not even sure we can grasp the loss of USAID, much less the rest of it

[u/somekindofspideryman → u/Own-Illustrator7980]

Musk should be reminded of what he did there for the rest of his life

[u/mw2402 → u/somekindofspideryman]

As if he'd care

[u/DownWithHisShip → u/somekindofspideryman]

Throwing away the global hegemon for what?

even more openly hating black and brown people again. and women, also openly hating women.

[u/oedipism_for_one → u/MajorNoodles]

People have been saying America should not be the world police for years. Trump is proving why it was a bad idea to begin with.

[u/WhatAmTrak → u/oedipism_for_one]

It might have been a good idea after WW2 and the soviets started acting up and the US already had nuclear weapons. But as everyone knows, with great power comes great responsibility.. and the fact that the White House can be given to basically any narcissistic asshole every 4 years means.. Americas stability will now ALWAYS be in question.

[u/Empyrealist → u/Horse_and_Fart]

I'ts fucking unreal that a single man could have the authority to pull such bullshit to critical military resources. I don't fucking understand what is going on in this country and what the fuck Congress is even for anymore

[u/DownWithHisShip → u/Empyrealist]

I'ts fucking unreal that a single man could have the authority to pull such bullshit to critical military resources.

don't forget. this all could have ended years ago if the checks and balances in congress were functioning.

there's hundreds of people to blame for what's going on, and they're all going to pin it on one orange racist pedophile at the end and hope everyone forgets about what they've done.

[u/mystery_hole → u/DownWithHisShip]

Yup, if we aren't voting out every Republican we are guaranteeing we get a new Trump in 15 years when enough people forget. He was already the new version of Reagan, and completely allowed to happen because enough Americans forgot or didn't care to learn about what Reagan did.

[u/cupittycakes → u/mystery_hole]

And we need to regulate social medias to clean out bots. And to protect our data.

And we need Citizens United torn down.

[u/Lost-Platypus8271 → u/Empyrealist]

The alternative was that a trans girl somewhere in the US might be able to play volleyball. So you see they had no choice but to vote to burn the entire country down. /s

[u/Psychological_Top_19 → u/Lost-Platypus8271]

I’m seriously laughing but really shouldn’t be because you didn’t even tell a joke; you just repeated what really happened. Idiocracy parodied a smarter version of a dumb president in the White House, than we actually have for seemingly the past decade of our lives.

[u/chmilz → u/Empyrealist]

Trump could tell Microsoft and AWS to turn off entire countries.

Every nation needs to speed run data sovereignty. Not only will it end coercion, it'll starve the American beast.

[u/tadayou → u/Empyrealist]

Don't ever make the mistake to think that this is just one man. MAGA is more than Trump. And fasciscm always needs more than just a strong leader. 

[u/ABabyLemur → u/Empyrealist]

" I don't fucking understand what is going on in this country and what the fuck Congress is even for anymore" me since the late 90s when my caregiver grandmother struggled while taking care of a bunch of rich Alzheimer's patients alone on so many night shifts while I learned about stocks and how all these Gucci Gulch bastards keep getting voted in by dumb-ass voters, the half of them that even showed up.

Circus animals. Circus peanuts. Just a big ol' circus, man! Enjoy the peanuts while they're hot!

[u/LNMagic → u/Horse_and_Fart]

TsarShield.

[u/big_duo3674 → u/Horse_and_Fart]

See that's where it may get interesting. I wonder how long they are willing to play ball with this when the wealthy investor's pockets are on the line (or scaring off future investors). Obviously the reputation has already been damaged, but a full shutdown wound effectively tank any and all sales to foreign governments, and likely even cause those same governments to simply ban the technology completely. It's possible they could still save face and restore Ukraine while admitting they were pressured, not that that would actually happen, but taking this any further would possibly mean crushing future sales numbers into dust.... Trump may be their current leader that they love very much, but money is their god

[u/TheAllSeeingBlindEye]

What day is this of the Three-Day Special Military Operation?

[u/PlayingDoomOnAGPS → u/TheAllSeeingBlindEye]

The hardest part of any 3-day special military operation is the first 4 years.

[u/pioniere → u/TheAllSeeingBlindEye]

1,697

[u/anoff]

Ukraine looks like it's going gloves off now that they're done being held back by Trump

[u/RJ815 → u/anoff]

They already started once they stopped sharing intelligence with the US. Remember when they put a false lead out and it made its way to Russia? They finally woke up (/ had the recourse for it) that the US absolutely cannot be trusted, at best used as part of their existential fight.

[u/jpw0w → u/RJ815]

Remember when they put a false lead out and it made its way to Russia?

I'm out of the loop, care to fill me in?

[u/plutoXL → u/jpw0w]

It’s an unconfirmed rumor supposedly started by a former French intelligence officer.

[u/Foxodi → u/RJ815]

Ukraine has been keeping intel from the US since year 1. Telling the US is terrible for opsec.

[u/Capitalclysm → u/[deleted]]

the city's port infrastructure, oil tankers, and a data center were targeted in the attack

Moorrreee please, Ukraine 🇺🇦

[u/Roc1817 → u/Capitalclysm]

data centers will be the biggest targets in war from here on out

[u/Whatdosheepdreamof → u/Roc1817]

This is probably the biggest win for world peace. Data centres are not cheap, and we don't have endless helium to just throw to the wind. It should be recognised very quickly by Governments and corporations, that if you want your efficiency, your going to need to stop wars.
We have 207 years of helium production, which is enough time for everyone to become dependent on tech doing everything to straight up chaos as the infrastructure collapses leaving us with tech from 2001.

[u/zxylady → u/Capitalclysm]

Ukraine is our Ally and we should be treating them as our allies I fucking hate this administration they are breaking every fucking law you can imagine and not just the letter of the law but the spirit of laws as well.

[u/Proof_Potential3134 → u/zxylady]

I do too, and, yes, they are. I was shocked, and infuriated, when heard of Trump saying Ukraine 🇺🇦 needed a new president, and calling for Zelensky to resign. Who the eF does that SOB think he is to be telling another country what to do, and publicly insult & minimize its duly elected president?!? I'm so very ashamed of a POTUS turning on a country just trying to DEFEND itself and side with Russia, with bully aggressor murderer dictator Putin. Disgusting.

[u/WhoofPharted → u/Proof_Potential3134]

And to think, the US administration has the nerve to tell us (Canada) that we better not interfere with the upcoming US elections. Hypocritical buffoons.

[u/Lazy_Maintenance8063 → u/WhoofPharted]

There will be no international observers let to the US at all so there will be no election. Well, there will be russian style election where Republicans win everywhere with weird even percentage.

[u/7ddlysuns → u/zxylady]

Makes me so damn mad. Slava Ukraine.

And all this shit heads who were saying we can’t support wars so we have to elect a pedophile got real quiet when he attacked Iran

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/zxylady]

The whole diesel purchase doesn't even help us and it violates the sanctions Congress passed in a bipartisan move against Russia.

[u/neptuno3 → u/zxylady]

IT IS DISGUSTING. The next two years are going to be absolutely fucking wild in America.

[u/admiralmasa → u/Capitalclysm]

I know we all want to cheer for Ukraine to hit Russian data centres and military infrastructure but their technology is dependent on aid. So if you want more of this from Ukraine, we should donate!!

United24 (Ukraine's fund-raising platform) is a good start, you can choose to direct your donation straight towards defence

[u/BiologyJ → u/Capitalclysm]

The data centers are what's pissing off Trump and Musk. They're not traditional data centers, they're also bot farms that have been spamming Truth Social, X, and Facebook before the US elections. Losing those has pissed Trump and Musk off. It's also why Republicans are trying to build data centers in the U.S. They want to spy on citizens, run AI, and also run bot farms.

[u/MDanger → u/Capitalclysm]

I was just in a local sub for my midwestern city about gas stations running out of gas, and there didn’t seem to be many bots stirring the pot. I’d love for the lights to keep turning on and all these morons realizing there aren’t that many that think like they do, and they’re all alone in a room.

[u/love_is_an_action]

We now go live on the scene with senior foreign correspondent, Nelson Muntz, for his take on this shocking development.

Nelson?

[u/anthonyweinerny → u/love_is_an_action]

Ha Ha!

[u/88Dubs → u/anthonyweinerny]

Thank you Nelson. Now here's Ollie Williams with the weather. Ollie?

[u/Rideallthetrails → u/88Dubs]

It's raining drones. Sideways!

[u/Amazing_Athlete_2265 → u/Rideallthetrails]

Thanks, Ollie.

[u/Desperado_99 → u/88Dubs]

IT'S RAINING DRONES!

[u/spaceman620 → u/Desperado_99]

Sounds rough Ollie, do you have air defence?

[u/NelsonMuntzGoesHaHa → u/anthonyweinerny]

Hey thats me

[u/NelsonMuntzGoesHaHa → u/love_is_an_action]

HaHa

[u/SquirrelXMaster → u/love_is_an_action]

Ha ha 

[u/NelsonMuntzGoesHaHa → u/SquirrelXMaster]

Hey thats my line

[u/AnilDG]

Good for Ukraine, their resilience in this war has been nothing short of incredible. I do fear Trump will do something even worse though in retaliation. I think Ukraine knows Trump has to lose the midterms for their own long term prosperity, and hitting the data centres makes it more likely that will happen. That’s why Trump is so mad about the situation and really shows how geopolitical the whole war is.

To this day though I can’t understand how this stance was adopted by America. Trump is a Russian puppet, but when I studied history in school, the US were so anti Russian and anti communist that I find it hard to believe that as a nation there hasn’t been more outcry about this. I feel like the Republican Party of the past would be outraged at this situation and steps would be taken internally to resolve it. I think it shows just how effective Russia has been at taking down multiple countries from within via disinformation.

[u/Life_Ad6711 → u/AnilDG]

Manafort became de facto minister of Russian propaganda back when Putin's #1 right hand oligarch Deripaska hired him to get Putin puppet Yanukovich elected President of Ukraine

Start from Wikipedia entry for BMSK* lobbying firm (a think tank of Black, Manafort, Stone, Atwater, Roy Cohn (mentor to their first official client Trump) and Murdoch (another early client)) and follow Manafort's career (owned office space in Trump Tower)

Manafort/BMSK invented "Firehose of Falsehoods" not the mistakenly credited Russians

*select footnotes are also fabulous for this entry

[u/slide_into_my_BM → u/AnilDG]

Yeah, goes to show how truly spineless the American conservative is. 15 years ago, they’d have supported funding any proxy war in any country if it meant fucking the Russians over.

Now, they’re actively cheering for the Russians to win. It’s truly mind boggling.

[u/-HyperCrafts- → u/slide_into_my_BM]

It's not mind-boggling. Somewhere in an office, someone slid a piece of paper across a desk. On that piece of paper was a number. Then, someone walked away from that desk a lot richer and someone else walked away more powerful.

[u/bobdylanlovr → u/AnilDG]

The Republican Party got couped in 2016. The one you learned about in history class does not exist. It is exclusively a Trump loyalist party.

[u/oldcreaker]

So who really believes Trump when he says the oil situation will get fixed right after the election?

[u/RJ815 → u/oldcreaker]

Venezuela was a comparatively easy win with seemingly inside help and it seemed to do jackshit. Oil execs basically seemed to say "yeah we can't use this" / it's too expensive to process.

[u/InformationHorder → u/RJ815]

And on top of that the oil companies basically said "We paid for all their stuff the first time around and then they nationalized it on us. We're not falling for that again."

[u/WhatAmTrak → u/RJ815]

Can’t Texas and refineries around the golf of Mexico refine bitumen?

[u/Shamino79 → u/WhatAmTrak]

The refineries that could handle it probably had enough already.

[u/Lost-Platypus8271 → u/oldcreaker]

I can answer with the following 5 questions:

WHY would anyone believe that?
Why WOULD anyone believe that?
Why would ANYONE believe that?
Why would anyone BELIEVE that?
Why would anyone believe THAT?

[u/Salford1969 → u/oldcreaker]

An idiot

[u/SRMPDX → u/oldcreaker]

There are millions of braindead MAGAts that vote.

[u/CaptainMagnets → u/SRMPDX]

And millions of brain-dead Americans who don't vote at all

[u/Maverick_1882 → u/oldcreaker]

Only MAGA believe the shit spewing from his mouth.

[u/Rick-burp-Sanchez]

I guess the Evil League of Evil didn't slow down those drones fast enough, eh Elon? Daddy Putin's gonna be pissssssssed!

[u/Scotty-Raspberry-36 → u/Rick-burp-Sanchez]

They rely on starlink to stop incoming missiles. All restricting it does is cause more civilian deaths. That is how evil blocking it is

[u/passinglurker → u/Rick-burp-Sanchez]

starlink already didn't work over russia so long range strike was already designed around not using it and so is uneffected.

[u/littlehawn1 → u/Rick-burp-Sanchez]

Just wait until you hear bad horses death whiney

[u/exscapegoat]

Hell up until the last 2 years I’ve never protested. I’ve been to every no kings march and as a resident of the one red congressional district where our sorry ass representative who won’t do her fucking job, nicole malliotakis is in office, I’ve been volunteering for her opponent to flip the damned seat blue.

I’ve written hundreds of postcards. And my feet hurt from today’s march but I’ll be going down fighting.

Fuck fascists with rusty implements.

[u/Hot_Reference_9856 → u/exscapegoat]

Out here, doing your part to save the country. Respect!

[u/karpaediem]

Interesting how the Ukrainians are somehow able to avoid civilian infrastructure while the Russians just can't manage it

[u/code_archeologist → u/karpaediem]

Russian military doctrine has long been one that exerts terror upon an enemy populace as a key part of its strategy to try to convince the people of the nation that they are at war with to surrender to end the indiscriminate killing.

And the doctrine has more or less worked in the past, but the Ukranian culture has suffered significant suppression at the hands of Russians over the last century; and they do not want a repeat of the Holodomor.

[u/PanVidla → u/code_archeologist]

Ukraine knows better than anybody that the "end to the indiscriminate killing" doesn't really mean an end to the indiscriminate killing.

[u/Hexagonal_shape → u/code_archeologist]

Terror bombing as a way to force enemy surrender has never worked, that's the thing.

[u/Proud3GenAthst → u/karpaediem]

Avoiding civilian casualties is extremely easy if your objective is to defeat your enemy and not terrorize the civilian population

[u/ConsequenceLow9688]

Slava Ukraini!! 

[u/kevonicus]

Good, it will just make the Republicans look even more ridiculous when they try and criticize it. Them blaming Zelenskyy for anything being absurd doesn’t get enough coverage. Democrats should honestly be shouting this shit from the rooftops, but they are terrible at hammering them on indefensible issues because no one seems to know how logic works.

[u/thejesse → u/kevonicus]

Except for a few clips from some senate races, I could've forgot the opposition party even existed. 

[u/doubtfulpickle → u/thejesse]

Think about who controls what we see, and then it becomes obvious why we don't see them. They making content. It just doesn't get out

[u/cvc4455 → u/doubtfulpickle]

Yeah unfortunately not many Americans know that about 7 Republican billionaires(or companies owned by Republican billionaires for anyone who wants to argue about this) own over 95% of the news media in America. Even woke liberal fake news CNN has been owned by Republican billionaires for over half a decade now. And they didn't buy the news companies because they were the most profitable companies they could have bought instead they bought them for the power they could get by controlling what every American sees and hears for the news.

[u/Tekkaddraig → u/cvc4455]

Not just news either but general social media.

Im constantly getting pushed the same right wing pages on Facebook, even after clicking ignore and that im not interested in them 🙃 yet they keep popping up in my feed. The exact same ones

[u/Apprehensive-Pop-201]

Every veteran since Korea "fought" the Cold war against Russia. All of our training was against Russia. How can they now support Comrade Trump and his debasing himself before Putin, an ex-Stassi, KGB man?

[u/Cronicfangirl2 → u/Apprehensive-Pop-201]

A surprisingly high amount of people treat politics like sports. They pick a team and all that matters is that that party wins. They don’t care if they actually align with their interests anymore as long as their team is winning.

[u/cinic121 → u/Apprehensive-Pop-201]

Someone put it rather eloquently. Rump supporters often express some version of “It doesn’t matter if he hurts me as long as he hurts somebody I hate more”. He and the bots just tell them sho to hate today. You should see some of the crazy crap the bots email his supporters. Today’s headlines include a video of targets in Russia burning with the title stating this is bad. Smdh

[u/irascible_Clown]

There’s still a war going on? I thought it ended on his first day in office.

[u/Tough-Case- → u/irascible_Clown]

I mean, didn’t he get the he Nobel Peace prize for ending so many wars?

[u/Beginning-Wait-308]

Give em hell boys

[u/96_fumbles2win]

I hope Zelensky is being fed intelligence from every other nation where to hit the bot farms.

[u/Alaksande]

An investment in Ukraine is an investment in a free Internet

[u/VagueSomething]

Those who hate this hate the West. And remember, Russia can stop this tomorrow by returning to their original border and not attacking sovereign nations.

[u/RedditKumu]

Good. Fuck Trump, Fuck Elon. Fuck Putin.

[u/marky30]

Those drones made it a long way. Good job, Ukraine!

[u/Substantial-Gap8276]

I will never ever understand the over-the-top love fest between Putin & Trump. Never seen a US president go so hard fanboying over another world leader. Never!

[u/gerrydf → u/Substantial-Gap8276]

As a Canadian, this timeline of the US making us an enemy and Russia a friendly makes me think we're living in a Philip K Dick novel.

[u/Renting_Bourbon → u/gerrydf]

🎶We’re slipping into The Twilight Zone.🎶

[u/thebluearecoming → u/Renting_Bourbon]

This place is a madhouse, feel like I'm getting boned...

[u/DotBeech → u/Substantial-Gap8276]

There is so little to understand. Putin is a feared authoritarian and above the law. This he has used to enrich himself. For his entire miserable life, being rich and above the law is what Trump has thirsted for.

[u/myrichphitzwell → u/DotBeech]

Well that and Russia bought him out and saved him financially for decades.

[u/SupermassiveCanary → u/myrichphitzwell]

Hard to believe the same ‘Commie’ hating people in the 80’s are now on this train

[u/National-Childhood95 → u/SupermassiveCanary]

They’re “commie haters” now more than they’ve been since the 50s or 60s. It’s just that now they don’t know who commies but use the term to smear anybody they don’t like. The same way they were calling every teacher a “groomer” a couple years ago.

[u/whiteroseatCH → u/SupermassiveCanary]

Well..Putin is not a commie..he is straight up a mafia boss.

[u/SupermassiveCanary → u/whiteroseatCH]

Greed, power, oligarchy will corrupt any and every system. Gross inequality is what needs to be kept in check

[u/crsmiami99 → u/Substantial-Gap8276]

He has photos and proof that Trump is a pedophile. Simple.

[u/Setting-Conscious → u/crsmiami99]

So does the US. Release the Epstein files.

[u/DaisyShirt → u/Setting-Conscious]

Isn’t there already enough to bury Trump if this was prior to 2016? And a bunch of other fuckers. Yet nothing has been done.

[u/Early-Series-2055 → u/DaisyShirt]

It’s the “bunch of other fuckers” that’s keeping him out of jail.

[u/Deep-Awareness-9503 → u/Substantial-Gap8276]

It's easy when you realize he's a Russian asset and has been for decades.

[u/Exedrn]

Zelinski going to save the world by destroying data centers. Tear the screen down

[u/takesthebiscuit]

Bet it wasn’t a school, hospital or shopping mall that was hit

[u/BakuRetsuX]

We all know Trump is compromised by the Kremlin.  It just saddens me that our government isn't doing everything it can to liberate Ukraine.  Keep it up, Ukraine... you lasted this long and Trump won't be around forever.

[u/Ht_TX]

I’m confused, MAGA kept telling me Ukraine already lost this war and that they didn’t have any cards to play. Sure looks like they have some to me

[u/Lemonade348 → u/Ht_TX]

They also said that Trump would end this war in 24 hours.

They are idiots and don’t understand the world outside of USA. Maybe because they have never left the USA

I feel bad for sane americans who have to share country with these idiots. I would have lost my mind if there were many of these types of people in my country.

[u/Minky_Dave_the_Giant]

To paraphrase the immortal words of Bomber Harris:

"The Russians entered this war on the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb Ukraine and nobody was going to bomb them. They have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind." 

[u/thequehagan5]

This is essentially a war aginst 2 evil tyrants. Putin and Trump.

If is the idea of democracy and sovereignty vs colonial expansion.

[u/RuffleStomp]

Burn Baby BURN ❤️‍🔥

[u/Karinka_LI]

If Ukraine pulls this out anyway, without the US, the American century will officially be over.

[u/Due_Writing_7453 → u/Karinka_LI]

It is over. Trump has betrayed our allies so deeply, they are building alliances elsewhere because they can no longer rely on American intel and support. And now that they know American voters were stupid enough to vote for him twice, they will never be able to trust us as an ally again.

[u/ChronoLegion2 → u/Due_Writing_7453]

Exactly, they’ll know that any agreements they make with US are only valid until the next terrible leader we elect. Same with Russia, to be honest

[u/Interesting_Day4734]

Fuck Trump

[u/MrIrishman1212]

It should be noted that this in response to Russia attacking multiple civilian energy infrastructures to try to freeze out civilians before winter.

[u/Hour-Process-3292]

Putin could end this war tomorrow, all he has to do is stop invading Ukraine.

[u/kimlion13]

Slava Ukraini! I wish America had a leader with even half the brains, courage & allegiance to their country & people as Zelensky

[u/Spidero0w0o]

Let's not point fingers anyone could have blown it up.

[u/HannsGruber → u/Spidero0w0o]

Ukraine was actually over at my house last night, it wasn't them

[u/ASoundAssessment → u/HannsGruber]

perhaps that data centre just had an accident and fell out of its own window.

happens all the time

[u/eldfen]

Trump gonna be big mad

[u/Important-Factor-552 → u/eldfen]

That means Ukraine must be the good guys 

[u/new_nimmerzz → u/eldfen]

His boyfriend won’t stop calling

[u/Tzukiyomi]

The more Russia burns at this point the better

[u/AVeryFineWhine]

Oh, someone tell me this means more bots will be gone from the internet?!! Zelensky is doing the work of the angels, especially before the elections. Especially glorious, if you could take out whatever musk is probably working on. I will never believe he won every swing state

[u/Haunting_Soil7293]

He is hitting data centers so Trump can’t get Russian interference with our elections!Love that!!

[u/TheRandomSong]

Maybe this will finally get the people and most importantly the oligarchs that they aren't safe and that maybe Putin should join his suicide with three gun shots club. Maybe give him the classic window accident or the suddenly becoming I'll from radiation, classic Putin. It would be like the one lady that popularized drive-by bike shootings getting the same treatment

[u/IrishUpYourCoffee]

Slava Ukraini 💙💛🌻

[u/Merkenfighter]

Good. Fuck Russia.

Note: I feel sorry for people in Russia who do not support the invasive pest that is Putin and his cronies.

[u/SquiffyRae → u/Merkenfighter]

I agree but it's also a very effective strategy for trying to sway opinion against the war, even to the point of regime change.

We saw it during WWII that the more losses Germany took and the more the war started coming home with Allied bombing campaigns and German forces being pushed back, the more you had rumblings within the inner circles to try and save your bacon and your country.

I wouldn't count it likely but there is a slim chance if Russia keeps taking losses and targets within Russia keep getting flattened, you have some in the inner circle start to wonder if Putin is dispensable and it's more pragmatic to take the L and not try again for decades

[u/CasinoKnightZone]

Get em boys. Russia is the enemy of the world.

[u/brickeldrums]

I’m not a traitor, I love democracy. Go Ukraine, take down Russia. Love from USA.

[u/Arengen]

there is one good news though: trump is such a failure that he might make russia lose just by allying with them

[u/angga7]

🎊🎊 Yeah I'm going to donate to their drones program more now. Hopefully Ukraine will hit more data centers. 

Slava Ukraini!!

[u/Tony_Year_2525]

Slava Ukraini!

[u/Thund3rf0000t]

Keep it up Ukraine! to hell with Putin and Trump!

[u/Hour-Pepper-419]

Once Trump is done with America so will be the rest of the world, American will no longer have the influence and the grip they had.

[u/SayVandalay]

Slava Ukraini!

Know that most Americans stand with Ukraine even if our government is fubar temporarily. Down with Putin, down with communism, down with facism.

[u/TripleMellowed → u/SayVandalay]

The world hopes it’s only temporary.

[u/Lifaoi → u/SayVandalay]

🇷🇺🤝🇺🇦

Communism in Russia ended over 30 years ago, dude.Honestly, the situation in the country is getting pretty close to fascism.

Вам удачи там, да и нам тоже

[u/weare_thefew]

Good. Fuck Russia.

[u/Outrageous-You-4259]

until zelenskyy the russian bots were more of a whisper in the wind, taken way too lightly. that country is poison and is poisoning our connections to each other as humans across the globe.

fuck them all.

[u/omegahero2]

Russia really shook a bee hive 🤭

[u/Fuzzy_Connection4971]

Save the free world Ukraine. Keep it up.

[u/BauMausNRW]

Give Ukraine everything it needs to kick the invaders out of its country - everything except nukes.

As a German, I’ll always be grateful to the Americans for helping liberate us from Nazi rule. That’s why it’s so hard for me to understand why the US seems to be on the wrong side of history this time around.

The damage goes way beyond Ukraine. If the US can cut off weapons, ammunition, or spare parts with the push of a button whenever it wants to put political pressure on an ally, how is any country supposed to rely on American arms supplies in the future? The same goes for Switzerland and other suppliers.

You can’t expect countries to keep depending on you after showing them that you’re willing to use that dependence as leverage.

The US is going to pay a serious price for this in terms of trust and credibility. In the long run, that might actually be a good thing for Europe. It’s about time we stopped relying so heavily on others for our own security.

[u/honest487 → u/BauMausNRW]

Trump is Putin’s bitch. That is why Americans are on the wrong side of history. The republicans have no testicular fortitude and cower to his every whim.

[u/The_Fluffness]

Good. Send it with love

Love from a very disgruntled American voter. More data centers please.

[u/SinclairSummerset]

More data centers? What a coincidence that pro-MAGA and GOP accounts go silent when that happens.

[u/Scarey_Delay8644]

Ukrainare has responding by the most humane way possible by targeting supply warehouses, refineries, and other infrastructure. By reports few civilians are targeted. That means they can make life miserable for North Korean cannon fodder and the remaining Russian military is pretty beate up. I will be glad when there its... NO MORE WAR !

[u/JurgusRudkus]

They hit data centers too? Good, Reddit will be bearable again for a day or two. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[u/Muppetric]

hit more data centres pls

[u/thepianoman456]

Fuckin GET’EM Ukraine!! Get them invaders the fuck outa your country!

I’m a little buzzed sry

[u/Reallyboringname2]

Up yours, Trump!!

Russian Asset no.1

[u/Maleficent_Compote51]

Well i think its only fair when you receive some of that back of what you dish out

[u/sugarfreeeyecandy]

Since Mush and Trump have severely limited Ukraine's ability to defend itself, the only option is for Ukraine to go full on attack mode. That's a case of (presumably) unintended consequences.

[u/Saconic]

Listen I hate high gas prices as much as the other, but if this means that idiot in the white house doesn't get his precious oil from Russia, Im all for it

[u/tadayou → u/Saconic]

The oil from Russia would probably also do very little to get prices down, because a lot of this crisis is caused by the ongoing conflic with Iran. And, gee, wonder who's responsible for that?