• bluebarcode@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Putin announced two goals: demilitarization and denazification. If demilitarization is complete they will complete denazification by removing Russian Army from all the occupied territories of Ukraine. Another job well done, Putin!

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    In fact, this task is largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses the weapons systems that Western countries supply it with.

    What a strange definition for demilitarization lol.

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    1 year ago

    Kremlin: We have done a great job of removing all legacy equipment from the Ukrainian military

    Kiev: All that old shit is in the trash and now we’ve got all this new fancy technology to shove up Putin’s ass. Bring it bitches

    Kremlin: Er, ehm, that was the plan. But you cannot attack us, or it will be war. Hey NATO tell them they can’t attack us…please!

    Kiev: Slava!

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    1 year ago

    from that article :

    Source: Peskov in an interview with RT Arabic, according to TASS propaganda news agency
    Quote: “Indeed, Ukraine was heavily militarised at the time of the beginning of its [special military operation, as the Russian Federation calls the war against Ukraine – ed.]. And, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said yesterday, one of the tasks was to demilitarise Ukraine. In fact, this task is largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses the weapons systems that Western countries supply it with.”

    … so is that an excuse for the Kremlin to get the fuck out of Ukraine ?

    Edit : + link of source ( in Russian )

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      I mean, the only way for Putin to politically survive a retreat is to convince Russians that this catastrophic failure was actually a huge success, and their sons didn’t die for nothing.

      Seing them push a narrative that they have already achieved what they came there for is therefore kind of uplifting. If the Russians could leave Ukraine without losing face they would have done it months ago, and this seems to be the beginning of the effort to create such an opening.

      Of course nobody in the West is going to buy it (well, almost nobody, without pointing any fingers), but much like the rest of Russian propaganda we don’t really need to either. The only limit is which lies the Russian people are willing to believe, and for once I actually want them to believe this one - or at least I want the Kremlin to believe they believe it.

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    “In fact, this task is largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses the weapons systems that Western countries supply it with.”

    So they’ve used up the old soviet weapons and now using modern western weapons.

    As for supplying weapons. America is happy to. We are trying to give away tanks like they are kittens!

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      1 year ago

      America doesn’t ‘give away’ weapons, Ukraine will pay for them eventually, just like Israel, SK, Taiwan, and the rest always do.

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      1 year ago

      And can we stop giving tanks to that tank-lady that lives in the apartment down the hall? She barely takes care of the ones she has.

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        Meaning of “giving thanks” : giving words of gratitude
        … or did i woooosh ?

        • FanciestPants@lemmy.world
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          Lol, sorry. I was joking on the notion of giving tanks away like kittens, and how there might be a tank-lady similar to the stereotype of a cat-lady that has way too many cats.