I'd wager that the vast majority of folk this side of Poland weren't/aren't aware that this conflict began in 2014, not the end of last week.
Like I said, it's fucking awful for those caught up in it, but anybody worrying about the situation ending in a nuclear holocaust needs to seriously stay away from social media for the next 6 to 8 weeks until something new pops up to keep us occupied.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2022, 22:25, Reply)
I think you are becoming dangerously detached and deranged. This isn't trolling, this is genuine concern.
I am not on social media. I'm on, like, 3 forums including b3ta, and I've not posted to either of the others in ages. I'm a strictly passive consumer of youtube. I talk to about 8 people using whatsapp. I'm strongly anti-social media. I recognise this situation as being fucking dangerous.
All it takes is one overzealous or incompetent tank commander, ship captain or fighter pilot to stray into NATO territory, and one overzealous or incompetent politician to overreact for WWIII to start by fucking default.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2022, 22:43, Reply)
Perhaps I am detached. That's a bad thing now? What's the point of worrying about an unlikely nuclear holocaust of which have absolutely zero influence on? Worrying about that kind of shit is what gives you cancer (or ulcers, at the very least).
Would it suck? Undoubtedly. But worrying about it until it eventually happens isn't healthy, and neither is worrying about it indefinitely. Just get on with your life, if something awful happens tomorrow, at least you haven't wasted today panicking about it.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2022, 22:53, Reply)
You're promoting political apathy. How has this happened to you?
You have power as part of the collective. You can influence things through engaging with the institutions and systems of society. You can learn real things from real media and education institutions.
You absolutely need to quit Alex Jones or C2C or Rense or Fox or Bannon or whatever slimy pus riddled rectovaginal fistula of the internet you're getting brainwashed by.
(, Tue 1 Mar 2022, 23:26, Reply)
Says the bloke blindly posting links to fake news/propaganda. U OK hun?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 12:56, Reply)
I'm fully prepared to laugh at you if you say the Ghost of Kiev.
Are you willing to tell us from what right wing nut news source you're getting your links to Agent OXO?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 13:52, Reply)
What would you describe it as?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 15:43, Reply)
The factual news element is that Ukranians are citing aircraft kills to 'The Ghost of Kiev.'
I don't think it was produced by Ukraine, but let me just double check that.
Apparently it was made by a young bloke called Joe from Portsmouth UK, whose favourite airport is Washington Dulles IAD.
www.youtube.com/c/Aviation18/about
Where did you learn about the wisdom of Agent OXO?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 17:39, Reply)
That armoured vehicle was confirmed as being Russian then, was it? I must have missed that. Could you do me a favour and provide me with the link that conclusively identified it, please? Perhaps you've become a bit distracted what with all the panicking, but my entire point about that armoured vehicle is that we shouldn't believe everything we read on Social Media. Rather apt that you'd bring it up in this particular thread, eh?
So you didn't post fake news? You posted "an interesting tale, a remarkable bit of gossip"? Come on now, birb. Behave. That's a reach, even for you.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 18:10, Reply)
Where did you find your link to Agent OXO?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 19:29, Reply)
You're going to hang on to the ghost story as being real, despite all the evidence to the contrary? Reading further into it the sources can't even seem to agree on what they supposedly shot down.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 16:23, Reply)
And I said I could believe a Ukranian kid spent his life in a flight sim, and that it is not impossible.
I think you're projecting.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 17:32, Reply)
DW reported on it too. You can read their actual news report in the same thread.
The video of the old man being run over by the armoured vehicle is a real story too.
Of course all the details are sketchy. The first casualty of war and all that.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 19:34, Reply)
It's safe to say that that any claims of it being Russian or Ukrainian are unverified. It could even be a French AV. Nobody has gone public with a positive identification (suspiciously). Mind you, there was that bloke who wound the windows down, peeked his head in and confirmed it was being driven by Russians in Ukrainian costumes. So who knows.
The 'Ghost of Kyiv' story, on the other hand, is patently bollocks. Soz.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2022, 22:32, Reply)
and get on to all the traders now selling Ghost of Kiev merch that the universe those concepts belong to no longer exists.
Now that's sorted, where DID you find the link to Agent OXO?
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