I saw a video on the State News of Russia and they were very angry with the sinking of battleship.

[kentuck]

It looked much like the discussions that can be seen on FOX News. They were loud and threatening.

They wanted the supply lines of US and NATO weapons cut off by Russian forces. They wanted attacks upon Kyiv. They wanted revenge. Some even suggested the use of nuclear weapons.

They were angry and embarrassed that their best battleship was sank. They demanded that Ukraine pay a price.

They were ready for war.

(I do not remember where I saw the video and do not have a link) It may have been on YouTube?

[Nevilledog]

1. RT saying it was a "planned sinking"

Link to tweet

Is this the video?

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Bonus

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[sboatcar]

5. I feel like a big part of their strategy

its to just have such a firehose of information, most of it false, that people don't even know what's real at all.

[Nevilledog]

6. Just like the RWNJs in the US

People hear so many conflicting stories they just throw up their hands and give up finding the truth.

[Igel]

14. There's a famous pair of WWII Red Army posters.

The first has a young man pulling on his boots under a tree. He's young and obviously green, a private. At the bottom, it says, "We'll get to Berlin!"

The second has the first poster smaller, in the upper left-hand corner, sketched in. The private is older, has been promoted and has medals on his chest, and the poster says, "We got to Berlin!" "Doshli do Berlina!"

The new stamp should take the old stamp, upper left hand corner, with a Ukrainian soldier thumbs down, facing an empty ocean but for a bit of ship still sticking up, the rest underwater. "Poshel !"

[kentuck]

19. Thanks!

That was it!

[Iggo]

2. Bush Doctrine, motherfuckers. Choke on that shit.

:middlefinger: :middlefinger:

[Effete Snob]

3. Why would they be upset?

As is noted at the end of the video, it has not been confirmed as Ukraine action. Their media says it was a storm, or a fire, or some other nonsense. These people are spreading fake news, lol.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. They're also bombing their own cities and blaming it on the Ukrainians.

[yagotme]

4. "You sank my Battleship!!!"

Well, not really. Not really a battleship, I mean. "End of service life.". Yeah. Now it's a submarine. Permanently.

[doc03]

7. Why are they mad they said it was a fire, Ukraine

had nothing to do with it.

[mitch96]

8. "angry and embarrassed that their best battleship was sank".. so they indirectly admitted

it was sunk by UKR and not an "accident"... If so...So much for the obfuscation of the truth..
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[Caliman73]

9. They really need to get their "stories" straight.

It was an ammo mishap. No, it was a storm. No, it was planned because the ship reached the end of its operational life. BUT, be angry at the Ukrainians because...? Well, Ukraine says they hit the ship with 2 AS missiles but that isn't true, but still, be angry with them about the ship sinking even though, according to Russian News they had nothing to do with it.

I understand the fog of war, but if the story changes this much, and that is actually coming from state sanctioned sources, that tells you something is not right.

There are two and only two themes here.

1. Russia is incompetent. (Ammo mishap, storm, scuttling the ship)

2. Russia was hit, and is weak. (Ukrainians hit the ship)


Also, I may be wrong here, and I guess other navies do things differently, but typically, when the US navy decommissions a ship, they don't just sink it where it is. They take it to a shipyard, strip off anything they can re-use, then put it in "mothballs". (Anyone feel free to correct me on this). It just doesn't sound plausible that any of this was planned, except for by the Ukrainians.

[AntiFascist]

12. I guess it was the end of the operational life for the captain as well...

Captain of sunken Russian warship Moskva ‘killed in explosion’, says Ukraine

First Rank Captain Anton Kuprin, 44, died during an ‘explosion and fire on board’ the vessel

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/moskva-captain-killed-russia-warship-b2058983.html

[BrightKnight]

16. 44 sounds a bit young for the Captain of a ship like that.

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[kacekwl]

10. I thought "high seas"

were to blame.

[Iggo]

11. High seas are flammable. That's just science.

[EndlessWire]

18. LOL! n/t

[NotASurfer]

13. Russian propaganda ain't what it used to be

I think the USSR would have had an admiral state, with a straight face, that their ship had been enhanced with submarine capability

[BrightKnight]

15. LOL - Ukraine might be very angry about a few things too. NT

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Nuclear war because Trump's master.

Great times.