Russia assembling troops & equipment in Brest, near the Polish border.

[Nevilledog]

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Jack Detsch
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NEW: Russia has assembled troops, armor, artillery, and more than 50 heavy equipment transporters a training area in Brest, near the Polish border.

Russia has also added more equipment at a nearby railyard in Belarus.

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2:22 PM · Feb 24, 2022

[chocolatpi]

1. Has Tsar Putin lost his marbles? He looks ready to foam at the mouth

during recent TV appearances, like a rabid dog.

[2naSalit]

4. I read today...

That he prerecorded his lengthy speech that aired just as the he started the war.

This was bound to happen and Biden was wise to send reinforcements to that country ans the others around tat border front.

[Nevilledog]

12. Metadata said it was recorded Monday.

[2naSalit]

16. That's what I read...

Didn't you post that?

[Nevilledog]

17. Yeah 🤪

[2naSalit]

22. Sometimes...

I can actually remember who posted what. Sometimes does come all that often, though.

[Hekate]

2. Be Best!

Sorry, couldn’t help it.

[2naSalit]

5. Umm...

But it's even worse for punsters, it's Brest, not Best.

[Hekate]

8. Maybe that's what FLOTITS was really trying to say in the first place

[2naSalit]

20. Guess we'll never know!

Since the thought of going into the sewer that could be called -45's head is so unpalatable, I couldn't think of asking you to go there to test your hypothesis.

[Nevilledog]

14. Doh....looked right at it and missed typing best instead of Brest

[2naSalit]

21. I've done that...

To other words!

[EndlessWire]

26. Let's be honest

It's "Breast," but nobody is willing to admit it.

[zuul]

11. It's Brest, not Best

which makes it even funnier.

[Hekate]

13. Well, title of OP threw me off

“ Russia assembling troops & equipment in Best, near the Polish border. “

[Nevilledog]

25. Wow....I make the first mistake I've ever made in my life, and get dragged for it....

In my defense, I was watching The Empire Strikes Back and trying to decipher a Japanese language video for a pair of slippers I wanna make at the same time.

[EndlessWire]

28. Oh, this is nothing...

I said I preferred to garden and cook, and I got criticized. Just saying...I think it's funny, and had a laugh. Worked for me.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. poland next?

[2naSalit]

7. Looks like it. Actually the whole region...

Since they are former soviet bloc countries. He wants it all and the rest of the world will have to prove to him that he can't have it.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. If one Russian soldier or any Russian equipment crosses the Polish border,

that will automatically trigger Article 5 of the NATO agreement as an attack on all NATO countries and then we'll be into it.

I highly doubt that Putin is going to attack a NATO country, NATO would crush Russia in a conventional war, it's the nukes under his command that is worrisome, but I think if it came to that, the real rulers of Russia, the Oligarchs, would have someone in Putin's inner circle pull a Valkyrie, hopefully with a better outcome than the actual event.

[EndlessWire]

27. But, here's the thing

By the time we commit (meaning, take it all in, figure it out, get together, complain to the UN and NATO) and then mobilize (meaning make a war plan, decide who is going to go where, move our troops and equipment, and actually get there) it will be OVER.

We should have moved thousands upon thousands of troops to both Poland and the Baltics, but instead we trickled in a few here and there. We sat and watched while we very well knew--as did all the EU--that Pewtin was setting up to invade Ukraine. We knew this. But, we did nothing but call emergency meetings in the UN Security Council, which Russia controls, write up nasty documents of condemnation, and beg the Russian Asshole to please not do this rotten thing. They don't even have the courage to kick Russia's Ambassador out of the United Nations.

NATO meets on Friday. We will see what they say (hopefully.) But, if they don't want an occupied Poland, they better move fast. And, I have little faith in Russian Oligarchs, or anyone's Oligarchs, to stop a war. They are probably preoccupied figuring out how to keep Russia from that Swift sanction.

Putin won't reverse anything. And, he certainly can't bring back all the dead people. It's over for them. Eff Putin and anyone who supports him.

[chocolatpi]

15. I would not be surprised.

Let's see if rootin tootin pootin gets some blow back in the form of accidental or purposeful removal from office.

I trust President Biden and his team to manage expectations and outcomes.

[iemanja]

6. He's testing the West

[BlueIdaho]

10. That would be a mistake

NATO will not lay down for Putin.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

18. +100. nt

[uponit7771]

19. Russians in Russia think Putin has gone nuts (link) IE the protest from Russians

https://archive.fo/RWnWt

[Igel]

23. Yes, it's an implicit threat.

But it's also just about the closest place to assemble a force to head south and make a run for Lviv.

You know, the part of Ukraine that Lenin never was able to get a hold of.

That's the problem with ambiguity. It's ambiguous. Aimed at Poland? At Lviv? Can't know unless you have actual knowledge.

[artemisia1]

24. Are the Russians posturing, or do they seriously want their behinds beat by NATO? /nt

[maxsolomon]

29. Brest isn't far from the Ukrainian border, either.

If you look for Muchavec, Belarus on Google Maps you can see the training area (including that trapezoidal pond) to the SW, but east of Route P94.

Looks like a tank-practice facility.