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Kyiv residents given guns as Russian forces approach
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Posted on 02/25/2022 9:12:51 AM PST by RandFan

The government says it is handing out 18,000 machine guns to "all those who want to defend our capital".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia
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To: Theoria

When the Soviet Union collapsed, there were literally millions of AKs warehoused all over the place.


21 posted on 02/25/2022 9:26:14 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RandFan
Wonder if they have a magazine limit? And they are only allowed to carry muskets because what would they need anything else. /sarc
22 posted on 02/25/2022 9:26:44 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: RandFan

This should have been done long ago.

Knowing they were walking into a country where the entire citizenry was armed with machine guns would have done much more than the threat of unnamed sanctions to deter Russia.

Better late than never.

Better never late.


23 posted on 02/25/2022 9:27:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: RandFan

Another story there says most of the population is trying to flee.


24 posted on 02/25/2022 9:27:43 AM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: rbmillerjr

No surprise there - the Russians have been crap for decades. Our mil-industrial complex has portrayed them as the boogyman since WW2 to drain our substance.

As far are the mass issuing of weapons - makes absolute sense, when would be a better time? (Other than perhaps, last week)


25 posted on 02/25/2022 9:28:46 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: RandFan

“Estonia said it would send additional Javelin anti-armor missiles to Ukraine to bolster the country’s defenses, according to its Defense Ministry, which didn’t elaborate. “

More javelin’s on the way. Poland/Ukraine border is open.


26 posted on 02/25/2022 9:28:46 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: RandFan

They voted for the 2nd amendment before they voted against it...


27 posted on 02/25/2022 9:29:06 AM PST by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: Fai Mao

Drop your guns and run away? This movie sounds familiar...


28 posted on 02/25/2022 9:30:48 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

It’s funny how often on this site people have to explain that something is ‘The Babylon Bee.’ Truth stranger than fiction....


29 posted on 02/25/2022 9:31:15 AM PST by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
That's a given. But, they have had years to prep for this. Part of that is nato integration. Now we are gonna supply them weapons, which the russians will capture and use again.
30 posted on 02/25/2022 9:32:11 AM PST by Theoria
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To: RandFan

“The government says it is handing out 18,000 machine guns to ‘all those who want to defend our capital.’”

If they are going to “defend their country,” they can’t do it this way. They are getting equipment from a few nations, but it’s too little, too late. They are outmanned, out ran, and outgunned. And it was the Russians that perfected retreat. There are two ways to play this game. Kill as many as you can before you become a casualty, or you can make the country worthless to Putin. Destroy all the natural gas and petroleum resources and burn anything useful to him and make it expensive to replace it. That was how they stopped Napoleon and raised hell with Hitler’s forces on the eastern front when both tried to follow the Russians as they regrouped. Putin is going to get control, so why kill people when the Russian troops decide not to enter but level the place with missiles anyway. They’ve already done a lot of that and it is a sound tactic.

wy69


31 posted on 02/25/2022 9:33:46 AM PST by whitney69
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To: RandFan
They just park a truck and hand out crates of rifles and ammunition.

Video link to them handing out rifles in Kyiv.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1497194377306902532

32 posted on 02/25/2022 9:34:57 AM PST by tlozo
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To: DannyTN

This should have been done long ago, Switzerland, or not at all.

At this point, this is just asking Russian troops to shoot civilians on sight.


33 posted on 02/25/2022 9:36:21 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: gloryblaze

Yes, three that I know of.

Unknown if they are Q folks.


34 posted on 02/25/2022 9:36:59 AM PST by Fury
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To: tlozo

“Ukraine’s Zelensky posts a new video of himself and his team outside the presidential administration in Kyiv’s government quarter after rumors in Russian media that he’d fled. “We are here. We are in Kyiv. We are defending Ukraine.””

Zelensky has balls! US advised him to “relocate” to Lviv. But he is in Kyiv.

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1497258980040589313?cxt=HHwWgoCqoYHHqscpAAAA


35 posted on 02/25/2022 9:50:03 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Whenever a Russian soldier is killed, an Angel gets its wings)
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To: RandFan

This has never been done before so the results are unknown.


36 posted on 02/25/2022 9:51:46 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: RandFan

Are they checking vaccine passports?


37 posted on 02/25/2022 9:53:08 AM PST by BRL
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To: PGR88

They don’t want to see the return of teir children in body bags either. The Russian army is still largely a conscript force.


38 posted on 02/25/2022 9:54:29 AM PST by your other brother
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To: RandFan

We couldn’t do that here..democrats would use them on patriots instead of the other enemy.


39 posted on 02/25/2022 9:58:48 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Theoria

Everybody has a plan until they get smashed in the mouth. - Mike Tyson


40 posted on 02/25/2022 10:00:22 AM PST by your other brother
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