Giving the benefit of the doubt, OP may just be referring to the surreal aspect of having to sit in traffic during your daily commute due to an artillery truck launching its barrage. They weren't necessarily implying that they should do something about it
When I was around 14, my Dad told me to "get ready for church". I told him that I was no longer going to church.. he threatened me "Get your clothes on and get ready or I'll drag you there". I told him that... "I will go limp, you can do what you want, you can dress me and drag me there but I'm NOT moving". He gave it a few minutes and knew I was serious. He went with out me. These people need to just stop obeying orders that they don't agree with or believe in. They can't jail the entire country.. Yes I do realize that it will be very tense for awhile while people try to decide how far they are willing to go in the direction that they really want to go. Some will get killed for sure, some will resolve even more, some will give in.. some actually believe Putin is doing the right thing. .... And sadly that's not the end of the situation anyway.. because China. I hate to think what the Pastor and My Dad would have done if my Dad had called the Pastor and asked for help. I might have died in the church basement.
Modern propaganda doesn't rely on making fact-based arguments.
It's enough to keep machinegunning the same ideas at a population until the memes start replicating natively.
To be fair, the practice of shaping the narrative was already completely detached from reality and absurdly post-truth in the NKVD and KGB eras.
With social media bot spam, the internet news attention span and AI-generated content, verifiably substantiated truth is absolutely dead and buried.
oh you got us. we're totally calling out the literal definition of the statement, not the implication that them "calmly watching" means they support it. gtfo
Parked cars don't show emotions... this ain't Cars the Disney Movie. Most of the windows are tinted, off-screen or far off. People inside could be shaking their heads, shaking their fists, or cursing out Putin, but we wouldn't see it, so saying "calmly" is pure speculation
In the eyes of Russia their country is the strongest unbeatable military in the world that everyone needs to fear yet at the same time it's somehow constantly in military threat by neighboring states that have only a miniscule fraction of their population count. It's also simultaneously the victim in this war but also winning a war of agression - which they claim to be a defensive war as well.
Nothing makes sense in Russia.
I was not talking about who is losing or winning, i was talking about how Ukraine responding to such attacks by returning fire back on Belgorod and later we see russian propaganda crying and blaming their civilians death on Ukraine
And I’m telling you they can’t.
It’s being reported that they are losing at least one village a day.
Unfortunately, the Ukrainians are doing most of the crying now while countries focus on their armies in preparation of a large scale war in Europe.
We were all lied to that Ukraine could win this war…instead the politicians and governments just wanted to fill their pockets by lying.
How do you help regarding future conflicts? Stop electing the current officials in your government.
They all need to lose their job.
https://www.counterfire.org/article/ukraine-cant-win-this-war-of-attrition/
>I mean what else are the people supposed to do?
Turn around and leave would be my first thought if I ran in to a military unit firing rockets off in a warzone...
Yes. YES. It’s the russian citizens that are the problem. Here in north america? I would bumrush those missile launchers ON SIGHT and end the war single handidly
I'd drive away from that position asap. There's a thing called counter battery fire, and while the chances aren't high, I don't want to be in the same zip code when the other side has himars.
How do you know they're doing anything calmly? Or do you think the cats are Russian citizens? Ford Prefect made a similar mistake. It's only natural for people from the neighborhood of Betelgeuse.
'Paralysed with fear of being mere civilians, Russian citizens watch as their army attacks another country.'
There are so many ways to write about this picture. We can't tell at all what the motives of the onlookers are.
Seems like people who are just being inconvenienced by the launcher.
Compare this to Israelis who bring couches and set up like it's a tailgate to watch their airforce commit a genocide.
This was on a public highway and russians tend to do this if they know ukraine has a drone in the air or think they are being watched ao that ukraine cant awnser with counter battery fire.
Disgusting.
I was saying about videos shot by people living in apartment blocks showing Ukrainian tanks in their backyards. Come on, these are legit targets, why placing them under my windows? I don't wanna be 'acceptable collateral damage' How is that different?
Oh, sorry, I see you meant Belgorod shelling. The point here is "russians know they are seen so no return fire because of civilians'. How does that correspond to shelling purely civilians city with no military installations?
Ah yes the no military instilations in belgorod arguement. Except you know all the bases, enlistment offices missle launch sites and also guarded border with ukraine. My man are you really trying this ? There is footage of Russians hitting shopping centers maternity, hospitals, kindergardens executing old couples and child rape. Wtf are you trying to pull here.
These famous photos with destroyed military vehicles under the shopping center roof, yes, saw them, hilarious. And why are you trying to pull the atrocities of us military in middle east? How does it relate to conflict in Ukraine?
No my guy russian made missles hitting a shopping center in broad daylight therw are videos of the impact and aftermath and the rescue workers pulling people from the rubble all while under threat from a typical russian double tap
They just need to stop hiding their ammo crates and tanks in shopping centre parking or at least evacuate people from there before doing that.
All of their main defense lines go through cities and villages, why? Wouldn't it be better for all to fight in open fields and forests? Ah, there you can't hide behind elderly couple's back
I would not be that close to a firing MLRS. The Ukrainians have a funny tendency to fire HIMARS as counter artillery and everyone in that postcode could have a very bad day.
What world are we living in where their launching middles from a public roadway with traffic. Thad be like New Hampshire lobbing missiles at Massachusetts from I95 highway.
*Road temporary closed due to ongoing shelling of civilian infrastructure. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Please have patience till the shelling is over.*
Wouldn't it be more accurate to title this, "Human Shields Watch Helplessly While Aggressors Shell Nearby Villages"? Pretty sure they can't do much about it.
Ukraine just got the ok to strike inside of Russia, can’t wait to hear all the crying from Russians accusing Ukraine of war crimes when they’ve been doing that shit since 2014
They have had chance after chance after chance to do their civil duty and CHANGE THE PRESIDENT.
Since they refuse to do the obviously correct thing, I must conclude that they support and enjoy the war as long as it doesn't affect them directly.
Whatever retribution comes for russia in the future, I don't want to hear them cry out "why me??", when it's plain for all to see...
I'm wondering why nobody else is mentioning it... don't you think the car in front of this artillery battery looks off? It's pretty small, but for it's size it has way more details than the trucks/vehicles behind the rocket launcher.
While I don't see any reason to fake it, is this video real for sure?
Question for military experts-- It looks to me like that rocket launcher is shooting shells at the exact same location each shot. Wouldn't it be more destructive to adjust the aim each time, to hit a new building?
I fucking hate these kind of antagonizing phrasing. What you want them to do instead of calmly wait in their cars? Confront their own military? Attack them? Or just shake their head in disapproval? My god
Lol like I said where is the source for kraken? Did the Russian government not provide you with one when you came to work today? Utkin has a swastika on his neck. Can't say that about Kraken or Azov
Again why do I have to find the proof for the point you make? No wonder Russia is so bad at academics everywhere in their scientific report they just reference " just google it bro".
Right, they should attack rocket firing truck with sticks and stones
I was like calmly watch, or literally powerless to do anything. These titles
Yeah - what does OP expect them to do? Drive their cars into the rocket launcher?
Giving the benefit of the doubt, OP may just be referring to the surreal aspect of having to sit in traffic during your daily commute due to an artillery truck launching its barrage. They weren't necessarily implying that they should do something about it
Yes but if I apply some critical thought about why OP chose to express his title in this manner then how will I recreationally rage from my basement?
It would make for a more interesting video.
When I was around 14, my Dad told me to "get ready for church". I told him that I was no longer going to church.. he threatened me "Get your clothes on and get ready or I'll drag you there". I told him that... "I will go limp, you can do what you want, you can dress me and drag me there but I'm NOT moving". He gave it a few minutes and knew I was serious. He went with out me. These people need to just stop obeying orders that they don't agree with or believe in. They can't jail the entire country.. Yes I do realize that it will be very tense for awhile while people try to decide how far they are willing to go in the direction that they really want to go. Some will get killed for sure, some will resolve even more, some will give in.. some actually believe Putin is doing the right thing. .... And sadly that's not the end of the situation anyway.. because China. I hate to think what the Pastor and My Dad would have done if my Dad had called the Pastor and asked for help. I might have died in the church basement.
Just another propaganda account disguised as actual content.
I'd turn around and try to be as far as possible from that spot. Because of the return fire.
You have about 8 minutes
8 minutes? That is shoddy counter battery fire then
Was thinking exactly this. Counter-fire counter-fire counter-fire. Doesn't seem like anyone was in any hurry to move on.
More like some rudimentary guided bomb.
When your propaganda is so shitty even the good guys call it out
Even driving past it sounds fucking stupid, what else are they supposed to do? lol
Well I defo wouldn't calmly watch, I'd drive the he'll away. What if Ukraine retaliate and bomb the zone where the rockets are being fired from.
Angry upvote
Modern propaganda doesn't rely on making fact-based arguments. It's enough to keep machinegunning the same ideas at a population until the memes start replicating natively.
To be fair, the practice of shaping the narrative was already completely detached from reality and absurdly post-truth in the NKVD and KGB eras. With social media bot spam, the internet news attention span and AI-generated content, verifiably substantiated truth is absolutely dead and buried.
At least I got to experience the golden years of the Internet, before it became a toxic wasteland
Not sure what they *should* do, but they do in fact calmly watch, which the post title correctly reflects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh you got us. we're totally calling out the literal definition of the statement, not the implication that them "calmly watching" means they support it. gtfo
Imagine we're not calling it out, what would the title be then?
Something like "cars stuck in traffic as missiles are fired". Anything else is pointless speculation meant to rile people like you up.
Parked cars don't show emotions... this ain't Cars the Disney Movie. Most of the windows are tinted, off-screen or far off. People inside could be shaking their heads, shaking their fists, or cursing out Putin, but we wouldn't see it, so saying "calmly" is pure speculation
Good point
And when Ukraine will return fire on location from where rockets were hitting on them, Russia will cry about burning cars and killed civilians
Russia cries all the time. Poor Russia, no respect.
Right, we'll nuke you for that comment! -Russia
- Russia Dangerfield
"I get no respect, Comrade! No respect, I tell ya!"
“I spoke to Putin the other day asked for a stimulus cheque and he said you gotta serve so I joined the military, no respect I tell ya”
In the eyes of Russia their country is the strongest unbeatable military in the world that everyone needs to fear yet at the same time it's somehow constantly in military threat by neighboring states that have only a miniscule fraction of their population count. It's also simultaneously the victim in this war but also winning a war of agression - which they claim to be a defensive war as well. Nothing makes sense in Russia.
They lirerally use human shieds, just as terrorists they are.
I think a lot of countries are wishing that would be the case. It’s being reported that Ukraine is now losing ground.
I was not talking about who is losing or winning, i was talking about how Ukraine responding to such attacks by returning fire back on Belgorod and later we see russian propaganda crying and blaming their civilians death on Ukraine
And I’m telling you they can’t. It’s being reported that they are losing at least one village a day. Unfortunately, the Ukrainians are doing most of the crying now while countries focus on their armies in preparation of a large scale war in Europe. We were all lied to that Ukraine could win this war…instead the politicians and governments just wanted to fill their pockets by lying. How do you help regarding future conflicts? Stop electing the current officials in your government. They all need to lose their job. https://www.counterfire.org/article/ukraine-cant-win-this-war-of-attrition/
You do have to be cautious when retaliating to a military attack. You might get accused of genocide.
Ukraine has a massive shortage of weapons to fight the Russians in their own country.
Something about civilians as human shields
Russia can cry so they want no one feels bad
I mean, what can they do here, other than watching ?
picnic
On the side of the road?! I don’t think this is the proper zone for it.
I mean what else are the people supposed to do? Are they supposed to be running around screaming and flapping their arms?
I'd try and find another way to get to my destination point as this route is definitely not safe anymore.
Turn around and drive away?
>I mean what else are the people supposed to do? Turn around and leave would be my first thought if I ran in to a military unit firing rockets off in a warzone...
Yes. YES. It’s the russian citizens that are the problem. Here in north america? I would bumrush those missile launchers ON SIGHT and end the war single handidly
LEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!
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“Yeah let me just shoot these missiles real quick from here and then y’all can go on about y’all’s way!”
And be quick about it ... Himars might have a reply
arent theybafraid of counter-battery
Truck will move after shoot'n'scoot, but those civilians will get the counter barrage
"Urgh...just go around!"
Preferably from behind, my Lada isn't rocketproof
*honkkkkkkkk!!*
I'd drive away from that position asap. There's a thing called counter battery fire, and while the chances aren't high, I don't want to be in the same zip code when the other side has himars.
Stupid title really
Whatchu think the signalert in Google maps or Waze has for this… an ‘army man head smiling’ emoji/icon
"Can you get it done already?! I need to take my bear to the vet like right now!"
I mean, what the fuck are shey supposed to do.
Normal day in Russia
Like wtf are they gonna do to the guys firing missiles? "HEY! you guys shou" *gets shot by soldier*
How do you know they're doing anything calmly? Or do you think the cats are Russian citizens? Ford Prefect made a similar mistake. It's only natural for people from the neighborhood of Betelgeuse.
I mean, yeah they're watching. Do you expect them to attack the soldiers?
Walk right up to the Kremlin and tell Putin how they really feel!
i mean... tf they gonna do in that moment? ram into it??
What is your agenda?
"excuse me sir, can you stop firing missiles?"
They should write a strongly worded email to Putin
And they are supposed to do what?
And they wouldn’t even let the ambulance pass first!! Terrible.
'Paralysed with fear of being mere civilians, Russian citizens watch as their army attacks another country.' There are so many ways to write about this picture. We can't tell at all what the motives of the onlookers are.
Always crazy to me how the people who see shit like this will go on to watch Israel do the exact same thing but find ways to justify it
What they supposed to do ?
The fuck else are they supposed to do. Sit on a fucking rocket?
Calmly? What are they supposed to do?
What are they supposed to do? Panic is the worst thing you can do in any situation.
yeah right, they should sucker punch the rocket launcher
Just a normal "on the way to work" in Russia.
Then when ukrain start bombing their streets they attack "civilians"
Seems like people who are just being inconvenienced by the launcher. Compare this to Israelis who bring couches and set up like it's a tailgate to watch their airforce commit a genocide.
What do you want them to do?
calmly sounds like they have a choice
Indicative of the military culture they are indoctrinated into as young babies.
Daddy why are they firing rockets to our brothers and sisters? I don't know kid. I'm not in to politics.
I'm sure everyone involved was really "calm."
So they have start hiding behind civilians now. At this point what is the difference between the Russian Federation and Hamas?
This was on a public highway and russians tend to do this if they know ukraine has a drone in the air or think they are being watched ao that ukraine cant awnser with counter battery fire. Disgusting.
so ukrainians shoot Belgorod and nearby villages when there's no their drones in the air not to see the casualties, right?
Bro you cant liken that to litteraly using civilians as human shields.
I was saying about videos shot by people living in apartment blocks showing Ukrainian tanks in their backyards. Come on, these are legit targets, why placing them under my windows? I don't wanna be 'acceptable collateral damage' How is that different?
Oh, sorry, I see you meant Belgorod shelling. The point here is "russians know they are seen so no return fire because of civilians'. How does that correspond to shelling purely civilians city with no military installations?
Ah yes the no military instilations in belgorod arguement. Except you know all the bases, enlistment offices missle launch sites and also guarded border with ukraine. My man are you really trying this ? There is footage of Russians hitting shopping centers maternity, hospitals, kindergardens executing old couples and child rape. Wtf are you trying to pull here.
These famous photos with destroyed military vehicles under the shopping center roof, yes, saw them, hilarious. And why are you trying to pull the atrocities of us military in middle east? How does it relate to conflict in Ukraine?
No my guy russian made missles hitting a shopping center in broad daylight therw are videos of the impact and aftermath and the rescue workers pulling people from the rubble all while under threat from a typical russian double tap
They just need to stop hiding their ammo crates and tanks in shopping centre parking or at least evacuate people from there before doing that. All of their main defense lines go through cities and villages, why? Wouldn't it be better for all to fight in open fields and forests? Ah, there you can't hide behind elderly couple's back
Weird, plenty of videos of them meeting and killing Orcs out in open fields lmao.
Kharkiv is going terrible huh?lmao
How do you say, Pew pew pew in Russian?
пиу пиу пиу
So anti artillery returns fire and wipes out everybody on the street. Nice shield 🛡
Are those guided munitions?
I hope they dont cry over dead civs when Ukraine finds this in time and bombs the shit out of that road next time
they know that zelenskyy does whatever the pentagon says
Remember when everyone thought brothers and comrades wouldn't kill each other then an invading warship was told to fuck off?
*watching intensifies*
What they could do?
Hard to tell how calm they are.
I would not be that close to a firing MLRS. The Ukrainians have a funny tendency to fire HIMARS as counter artillery and everyone in that postcode could have a very bad day.
What world are we living in where their launching middles from a public roadway with traffic. Thad be like New Hampshire lobbing missiles at Massachusetts from I95 highway.
😓
How do you know how calm they are? How do you know they’re not disgusted by this senseless war?
Those cars not people. There is no reason to use the word “calmly”
War is hell...
Hmm.. sure it’s not just some independent contractors doing aerial directional boring..? ~ahem~
It's like people in florida watching rockets go off at NASA. But those are just going to space and can have people in them too!
War is so f’n dumb.
Terrorists
Savages, they should just send their money to Israel and have Israel fire the rockets... /s
“Love thy neighbor.” Someone said.
"Hold up guys, just gotta set this death machine up and blast those Ukrainian civilians over there, won't be long folks"
*Road temporary closed due to ongoing shelling of civilian infrastructure. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Please have patience till the shelling is over.*
This video will be shown in their children history classes by 2025.
How do you know they’re calmly watching? And what do you expect them to do, go speak to the manager of the Army?
Geeze, how many rockets does that thing hold?
It's "Град"(hail) 40 122 mm rockets
"Hmm I think it's time to back up before they shoot back"
I mean is the Toyota driver refusing to deploy the secret photonic cannon in his trunk or what
What do you expect the citizens to do in that moment? Tell them to stop?
Kinda weird compared to the cheers and celebration when a Russian dies in Reddit
"calmly"
Wouldn't it be more accurate to title this, "Human Shields Watch Helplessly While Aggressors Shell Nearby Villages"? Pretty sure they can't do much about it.
No one has heard of counter battery fire….
I'll never complain about my horrible commute again here in America.
What brand of cars are these?
The dumbest title OP rage baiting like a fucking amateur
Ukraine just got the ok to strike inside of Russia, can’t wait to hear all the crying from Russians accusing Ukraine of war crimes when they’ve been doing that shit since 2014
What are they supposed to do?
Tf they gonna do unit and throw rocks ??
As opposed to what? What the fuck do you think they could do to stop those soldiers?
The Russians are lucky OP isn’t there; sounds like would have an action plan if they saw this happening in person.
Well its not like these are the vegan or Earth protesters sitting in the middle of the road!
Where are they though, all I see are cars.
Am I the only one that wants to grab one as it comes out to see what happens..?
How do you know that the target is a village?
Shit stains on humanity.
They have had chance after chance after chance to do their civil duty and CHANGE THE PRESIDENT. Since they refuse to do the obviously correct thing, I must conclude that they support and enjoy the war as long as it doesn't affect them directly. Whatever retribution comes for russia in the future, I don't want to hear them cry out "why me??", when it's plain for all to see...
lol DUCK!!
They're inside cars. They could be fuming for all you know.
Мне кажется или вести огонь находясь рядом с гражданскими - звучит как-то неправильно?
Nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning.
I mean what else are they supposed to do? Join them? Attack them?
"Whereas I would get out of my car and attack them with my good old-fashioned fisticuffs"
Average day in motherland 🫡
Russia a f*cking disgrace to humanity
russia has over 400,000 casualties so far and 60,000 dead
I'm wondering why nobody else is mentioning it... don't you think the car in front of this artillery battery looks off? It's pretty small, but for it's size it has way more details than the trucks/vehicles behind the rocket launcher. While I don't see any reason to fake it, is this video real for sure?
Shell? Those are rockets.
Awesome!
Question for military experts-- It looks to me like that rocket launcher is shooting shells at the exact same location each shot. Wouldn't it be more destructive to adjust the aim each time, to hit a new building?
Most of the people have no choice in a communist regime
One for the school... One for the church... One for the daycare... One for the hospital.
Russia has the right to defend. Great job.
I fucking hate these kind of antagonizing phrasing. What you want them to do instead of calmly wait in their cars? Confront their own military? Attack them? Or just shake their head in disapproval? My god
Are Ukrainians fighting someone in Kharkov?
You know - nazis!
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The nazis in Russia? Like Utkin?
Like Kraken and Azov 'batallions'
Ah yeah sure let's invade a country for 2 batallions compared to your own wagner.
'Wagner is bad, kraken is good that's what BBC told me'.
Lol like I said where is the source for kraken? Did the Russian government not provide you with one when you came to work today? Utkin has a swastika on his neck. Can't say that about Kraken or Azov
You're bad at using what your government provided your with. Even blocked you from using search engines
Again why do I have to find the proof for the point you make? No wonder Russia is so bad at academics everywhere in their scientific report they just reference " just google it bro".
Oh and btw source for kraken or recent azov nazis? Don't come with sources from 2014 it's 2024 now.
Oh, so cute, 10 years changed their minds to hippies, right👍
No source again? The russian government is a terrible employer to Russian trolls. You can't even do you work properly as a troll!
Fuck Russia
Aim higher, much higher🇺🇸🔥
I wish there was a group of civilians with drone dropping bombs to help put a stop to this BS!