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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 8:33 AM

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I've been trying to understand what's going in with that cluster muntions strike that killed and wounded so many Russian civilians, bc as I understand it the missile went off course and wasn't targeted specifically at them.
What is difficult to understand? Russians go on vacation in a war zone and get killed because that is a foolish place to vacation? What next? Vacation on the sunny beaches of Gaza?

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Maybe Russia should bomb Kiev wholesale instead of limiting themselves to military targets and dual use infrastructure?

Cause I know how much you enjoy people dying.

BTW, has anyone told you that you're too stupid to be a psychpoath? But you're an excellent sociopath.

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Russian history is filled with misfortune. This happens for reasons that Russians refuse to acknowledge about themselves. Russia is a sad place and poor relative to the EU because Russians are foolish people. Specifically, booking a vacation in a war zone is foolishness.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 11:26 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Germany's history is filled with misfortune.
Poland's history is filled with misfortune.
Jewish history.... oy vey! Is it filled wih misfortune!
Palestinian history...
Central and South America ...

What's your point?

Oh, that's right. You never have one.
That's just your sociopathy rearing its ugly head again, 'cause you get off on people being killed.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 12:35 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Germany's history is filled with misfortune.
Poland's history is filled with misfortune.
Jewish history.... oy vey! Is it filled wih misfortune!
Palestinian history...
Central and South America ...

What's your point?

Oh, that's right. You never have one.
That's just your sociopathy rearing its ugly head again, 'cause you get off on people being killed.

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You fixated on the word "misfortune" which signals that you are silliness personified. Does being silly make you feel like booking your next holiday in Crimea? When misfortune strikes you while holidaying in Ukraine, be sure to blame anything other than foolishly vacationing in a war zone.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 2:05 PM

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Further proof that the war is Dumb vs Dumber:

Amid war setbacks and complaints, Ukraine changes another top general

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Serhii Korolchuk | June 26, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/26/ukraine-army-sodol-zel
ensky-syrsky/

KYIV — A prominent Ukrainian officer this week accused a top commander of incompetence, blaming him for “thousands” of casualties in a rare public criticism from within the military that reflects growing discontent among the troops as Russia has advanced on the battlefield.

Maj. Bohdan Krotevych, the chief of staff of the influential Azov Brigade, filed a request to Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation concerning “a [Ukrainian] general who in my opinion has killed more Ukrainian soldiers than any Russian general,” he wrote Monday in a post on Telegram.

Within hours, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he had replaced Lt. Gen. Yuriy Sodol as Ukraine’s Joint Forces’ commander. Sodol is also in charge of the ground forces for the critical section of the front stretching across the eastern Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and is expected to be removed from that post as well.

The incident is the latest in a series of military leadership shake-ups this year amid Ukraine’s struggles along the 600-mile front line. Sodol had been in the post for just four months after he was installed by Ukrainian military chief Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, whom Zelensky only appointed to the top position earlier this year.

Analysts said Sodol’s swift removal could weaken Syrsky — already widely disliked by rank-and-file soldiers for what they consider to be brutal and old-school tactics reminiscent of the Soviet Union’s army leadership. It also threatens to backfire on Zelensky, who took greater ownership over battlefield decisions when he sacked popular Gen. Valery Zaluzhny in February.

Since Russia invaded more than two years ago, public scrutiny of Ukraine’s military — consistently rated the country’s most trusted institution in polling — has been taboo. And disputes and grievances within the ranks are typically kept private; soldiers who criticize their command could face retribution. Discussion of combat losses are considered a state secret, something Ukraine’s political leadership has chosen to downplay so as to not weaken society’s morale.

Krotevych’s call for an investigation into Sodol is a surprising display of the fractures within the Ukrainian command. It echoed what other Ukrainian military personnel have been quietly grumbling about for months — what they considered unreasonable orders that led to casualties while they were undermanned and lacking weapons.

All of this is occurring against the backdrop of Russia retaking some 260 square miles in the past four months.

“It bothers me that they convict battalion and brigade commanders for the loss of an observation post, but they don’t convict a general for the loss of [regions] and dozens of cities and thousands of soldiers,” Krotevych said on Telegram.

In his nightly address Monday, Zelensky didn’t provide a reason for Sodol’s dismissal, only saying that he would be replaced by Brig. Gen. Andriy Hnatov. On Wednesday morning, Zelensky posted a video from the Donetsk region, after a visit to soldiers in the area with Syrsky and Hnatov.

“General Hnatov’s task is clear: to destroy the occupier and, importantly, to preserve the lives of our soldiers as much as possible,” Zelensky said.

According to his complaint, which was obtained by The Washington Post, Krotevych accused Sodol of a litany of missteps dating back to his role as commander of the doomed defense of the city of Mariupol in 2022. It was in this siege that the Azov Brigade, part of the National Guard, gained fame for holding out in the Azovstal plant long after the rest of the city had fallen.

“Although Gen. Sodol did not manage the city’s defense and did not spend a single hour in Mariupol, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine,” Krotevych wrote, adding that he didn’t supply the Azov Brigade with ammunition or build up the city’s defense structures ahead of the attack.

After one commander in the city asked Sodol for instructions, Krotevych witnessed Sodol respond, “We’re [screwed],” before hanging up, he said in the complaint.

More recently, during his command of the eastern front, Sodol ordered Azov to advance without the necessary artillery ammunition, and when arguments were given for why it was not possible, “formal investigations were initiated against [Azov’s] commander,” said the complaint.

“Gen. Sodol is inadequately commanding the troops, and his decisions have led to the deaths of thousands of servicemen from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Guard, and other defense units, resulting in a weak position on the front and the loss of a large amount of territory,” said Krotevych.

Other influential figures have also questioned Sodol’s command. Ukrainian activist Serhii Sternenko, whose YouTube channel has nearly 2 million subscribers, wrote on X that his appointment was “a personnel disaster.” Sternenko and others have claimed that Ukraine’s marines who were ordered to assault the left bank of the Kherson region suffered senseless casualties.

“It is hard to imagine a worse candidate who is [more] indifferent to the lives of soldiers,” he added.

Lawmaker Mariana Bezuhla, a member of the parliament’s defense committee, referred to Sodol as “a criminal” in a Facebook post and has also called on Syrsky to resign. Bezuhla was similarly critical of Syrsky’s predecessor, Zaluzhny.

The turnover in personnel at the top of Ukraine’s military ranks comes at a tumultuous time on the battlefield. Since February, Ukraine has lost the eastern town of Avdiivka and a swath of villages to the west of it. Russia has also advanced north of Avdiivka with an assault on the town of Chasiv Yar. And last month, Russia began a new assault in the northeastern Kharkiv region, taking new territory near the border.

A six-month delay in U.S. military assistance certainly contributed to the setbacks, but so has a slow mobilization of new troops even after Ukrainian commanders reported that units were badly in need of replenishment.

With each setback on the front line, Syrsky has been quick to make personnel changes and sack lower-level commanders; he even disbanded an entire brigade that had been posted in Chasiv Yar.

Less than a week after Russia began its offensive in the Kharkiv region last month, Syrsky replaced Yuriy Halushkin, who had been overseeing units in the area.

Lately, soldiers said, officers at the battalion and company levels who question orders to hold a position when they feel it would be wiser to move back a bit are being punished or removed. That has led to diminished morale along the battlefield, military personnel said, and a growing lack of faith in the senior leadership.

“I’ve seen how senior officers made inadequate decisions because the ‘generals’ above ordered them to do so, and not being on the ground, they only gave commands,” said the head of a drone unit who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

“It was difficult to prove that this was arrogance and folly, although the issue often involved moving a position by 40 to 100 meters, which would have increased the safety of my position,” he added.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 2:07 PM

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Further proof that the war is Dumb vs Dumber:

Russia Sends Waves of Troops to the Front in a Brutal Style of Fighting

By Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Marc Santora | June 27, 2024, 10:38 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/politics/russia-casualties-ukrai
ne-war.html

May was a particularly deadly month for the Russian army in Ukraine, with an average of more than 1,000 of its soldiers injured or killed each day, according to U.S., British and other Western intelligence agencies.

But despite its losses, Russia is recruiting 25,000 to 30,000 new soldiers a month — roughly as many as are exiting the battlefield, U.S. officials said. That has allowed its army to keep sending wave after wave of troops at Ukrainian defenses, hoping to overwhelm them and break through the trench lines.

It is a style of warfare that Russian soldiers have likened to being put into a meat grinder, with commanding officers seemingly oblivious to the fact that they are sending infantry soldiers to die.

At times, this approach has proved effective, bringing the Russian army victories in Avdiivka and Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. But Ukrainian and Western officials say the tactics were less successful this spring, as Russia tried to take land near the city of Kharkiv.

American officials said that Russia achieved a critical objective of President Vladimir V. Putin, creating a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for the Ukrainians to strike into the country.

But the drive did not threaten Kharkiv and was ultimately stopped by Ukrainian defenses, according to Western officials.

“President Putin and Moscow have really tried to make big gains, to break through the front lines this spring,” Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, said in an interview with The New York Times editorial board. “They tried and they failed. They made very small gains, and they are paying a very high price.”

Russian casualties have spiked at other times, especially during the assaults on Avdiivka and Bakhmut. But the assaults on those cities were spread out over several months. The push in May, both outside Kharkiv and along the eastern front, involved more intense periods of Russian wave attacks. British military intelligence analysts said Russia’s casualties in May, which they put at an average of 1,200 a day, were the highest of the war.

The fighting last month decimated the town of Vovchansk, about 40 miles from Kharkiv, where Ukrainian and Russian are engaged in a grueling battle for control.

Russian soldiers have said on Telegram, the social media and messaging platform, that their units are suffering high casualties. Some say their ranks are being cut down by drones, machine gun fire and artillery barrages.

Russia’s use of infantry in wave attacks reflects one of its advantages in the war: Its population is much larger than Ukraine’s, giving it a bigger pool of potential recruits.

But the casualties have forced Russia to ship new recruits to Ukraine relatively quickly, meaning that the soldiers sent to the front are poorly trained.

The lack of structured training, and the need to commit new recruits to combat operations, has limited Russia’s ability to generate more capable units. It also increases casualties.

But it is more complicated than that. The changing nature of modern warfare has also increased the body count in recent months.

Ubiquitous drones have made it easy for both sides to spot, and target, enemy forces. And mines and cluster munitions make movement across open ground a nearly suicidal endeavor.

Since Mr. Putin launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, at least 350,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III recently said. British estimates put the number of Russians killed or wounded at more than 500,000.

U.S. estimates of casualties in the war are based on satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and news media dispatches from reporters, as well as official reporting from Russia and Ukraine. But such estimates vary, even within the U.S. government.

Reliable estimates of Ukraine’s casualties are more difficult to come by. Ukrainian officials guard those numbers carefully. Several U.S. officials insist they do not have an accurate account. Mr. Zelensky has said that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the first two years of the war, but American officials say that number appears to understate Ukraine’s losses.

Russia conducted a partial mobilization in September 2022, which led to tens of thousands of young men fleeing the country. But Western intelligence analysts say Russia will not need to conduct another such mobilization or draft this year.

Russia appears to be able to sustain its current campaign by offering financial incentives to recruits, drawing on convicts and bringing in some Russian mercenaries from Africa.

But the major question for this year will be whether Russia’s current strategy can best the Ukrainian military, which is finding its defensive footing. Arms and ammunition from a new $60 billion U.S. aid package are finally reaching the front lines, and Ukrainian commanders are no longer having to ration rounds. Russia still outguns Ukraine, but not by as much.

Ukraine has shifted its posture, building fortifications and laying minefields to slow the Russian advance. War favors the defender, and Ukraine is focusing on holding its lines, American officials said.

“What I see is a slowing of the Russians’ advance and a stabilizing of that particular piece of the front,” Mr. Austin told reporters in Brussels this month. “A couple of weeks ago, there was concern that we would see a significant breakthrough on the part of the Russians. I don’t think we’ll see that going forward.”

And Russia’s new buffer zone at the border near Kharkiv may be a hollow achievement.

Ukraine has still been able to use longer-range American weapons to strike into Russia because of a policy shift by the Biden administration that allows the Ukrainian military to use U.S. missiles to strike military targets just over the border.

American officials said the change is beginning to have an impact, taking out Russian artillery and making it harder for Moscow to strike against Kharkiv.

The result, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said this month, was that the Kharkiv offensive had proved to be “yet another mistake for Russia.”

“The destruction of Russian terrorists’ positions and launchers by our forces, our warriors, near the border really matters,” he said. “It is working. Exactly as we expected.”

But for all of Ukraine’s success around Kharkiv, there are more challenges ahead. In the weeks to come, U.S. and Western officials expect the fighting to shift back to the east and the south, as Russia continues to appear willing to expend forces to make incremental gains.

Julian E. Barnes covers the U.S. intelligence agencies and international security matters for The Times. He has written about security issues for more than two decades.

Eric Schmitt is a national security correspondent for The Times, focusing on U.S. military affairs and counterterrorism issues overseas, topics he has reported on for more than three decades.

Marc Santora has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia. He was previously based in London as an international news editor focused on breaking news events and earlier the bureau chief for East and Central Europe, based in Warsaw. He has also reported extensively from Iraq and Africa.

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Thursday, June 27, 2024 5:01 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Germany's history is filled with misfortune.
Poland's history is filled with misfortune.
Jewish history.... oy vey! Is it filled wih misfortune!
Palestinian history...
Central and South America ...

What's your point?

Oh, that's right. You never have one.
That's just your sociopathy rearing its ugly head again, 'cause you get off on people being killed.

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You fixated on the word "misfortune" which signals that you are silliness personified. Does being silly make you feel like booking your next holiday in Crimea? When misfortune strikes you while holidaying in Ukraine, be sure to blame anything other than foolishly vacationing in a war zone.

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By that logic, Ukrainians shouldn't feel safe anywhere either, and have no reason to complain when civilians are killed
Let the mayhem begin!

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Friday, June 28, 2024 6:56 AM

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By that logic, Ukrainians shouldn't feel safe anywhere either, and have no reason to complain when civilians are killed
Let the mayhem begin!

Ukrainians are NOT safe anywhere. Do you recall that Russia is on a clear path to destroying all electric power plants? Russia doesn't have enough bombs to destroy all civilians unless it drops nukes. Instead, Russia is concentrating on the easiest thing to kill them all, their electricity.

Slow grinding Russian offensive operations in the Toretsk direction are in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's articulated theory of victory that posits that Russian forces will be able to continue gradual creeping advances indefinitely, prevent Ukraine from conducting successful operationally significant counteroffensive operations, and win a war of attrition against Ukrainian forces.[11] The current rate of Russian advance suggests that Russian forces may pursue individual operationally significant objectives over the course of many months if not years, and Russian forces may accept the prospect of conducting offensive operations for months to seize Toretsk and advance northwestward towards Kostyantynivka.[12] The Russian military command likely hopes that offensive pressure in the Toretsk direction will aid its efforts to prevent Ukraine from accumulating the personnel and resources Ukraine needs to contest the theater-wide initiative, and this objective may supersede any specific territorial operational objective that Russian forces have in the Toretsk area.[13] The West must proactively provide Ukrainian forces with the necessary equipment and weapons at the scale, timing, and regularity that Ukrainian forces require for operations that liberate significant swaths of occupied Ukraine and challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine should rapid total victory appear unreachable.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-27-2024

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Friday, June 28, 2024 11:37 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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By that logic, Ukrainians shouldn't feel safe anywhere either, and have no reason to complain when civilians are killed
Let the mayhem begin!
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Ukrainians are NOT safe anywhere.

And yet, up until a couple of months ago, when "recruiters" started grabbing men off the streets, the nightclubs in Kiev and Odessa were doing good business.

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Slow grinding Russian offensive operations in the Toretsk direction are in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's articulated theory of victory that posits that Russian forces will be able to continue gradual creeping advances indefinitely, prevent Ukraine from conducting successful operationally significant counteroffensive operations, and win a war of attrition against Ukrainian forces.[11] The current rate of Russian advance suggests that Russian forces may pursue individual operationally significant objectives over the course of many months if not years, and Russian forces may accept the prospect of conducting offensive operations for months to seize Toretsk and advance northwestward towards Kostyantynivka.[12] The Russian military command likely hopes that offensive pressure in the Toretsk direction will aid its efforts to prevent Ukraine from accumulating the personnel and resources Ukraine needs to contest the theater-wide initiative, and this objective may supersede any specific territorial operational objective that Russian forces have in the Toretsk area.[13] The West must proactively provide Ukrainian forces with the necessary equipment and weapons at the scale, timing, and regularity that Ukrainian forces require for operations that liberate significant swaths of occupied Ukraine and challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine should rapid total victory appear unreachable.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-27-2024

Yep, Vicki Nuland's think tank is once again publishing drivel.

It's funny. No matter what spin they put on their latest piece, it always ends the same:

Ukraine is winning! More money and weapons!
The war is in stalemate. More money and weapons!
After Kiev, Russia takes Europe! More money and weapons!
Ukraine is getting battered! More money and weapons!

I don't know why they keep publishing stories because I already know the ending.

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Yep, Vicki Nuland's think tank is once again publishing drivel.

It's funny. No matter what spin they put on their latest piece, it always ends the same:

Ukraine is winning! More money and weapons!
The war is in stalemate. More money and weapons!
After Kiev, Russia takes Europe! More money and weapons!
Ukraine is getting battered! More money and weapons!

I don't know why they keep publishing stories because I already know the ending.

The Russians are out of their minds:

Russia Moves to Investigate ‘Finnish Genocide of Soviet Peoples’ - The Moscow Times

June 27, 2024

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/27/russia-moves-to-investigate-
finnish-genocide-of-soviet-peoples-a85538

Russian prosecutors announced Thursday that they have asked a court to recognize crimes committed by Nazi Germany and its then-collaborator Finland in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk as a “genocide.”

The Prosecutor General’s Office said archival documents and witness testimonies indicated that over 8,000 civilians and 18,000 Soviet prisoners of war were killed in more than 100 concentration camps built during the 1941-44 occupation of the Soviet region of Karelia.

“More than 7,000 prisoners died in Petrozavodsk concentration camps during the Finnish occupation alone,” the law enforcement body said in a statement.

Russia estimates damages to Karelia’s economy — from “destroyed towns, villages and all industrial and agricultural enterprises” — at 20 trillion rubles ($231.9 billion).

It was not immediately clear how Moscow would seek compensation from Finland, but a similar World War II-era “genocide” case claims 6.4 trillion rubles in damages from Nazi Germany’s actions in the Moscow region. Both countries are members of the EU, whose relations with the Kremlin have plummeted since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin has regularly evoked World War II history in justifying the full-scale invasion, claiming it was needed to “denazify” Ukraine and stop “genocide” against the Russian-speaking population of partially occupied eastern Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western allies have dismissed those arguments.

The Russian authorities have launched a series of investigations into World War II atrocities committed by Nazi invaders across Soviet Russia. This comes amid what observers say is renewed interest — spearheaded by Putin — in the war and how Russia remembers the conflict.

Around 27 million Soviet citizens were estimated to have been killed in World War II, which Russia and some former Soviet republics refer to as the Great Patriotic War. Ukraine estimates it lost at least 8 million as part of the Soviet Union in that war.

The conflict between Soviet Russia and Finland during World War II, known as the Winter War (1939-1940) and the Continuation War (1941-1944), arose from Soviet territorial demands and the subsequent Finnish resistance, leading to significant battles and occupations, particularly in the region of Karelia.

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Friday, June 28, 2024 4:03 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Nobody gives one single fuck about Ukraine.

That was true 3 years ago when you worthless, virtue signalling fucks couldn't stop talking about it, and $200 Billion+ later it sure as hell true now.

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Friday, June 28, 2024 4:22 PM

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Nobody gives one single fuck about Ukraine.

That was true 3 years ago when you worthless, virtue signalling fucks couldn't stop talking about it, and $200 Billion+ later it sure as hell true now.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6ixStringJack, you keep reminding everybody that you are stupid. Can you stop telling them about how empty you are inside?

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Friday, June 28, 2024 5:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Nobody gives one single fuck about Ukraine.

That was true 3 years ago when you worthless, virtue signalling fucks couldn't stop talking about it, and $200 Billion+ later it sure as hell true now.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
6ixStringJack, you keep reminding everybody that you are stupid. Can you stop telling them about how empty you are inside?

Sure thing, buddy.

I'm the stupid guy who's always eventually proven right and gets to laugh at you in your face, over and over and over and over and over again.

You're the empty one man. A shell of a human being who was hollowed out by your TDS and you've had your brain pumped full of Legacy Media poison with all that room they made where your personality used to lie.

Your world is crashing down all around you, just like I said it would.

And at the end of the day the fact that Joe Biden* won* the 2020 election was ultimately the undoing of everything you thought you wanted.

Tick Tock

Oh... and Happy Pride Month, BTW... In case you didn't even realize it was almost over since nobody talks about it at all in 2024.

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Trump will be fine.
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 6:12 AM

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Sure thing, buddy.

I'm the stupid guy who's always eventually proven right and gets to laugh at you in your face, over and over and over and over and over again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

You recommended that Julian Assange move to Russia to avoid being assassinated by Biden.
I'd recommend that Trump move to Russia to avoid the same if he loses.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66090&mid=11956
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Russia’s Most Dangerous Jets Are Parked In The Open A Hundred Miles From Ukraine. But Kyiv Needs Washington’s Permission To Strike Them.

By David Axe | Jun 28, 2024, 05:58pm EDT

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/06/28/russias-most-dangerou
s-jets-are-parked-in-the-open-a-hundred-miles-from-ukraine-but-kyiv-needs-washingtons-permission-to-strike-them/

Voronezh Malshevo air base, in southern Russia 100 miles from the border with Ukraine, might be the most important—and most vulnerable—target in Russia.

But it’s seemingly off of Ukraine’s list of targets for now.

From the base, Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers belonging to the Russian air force’s 47th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment fly daily sorties lobbing powerful glide bombs at Ukrainian troops and civilians from 25 miles away or farther.

The carnage is staggering. “It takes only minutes for a [Sukhoi] jet to reach the launch area near the border and then return to the base,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight explained. “The large number of jets stationed at the airfield enables the simultaneous deployment of bombs, allowing multiple targets in Ukrainian territory to be engaged at once.”

The regiment’s dozens of Sukhoi Su-34s—possibly representing around half of Russia’s active fleet of the supersonic, twin-engine fighter-bombers—routinely park out out in the open on the tarmac of the recently renovated base.

They’re within range of Ukraine’s best deep strike weapon—its American-made Army Tactical Missile System rockets. “Ukraine could potentially incapacitate the entire operational fleet stationed there if permitted to conduct such a strike,” Frontelligence Insight noted.

But the administration of Pres. Joe Biden hasn’t yet given the Ukrainian government permission to aim the ATACMS at Voronezh Malshevo. And so, for now, the Su-34s at Voronezh Malshevo bomb with near impunity—lobbing a significant percentage of the roughly 100 glide bombs the Russians drop on Ukrainian positions and cities every day, killing soldiers and civilians alike.

To be clear, Ukrainian forces have other ways of stopping the glide bombers. So far, however, they’re not working on the planes from Voronezh Malshevo.

One option is to shoot down the bombers before they release their munitions. The problem is that the Ukrainian air force doesn’t have enough of its best U.S.-made Patriot air-defense batteries to protect major cities—to say nothing of extending that protection close enough to the border to intercept the 47th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment’s Sukhois.

Ukraine has just five Patriot batteries in place or on the way. One protects Kyiv. It seems others protect Odesa and Kharkiv. Two additional batteries that Germany and the United States have pledged—but not yet delivered—could safeguard Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih.

Unless and until Ukraine’s allies send a lot more Patriot batteries, don’t expect the Ukrainians to risk one along the northern border between Voronezh Malshevo and Kharkiv.

The last time the Ukrainian air force hit the road with a mobile Patriot battery, a Russian drone spotted it—and a Russian rocket blew up two of its truck-mounted launchers. “Attempting to ambush these jets [from Voronezh Malshevo] with a Patriot battery in a drone-saturated environment ... poses considerable risks,” Frontelligence Insight pointed out.

Likewise, it would be risky for the Ukrainian air force to deploy its future fleet of ex-European F-16 fighters against the glide bombers. “The glide-bomb sorties will be very challenging to intercept regularly,” analyst Justin Bronk wrote in a new study for the Royal United Services Institute in London.

The main problem is Russia’s ground-based air defenses, which make it extremely dangerous for Ukrainian warplanes to fly at high altitude practically anywhere in Ukraine—but especially within a hundred miles or so of the front line, well within reach of Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries.

“When close to the front lines, Ukrainian pilots will have to fly them at very low altitudes to avoid being detected and shot down,” Bronk wrote. “At such low altitudes, the [F-16s’] missiles start out in dense air with a lot of aerodynamic drag and must climb against gravity to reach the altitudes where their targets are.” That limits their range.

Ukraine could always aim long-range strike drones at Voronezh Malshevo. Recent drone strikes on two other Su-34 bases—Kuschevka and Morozovsk, both in Russia around a hundred miles from the eastern front line—have apparently damaged or destroyed several Sukhois.

For some reason, Voronezh Malshevo hasn’t come under heavy bombardment from drones. It’s possible the same dense Russian air defenses that imperil the F-16s also prevent drones from reaching the Sukhoi base.

Which brings us back to the ATACMS, still probably the best weapons for hitting Voronezh Malshevo and blunting Russia’s brutal glide-bombing campaign. But Ukraine probably won’t jeopardize future supplies of the rockets by using them against targets the United States doesn’t approve in advance.

So the Ukrainians wait for permission they hope is coming soon. “It is painful to watch those missiles flying over our heads toward Kharkiv and thinking if your home would be destroyed this time,” a Ukrainian drone commander told The Washington Post.

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Sources:

1. Frontelligence Insight: https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/impact-and-defense-mitigating-th
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2. Justin Bronk: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/dama
ged-su-57-emphasises-vulnerability-russian-airbases-near-ukraine

3. The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/01/us-ukraine
-weapons-kharkiv-biden/

David Axe is a journalist and filmmaker based in Columbia, South Carolina. He joined Forbes in 2020, and currently focuses on Ukraine.

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Saturday, June 29, 2024 6:47 AM

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Why would anyone want to leave Russia, the greatest country on Earth? There are reasons:

Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind

Fifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. “It was the start of a new life,” he says of the night in 1974 when he dodged K.G.B. agents in Toronto as he rushed to meet Canadian and American friends in a getaway car.

By Javier C. Hernández | June 28, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/arts/dance/mikhail-baryshnikov-sovi
et-union-defection.html

On the night of June 29, 1974, after a performance with a touring Bolshoi Ballet troupe in downtown Toronto, Mikhail Baryshnikov made his way out a stage door, past a throng of fans and began to run.

Baryshnikov, then 26 and already one of ballet’s brightest stars, had made the momentous decision to defect from the Soviet Union and build a career in the West. On that rainy night, he had to evade K.G.B. agents — and audience members seeking autographs — as he rushed to meet a group of Canadian and American friends waiting in a car a few blocks away.

“That car took me to the free world,” Baryshnikov, 76, recalled in a recent interview. “It was the start of a new life.”

His cloak-and-dagger escape helped to make him a cultural celebrity. “Soviet Dancer in Canada Defects on Bolshoi Tour,” The New York Times declared on its front page.

But the focus on his decision to leave the Soviet Union has sometimes made Baryshnikov uneasy. He said he does not like how the term “defector” sounds in English, conjuring an image of a traitor who has committed high treason.

“I’m not a defector — I’m a selector,” he said. “That was my choice. I selected this life.”

Baryshnikov was born in Soviet-occupied Riga, Latvia, and moved to Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, in 1964, when he was 16, to study with the renowned teacher Alexander Pushkin. When he was 19, he joined the Kirov Ballet, now known as the Mariinsky, and quickly became a star on the Russian ballet scene.

Q: You were born eight years after Latvia was forcibly annexed to the Soviet Union; your father was one of the Russian workers sent there to teach. How does your experience growing up there affect how you see this war?

A: I spent the first 16 years of my life in Soviet Latvia, and I know the other side of the coin. I was the son of an occupier. I knew that experience of living under the occupation. The Russians treated it like their territory and their land, and they said the Latvian language is garbage.

I don’t want Putin and his army to enter Riga. Finally Latvia has real independence, and they’re doing pretty good. My mother is buried there. I feel when I’m coming to Riga, I’m coming back to my home.

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I'm the stupid guy who's always eventually proven right and gets to laugh at you in your face, over and over and over and over and over again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You recommended that Julian Assange move to Russia to avoid being assassinated by Biden.
I'd recommend that Trump move to Russia to avoid the same if he loses.
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Trump won't lose.

Why would Joe Biden* assassinate Trump if he won again?

You are a really fucked up dude.

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Trump will be fine.
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Sure thing, buddy.

I'm the stupid guy who's always eventually proven right and gets to laugh at you in your face, over and over and over and over and over again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You recommended that Julian Assange move to Russia to avoid being assassinated by Biden.
I'd recommend that Trump move to Russia to avoid the same if he loses.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66090&mid=11956
25#1195625

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump won't lose.

Why would Joe Biden* assassinate Trump if he won again?

You are a really fucked up dude.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

It is like asking why the leadership of the Allies put enormous effort into killing the Axis leadership by hanging when the Axis had already lost WWII. (Hint: because citizens of the Axis nations would follow those old leaders at the first opportunity that comes up when the Allies leadership looks away. To make sure that did not happen, the old leaders were declared to be criminals and then were executed. That's gonna be Trump's fate: time in jail, or at least be forced to pay all his income taxes for the first time in his life. I think Trump should flee to Russia and avoid the necessity to pay what he owes to the IRS.)

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Sure thing, buddy.

I'm the stupid guy who's always eventually proven right and gets to laugh at you in your face, over and over and over and over and over again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You recommended that Julian Assange move to Russia to avoid being assassinated by Biden.
I'd recommend that Trump move to Russia to avoid the same if he loses.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66090&mid=11956
25#1195625

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Trump won't lose.

Why would Joe Biden* assassinate Trump if he won again?

You are a really fucked up dude.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
It is like

You are a really fucked up dude.

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You are a really fucked up dude.

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Wars answer the question about ownership. 6ix and Trumptards in general support Trump's claim they own America. (Specifically, 6ix writes Biden* with the * indicating Biden is not the real president while Trump lives.) Putin claims Russia owns Ukraine. (Specifically, Putin would write President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy*.) The Axis powers claimed they own the world. War is about violently knocking down these false claims of ownership. Beyond their Army's defeat, the leadership spreading these false claims have to be knocked down and trampled on or else the war will start again at the first opportunity.

* Putin says Ukraine's Zelenskiy lacks legitimacy after term expired
May 24, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-legitimacy-ukraines-ze
lenskiy-is-over-2024-05-24/

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A Russian milblogger claimed that new Russian personnel receive roughly 14 days of training on average before deploying to the frontline.[63] The milblogger noted that new Russian personnel receives four to five days of real training and that the 14 days encompass the time between signing a military contract and arriving at the front in Ukraine.[64] A former Storm-Z instructor agreed with the milblogger's assessment and bemoaned problems with general training.[65] The milblogger also noted that an average Ukrainian soldier appears to receive much more training than the average Russian soldier.[66] The Russian military is currently committing all Russian forces, regardless of their formal designations, to more or less similar operations along the front and continues to mainly leverage mass in infantry and occasional mechanized assaults to make creeping advances instead of relying on highly trained units.[67] This decision has likely lowered training requirements for most new Russian personnel set to fight in Ukraine, although 14 days is still insufficient for generating even limited combat effective personnel. While many new Russian personnel may receive inadequate training, Russian forces likely provide Russian personnel with further training following deployment to Ukraine and are likely attempting to offer better training for select elements.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-29-2024

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