Russia Invades Ukraine. Again by captaincrunch

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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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UPDATED: Friday, October 4, 2024 09:54
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024 10:07 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Wow, SECOND.
YOU accusing someone of belligerence?
That's so funny!

*****

Meanwhile...

Resistance in the fortified city of Ugledar has disappeared.

On to the next city ...

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Americans support America

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 5:18 AM

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

Russia Scraps Population Census As War Casualties Mount

By Amir Daftari | Oct 02, 2024 at 4:37 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-suspends-population-census-till-2029-1
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law suspending part of the All-Russian Population Census.

According to some sources, this measure is intended to hide Russian society from the demographic impact that the casualties in Ukraine are having on the population.

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

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 5:21 AM

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Fearing public discontent, the Kremlin tells Russian state media not to report on its defense spending hike

9:25 am, October 2, 2024

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/10/02/it-could-become-a-trigger-fear
ing-public-discontent-the-kremlin-tells-russian-state-media-not-to-report-on-its-defense-spending-hike

In late September, the Russian government submitted a draft budget for 2025–2027 to the State Duma for approval. The plan calls for a record-setting 41 percent of federal spending to go to national security and defense, leaving little doubt that the war in Ukraine is the Kremlin’s top priority. With many citizens struggling economically amid ongoing inflation and labor shortages, however, the Putin administration fears that news of a military spending boost will hurt the authorities’ approval ratings — and has instructed the pro-Kremlin media to cover the budget accordingly, Meduza’s sources say.

The Putin administration is worried the government’s new budget will “create a negative perception among citizens” and could lead to a decline in the government’s approval ratings, two sources close to the president’s political team told Meduza.

Immediately after Bloomberg published an article on the planned defense spending increase on September 23, the Putin administration sent instructions to Russia’s state-backed and pro-Kremlin media telling them to ignore the report, the sources said. Two sources from these media outlets confirmed this to Meduza; one said that officials told reporters “not to touch this topic” because “the budget hasn’t been passed yet.”

One week later, on the eve of the budget’s submission, pro-Kremlin outlets received new instructions: this time, they were told to present the budget as a primarily “social” one and to avoid discussing war spending altogether. “The only exception is payments to military personnel and support for their families,” said one state media employee, explaining that these fall under “social spending.”

The Bell has also reported that the Russian government asked the pro-Kremlin media “not to promote” news related to tax increases or mandatory payments, or to cover these topics in a positive light.

Meduza’s sources also stressed that the budget is “not supposed to be a taboo topic” overall, but that media coverage of it should “emphasize the right things.” “It’s better if the overall narrative is positive and social,” one source said.

A source close to the Putin administration added:

Opinion polls indicate that rising prices are one of the biggest problems right now, and people generally suspect that it’s because of the special military operation. It’s also hard to overlook social problems like the shortage of doctors and teachers. These issues are already evident, but when everyone reads that “military spending has increased,” sees billions added to the budget, and notices “social” problems getting even worse, the conclusion will be obvious: “The authorities are not managing things well.” And this can lead to declining approval ratings.

According to another source close to the president’s team, the Kremlin wants media coverage of the budget to inspire “social optimism, not pessimism, in the context that everything is going towards the war.” The source continued: “The messaging around the special military operation’s goals is still unclear. So far, it’s been possible to portray military activity as happening somewhere far away and not affecting people directly. But the increase in military spending could become a trigger: What is the money being spent on and why?”

Meduza reviewed coverage of the budget from pro-Kremlin and Russian state media so far. Their reporting is consistent with the Kremlin’s “recommendations,” keeping largely silent about military spending and instead emphasizing that the plan will “allow for increased funding for obligations, programs, and projects” while maintaining that the “distribution of social spending is quite fair.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has described the budget as “carefully balanced and well-considered.”

Two sources close to the Putin administration said they expect the topic of war spending to “fade from the information landscape” in the near future. “It has another negative effect: if money for the special military operation is allocated in the 2025 budget, citizens might think, ‘Well, this means the war will definitely last at least another year.’ And society is very tired of war,” one source said.

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 5:25 AM

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Ukraine continues efforts to expand domestic production of significant military equipment and maintain its drone advantage over Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on October 1 that Ukrainian companies can currently produce four million drones annually and that Ukraine has already contracted the domestic production of 1.5 million drones (presumably in 2024).[1] Russian President Vladimir Putin recently claimed that Russia plans to increase drone production by tenfold to 1.4 million drones in 2024, which will be lower than the two million drones that Ukraine aims to produce in 2024.[2] Zelensky also stated that Ukraine can produce 15 "Bohdan" self-propelled artillery systems every month and recently conducted a successful flight test for an unspecified domestically produced ballistic missile.[3] Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated on October 2 that Ukraine will continue prioritizing domestic production of drones and long-range missiles, including ballistic missiles.[4] Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated on October 2 that Ukraine has allocated $7 billion for the purchase of weapons and military equipment in the Ukrainian draft 2025 state budget — a 65 percent increase from the 2024 state budget.[5] Shmyhal stated that Ukraine increased domestic weapons production by a factor of three in 2023 and by factor of two in the first eight months of 2024.[6] ISW continues to assess that Ukrainian efforts to expand domestic military production will allow Ukraine to reduce its dependence on Western military assistance in the long-term, but that Ukraine still requires considerable Western assistance for the next several years in order to defend against Russian aggression and liberate strategically vital areas that Russian forces currently occupy.[7]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-2-2024

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

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 6:23 AM

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Ukraine ATACMS Strikes Destroy Long-Range Russian Radar Station Worth $100M

By Ellie Cook | Oct 03, 2024 at 5:28 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-hit-russian-radar-station-ballistic-m
issile-1962374

Ukrainian forces have struck a valuable Russian radar station using U.S.-supplied long-range missiles, Kyiv said on Thursday, in a move that could disrupt Moscow's air defenses and open up Russian targets to further Ukrainian attacks using sophisticated Western weapons.

Ukraine destroyed a Russian Nebo-M long-range radar station in an unspecified location, Kyiv's military said in a statement posted to social media, without giving further details.

"Its destruction significantly reduces the ability of the Russian army to detect, track and intercept aerodynamic and ballistic targets," Ukraine's military said.

Newsweek couldn't independently verify the report, and has reached out to the Russian defense ministry for comment via email.

Reports from late May suggested Ukraine had used U.S.-donated Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ground-launched missiles to target a Nebo-M radar in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk.

The Nebo-M is "very complex" and able to operate in "stealth mode," Ukraine's military said on Thursday.

Russia has just ten Nebo-M radar stations remaining, Kyiv said, putting the cost of each system at more than $100 million.

Taking out the radar station will help Ukraine to effectively wield its British Storm Shadow and French SCALP air-launched cruise missiles, the Ukrainian military added.

This is a breaking story and will be updated shortly.

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Thursday, October 3, 2024 9:49 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Nobody cares.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Belligerence, apathy and ignorance packed into an entity named 6ixStringJack.

6ix makes comments on everything http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20928

For example there is a thread started in 2016: "islamic Shootings, bombs, swords, sudden jihad in Dhaka, Bangladesh...reports of islamics hanging Hindus from Bridges and Hanging people off Lamp post Street Lights just like the Taliban do"

6ix contributed to that thread by venting his spleen: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=60653&mid=12027
90#1202790

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

Another great post.

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

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Friday, October 4, 2024 8:11 AM

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

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-3-2024

Russian authorities continue to nationalize Russian enterprises for the benefit of the federal government. Russian state outlet RBK reported on October 3 that the Russian Government submitted amendments to the Russian State Duma that would legally oblige Russian state corporations to pay 50 percent of the market value of their nationalized assets to the Russian federal budget starting in 2025.[75] The Kremlin has intensified efforts to nationalize Russian enterprises, particularly defense enterprises, in recent months, and this amendment would augment the Russian federal government's direct financial benefit from these nationalization efforts.[76]

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

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Friday, October 4, 2024 8:35 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-3-2024

Russian authorities continue to nationalize Russian enterprises for the benefit of the federal government. Russian state outlet RBK reported on October 3 that the Russian Government submitted amendments to the Russian State Duma that would legally oblige Russian state corporations to pay 50 percent of the market value of their nationalized assets to the Russian federal budget starting in 2025.[75] The Kremlin has intensified efforts to nationalize Russian enterprises, particularly defense enterprises, in recent months, and this amendment would augment the Russian federal government's direct financial benefit from these nationalization efforts.[76]

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

What do you care? Democrats in America hate Capitalism. At least the college "educated" ones under 35 years old all do.

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

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Friday, October 4, 2024 9:15 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

What do you care? Democrats in America hate Capitalism. At least the college "educated" ones under 35 years old all do.

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

Two things: nationalizing the Russian defense industry means Putin wants for himself and his favorite people a bigger cut of the money being spent on weapons. The second thing is that slavery was pure Capitalism. Slavery was hated because it cheated the workers (the slaves) for the benefit of a more lush lifestyle for plantation owners. Capitalism continues cheating workers for the benefit of a more luscious lifestyle for the business owners. On top of that, the business owners have modern schemes that plantation owners could have never dreamed of for cheating their customers, too.

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

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Friday, October 4, 2024 9:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

What do you care? Democrats in America hate Capitalism. At least the college "educated" ones under 35 years old all do.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Two things: nationalizing the Russian defense industry means Putin wants for himself and his favorite people a bigger cut of the money being spent on weapons. The second thing is that slavery was pure Capitalism. Slavery was hated because it cheated the workers (the slaves) for the benefit of a more lush lifestyle for plantation owners. Capitalism continues cheating workers for the benefit of a more luscious lifestyle for the business owners. On top of that, the business owners have modern schemes that plantation owners could have never dreamed of for cheating their customers, too.

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

Well don't worry about it.

Your guys and gals are going to make sure Capitalism dies and we all own nothing and love it.

Don't take my word for it. Just go watch some of those WEF videos online. They have so much power and influence that they're untouchable now. 20 years ago anybody talking about those WEF meetings was called a conspiracy theorist. Now they talk about it and upload it to YouTube themselves. All while John Kerry tells everyone at the WEF that the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution is their biggest problem and they need to take care of that.

I mean... You do watch these things, right? They're not even hidden from you anymore. If you haven't, maybe you should stop downloading and watching shitty Hollywood movies that you know are going to be shitty and take some time and watch what these people have to say about us and how they talk about us.

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

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