Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Yale University historian Timothy Snyder about his latest article for The New Yorker, "The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War."
Snyder writes about the colonial history that laid the foundations for the Russian war in Ukraine, such as Russia's imperial vision and how leaders including Hitler and Stalin have aimed to conquer Ukrainian soil on different premises.
"The whole history of colonialism … involves denying that another people is real. It involves denying that another state is real," says Snyder.
"That is, of course, the premise of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
When Vladimir Putin denies the reality of the Ukrainian state, he is speaking the familiar language of empire.
For five hundred years, European conquerors called the societies that they encountered “tribes,” treating them as incapable of governing themselves.
As we see in the ruins of Ukrainian cities, and in the Russian practice of mass killing, rape, and deportation, the claim that a nation does not exist is the rhetorical preparation for destroying it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-war-in-ukraine-is-a-colonial-
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Gen. Jack Keane predicts how the Russia-Ukraine war will end
I think the Russians have to come to the realization that actually occupying a significant amount of territory in Ukraine is likely not going to happen. The Ukrainians, they have an opportunity here to push the Russians out. They're going to need a significant amount of support, in my calculation, just on artillery alone. Because the Russians - the one thing they do well is artillery. And the thing that kills artillery is artillery. We're going to have to send them a lot to be able to do that - a lot more than we've already sent any other nations. There is opportunity there. But at the end of the day, it'll be probably likely that there'll be some kind of stalemate, hopefully with the Ukrainians taking back most of their territory. The opportunity is there for them to do it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-jack-keane-predicts-russia-ukraine-w
ar-end
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Gen. Jack Keane predicts how the Russia-Ukraine war will end
I think the Russians have to come to the realization that actually occupying a significant amount of territory in Ukraine is likely not going to happen. The Ukrainians, they have an opportunity here to push the Russians out. They're going to need a significant amount of support, in my calculation, just on artillery alone. Because the Russians - the one thing they do well is artillery. And the thing that kills artillery is artillery. We're going to have to send them a lot to be able to do that - a lot more than we've already sent any other nations. There is opportunity there. But at the end of the day, it'll be probably likely that there'll be some kind of stalemate, hopefully with the Ukrainians taking back most of their territory. The opportunity is there for them to do it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-jack-keane-predicts-russia-ukraine-w
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Don't worry. We're voting the NeoCons out of office too.
4 months ago, dipshit second would have agreed with me that we dont' need to be spending all this money on war. Now he quotes Fox News.
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U.S. intelligence helps Ukraine kill Russian generals
The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.
Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.
The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-
ukraine.html
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I see SECOND is jonesing for war, again.
Hey, SECOND, why don't YOU go to Kiev and help them out? You could help direct their war effort/relay orders from USA neocons. Or better yet, go to the front lines and show 'em how it's done.
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Vladimir Putin’s propagandists explain the new meaning of Nazism: Anyone who is anti-Russian, and especially if they’re from Ukraine.
According to state TV, modern-day Nazis are not necessarily antisemitic at all, but anti-Russian, which apparently means Russians are the new Jews or something.
The propagandists on state TV, which has become a cauldron of foaming rage and historic victimhood during two months of war in Ukraine, are not letting up. On Thursday, on Vladimir Solovyov’s nightly show on Rossiya-1, a guest explained the new definition of Nazism.
“Nazism doesn’t necessarily mean antisemitism, as the Americans keep concocting. It can be anti-Slavic, anti-Russian,” said Solovyov, a sanctioned Kremlin propagandist who has had two villas seized on Italy's Lake Como.
“Of course,” replied political scientist Elena Ponomareva. “Today we are seeing substantive steps to revive a global Nazi project. And why is this a global Nazi project? Because Ukraine is the place where this revival starts, but not without the support of Great Britain, the United States, the European Union etc...”
Twisting the definition just a bit further, Ponomareva described a process of “antisemitism not just against Russians but against anything connected with Russia”—with Ukraine the spawning ground for a new army of “Orcs” including those members of the Azov Regiment fighting to the end at Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant.
The debate on the meaning of Nazism is more than just a sideshow for Kremlin ideologists. Since sending in his army in tanks and trucks into Ukraine bearing a Swastika-style “Z” insignia, Putin’s assertion of political control inside Russia itself has come straight out of the fascist textbook. Those who are not with us must be against us, is the refrain—and since we are fighting Nazis our enemies must also be considered Nazis.
Kamil Galeev, a Russian historian and fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center think tank whose Twitter threads have become a must-read during the conflict, said that for Putin’s propagandists the term Nazi “is first and foremost a racial or cultural traitor who could be Russian but refused to”—what is sometimes called a “vyrus’” or Russian-hating Russian.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-propagandists-explain-new-meaning
-of-nazism-and-its-got-nothing-to-do-with-jews
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American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
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Quote:I read your list and laughed. You react backwards to everything, Signym. I asked myself 'Are there others like Signym?' There are! Here:
Originally posted by SignyM:
American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
Why Do Russians Never Smile? Finally, an explanation for Bitchy Resting Face Nation.
By Olga Khazan https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/culture-and-smilin
g/483827/
Here’s something that has always puzzled me, growing up in the U.S. as a child of Russian parents. Whenever I or my friends were having our photos taken, we were told to say “cheese” and smile. But if my parents also happened to be in the photo, they were stone-faced. So were my Russian relatives, in their vacation photos.
So why is this? Why do some societies not encourage casual smiling? I got my answer, or at least part of one, when I stumbled across a new paper by Kuba Krys, a psychologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Krys focused on a cultural phenomenon called “uncertainty avoidance.” Cultures that are low on this scale tend to have social systems—courts, health-care systems, safety nets, and so forth—that are unstable. Therefore, people there view the future as unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Smiling is a sign of certainty and confidence, so when people in those countries smile, they might seem odd. Why would you smile when fate is an invisible wolf waiting to shred you? You might, in those “low-UA” countries, even be considered stupid for smiling.
Krys also hypothesized that smiling in corrupt countries would be, um, frowned upon. When everyone’s trying to pull one over on each other, you don’t know if someone’s smiling with good intentions, or because they’re trying to trick you.
To test this theory, Krys had thousands of people in 44 different countries judge a series of eight smiling and non-smiling faces on a scale of honesty and intelligence. He compared their answers to the country’s rankings of uncertainty avoidance from a 2004 study of 62 societies and ratings of corruption.
He found that in countries like Germany, smiling faces were rated as significantly more intelligent than non-smiling people. But in—you guessed it—Russia, the smiling faces were considered significantly less intelligent. Even after controlling for other factors, like the economy, there was a strong correlation between how unpredictable a society was and the likelihood they would consider smiling unintelligent.
Ranking countries in order of their uncertainty avoidance can be kind of fraught. Confusingly, there’s an entire other ranking system of uncertainty avoidance, designed by a different researcher named Geert Hofstede in the 1980s, and the two rankings have completely different results. You know what they say about trying to understand Russia with the mind alone, and apparently questionnaires aren’t a whole lot better.
Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
No ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
She stands alone, unique –
In Russia, one can only believe. – Fyodor Tyutchev
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Tyutchev
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I read your list and laughed. You react backwards to everything, Signym.
Quote:So, you're saying that
Originally posted by SignyM:
American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
Our M$M DOESN'T define their own news as "true" and everything else as "fake" conspiracy theory, but diligently considers all points of view and conducts it's own thorough investigations?
Putin ISN'T some sort of strongman "new Hitler" but is instead a wise President defending Russians security?
Genetically there are almost always two sexes (XX and XY) with only rare mixups (XXX, XXY, etc)?
Russians are NOT racist brutes but civilized well-informed citizens of the world?
People who disagree with the Biden* agenda are not neo-Confederate white supremacists or traitors, but patriots who love the USA and want to see it strong, free, and prosperous?
Wow, that's quite a change of heart, SECOND! I'm glad you've come to your senses!
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The Ukrainian artillery team was moving into position in the northern Donbas region, along the front line near Izium. The soldiers did not even have time to orient their guns before they were found by a Russian drone.
The first Russian 152 mm shells – fired by howitzers more than 10 miles away – landed near the Ukrainian guns. As the artillery team ran for safety, its vehicle was hit and set on fire.
The driver, badly wounded, veered straight into bushes as shells rained down. The survivors escaped on foot, across open fields.
Roman, a young artilleryman with a short patchy beard, recalled the events from a darkened military hospital room in Kramatorsk, his eyes glazed and an intravenous drip in his left arm, as he recovered from blast concussion. He gave only his first name, in keeping with Ukrainian military rules for wounded soldiers.
The biggest surprise for him? “That I am still alive here, after that shelling,” he says listlessly, closing his eyes and lying back on his bed.
...
Russia has escalated its shelling in an apparent bid to advance on the eastern region both from the Izium axis in the north and up from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. The pincers movement seeks to cut off some of Ukraine’s most battle-hardened forces ..
...
In Roman’s unit the driver is dead, the commander is in intensive care, another artilleryman has shrapnel wounds, and the rest are concussed, like Roman.
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“Their artillery never, never stops,” says the deputy commander of Ukraine’s Donbas Battalion, a major who only gave the nickname Kot (Cat). He spoke in Sloviansk with a balaclava covering his face, as an air raid siren wailed across the city.
“They are changing their strategy, but it is still what we would expect from Russia,” says Major Kot. There are no more long, vulnerable columns: “They are sending recon units, then shell with artillery, and then send tanks,” he says. “If those tanks are destroyed, they send more tanks.”
...
“We really have a lack of heavy artillery,” says Ukrainian Sgt. Viktor Davydov, still wired and speaking quickly of Ukraine’s needs, after returning to the town of Druzhkivka from the front, where he says Russian artillery strikes continue “24/7.”
“When Russia sends incoming 200 shells, we send back 10 shells,” says Sergeant Davydov, who wears sunglasses, a pistol on his thigh, and a skull shoulder patch in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag.
His job is to take freshly mobilized men to the front “to show them not to be afraid,” and to teach them “how to dig in and make very effective defensive positions” to compensate for the firepower imbalance with Russia.
“I tell them that all they have to do is hold our line, and not retreat,” says Sergeant Davydov. The cost can be high. The sergeant recalls 10 recruits in late April being sent to him one night at 11 p.m. By 6 a.m. two were dead and three wounded by Russian artillery.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2022/0504/Russian-war-s-Phase-2
-How-Ukraine-troops-adapt-giving-little-ground
Originally found in a larger article at https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraines-forces-are-told-to-hold
-the-line-where-russian-artillery-is-pulverizing-them.html
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KYIV, Ukraine, May 6 (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine's capital in February and March.
Civilians also suffered abuses such as "reckless shootings and torture" at the hands of Russian forces during their failed onslaught on Kyiv in the early stages of the invasion launched by the Kremlin on Feb. 24, the rights group said in a report.
"These are not isolated incidents. These are very much part of a pattern wherever Russian forces were in control of a town or a village," Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser, told a news conference in Kyiv.
Information collected by the group "can be used, hopefully, for holding the perpetrators to account, if not today, one day in the future", she said.
Russia, which calls its invasion a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists, denies its forces committed abuses.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/amnesty-says-evidence-shows-russi
an-troops-committed-war-crimes-near-kyiv-2022-05-06/
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Any "news" outfit that is going to look you straight in the face and tell you that men and women with mental issues are the opposite sex while their genitalia says otherwise and also tell you that you need to call people with other mental issues by their preferred non-male/female pronouns isn't going to be taken seriously on their opinions of war either.
Until the day that there is a little bit of sanity injected into the 2020's, everything they have to say about anything is sus.
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HRW made up gripping,detailed stories about Qaddafi's "crimes" which were entirely fictitious.
OPCW upper-ups rewrote a report to say that "Assad gassed his own people" and it wasn't until a technical whistleblower came forward that we heard THEY thought it was staged.
Ex MI6, the Justice Department and its minions in the FBI lied endlessly about Trump!Russia!collusion!
After all of these international community lies by government and NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
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What happened to Sergei Lavrov? Foreign ministers come in one of two types: those who matter and those who don’t. Most foreign ministers do a lot of flying and cocktailing but never remap borders, ignite wars or end them. And when such dramas do happen, the foreign ministers are mostly supporting actors in someone else’s show.
But when Russian leaders turn to antisemitism, it means things are going bad, and are set to get worse.
In Russia there is a time-honored formula for changing the subject: talk about the Jews.
That is what the tsars did when they failed to give their people the opportunities and dignity that the era’s competing empires offered in abundance. That was the context in which one of antisemitism’s most notorious tools, the pogrom, was engineered by tsarist officials, and that’s how its literary companion, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was concocted by tsarist spooks.
The tsarist number was then repeated by the Soviet Union, in 1967.
Pressed to explain its Middle Eastern clients’ defeat and their Soviet-made equipment’s trouncing, the Kremlin launched a massive antisemitic assault through its vast network of print and broadcast media, all of which now depicted Israel as a colonialist bloodsucker, imperialist stooge and fascist scourge.
Today’s Kremlin is, fortunately, distant from that legacy. However, Lavrov’s quip to Italian TV that “the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews” and that Hitler was partly Jewish is a throwback to the mindset that drove it.
Judging by recent days’ commotion, Lavrov might think he actually changed the subject. Well that’s also what the tsars thought in their days, and the Communists in theirs, only to soon see that reality remained stubbornly unchanged, and grim.
In fact, the more the regime abused the Jews the more it lost control of events. That is why we know that just like the pogroms didn’t prevent tsarism’s downfall, and just like defaming Israel didn’t prevent Communism’s collapse, Lavrov’s antisemitic broadsides will not offset his Ukrainian defeat.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-706001
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Quote:Is that your answer to Russian war crimes? Denial that crimes were committed? Call everybody a liar? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responds: “All of these crimes will be answered, legally and quite practically – on the battlefield.”
Originally posted by SignyM:
After all of these international community lies by government NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
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Nobody cares.
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After all of these international community lies by government NGO establishment, do you really think I give a rats ass what Amnesty International says?
SECOND: Is that your answer to alleged Russian war crimes?
Yep. Same as my answer to Saddam's ALLEGED "WMD", and Assad's ALLEGED "war crimes", and Qaddafi's ALLEGED "crimes against humanity" and Trump's ALLEGED "collusion" (whichever word or phrase you care to use.)
Maybe if you weren't such a sociopathic liar you'd have more respect for truth.
And maybe if you lived by truth (instead of the lies you tell yourself) you wouldn't be so fucked up in the head.
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From that thumbnail I think the most interesting thing going on in Ukraine is that puppet President* Z finally found a suit.
Guess he still can't find a shirt and tie to go along with it though, huh?
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Early, more sober prediction of Russian over confidence and potential failure in Ukraine... by a Russian Colonel
Predictions of bloodthirsty political scientists
About enthusiastic hawks and hasty cuckoos
About the author: Mikhail Mikhailovich Khodarenok - ex-head of the group of the 1st direction of the 1st directorate of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel
https://nvo-ng-ru.translate.goog/realty/2022-02-03/3_1175_donbass.html
Some representatives of the Russian political class today argue that Russia is able to inflict a crushing defeat on Ukraine in a few hours (and shorter periods are also mentioned) if a military conflict breaks out. Let's see how such statements correspond to reality.
In the expert community of Russia, the opinion has recently taken root quite strongly that it will not even be necessary to send troops to the territory of Ukraine, since the Armed Forces of this country are in a deplorable state.
Some political analysts emphasize that a powerful Russian fire strike will destroy almost all surveillance and communication systems, artillery and tank formations. Moreover, a number of experts conclude that even one crushing blow from Russia will be enough to end such a war.
As a cherry on the cake, some analysts emphasize the fact that no one in Ukraine will defend the “Kyiv regime”.
NO EASY WALK
Let's start with the last one. To assert that no one in Ukraine will defend the regime means, in practice, complete ignorance of the military-political situation and the mood of the broad masses of the people in the neighboring state. Moreover, the degree of hatred (which, as you know, is the most effective fuel for armed struggle) in the neighboring republic in relation to Moscow is frankly underestimated. No one will meet the Russian army with bread, salt and flowers in Ukraine.
It seems that the events in the south-east of Ukraine in 2014 did not teach anyone anything. Then, after all, they also expected that the entire left-bank Ukraine, in a single impulse and in a matter of seconds, would turn into Novorossia. We have already drawn maps, estimated the personnel of future administrations of cities and regions, and developed state flags.
But even the Russian-speaking population of this part of Ukraine (including such cities as Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Mariupol) did not support such plans in their vast majority. The project "Novorossiya" was somehow imperceptibly blown away and quietly died.
In a word, the liberation campaign in 2022, following the model and likeness of 1939, will not work out in any way. In this case, the words of the classic of Soviet literature Arkady Gaidar are more true than ever: “It is clear that we will now have not an easy battle, but a hard battle.”
"BY A SMALL BLOOD, A POWERFUL BLOW"
Now about the "powerful fire strike by Russia", which allegedly will destroy "practically all surveillance and communication systems, artillery and tank formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
This expression alone shows that only political workers could say such a thing. For reference: in the course of hypothetical military operations on the scale of a theater of operations, strikes are carried out on priority targets and massive fire strikes. Note that in the course of operational-strategic planning, the epithets “powerful” (as well as “medium”, “weak”, etc.) are not used.
Military science emphasizes that strikes can be strategic (this mostly applies to strategic nuclear forces), operational and tactical. According to the number of forces involved and objects hit, strikes can be massive, group and single. It is still better not to introduce or use other concepts, even in works of a political science nature.
Attacks on priority targets and massive fire strikes can be carried out within the front (fronts on the western borders of Russia have not yet been formed) or the main command of the armed forces in the theater of operations (so far, one h
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"You are fighting for the motherland," Putin told his troops on May 9th.
Putin accused Ukraine of seeking to attain nuclear weapons and planning a "punitive operation in the Donbas, for an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea." He also laid blame on the West for refusing to have "an honest dialogue" about Russia's demands for formal guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO and that the alliance will pull back its forces from countries in eastern Europe that joined after the Cold War.
"Thus, an absolutely unacceptable threat was systematically created for us and directly at our borders," Putin added. "The danger was growing everyday."
The Russian leader claimed that attacking Ukraine "was a forced, timely and only right decision -- the decision of a sovereign, strong, independent country."
"Russia has given a preemptive rebuff to aggression," he said.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-defends-ukraine-invasion-ma
rking-wwii-victory/story?id=84586995
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"You are fighting for the motherland," Putin told his troops on May 9th.
Putin accused Ukraine of seeking to attain nuclear weapons and planning a "punitive operation in the Donbas, for an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea." He also laid blame on the West for refusing to have "an honest dialogue" about Russia's demands for formal guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO and that the alliance will pull back its forces from countries in eastern Europe that joined after the Cold War.
"Thus, an absolutely unacceptable threat was systematically created for us and directly at our borders," Putin added. "The danger was growing everyday."
The Russian leader claimed that attacking Ukraine "was a forced, timely and only right decision -- the decision of a sovereign, strong, independent country."
"Russia has given a preemptive rebuff to aggression," he said.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-defends-ukraine-invasion-ma
rking-wwii-victory/story?id=84586995
The Irony is that for a country and culture that lies so often, they are terrible at it. Lazy people think lying is a refuge. They'd rather lie than do the work of being ethical or virtuous, or even to simply, "figure things out." You can see it in their military on so many levels.
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Quote:Lies certainly have gotten America into trouble. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster wrote the book Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
The Irony is that for a country and culture that lies so often, they are terrible at it. Lazy people think lying is a refuge. They'd rather lie than do the work of being ethical or virtuous, or even to simply, "figure things out." You can see it in their military on so many levels.
Download the free book from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.blue/search.php?req=H.R.+McMaster
From the Preface:
Despite scores of books on the subject, the why and how of direct U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War remains unclear. The war continues to capture the public interest in part because, looking back, its cost seems exorbitant—and would seem so even if the United States had “won.” The war took the lives of fifty-eight thousand Americans and well over one million Vietnamese. It left Vietnam in ruins and consumed billions of American dollars, nearly wrecking the American economy. Vietnam divided American society and inflicted on the United States one of the greatest political traumas since the Civil War. Indeed, the war’s legacies proved to be as profound as the war was traumatic. It led Americans to question the integrity of their government as never before. Thirty years later, after the end of the Cold War, the shadow of the American experience in Vietnam still hangs heavy over American foreign and military policy, and over American society.
Hopefully, there will someday be a Russian version of "The Lies That Led to the Ukraine War".
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"You are fighting for the motherland," Putin told his troops on May 9th.
Putin accused Ukraine of seeking to attain nuclear weapons and planning a "punitive operation in the Donbas, for an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea." He also laid blame on the West for refusing to have "an honest dialogue" about Russia's demands for formal guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO and that the alliance will pull back its forces from countries in eastern Europe that joined after the Cold War.
"Thus, an absolutely unacceptable threat was systematically created for us and directly at our borders," Putin added. "The danger was growing everyday."
The Russian leader claimed that attacking Ukraine "was a forced, timely and only right decision -- the decision of a sovereign, strong, independent country."
"Russia has given a preemptive rebuff to aggression," he said.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-defends-ukraine-invasion-ma
rking-wwii-victory/story?id=84586995
The Irony is that for a country and culture that lies so often, they are terrible at it. Lazy people think lying is a refuge. They'd rather lie than do the work of being ethical or virtuous, or even to simply, "figure things out." You can see it in their military on so many levels.
The German defeat was not exclusive to Russia as Putin portrays for propaganda purposes. Aside from the west, all the countries that were swallowed by Russia that then made up the Soviet Union, also contributed to Germanys’ loss.
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Be ready to learn twenty-two thousand Russia troops have been surrounded in Izyum. Hey comrades kiki and signym, Putin says send money.
Too funny, can you see me laughing comrades, cause I'm a laughing.
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Has Putin shown us his off ramp?
In his speech yesterday, Putin did not declare a mobilization, or even lay the groundwork for one. Instead, he seemed to be laying the groundwork for a cease fire that would involve only rhetorical concessions from Ukraine and NATO.
Putin’s bottom line: Ukraine stays out of NATO, and Crimea remains in Russian hands (or perhaps he would even accept genuine self-determination for Crimea). NATO reiterates that its only concerns are defensive.
Putin will not be able to claim victory in a war of territorial conquest, but he can claim a victory in a defensive war against unprovoked aggression.
If this is right, we should allow Putin to save face and go home. We should not threaten him with prosecution (prosecuting others involved in war crimes is fine). As long as he remains in charge of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, deposing him is beyond our capability, and in any event his successor in the event of a collapse of his regime may be even worse than he is.
In the longer run, perhaps this catastrophic war will persuade Russians that their inclination towards authoritarianism is unjustified and they should work to rejoin democratic Europe. It will soon become clear that the consequences of isolation will be catastrophic for Russia. We should make clear that we would welcome them back into the democratic fold. Things could certainly go badly wrong, but after resisting any optimism on the war for weeks I really do see a path forward that is far from endless war and war crimes and totalitarian domination for Ukraine.
More at https://angrybearblog.com/2022/05/has-putin-shown-us-his-off-ramp
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The US sees “anecdotal reports” of Russian troops and “mid-grade officers at various levels, even up to the battalion level” refusing to obey orders to move forward in the new Donbas offensive in Ukraine, according to a senior US defense official.
The official said these officers “have either refused to obey orders or are not obeying them with the same measure of alacrity that you would expect an officer to obey.”
Russian forces have struggled with widespread morale problems since the beginning of the invasion, according to this official.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-09-22/
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The US sees “anecdotal reports” of Russian troops and “mid-grade officers at various levels, even up to the battalion level” refusing to obey orders to move forward in the new Donbas offensive in Ukraine, according to a senior US defense official.
The official said these officers “have either refused to obey orders or are not obeying them with the same measure of alacrity that you would expect an officer to obey.”
Russian forces have struggled with widespread morale problems since the beginning of the invasion, according to this official.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-09-22/
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Ukraine War: 'The next few weeks will be critical'
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Stop Falling for Russia’s Delusions of Perpetual Victory
May 10, 2022, 12:46 PM
By Mart Kuldkepp, associate professor of Scandinavian history and politics at University College London.
Much of the West’s commentary on Russia’s war against Ukraine has fallen victim to critical blind spots or inherent biases—an approach often claimed as “realism” but which has little to do with academic international relations theories. As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion continues, it’s time to consider what a better approach to punditry on Russia’s war against Ukraine would look like.
To be sure, I am not a neutral observer—in fact, I couldn’t possibly be more pro-Ukraine. My view is shaped by being an Eastern European academic working at an elite Western university. But as a researcher who specializes in how people make sense of ongoing conflicts, I believe pointing out some of these biases and blind spots can help us make better sense of the war.
The biggest blind spot of all is the Ukrainians themselves. More than two months into the invasion, it is striking how little agency Ukrainians are habitually given in analyzing unfolding events. The realist (in reality, colonialist) understanding of Ukraine as a passive periphery, the fate of which must be inevitably decided by Russia and the West, has led to underestimations of the role of the Ukrainian armed forces, civil society, national and local governments, and, most of all, Ukraine’s strong will to resist.
Russian aggression is not impersonal, Western assistance is not automatic, and T-72 Russian battle tanks don’t pop off their turrets by accident. This is Ukraine’s new war of independence, a nation-shaping conflict that will define the country’s sense of identity for generations, and Ukrainians have the central role in it.
The best way to mitigate for this is to follow and read Ukrainian journalists, politicians, academics, and others commenting on the war as well as amplify their voices and contributions. Don’t assume that Ukrainians are untrustworthy because they must be biased or are producing and repeating their own forms of propaganda because they are one of the parties to the conflict.
In fact, Ukrainians often know what is going on best exactly because they are there on the ground in the thick of it. Ukrainian reporters, analysts, and commentators have constantly been more accurate and insightful than almost any Western ones, both in 2014 with Russia’s invasion of Crimea and now. The early casualty numbers that were widely treated as Ukrainian propaganda have in fact been largely borne out. So too have early reports of the sinking of the Russian flagship Moskva, denied by Russia, proved to be accurate.
Ukrainians aren’t passive victims of Putin’s aggression who are looking for Western pity and handouts. They are, in fact, looking for recognition that they share a common cause with the West and that the West needs to do its part, not simply free ride on Ukrainian efforts (and, effectively, their lives).
Then there’s the blind spots around Russia itself. Putin’s Russia believes itself to be a major economic and military power, feared and respected around the globe. It is also obsessed with its glorious history, especially with the Great Patriotic War, as it calls World War II, and is convinced that it can somehow never be defeated on the battlefield. These ideas get regularly repeated by Western commentators, especially on the far left. Some more egregious examples include Greek politician Yanis Varoufakis claiming that “Ukraine cannot win this war” and that the West has a “moral duty to give Putin a way out” as well as American political activist Noam Chomsky pointing out that former U.S. President Donald Trump was the “one Western statesman” with a “sensible” plan to limit NATO expansion and establish a security accommodation with Russia.
But this is all Russian propaganda, and you should approach it as such.
Actual data about Russia’s economy is available, and anyone can look it up. Anyone can read the history of World War II,
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Everyone needs to exercise their critical and moral faculties when thinking and talking about Russia’s war against Ukraine...
I agree. And until any one of you chucklefucks start doing so, you should all just shut the fuck up.
Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
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Originally posted by second:
Everyone needs to exercise their critical and moral faculties when thinking and talking about Russia’s war against Ukraine...
I agree. And until any one of you chucklefucks start doing so, you should all just shut the fuck up.
Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
All the Trump voters I know are saying 'nobody cares' about what the Trump voter doesn't care about. This is all subjects, not solely Russia/Ukraine. They all act like other people are eating the Trump voter's food, owing money to the Trump voter, and have to follow the Trump voter's rules or else the Trump voter will be angry at them, telling them 'nobody cares'. Trump voters keep telling everybody to shut-up because the Trump voter wants to be in charge. Then Trump voter makes threats about what they will do after the next election. The Trump voter's enemies will rue the day the topic 'nobody cares' about was mentioned.
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World War II Is All That Putin Has Left
In the official accounts, the Red Army soldier did not brutalize civilians, rape women, or loot property. Famously, a staged photograph of soldiers waving a Soviet flag on top of the Reichstag in May of 1945 had to be doctored, because one of them was wearing two wristwatches (they were stolen from Germans; Soviet soldiers typically did not own several wristwatches). Many years later, when another British historian, Antony Beevor, published archival evidence of looting — children as young as 12 traveled to Berlin for that purpose — and the mass rape of 2 million German women, the Russian ambassador to the U.K. accused him of “lies, slander, and blasphemy.”
But plenty of Russians already knew the truth. Stories of the horrors of the war, experienced by veterans as well as those who stayed at home, were passed down within families. Ambivalent memories persisted. Not long after the war ended, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, himself a former member of the Red Army battalions that had rampaged across the German region of East Prussia, composed a poem describing what he had witnessed:
The little daughter’s on the mattress,
Dead. How many have been on it
A platoon, a company perhaps?
A girl’s been turned into a woman,
A woman turned into a corpse.
This year’s World War commemoration had a rote, empty quality, as if the Russian state is no longer capable of offering its citizens anything more than cardboard nostalgia — but also as if it assumes those citizens need little else. President Vladimir Putin made a short, dishonest speech about his invasion of Ukraine, just barely alluding to the costs and casualties. Soldiers waved Soviet flags. Spectators saw less military equipment than last year (and no air show at all), but tanks, trucks, and intercontinental ballistic missiles still paraded across Red Square. Mini celebrations unfolded around the country, at least one featuring Russian children singing, “Uncle Vova, we are with you” — Uncle Vova being Putin — followed by one-armed salutes. Even as Russia carries out a brutal war of aggression, one in which Russian soldiers are once again committing terrible crimes against a civilian population, the whole occasion was permeated with a sense of grievance, as if Russia were the only real victim of both conflicts.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220511151159/https://www.theatlantic.com
/ideas/archive/2022/05/putin-speech-ukraine-invasion-soviet-union/629825/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If you count this comment, three times on this one page you told us 'nobody cares'. You keep telling everybody that you don't care.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Everyone needs to exercise their critical and moral faculties when thinking and talking about Russia’s war against Ukraine...
I agree. And until any one of you chucklefucks start doing so, you should all just shut the fuck up.
Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
I'll say it a million times more.
If we were riding high in the 90's economy, people would be able to afford the time and mental energy to care.
It's 2022, the economy is shit, and people don't have time or mental energy for the Neo-Con/Neo-Lib war machine and lies about countries half a world away.
You keep pretending like you give a shit about Russia and Ukraine all the way until November and wake up on the morning of November 9th and wonder how the hell Democrats got destroyed so thoroughly even though Republicans overturned Roe v Wade in the SCOTUS.
Nobody gives one single shit about Russia or Ukraine.
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Quote:I heard the same defeatism and silliness from my own grandmother. When Apollo landed on the moon, she did two things: said it was a waste of tax-payer money that should go to people like herself and, the cherry on top, said it was all a lie. She said nobody cares and nobody landed on the moon. The moon-landing was all fakery by a hidden conspiracy. Grandma was ahead of her time. She would fit in well with today's Trump voters.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If you count this comment, three times on this one page you told us 'nobody cares'. You keep telling everybody that you don't care.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Everyone needs to exercise their critical and moral faculties when thinking and talking about Russia’s war against Ukraine...
I agree. And until any one of you chucklefucks start doing so, you should all just shut the fuck up.
Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
I'll say it a million times more.
If we were riding high in the 90's economy, people would be able to afford the time and mental energy to care.
It's 2022, the economy is shit, and people don't have time or mental energy for the Neo-Con/Neo-Lib war machine and lies about countries half a world away.
You keep pretending like you give a shit about Russia and Ukraine all the way until November and wake up on the morning of November 9th and wonder how the hell Democrats got destroyed so thoroughly even though Republicans overturned Roe v Wade in the SCOTUS.
Nobody gives one single shit about Russia or Ukraine.
That is how I have always seen a large portion of Americans: they whine about the money government spends, claim it is wasted when not spent on them, claim that whatever happened didn't actually happen and what didn't happen actually did happen. Everything gets turned upside down and backwards by the kind of people who, once upon a time, voted for Nixon and, if they had lived, would have voted for Trump. I found it completely unsurprising that grandma didn't prosper or even live very long. Neither did grandpa. Those two couldn't see their low expectation future which was dreadfully obvious to teenage me. My sisters and I did not want to end up like our grandparents, which is why all three of us ran far away from our extended family. The ones that didn't run, didn't do well, but they do vote for Trump.
Looking back 50 years after they died, at all myriad details of their lives, theirs looks exactly like the life of the angry poor white trash who vote for Trump and defend him.
P.S. Grandma and grandpa had a two-story house, all paid for, a farm, a car, the whole she-bang. They believed they were doing great. I know they weren't because I and my sisters have gone back and looked.
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Poland is next, after Ukraine
18:18 13.05.2022
The State Duma proposed to put Poland in line for denazification
MOSCOW, May 13 - RIA Novosti. The Polish leadership's statements about Russia "as a cancerous tumor" and about indemnities to Ukraine encourage the Russian Federation to "put it in line for denazification," said Oleg Morozov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control.
"By its statements about Russia as a 'cancer tumor' and about the 'indemnity' that we must pay to Ukraine, Poland encourages us to put it in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine," Morozov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a Telegraph column that he considers the Russian world "a cancer that poses a deadly threat to the whole of Europe", in his opinion, it needs to be "eradicated". Also, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Russia would be forced to pay indemnity to Ukraine.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" in Donbass.
https://ria.ru/20220513/polsha-1788409643.html
OSINTdefender @sentdefender tweeted:
The Russian State Duma has proposed that after the Invasion of Ukraine, that Poland be invaded and denazified next due to their clear Support for “Nazi Elements” in Ukraine and around the World while also providing Aid to Ukraine that results in the death of Russian Troops.
1:07 PM · May 13, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1525176043539144704
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I heard the same defeatism and silliness from my own grandmother.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If you count this comment, three times on this one page you told us 'nobody cares'. You keep telling everybody that you don't care.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Everyone needs to exercise their critical and moral faculties when thinking and talking about Russia’s war against Ukraine...
I agree. And until any one of you chucklefucks start doing so, you should all just shut the fuck up.
Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
I'll say it a million times more.
If we were riding high in the 90's economy, people would be able to afford the time and mental energy to care.
It's 2022, the economy is shit, and people don't have time or mental energy for the Neo-Con/Neo-Lib war machine and lies about countries half a world away.
You keep pretending like you give a shit about Russia and Ukraine all the way until November and wake up on the morning of November 9th and wonder how the hell Democrats got destroyed so thoroughly even though Republicans overturned Roe v Wade in the SCOTUS.
Nobody gives one single shit about Russia or Ukraine.
It's not defeatism. It's realism.
Fail to see the difference between the meaning of those two words at the peril of your party.
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The international humanitarian group Human Rights Watch released stunning details of the carnage in Chernihiv and Kyiv that Russia left behind. It stated in a report released Tuesday morning that it is currently investigating 22 potential summary executions, nine other unlawful killings, six possible kidnappings, seven cases of torture and 21 reported incidents of other forms of “unlawful confinement in inhuman and degrading conditions” carried out by Russian forces against civilians in those regions.
“The numerous atrocities by Russian forces occupying parts of northeastern Ukraine early in the war are abhorrent, unlawful, and cruel,” Giorgi Gogia, associate Europe and Central Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “These abuses against civilians are evident war crimes that should be promptly and impartially investigated and appropriately prosecuted.”
More at https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-05-17/russian-c
arnage-destruction-revealed-in-newly-liberated-ukrainian-territory
Where is the original report? According to Jan Kooy @KooyJan
New research Human Rights Watch on executions and torture in Ukraine, during Russian occupation in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, going out on Wednesday May 18.
Reporters can DM me for embargoed copy, access to video, interview requests etc.
2:50 AM · May 17, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/KooyJan/status/1526470077075312640
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Oh yeah, the same HRW that made up Qaddafi's "crimes against humanity" out of nothing.
Fuck off, HRW.
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Ongoing Surrender "On Far Bigger Scale Than Kyiv Has Acknowledged" At Azovstal
1,700 and counting...
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ongoing-surrender-far-bigger-scale-
kyiv-has-acknowledged-azovstal
I'm sure that there are still higher-ups and foreign high-ranking "advisors" down there. I can hardly wait until they're interrogated.
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So, thinking out loud here...
Apparently there is much criticism inside Russia that Ukraine isn't being rolled up faster, and concern by pro-Russian outsiders that the "go slow" campaign is going to give the west time to re-equip Ukraine and train additional troops in Poland, Romania etc. They are concerned that the west will turn Ukraine into Russia's slow bleeding war, like Vietnam.
Anti-Russians say that Russia's slow pace means that the Russian campaign has "stalled" or even been reversed.
So, did some thinking and discussing, and not sure that any of this is meaningful.
If Russia were to race to Ukraine's western border in a blitzkrieg of destruction (using missiles, bombs, and eventually artillery to flatten everything to rubble and then swarm with the rest of their troops) would it slow the pace of re-arming, re-equipping, and retraining going on in border (and further) nations?
No. (Not unless Russia is willing to strike outside of Ukraine.)
And if the west chooses to launch a counteroffensive from (say) Poland, what advantage would Russia have by being right at the border, except that maybe they could defend with artillery instead of longer-range weapons? Russia would in essence be fighting two wars: they would have to subdue occupied territory and at the same time defend against invaders crossing over the Polish border
I think that Russia's go-slow strategy is the right path. They can afford to wait until the west crosses the border with a serious amount of arms and/or soldiers because, really, they have no choice: There's no way to pre-empt that.
At the same time they maintain western Ukraine as a buffer zone/ battlefield. What I imagine Russia is doing at the moment is building up a stockpile of missiles, bombs, and long-range artillery in anticipation of the western border being breached. They will respond when it happens, not earlier. In the meantime, they're busy destroying the bulk of Kiev's army that's within reach. Once that army is "liquidated", Russian and allied troops in SE Ukraine can and will change direction. Not sure if they will head up the Dnieper (probably) or swarm the coast to Tranistria (encircling Odessa and laying it to seige) or both.
I believe their goal is still to force a surrender from Kiev, so they will apply whatever pressure they think is the most effective towards that goal. In the meantime they will continue to degrade Kiev's ability to transfer men and materiel to the east by hitting railway, bridge, and roadway infrastructure.
It would be a judo move for Russia to turn Ukraine into America's second Vietnam.
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I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on in Ukraine. Military affairs bore me to shit. So I had to go back and timeline events.
It seems the initial plan was to occupy Kiev by taking the Antonov Airport (17 miles from Kiev) and ferrying in more troops (a la Kazakhstan) but the level of resistance was misjudged and many elite paratroopers were killed.
A few days AFTER that, a "40-mile" convoy developed from the airport (which is to the west of Kiev) to the outskirts of Kiev. Given the number of Russian/Belarusian (?) troops committed to the operation (40,000) it's impossible to imagine that this was a serious attempt to take a soread-out city of 3million people. Especially since they knew by then that Antonov Airport was not under their control. My guess is that, by then, Russia has turned an attempted decapitation into a feint, which accounts for the poor equipment and relatively poor training, and by then the Russians had moved on to a war of attrition.
Given that the Russian general staff wargames with math (according to Andrei Martyanov) I imagine a war of attrition in a simplified differential equation: filling a bathtub with an open drain.
Assume the rate of fill is constant. The rate of drain, however, depends on the height of water above the drain. If the drain rate (of an empty tub) is always faster than the full rate, the tub will never fill. If OTOH the fill rate is slightly higher than the drain rate, the tub will slowly fill. Until water pressure increases the drain rate. The question is, will equilibrium be reached before the tub overflows?
Now imagine an equation with DOZENS of variables. You need to identify the rate-limiting step(s) to simplify the equation, shore up your weakest operations etc. Also develop contingencies and estimate your enemy's variables and see if you can cause a critical rate-limiting step.
It seems that Russia isn't afraid of a long war.
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Quote:Did Human Rights Watch do what Signym says it did? No.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Oh yeah, the same HRW that made up Qaddafi's "crimes against humanity" out of nothing.
Fuck off, HRW.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - reportedly NOT William Blake, but Signym.
See Spark Notes for the actual words and meaning, rather than Signym's not-at-all-subtle rewrite of a long poem. https://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/section8/
https://www.hrw.org/sitesearch?search=Libya&sort_by=search_api_rel
evance
Did William Blake write what Signym's signature says he did? No.
Did Human Rights Watch release its report on Russian War Crimes? Yes.
Is Signym believable? No. No. And No.
Ukraine: Executions, Torture During Russian Occupation
Russian forces controlling much of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in northeastern Ukraine from late February through March 2022 subjected civilians to summary executions, torture, and other grave abuses that are apparent war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today.
More at https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/05/18/ukraine-executions-torture-during-
russian-occupation
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I read the HRW report. It alleged that Qaddafi had done things to protesters that didn't happen, incuding an especially gruesome description of how a 6year-old girl was watching the demonstrations from a 2nd floor porch, but a tank clipped a support post, knocking the girl down to the street where she was crushed by tank treads.
The report has since been scrubbed but is referenced by other documents:
Quote:
Multiple reports from reputable organizations such as Human Rights Watch claim to have witnessed security forces firing heavily into crowds of peaceful protesters in the capital city of Tripoli.
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1642/libya-2011-exploring-the
-implementation-of-the-responsibility-to-protect
Unfortunately, the link that they use only takes you to a Newsweek article which doesn't cite HRW. It was a nearly complete scrubbing.
Their less-sensational report is here
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/08/01/handing-qaddafi-get-out-jail-free-
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You interpret the poem however you like, SECOND. Blake crossed off the alternate "If there was nobody poor" to emphasize that impoverishing people is something we do on purpose. More here:
https://www.paper-darts.com/pity-would-be-no-more/
If you want to talk about liars, please note YOUR apology to me for repeatedly lying by calling me a Russian troll. Thanks for your apology; it's the one decent thing I remember you doing.
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Another thing that occurred to me while I was pondering Russia's tactics in Ukraine. Andrei Martyanov (ex Soviet naval officer now living in th USA) emphasizes
Amateurs think of strategy. Generals think of logistics
So while I was thinking about what it takes to move equipment and personnel here and there, that explains Russia's limiting its role in Syria to air support and training.
Air support is relatively expensive. OTOH, moving enough tanks and artillery to make a difference in Syria, let alone "boots on the ground" would have been phenomenonaly more difficult, and pontless, considering that Syria already has an army, and Hezbollah and Iran were also supplying troops. So I believe that Russia looked at the critical deficiency and filled the gap in the most efficient manner.
The one gap they left was air defense. They have anti-aircraft systems in place but limited its use to protecting Russian bases only. Maybe they should have created a "no fly" zone over Syria so that Israel couldn't strike at will.
Huh.
Maybe military matters aren't so boring after all, if you look at it right.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amateurs think of strategy. Generals think of logistics
I guess that explains the 40 mile log jam headed for Kyiv and then not headed for Kyiv early on.
"Logjamstics!"
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Quote:Yep. No idea what happened there. Nobody's perfect.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Amateurs think of strategy. Generals think of logistics
I guess that explains the 40 mile log jam headed for Kyiv and then not headed for Kyiv early on.
Still, the Russians are winning.
Why do I think this?
Because
Quote:
On May 13, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu for the first time since February 18. Secretary Austin urged an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3030753/readout-
of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-russian-minister/
IMHO the USA doesn't ask for a cease-fire when it thinks it's winning.
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Quote:MORE AT https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-sitrep-russians-break-th
Ukraine SitRep - Russians Break Through U.S. Bolsterism
On May 14 I noted that the U.S. had asked Russia for a ceasefire in Ukraine:
The U.S. readout of the call says:
On May 13, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu for the first time since February 18. Secretary Austin urged an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication.
Austin initiated the call and the U.S. is seeking a ceasefire in Ukraine!!!
Yesterday the top officers of the U.S. and Russia had a call which, again, the U.S. side had initiated:
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General Staff, held a conversation that the Pentagon declined to further detail beyond acknowledging it had happened.
Thinks must be bad in Ukraine for this to have happened. Indeed if one trusts the daily 'clobber list' the Russian Ministry of Defense puts out all positions of the Ukrainian army are under heavy artillery fire and it is losing about 500 men per day. There are additional Russian effective strikes on training camps, weapon storage sites and transport hubs all over the country.
On top of that the tactical situation at the eastern frontline has changed after Russian forces broke through the heavily fortified frontline.
Source: liveuamap.com - bigger
A few days ago the Russian army went forward along the H-32 road, broke through the line in the direction of Propasna and took the town. It has since extended the bulge by taking several villages to the north, west and south.
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This breakthrough gives the chance to roll up the Ukrainian fortifications along the frontline through flank attacks or from behind. By cutting the supply lines of the Ukrainian troops to the north and south envelopes can be created which will eventual lead to cauldrons with no way out for the Ukrainian troops.
This is especially dangerous for the several thousand soldiers north of the bulge which currently defend the cities of Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk in the north eastern part of the upper bubble.
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The Russian plan was to have another breakthrough from the north pushing to Siversk to then close the upper envelope. But after several failed attempts to cross the forest area and the Seversky Donets river that breakthrough has still to happen.
Russia is now likely to push fresh troops into the Propasna bulge to extend its reach into all directions. Reports of current actions show that the heavy fighting and bombing on the frontline continues and that bombing also continues to target traffic nodes.
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Other fronts in Ukraine are currently relatively quiet with little direct fire. Still daily Russian artillery attacks hits all Ukrainian front lines and will cost daily casualties.
Some 2,000 Azov militia and Ukrainian army troops have left the catacombs of Azovstal in Mariupol. Another thousand may still be down there. The Russian army is filtering these prisoners. Members of Azov and other militia will be put to court. Ukrainian army soldiers will become prisoners of war.
The gasoline and diesel scarcity in Ukraine is currently having severe impacts. Even the Ukrainian military is now rationing its fuel. Since about six weeks ago Russia has systematically attacked refineries and fuel storage sites in Ukraine. It also disabled railroad bridges along the lines that brought fuel from Moldova and Romania.
At the same time the Ukrainian government had held up price regulations for fuel. The consumer sale prices for diesel and gasoline were fixed. The cost of fuel brought in by private trucks from Poland exceeded the price gas station owners could ask for. In consequence gas stations ran dry as their owners refrained from purchasing new fuel.
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Ukraine rules out any ceasefire deal that would involve ceding territory to Russia | May 22, 2022
Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region on Sunday.
“The war must end with the complete restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” said Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, in a Twitter post.
The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, offered Warsaw’s backing, telling politicians in Kyiv that the international community had to demand Russia’s complete withdrawal and that sacrificing any of Ukraine’s territory would be a “huge blow” to the west.
“Worrying voices have appeared, saying that Ukraine should give in to Putin’s demands,” Duda said, in the first in-person address to the Ukrainian parliament by a foreign leader since Russia’s invasion on 24 February. “Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future,” he said.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s lead negotiator in the stalled peace talks, Mykhailo Podolyak, said: “Any concession to Russia is not a path to peace, but a war postponed for several years. Ukraine trades neither its sovereignty, nor territories and Ukrainians living on them.”
Podolyak made clear that Ukraine would not accept any deal with Russia that involved ceding territory, and that agreeing to a ceasefire now while making concessions to Russia would backfire on Ukraine because “Moscow would hit back harder after any break in fighting”.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/ukraine-russia-ceasefire
-deal-territory-donbas
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Be sure to watch the song at the end of the video comrade Signym, it's a hoot.
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Quote:The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses
Originally posted by second:
Ukraine rules out any ceasefire deal that would involve ceding territory to Russia | May 22, 2022
Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region on Sunday.
“The war must end with the complete restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” said Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, in a Twitter post.
The Polish president, Andrzej Duda, offered Warsaw’s backing, telling politicians in Kyiv that the international community had to demand Russia’s complete withdrawal and that sacrificing any of Ukraine’s territory would be a “huge blow” to the west.
“Worrying voices have appeared, saying that Ukraine should give in to Putin’s demands,” Duda said, in the first in-person address to the Ukrainian parliament by a foreign leader since Russia’s invasion on 24 February. “Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future,” he said.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s lead negotiator in the stalled peace talks, Mykhailo Podolyak, said: “Any concession to Russia is not a path to peace, but a war postponed for several years. Ukraine trades neither its sovereignty, nor territories and Ukrainians living on them.”
Podolyak made clear that Ukraine would not accept any deal with Russia that involved ceding territory, and that agreeing to a ceasefire now while making concessions to Russia would backfire on Ukraine because “Moscow would hit back harder after any break in fighting”.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/ukraine-russia-ceasefire
-deal-territory-donbas
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Offering the Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future aggression.
The expression off-ramp has a pleasing physicality, evoking a thing that can be constructed out of concrete and steel. But at the moment, anyone talking about an off-ramp in Ukraine — and many people are doing so, in governments, on radio stations, in a million private arguments — is using the term metaphorically, referring to a deal that could persuade Vladimir Putin to halt his invasion. Some believe that such an off-ramp could easily be built if only diplomats were willing to make the effort, or if only the White House weren’t so bellicose. It’s a nice idea. Unfortunately, the assumptions that underlie that belief are wrong.
1) The first assumption is that Russia’s president wants to end the war, that he needs an off-ramp, and that he is actually searching for a way to save face and to avoid, in French President Emmanuel Macron’s words, further “humiliation.” It is true that Putin’s army has performed badly, that Russian troops unexpectedly retreated from northern Ukraine, and that they have, at least temporarily, given up the idea of destroying the Ukrainian state. They suffered far greater casualties than anyone expected, lost impressive quantities of equipment, and demonstrated more logistical incompetence than most experts thought possible. But they have now regrouped in eastern and southern Ukraine, where their goals remain audacious: They seek to wear down Ukrainian troops, wear out Ukraine’s international partners, and exhaust the Ukrainian economy, which may already have contracted by as much as half.
Buoyed by oil and gas revenues, the Russian economy is experiencing a much less severe recession than Ukraine. Unconcerned by public opinion, the Russian army seems not to care how many of its soldiers die. For all of those reasons, Putin may well believe that a long-term war of attrition is his to win, not just in southern and eastern Ukraine but eventually in Kyiv and beyond. Certainly that’s what Kremlin propagandists are still telling the Russian people. On state television, the Russian army is triumphant, Russian soldiers are protecting civilia
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Gas prices have hit a record high every day for three straight weeks.
Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine and Russia.
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Quote:People who drive Ford F-150 Lightnings don't buy gasoline. People who own Exxon-Mobile stock are prospering with high gasoline prices and are buying electric pickup trucks. People who have vacationed in Europe do care about Ukraine and Russia. Those people are not like 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Gas prices have hit a record high every day for three straight weeks.
Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine and Russia.
https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:People who drive Ford F-150 Lightnings don't buy gasoline.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Gas prices have hit a record high every day for three straight weeks.
Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine and Russia.
Nope. They just drive around with 1,800 lb batteries that cost $26,000 to replace and are hazardous waste. They also buy into the "zero-emissions" claims because they think that electricity is magical.
Meanwhile, they continue to rally against nuclear power and are going to be responsible for both home electricity prices per kWh skyrocketing and redoubled efforts for coal mining to feed their addiction because, spoiler alert, there ain't enough land for wind farms and solar power on every planet in the Milky Way to charge all the electric cars you morons are pushing.
(For now, let's not even dive into how much money and emissions are exhausted mining for the materials that you morons used to use in your tiny cell phone batteriess and are now putting into batteries that are 1/3 the weight of your vehicles).
Meanwhile, a new F-150 Lightning is just a few years away from becoming a 6,171 lb paper weight, because unlike mid-90's to early 2000's Toyotas, there isn't going to be any used car market for them when the difference in replacement cost for a battery is 26,000%.
Quote:
Those people are not like 6ix.
You're right. There wouldn't have ever been enough beer in the world for me to drink to become as stupid as these people.
I hardly drive dude.
Don't worry about me. I was never going to vote for your idiots. Worry about all of the wage slaves who aren't going to vote the way you want them to in November because Democrats are cancer.
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Originally posted by second:
Those people are not like 6ix.
These people are nothing like me either...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring
-090109778.html
But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
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Quote:I got a 60 month plan with MP2 Energy:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope. They just drive around with 1,800 lb batteries that cost $26,000 to replace and are hazardous waste. They also buy into the "zero-emissions" claims because they think that electricity is magical.
100% Renewable Electric Vehicle Charging plans give residential customers free charging during specific off-peak hours, a fixed energy rate to avoid unexpected price fluctuations, and access to our first-class customer service.
https://www.mp2energy.com/EV
6ix, you know less than nothing because what you are sure is true isn't true.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Your hungry parents -- Smith earns $67,000 a year. Her husband brings home about $20,000 to $30,000 a year. She says she "makes too much for assistance" but too little to get by. Makes too much is very true because Georgia Median Household Income is $58,700. Makes "too little to get by" is very false.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Those people are not like 6ix.
These people are nothing like me either...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring
-090109778.html
But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-inco
me-by-state
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Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, professor of economics | May 19, 2022
coauthored with Bohdan Kukharskyy (City University of New York), Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley) and Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine)
Dear Professor Chomsky,
We are a group of Ukrainian academic economists who were grieved by a series of your recent interviews and commentaries on the Russian war on Ukraine. We believe that your public opinion on this matter is counter-productive to bringing an end to the unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine and all the deaths and suffering it has brought into our home country.
Having familiarized ourselves with the body of your interviews on this matter, we noticed several recurring fallacies in your line of argument. In what follows, we wish to point out these patterns to you, alongside with our brief response:
Pattern #1: Denying Ukraine’s sovereign integrity
In your interview to Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept from April 14, 2022 you claimed: “The fact of the matter is Crimea is off the table. We may not like it. Crimeans apparently do like it.” We wish to bring to your attention several historical facts:
First, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 has violated the Budapest memorandum (in which it promised to respect and protect Ukrainian borders, including Crimea), the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation (which it signed with Ukraine in 1997 with the same promises), and, according to the order of the UN International Court of Justice, it violated the international law.
Second, “Crimeans” is not an ethnicity or a cohesive group of people – but Crimean Tatars are. These are the indigenous people of Crimea, who were deported by Stalin in 1944 (and were able to come back home only after the USSR fell apart), and were forced to flee again in 2014 when Russia occupied Crimea. Of those who stayed, dozens have been persecuted, jailed on false charges and missing, probably dead.
Third, if by ‘liking’ you refer to the outcome of the Crimean “referendum” on March 16, 2014, please note that this “referendum” was held at gunpoint and declared invalid by the General Assembly of the United Nations. At the same time, the majority of voters in Crimea supported Ukraine’s independence in 1991.
Pattern #2: Treating Ukraine as an American pawn on a geo-political chessboard
Whether willingly or unwillingly, your interviews insinuate that Ukrainians are fighting with Russians because the U.S. instigated them to do so, that Euromaidan happened because the U.S. tried to detach Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence, etc. Such an attitude denies the agency of Ukraine and is a slap in the face to millions of Ukrainians who are risking their lives for the desire to live in a free country. Simply put, have you considered the possibility that Ukrainians would like to detach from the Russian sphere of influence due to a history of genocide, cultural oppression, and constant denial of the right to self-determination?
Pattern #3. Suggesting that Russia was threatened by NATO
In your interviews, you are eager to bring up the alleged promise by [US Secretary of State] James Baker and President George H.W. Bush to Gorbachev that, if he agreed to allow a unified Germany to rejoin NATO, the U.S. would ensure that NATO would move ‘not one inch eastward.’ First, please note that the historicity of this promise is highly contested among scholars, although Russia has been active in promoting it. The premise is that NATO’s eastward expansion left Putin with no other choice but to attack. But the reality is different. Eastern European states joined, and Ukraine and Georgia aspired to join NATO, in order to defend themselves from Russian imperialism. They were right in their aspirations, given that Russia did attack Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Moreover, current requests by Finland and Sweden to join NATO came in direct response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, consistent with NATO expansion being a consequence of
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I got a 60 month plan with MP2 Energy:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope. They just drive around with 1,800 lb batteries that cost $26,000 to replace and are hazardous waste. They also buy into the "zero-emissions" claims because they think that electricity is magical.
100% Renewable Electric Vehicle Charging plans give residential customers free charging during specific off-peak hours, a fixed energy rate to avoid unexpected price fluctuations, and access to our first-class customer service.
https://www.mp2energy.com/EV
6ix, you know less than nothing because what you are sure is true isn't true.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. You were talking about YOU. That's priceless.
LOL
Some people got Disney+ for free with their Verizon phones for a year too. What's your point?
I'll put the rest of my post you quoted here in answer to this dumb shit.
Have fun selling that paperweight for nothing once the battery dies, moron.
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meanwhile, they continue to rally against nuclear power and are going to be responsible for both home electricity prices per kWh skyrocketing and redoubled efforts for coal mining to feed their addiction because, spoiler alert, there ain't enough land for wind farms and solar power on every planet in the Milky Way to charge all the electric cars you morons are pushing.
(For now, let's not even dive into how much money and emissions are exhausted mining for the materials that you morons used to use in your tiny cell phone batteriess and are now putting into batteries that are 1/3 the weight of your vehicles).
Meanwhile, a new F-150 Lightning is just a few years away from becoming a 6,171 lb paper weight, because unlike mid-90's to early 2000's Toyotas, there isn't going to be any used car market for them when the difference in replacement cost for a battery is 26,000%.Quote:
Those people are not like 6ix.
You're right. There wouldn't have ever been enough beer in the world for me to drink to become as stupid as these people.
I hardly drive dude.
Don't worry about me. I was never going to vote for your idiots. Worry about all of the wage slaves who aren't going to vote the way you want them to in November because Democrats are cancer.
Ford wants to thank your dumb white ass for being an early test subject... I mean for "saving the planet".
Mud in his blood and a vehicle that lost 95% of its sticker price the second he drove it off the lot.
Keep throwing your money and life at the Corps who don't give a shit about you or the environment because they have a large budget for their Virtue Signalling Department.
Hey? Maybe your Ford F-150 Lightning could be repurposed as your casket when you die from your Booster Shots now that they've given you AIDS?
Meanwhile, I'll be driving around your used gas powered Ford F-150 until 2050.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Your hungry parents
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Those people are not like 6ix.
These people are nothing like me either...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring
-090109778.html
But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
Nobody in my family is going hungry.
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-- Smith earns $67,000 a year. Her husband brings home about $20,000 to $30,000 a year. She says she "makes too much for assistance" but too little to get by. Makes too much is very true because Georgia Median Household Income is $58,700. Makes "too little to get by" is very false.
I live off of just north of 1/10th the Georgia median, and about 1/11th of what Smith grosses in a year. In fact, I live on less than the $7508.00 in Federal Taxes that she will pay in April. Who do you think you're talking to son?
I get a great laugh when I see stories of families making $100k per year and bitching they don't have enough money.
That's not my point here. My point is that they're not voting the way that YOU want them to.
Have a nice day.
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Originally posted by second:
Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war
They're just pissy that your boy Noam agrees with me.
And so are you.
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Quote:My Mother had a saying that people dig their own graves with their teeth. She would never be so rude as to withhold food from fat people (my Mother and Father worked at Burger King) but her meaning was apparent to her children because we could see fat people dying all over East Texas. Since then, it has become apparent to my children that Republicans dig their own graves with their voting. 6ix, your kind are free to kill yourself whatever way makes you feel good - food, alcohol, tobacco, Trump. Your habits put money in my pocket. Your voting for Republicans means I pay lower taxes when those Republicans, as they always do when in power, lower my taxes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's not my point here. My point is that they're not voting the way that YOU want them to.
Have a nice day.
Let me help your understanding. I make money owning tobacco stocks. I won't use tobacco, but the people who do are making me richer. Thank you for smoking. I am not going to be so rude as to withhold tobacco from an adult. Smokers make their own decisions and I benefit.
One more example: I definitely support the Ukraine War. I also definitely support the extra money I make from higher prices for natural gas, which is connected to Putin's decisions. He is an adult and I'm not going to stop him putting money into my pocket.
Just for the record, there are a lot of fat Americans, Democrat, Republican and Independent. Them getting fat, sick and dead is very profitable for me. I choose not to get fat, but if they want to, I'll sell them beef to fatten them up. (It's health care stocks that make more money for me than beef.) From 1999–2000 through 2017–March 2020, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 41.9%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%. Perfect freedom for them to get fatter/sicker/dumber by choice while I get richer by choice.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Is the United States Totalitarian?
In the three months since Russia began its war of aggression, the character of the country has been changing before our eyes. Its much-vaunted military has been exposed as not only weak, disorganized, and corrupt, but also criminal, engaging in pillaging and the torture and mass slaughter of unarmed Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war. Resorting to a practice not seen since the Stalin era, Vladimir Putin’s government has also been deporting captured Ukrainians, apparently by the hundreds of thousands, to distant portions of Russia, first passing them through “filtration” camps where prisoners are interrogated for nationalist leanings and selected out for punishment. The Russian judicial system has been mobilized to crack down on dissent against the war; among other things, it is a crime punishable by up to 15 years in a labor camp to refer to it as anything but a “special military operation.” To the extent that there were independent media before the war, they have been shut down and the only voices now in print or on the air are official propaganda. Access to independent news sources on the internet has also been sharply restricted. In sum, Russia has taken a number of steps back toward the repression of the Soviet era.
But as draconian as these various measures all are, Russia is not yet properly called “totalitarian” as it rightly was during the reign of Joseph Stalin or even much of the Leonid Brezhnev era. About a century ago, Benito Mussolini called fascist Italy a “totalitarian state,” a concept that he defined with brilliant clarity: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” But whether the label of totalitarian actually applies to Mussolini-era Italian fascism, or, again, to Putin’s Russia today, is open to serious question. All-encompassing statism was more of an aspiration than an Italian accomplishment. Even the more thoroughgoing oppression of Nazi Germany did not quite fit the totalitarian model, at least according to the criteria set forth by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Carl Friedrich in their influential 1956 volume, “Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy.”
Much more at https://www.lawfareblog.com/united-states-totalitarian
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Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent posts.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by second:
My Mother had a saying that people dig their own graves with their teeth.
Oh bummer. I guess I can't do that anymore.
Fuck off, Second.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Those people are not like 6ix.
These people are nothing like me either...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring
-090109778.html
But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
Looks like the Associated Press (fake Leftist "news") is finally admitting that nobody gives a shit about Ukraine or Russia too.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/24/massive_turns_in
_opinion_on_dcs_response_to_russia_147644.html
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Quote:I think they pushed the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! button too often, and for no good (or mostly fake) reasons. People are seeing past the bullshit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
These people are nothing like me either...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hungry-parents-sacrificing-amid-soaring
-090109778.html
But they're certainly nothing like you and they're not going to vote the way you want them to.
Looks like the Associated Press (fake Leftist "news") is finally admitting that nobody gives a shit about Ukraine or Russia too.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/24/massive_turns_in
_opinion_on_dcs_response_to_russia_147644.html
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Quote:I read all your posts. Most recently
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah...
Just so you know SECOND: I haven't read any of your recent posts.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65059&mid=11561
63#1156163
Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories.
Signym wrote: "Anyway, no alternatives of the scale necessary have been found, which is why the gas-for-rubles payment system is being conceded and why the oil embargo cant get off the ground." That is fantasy. Reality is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is considered Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest EU ally, is opposed to the oil embargo.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hungary-proposes-removi
ng-russian-oil-embargo-eu-agenda-84961904
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Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories.
Trump's story ain't done yet.
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Quote:Trump's fantasy was that Putin would not have attacked Ukraine if Trump were President, but if Trump were President and there was an attack despite his personal friendship with Putin, he would win it and all Ukrainians would be so grateful for him bringing peace. Trump has no shame when he spins fantasies about himself as the hero of every story.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories.
Trump's story ain't done yet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220427072409/https://www.vanityfair.com/
news/2022/04/donald-trump-piers-morgan-ukraine-rigged-election
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump's fantasy was that Putin would not have attacked Ukraine if Trump were President, but if Trump were President and there was an attack despite his personal friendship with Putin, he would win it and all Ukrainians would be so grateful for him bringing peace. Trump has no shame when he spins fantasies about himself as the hero of every story.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Signym, you write fan fiction where Putin and Trump are the heroes of the stories.
Trump's story ain't done yet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220427072409/https://www.vanityfair.com/
news/2022/04/donald-trump-piers-morgan-ukraine-rigged-election
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. I'm not talking about that story that nobody cares about.
I'm talking about the one that is going to have broad impact here in the states.
How about Chapter 1: SCOTUS?
Bring on the gun control, baby. See what happens.
In Biden*'s fantasies about himself, he's the Good Humor Man.
He gets to eat ice cream all day, every day, and has plenty of opportunity to sniff your daughter's and granddaughter's hair.
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Quote:The 2nd Amendment was written by slave-owners to prevent abolitionists from forbidding state militias hunting down and killing runaway/rebellious slaves. The Republicans on the Supreme Court would change their minds about the 2nd Amendment if a gunman entering the Supreme Court hunted down and killed Republican Supreme Court justices as if they were rebellious slaves. In 2008, the Court made a 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Kill those 5 Republicans and the decision would go the other way. The Supreme Court is in the District of Columbia, which means it would be particularly ironic that the judges killed are the ones who changed the law so that they could be killed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. I'm not talking about that story that nobody cares about.
I'm talking about the one that is going to have broad impact here in the states.
How about Chapter 1: SCOTUS?
Bring on the gun control, baby. See what happens.
In Biden*'s fantasies about himself, he's the Good Humor Man.
He gets to eat ice cream all day, every day, and has plenty of opportunity to sniff your daughter's and granddaughter's hair.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/on-this-d
ay-a-divided-supreme-court-rules-on-the-second-amendment
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The 2nd Amendment was written by slave-owners to prevent abolitionists from forbidding state militias hunting down and killing runaway/rebellious slaves. The Republicans on the Supreme Court would change their minds about the 2nd Amendment if a gunman entering the Supreme Court hunted down and killed Republican Supreme Court justices as if they were rebellious slaves. In 2008, the Court made a 5-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Kill those 5 Republicans and the decision would go the other way. The Supreme Court is in the District of Columbia, which means it would be particularly ironic that the judges killed are the ones who changed the law so that they could be killed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. I'm not talking about that story that nobody cares about.
I'm talking about the one that is going to have broad impact here in the states.
How about Chapter 1: SCOTUS?
Bring on the gun control, baby. See what happens.
In Biden*'s fantasies about himself, he's the Good Humor Man.
He gets to eat ice cream all day, every day, and has plenty of opportunity to sniff your daughter's and granddaughter's hair.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/blog/on-this-d
ay-a-divided-supreme-court-rules-on-the-second-amendment
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Archived.
You've really outdone yourself this time, Arthur.
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Quote:6ix, a Federal Marshall handles death threats against Federal judges. I think you should call them, 6ix, because "archiving" does nothing to protect Republican Supreme Court judges who have gone crazy. For example, among constitutional scholars, Dred Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst and craziest decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. A War between the States followed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Archived.
You've really outdone yourself this time, Arthur.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-threats-attack-60-minutes-2
021-05-30/
On a similar note, if Vladimir Putin is captured, he will be executed for his crimes. Tit for tat, Putin would do the same to Volodymyr Zelenskyy if he was captured.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, a Federal Marshall handles death threats against Federal judges. I think you should call them, 6ix, because "archiving" does nothing to protect Republican Supreme Court judges who have gone crazy. For example, among constitutional scholars, Dred Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst and craziest decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. A War between the States followed.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Archived.
You've really outdone yourself this time, Arthur.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dred-Scott-decision
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-threats-attack-60-minutes-2
021-05-30/
On a similar note, if Vladimir Putin is captured, he will be executed for his crimes. Tit for tat, Putin would do the same to Volodymyr Zelenskyy if he was captured.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm not their protector. I don't have a cushy Government job with a pension.
But if anything like what you were explaining were ever to happen to 5 Republican Justices I'm sure the Marshals* would like to see this. (one L, stupid... This isn't a Department Store.)
Hope you enjoy legal trouble and paying lawyers for saying stupid shit.
Maybe you can explain to your fake wife and fake daughters and fake cats why you're being subpoenaed to Federal court if and when that day comes, Arthur.
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Editorial: The Kyiv Independent’s response to the New York Times editorial board
May 24, 2022 8:38 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion/editorial-the-kyiv-independents-re
sponse-to-the-new-york-times-editorial-board/
The New York Times editorial, “The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready,” published on May 19, immediately caused an uproar in Ukraine.
A veiled manifesto of appeasement from a newspaper known for its stellar coverage of Russia’s horrific invasion has disappointed many.
In the editorial, the New York Times editorial board argues that it’s too dangerous to assume that Ukraine can win the war. It says “Russia is too strong,” that Ukraine should make a “painful compromise” and give up some territories to Russia. The U.S. must understand the futility and stop “taunting” Russia, the editorial says. Meaning: Ukraine will lose anyway, stop helping it so it’s over faster.
In short, the editorial attempts to pass off appeasement and betrayal of the free world’s values as pragmatic reasoning.
Dark times have always shed light on those willing to compromise their values to preserve their daily comforts. Neither a French president, a German intellectual, nor an award-winning American newspaper are exempt from being wrong.
As a newsroom witnessing the war from inside Ukraine, we want to set the record straight.
Ukraine winning the war with Russia isn’t “unrealistic” or even “likely.” If we want the world to be anything like what we know it to be, then Ukraine winning is the only option.
And Western financial and military support for Ukraine is the only way to establish “long-term peace and security on the European continent” that the New York Times editorial board is rooting for.
Ukraine’s belief in its victory isn’t based on overconfidence. It’s based on necessity.
Any concession to Russia now will lead to another war sooner or later, while Ukrainians stuck in any region occupied by Russia will be tortured, raped, or killed. The New York Times is running story after story about the living hell through which Russia puts Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories. Meanwhile, its editorial board is suggesting that Ukraine should cede territories to Russia, where more atrocities will undoubtedly happen.
Appeasement isn’t the voice of reason. It’s fear and short-sightedness that will only make things worse, something we’ve all seen too many times in the past.
Allowing Russia to annex Crimea emboldened Russia to try to swallow the Donbas. When it invaded in 2014, carving up a sovereign state and killing civilians, the other world leaders’ tepid response made Russia’s bloody dictator feel empowered to do more.
It’s obvious that he’s been planning the full-scale invasion of Ukraine ever since. It’s often been said by world leaders and analysts that one of Vladimir Putin’s main miscalculations was assuming that the West would let him take Ukraine easily. It didn’t.
Now the New York Times is calling for the West to do what Putin expected and give up.
Make no mistake: If you appease a dictator, whose troops regularly indulge in war crimes, it will lead to a catastrophic geopolitical shift.
A Russian military victory would lead to land grabs and brutal conquest becoming the new norm. Allowing a power-hungry fascist dictatorship to succeed will encourage other dictatorships to try.
Telling the U.S. and NATO to ask Ukraine to sacrifice itself for the delusional hope of “long-term peace and security on the European continent” is the same as urging them to cede Taiwan to China. It’s the same as averting eyes from the rape, torture, and what appears to be a planned-out genocide committed by the Russians in Ukraine and by the Chinese in Xinjiang.
It’s a deal that shouldn’t be taken.
Nor are we forced to take it. The assumption that Russia, despite its colossal battlefield losses, is still a superpower with a potent military is a lie groomed by Russian propaganda over the past 15 years.
It’s a lie many in the West still believe, in spi
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Ukraine is fighting this war on behalf of the free world – to make sure it remains free. The free world must at least try to match the Ukrainians’ bravery.
Yeah. Match it with Billions of taxpayer dollars.
Fuck off, Ukraine.
There isn't one goddamned thing that would change in my life today, tomorrow or 20 years from now if you were part of Russia immediately after I click submit on this post.
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I wonder how all of that Ukraine -Biden money laundering, as documented in Hunter's laptop, will play in the "free" press.
Probably not at all.
But let's not forget that Ukraine is the poorest AND the most corrupt nation in Europe. And that includes Albania, which is saying something!
Fighting for "freedom"??
Piffle!
But at least I got a chuckle out of the concept.
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Quote:Where is the document publicized? Same place as Trump's promised tax returns?
Originally posted by SignyM:
I wonder how all of that Ukraine -Biden money laundering, as documented in Hunter's laptop, will play in the "free" press.
Trump paid no federal income taxes for 10 years
https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/trump-paid-no-income-taxes/
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Supposedly at
https://bidenlaptopemails.com
Quote:
120,000 emails from Hunter’s infamous laptop made public within a searchable database
In what is being touted as “a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue-collar crime,” a former staffer from President Donald Trump’s administration made more than 120,000 emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop public within a searchable database.
Garrett Ziegler, 26, worked in the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under Director and Assistant to the President Peter Navarro. Using the nom de plume Marco Polo, the former aide reportedly created the site BidenLaptopEmails.com “to see justice delivered.”...
“Here are 128k emails from the Biden Laptop, which is a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue-collar crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,'” the site reads, referencing an expression of President Joe Biden. While some previously reported emails were left out, the “10 for the big guy” message alleging the former vice president’s involvement in Hunter’s business dealings can be found.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/05/18/120000-emails-from-hunters-inf
amous-laptop-made-public-within-a-searchable-database-1239176/
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Oh BTW... LOTS of wealthy pople pay no "income" taxes because they make sure not to be paid as "income" but as capital gains. That's a widely acknowledged fault of tax law.
Instead of using this fact as a vehicle for your longstanding war against Republicans and Trump, why don't you use some of that vast wealth that you claim to have and agitate to have the law changed?
Or would that cut into your lifestyle too much?
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Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next
Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,
In Davos and beyond, NATO's upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order...
Three months after the start of Russia’s Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative – oddly – remains the same.
On Monday, from Davos, World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab introduced Ukrainian comedian-cum-President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the latest leg of his weapons-solicitation-tour, with a glowing tribute. Herr Schwab stressed that an actor impersonating a president defending neo-Nazis is supported by “all of Europe and the international order.”
He means, of course, everyone except the 88 percent of the planet that subscribes to the Rule of Law – instead of the faux construct the west calls a ‘rules-based international order.’
Back in the real world, Russia, slowly but surely has been rewriting the Art of Hybrid War. Yet within the carnival of NATO psyops, aggressive cognitive infiltration, and stunning media sycophancy, much is being made of the new $40 billion US ‘aid’ package to Ukraine, deemed capable of becoming a game-changer in the war.
This ‘game-changing’ narrative comes courtesy of the same people who burned though trillions of dollars to secure Afghanistan and Iraq. And we saw how that went down.
Ukraine is the Holy Grail of international corruption. That $40 billion can be a game-changer for only two classes of people: First, the US military-industrial complex, and second, a bunch of Ukrainian oligarchs and neo-connish NGOs, that will corner the black market for weapons and humanitarian aid, and then launder the profits in the Cayman Islands.
A quick breakdown of the $40 billion reveals $8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); $3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the ‘office’ that dictates military tactics to Kiev); $5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified “global food supply chain”; $6 billion for actual weapons and “training” to Ukraine; $9 billion in “economic assistance” (which will disappear into selected pockets); and $0.9 billion for refugees.
US risk agencies have downgraded Kiev to the dumpster of non-reimbursing-loan entities, so large American investment funds are ditching Ukraine, leaving the European Union (EU) and its member-states as the country’s only option.
Few of those countries, apart from Russophobic entities such as Poland, can justify to their own populations sending huge sums of direct aid to a failed state. So it will fall to the Brussels-based EU machine to do just enough to maintain Ukraine in an economic coma – independent from any input from member-states and institutions.
These EU ‘loans’ – mostly in the form of weapons shipments – can always be reimbursed by Kiev’s wheat exports. This is already happening on a small scale via the port of Constanta in Romania, where Ukrainian wheat arrives in barges over the Danube and is loaded into dozens of cargo ships everyday. Or, via convoys of trucks rolling with the weapons-for-wheat racket. However, Ukrainian wheat will keep feeding the wealthy west, not impoverished Ukrainians.
Moreover, expect NATO this summer to come up with another monster psyop to defend its divine (not legal) right to enter the Black Sea with warships to escort Ukrainian vessels transporting wheat. Pro-NATO media will spin it as the west being ‘saved’ from the global food crisis – which happens to be directly caused by serial, hysterical packages of western sanctions.
Poland goes for soft annexation
NATO is indeed massively ramping up its ‘support’ to Ukraine via the western border with Poland. That’s in synch with Washington’s two overarching targets: First, a ‘long war,’ insurgency-style, just like Afghanistan in the 1980s, with jihadis replaced by mercenaries and neo-Nazis. Second, the sa
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Quote:Trump took his tax returns to the Supreme Court twice while he was President. That is not what a sane, honest man of integrity would do, especially after promising to make the information public. Then there was Trump calling for the death of his Vice-President. Then there are thousands of law suits which he has lost where he was cheating people out of their money. Trump is a rotten apple, but there are millions of Americans who are just as rotten because they swallow rotten Trump with delight. He is so tasty for them. Putin is another rotten apple. Signym eats him with gusto!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW... LOTS of wealthy pople pay no "income" taxes because they make sure not to be paid as "income" but as capital gains. That's a widely acknowledged fault of tax law.
Instead of using this fact as a vehicle for your longstanding war against Republicans and Trump, why don't you use some of that vast wealth that you claim to have and agitate to have the law changed?
Or would that cut into your lifestyle too much?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-ja
n-6-politico.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next
Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,
I'd love to know if "Pepe" was paid in USD or rubbles.
I bet I know what he's going to use to buy stuff with."A Jew is the new Hitler." That's dark comedy gold.
I missed Pepe pointing out that the source of ALL OF THIS death and destruction is one person. One person acting without any logical, achievable goal in mind other than pure destruction and murder.
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Quote:You noticed that, too. It is called the Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model.
Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
Escobar: NATO vs Russia - What Happens Next
Thursday, May 26, 2022 - 06:00 AM
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle,
I'd love to know if "Pepe" was paid in USD or rubbles.
"A Jew is the new Hitler." That's dark comedy gold.
I missed Pepe pointing out that the source of ALL OF THIS death and destruction is one person. One person acting without any logical, achievable goal in mind other than pure destruction and murder.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
My favorite two sentences from the firehose: "Zelensky will be fine. He’s protected by British and American special forces." -- If true, that would have been noticed by the MSM.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump took his tax returns to the Supreme Court twice while he was President. That is not what a sane, honest man of integrity would do, especially after promising to make the information public. Then there was Trump calling for the death of his Vice-President. Then there are thousands of law suits which he has lost where he was cheating people out of their money. Trump is a rotten apple, but there are millions of Americans who are just as rotten because they swallow rotten Trump with delight. He is so tasty for them. Putin is another rotten apple. Signym eats him with gusto!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW... LOTS of wealthy pople pay no "income" taxes because they make sure not to be paid as "income" but as capital gains. That's a widely acknowledged fault of tax law.
Instead of using this fact as a vehicle for your longstanding war against Republicans and Trump, why don't you use some of that vast wealth that you claim to have and agitate to have the law changed?
Or would that cut into your lifestyle too much?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-ja
n-6-politico.html
Jesus Christ.
Can you even say anything without lying at this point?
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Quote:Accusing people who disrespect Trump of lying is a personality quirk shared by Trump voters, except the rich Trump voters. The rich disrespect Trump, but they voted for him because he makes them richer. Similarly, accusing people who disrespect Putin of lying is a personality quirk shared by Putin voters, except for the Oligarchs.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jesus Christ. Can you even say anything without lying at this point?
How Putin Conquered Russia's Oligarchy : Planet Money - NPR
In the summer of 2000, 21 of the richest men in Russia exited their bulletproof limousines and entered the Kremlin for a historic meeting. In the previous decade, these men had risen seemingly out of nowhere, amassing spectacular fortunes as the country around them descended into chaos. Through shady deals, outright corruption, and even murder, these rapacious "oligarchs" — as Russians had come to derisively call them — had seized control of much of Russia's economy, and, increasingly, its fledgling democracy. But now, their nation's newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, wanted to tell them, face to face, who was really in charge.
"I want to draw your attention to the fact that you built this state yourself, to a great degree, through the political or semi-political structures under your control,'' Putin reportedly said in the closed-door meeting. ''So there is no point in blaming the reflection in the mirror. So let us get down to the point and be open and do what is necessary to do to make our relationship in this field civilized and transparent.''
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-con
quered-russias-oligarchy
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Escobar is a Brazilian reporter whose main "beat" was Asia, often from central Asia, but he's reported from all over the globe.
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A much better summary on Rumble
https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/O/l/L/n/OlLne.caa.mp4
This Military Summary channel also exists on YouTube
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How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country
Andrey Kurkov has spent his life writing about realities so absurd they defy satire. It was perfect preparation for this moment.
On the morning of Feb. 25, the day after Russian bombs began falling on his country, Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine’s most famous living writer, received a phone call at his home near Independence Square in central Kyiv. The call was from an old friend, a businessman with close ties to the government, who had just got hold of some privileged information: Kurkov, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, was on a list of “pro-Ukrainian activists” drawn up by the Kremlin, whose forces could seize the capital in a matter of days. He needed to get out.
As it happened, Kurkov was working on a novel about an earlier Russian invasion, the so-called Soviet-Ukrainian war of 1917-21, in which Ukrainian nationalists, aided by various Western powers, established an independent republic for the first time in their history — only to see it swiftly absorbed into the new Communist imperium rising in the east. The novel, the third in a series of books about this turbulent period, was inspired by a cache of secret-police files, which the daughter of a former K.G.B. officer bequeathed to Kurkov several years earlier. The documents evoked, in granular detail, the terror of life under Russian occupation, as well as its piquant absurdities. Kurkov, a sly satirist in the tradition of Gogol and Bulgakov, was especially delighted to learn about a Russian Underwear Tax, whereby each Ukrainian family was required to donate three pairs of undergarments to the ill-equipped Red Army. The same went for a Russian Furniture Tax, which stipulated that Ukrainian households could possess only as many chairs as there were household members, plus one for guests; the rest were requisitioned.
Kurkov dedicated himself to chronicling and contextualizing the war for foreign audiences, a task he has performed with prodigious zeal. Hardly a day goes by now without a new article, radio broadcast, television appearance or public lecture.
“I think everybody should do what he can do best for the country,” Kurkov said recently. “The snipers should kill the enemy. The singers should sing for the soldiers and the refugees. What I can do is write and tell things, and that is what I am doing.”
“Arrested, taken to Russia, put in prison,” Kurkov said nonchalantly, as though describing his plans for the weekend, when I asked him, in late March, what he thought would happen if the enemy got its hands on him. As he was quick to emphasize, his situation was hardly unique; in fact, it was the norm. In Russian-occupied territory in the east, the military was systematically detaining journalists and intellectuals, a number of whom have not been heard from since.
The knowledge he had come to impart was that Ukraine and Russia, for all their tragically intertwined history, were two distinct nations with two distinct mentalities — one anarchic and free-spirited, the other pliant and long-suffering. In the past 20 years alone, while Putin has been stifling dissent and consolidating his autocracy in Moscow, Kyiv has experienced a pair of bottom-up revolutions, in 2004 and 2014, each of them inspired by the wish to cast off Russian influence and forge closer ties to Europe.
“I think people have become much more fragile,” Kurkov said, sounding not unlike Solzhenitsyn, who in a notorious commencement address at Harvard in 1978 argued that the West’s material abundance had brought about a corresponding “decline in courage.” Kurkov felt that something similar had happened in today’s Russia, where living standards have drastically improved since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic turmoil of the 1990s. Under Communism, he suggested, rather provocatively, the choice between the privations of a “free” existence and those of the Gulag may have seemed less stark. “Now you can have either quality of life or prison,” he said. “So they go for quality of life.”
The Soviet Union
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Former NATO general says Putin has 9-month window to win war
Ukraine has fought valiantly and driven the Russians back from the northern cities of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv in recent weeks, but its counteroffensive has not been sustained because Ukrainian forces need time to assimilate Western military equipment, a retired NATO commander said.
“Tanks and armoured vehicles need an initial stage of personal training and team training for the driver, gunner, reloader and commander,” said Lt-Gen Konstantinos Loukopoulos, who has taught tank warfare at military academies in Kyiv and Moscow.
“They need tactical training, including test firing and exercises, which cannot be done in a few weeks. The training cycle is at least six months, and that doesn’t change in wartime,” he said.
“After [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s illusions about winning the war in 96 hours, the illusions began on the Western side,” he added.
The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany and the Czech Republic are among those who have pledged various types of armour and artillery, and that complicates matters, Loukopoulos said.
For instance, out of 90 howitzer M777 artillery pieces sent by the US to Ukraine, about 18 have been absorbed, he said, adding that it is unknown how many of the 12 or 14 César self-propelled howitzers sent by France are in use.
“For Ukraine to absorb the weapons from the West and make them operational, form the right units, and train them, it needs eight, nine months. It can’t pull active units from the front to train them,” Loukopoulos said.
That is the timeframe, he believes, within which Putin must win the war on the ground and reach a negotiated settlement.
“Under the present balance of forces, the general trend is in favour of the Russians. Right now nothing can change that,” he said.
“After a few months, with training of reserve units, there could be a Ukrainian strategic counteroffensive that could throw the Russians out.”
Loukopoulos believes this could likely be done by Ukraine seizing Russian territory that it could exchange for its own territory in negotiations.
“Can the Ukrainians create a fact on the ground to counter Russian gains? Right now they cannot,” he said.
“Whether we like it or not, Russia has the political and military initiative. The West is reacting to what Putin is doing.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/26/nato-general-putin-has-8-9-mo
nths-to-win-the-war
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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More fantasies about Ukraine winning the war?
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Quote:The article was by an instructor who has taught tank warfare at military academies in Kyiv and Moscow warning that the "fantastic and miraculous" weapons Ukraine receives will require 9 months for the Ukrainians to learn how to use efficiently. That gives the Russians 9 easier months before the war shifts to harder.
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More fantasies about Ukraine winning the war?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Former NATO general says Putin has 9-month window to win war
“After a few months, with training of reserve units, there could be a Ukrainian strategic counteroffensive that could throw the Russians out.”
Loukopoulos believes this could likely be done by Ukraine seizing Russian territory that it could exchange for its own territory in negotiations.
“Can the Ukrainians create a fact on the ground to counter Russian gains? Right now they cannot,” he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/26/nato-general-putin-has-8-9-mo
nths-to-win-the-war
He's just shilling for more aid for Ukraine by holding out an impossible hope.
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News of the day
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In Stunning Shift, WaPo Admits Catastrophic-Conditions, Collapsing-Morale Of Ukraine Front-Line Forces
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/wapo-stunning-first-admits-catastro
phic-conditions-collapsing-morale-ukraine-forces-front
So, more aid for Ukraine!!!
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Biden Readies Approval Of Long-Range Rockets To Ukraine - Russia Warns Over "Red Line"
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-prepares-approve-long-range-
rockets-ukraine-russia-warns-over-red-line
Oh look! More aid for Ukraine!!
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US General Floats Military Options to Help Export Ukrainian Grain
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-general-floats-military-optio
ns-help-export-ukrainian-grain
Because Ukraine needs more help! (Despite the fact that Russia is keeping two sea lanes open for cargo ships.)
Anyone notice the narrative shift? Kiev was "winning" until a week ago. Now, it is desperate, and needs our help desperately!
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What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
I would put it this way: This is a war to prevent the realities of the 20th century from becoming our future in the 21st century. Russia today is an Orwellian nightmare, a dictatorship directly descended from the Soviet KGB that takes brutal retribution against its critics and hardly bothers to conceal it, the better to instill fear in others. It commits war crimes with the same moral indifference and the same strategic purpose. It is also an economically backward regime that has moved from communism to kleptocracy, and from left to right, without changing its basic character.
The Ukrainians have every reason to fear being dragged back under Moscow’s deadening control: Putin himself has said Ukraine has no right to exist, and he has put Moldova, the Baltic countries, and other former Soviet states on notice. No wonder the Swedes and Finns, who long preferred official neutrality, now want to join NATO. We too now have to weigh the prospect of being dragged back into a past when our friends feared for their freedom and the specter of nuclear annihilation made us all fear for our lives.
In Russia today, no lie is too fantastic to be fed to the public. In a perfect example of Orwellian Newspeak, the “special military operation” in Ukraine is supposedly aimed at “de-Nazifying” the only country other than Israel with a Jewish head of government. (“So what if Zelensky is Jewish,” Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said recently in response to a question. “I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood.”) In its utter contempt for the truth, this kind of institutionalized lying has its parallel in the practiced deceit of Putin’s greatest American admirer, Donald Trump, and the debasement of Republican leaders and right-wing media that parrot Trump’s lies or stand silent, refusing to contradict them.
Resisting the extension of this kind of regime is what the struggle in Ukraine and the struggle at home are both about. In the world today, we are back to basics, the basics of liberal democracy.
More at https://prospect.org/world/what-we-have-at-stake-in-ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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What stake do we have in the Russia-Ukraine War?
As far as I got.
Answer: none.
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Nobody cares.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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