Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Meanwhile, in anticipation of losing eastern Ukraine, Rishi Sunak (UK PM) decided to poison it with depleted uranium shells.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Why do you keep believing what Kiev says? I would have thought that, by now, having been caught in so many lies you would have gotten the idea that nearly everything "Kiev says" is a lie.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This action is just political theater.
SECOND: When Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Milosevic.
When Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Gaddafi.
When Bashar al-Assad of Syria was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Al-Assad.
When Putin was charged with crimes, who did Signym side with?
What do these people have in common? Russia.
THUGR: Tyrants, dictators, thug’s murderers and criminals, one and all.
SIGNY: Oh fuck you, THUGR. Your ignorance is boundless. And worse, you refuse to learn bc you can never admit that you're wrong.
THUGR: Riddle me this comrade signym. Why do the women of Iran have a bigger set of balls than the Russians when it comes to standing up to tyrants and dictators?
Can_you_see_me_laughing?
Bc Russia is not a tyranny and Putin is not a dictator, ignorant troll.Quote:
Why Putin is casting the Ukraine war as a fight for Russia’s survivalWhy western press is focusing on the "meaning" of the battle in Ukraine.
by Brad Dress - 03/21/23 1:48 PM ET
Because Russia is winning.
Ukraine Pictures Show Putin Sending Ancient T-54 Tanks to War
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-pictures-show-putin-sendi
ng-ancient-t-54-tanks-to-war/ar-AA18Wkpz?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6540d62fe82441ffadb8afb346826f1a&ei=122
If you believe comrade signym. Russia is doing this because they are winning.
T
When Bakhmut falls... and it will ... Kiev will claim it killed a zillion Russians. Their much-awaited spring offensive will be accompanied by announcements of success after success. It'll be just like Berlin, right before it fell to the Russians.
You're a loser
If it comforts you to pretend that I
get all my information from Kiev so be it. It has been
obvious for years you live a lie. It's expected.
T
Putin really isn't getting his own way after Sweden votes to join NATO
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Quote:N Korea and Russia both complain that they need nukes to protect them from the faraway Americans. Canadians share a border with Americans. Funny thing that Canada doesn't have nukes yet is richer than Russia and N Korea combined. I wonder how Canadians are so rich and safe despite the Americans being so close. It is a mystery that Putin and Kim should look into.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, since you can't identify differences between N Korea and Russia, it's clear that you still know nothing about anything.
You're a loser too.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:N Korea and Russia both complain that they need nukes to protect them from the faraway Americans. Canadians share a border with Americans. Funny thing that Canada doesn't have nukes yet is richer than Russia and N Korea combined. I wonder how Canadians are so rich and safe despite the Americans being so close. It is a mystery that Putin and Kim should look into.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, since you can't identify differences between N Korea and Russia, it's clear that you still know nothing about anything.
You're a loser too.
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OMFG SECOND do you realize how blindingly stupid you sound?
Apparently not!
Loser.
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Quote:6ix complains that he can't get ahead in America because of Democrats. The real reasons are his personal defects such as alcoholism, etc. The North Koreans have similar complaints that they can't get ahead because of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans. The real reason, proved by South Koreans, is that North Koreans have a highly defective society. Russia is another one of those highly defective societies. Russia has killed 65 million Russians during political disputes, not just during WWII. Russia lost millions of its best people to emigration, especially to America, which doesn't have as dysfunctional a society as Russia has. Russia can't blame America for the best Russians leaving. Russia should blame itself for killing the best and driving the rest out.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OMFG SECOND do you realize how blindingly stupid you sound?
Apparently not!
Loser.
To be explicit, Russians have not just killed tens of millions of Russians but have also gone on murder rampages across Ukraine. Today is one more out of many spanning centuries. That is why Russians are poor, not because Americans did this to Russians.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix complains that he can't get ahead in America because of Democrats.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OMFG SECOND do you realize how blindingly stupid you sound?
Apparently not!
Loser.
No I don't. I'm already ahead.
How was work today, bitch?
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Quote:Dood, THE TITLE of your article says "Kiev pictures". Are you saying it ISN'T from Kiev?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This action is just political theater.
SECOND: When Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Milosevic.
When Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Gaddafi.
When Bashar al-Assad of Syria was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Al-Assad.
When Putin was charged with crimes, who did Signym side with?
What do these people have in common? Russia.
THUGR: Tyrants, dictators, thug’s murderers and criminals, one and all.
SIGNY: Oh fuck you, THUGR. Your ignorance is boundless. And worse, you refuse to learn bc you can never admit that you're wrong.
THUGR: Riddle me this comrade signym. Why do the women of Iran have a bigger set of balls than the Russians when it comes to standing up to tyrants and dictators?
Can_you_see_me_laughing?
THUGR: Bc Russia is not a tyranny and Putin is not a dictator, ignorant troll.Quote:Why Putin is casting the Ukraine war as a fight for Russia’s survivalWhy western press is focusing on the "meaning" of the battle in Ukraine.
by Brad Dress - 03/21/23 1:48 PM ET
SIGNY: Because Russia is winning.
Ukraine Pictures Show Putin Sending Ancient T-54 Tanks to War
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-pictures-show-putin-sendi
ng-ancient-t-54-tanks-to-war/
THUGR: If you believe comrade signym. Russia is doing this because they are winning.
SIGNY: Why do you keep believing what Kiev says? I would have thought that, by now, having been caught in so many lies you would have gotten the idea that nearly everything "Kiev says" is a lie.
When Bakhmut falls... and it will ... Kiev will claim it killed a zillion Russians. Their much-awaited spring offensive will be accompanied by announcements of success after success. It'll be just like Berlin, right before it fell to the Russians.
You're a loser
THUGR: If it comforts you to pretend that I get all my information from Kiev so be it. It has been obvious for years you live a lie. It's expected.
In any case, our CIA, SD, WH, and MSM get their "info" from Kiev so even if it's second or third-hand, and been laundered a couple of times, it's still from Kiev.
Loser.
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Quote:I like work, especially now that my policy is to eliminate Trumptards who crossed my red lines: steal tools or fuel or money, stupidly break equipment, harass other workers, etc. The best policy is being intolerant of the endless dysfunction, deviancy and old-fashion mental illness of East Texas Trumptards. That makes work pleasant for all the other employees, including me. The Trumptards never permanently learn to be decent people. They always have got to lie and cheat when they think nobody will catch them. They didn't internalize the rules that normal people follow, they are only pantomiming what real humans do.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No I don't. I'm already ahead.
How was work today, bitch?
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The flurry of videos signals that the problems that plagued Russia’s invasion throughout its first year are far from resolved, and they offer further evidence that Moscow is relying on a grim tactic of sending waves of soldiers to certain death to soften up Ukrainian positions, ahead of sending in elite, experienced fighters to then gain ground.
The tactic is even drawing criticism from pro-Russian war bloggers who question its effectiveness and the pointless loss of life in what they call “meat assaults.” Recruits have complained of being handed guns and told to run at enemy positions and shoot. In one video, recorded on March 7, conscripts in a unit from Irkutsk, a city in Siberia, complained that they were “being sent to the slaughter.” The video was their third public appeal to Putin.
While the strategy of sending waves of so-called “shock troops” is not new, it seems to have become more prevalent as Russia has lost some of its initial artillery advantage. The strategy has been a hallmark of the Wagner mercenary group’s months-long assault on Bakhmut.
U.S. officials estimate that the Wagner group alone has lost 30,000 fighters since the start of the invasion, with thousands killed in action in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Russia’s defense ministry claimed last September that just 5,937 soldiers had been killed in the conflict so far. Western governments project about 200,000 killed and wounded on the Russian side.
One group of recruits from Kaliningrad, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, claiming to be to be Unit 41698 of the 5th Motorized Brigade, said that in their first assault six members of the unit had died in a single trench.
“People die for nothing,” said one man, his face covered by a balaclava. “We are not meat. We are ready to fight with dignity, not as meat, in frontal attacks.”
Another video, apparently recorded by Regiment 1453 from Perm and the Yekaterinburg region in the Urals on March 11, spoke of “unjustified losses” and said that during a recent assault four had died and 18 were wounded.
The videos have also highlighted Moscow’s failure to address critical and embarrassing supply problems, which have led to arming soldiers with World War II-era guns and uniforms. Some of those complaints were first raised last autumn, including in an initial wave of videos, which began appearing shortly after Russia began a partial military conscription.
Russian officials have remained noticeably mute about the recent videos, and so far there is no sign that Putin will respond to the appeals. In November, during a staged meeting with of group of women described as soldiers’ mothers, Putin revealed some concern over how the mobilization and the war were being perceived and he seemed to allude to the first wave of videos.
“One should not trust the internet completely because it is full of various fake stories, deception and lies,” Putin said. “The internet is rife with information attacks because information is just another offensive weapon in the modern world, and information attacks are just another effective type of struggle.”
Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in New York, said that it was unsurprising to see such problems after a year of war for which Russia was ill-prepared, and especially after the steep casualties of recent months.
“These recruits are serving involuntarily. They are not being trained properly and do not have the right equipment. Russia is clearly using its scarce sources to arm and equip its best units,” Lee said in a phone interview.
“The quality of the force is worse now,” Lee said. “Earlier in the war, the big difference was that Russia had a really substantial artillery advantage, which compensated for a lack of tactical competence in some units. Now that artillery advantage has been reduced.”
The conscripts’ appeals have been echoed by mothers and daughters of mobilized fighters who have recorded their own messages to Putin. In one video, published on March 12, about 20 women appealed to Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, to
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Here’s the real lesson from the showy Xi-Putin meeting
A strong China is bolstering a weak Russia. That’s the real headline that describes the showy meetings in Moscow this week between the two countries’ leaders. The Chinese aren’t providing weapons (yet), but Xi certainly offered moral and psychological support in what might be described as a get-well visit to an ailing relative. White House spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday rightly called Putin a “junior partner.”
The paradox of the Ukraine war is that Putin’s bid for greater power in Europe has made him weaker. This diminished Russia will fall increasingly under China’s sway — unless there’s an unlikely turn post-Ukraine and a Western-leaning leader replaces Putin. Maybe that’s the biggest reason for Xi’s fraternal visit: He is bolstering a flank against America and the West.
China’s dominance over a weaker Russia will take many forms in the coming years. Russia has lost its energy markets in Europe because of its reckless invasion, so it will depend ever more on demand from China and other Asian customers. China’s economic sway grows every year in central Asia and in Russia’s own far east. Its hard power in space, cyber, robotics and artificial intelligence will increasingly dwarf Russia’s.
Though Putin was beaming in Xi’s reflected glow this week, the visit was a reminder of just how isolated the Russian leader is. President Biden hosts a prominent foreign leader at the White House every other week. When was the last time you saw a major foreign leader visit the Kremlin? (The president of Belarus doesn’t count.) Xi’s get-well visit will give his “dear friend” Putin a psychological boost and help his domestic popularity. But other than China and a few outliers, Russian stands alone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/21/xi-putin-summit-all
iance-danger/
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World Bank says $411bn cost to rebuild war-torn Ukraine
A World Bank report has estimated it will cost Ukraine $411bn over the next 10 years to recover and rebuild from Russia’s war on the country, with the bill for cleaning up the rubble from devastated towns and cities standing at $5bn alone.
The report released on Wednesday said that estimates “should be considered as minimums as needs will continue to rise as long as the war continues”.
Produced jointly by Ukraine’s government, the World Bank, the European Commission and the United Nations, the $411bn assessment marked an increase from the $349bn estimated in a report released by the bank in September.
The report details some of the economic and human toll of Russia’s war, including nearly 2 million homes damaged, more than one in five public health institutions damaged, 650 ambulances damaged or stolen and at least 9,655 civilians confirmed dead, including 461 children.
Ukraine’s reconstruction will “take several years”, the World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Anna Bjerde said on Wednesday.
The report calculates $135bn in direct damage to buildings and infrastructure so far, not counting the broader economic fallout from the more than year-long conflict.
But the damage could have been even worse if not for the defence mounted by Ukrainian forces, which had kept the worst of the destruction confined to the front-line regions of Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Kherson, Bjerde said in a call with reporters.
The evaluation expects Kyiv to require $14bn for critical and priority reconstruction as well as recovery investments in 2023 alone. The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that it reached a staff-level agreement with Ukraine for a four-year financing package worth about $15.6bn.
Despite Russia’s fierce onslaught, Ukraine continues to maintain essential public services, including keeping schools and hospitals open, paying the salaries of teachers and civil servants as well as paying pensions, the World Bank said in February.
“Supporting these critical services continues to be a priority, and Ukraine needs about $3-4 billion per month to sustain them,” the bank’s Bjerde wrote at the time.
Russia’s invasion has displaced millions of Ukrainians. Global food and energy prices have also surged as a result of the war.
To date, the World Bank said, Russia’s invasion has undone 15 years of economic progress in Ukraine, cutting its gross domestic product by 29 percent and pushing 1.7 million Ukrainians into poverty.
The report said it was essential to keep Ukraine’s government, private business sector and recovery efforts going even amid the attacks and raging fighting in the east of the country. For Ukraine to postpone rebuilding risks the country “settling into a situation of low or no growth and facing huge social challenges once the war ends”, the bank said.
Ukraine’s energy sector has seen the greatest surge in damage recently as a result of Russia’s targeted attacks on the electrical grid and other energy hubs during the winter in a bid to freeze the Ukrainian population and leadership in Kyiv into submission.
Total damage to the energy sector is now five times greater than it was last summer, the World Bank said.
“Energy infrastructure, housing, critical infrastructure, economy and humanitarian demining are our five priorities for this year,” Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a statement on Wednesday.
Shmyhal also warned that “the amount of damage and recovery needs currently does not include data on the loss of infrastructure, housing and businesses in the occupied territories”.
Ukrainian authorities will start restoration work in these territories when they are liberated, he said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23/cost-of-rebuilding-ukraine-du
e-to-russian-war-411bn-world-bank
Learn how @WorldBank is helping Ukraine recover and rebuild: http://wrld.bg/U61650NnWMz
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Dood, THE TITLE of your article says "Kiev pictures". Are you saying it ISN'T from Kiev?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This action is just political theater.
SECOND: When Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Milosevic.
When Muammar Gaddafi of Libya was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Gaddafi.
When Bashar al-Assad of Syria was charged with crimes, Signym sided with Al-Assad.
When Putin was charged with crimes, who did Signym side with?
What do these people have in common? Russia.
THUGR: Tyrants, dictators, thug’s murderers and criminals, one and all.
SIGNY: Oh fuck you, THUGR. Your ignorance is boundless. And worse, you refuse to learn bc you can never admit that you're wrong.
THUGR: Riddle me this comrade signym. Why do the women of Iran have a bigger set of balls than the Russians when it comes to standing up to tyrants and dictators?
Can_you_see_me_laughing?
THUGR: Bc Russia is not a tyranny and Putin is not a dictator, ignorant troll.Quote:Why Putin is casting the Ukraine war as a fight for Russia’s survivalWhy western press is focusing on the "meaning" of the battle in Ukraine.
by Brad Dress - 03/21/23 1:48 PM ET
SIGNY: Because Russia is winning.
Ukraine Pictures Show Putin Sending Ancient T-54 Tanks to War
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-pictures-show-putin-sendi
ng-ancient-t-54-tanks-to-war/
THUGR: If you believe comrade signym. Russia is doing this because they are winning.
SIGNY: Why do you keep believing what Kiev says? I would have thought that, by now, having been caught in so many lies you would have gotten the idea that nearly everything "Kiev says" is a lie.
When Bakhmut falls... and it will ... Kiev will claim it killed a zillion Russians. Their much-awaited spring offensive will be accompanied by announcements of success after success. It'll be just like Berlin, right before it fell to the Russians.
You're a loser
THUGR: If it comforts you to pretend that I get all my information from Kiev so be it. It has been obvious for years you live a lie. It's expected.
In any case, our CIA, SD, WH, and MSM get their "info" from Kiev so even if it's second or third-hand, and been laundered a couple of times, it's still from Kiev.
Loser.
Days after Putin's dead-of-night trip to a city far from the front, Zelenskyy visited the heart of the bloodiest fighting in Ukraine.
Days after Putin's dead-of-night trip in Ukraine, Zelenskyy visited troops near the front lines.
Putin's visit to Mariupol featured edited videos and was criticized by Ukrainian officials.
Photos show the two leaders' starkly different trips to the two cities, one of which is the site of fierce fighting.
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin's surprise trip to the occupied city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited troops in Bakhmut — currently the heart of the bloodiest fighting in the war.
Putin's dead-of-night trip occurred this past weekend. State media followed the Russian President meeting with residents who told him the occupied, war-torn Ukrainian city is a "little piece of paradise." He drove along city streets, saw inside new apartment complex, and visited a children's playground and renovated theater.
Daylight tells a different story of Mariupol, though. None of the video footage showed the widespread ruin across the city. Russia's invasion destroyed vast areas of buildings and infrastructure, leaving tens of thousands dead, the city's former mayor told the Associated Press.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/days-after-putin-s-dead-of-night-
trip-to-a-city-far-from-the-front-zelenskyy-visited-the-heart-of-the-bloodiest-fighting
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Originally posted by second:
World Bank says $411bn cost to rebuild war-torn Ukraine
Fuck Ukraine.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR: Riddle me this comrade signym. Why do the women of Iran have a bigger set of balls than the Russians when it comes to standing up to tyrants and dictators?
Can_you_see_me_laughing?
Cheers to you too.
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It would be a relief not to see blindingly stupid posts from THUGR and SECOND every day.
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Yeah. I could just turn on MSNBC and hear whatever they're saying word for word if I wanted listen to that bullshit.
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Quote:Signym, everything you post is an elaboration of The Truth is All Lies and Signym's Lies are the True Truth. How does this cycle end of Up is Down and Down is Now Redefined As Up? It never ends until the Russian troll is either dead or has her hands cut off. Signym, while you still have fingers, work your magic inversion of the truth on this paragraph:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It would be a relief not to see blindingly stupid posts from THUGR and SECOND every day.
US officials have said repeatedly that Russia has likely lost half its tank force in Ukraine, if not more. These staggering losses can be attributed to a whole slew of issues plaguing Russian forces, military experts told Insider, including a failure to provide the necessary fire support in combat, a lack of common sense, and little adaptability.
https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/ukraines-getting-dep
leted-uranium-tank-rounds-that-can-punch-holes-in-russian-armor-and-moscows-not-happy-about-it/amp_articleshow/98951915.cms
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Speaking of lies..
STOLEN VALOR: Top Ukraine 'volunteer' soldier revealed to be fraud, heavily promoted by Adam Kinzinger, Malcolm Nance
https://thepostmillennial.com/stolen-valor-top-ukraine-volunteer-soldi
er-revealed-to-be-fraud-heavily-promoted-by-adam-kinzinger-malcolm-nance
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After the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Putin, Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov spoke out to warn that “any attempt to implement [the warrant] is a declaration of war.”
"It calls for an immediate nuclear strike on that country!” Putin’s ally fumed during the broadcast. “Immediate!”
“That's to say,” Solovyov continued, “any attempt to do it, to go against the will of the Russian people, which has made itself very clear, must result in a missile strike!"
Solovyov’s recent threat to launch nukes at any country that attempts to arrest Putin came just days after fellow Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev also threatened to use nuclear weapons against adversarial Western powers.
Last month, shortly after President Joe Biden announced that “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia,” Medvedev lashed out and claimed Russia is prepared to use nukes to “defend” themselves.
“If the United States wants to defeat Russia, then we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including nuclear.”
https://radaronline.com/p/putin-confidante-threatens-immediate-nuclear
-strike-any-country-detains-despot/
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Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production.
An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”
The admission, published in a report by India’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday, is the first official confirmation by Indian authorities amid swirling rumors and reports in local media suggesting shortcomings in Russian capacity.
“They have given us in writing that they are not able to deliver it,” the representative said, according to the report.
CNN has contacted the Russian Embassy in New Delhi but did not receive a response at the time of publishing.
The report did not mention the specifics of the delivery.
The biggest ongoing delivery is the S-400 Triumf air defense system units India bought in 2018 for $5.4 billion. Three of these systems have been delivered and two more are awaited, Reuters reported.
IAF also depends on Russia for spares for its Su-30MKI and MiG-29 fighter jets, the mainstay of the service branch, according to Reuters.
Russia is the world’s second-largest arms exporter, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a large-scale effort to build up capacity to produce more weapons for the war in a move he said was “urgently needed.”
Putin’s order also followed repeated complaints by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin that his mercenaries were not receiving sufficient munitions in their prolonged battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/india/india-russia-arms-delivery-ukrain
e-war-intl-hnk/index.html
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Russian forces may need to advance as far as Kyiv or Lviv, said Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and confidante of President Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Russia's RIA Novosti on Friday, Medvedev was quoted as saying that Russian troops will go where they need to go "in order to destroy this infection."
He said that any Ukrainian attempts to take the Crimean peninsula would make Russia resort to "absolutely any weapon" against Kyiv. "Nothing can be ruled out here," Medvedev said.
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-updates-kyiv-prepares-for-counterassault
/a-65102156
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Ukraine may not be able to retake all Russian-occupied territory by force, the US Secretary of State has suggested, in remarks likely to anger Kyiv.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/world/ukraine-may-not-be-able-to-reclai
m-crimea-by-force-us-says/ar-AA192h4B
Ya think?
Quote:Except, if course, Blinken dismissed the Chinese diplomatic approach out of hand as "unacceptable", not even giving Kiev a chance to draw breath, much less respond
The United States is Ukraine’s most important military backer and has pledged to continue its support for “as long as it takes” to defeat the Russian invasion.
But Antony Blinken told Congress on Thursday that some of Ukraine’s stated war aims might only be possible through diplomacy.
“I think there’s going to be territory in Ukraine that the Ukrainians are determined to fight for on the ground; there may be territory that they decide that they’ll have to try to get back in other ways,” he said when asked whether the United States backed president Volodymyr Zelensky’s goal of liberating Crimea.
He added: “These have to be Ukrainian decisions about what they want their future to be and how that lands in terms of the sovereignty, the territorial integrity, the independence of the country.”
I guess we decide their diplomacy for them.
So much for respecting Ukraine's sovereignty!
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Russian Ex-Diplomat on How West Can Isolate, Topple Putin
March 25, 2023 - Boris Bondarev, a former Russian diplomat at Moscow's United Nations mission in Geneva, told Newsweek that Western nations should use the ICC decision as a springboard to undermine Putin's authority, unsettle influential Kremlin figures, and buoy the pro-democratic opposition movement in exile.
"Putin is already under suspicion of war crimes; we have this arrest warrant," Bondarev said, referring to the ICC measure that prompted threats of missile strikes and world war from Putin's allies. "The next step would be that the Western countries would declare Putin illegitimate, deny that he is a legal, lawful, and just president."
"Thus, that may be a declaration that Putin is the only obstacle to peace—the real peace—so he must be removed, one way or another," said Bondarev, who resigned his position at Russia's United Nations mission in Geneva in May 2022 in protest of the invasion.
Such a signal, Bondarev said, might help embolden Russian elites who are secretly against the war in Ukraine, or at least dissatisfied with its outcomes. This should be combined, he suggested, with an "open declaration" of opportunity for dissenters.
"In this declaration, there can be an invitation: 'Do the right thing, and we will treat you in the most favorable way,'" Bondarev said. "Of course, I understand that Western countries may be very much reluctant to do this because it will be a very huge escalatory step. I argue that it should be done—this declaration, this approach—should be voiced by the Russian opposition organizations in exile."
The pro-democratic opposition that has been silenced within Russia and abroad is divided into multiple—often feuding—camps. Though all agree on the need to unseat Putin, the various factions and organizations are divided on key issues.
A unified opposition, Bondarev said, could function akin to the World War II-era Free France, which worked with allied governments while in exile.
"This political structure should produce a unified political platform on how Russian people would see Russia's future," Bondarev said.
"The platform should be presented to Western governments, and this political structure can act like an alternative Russia," he added, noting the success of Belarusian opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. "So then Western capitals have someone to negotiate with who is not Putin," Bondarev said.
But the decades-long absence of fair elections in Russia, and the unreliability of polling, means it is difficult to say who should fill those shoes. Even the most well-known opposition figures abroad—among them jailed politician Alexei Navalny; oligarch-turned-dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky; and former chess master Garry Kasparov—have little claim to represent the people.
"Today, no opposition leader, or opposition speaker, or anyone has this legitimacy," Bondarev said. "They can say, 'I have the support of millions of people,' but they cannot produce any proof."
A system of online voting might go some way to addressing this issue, the former diplomat said, if the leaders in question can be convinced to risk their own prominent positions. Several opposition groups have proposed similar systems, though as yet there is no unified way forward.
A new generation of voices, Bondarev said, would inject life into the pro-democracy movement. "We need new political activists, new political leaders," he said. "There is a public demand for this, but there is no supply."
"That's why I think we need some influencers with their huge audiences to promote this idea," Bondarev proposed, adding that he has no grand ambitions of his own.
"Politically, I am a no-name," he said.
Newsweek reached out to the Kremlin by email to request comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-west-isolate-topple-putin-boris-bo
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A former Russian diplomat who resigned in protest of Moscow's war in Ukraine has said that the elite around President Vladimir Putin are broadly unsettled by his latest disastrous military gambit, but lack the resolve to move against "the boss."
"They really don't see any alternative to Putin," Boris Bondarev—who quit his post representing Russia at the United Nations in Geneva in May 2022 after declaring he had "never been so ashamed of my country"—told Newsweek in an interview.
Putin's Children
Members of Russia's so-called "party of peace" camp now rarely risk voicing their discontent in public. "All they can do is to mitigate the consequences," Bondarev said. "They are serving Putin, they still help him to get away with everything. They keep saying, 'What can we do? We cannot do anything. We cannot risk it, because our lives may be at risk or our children.'"
"They may be very discontented, dissatisfied, and worried about the future, but at the same time, I don't think can imagine their own futures without Putin. Without Putin, I think they would be totally lost. They feel that without Putin, without his protection, without his authority, they will be left to their own devices," he said.
"Putin grew them, raised them in this atmosphere where he decides for everybody. You don't have to decide for yourself. Putin will do it better than you can. They're like grown-up children, in a sense. People who are not used to making their own decisions, not only the elite but I think it can more or less be applied to the entire population, to some extent.
"People have been taught that you shouldn't make too many decisions. You can decide what to do with your daily life, to some extent, but all the key decisions are Putin's privilege. Everyone was quite happy about this for many years. I don't think it's easy for people to abandon this."
"The war is evidently not going as they expected," Bondarev said of Russia's most influential people. Both the pro- and anti-war camps, he said, are unsettled. "Some are annoyed and irritated by Putin's weakness, or his unwillingness to escalate and bomb NATO bases or something like that, some of the hawks in Putin's entourage."
"Others are more like 'pigeons,' and they want this war to stop as soon as possible, to return to business as usual, to lift all sanctions, and so on," he said. "I think they may soothe themselves with these illusions that there can be business as usual. I don't think that a lot of people around Putin think that what is going on now is exactly what was planned. Maybe some very stupid people."
"Maybe they realize that Putin is the key to all their problems, but I still don't think they are ready to move against him," he added.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-elite-knows-something-wrong-putin-bori
s-bondarev-1790121
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Meanwhile, in anticipation of losing eastern Ukraine, Rishi Sunak (UK PM) decided to poison it with depleted uranium shells.
Putin Has a Problem: The Russian Military Is Getting Slaughtered in Ukraine
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-has-a-problem-the-russian-m
ilitary-is-getting-slaughtered-in-ukraine/ar-AA1948fd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69167a0142d742b7ae7d308a367ed010&ei=18
au contraire
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark struck a deal to run their 250+ advanced fighter jets as a single fleet, creating a new headache for Russia
The air forces of four Nordic countries agreed to operate their fleets of around 250 fighter jets as a combined force, hoping to deter Russia by working together.
Air force commanders of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark said Friday that they have signed a letter of intent to establish a unified Nordic air defense, Reuters reported.
"The ultimate goal is to be able to operate seamlessly together as one force by developing a Nordic concept for joint air operations based on already known NATO methodology," Denmark's air force said in a statement, per Bloomberg.
https://news.yahoo.com/norway-sweden-finland-denmark-struck-104242982.
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Ukraine Posts Video of Burning Ship As Russia Finally Admits Its Loss
Russia admitted the loss of Saratov on the one-year anniversary of the ship's destruction when Felix Menkov, Russian-appointed commander of the Crimea Naval Base in Sevastopol, unveiled a plaque to commemorate the sailors who had been killed.
"A year ago, in combat, we lost the combat landing ship Saratov. We also lost the crews of the Saratov, the Novocherkask, and the Caesar Kunikov," he said according to news outlet CrimeaRealii.
"Our children and grandchildren should be raised with such role models of love and service to the Fatherland," Menkov added, without detailing the exact Russian death toll.
The media outlet noted that this is the first official confirmation of the loss of the ship in combat, following a year of denials that the ships were struck with Ukrainian missiles. Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment.
The sinking of the Saratov took place soon after Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The incident came three weeks before the Black Sea Fleet's flagship—the cruiser Moskva—was destroyed in a strike that delivered a PR coup to Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-black-sea-ship-burning-loss-17
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Speaking of lies..
STOLEN VALOR: Top Ukraine 'volunteer' soldier revealed to be fraud, heavily promoted by Adam Kinzinger, Malcolm Nance
https://thepostmillennial.com/stolen-valor-top-ukraine-volunteer-soldi
er-revealed-to-be-fraud-heavily-promoted-by-adam-kinzinger-malcolm-nance
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Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from (US) banks; officials call system ‘sound and resilient’
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/100-billion-pulled-from-banks-but-syst
em-called-sound-and-resilient.html
Hmmmmmmm....
There's really no reason to panic and pull your money out of a bank that was paying 0.0035% interest when you had it buried in undisclosed locations, was there?
No sir, there wasn't.
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Quote:Money market mutual funds have seen assets rise over the past two weeks, up $203 billion to $3.27 trillion. I'm guessing you are afraid of both banking and money market mutual funds. Do you hide cash in a coffee can buried in the backyard, 6ix? Or bury gold?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from (US) banks.
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Documentary: How mysterious explosions in Bulgaria are connected to Russia’s war in Ukraine
A string of mysterious explosions and a poisoning have targeted Bulgaria’s arms industry, which has been a crucial supplier of weapons to Ukraine.
But amid mounting evidence of Russian involvement, critics accuse Bulgarian authorities of dragging their feet in their investigations of these unsolved blasts.
A new @svobodna-evropa documentary looks into evidence of Russian sabotage, claims that there have been cover-ups by Bulgarian authorities, and whether Bulgarian arms depots are still at risk as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters a second year.
Bulgaria is in NATO. Russia surreptitiously attacking ammo warehouses in Bulgaria is an attack on NATO.
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The Problem With How the West Is Supporting Ukraine:
In short, Ukraine is being made to fight the war the hard way, not the smart way.
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
Wars are won or lost well behind the front lines. Allies should arm Ukrainians accordingly.
For the past four months, people around the world have witnessed the macabre process of Russian forces making repeated assaults near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for only the tiniest of gains. By some counts, Russia has lost about five of its soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier lost—to say nothing of massive equipment losses. Although in theory a country can win a war by using its military forces to make forward assaults against an enemy’s forces, that’s just not a smart way to fight. Military technology long ago evolved to arm both sides in conflicts with extremely lethal weaponry, and any army that tries to approach this machinery head-on is likely to suffer major, and in some cases horrific, losses.
Far more effective is to weaken your opponent’s forces before they get to the battlefield. You can limit what military infrastructure they’re able to build, make sure what they do build is substandard, hamper their ability to train troops to operate what they build, and hinder them from deploying their resources to the battlefield. These steps are doubly effective in that they save your own forces while degrading the other side’s. Over the past two centuries, the powers that have emerged triumphant have been the ones that not only fought the enemy on the battlefield but also targeted its production and deployment systems—as the Union did by controlling the waters around the Confederacy during the Civil War and as the United States and Britain did from the air against Nazi Germany.
In light of such dynamics, the manner in which the West is supporting Ukraine’s war effort is deeply frustrating. Though NATO countries have a variety of systems that can target Russian forces deep behind their lines, recent aid has been overwhelmingly geared toward preparing Ukraine to make direct assaults against the Russian army. The most widely discussed forms of equipment—such as Leopard 2 tanks, Bradley armored personnel carriers, and even Archer long-range artillery—are not the kinds of systems that can disrupt or degrade Russian forces far behind the front lines.
In short, Ukraine is being made to fight the war the hard way, not the smart way.
Ukrainian forces have indeed been pushing back against Russia at the front. But when they have been able to create or obtain the right technology, they have also attacked Russian supply and troop-deployment chains. This approach to war was probably most evident last summer, when the Ukrainians, as soon as they gained access to HIMARS rocket launchers and other Western multiple-rocket-launcher systems, embarked on a highly effective campaign against Russian supply points from Kherson to the Donbas. They managed to wreck a logistics system that had been supplying the Russian armies with huge amounts of firepower daily.
Almost immediately the Russians had to move their large supply depots out of range of the Ukrainians’ new rocket launchers, keeping essential equipment much farther from the front. This has severely limited Russia’s operations. It can fire significantly fewer shells each day and apparently can concentrate fewer vehicles on the front. The area where the Russians can properly supply their forces for operations has shrunk.
This overall approach led the Ukrainians to one of their great successes last year: the liberation of the west bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson province. When faced with a large, relatively experienced Russian force around the city of Kherson, the Ukrainians tried two different tacks. One involved direct armed assaults against the Russian salient west of the river. These assaults achieved at best modest results. The Ukrainians were able at points to push the Russian front back a few miles, but they were never able to break the line for any major gain.
Yet, in the end, the Russian army
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Putin Wouldn’t Win a War of Attrition in Ukraine
He wants the West to think that’s his goal, but the longer the conflict drags on, the worse things get for Moscow.
By Douglas London
March 24, 2023 6:50 pm ET
Vladimir Putin seeks to prevail in Ukraine through an exhausting war of attrition in which he outlasts his opponents, or so the "expert" consensus has it. The U.S. is supplying weapons to Ukraine at a remarkably slow pace, perhaps for fear of provoking a calamitous Russian escalation. It seems as if Washington is playing right into Mr. Putin’s hands.
But maybe not everything is as it seems. If I learned anything from decades as a Russian-speaking Central Intelligence Agency operations officer working against the Kremlin’s intelligence services, it was to be wary of anything they show you. This looks to me too convenient a narrative for Moscow, and one that’s belied by the facts.
Mr. Putin acts as if he doesn’t believe he can survive if he quits this conflict. But in reality, the war is existential only for the Ukrainian side. Ukrainians would suffer cultural genocide and war crimes if they gave in. Russia can walk away without serious consequences beyond its borders, and Mr. Putin knows it. He can ill afford for the Russian people to realize that they could not only overcome defeat, but never had to fight in the first place. But it’s not clear that the solution the Kremlin really wants is a war of attrition.
Can anyone, even Mr. Putin, imagine the Ukrainians quitting? If they lose external support, they still face an existential threat. It seems probable Ukraine would dig in and fight as long as it possibly could, even if the conflict devolved to guerrilla warfare in occupied streets.
Mr. Putin has to be accounting for this. He gambled wrong a year ago when he expected Ukrainian resolve to collapse quickly as Russian forces rolled in. Though he projects an inflexible image, Mr. Putin seems to still think like an intelligence officer. They rarely make the same mistake twice, particularly when they’ve been embarrassed. Were he really as reckless and blind to reality as he’s sometimes depicted, Russian forces wouldn’t have withdrawn from Kyiv’s outskirts a year ago. Mr. Putin has shown that he will bend when faced with serious consequences.
And that’s what a long war would entail. Mr. Putin might not grieve his heavy casualties, but they are embarrassing to the Kremlin and undermine his narrative of strength and military prowess. As Russian lines thin, he will feel increased pressure to expand mobilization beyond the rural and ethnic communities he has targeted to insulate his urban political base from the war’s consequences.
While some scoff at the effectiveness of Western economic sanctions, Moscow is furiously working to strengthen the ruble and find alternative consumers for the energy exports most of Europe has forsaken. But this still means lower profit, as Russia lures clients with increasingly discounted oil and gas. As the war endures, Mr. Putin will meet increasingly difficult choices between funding the conflict and improving the economy. And whatever military supplies Russia seeks from China, Iran and North Korea are hardly charitable donations—there’s no dictator’s discount. Even ruble remittances from new trade partners won’t help Mr. Putin pay off foreign debt held in U.S. dollars. And less income leaves less resources to dispense to those domestic political allies Mr. Putin needs to maintain control.
All this suggests that the longer the war endures, the worse things get for Moscow. Time allows Ukraine to deploy the sophisticated weapons now en route and the freshly trained Ukrainian operators returning from the West. More time will also enable the increased productivity of ammunition supply chains the U.S. is building. Add it all up, and Ukraine will likely have what’s needed for its much-anticipated counteroffensive. Mr. Putin may repulse those forces, but betting everything that he can is an immensely risky gamble. If Ukraine prevails, could he surv
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Where did Putin discover the Meaning of Life? From philosopher Ivan Ilyin:
After a new Russian Federation emerged from the defunct Soviet Union in 1991, Ilyin’s short book Our Tasks began to circulate in new Russian editions, his collected works were published, and his ideas gained powerful supporters. He had died forgotten in Switzerland; Putin organized a reburial in Moscow in 2005. Ilyin’s personal papers had found their way to Michigan State University; Putin sent an emissary to reclaim them in 2006. By then Putin was citing Ilyin in his annual presidential addresses to the general assembly of the Russian parliament. These were important speeches, composed by Putin himself. In the 2010s, Putin relied upon Ilyin’s authority to explain why Russia had to undermine the European Union and invade Ukraine. When asked to name a historian, Putin cited Ilyin as his authority on the past.
What interested Putin in the philosophy of Ivan Ilyin?
Like all immorality, eternity politics begins by making an exception for itself. All else in creation might be evil, but I and my group are good, because I am myself and my group is mine. Others might be confused and bewitched by the facts and passions of history, but my nation and myself have maintained a prehistorical innocence. Since the only good is this invisible quality that resides in us, the only policy is one that safeguards our innocence, regardless of the costs. Those who accept eternity politics do not expect to live longer, happier, or more fruitful lives. They accept suffering as a mark of righteousness if they think that guilty others are suffering more. Life is nasty, brutish, and short; the pleasure of life is that it can be made nastier, more brutish, and shorter for others.
Ilyin made an exception for Russia and for Russians. The Russian innocence he proclaimed was not observable in the world. It was Ilyin’s act of faith directed at his own people: salvation required seeing Russia as it was not. Since the facts of the world are just the corrupt detritus of God’s failed creation, true seeing was the contemplation of the invisible. Corneliu Codreanu, the founder of a kindred Romanian fascism, saw the Archangel Michael in prison and recorded his vision in a few lines. Although Ilyin dressed up his idea of contemplation in several books, it really was no more than that: he saw his own nation as righteous, and the purity of that vision was more important than anything Russians actually did. The nation, “pure and objective,” was what the philosopher saw when he blinded himself.
Innocence took a specific biological form. What Ilyin saw was a virginal Russian body. Like fascists and other authoritarians of his day, Ilyin insisted that his nation was a creature, “an organism of nature and the soul,” an animal in Eden without original sin. Who belonged within the Russian organism was not for the individual to decide, since cells do not decide whether they belong to a body. Russian culture, Ilyin wrote, automatically brought “fraternal union” wherever Russian power extended. Ilyin wrote of “Ukrainians” in quotation marks, because he denied their separate existence beyond the Russian organism. To speak of Ukraine was to be a mortal enemy of Russia. Ilyin took for granted that a post-Soviet Russia would include Ukraine.
Ilyin thought that Soviet power concentrated all of the Satanic energy of factuality and passion in one place. And yet he argued that the triumph of communism showed that Russia was more rather than less innocent. Communism, he maintained, was a seduction by foreigners and deracinated Russians whom Ilyin called “Tarzans.” They lusted to violate immaculate Russia precisely because it was guileless and defenseless. In 1917, Russians had simply been too good to resist the cargo of sin arriving from the West. Despite the depredations of Soviet leaders, Russians retained an imperceptible goodness. Unlike Europe and America, which accepted facts and passions as life, Russia retained an underlying “Spirit” that recalled Go
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Russian Nukes in Belarus: Why Putin Is Escalating Again
Alex Kokcharov, a risk analyst specializing in Russia and Ukraine, told Newsweek that the weekend announcement "doesn't mean that the nuclear weapons will necessarily be deployed," only that the infrastructure to base them in and launch them from Belarus is being put in place.
"I think this is mostly politically motivated, and it indicates that Russia is not doing particularly well on the battlefield," Kokcharov said. "They are going back to nuclear saber rattling in order to discourage European countries from supporting Ukraine. I don't think it will work."
"If we look at the last year, Russia was ramping up their nuclear rhetoric when they were not doing particularly well on the battlefield. There was the first spike of these Russian nuclear threats in September, when the Kharkiv counteroffensive was taking place. And then another round was in late October, early November, when the Kherson operation was taking place."
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-nukes-belarus-why-putin-escalating-ag
ain-ukraine-nato-1790610
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Another Day and Another Death Threat Out Of Russia:
Vladimir Putin's top security aide, Nikolai Patrushev, has insisted that the dictator is ready to destroy the West if there are any attempts to try to stop Russia's war in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin insists he is ready to destroy the West with nuclear weapons as Russia launched new hypersonic missile tests today, his top security aide has said.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-ready-destroy-
west-29566212
"NATO instructors and advisers train the Ukrainian military, and mercenaries fight as part of neo-Nazi battalions,” said Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.
He added that the U.S. and its European allies are trying to prolong this military confrontation. "They do not hide their main goal — the defeat of Russia on the battlefield and its further dismemberment.”
https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/03/31506398/putin-ally-says-west-want
s-dismemberment-of-russia-nato-countries-are-a-party-to-the-conflict
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Reports say that it was the Azov Battalion that held hostages in the theater and blew it up themselves to blame the Russians.
According to various non-Russian sources, the Russians flew no air missions or fired artillery that night in that area, so it would have been impossible for Ruusians to have destroyed the theater. We need to investigate to find the truth, since "people say" all kinds of things and often lie.
But as usual, you believe what 'sonebody said" without looking carefully at evidence. I'd sure hate to see you in a jury panel!
Russians might as well just sit back with all the Ukrainians killing other Ukrainians according to you.
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Putin’s Former Publicity Masterminds Air His Dirty Laundry
The brains behind Putin’s carefully crafted ‘macho’ facade have a lot to say about the Russian president’s public image meltdown.
By Anna Nemtsova
Russian President Vladimir Putin is diving headfirst into an unprecedented—and irreversible—public image disaster over the war in Ukraine.
Long gone are the days of carefully staged photoshoots of Putin riding a horse bare-chested, or diving into rivers to find ancient Greek urns. Now, images of Volodymyr Zelensky visiting Ukrainian soldiers in combat zones across the country stand in stark contrast with reports of the Russian president holding court in the Kremlin and meeting with ministers and generals at comically long tables.
And when the Russian president did finally travel to the war zone, the image he struck shocked former aides and public relations experts.
A day after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes this month—the Kremlin announced that Putin had flown by helicopter to Mariupol and driven a car into the city. Russian officials released a shaky, amateur-style video of the Russian president looking quite miserable, nervously playing with the zipper of his parka with sounds of explosions in the background.
“Putin’s left his comfort zone in the bunker, where he has spent three years, and it is phenomenal to see how his publicity stunts have degraded,” long-time Kremlin observer, Olga Bychkova, a former presenter on Echo of Moscow radio station, told The Daily Beast. “He is surrounded by security guards. No professional cameramen have access to him any longer.”
So, how did the Russian president’s macho publicity stunts take such a nosedive?
More at https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-kremlin-flacks-dish-on-putins-pub
lic-image-crisis-over-ukraine-war
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Money market mutual funds have seen assets rise over the past two weeks, up $203 billion to $3.27 trillion. I'm guessing you are afraid of both banking and money market mutual funds. Do you hide cash in a coffee can buried in the backyard, 6ix? Or bury gold?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nearly $100 billion in deposits pulled from (US) banks.
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I use banks. I also have CDs and Money Market Mutual Funds.
And yes, I do have money buried as well. I've got a diverse portfolio.
No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
At least you can wipe your ass with a $100 bill.
Where are you going to flash that gold where somebody isn't just going to take it from you or kill you outright to get it? Unarmed Democrats with gold will be unarmed and/or dead Democrats without gold in the Wasteland.
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Quote:In Mad Max World your US dollars will be as spendable as Confederate dollars. Instead, Canadian dollars are what you need to bury in your backyard. Or if you're a Texas Trumptard, Mexican pesos. Whichever border is closest, that is the currency you should be burying. In Ukraine, after Russians nuke it? Best to have buried Euros or Russian rubles, not Ukrainian hryvnias.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
History of hryvnia https://bank.gov.ua/en/uah/uah-history
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In Mad Max World your US dollars will be as spendable as Confederate dollars.
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No gold though. Gold is a scam. If we ever enter Mad Max world it will be as useless as cash, and anybody arguing otherwise is living in pure fantasy.
Yes. I know that. And you know that I know that because you cut that part out of my post when you quoted it.
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At least you can wipe your ass with a $100 bill.
I wasn't saying that cash would be any more valuable than gold in Mad Max world, I was just saying that the people scaremongering the dupes into using up all of their cash TODAY to pay for seriously inflated Gold prices and hoard up gold for a day that might not ever come are con artists... and very good ones at that.
Maybe not as good as SBF and crypto/NFT con artists have been short term in the last 5 or so years, but Gold has been a very long con that has made a very few people seriously rich off of very many people for decades and that grift is still very much alive and well.
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Instead, Canadian dollars are what you need to bury in your backyard. Or if you're a Texas Trumptard, Mexican pesos. Whichever border is closest, that is the currency you should be burying.
Incorrect. Canadian Dollars and Mexican Pesos will be nothing but toilet paper as well.
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In Ukraine, after Russians nuke it? Best to have buried Euros or Russian rubles, not Ukrainian hryvnias.
It doesn't matter there either.
The only currency that will be valid in the Wasteland is guns and ammo, good health, intelligence, grit, building/engineering/survivalism skills, the ability to work with others (or quickly ingratiate yourself with and prove how valuable you will be to somebody powerful and charismatic who does).
SPOILER ALERT: Democrat voting pussies in the Millennial and Zoomer generations who spent half of their college days in cry rooms and came out with college degrees in gender studies need not apply. With the exception of child bearing aged women in that demographic that don't look like a thumb, they all die within the first month.
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Stockholm said on Wednesday that it was summoning the Russian ambassador to Sweden for warning the country would become a "legitimate target" of "retaliatory measures" if it joined NATO.
Russian ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev on Tuesday warned Finland and Sweden that by joining the alliance they both risked embroiling themselves in Moscow’s deepening confrontation with the West.
"If anyone still believes that this [NATO membership] in any way will somehow improve Europe's security, you can be sure that the new members of the hostile bloc will become a legitimate target for Russian retaliatory measures, including military ones," he wrote in a statement posted to the embassy’s website.
Tatarintsev said that rather than becoming safer, Sweden would be "taking a step towards the abyss."
In response, Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom announced that "the Ministry for Foreign Affairs will summon the Russian ambassador to make a clear statement against this blatant attempt at influence.”
"Sweden's security policy is determined by Sweden — no one else," Billstrom added.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/29/sweden-summons-russian-envoy
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Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
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Quote:On one hand, Trump says he can protect Finland for free. On the other hand, NATO requires a country to spend 2% of its GDP on defense. Why then join NATO? Save your money, Finland! No one should join NATO, if they believe Trump is truthful:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday that if re-elected president, he'd use his relationships with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to orchestrate a "very easy negotiation" for peace.
"And there's a very easy negotiation to take place. But I don't want to tell you what it is because then I can't use that negotiation. It'll never work. But it's a very easy negotiation to take place," Trump said. "I will have it solved within one day, a peace between them."
"So you'd prefer if you were president, you think you would have a negotiated settlement?" Hannity asked Trump.
"Within 24 hours," Trump said.
Trump has kept saying it will take him just one day to solve the war in Ukraine.
"It wouldn't even be tough, I know what to say to each of 'em," Trump said during a phone call to the conservative TV channel Real America's Voice, referring once again to Putin and Zelenskyy.
He made the same claim at his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas, where he declared he's currently the only presidential candidate who could promise to "prevent World War III."
Trump has not provided any concrete substantiation on how he would end a conflict in 24 hours.
In March, he said on Fox News that he "could've made a deal" for Russia to take over "certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas" in Ukraine. The international community has condemned Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory. Zelenskyy also said in July that Ukraine will not cede territory to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia.
In March 2022, a month after the war kicked off, Trump also proposed a plan to try to end the war that involved pressuring Putin with US nuclear submarines — a suggestion that ran counter to all of the US's efforts to avoid direct military intervention in the war.
"And we say, 'Oh, he's a nuclear power.' But we're a greater nuclear power. We have the greatest submarines in the world, the most powerful machines ever built," Trump told the host Stuart Varney during an appearance on Fox Business,
"You should say, 'Look, you mention that word one more time, we're going to send them over and we'll be coasting back and forth, up and down your coast," Trump said. "You can't let this tragedy continue. You can't let these, these thousands of people die."
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-keeps-saying-solve-ukraine-034612851.html
6ixStringJack, the question for Finland is simple. Can Trump's Secret Plan end the War in Ukraine in 24 hours? If Finland does join NATO, that is a good sign that Finland does not believe Trump can do what he says.
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‘May the force be with you’: Star Wars actor Mark Hamill lends Jedi voice to Ukraine
Chaos strike when air raid sirens start howling in war-torn Ukraine, but some Ukrainian Star Wars fans are finding comfort and strength in a familiar voice.
“Attention. Air raid alert,” says Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the popular sci-fi film series. “Proceed to the nearest shelter”.
After dangers from the skies pass, Hamill announces that the “air alert is over” and signs off with “May the force be with you”.
The actor has lent his voice to Air Alert, a mobile phone app linked to Ukraine’s air defence system, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
The app warns Ukrainians that Russian missiles, bombs and deadly exploding drones may be incoming when the raid sirens start howling, said the report.
“Don’t be careless,” Hamill warns. “Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
Hamil told the news agency that he has admired from California how Ukraine has “shown such resilience... under such terrible circumstances”.
Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, now in its second year, reminds him of the Star Wars saga with fearless rebels battling and eventually defeating the Galactic Empire.
Ms Olena Yeremina, who is a business manager in Kyiv, said Hamill’s “May the force be with you” sign-off made her laugh at first. But now, its enduring humour gives her strength, according to AP.
“It’s a very cool phrase for this situation,” she said. “I wouldn’t say that I feel like a Ukrainian Jedi, but sometimes this phrase reminds me to straighten my shoulders and keep working.”
More at https://www.straitstimes.com/life/may-the-force-be-with-you-star-wars-
actor-mark-hamill-lends-jedi-voice-to-ukraine
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The battle over Bakhmut, the eastern city in Ukraine, has turned into a “slaughter-fest" for the Russians, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Wednesday. The head of the Wagner mercenary group said the Bakhmut fighting "has already practically destroyed the Ukrainian army," but added that Wagner has "been pretty battered" as well.
There are roughly 6,000 Wagner group mercenaries fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told US lawmakers on Wednesday.
“They're conducting combat operations right now in Bakhmut primarily. It's probably about 6,000 or so actual mercenaries and maybe another 20 or 30,000 recruits that they get, many of whom come from prisons,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee alongside US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. “And they are suffering an enormous amount of casualties in the Bakhmut area; the Ukrainians are inflicting a lot of death and destruction on these guys.”
“The Ukrainians are doing a very effective area defense that is proven to be very costly to the Russians. For about the last 20, 21 days, the Russians have not made any progress whatsoever in and around Bahkmut,” he said. “So it's a slaughter-fest for the Russians. They're getting hammered in the vicinity of Bahkmut and the Ukrainians have fought very, very well.”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-29-23/
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not even taking into consideration any alleged Russian threats, Sweeden and Finland would do themselves a huge favor by staying far the hell away from NATO.
We already protect Finland for free. The only reason they have free healthcare in most of Europe is because they don't have to spend any real money on their military because Big Brother USA puts all of their money into theirs and plays world cop.
Nobody in NATO outside of the US pays their share either anyhow, so that point is moot.
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Quote:How did you convince yourself of that?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We already protect Finland for free. The only reason they have free healthcare in most of Europe is because they don't have to spend any real money on their military because Big Brother USA puts all of their money into theirs and plays world cop.
Nobody in NATO outside of the US pays their share either anyhow, so that point is moot.
Health spending accounted for 9.2 % of Finland's GDP. – almost one percentage point below the EU average of 9.9 %.
https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-12/2021_chp_fi_english.p
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Compare that 9.2 % for Finland to 18.3% for the US.
https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-tr
ends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet
Military expenditure (% of GDP) in Finland was reported at 2.0303 % in 2021.
https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/military-expenditure-percent-of-g
dp-wb-data.html
Compare that 2.0303 % for Finland to 3.4832 % for the US.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/military-expenditure-percen
t-of-gdp-wb-data.html
6ix, Finland fought two wars with Russia in the 20th century. Finland beat Russians to death in a ratio of 5 dead Russian soldiers (not civilians) per dead Finn but Russians still think Russia won, for some reason. The exact same thing happened with Germany. 5 dead Russians per dead German. I presume the average Russian is a poor warrior, just as the average Russian is poor compared to a German or a Finn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
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Truth Or Lies (2015), Chapter 5 from The Road to Unfreedom (2018) by Timothy Snyder
"He who is deceived is turned into a thing."—Mikhail Bakhtin, 1943
“Information war is now the main type of war.” Dmitry Kiselev was in a position to know. He was the coordinator of the Russian state agency for international news, and the host of a popular Sunday evening program, Vesti Nedeli, that led the information offensive against Ukraine.
The first men the Kremlin sent to Ukraine, the spearpoint of the Russian invasion, were the political technologists. A war where Surkov commands is fought in unreality. He was in Crimea and Kyiv in February 2014, and served as Putin’s advisor on Ukraine thereafter. The Russian political technologist Alexander Borodai was the press officer for Crimea during its annexation. In summer 2014, the “prime ministers” of two newly invented “people’s republics” in Ukraine’s southeast were Russian media managers.
A modest affair in military terms, the Russian invasion of southern and then southeastern Ukraine involved the most sophisticated propaganda campaign in the history of warfare. The propaganda worked at two levels: first, as a direct assault on factuality, denying the obvious, even the war itself; second, as an unconditional proclamation of innocence, denying that Russia could be responsible for any wrong. No war was taking place, and it was thoroughly justified.
When Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2014, President Putin lied with purpose. On February 28 he claimed, “We have no intention of rattling the sabre and sending troops to Crimea.” He had already sent troops to Crimea. At the moment he uttered these words, Russian troops had been marching through Ukrainian sovereign territory for four days. For that matter, the Night Wolves were in Crimea, following Russian soldiers around in a loud display of revving engines, a media stunt to make the Russian presence unmistakable. Even so, Putin chose to mock reporters who noted the basic facts. On March 4, he asserted that Russian soldiers were local Ukrainian citizens who had purchased their uniforms at local stores. “Why don’t you have a look at the post-Soviet states,” Putin proposed. “There are many uniforms there that are similar. You can go to a store and buy any kind of uniform.”
Putin was not trying to convince anyone in that post-Soviet world that Russia had not invaded Ukraine. Indeed, he took for granted that Ukrainian leaders would not believe his lie. The provisional Ukrainian government understood that Ukraine was under Russian attack, which is why it plead for an international response rather than reacting with military force. Had leaders in Kyiv believed Putin, they certainly would have ordered resistance. Putin’s aim was not to fool Ukrainians but to create a bond of willing ignorance with Russians, who were meant to understand that Putin was lying but to believe him anyway. As the reporter Charles Clover put it in his study of Lev Gumilev: “Putin has correctly surmised that lies unite rather than divide Russia’s political class. The greater and the more obvious the lie, the more his subjects demonstrate their loyalty by accepting it, and the more they participate in the great sacral mystery of Kremlin power.”
Putin’s direct assault on factuality might be called implausible deniability. By denying what everyone knew, Putin was creating unifying fictions at home and dilemmas in European and American newsrooms. Western journalists are taught to report the facts, and by March 4 the factual evidence that Russia had invaded Ukraine was overwhelming. Russian and Ukrainian journalists had filmed Russian soldiers marching through Crimea. Ukrainians were already calling Russian special forces “little green men,” a joking suggestion that the soldiers in their unmarked uniforms must have come from outer space. The soldiers could not speak Ukrainian; local Ukrainians were also quick to notice Russian slang particular to Russian cities and not used in Ukraine. As the reporter Ekaterina Sergatskova poin
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"He who is deceived is turned into a thing."—Mikhail Bakhtin, 1943
I read this and Jack immediately came to mind.
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Chapter Five from The Road to Unfreedom (2018) by Timothy Snyder
Truth Or Lies (2015)
Vladimir Antyufeyev was Russia’s leading specialist in the form of geopolitical theater known as “frozen conflict.” In a frozen conflict, Russia occupies small parts of a nearby country (Moldova since 1991, Georgia since 2008, Ukraine since 2014), and then presents its own occupation as an internal problem that prevents its neighbors from having closer relations with the European Union or NATO.
For Antyufeyev, the desires of the people of the Donbas were subordinate to the prerogatives of a far grander struggle against the European Union and the United States, which he portrayed as the Satanic West. He promised an offensive that would turn the tide in this global war. The Soviet Union had not collapsed, he said, because of its own problems, but because the West had deployed mysterious “destructive technologies”—this phrase, as in the Izborsk Club manifesto, meant “facts.” The Russian invasion of Ukraine, Antyufeyev said, must be understood as the self-defense of innocent Russians from an alliance between “the Freemasons of Europe and the United States” and “the fascists of Ukraine.” Antyufeyev had mastered schizofascism. Russia was at war against “fascists,” but these fascists were somehow in league with international “Freemasons.” The idea of a global conspiracy of Masons is fascist. Antyufeyev was using this fascist portrayal of the world to present himself as an anti-fascist.
Since Ukraine was the focus of the efforts of the global anti-Russian conspiracy, victory there, Antyufeyev thought, might change the world. The Russian intervention in Ukraine, Antyufeyev explained, was a defense of Russia’s natural gas and fresh water from a rapacious United States. It was all one struggle, but it could be won. In Antyufeyev’s view, “Ukraine is a disintegrating state. Exactly like the United States.” The destruction of the United States was both desirable and inevitable. “If the world were saved from demonic constructions such as the United States, it would be easier for everyone to live. And one of these days it will happen.”
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"He who is deceived is turned into a thing."—Mikhail Bakhtin, 1943
I read this and Jack immediately came to mind.
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Let's talk about how it's Mika Brazenski's job to control what you think, worm.
Meanwhile... It looks like Second ignored you again. The only guy left here that agrees with anything you think and he won't even acknowledge that you exist.
That's got to sting, huh?
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Quote:I read what he wrote and it stood up well and didn't need me saying "Ditto!" like the Dittoheads who once listened to the Rush Limbaugh show. Before that fat lying sack of shit Rush Limbaugh died from smoking (get the message, 6ix) the fat lying sack of shit Trump gave Rush the Medal of Freedom for being the biggest asshole on talk radio.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Let's talk about how it's Mika Brazenski's job to control what you think, worm.
Meanwhile... It looks like Second ignored you again. The only guy left here that agrees with anything you think and he won't even acknowledge that you exist.
That's got to sting, huh?
6ix, you would fit in well with Dittoheads and the Russkies. They love being told that Putin is a fine man who will be reelected. They get angry when told Putin is a criminal just as 6ix gets angry when told Trump is a criminal.
Putin awards medals to soldiers accused of Bucha massacre
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-war-putin-meda
ls-bucha-b2060568.html
Limbaugh was visibly emotional as the president spoke about his longtime friend, who announced Monday that he's been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. He was one of the Trumps' special guests at the State of the Union address, which touched on economic development, school choice, health care, immigration and the military.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/02/05/why-did-trump-
give-medal-freedom-rush-limbaugh-during-sotu/4665020002/
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SECOND, you post endless bullshit about anything but the TOPIC OF THIS THREAD, which (in case you don't remember) is Ukraine.
RUSSIA!
PUTIN!
TRUMPTARDS!
LIMBAUGH!
I guess things must be going well for "your side" in Ukie-land, huh?
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Quote:If you would shut up, Signym, nobody would know how meaningless your life is and how empty inside you actually are. The same is true of Medvelev:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Signym's brain farts stinking up the internet.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev leveraged comments about sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine to continue information operations that portray the West as escalatory. Medvedev likely responded to Viktor Orban’s March 31 statements regarding alleged European discussions about sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and stated that Russian forces would target the hypothetical peacekeepers.[16] Medvedev argued that a Western-led peacekeeping mission to Ukraine would end in tragedies reminiscent of Yugoslavia and other conflicts.[17] There are no indications outside of Orban’s comments that Western officials are seriously discussing such a proposal, and Medvedev likely used Orban’s comments to construct a straw man proposal to paint the West as trying to escalate the war in Ukraine.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new Russian Foreign Policy Concept on March 31 that likely aims to support the Kremlin’s attempts to promote a potential anti-Western coalition.
• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues to use high-profile public statements to portray Belarus as a sovereign state despite its current de-facto occupation by Russian forces.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov promptly rejected Lukashenko’s suggestion of a ceasefire and indicated that the Kremlin is not interested in serious negotiations.
• Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev leveraged comments about sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine to continue information operations that portray the West as escalatory.
• Russian forces continued ground attacks along the Svatove-Kreminna line.
• Russian forces made gains within Bakhmut and Ukrainian forces regained positions in the Bakhmut area.
• Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Avdiivka-Donetsk frontline.
• Ukrainian strikes against Russian concentration areas in southern Ukraine are likely causing the Russian grouping in the area to change tactics to avoid the risk of strikes.
• Russian officials continue to state that Russian forces have no plans for a formal second wave of mobilization.
• Russian officials continue to send Ukrainian children to camps in Russia.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-march-31-2023
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I posted this back in May, 2014. It was true then, and even truer now. But both liberaloid losers and neocon jerkoffs refused to see the truth, bc it doesn't fit in with their "narrative".
Doods, ditch the narrative and wake up, before your fearless leaders eat you alive..
Quote:The pro-Nazi groups have since been folded into the regular army. There are a few in each unit, and they act like the Soviet Commissars were said to have acted in WWII: With pistols to the backs of the regular troops, enforcing loyalty to the cause.
It seems clear to me that the USA, the EU, and NATO are doing everything they can to provoke a war with Russia. This includes providing political cover and cookies and photo-ops with John McCain for Ukraine’s neo-Nazis, personally insulting Putin, breaking negotiated agreements with Russia, endlessly threatening sanctions, and lying in the press (with fake photos, fake flyers, and false reports).
The latest entry into the “provoke a war” campaign is the IMF. The IMF seems intent on pitting Ukraine into a death-match with Russia by threatening their loan status: Fight, or else your loan conditions will be ‘renegotiated’. Since Ukraine’s economy is hanging on ONLY by this thread, the IMF’s statement is an existential threat to the Kiev government.
At this juncture, there’s no point in trying to figure who is behind all this. With the entry of the IMF (and for all I know, the remainder of the troika: the European Commission and the European Central Bank ECB) into the fray, this is clearly a well-coordinated plan, with the USA and the EU and the IMF alternately taking turns to push the project forward, creating no discernable division of interest between them.
Until recently, the Kiev government has been reluctant to mobilize its army because the army itself is probably divided; there have been reports of “security forces” defecting to the east. Instead, the Kiev government has been trying to create citizen militias pro-Nazi groups and other irregular forces to take the place of the army.
Quote:Also, dragooning teens and old men off the streets to throw themselves into Russian artillery. Broken economy.
Since the IMF has threatened to renegotiate the loan status, Turchinov, the unelected President of Kiev… oops, I mean Ukraine… has reinstated the draft. I can't imagine what liberal pro-western Ukrainians are thinking now... "Doubled gas prices? Halved pensions? And now the draft???"
None of this would have happened if Germany and France held Kiev's feet to the fire and forced them to uphold the MinskII agreement. But all of those signatories later said that they lied (huh. A feature of the west.) when they signed the agreement and ony negotiated it to buy time to arm and train Ukrainians to continue their death-match with Russia.
Poor Ukrainian people. Inveigled into suicide. It didn't have to be this way.
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Quote:The Russian counterattack against the Ukrainian army was launched in July 2014 from the territory of the Russian Federation. It began with massive artillery barrages launched from the Russian side of the border. Evgeny Zhukov, one of the Ukrainian soldiers clearing a stretch of the border in the Luhansk region, recorded the consequences of the first Russian artillery barrage of July 11. Writing on his Facebook page that evening, he wished to correct reports that he and his men had been in a battle. That was not the case. They had been targeted, as he correctly stated, in “a carefully prepared, precisely rehearsed, and successful artillery strike on our military base at the Luhansk border from the Russian side.” He described as many of the seventy-nine people who were killed as he could. At the end of his post, he offered them all “a low bow.”
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I posted this back in May, 2014.
Zhukov was describing the first strike in a massive Russian artillery campaign directed against the Ukrainian army. It lasted for four weeks. Until August 8, Russian artillery fired regularly from at least sixty-six positions on the Russian side of the border. Units such as Zhukov’s were helpless. Ukraine was at a permanent disadvantage in the information war—some European and American observers were still uncertain that a war was going on, or that Russia was the aggressor. In this fog of stupefaction, a Ukrainian attack on Russian territory would have been a political disaster. And so the information war determined the conditions of the war on the ground. Russia could shell Ukraine from its own territory without consequences, but Ukraine could not consider responding in kind. Some Ukrainian soldiers under artillery fire even fled across the border to Russia, because they knew that Russian territory would be safe. Meanwhile, Russian journalists at the Russian-Ukrainian border had no difficulty in seeing that “Russia is shelling Ukraine from Russian territory.” Russian citizens in the border zone took videos of Russian soldiers in action. The Russian soldier Vadim Gregoriev, stationed in Mateiovo Kurgan, in Russia, posted proudly that “all night we pounded Ukraine.”
Armies usually evacuate civilians from an artillery range so that they will not be killed by the enemy’s return fire. Russian authorities gave no such orders, presumably because they were confident no counterstrike was coming. Children on the Russian side of the border, unlike children on the Ukrainian side of the border, learned to sleep through shelling: it was not directed at them. Some local Russians felt ill at ease about this one-way war, in which their farmsteads were used to rain down death on people not so different from themselves. But a sense of safety combined with television propaganda helped to resolve guilt: “It’s awful, but we’ve understood already that the shooting is not at us, but from us.” And if the shooting is “from us,” it must be right and good: “Our people are cleansing the border of fascists.” After all, said a local Russian, if “Nazis are committing genocide” on the Ukrainian side, then such unusual measures must be justified.
The Russian journalists who reported on the shelling were placing themselves at risk. One of them, Elena Racheva, found herself speaking to FSB officers in Kuibyshevo as the daily cannonade began. “Is that a Grad?” she asked, after they had all paused to listen to the roar characteristic of that artillery piece. All the FSB men smiled. “It was thunder,” said one. “I didn’t hear a thing,” said a second. “It was my wife calling,” was the joke of a third. “It’s a military salute,” was the final witticism. “You understand,” said Racheva, “that I can write about this.” And the threatening reply: “And then my colleagues will come and explain more persuasively that this was a salute.”
The Ukrainian army could not shell Russia, but it could shell Russian soldiers and their allies inside Ukraine. The Russian artillery campaign began only six days after Girkin withdrew his men to the ci
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One day after Russia began shelling Ukraine, Russian television provided a compelling escalation in the competition for innocence. On July 12, 2014 Pervyi Kanal told a stirring — and entirely fictional — story of a three-year-old Russian boy who was crucified by Ukrainian soldiers in Sloviansk. No evidence was provided, and independent Russian journalists noted the story’s problems: none of the people in the story existed, nor did the “Lenin Square” where the atrocity supposedly transpired. When confronted with this, Russia’s deputy minister for communications, Alexei Volin, said that ratings were all that mattered. People watched the cruci-fiction, so all was well.
It seems that Alexander Dugin personally invented the cruci-fiction, a version of which had already appeared on his personal social media. The image of a murdered innocent made Russia the Christ of nations and its war of aggression a response to diabolical cruelty. The purpose of the Russian intervention was nominally to protect speakers of Russian, or as Putin said, “the Russian world.” Since everyone on all sides of the conflict spoke Russian, the Russian intervention was killing Russian speakers rather than protecting them. The inconvenience of the factual was overcome by what Dugin liked to call “an archetype,” the killing of Jesus. A bloody and confusing war started by flawed Russian leaders that killed thousands of Russian speakers became the martyrdom of an innocent Russian body.
Russian television was the instrument of implausible deniability. It denied the presence of Russian special forces, secret services, commanders, volunteers, and weapons. Prominent Russian citizens such as Girkin, Borodai, and Antyufeyev appeared on Russian television screens, described as activists of “Novorossiia” or administrators of the “Donetsk People’s Republic.” The same Russian television channels that claimed Russian soldiers were Ukrainian volunteers released video of men at war in Ukraine with what were unmistakably advanced Russian weapons systems. The most modern Russian tanks, not available for foreign sale and never before seen outside Russia, appeared on Ukrainian territory. Russians were not meant to decide the factual question of whether or not their army was in Ukraine, which was obviously the case. They were meant to follow the cues of a television drama: if the voiceover instructed that Russians and their weapons were local, then that was the story to be followed.
Chapter Five, Truth Or Lies (2015), from The Road to Unfreedom (2018) by Timothy Snyder
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Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
It has received a bonanza of Western arms in the past few months
On September 22nd 1941 Britain declared “tanks for Russia” week, with factories churning out armour to “repel the savage invaders”. The wife of the Soviet ambassador in London christened the first tank personally: “Stalin”. The first Leopard tank to arrive in Ukraine, a gift from Poland in February, has remained anonymous. But it is the vanguard of a substantial arsenal coming Ukraine’s way. While all eyes are now on the battle for the eastern town of Bakhmut, attention will soon turn to an expected counter-offensive that could start as early as April.
The German-made Leopard has been at the heart of tricky debates among Ukraine’s partners. On January 25th Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, ended weeks of dithering by promising to send the Leopard 2A6, an advanced variant. Many thought that would unleash a torrent of donations from the dozen other European countries which operate Leopards. It has been more of a trickle. So far, the coalition has pledged just two battalions of the most modern Leopards (a Ukrainian tank battalion is supposed to have 31 tanks). Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are also purchasing at least 100 older, but refurbished, Leopard 1A5s for Ukraine, making up another three battalions.
The Leopards are being supplemented with a motley collection of other tanks. Britain is sending a company of 14 Challenger 2s. America has promised 31 M1A2 Abrams, the most advanced tanks in its arsenal, though it looks likely that they will not arrive for months. Poland, which has promised 14 Leopards and has already sent around 250 Soviet-designed T-72 tanks to Ukraine, will send 60 modernised T-72s. A variety of infantry fighting vehicles, from the ageing Soviet-era BMP-1 to America’s Stryker and Bradley vehicles, will pad out the armoured brigades.
Yet the fixation on tanks has distracted from a more important shift in strategy. In December America and Britain realised that a protracted war was not in the West’s interests. Russia, moreover, was even weaker than previously thought. The mood, says one official involved in those discussions, was: “If we want something to change, we need to change something.” The turning-point came on January 20th at the eighth meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, an American-led meeting of defence ministers held roughly monthly at a big American air base at Ramstein in Germany. There, allies agreed to equip Ukraine with more than a division’s worth of kit, with the aim of having much of it in place by the end of March.
The flow of arms has accordingly turned from a trickle to a flood. Of all the military aid pledged by the Pentagon since the war began, 40%—costing over $8bn—has come in the three months since December 9th (see chart). One European defence official says that the infusion of arms agreed on in Germany in January alone amounts to two-thirds of the total sent to Ukraine in all of 2022. Most of the donations are not as sexy as tanks, but are still crucial—the latest American package includes armoured bridge-laying vehicles, for instance, which would be vital for any offensive in the south or east.
Ukraine’s army is being transformed as a result. The bulk of its hardware is still of Soviet origin. But whereas the ratio of Soviet-standard to Western kit stood at five to one at the end of last year, that is expected to fall to five to two as the aid flows in. In other words, almost a third of Ukraine’s army will soon have NATO-standard equipment. General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top officer, hopes that he will eventually have three new army corps at his disposal, each with six brigades, and each comprising more than 20,000 men.
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James Olson, CIA former chief of counterintelligence, said he believes the sharks are now circling for Putin.
"It is not going well at all. I believe Putin is in a no-win situation now," Olson told The Sun Online.
"If Putin stays in power, there will be a long war because he will not give up - but I do not think that Putin is going to stay in power. I believe that he will be removed from power.
"I believe that there is a strong undercurrent of opposition to Putin in the military, in the intelligence services, among the oligarchs."
Putin is known to live in fear of an uprising or internal coup - allegedly being obsessed with the toppling and subsequent killing of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Olson went on: "Putin is destroying Russia. I believe there are some
good Russians, some patriotic Russians who will decide enough is
enough.
"I think Putin will be taken out. I would not rule out assassination.
"I think it is actually likely that some patriotic Russians will decide they need to eliminate Putin.
"And that would be the end of the war. Because the Russian people are suffering and they are losing people. Putin is bleeding Russia and he cannot do that forever."
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Interview with Mikhail Shishkin: ‘The main enemy of Russian culture is the Russian regime’
The revered Russian writer and Putin critic on how the war in Ukraine has divided his nation, and why culture is the only cure
Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow and is one of the most lauded writers in contemporary Russian literature, and the only one to receive all three of Russia’s most prestigious literary awards. An outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and what he calls his “criminal regime”, he has lived in exile in Switzerland since 1995. In My Russia: War Or Peace?, his most recent book to be translated into English, he surveys the violent contours of Russia history and examines the troubled relationship between the Russian state and its citizens.
You’ve spoken in the past of a civil war in Russian literature between nationalists and liberals. Has that deepened since the invasion of Ukraine?
Twenty years ago we were all together in Kyiv at the literary festival – writers and poets writing in Russian in Ukraine. And I had the feeling that finally we are building the future Russian culture, where mutual understanding is important. And then later the Crimea annexation came and I saw people I’d been sitting at the table with shouting: “Crimea is ours! Crimea is ours!” It was like the famous play by [Eugène] Ionesco, Rhinoceros, where people turn into rhinoceroses. It wasn’t possible to talk to them. It was impossible to talk to my brother who lives in Moscow. So we became strangers. There is something like a civilisation gap between us in Russian culture. I can understand why people who don’t read books support this war. But it’s impossible for me to explain why cultured people support this war.
Putin has the psychology of all dictators: ‘If I leave this world, the world must go with me’
In your book you say it’s the mission of all Russian writers and artists to show that not all Russians support this war. But as you say, many artists and writers don’t think that’s their mission.
It’s a mission for me now. All my life I felt very solid ground under my feet. It was Russian culture. And now it’s blown away. One hundred years ago Russian immigrants were not ashamed of speaking Russian on the streets of Berlin or Paris. But now they are ashamed to speak their language. And my mission now is to do everything to return dignity to the Russian language. And that is possible only with the victory of Ukraine in this war against our common enemy, the Russian regime, because the main enemy of Russian culture is the Russian regime.
You write that Russia will have a future only if it passes through total defeat. Is that a viable option for a nuclear power?
Putin has the psychology of all dictators: “If I leave this world, the world must go with me.” They don’t have empathy. They don’t love people. They hate people. And so I’m sure he would press the red button. But nobody will fulfil his order to destroy the Earth. Nobody. And you know why? Because in Russia the main question is not like in Russian classical literature of 19th century: who is to blame? What is to be done? No, the main question is: is the tsar real or false? And you can prove that you are real by winning a war. Stalin killed millions of people but he is beloved by the population. Gorbachev was beloved in the west, but he lost the Afghanistan war and the cold war against the west. [So] he’s despised. Putin’s generals told him they would take Kyiv in three days, and he miscalculated. He failed. And now he is a false tsar. Nobody will fulfil an order from a false tsar.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/02/mikhail-shishkin-my-russ
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I read what he wrote and it stood up well and didn't need me saying "Ditto!" like the Dittoheads who once listened to the Rush Limbaugh show. Before that fat lying sack of shit Rush Limbaugh died from smoking (get the message, 6ix) the fat lying sack of shit Trump gave Rush the Medal of Freedom for being the biggest asshole on talk radio.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Let's talk about how it's Mika Brazenski's job to control what you think, worm.
Meanwhile... It looks like Second ignored you again. The only guy left here that agrees with anything you think and he won't even acknowledge that you exist.
That's got to sting, huh?
Whatever dude. You've never once acknowledged that Ted even exists.
Mark this as the first time that you ever have, and it only happened because you're doing it to argue with me about something. Don't lie. You know it's true. We all know it's true.
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You gotta love it, but not really. Sig would have all believe Russia invaded Ukraine because America wanted him to. We are so powerful we forced Putin to do it.
And further, it's the worlds' fault Putin's soldiers are raping Ukrainian men, women and children. Bombing hospitals and schools and the general population overall. Just as he did in Syria.
Signym not only shows she condones this behavior by shilling for Putin, but by doing so exposes herself to the Firefly community to be trash. A Russian troll. A Russian piece of shit.
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Let's be blunt. The US Army and the Russian Army have much in common because the soldiers in both are inadequate for their jobs. The Russian Army is grossly incompetent, which is why it failed spectacularly when it invaded Finland in 1939, struggled when Germany invaded, why it lost in Afghanistan, why it is performing badly in Ukraine, and why it is always threatening to sidestep its fundamental incompetence and just nuke everything. The Russian Army knows it isn't anything more than dummies who compensate for their inadequacies as soldiers with an overabundance of artillery.
The US Army is not particularly more competent than the Russians because it is full of Trump-loving people who think like Confederates, stupid ones at that. The Confederates lost but still gravitated toward the US Army for careers after the Civil War. How did the US Army win in WWII? It dragged in millions of highly competent people who would have never wanted a career in the military and never would have voted for an obvious fraud such as Trump. These capable people, just temporarily fighting WWII, were in no way similar to the Confederate losers who controlled the US military before and after WWII.
The US Army has lost again and again because it is loaded up with the same kind of people who would fit in very well with the stupid Russians. The US Army does have a distinct advantage given to it by superior engineering of weapons compared to the Russians. The US Army does spend a fortune on each soldier in order to train them to not devolve into Trumptards in the middle of combat. And the US Army does not threaten to sidestep the fundamental incompetence of its soldiers and just nuke everything, unlike Russians who cannot go a week without saying they will nuke the US.
U.S. Military Voting Intention in 2016 and 2020
https://www.statista.com/chart/22761/us-military-voting-intention-in-t
he-november-election/
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Quote:Yep, you got it. Finally.
Originally posted by THG:
You gotta love it, but not really. Sig would have all believe Russia invaded Ukraine because America wanted him to.
We've been provoking them into war in Ukraine since 2014 by supporting anyone who was anti-Russian, including full-on Nazis. The rest of your post is bullshit.
And we're trying to do the same to China in Taiwan.
We also funded Islamic jihadists in Chechnya, Syria. and Libya and death squads in Central America.
We're not "peacekeepers" or "world cops", or "democracy-lovers", we're nation-destroyers. No better than Russia.
Glad you finally figured that out.
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Thousands of Russian casualties in the Ukraine war are linked to alcohol consumption by troops, according to UK officials.
They said army commanders had been forced to accept the problem as “part of military life” because of the culture of heavy drinking in Russian society.
Moscow has suffered up to 200,000 casualties since the invasion of its neighbour in February last year.
According to the latest intelligence update from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), “a significant minority of these have been due to non-combat causes”.
The MoD said a report by the Russian Telegram news channel last month said there had been an “extremely high numbers of incidents, crimes, and deaths linked to alcohol consumption” among their forces.
“Other leading causes of non-combat casualties likely include poor weapon handing drills, road traffic accidents and climatic injuries such as hypothermia,” the MoD said.
“Russian commanders likely identify pervasive alcohol abuse as particularly detrimental to combat effectiveness.
“However, with heavy drinking pervasive across much of Russian society, it has long been seen as a tacitly accepted part of military life, even on combat operations.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thousands-of-russian-casualties-i
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Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
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Quote:Signym, where did you get the idea that Russians make competent soldiers? They aren't even competent at being humans:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
Russia is quite literally drinking itself to death. It’s difficult to overstate how serious Russia’s alcohol problem is. More than 30% of all deaths in Russia in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, according to WHO data crunched by the OECD. That’s by far the highest among the nations it tracked. Russian drinkers die a variety of deaths. Alcohol poisoning. Cirrhosis. Accidents. Suicide.
https://qz.com/403307/russia-is-quite-literally-drinking-itself-to-dea
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Before you go all wacko, Signym, drinking alcohol is optional. It is a choice. Clearly, even in this extremely simple-to-understand area of life, Russians aren't competent when they make their choices.
How Alcohol Conquered Russia. A history of the country’s struggle with alcoholism, and why the government has done so little about it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/how-alcohol-
conquered-russia/279965/
Signym, look at Russian agriculture and their history of famines. Look at their factories with low productivity. Look at their home lives with low birth rates and high divorce rates. Russians are highly defective people. It is completely unsurprising that in battle the Russians are mowed down like grass. Luckily for Russia, it is Ukrainians doing the mowing. Ukrainians aren't particularly competent soldiers, either, or else there wouldn't be a Russian Army.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, where did you get the idea that Russians make competent soldiers?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
SECOND-RATE, where did you get the idea that the western military is honest?
The BBC independently estimates Russian dead in the realm of 25,000. Compared to Kiev's estimated deaths of 100,000- 200,000 soldiers.
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Quote:Words don't persuade Russians, therefore the Ukrainians switched to bullets and explosives. Whichever side is best at hitting their targets will win with the most persuasive argument.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, where did you get the idea that Russians make competent soldiers?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
SECOND-RATE, where did you get the idea that the western military is honest?
The BBC independently estimates Russian dead in the realm of 25,000. Compared to Kiev's estimated deaths of 100,000- 200,000 soldiers.
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Quote:I guess that means Russia's already winning, since they're hitting a lot more targets than Kiev.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
SECOND: Signym, where did you get the idea that Russians make competent soldiers?
SIGNY: SECOND-RATE, where did you get the idea that the western military is honest?
The BBC independently estimates Russian dead in the realm of 25,000. Compared to Kiev's estimated deaths of 100,000- 200,000 soldiers.
SECOND: Words don't persuade Russians, therefore the Ukrainians switched to bullets and explosives. Whichever side is best at hitting their targets will win with the most persuasive argument.
Unless the west resorts to nuclear weapons, Russia will win.
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Anyone who predicates their argument with "200,000 Russian dead" is a retard.
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We've got a couple of retards on this board.
One of them doesn't even acknowledge the other exists, while that one constantly begs the other for just a scrap of attention.
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Quote:The only country threatening to use nuclear weapons is Russia, so you don't even comprehend that. I get the feeling you misunderstand that Russia invaded Ukraine, rather than the other way around, although Russians did say Ukraine invaded them. Russia could stop being confused and could declare victory at any time and go home but doesn't because Putin's life and fortune hang by a weak thread. If Russia goes home without an obvious win, Putin loses his job.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess that means Russia's already winning, since they're hitting a lot more targets than Kiev.
Unless the west resorts to nuclear weapons, Russia will win.
Russia tells BBC “we did not invade Ukraine” and there is “no war” there
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The only country threatening to use nuclear weapons is Russia, so you don't even comprehend that.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I guess that means Russia's already winning, since they're hitting a lot more targets than Kiev.
Unless the west resorts to nuclear weapons, Russia will win.
There's only one country that ever did use nuclear weapons.
You don't have to say you're going to use them to threaten their use. Simply having them in the first place IS the threat.
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Quote:There is a reason why the US does NOT threaten people with nukes and Russia still does, even in the last week. The US is well aware that the deaths are NOT limited to the few hundred thousand in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russians are totally oblivious to the over a million deaths they caused with their atmospheric nuclear tests.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's only one country that ever did use nuclear weapons.
You don't have to say you're going to use them to threaten their use. Simply having them in the first place IS the threat.
Approximately 2.4 million people died from cancer as a result of atmospheric testing globally. In the United States, which conducted almost half of all nuclear tests, a 2017 study estimated that fallout from nuclear testing contributed between 340,000 to 460,000 excess deaths from 1951 and 1973.
The Russians never paid any attention to those over a million deaths the Russians caused, which is why the blithering Russian idiots keep threatening to nuke the world. If you weren't as ignorant as a Russian, you would know this, 6ix.
https://www.gcsp.ch/global-insights/75-years-later-nuclear-weapons-sti
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SECOND, if Russia based nuclear missiles in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Canada, would that to be a threat?
U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe
https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/
Biden’s Nuclear Strike Policy Is the Same as Russia’s
https://theintercept.com/2022/04/11/nuclear-weapons-biden-russia-strik
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is a reason why the US does NOT threaten people with nukes and Russia still does, even in the last week. The US is well aware that the deaths are NOT limited to the few hundred thousand in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russians are totally oblivious to the over a million deaths they caused with their atmospheric nuclear tests.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's only one country that ever did use nuclear weapons.
You don't have to say you're going to use them to threaten their use. Simply having them in the first place IS the threat.
Approximately 2.4 million people died from cancer as a result of atmospheric testing globally. In the United States, which conducted almost half of all nuclear tests, a 2017 study estimated that fallout from nuclear testing contributed between 340,000 to 460,000 excess deaths from 1951 and 1973.
The Russians never paid any attention to those over a million deaths the Russians caused, which is why the blithering Russian idiots keep threatening to nuke the world. If you weren't as ignorant as a Russian, you would know this, 6ix.
Yeah. The problem here is that I and/or the Russians are ignorant of nuclear fallout.
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There is a reason why the US does NOT threaten people with nukes and Russia still does, even in the last week. The US is well aware that the deaths are NOT limited to the few hundred thousand in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Russians are totally oblivious to the over a million deaths they caused with their atmospheric nuclear tests.
And as for that part, no. That isn't the fucking reason. We're the military power of the world, and even though we have less nukes than Russia, that's just a technicality since both of us have enough to destroy the planet many times over.
I don't even believe that anybody with any authority has threatened nuclear missile use, and even if they did I could hardly blame them with how the media, the Biden* admin, NATO and the NATO thralls in Europe are CEASELESSLY antagonizing Russia.
You're a dumb fucking goon that is bereft of any sense of logic.
Go find some place where you can talk to people as stupid as you are.
Your nonsense doesn't fly here.
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Quote:I've seen the movies and read the books about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy kept a big secret that changes the whole meaning of the crisis:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, if Russia based nuclear missiles in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Canada, would that to be a threat?
U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe
https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-u-s-nuclear-weapons-in-europe/
Biden’s Nuclear Strike Policy Is the Same as Russia’s
https://theintercept.com/2022/04/11/nuclear-weapons-biden-russia-strik
e-policy/
The Jupiter Missiles and the Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Matter of “Great Secrecy”
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/jupiter-missiles-and-endgame-cu
ban-missile-crisis-matter-great-secrecy
The proper response from Kennedy to missiles in Cuba should have been DO NOTHING. THREATEN NO ONE. What difference does it make if the Russian nuke that hits Miami came from Cuba or from a Russian submarine in the Atlantic or even from Russia? No difference but few minutes flight time. Apparently, Russians don't understand that Russia can be nuked from anywhere and Ukraine is not special. Kennedy didn't understand about missile launch distance making no difference, either.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, General Curtis LeMay was in the room. He wanted to nuke Cuba because of missiles in Cuba. LeMay was NOT sane. He ran as VP with George Wallace the Super Racist. LeMay wanted to nuke Vietnam. He wanted to nuke Korea. Actually did nuke Japan. LeMay was not a sane man, but he made Kennedy look sane and wise and calm in comparison.
Russia has its own Curtis LeMays, which is too bad for Russia, and its own rich playboys like the Kennedys pretending to have level heads, but Kennedys were not level-headed. They were excitable little men almost daily committing adultery because they were immature and needed constant stimulation, either with sex or with international crises they caused. Thank Kennedy for the assassination of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem when you see Kennedy in hell.
Too bad for Russia that it has Putin, another immature playboy like Kennedy who needs constant sexual stimulation and international crises to feel alive. At least Putin's not a drunk like Boris Yeltsin. Being an alcoholic would be too many behavioral flaws in Putin. He wouldn't be able to function, just like Yeltsin wasn't functioning toward the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay#Vice_presidential_candidacy
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. . . while Ukraine is waiting for Western aircraft, it is losing its most experienced pilots.
"As long as we continue to wait we will lose more pilots. We had a list of the most advanced pilots who could be trained on F-16s and unfortunately, some of them have already been killed in action," Lohachov said.
According to Lohachov, "to be effective in the air, jets should have modern radars and air-to-air missiles".
"The radars on Russian jets are about four times better than what we have and they can see much further. As well, the Russian missiles are significantly more capable than our Soviet ones. It is getting more dangerous. Sometimes we can’t even see that the Russians have launched missiles, which is very dangerous for pilots," he said.
He explained how Russia has the capability to attack from a distance of 200 km from the contact line, while Ukrainian aircraft have to fly much closer to the Russians in order to attack them.
The pilots’ message is stark: "Getting F-16s would help us survive and keep more people alive".
"If we want to strike Russian jets we have to get much closer to the front line and fly at a low distance, which is very dangerous," Major Voroshylov said.
"The Russians have 40 air bases and over 700 aircrafts and helicopters altogether and they are more modern than our jets. We are working on the question to get Western jets because what we currently have is not enough to be effective on the battlefield," he said.
Background:
In January, US President Joe Biden stated that his country was not planning to send F-16 fighters to Ukraine.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stressed that Ukrainian defenders need Western F-16 fighter jets.
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-loses-most-experienced-pilots-015939425
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Congratulations to Putin! Without you, it would never happen:
Finland will become the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, the Western military alliance's secretary general has announced.
The application was prompted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with which Finland shares a long border.
https://ground.news/article/finland-to-join-nato-military-alliance-thi
s-week-chief-says_9a600f
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Further Congratulations to Putin! Without you, it would never happen:
Putin’s Disaster: The Russian Military Is Destroying Itself in Ukraine
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin%E2%80%99s+Disaster%3A+The+Russia
n+Military+Is+Destroying+Itself+in+Ukraine
“All the dumb Russians are dead.” So said Ukrainian officials in July 2022 as they sought to explain why the Russian army had abandoned the overambitious strategy and amateurish tactics that defined its conduct in the early weeks of the war. It was probably too early to make this quip. The Russians continued to do many dumb things and indeed still do. But broadly speaking, the Ukrainians’ intuition in the summer now appears correct: when it comes to overall military strategy, Moscow seems to have gotten smarter.
More at https://independent.ng/russias-rebound-how-moscow-has-partly-recovered
-from-its-military-setbacks/
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So, you consider missiles launched from submarines, or kand- based missiles, to be EQUALLY THREATENING.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, you consider missiles launched from submarines, or kand- based missiles, to be EQUALLY THREATENING.
Not if its Russian.
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Quote:Equally threatening, but I'm not afraid. It may sound very Star Wars-ish or like something out of the movie Dune, but fear is the mind-killer. I see that most people get a knot in their stomachs and a loosening of their bowels by nearly everything, from sudden noises to imminent death. Such people should not be making decisions for other people about war. They should live quiet lives tending to flowers in the garden or doing routine work. Something, anything, not too stressful for their easily upset bowels and bladders.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, you consider missiles launched from submarines, or kand- based missiles, to be EQUALLY THREATENING.
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I should mention that I saw PT-109 in the movie theaters when it was new. President Kennedy got his super fast patrol boat (PT-109) run over by a Japanese destroyer, which didn't even notice that it split Kennedy's command in half. I came away with a different assessment of Kennedy than Hollywood did. JFK should not be in charge of anything, ever. He was just a rich playboy pretending to be an adult. He was not a cool calm hero. He was a fast talker. I think history proves that I, an 11 year old, was right about JFK. That JFK would fall into the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia, and get his head blown off because he wouldn't listen to the Secret Service advising him to not ride in a convertible in Dallas are all expected misfortunes caused by who JFK was.
PT-109 (1963) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057393/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Equally threatening, but I'm not afraid. It may sound very Star Wars-ish or like something out of the movie Dune, but fear is the mind-killer.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, you consider missiles launched from submarines, or kand- based missiles, to be EQUALLY THREATENING.
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You're afraid of everything MSNBC tells you to be afraid of, little bitch.
We've got it all documented right here.
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Equally threatening, but I'm not afraid. It may sound very Star Wars-ish or like something out of the movie Dune, but fear is the mind-killer.
You're afraid of everything MSNBC tells you to be afraid of, little bitch.
We've got it all documented right here.
6ix, you are only a pair of hands, a running mouth, and glands. That is an ugly appraisal, but your drinking and smoking prove it. Don't feel bad, 6ix, because all the Trumptards I know in Texas, except for the rich ones who only voted for Trump because he'd let them cheat on taxes and government regulations, are the same as you. Trumptards, except the rich, can't run their little lives worth a goddamn and Trumptards shouldn't get up-welling feelings of superiority that your judgment is any better on more complex problems such as what happens if Putin does conquer Ukraine. Your tiny Trumptard minds won't stretch enough to encompass such a problem.
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Quote:I guess that means Russia's already winning, since they're hitting a lot more targets than Kiev.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Unless the west resorts to nuclear weapons, Russia will win.
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Quote:6ix, you are only a pair of hands, a running mouth, and glands. That is an ugly appraisal, but your drinking and smoking prove it. Don't feel bad, 6ix, because all the Trumptards I know in Texas, except for the rich ones who only voted for Trump because he'd let them cheat on taxes and government regulations, are the same as you. Trumptards, except the rich, can't run their little lives worth a goddamn and Trumptards shouldn't get up-welling feelings of superiority that your judgment is any better on more complex problems such as what happens if Putin does conquer Ukraine. Your tiny Trumptard minds won't stretch enough to encompass such a problem.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Equally threatening, but I'm not afraid. It may sound very Star Wars-ish or like something out of the movie Dune, but fear is the mind-killer.
You're afraid of everything MSNBC tells you to be afraid of, little bitch.
We've got it all documented right here.
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These glands had a nice nap today.
Sucks to be a wage slave like you, huh buddy?
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Oh, heaven's sake, SECOND! SIX has more real-world talent in one pinky than you have in your entire body! Can you do plumbing? Fix a car? Wire a garage? Install a video cam? Program?
Can you manage a landscape? Fix framing? Set your relatives up with their tech gadgets? Plaster, spackle, or paint? Fix small engines?
If not, what good are you?
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Meanwhile... Russia captures Bakhmut city administration building. I'm a little off on my prediction. I said they would capture Bakhmut by end of March. Apparently my timeline is slipping a little.
Meanwhile, desperation fuels terrorist action. Like the assassinations of Daryana Dugina, or the previous assassinations of two Donbas commanders (when Kiev was getting it's ass handed to it) Kiev's SBU has apparently resorted to assassinating journalists.
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Quote:Signym, you're crazy.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile... Russia captures Bakhmut city administration building. I'm a little off on my prediction. I said they would capture Bakhmut by end of March. Apparently my timeline is slipping a little.
Meanwhile, desperation fuels terrorist action. Like the assassinations of Daryana Dugina, or the previous assassinations of two Donbas commanders (when Kiev was getting it's ass handed to it) Kiev's SBU has apparently resorted to assassinating journalists.
Russian authorities are blaming Ukrainian government entities and Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny for the April 2 assassination of Russian milblogger Maksim Fomin, also known as Vladlen Tartarsky. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee claimed that Ukrainian special services collaborated with the Anti-Corruption Fund, which Navalny founded in 2011, to plan the attack against Fomin.[4] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that the Ukrainian government may be behind Fomin’s death and claimed that Ukraine has killed others since 2014, such as Daria Dugina, which Peskov spuriously used as justification for the “special military operation.”[5] The Russian Investigative Committee reclassified the case as a terrorist attack and claimed that it was planned in Ukrainian territory.[6] The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) confirmed that the sculpture handed to Fomin prior to his death contained hidden explosives.[7] The Russian Investigative Committee confirmed on April 3 that Russian authorities detained Daria Trepova in a St. Petersburg apartment on suspicion of the attack.[8] Authorities released an excerpt of their interrogation of Trepova, in which Trepova stated that authorities questioned her about giving a sculpture to Fomin, but she did not answer on camera whether she knew the sculpture contained explosives.[9] The range of various official responses is notably disjointed, with a lack of consensus among official Russian sources regarding Trepova’s involvement or association with either Ukrainian special services or Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund.
Official Russian responses to Fomin’s death failed to generate a single narrative in the information space and led to disjointed responses from prominent pro-war voices. Several prominent milbloggers and news aggregators fixated on the reported investigation into Daria Trepova and analyzing footage of the lead-up to and aftermath of the explosion.[10] Other milbloggers claimed that the attack was carried out by Ukrainian special services and amplified news of the investigation without offering additional commentary into the situation.[11] The Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) People’s Militia posted a simple message mourning Fomin without engaging with the Kremlin's informational response.[12] Zaporizhia Oblast occupation deputy Vladimir Rogov claimed that unspecified attackers targeted Fomin because he listened to both the Russian and Ukrainian perspectives, had over 500,000 Telegram subscribers, and effectively organized donation drives for Russian forces.[13] Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill connected Fomin’s murder to the ongoing conflict over the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, despite no obvious connection between the two incidents.[14]
As Russian officials try to galvanize an official narrative around the National Anti-Terrorism Committee’s investigation, Russian milbloggers will likely increasingly criticize the results and conclusions of the investigation, and Fomin’s death is likely to become a major point of information space neuralgia. One Russian milblogger and political analyst overtly criticized the official Russian response to Fomin’s death and noted that Russian officials have likely predetermined the final findings of the investigation.[15] The absence of a coherent narrative in the pro-Russian information space is reminiscent of responses to Ukraine’s successful Kharkiv Oblast counteroffensive in fall 2022, when the Kremlin’s propaganda machine initially fai
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A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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Another $2.6 Billion In Defense Aid To Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-26-billion-defense-aid-
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile... Russia captures Bakhmut city administration building. I'm a little off on my prediction. I said they would capture Bakhmut by end of March. Apparently my timeline is slipping a little.
Meanwhile, desperation fuels terrorist action. Like the assassinations of Daryana Dugina, or the previous assassinations of two Donbas commanders (when Kiev was getting it's ass handed to it) Kiev's SBU has apparently resorted to assassinating journalists.
SECOND: Signym, you're crazy.
Russian authorities are blaming Ukrainian government entities
Quote:nope!
and Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny
As usual, I get only one or two sentences into your posts before I stumble over something so blindingly stupid I have to stop.
Navalny is in prison, last I heard. I doubt he could organize anything.
You're a loser, troll.
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Quote:Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu justified Russia’s decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus by accusing NATO of intensifying combat training and reconnaissance activities near the Russian and Belarusian borders and accused the West of escalating the war in Ukraine by providing additional military aid to Ukraine on April 4.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
nope!
As usual, I get only one or two sentences into your posts before I stumble over something so blindingly stupid I have to stop.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-4-2023
Too long a sentence for you to finish reading, Signym? But there isn't even a comma to trip you up and confuse you. A shorter sentence might be just the right length for you to finish:
Shoigu’s reinvigorated nuclear blackmail rhetoric coincides with Finland joining NATO
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Finland just fucked itself.
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Quote:Finland said the same thing when Stalin attacked it, twice, before WWII began: We are a small country. Where will we bury all the dead Russians?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Finland just fucked itself.
History lesson: Little Finland brutally slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Russians. They died screaming.
A Frozen Hell Quotes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/489438-a-frozen-hell-the-russo-f
innish-winter-war-of-1939-1940
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“The Soviet propaganda apparatus continued to crank out shrill, contorted documents attempting to convince whoever was listening that Finland was the real aggressor, that the Kuusinen government was legitimate, and the Mannerheim/Tanner/Ryti regime was enslaving the workers, etc.”
- William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“Incidents of Red aircraft strafing hospitals and hospital trains were so common that the Finns finally painted over any Red Cross insignia that were visible from the air.”
- William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“The Russians' wanton though often ineffectual attacks on civilians generated a wave of moral outrage all over the world. Typical was the reaction of former U.S. president Herbert Hoover, who denounced the Russian air attacks as a throwback to "the morals and butchery of Genghis Khan.”
- William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/489438-a-frozen-hell-the-russo-f
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Finland said the same thing when Stalin attacked it, twice, before WWII began: We are a small country. Where will we bury all the dead Russians?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Finland just fucked itself.
History lesson: Little Finland brutally slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Russians. They died screaming.
Nobody cares.
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