Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Here is a journalist who is NOT IN TROUBLE with Putin over the war
Margarita Simonyan suggested that Russia should display its nuclear capabilities with an atomic test above its own territory. In a video address on her Telegram channel, the RT editor-in-chief expressed her feelings about the progress of the war.
"I am perfectly happy to live at a time when these events are taking place and historical justice is being restored," she said, as she described how Ukrainians "are the same as you and me" and had spent "30 years in hell," referring to the period since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
But amid her apparent joy, at the same time, she said she felt "bitterness and regret" because the war was turning out to be "so long and so hard."
While happy that Russia had seized Kherson, she lamented how it had "returned to the enemy, to the wicked stepmother," when Ukraine eventually recaptured the city. She said that Russian people are "praying, fighting and worrying" for Ukrainian areas like Kherson to return to Russia.
"I can't promise you this, but if it does not, you will know no peace and neither will we," she said. "We'll be fighting for this peace, whatever it takes."
She reiterated the Kremlin talking point that the war was one in which the West was fighting Russia and "trying to strangle us with Ukraine's hands."
Reflecting on how it will not be done as "easily and painlessly" as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Simonyan said that "a nuclear ultimatum is becoming inevitable" because "they will not back down until they feel a lot of pain."
She cited the call by the late Russian right-wing populist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died in April 2022, "that we strike Washington." But she suggested that hitting one of Ukraine's allies with a missile — a common refrain on the Russian state TV programs she appears on, would not be necessary.
She said that Russia could "conduct a thermonuclear explosion hundreds of kilometers above our own territory somewhere in Siberia," and that would not impact those on the ground. Rather than describing the intention of such a move as one to scare the West, she said its main effect would be to "destroy all radio electronics" and affect satellites, cameras and phones. Simonyan then talked about how life could revert to the time of 1993 and how "glad" she would be to live in a gadget-free world.
"The option is out there and it is the most humane one," she concluded.
More at https://www.newsweek.com/simonyan-russia-putin-nuclear-explosion-over-
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Britain All Out of Arms to Give to Ukraine: Report
Britain has run out of military equipment to give to Ukraine, a U.K. military official claimed, as Kyiv’s fight against Russia shows no sign of ending anytime soon. The anonymous official commented on reports that Ben Wallace—who resigned as Britain’s defense minister last month—had asked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to spend around $2.8 billion more on supporting Ukraine. According to The Telegraph, the senior military source did not think the onus should be on Britain to spend the “billions” Wallace requested. “We’ve given away just about as much as we can afford,” the official was quoted as saying. “We will continue to source equipment to provide for Ukraine, but what they need now is things like air [defense] assets and artillery ammunition and we’ve run dry on all that.” On Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said fatigue over the “absurd sponsorship of the Kyiv regime” would grow.
https://news.yahoo.com/britain-arms-ukraine-report-120543427.html
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Quote:Julian Assange is a front for a hostile non-state intelligence service and a fugitive Russian asset whose voluminous disclosures put US-aligned personnel in harm's way. In a bipartisan report, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Assange at WikiLeaks had "actively sought, and played a key role in the Russian influence campaign" to swing the 2016 US election, and "very likely knew" that Russia was behind it. -- Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Quote:Now THAT'S an oxymoron! The Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee also was convinced... convinced, I tell you!... that Saddam had WMD! I wrote to Diane Feinstein who was then its chair about bogus WMD and I got back a smarmy form letter that said "Well, we know things that you don't know." It seems mostly what they "know is disinfo fed to them.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Julian Assange is a front for a hostile non-state intelligence service and a fugitive Russian asset whose voluminous disclosures put US-aligned personnel in harm's way. In a bipartisan report, the Senate Intelligence Committee
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Free Julan Assange
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concluded that Assange at WikiLeaks had "actively sought, and played a key role in the Russian influence campaign" to swing the 2016 US election, and "very likely knew" that Russia was behind it. -- Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election
Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities
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Looney tunes from SECOND.
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Defense Stocks Fall As Paralyzed House With No Speaker Puts US Ukraine Aid At Risk
Oh no!! What happens to the portfolios of revolving-door generals and Senators?
Quick! More $$$ for Ukraine!!
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Quote:Signym, you didn't realize that it is easy to check that you lied. The Senate concluded the opposite of what you claim. You are such a liar, Signym.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Now THAT'S an oxymoron! The Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee also was convinced... convinced, I tell you!... that Saddam had WMD! I wrote to Diane Feinstein who was then its chair about bogus WMD and I got back a smarmy form letter that said "Well, we know things that you don't know." It seems mostly what they "know is disinfo fed to them.
Looney tunes from SECOND.
Quote:https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intelligence-committe
Today’s reports are the culmination of efforts that began in March 2003, when, as Vice Chairman, Senator Rockefeller initially requested an investigation into the origin of the fraudulent Niger documents. In June 2003, he was joined by all Democrats on the Committee in pushing for a full investigation into prewar intelligence, which was eventually expanded by the Committee in February 2004 to include the five phase II tasks.
The Committee released its first report on July 9, 2004, which focused primarily on the Intelligence Community’s prewar assessments of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorism. Those findings helped lay the foundation for some of the intelligence reforms enacted into law in late 2004.
In September 2006, the Committee completed and publicly released two sections of Phase II: The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress; and Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments.
In May 2007, the Committee released the third section of Phase II: Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq.
Separately, in early 2007, the Pentagon Inspector General released its own report on the intelligence activities conducted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and also concluded that those activities were inappropriate.
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Defense Stocks Fall As Paralyzed House With No Speaker Puts US Ukraine Aid At Risk
Oh no!! What happens to the portfolios of revolving-door generals and Senators?
Quick! More $$$ for Ukraine!!
BINGO!
And the fact that there are half a country full of dumbfucks like Ted and Second is the reason they get away with it.
If voting was a right only granted to 100 IQ and above, our country would be doing a lot better than it currently is.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, you didn't realize that it is easy to check that you lied. The Senate concluded the opposite of what you claim. You are such a liar, Signym.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Now THAT'S an oxymoron! The Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee also was convinced... convinced, I tell you!... that Saddam had WMD! I wrote to Diane Feinstein who was then its chair about bogus WMD and I got back a smarmy form letter that said "Well, we know things that you don't know." It seems mostly what they "know is disinfo fed to them.
Looney tunes from SECOND.Quote:https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intelligence-committe
Today’s reports are the culmination of efforts that began in March 2003, when, as Vice Chairman, Senator Rockefeller initially requested an investigation into the origin of the fraudulent Niger documents. In June 2003, he was joined by all Democrats on the Committee in pushing for a full investigation into prewar intelligence, which was eventually expanded by the Committee in February 2004 to include the five phase II tasks.
The Committee released its first report on July 9, 2004, which focused primarily on the Intelligence Community’s prewar assessments of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and links to terrorism. Those findings helped lay the foundation for some of the intelligence reforms enacted into law in late 2004.
In September 2006, the Committee completed and publicly released two sections of Phase II: The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress; and Postwar Findings About Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments.
In May 2007, the Committee released the third section of Phase II: Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Postwar Iraq.
Separately, in early 2007, the Pentagon Inspector General released its own report on the intelligence activities conducted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and also concluded that those activities were inappropriate.
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I wrote BEFORE the invasion, dimwit. And I was writing to Feinstein as MY SENATOR, asking her to vote against it.
She answered as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-107th-cong
ress-2001-2002 and insinuated that she knew "things". I was disgusted by her smarmy answer that only revealed what an idiot she was, and wrote off the Senate "Intelligence" Committee as a bunch of self-entitled morons who couldn't tell real intelligence from disinformation.
And you're a maroon too.
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It's The Atlantic, so of course they say that Slovakia and Poland are full of evil people now, but...
Ukraine Is Losing Eastern European Allies
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-is-losing-eastern-europea
n-allies/ar-AA1hG7zM
Fuck Ukraine.
And just like I said from the very beginning of all of this...
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT UKRAINE.
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Quote:Put it this way: Like a perfectly calm bureaucrat, Vice-President Cheney swears on his honor that there are many WMDs in Iraq but claims the only conclusive way to gather irrefutable proof is to invade Iraq. What do Senator Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence Committee then do? Take several years of committee meetings to gather more proof to confirm what Cheney says? Or hope cool, calm Cheney isn't taking advantage of their trust in bureaucrats to con them?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wrote BEFORE the invasion, dimwit. And I was writing to Feinstein as MY SENATOR, asking her to vote against it.
She answered as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-107th-cong
ress-2001-2002 and insinuated that she knew "things". I was disgusted by her smarmy answer that only revealed what an idiot she was, and wrote off the Senate "Intelligence" Committee as a bunch of self-entitled morons who couldn't tell real intelligence from disinformation.
And you're a maroon too.
When absolutely no WMDs were found, the Senate Intelligence Committee gathered more proof over several years to confirm that Cheney was always a lying sack of shit, not the caring bureaucrat he was pretending to be.
Similarly, the Senate took several years to confirm that Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, that Assange/WikiLeaks helped the Russians, and Trump was an easily agitated lying sack of shit who went steps further than Cheney dared by obstructing the slow investigation of the 2016 election. Cheney didn't have the cajones to do as Trump did. Trump is The Man, not some bureaucrat interested in technical details. He deserves to be the next President, for sure, because he is an extremely manly man with an ugly temper and ruddy face, unlike the pasty-faced Dick Cheney with heart disease, a man afraid to shout because he might have a coronary if he did.
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"I'm here until Berlin": Russia's war video sends chilling message
Russia has launched a new advertising campaign for the war against Ukraine. The ad for its 'special military operation,' states that Russian soldiers will receive free land in Odessa after capturing it.
The actor says, 'I'm here until victory, until Berlin, just as my grandpa told me.'
In the comments, Russians are writing, 'So we have to take Berlin too! Great!'
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/i-m-here-until-berlin-russia-s-wa
r-video-sends-chilling-message/ar-AA1hGp6x
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Quote:Put it this way: Are you gonna APOLOGIZE for calling me a liar? You should, you know. But I know you won't bc you're a lying dumbshit with no honor.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wrote BEFORE the invasion, dimwit. And I was writing to Feinstein as MY SENATOR, asking her to vote against it.
She answered as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-107th-cong
ress-2001-2002 and insinuated that she knew "things". I was disgusted by her smarmy answer that only revealed what an idiot she was, and wrote off the Senate "Intelligence" Committee as a bunch of self-entitled morons who couldn't tell real intelligence from disinformation.
And you're a maroon too.
SECOND: Put it this way:
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SECOND: Like a perfectly calm bureaucrat, Vice-President Cheney swears on his honor that there are many WMDs in Iraq but claims the only conclusive way to gather irrefutable proof is to invade Iraq. What do Senator Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence Committee then do? Take several years of committee meetings to gather more proof to confirm what Cheney says? Or hope cool, calm Cheney isn't taking advantage of their trust in bureaucrats to con them?
"Because Cheney said so"?
You're too stupid to live. No wonder you volunteered for Vietnam!
There was the "intelligence" scare that Iraq was going to buy yellowcake from Niger. But the document was PROVEN to be a forgery within a week.
There was the "intelligence" scare that Saddam was buying aluminum tubes to use in uranium centrifuges. But a mechanical engineer looked at the specs and realized that they were to weak to use in centrifuges, and that they probably were rocket bodies.
There was the "intelligence" claim that Iraq was [somehow] involved in 9-11. That was easily debunked.
Then the "intelligence" claim that Iraq, while not directly involved in 9-11, was running a terrorist training camp. That was further embellished with the scare scenario that a dedicated Iraqi terrorist could sneak a dirty bomb through one of our ports. There was no evidence.
So, what would be your response to the NEXT thing that "intelligence" says, with their history of having been publicly and embrassingly debunked on everything else so far?
Just swallow whatever swill they dumped out that day?
On top of that, Hans Blix and UNMOVIC (which BTW included Americans) were right there, in Iraq, investigating that very claim. Not in the basement at Langley, concocting ridiculous claims on provably wrong "evidence".
The RIGHT thing to do would have been to wait another few months, because the inspection team was close to reaching a conclusion, instead of relying on provably wrong hoaxes from "intelligence".
As a civilian disconnected from The Blob, EVEN I could tell it wa a put up job. So Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee were either really, really stupid, or lying sacks of shit.
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Similarly, the Senate took several years to confirm that Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, that Assange/WikiLeaks helped the Russians,
Again, contradicted by all available evidence.
And the rest of your post is just more invective and lies.
You obviously can't tell truth from lies. No wonder you volunteered for Vietnam! And you didn't learn from that mistake. You just keep lying to yourself and everyone else, mired in your own crap.
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Politico: Nazi Yaroslav Hunka may have volunteered for the Waffen SS Galizia Division, (which was a Nazi enforcer in Romania and Poland, not fighting Russians) but he fought for the right reasons with a pure heart.
Yanno, "It's complicated" and not all Nazis were ... er, Nazis.
https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-troo
per-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/
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So now we're Nazi apologists, eh? Nazis weren't so bad? We weren't really fighting Nazis in Europe? The Soviet Union wasn't really our ally?
That's the latest spin: We're losing in Ukraine, but we can always rewrite history!
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Speaking of rewriting history in realtime:
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THIS IS NOT ABOUT NATO
'This is not about NATO expansion!"... the Western public has been told over and over again of the war in Ukraine, now in its 20th month. "Never about NATO... Nothing to do with NATO" - has been the constant refrain from US officials and media "authorities". Below is a video compilation by Matt Orfalea showing Western media personalities and analysts claiming that the war in Ukraine had nothing to do with NATO expansion... but then oops... only this last month NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism in a speech before the EU Parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
For a trip down memory lane, and more importantly so this epic compilation of clips highlighting the MSM drumbeat of lies doesn't get memory-holed, watch the below compilation by Matt Orfalea
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And finally:
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Now, in a desperate plea to reengage the public on the putative ‘threat’ that Russia poses in defeating Ukraine, the globalist scriptwriters have rolled out a new narrative: saving Ukraine means saving Taiwan from China.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-10423-the-beginning-of-a-lo
ng
DOODS! TAIWAN IS PART OF CHINA!
That would be like saying "Saving Texas from the United States".
Lying sacks of shit will apparently stop at nothing...
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Quote:Let's back up to where you wrote
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wrote BEFORE the invasion, dimwit. And I was writing to Feinstein as MY SENATOR, asking her to vote against it.
She answered as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-107th-cong
ress-2001-2002 and insinuated that she knew "things". I was disgusted by her smarmy answer that only revealed what an idiot she was, and wrote off the Senate "Intelligence" Committee as a bunch of self-entitled morons who couldn't tell real intelligence from disinformation.
And you're a maroon too.
Quote:Signym, that is NOT how Congress works. Instead, you should have threatened Senator Feinstein that if she is proven wrong about the existence of WMDs in Iraq and about Iraq being behind 9/11, there will be consequences for Feinstein. But you didn't threaten because you are inconsequential and threats from you are without weight. Maybe if you sent a death threat you would get a reaction from the FBI, but nothing from Feinstein. There are no real consequences emanating from weightless people like you toward Congressional decision-makers. Never have been, never will be, other than writing malicious gossip at fireflyfans.net, for anything Congressmen get wrong. Why would any Senator pay attention to a letter from Signym? Feinstein never read your letter and never did pay any mind to you. A temporary staffer in the Senator's office wrote back with some empty reassurances that meant nothing at all. Someday, an A.I. will write those letters to constituents. No human will see what you wrote.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Now THAT'S an oxymoron! The Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee also was convinced... convinced, I tell you!... that Saddam had WMD! I wrote to Diane Feinstein who was then its chair about bogus WMD and I got back a smarmy form letter that said "Well, we know things that you don't know." It seems mostly what they "know is disinfo fed to them.
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Russia scrambles to cover ballooning cost of Ukraine war
By Max Seddon and Anastasia Stognei in Riga, October 4th.
Vladimir Putin’s cabinet is turning to increasingly irregular revenue-raising measures to fund a rapid rise in defence spending, which has tripled since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian government has said it aims to spend a staggering Rbs10.8tn ($108bn) on defence next year, three times the amount allocated in 2021, the last year before the invasion, and 70 per cent more than was planned for this year.
To cobble together that sum, the cabinet is relying to a greater extent on irregular revenues stemming from one-off taxes and levies, including “voluntary donations” western businesses have to pay when leaving Russia.
The defence budget “will allow us to completely support the tasks of the special military operation”, finance minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday, using the Kremlin’s euphemism for the war in Ukraine. The military spending increase, he said, was “essential to achieve our main goal: making sure we win”.
Russia’s record Rbs36.6tn budget for next year will take defence spending to 6 per cent of gross domestic product, exceeding social welfare for the first time, and require the Kremlin to tap considerably more sources of revenue than previously.
“Putin has two priorities: war and power,” said Konstantin Sonin, an economist and professor at the University of Chicago. “That’s why the budget process now works in such a way that policymakers first make sure the junta gets what it needs for the war and then address the rest of the budget?.?.?.?And to do all that, they constantly look for new sources to scrape money together.”
As part of the funding plans for 2024, irregular budget revenues will leap to Rbs2.52tn, the highest level ever. By contrast, this year, such revenues amounted to just Rbs745bn.
The bulk of next year’s one-off revenues are Rbs800bn worth of social contributions that Russian companies were supposed to pay in 2022, but were postponed until 2024.
Another Rbs2bn is expected to come from new export duties tied to exchange rates, the western companies’ “voluntary donations” when leaving Russia, tax increases and subsidy cuts for energy producers, and a rise in utility tariffs.
Those measures come after Russia raised Rbs300bn this year from a windfall tax on “excessive profits” made by commodities companies, particularly the metals sector, more tax increases in the energy sector, and Rbs114bn from western companies. That “voluntary donation” will increase next year from 10 per cent to 15 per cent of the value of the sale of their Russian business.
Another source of revenue will come from excise taxes for alcohol and tobacco, which will triple in 2024. Some of the new income will bypass the budget entirely, meaning that overall irregular state revenues could be even higher.
Still, analysts are sceptical that the Kremlin will secure all the extra revenue it says it needs.
“There is a possibility that Russia will not receive about Rbs1tn of the expected revenues because the budget is based on an overly optimistic economic forecast,” said Sofya Donets, a former central bank official and chief economist at Renaissance Capital.
In that case, the Russian government was likely to slap more one-off levies as it has done in the past, she added.
Spending cuts in areas other than defence were a “last resort”, Donets said, adding that Moscow could also tap excess revenues from energy sales, which currently have to be saved rather than spent.
Russia’s war spending goes beyond what is earmarked for defence in the budget breakdown.
Half of the national security and law enforcement budget was also war-related, as it included payments to Russian security forces as well as a modernisation programme for the defence industry, said Pavel Luzin, a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.
Adding to Russia’s financing challenges are the billions of roubles needed to “rebuild” and annex the territories in
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wrote BEFORE the invasion, dimwit. And I was writing to Feinstein as MY SENATOR, asking her to vote against it.
She answered as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/committee-members-107th-cong
ress-2001-2002 and insinuated that she knew "things". I was disgusted by her smarmy answer that only revealed what an idiot she was, and wrote off the Senate "Intelligence" Committee as a bunch of self-entitled morons who couldn't tell real intelligence from disinformation.
And you're a maroon too.
SECOND: Let's back up to where you wrote ...blah blah blah
No, lets back up th where I posted that I written to Diane Feinstein and you wrote
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Signym, you didn't realize that it is easy to check that you lied. The Senate concluded the opposite of what you claim. You are such a liar, Signym.
Am I gonna get an apology and an admission that you were WRONG?
Of course not. Because you're a liar and without honor.
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SECOND:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Now THAT'S an oxymoron! The Senate Intelligence [sic] Committee also was convinced... convinced, I tell you!... that Saddam had WMD! I wrote to Diane Feinstein who was then its chair about bogus WMD and I got back a smarmy form letter that said "Well, we know things that you don't know." It seems mostly what they "know is disinfo fed to them.
SECOND Signym, that is NOT how Congress works. Instead, you should have threatened Senator Feinstein that if she is proven wrong about the existence of WMDs in Iraq and about Iraq being behind 9/11, there will be consequences for Feinstein. But you didn't threaten because you are inconsequential ... blah blah blah
So, you admit we're an oligarchy.
Yanno, son, you may think you're hot stuff. Maybe in Houston a few people know your name. Asssuming that you're not lying about that too. But in DC??? You have to be a billionaire to get anyone's attention. In the eyes of the eite, you're just an ant scurrying around.
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Quote:Look who clarified the situation in Ukraine:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND Signym, that is NOT how Congress works. Instead, you should have threatened Senator Feinstein that if she is proven wrong about the existence of WMDs in Iraq and about Iraq being behind 9/11, there will be consequences for Feinstein. But you didn't threaten because you are inconsequential ... blah blah blah
So, you admit we're an oligarchy.
Yanno, son, you may think you're hot stuff. Maybe in Houston a few people know your name. Asssuming that you're not lying about that too. But in DC??? You have to be a billionaire to get anyone's attention. In the eyes of the eite, you're just an ant scurrying around.
Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
In his yearly speech to the Valdai Discussion Club, being held in Sochi, Putin said Russia, the world's largest country by area, had no need to take territory from Ukraine.
He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-repeats-assertion-that-russ
ia-did-not-start-war-ukraine-2023-10-05/
Putin is a deep philosopher of science, as are you, Signym, revealing Extraordinary Truths with Clarity that average people would completely miss without his and your exacting explanations of reality. Kidding. Whenever Putin makes a speech, he blows black smoke to hide reality.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Look who clarified the situation in Ukraine:
Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
This is truth. It doesn't matter who spoke it, unless you're a propagandized idiot with below average intelligence.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Look who clarified the situation in Ukraine:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND Signym, that is NOT how Congress works. Instead, you should have threatened Senator Feinstein that if she is proven wrong about the existence of WMDs in Iraq and about Iraq being behind 9/11, there will be consequences for Feinstein. But you didn't threaten because you are inconsequential ... blah blah blah
So, you admit we're an oligarchy.
Yanno, son, you may think you're hot stuff. Maybe in Houston a few people know your name. Asssuming that you're not lying about that too. But in DC??? You have to be a billionaire to get anyone's attention. In the eyes of the eite, you're just an ant scurrying around.
Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
In his yearly speech to the Valdai Discussion Club, being held in Sochi, Putin said Russia, the world's largest country by area, had no need to take territory from Ukraine.
He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-repeats-assertion-that-russ
ia-did-not-start-war-ukraine-2023-10-05/
Putin is a deep philosopher of science, as are you, Signym, revealing Extraordinary Truths with Clarity that average people would completely miss without his and your exacting explanations of reality. Kidding. Whenever Putin makes a speech, he blows black smoke to hide reality.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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And STILL, no apology!
Why am I not surprised?
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Quote:Putin also said the conflict was not imperial or territorial. Unfortunately for the story he is telling, Putin declared a week ago that Ukrainian territory had become Russian territory. He already forgot what he said.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Look who clarified the situation in Ukraine:
Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
This is truth. It doesn't matter who spoke it, unless you're a propagandized idiot with below average intelligence.
Putin declares ‘four new regions of Russia’. Putin is a comedian of the absurd.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-09-29/putin-says-russi
an-held-regions-in-ukraine-endorse-their-choice-to-join-moscow
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Yanno, I've been hearing over and over again that Kiev has its Rabotyne-area troops running thru minefields with barely any support (maybe some artillery) and that they've been doing this for over a couple of months. Losing a lot of soldiers along the way.
And I just couldn't imagine how you get virtually untrained troops to go on suicide missions when they've just seen the previous platoons get obliterated.
Maybe this is the answer...
Quote:
Clayton Morris and I do a deep dive on the war in Ukraine. After chatting with one of my DEA buddies it appears that Ukraine is doping some (all?) of its frontline troops with Crystal Meth.
MORE AT
https://sonar21.com/this-mornings-disruption-and-my-chats-with-clayton
-morris-and-rasheed-mohammed/
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Quote:Signym, what a load of bullshit from you.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Maybe this is the answer...Quote:
Clayton Morris and I do a deep dive on the war in Ukraine. After chatting with one of my DEA buddies it appears that Ukraine is doping some (all?) of its frontline troops with Crystal Meth.
On the other hand, this actually happened:
American and European leaders worked together to fashion post-war European security, economic, and political institutions that were mutually beneficial to all — including America. Many of these leaders had very visceral reasons to succeed at this monumentally difficult task: They had lived through or fought in two world wars. America falsely believed that “what happened in Europe doesn’t affect us,” only to be drawn into World War I and suffer almost 260,000 U.S. killed and wounded. And again, when an aggressive dictator went unanswered for too long: World War II, in which millions of civilians and hundreds of thousands of those fighting were killed or wounded in Europe alone — including approximately 552,000 Americans.
https://themessenger.com/opinion/ukraine-aid-congress-foreign-policy-l
eadership-putin-war-nato-funding
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Fuck you, warmonger.
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"The USA and the EU are working on legal procedures to transfer $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine," President's Office head Andriy Yermak said on Oct. 5.
https://news.yahoo.com/yermak-west-working-legal-procedure-093314350.h
tml
US Secretary of State during a conversation at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, 4 October: "My own view is you broke it, you bought it. And so the Russians having broken it, they ought to pay for it. And one way to do that would be through the use of these assets. We have to make sure that there is a legal basis to do that. And as I said, since most of the assets are in Europe, Europeans also have to be convinced that there’s a basis to do it."
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-during-a-conversation
-at-the-university-of-texas-at-austin-moderated-by-former-u-s-ambassador-to-nato-kay-bailey-hutchison/
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Originally posted by second:
"The USA and the EU are working on legal procedures to transfer $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine," President's Office head Andriy Yermak said on Oct. 5.
https://news.yahoo.com/yermak-west-working-legal-procedure-093314350.h
tml
US Secretary of State during a conversation at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, 4 October: "My own view is you broke it, you bought it. And so the Russians having broken it, they ought to pay for it. And one way to do that would be through the use of these assets. We have to make sure that there is a legal basis to do that. And as I said, since most of the assets are in Europe, Europeans also have to be convinced that there’s a basis to do it."
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-during-a-conversation
-at-the-university-of-texas-at-austin-moderated-by-former-u-s-ambassador-to-nato-kay-bailey-hutchison/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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That's outright stealing.
Legal or not, that's an act of war.
You fucking NeoCons are really itching to start something your pussy asses can't finish, aren't you?
Fuck Ukraine. It's just a puppet state of the US Uniparty anyhow. Let it burn to the ground.
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Quote:6ix, you have not a scintilla of practical wisdom.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's outright stealing.
Legal or not, that's an act of war.
You fucking NeoCons are really itching to start something your pussy asses can't finish, aren't you?
Fuck Ukraine. It's just a puppet state of the US Uniparty anyhow. Let it burn to the ground.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you have not a scintilla of practical wisdom.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's outright stealing.
Legal or not, that's an act of war.
You fucking NeoCons are really itching to start something your pussy asses can't finish, aren't you?
Fuck Ukraine. It's just a puppet state of the US Uniparty anyhow. Let it burn to the ground.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Oh wow. We're so impressed, dude! Somebody found thesaurus.com.
Why don't you regale us with another apocryphal story about your make-believe family and how awesome they are while you're at it?
Go eat a dick, scrub.
I can't even have a conversation with the likes of you because no matter how hard I tried I couldn't even pretend to be on your level of stupidity. We might as well be speaking different languages without a translator handy. We're barely even in the same species.
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Quote:We are not the same species, Mr Wombat.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're barely even in the same species.
Russia's Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased by Ukraine
Claims about the territory’s spiritual status have been revealed to be fiction.
By Casey Michel, October 4, 2023.
In December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood in the middle of the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall, delivering his annual address to the country’s Federal Assembly. Nine months removed from his formal annexation of Crimea, the Russian president unspooled a historical overview of Crimea’s supposed importance to the Russian body politic.
Crimea, as Putin claimed, was far more than simply a wayward chunk of rightfully Russian land. Rather, the peninsula was the “spiritual source” of the entire Russian nation—a province that presented “invaluable civilizational and even sacral importance” for all Russians. The language mirrored Putin’s annexation announcement that March, when he’d claimed that “in [Russians’] hearts and minds, Crimea has always been an inseparable part of Russia.” As Putin saw it, Crimea stood as the Temple Mount of Russia—as a Russian “holy land.” And this was, Putin assured his listeners in December, “exactly how we will treat it from now on and forever.”
At the time, few in Russia appeared to disagree. Nor, likewise, did those in the West, who largely rolled over in the face of Russia’s initial invasion in 2014. Suckered by Russian propaganda surrounding the peninsula’s supposedly pro-Russian tilt and convinced that any Ukrainian assault on Crimea could spark potential military escalation, Western voices largely shied away from backing any attempts at returning the peninsula to Kyiv’s control. This was seen perhaps most spectacularly last month, when news emerged that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had undercut Ukrainian efforts to target the peninsula because of concerns any attack “could lead to a nuclear war.”
Those concerns were perhaps understandable, insofar as Russian officials have continually rattled a nuclear saber about protecting Crimea from any Ukrainian reclamation efforts. But now, as Ukraine unleashes near-daily assaults on the peninsula, the notion that Crimea presents some kind of Temple Mount—or even any kind of red line—for Russians has crumbled.
In the face of continued drone attacks, long-range missile fires, sabotage operations, and annihilation of military assets across Crimea, Russians have hardly treated the Ukrainian peninsula as some kind of sacred land. Rather than rushing to protect Crimea, Russians have instead begun fleeing the region en masse. Rather than seeing Russians lining up to enlist to aid the Kremlin’s defense of the peninsula, Moscow continues mooting the potential of a second, and far broader, forced mobilization. And rather than resulting in any kind of nuclear conflagration, Russians’ subdued reaction to the continued bombardment of Crimea has dissolved Putin’s claims that the peninsula is some kind of special, sacrosanct land. As McGill University professor Maria Popova recently posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Crimea isn’t special, let alone a red line.”
Indeed, with few even noticing, Ukraine’s continued shelling and strikes on the peninsula have illustrated one clear lesson: The idea that Crimea is some kind of holy land that Russians will race to defend—an idea that far too many in the West previously swallowed—is dead. And in that death, a wealth of new opportunities has opened up for Kyiv and for the Western partners who are suddenly realizing Crimea is hardly the sacral land Putin once claimed.
For those familiar with the region’s history, the notion that Crimea was always some kind of “spiritual center” for the Russian nation, or that it was perpetually inseparable from Moscow, was always a rickety proposition. While there were historical links tethering the peninsula to the imperial center in Moscow—not least the peninsula’s outsized role in the eponymous Crimean War of the 1850s or World War II—Crimea is hard
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Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined on Thursday when his country would use nuclear weapons. The Russian leader escalated his nuclear rhetoric at an annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, declaring that Moscow has successfully tested the nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable Burevestnik cruise missile—a claim Kremlin officials had denied just days earlier.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-nuclear-weapons-war-1832586
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a new "bizarre explanation" for Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin's death, which pins the blame on Prigozhin himself.
Putin was particularly quiet in the days following Prigozhin's death, and the ISW previously assessed that the Kremlin was "almost certainly" to blame. Wagner-associated Telegram channels also claimed that Prigozhin's plane had been hit by Russian anti-air defenses.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-has-bizarre-explanation-yevgeny-prigozh
ins-death-isw-1832556
If Putin does use a tactical nuke in Ukraine, he will blame the US for nuking Ukraine, for this is the Russian way.
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This Is How Ukraine War Could End, According to Putin's Exiled Foe
"It is not possible to preserve Putin and stop the war," said Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Once Russia's richest man when he headed the energy company Yukos, Khodorkovsky was jailed for a decade on what was considered politically motivated charges after he criticized corruption. He was pardoned by Putin in 2013.
His book How to Slay a Dragon, released later this month in the U.S., describes how a revolution is required to usher in democracy and break the cycle of Russia's history of autocracy.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-khodorkovsky-russia-ukraine-war-1832403
Download his free books from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Mikhail+Khodorkovsky
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Compromises on territory, legal order, and world peace: The fate of international law lies on Ukraine’s borders
By Maksym Vishchyk and Jeremy Pizzi | October 6, 2023
Contemporary international law does not accept anything less than an agreement respecting Ukrainian territorial integrity within its 1991 borders. Any form of territorial concessions in the present environment would be legally void and contrary to duties imposed on States to deny manifest attacks on the international legal regime. Most of all, such concessions would deliver a fatal and final blow to the contemporary world order, while inevitably paving the way to further armed conflict in Ukraine and beyond. It risks being a catalyst for rapacious aggressors who seek to satiate their insatiable appetites on smaller countries and on the international community as a whole.
International law will not accept anything less than a treaty respecting Ukrainian territorial integrity in its entirety. Allowing otherwise will send the international order back to when aggressive war was legal and territorial conquest was legitimate. It will send a clear signal to (potential) aggressors suggesting that they may attack States that are less mighty militarily or politically, subjugate them, and despite international law prohibitions, enjoy the fruits of their unlawful conquest and the crimes committed along the way.
To prevent this and in furtherance of the prohibition of aggression, international law also imposes several duties on the international community and third States that make the grant of territorial concessions by Ukraine even more untenable. They include the obligations to refrain from any explicit or implicit recognition of a situation created by an act of aggression or rendering aid or assistance to maintain such a situation, as well as the duty to enact measures and/or collective action to bring the violation to an end. As discussed below, these duties are the foundation of the contemporary world order, guaranteeing that the preservation of world peace and security remains a matter of community interest for all States, without leaving the victim of aggression facing its consequences alone.
More at https://www.justsecurity.org/89216/compromises-on-territory-legal-orde
r-and-world-peace-the-fate-of-international-law-lies-on-ukraines-borders/
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The West Armed Ukraine for a Caricature of Modern War
By Phillips Payson O’Brien | October 5, 2023
An outdated view of warfare helps explain why the U.S. was slow to supply long-range missiles.
The United States is finally getting around to supplying Ukraine with some of the long-range weaponry that the Ukrainians have been requesting for months. For far too long, Ukraine’s Western allies have largely been arming that country to fight a caricature of modern war, not the real thing.
The results of that decision are evident on maps that, more than 500 days after Russia’s invasion, show only small, incremental changes in the front line. The Ukrainians started a much anticipated counteroffensive almost four months ago and have pushed the Russians back in a few places in the Zaporizhzhia region but have not achieved a full-scale armored breakthrough. By contrast, Ukrainian missile strikes behind enemy lines have produced noteworthy successes in recent months—most notably in forcing Russia to withdraw major elements of the Black Sea Fleet from its base in the port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea.
When Russia prepared to invade Ukraine in February 2022, many military analysts imagined tank-led columns advancing rapidly and overwhelming the Ukrainian army—a vision of war that has continued to shape Western policy now that Ukraine is trying to reclaim territory. The U.S. and other NATO countries have provided armored vehicles and combined-arms-warfare training, mainly to help Ukraine make direct attacks on Russian front lines. But making a decisive breakthrough at the front, always difficult, has become extremely challenging. The Russians, for their part, spent five months attacking the small Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, taking a tiny parcel of ground at an enormous cost in casualties. Defensive weaponry has made even the best tanks and vehicles vulnerable to damage from a variety of cheaper, more numerous types of equipment. If vehicles mass together in preparation for an attack, they can be destroyed or at least slowed down in many different ways—with mines, artillery, handheld rocket launchers, or, in more and more cases, drones.
The one successful breakthrough exploitation of the past 16 months happened when Ukraine was able to attack a very lightly defended part of the Russian line in the Kharkiv region. This underscores how forward advance is possible only if Ukraine can identify weak points—or create them by striking military installations and logistics deep behind the front, so that Russia cannot move personnel, weaponry, and supplies to the front. This is why Ukrainian officials have been so insistent on obtaining the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS (pronounced “attack-ems”). This ammunition, which can be fired from the vehicle-mounted High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, has a much longer range—up to about 190 miles—than conventional artillery and even the Western-supplied Multiple Launch Rocket System that Ukrainian forces used to great effect in the first year of the war. Unfortunately, the U.S. has offered Ukraine only a limited diet of long-range weapons. As I argued earlier this year, the West’s approach to military aid was preparing Ukrainian forces to fight the hardest possible campaign.
Only when the United Kingdom supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which typically are fired from aircraft and have a range of more than 150 miles, and France followed with SCALP missiles (its version of the same weapons system) could Ukraine begin hitting high-value targets—bridges, supply depots, anti-aircraft systems—deep in Russian-occupied areas, including Crimea. The most consequential attacks have been on the Russian navy base in Sevastopol. Using just a handful of the British and French missiles, the Ukrainians have destroyed two major Russian warships, including a new Kilo-class submarine that the Russians have used to fire on Ukraine, and seriously damaged the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet itself. Yet the U.K. and France have a modest supply of the missiles. Ukraine has
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Originally posted by second:Quote:We are not the same species, Mr Wombat.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We're barely even in the same species.
I really need to tell you something...
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So, scrolling up thru your posts just on this page, SECOND, I see that you post a lot of fiction!
I thought this was... yanno... supposed to be about the real world.
"Helping Ukraine win the war as quickly as possible" - Not possible.
"...legally void and contrary to duties imposed on States" - Since when has the USA followed international law?
"... a revolution is required to usher in democracy and break the cycle of Russia's history of autocracy." - Not gonna happen any time soon. And, Russia is already a democracy.
"If Putin does use a tactical nuke in Ukraine.." - Why would Russia bother, since they're winning? (Besides, that's not what Putin said. He told western leaders, essentially ... you can run to Patagonia or New Zealand and try to hide but our missiles will find you.
[everything about Crimea]
"American and European leaders worked together to fashion post-war European security, economic, and political institutions that were mutually beneficial to all" - Except Russia. Oh, and the rest of the world.
"Signym, you didn't realize that it is easy to check that you lied." - NOPE! That was you.
"... analysts are sceptical that the Kremlin will secure all the extra revenue it says it needs." - Well! AHEM! Russia's current debt (2022) is 17%. The USA's is almost 130%. Read it and weep.
"Julian Assange is a front for a hostile non-state intelligence service and a fugitive Russian asset" - NO, he isn't.
How anyone can pack their head so full of crap ... or would even want to... is beyond me.
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The West Armed Ukraine for a Caricature of Modern War
By Phillips Payson O’Brien | October 5, 2023
An outdated view of warfare helps explain why the U.S. was slow to supply long-range missiles.
The United States is finally getting around to supplying Ukraine with some of the long-range weaponry that the Ukrainians have been requesting for months. For far too long, Ukraine’s Western allies have largely been arming that country to fight a caricature of modern war, not the real thing.
The results of that decision are evident on maps that, more than 500 days after Russia’s invasion, show only small, incremental changes in the front line. The Ukrainians started a much anticipated counteroffensive almost four months ago and have pushed the Russians back in a few places in the Zaporizhzhia region but have not achieved a full-scale armored breakthrough. By contrast, Ukrainian missile strikes behind enemy lines have produced noteworthy successes in recent months—most notably in forcing Russia to withdraw major elements of the Black Sea Fleet from its base in the port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea.
When Russia prepared to invade Ukraine in February 2022, many military analysts imagined tank-led columns advancing rapidly and overwhelming the Ukrainian army—a vision of war that has continued to shape Western policy now that Ukraine is trying to reclaim territory. The U.S. and other NATO countries have provided armored vehicles and combined-arms-warfare training, mainly to help Ukraine make direct attacks on Russian front lines. But making a decisive breakthrough at the front, always difficult, has become extremely challenging. The Russians, for their part, spent five months attacking the small Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, taking a tiny parcel of ground at an enormous cost in casualties. Defensive weaponry has made even the best tanks and vehicles vulnerable to damage from a variety of cheaper, more numerous types of equipment. If vehicles mass together in preparation for an attack, they can be destroyed or at least slowed down in many different ways—with mines, artillery, handheld rocket launchers, or, in more and more cases, drones.
The one successful breakthrough exploitation of the past 16 months happened when Ukraine was able to attack a very lightly defended part of the Russian line in the Kharkiv region. This underscores how forward advance is possible only if Ukraine can identify weak points—or create them by striking military installations and logistics deep behind the front, so that Russia cannot move personnel, weaponry, and supplies to the front. This is why Ukrainian officials have been so insistent on obtaining the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS (pronounced “attack-ems”). This ammunition, which can be fired from the vehicle-mounted High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, has a much longer range—up to about 190 miles—than conventional artillery and even the Western-supplied Multiple Launch Rocket System that Ukrainian forces used to great effect in the first year of the war. Unfortunately, the U.S. has offered Ukraine only a limited diet of long-range weapons. As I argued earlier this year, the West’s approach to military aid was preparing Ukrainian forces to fight the hardest possible campaign.
Only when the United Kingdom supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which typically are fired from aircraft and have a range of more than 150 miles, and France followed with SCALP missiles (its version of the same weapons system) could Ukraine begin hitting high-value targets—bridges, supply depots, anti-aircraft systems—deep in Russian-occupied areas, including Crimea. The most consequential attacks have been on the Russian navy base in Sevastopol. Using just a handful of the British and French missiles, the Ukrainians have destroyed two major Russian warships, including a new Kilo-class submarine that the Russians have used to fire on Ukraine, and seriously damaged the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet itself. Yet the U.K. and France have a modest supply of the missiles. Ukraine has
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Quote:Julian Assange is in legal trouble because he has flamboyantly lived out his character defects instead of correcting himself. Here is one defect out of many defects: In some of the messages, obtained by The Atlantic, WikiLeaks reportedly offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton in exchange for Donald Trump Jr.’s help appointing Assange as U.S. ambassador to Australia if the elder Trump won the election. A lawyer for Donald Trump Jr. has said the president’s son did not know the specifics of the material being offered, and Donald Trump Jr. has not been charged by U.S. law enforcement officials in the matter.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
"Julian Assange is a front for a hostile non-state intelligence service and a fugitive Russian asset" - NO, he isn't.
How anyone can pack their head so full of crap ... or would even want to... is beyond me.
There is plenty more about Assange at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-charges-against-julian-assange-
explained
Russia deserves all the troubles it has because its leaders are highly defective and aren't ashamed to display their defects. There have been many history books written about Russian defects in character displayed by the top men. Historians industriously make the connections between the fate of a country and the worst ideas implanted in the minds of leaders by their country's culture.
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Russia has nearly exhausted stockpile of up to 15 million shells; Ukraine to surpass Russian shell usage by year-end
October 7, 2023
"Our numbers are increasing: we can now use about 10,000 shells a day. The Russians still use about 15,000. But there is actually parity ahead. In terms of the number of shells . . . " But Russia may increase its production of shells to about 2 million a year, Reuters reported earlier.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/seven-thousand-a-day-artillery-shell-limi
t-is-looming-over-russia-50358916.html
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Child rapist Zelensky is pissing himself after the Hamas attack.
If he was worried that the Ukraine grift well had run dry before, he knows he's fucked right now.
He served his purpose. It's late in 2023, but my bet is he's murdered sometime next year.
And meanwhile, the Military Industrial Complex "found" another way to keep funneling OUR money into the machine without missing a beat.
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"Julian Assange is in legal trouble because he has flamboyantly lived out his character defects instead of correcting himself. Here is one defect out of many defects: In some of the messages, obtained by The Atlantic, WikiLeaks reportedly offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton in exchange for Donald Trump Jr.’s help appointing Assange as U.S. ambassador to Australia if the elder Trump won the election"
- That's not what we're charging him with. Say, do you even know WHAT our charges against Assange are?
"Russia has nearly exhausted stockpile of up to 15 million shells; Ukraine to surpass Russian shell usage by year-end"
- Do you have any idea HOW MANY times people have published this, only to be proven lying, or stupid? Russia's offensive will begin by "shaping the battlefield" (They've already blown the bridges across the Oskol River, trapping 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers between the river to their backs and the frontline to the east.) There will be deep strikes far behind the front line, destroying ammo dumps, warehouses, port facilites, concentrations of troops, command centers, transportation nodes etc (Happening now. Russia recently blew up, among other things, a command center and an ammo dump with 63,000 TONS of munitions.)
Once supplies and logistics are degraded far behind the line and the Ukrainian army is exhausted to its core, Russia's offensive will begin in earnest with a hail of artillery and drone strikes at the front line. Then you'll see just how much Russia HASN'T "run out" of artillery shells.
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Quote:Julian Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK, on the basis of a US extradition request on charges that stem directly from the publication of disclosed documents as part of his work with Wikileaks.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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"Julian Assange is in legal trouble because he has flamboyantly lived out his character defects instead of correcting himself. Here is one defect out of many defects: In some of the messages, obtained by The Atlantic, WikiLeaks reportedly offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton in exchange for Donald Trump Jr.’s help appointing Assange as U.S. ambassador to Australia if the elder Trump won the election"
- That's not what we're charging him with. Say, do you even know WHAT our charges against Assange are?
"Russia has nearly exhausted stockpile of up to 15 million shells; Ukraine to surpass Russian shell usage by year-end"
- Do you have any idea HOW MANY times people have published this, only to be proven lying, or stupid? Russia's offensive will begin by "shaping the battlefield" (They've already blown the bridges across the Oskol River, trapping 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers between the river to their backs and the frontline to the east.) There will be deep strikes far behind the front line, destroying ammo dumps, warehouses, port facilites, concentrations of troops, command centers, transportation nodes etc (Happening now. Russia recently blew up, among other things, a command center and an ammo dump with 63,000 TONS of munitions.)
Once supplies and logistics are degraded far behind the line and the Ukrainian army is exhausted to its core, Russia's offensive will begin in earnest with a hail of artillery and drone strikes at the front line. Then you'll see just how much Russia HASN'T "run out" of artillery shells.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/julian-assange-usa-justice/
Assange has imprisoned himself. He could force the USA to put him on trial and get himself released when he wins, but he is too fearful to try the obvious escape path from prison. Similarly, Putin has chained himself to Ukraine because he is too fearful to withdraw. Unlike Assange, Putin doesn't have to depend on the vagaries of a jury decision. Putin decides when Putin can go free. If only Putin would stop fighting, declare victory, and go home, but he doesn't, so he remains at war. If only Assange would stop fighting extradition, but he doesn't, and so he remains in prison.
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Quote:6ix, Trumptards like you are so crazy that it shortens your lives. Because the USA is the best country in the world for retards to live a long life, you defective people stay alive far longer than anywhere else in the world, but eventually your 24/7/365 craziness catches up with you and causes your end. Expected yet tragic when a Trumptard like Rush Limbaugh, the cigar connoisseur who denied smoking causes cancer, died of lung cancer. But he lived long enough for Trump to award Rush with the Medal of Freedom for being the craziest personality on talk radio.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Child rapist Zelensky is pissing himself after the Hamas attack.
If he was worried that the Ukraine grift well had run dry before, he knows he's fucked right now.
He served his purpose. It's late in 2023, but my bet is he's murdered sometime next year.
And meanwhile, the Military Industrial Complex "found" another way to keep funneling OUR money into the machine without missing a beat.
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Why the world has been footing the bill for Putin’s war
Boosted oil revenues as a result of the Ukraine conflict have helped fund the Kremlin’s invasion
By Kirill Rogov | Oct 8, 2023
The author is director of Re: Russia. Expertise, Analysis and Policy Network and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
Despite the supply of western weaponry, the Ukrainian counteroffensive has not yielded the expected results. The Russian military machine has partially weathered the crisis in command, and the political situation remains relatively stable. The result is that the conflict has entered a protracted phase. But why has Russia been so resilient to sanctions, how has it borne the costs of the invasion, and for how much longer will Vladimir Putin continue to fight?
The Kremlin is at a tipping point in the economics of this war. This week the finance ministry disclosed that it aims to spend Rbs10.8tn ($108bn) on defence next year, three times the amount allocated in 2021, and equivalent to 6 per cent of Russia’s GDP. But the actual amount will inevitably be higher due to hidden items and is likely to be about 7 per cent ($126bn). Forbes Ukraine calculated Russia’s main war expenses at around $170bn over the past year and a half, although this excluded some regular defence expenditure. Such estimates are undoubtedly imprecise but fall within the same range, indicating the war has cost the Kremlin $100bn to $120bn per year.
However, this has not significantly impacted the economy — at least, not yet. Because it is the buyers of Russian oil, rather than the Russian state, who have been paying for the conflict. Over the past decade, Russia’s average annual income from all exports has been around $430bn at an average Brent crude price of $67 per barrel during this period. However, an abnormal price increase in 2022 driven by the Ukraine invasion and the resulting sanctions pushed exports up to $590bn and this year the figure is estimated to be around $460bn. The additional income of $200bn above the decade average roughly covers the costs of the war so far.
Of course, not all this money went directly to the military budget, but most of it did. The benefits to Putin of this export income bump are significant. There was no need to redistribute much money from other parts of the state, which would create political tension. The Russian government estimates the fiscal stimulus of its 2022-23 budget to be equivalent to 10 per cent of GDP — allowing it to offset the effect of the sanctions and constraining their effect.
This could be about to change. Up until now, an annual export income revenue of $430bn has allowed Putin to invest comfortably in infrastructure and maintain sufficient social spending. Within the past decade, 2015 and 2020 proved to be lean years when external income amounted to just $330bn to $340bn, during the average oil pri
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Child rapist Zelensky is pissing himself after the Hamas attack.
If he was worried that the Ukraine grift well had run dry before, he knows he's fucked right now.
He served his purpose. It's late in 2023, but my bet is he's murdered sometime next year.
And meanwhile, the Military Industrial Complex "found" another way to keep funneling OUR money into the machine without missing a beat.
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Yeah. We've heard all your judgements and lies before, cunt.
We'll just save more of the I Told You Sos from the neverending bag. You've quite the extensive collection of them now. Whatever do you do with all of them?
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Quote:6ix, Trumptards are as stupid and crazy as Russians and North Koreans. The Russians blame their relative poverty compared to the EU on the West rather than themselves. The Trumptards blame the Democrats rather than themselves. The North Koreans blame their poverty on South Korea rather than themselves. Crazy and stupid people blame anybody except themselves for their woeful lives.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. We've heard all your judgements and lies before, cunt.
We'll just save more of the I Told You Sos from the neverending bag. You've quite the extensive collection of them now. Whatever do you do with all of them?
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Negotiating With Russia Is Still a Bad Idea
The rationale for forcing Ukraine to stop fighting keeps changing with the facts on the ground.
By Raphael S. Cohen, the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program at the Rand Corporation’s Project Air Force, and Gian Gentile, the deputy director of the Rand Corporation’s Army Research Division | October 9, 2023, 6:00 AM
Since the very outset of Russia’s war against Ukraine, there have been calls for the United States to negotiate with Russia. As the war has dragged on, the rationale for negotiations has morphed with each phase: Ukraine can’t possibly win, so the West needs to negotiate; Ukraine has guaranteed its survival but can’t hope for much more, so it’s time to talk; Ukraine is winning too fast, so let’s give Russian President Vladimir Putin an off-ramp in case he wants to blow up the world; the war is becoming too expensive, so send in the diplomats.
The latest version of the argument that Washington should negotiate an end to the war—or, more precisely, pressure Ukraine to capitulate—goes something like this: Americans, particularly those leaning toward the Republican Party, are growing wary of sending aid to Ukraine. On Capitol Hill, Republicans prevented Ukraine aid from being included in the continuing resolution passed on Sept. 30 that kept the U.S. government open. On the battlefield, the Ukrainian counteroffensive is proving to be a tougher and slower slog than many had hoped, and even Kyiv’s supporters now acknowledge that any victory will be at least one year away.
In the meantime, casualties have, by some counts, surpassed half a million killed and injured soldiers. Given these darkening clouds on both the political and military fronts, why not try to cut some sort of deal, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives and many billions of dollars?
Once you scratch below the surface, however, the case for negotiating with Russia quickly falls apart. Let’s start with the supposed shift in U.S. public opinion. Yes, some polls show declining support for Ukraine. The real question, though, concerns the reasons why some Americans appear to have changed their mind. Some may indeed be concerned about the cost, but analyses also suggest that the decline, particularly among Republicans, reflects general misgivings about U.S. President Joe Biden and his policies as an election season gets underway, rather than Ukraine’s cause on its own merits.
A Reagan Institute survey from June, for example, confirms this hypothesis. When pollsters told skeptical respondents that the United States “has spent roughly $24 billion on military aid to Ukraine, which is roughly 3% of the US military’s own budget” and that “Ukraine remains in control of roughly 83% of its territory and US intelligence believes the war has severely degraded Russia’s military power and its ability to threaten NATO allies,” this information raised support for Ukraine by 18 percent among self-identified Republicans and 12 percent among Democrats. Dwindling support for Ukraine may be more about bad messaging and lack of information than actual policy.
Support for Ukraine on Capitol Hill tells a similarly nuanced story. True, a group of Republicans in the House of Representatives managed to keep additional Ukraine aid out of the bill that kept the government open. The Senate, however, is more mixed. Indeed, even at the height of the recent budget battle, a bipartisan group of Senate leaders—including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—issued a joint statement supporting Ukraine and endorsing continuing support. Moreover, earlier that same week, the House approved $300 million in Ukraine aid while also voting down two other attempts to restrict sending aid to Ukraine by wide margins, including about half of the Republican members.
So even if there are divisions among legislators, it is not at all clear whether Congress would support negotiating with Russia. Indeed, while there are elements in the House that have pushed to stop Ukraine aid, multiple Republican senators have hammered the Bi
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, Trumptards are as stupid and crazy as Russians and North Koreans. The Russians blame their relative poverty compared to the EU on the West rather than themselves. The Trumptards blame the Democrats rather than themselves. The North Koreans blame their poverty on South Korea rather than themselves. Crazy and stupid people blame anybody except themselves for their woeful lives.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. We've heard all your judgements and lies before, cunt.
We'll just save more of the I Told You Sos from the neverending bag. You've quite the extensive collection of them now. Whatever do you do with all of them?
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We've heard all this dumb shit out of you before, and it's not anymore true now that you've said it for the 1000th time.
You're an idiot, a sociopath, a serial liar and you're always wrong about everything.
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Negotiating with Russia is a good idea, if you negotiate in good faith. But since the collective west doesn't negotiate in good faith, Russia won't negotiate with us.
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SECOND, THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT TRUMP OR TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
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Quote:Russians haven't prospered compared to Europeans. Neither have Trumptards prospered compared to Americans. Why? Because Russians and Trumptards share unfortunate behavior that will always keep them behind people who aren't flawed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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SECOND: ... blah blah blah TRUMP! blah blah blah ...
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Russians haven't prospered compared to Europeans. Neither have Trumptards prospered compared to Americans. Why? Because Russians and Trumptards share unfortunate behavior that will always keep them behind people who aren't flawed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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You heard it here, folks.
Straight from the mouth of the world's biggest living asshole.
Second is a flawless individual.
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Well, he's a flawless asshole.
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The War has killed lots and lots of both Russian and Ukrainian, soon the winter will arrive and more Death.
Very little talk of peace
Perhaps the Israel Palestine broken record nonsense will be a distraction for world powers and globalists, they attacks on Israel had an unusual degree of coordination and sophistication or else Israelis were napping, all the Sentry and watchers fast asleep.
Pervert Graham goes full NeoCon Warhawk and Calls For bombing of Iran, which supplies Attack Drones against Ukraine.
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This wasn't an accident.
This was planned. And not by idiot jihadists either. Those stupid sand monkeys are even dumber than Ted.
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Quote:6ix, I have been around worthless assholes like you all my life in East Texas. Those people I knew from the 1960s had children and grandchildren, but it is completely unsurprising that most of the next generation of assholes voted for Trump. They passed their personal culture of failure to the next generation. 6ix, be sure to brag that you are not going to work today while I am working. 6ix, you don't even realize how worthless you made yourself. And neither do the Russians. For a quick example, the Russians have no way of knowing what they claim to know, but they make the false claim despite that because what the Russians did with their time is worthless. As part of their culture, the Russians lied to re-imagine themselves as the hero of the story:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Russians haven't prospered compared to Europeans. Neither have Trumptards prospered compared to Americans. Why? Because Russians and Trumptards share unfortunate behavior that will always keep them behind people who aren't flawed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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You heard it here, folks.
Straight from the mouth of the world's biggest living asshole.
Second is a flawless individual.
Russia claims 'neo-Nazis' were at wake for Ukrainian soldier
Russia’s U.N. ambassador is alleging that “neo-Nazis” and military-age men were at the wake for a Ukrainian soldier in a village café where a Russian missile killed 52 people
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press, October 9, 2023, 7:38 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/russia-claims-neo-nazis-wake-ukrai
nian-soldier-village-103847837
In my experience, it is typical for an East Texas Trumptard to do wrong and then lie about what was done in order to spin a story that makes them look good rather than worthless. The Russians do the same. The constant lying and wasting time doing what should never be done at all is why Russians and Trumptards are poor compared to Europeans and Americans.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, I have been around worthless assholes like you all my life in East Texas.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Russians haven't prospered compared to Europeans. Neither have Trumptards prospered compared to Americans. Why? Because Russians and Trumptards share unfortunate behavior that will always keep them behind people who aren't flawed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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You heard it here, folks.
Straight from the mouth of the world's biggest living asshole.
Second is a flawless individual.
Fuck off, cunt.
I've had the fortune to never have known a pointless dickhead like you in my entire life.
Your poor family. Everybody you know hates you. You are a waste of carbon.
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Quote:6ix, I have known thousands like you. It gets expensive for them maintaining high self-esteem. Trump pays the high price. His followers, too. So do Putin and his Russians. When reality knocks down their facade, they glimpse the waste of their life, but their biology allows, at a high price, the obliteration of reality for a time with a drink, a smoke, a drug, an orgasm, a pleasurable lie, or stuffing themselves to reset their feelings back to high self-esteem. After that fades, just repeat the same trashy, low-class behavior until their compensating kills them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, cunt.
I've had the fortune to never have known a pointless dickhead like you in my entire life.
Your poor family. Everybody you know hates you. You are a waste of carbon.
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So, SECOND... you don't drink, smoke, do drugs, overeat, or have much sex. And you imagine that makes you a better human being?
What do you say to yourself about your lying, libelling, hating most people, killing some, and harming... or wishing to harm ... others? That must make you real proud bc you do it over and over again.
******
Meanwhile... as events in Israel push Ukraine out of the news, Russia starts a broad push across much of the front. Russian videos from the Kupiansk area have gone very very dark. Some people think that Russia is planning a large offensive there and don't want to give info away. (Military Summary Channel)
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, I have known thousands like you. It gets expensive for them maintaining high self-esteem. Trump pays the high price. His followers, too. So do Putin and his Russians. When reality knocks down their facade, they glimpse the waste of their life, but their biology allows, at a high price, the obliteration of reality for a time with a drink, a smoke, a drug, an orgasm, a pleasurable lie, or stuffing themselves to reset their feelings back to high self-esteem. After that fades, just repeat the same trashy, low-class behavior until their compensating kills them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, cunt.
I've had the fortune to never have known a pointless dickhead like you in my entire life.
Your poor family. Everybody you know hates you. You are a waste of carbon.
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I'm going to live a lot longer than you are.
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I think you've gotten under their skin TWO.
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Hardly.
Meanwhile, Second resents the fact that the only person left on fff.net that agrees with him on anything is the stupidest person he's ever met. That's why he never engages with you.
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Quote:The Military Summary Channel is for retards, not for real people.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, SECOND... you don't drink, smoke, do drugs, overeat, or have much sex. And you imagine that makes you a better human being?
What do you say to yourself about your lying, libelling, hating most people, killing some, and harming... or wishing to harm ... others? That must make you real proud bc you do it over and over again.
******
Meanwhile... as events in Israel push Ukraine out of the news, Russia starts a broad push across much of the front. Russian videos from the Kupiansk area have gone very very dark. Some people think that Russia is planning a large offensive there and don't want to give info away. (Military Summary Channel)
I learned something useful for my own life when my parents and sisters became Jehovah's Witnesses. The East Texas angry poor white trash that my family once associated with would molder from the 1950s until today into decaying versions of their forefathers, becoming Trumptards. Meanwhile, the Jehovah's Witnesses in my family prospered mightily. It was a powerful lesson that Trumptards doom themselves with their terrible morals and their lack of self-control. The same is true for Russia and North Korea, Russia's client state. Both of those defiant, unrestrained, and immoral countries are poor compared to countries that admire America. Neither Russians nor North Koreans understand they are ruining themselves with their rottenness. Instead, they blame the USA, never themselves.
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If we're so great, why are we getting poorer while Russia is getting richer?
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Is dipshit talking about how he's flawless again?
Why don't you say hi to Ted, dipshit. He's really been trying to earn your approval.
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Not a lot of news about Russia or Ukraine today, huh?
Poor Zelensky. I hope he stocked up his bunker and has his go bag ready. That dude is a dead man walking now.
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Quote:Russia has failed to get re-elected as a member of the UN's human rights council.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not a lot of news about Russia or Ukraine today, huh?
Poor Zelensky. I hope he stocked up his bunker and has his go bag ready. That dude is a dead man walking now.
Albania's ambassador Ferit Hoxha said it was important for member states to show the UN was not ready to mistake an arsonist (Russia) for a firefighter.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67071697
Will NATO please kill the arsonist Putin before he sets another fire?
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Quote:My "problems" are like a well-tended lawn. I solve the problems by routinely mowing them down. It is just part of maintaining a serene life rather than how Trumptards and Russians live their messed up lives in the midst of untamed jungles full of ever-growing problems so large they eclipse the sun.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is dipshit talking about how he's flawless again?
Why don't you say hi to Ted, dipshit. He's really been trying to earn your approval.
Ukraine did not do the necessary maintenance to prevent problems from growing to huge proportions. An example is the Kerch Strait Bridge from Russia to Crimea. Ukraine should have devised a competent plan to destroy it. Last time I checked, Ukraine had tried three stupid plans that failed to permanently stop all traffic from Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Bridge#August_2023_attack
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My "problems" are like a well-tended lawn. I solve the problems by routinely mowing them down. It is just part of maintaining a serene life rather than how Trumptards and Russians live their messed up lives in the midst of untamed jungles full of ever-growing problems so large they eclipse the sun.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is dipshit talking about how he's flawless again?
Why don't you say hi to Ted, dipshit. He's really been trying to earn your approval.
That's not what you said. You said you had no flaws. You always talk as though you have no flaws. That's why nobody believes anything that you ever say.
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Ukraine did not do the necessary maintenance to prevent problems from growing to huge proportions.
Not America's fucking problem. Period.
See, Ted? He won't even say hi to you to spite me. That's how much Second resents you.
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Quote:6ix, you remember me writing things I never wrote and you have been doing that for, how long? forever.
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That's not what you said. You said you had no flaws. You always talk as though you have no flaws. That's why nobody believes anything that you ever say.Quote:
Ukraine did not do the necessary maintenance to prevent problems from growing to huge proportions.
Not America's fucking problem. Period.
See, Ted? He won't even say hi to you to spite me. That's how much Second resents you.
The Trumptards I know are anxious that their problems will kill them. Unlike them, I am not afraid of death or the people who are causing me problems. The result is that my problems don't overwhelm me. I mow them down. On the other hand, places like Ukraine and Russia are full of fearful people who won't brutally confront the problematic people in their lives. How do they compensate for being cowards? By drowning their fears in alcohol. Trumptards do the same. As for me, I only drink at Thanksgiving and Christmas, although I'm not Christian. Two bottles of beer per year is sufficient for me. Ukrainians, Russians and Trumptards would be better off limiting their drinking, but I don't expect any change for the better in their behavior.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you remember me writing things I never wrote and you have been doing that for, how long? forever.
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That's not what you said. You said you had no flaws. You always talk as though you have no flaws. That's why nobody believes anything that you ever say.Quote:
Ukraine did not do the necessary maintenance to prevent problems from growing to huge proportions.
Not America's fucking problem. Period.
See, Ted? He won't even say hi to you to spite me. That's how much Second resents you.
Bullshit. Allow me to refresh your memory.
October 9th, in this thread:
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Russians haven't prospered compared to Europeans. Neither have Trumptards prospered compared to Americans. Why? Because Russians and Trumptards share unfortunate behavior that will always keep them behind people who aren't flawed.
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And then, just now, you followed that up with the next paragraph. One of thousands you've posted over the years lying to yourself that you have no weaknesses or character flaws.
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The Trumptards I know are anxious that their problems will kill them. Unlike them, I am not afraid of death or the people who are causing me problems. The result is that my problems don't grow. I mow them down. On the other hand, places like Ukraine and Russia are full of fearful people who won't brutally confront the problematic people in their lives. How do they compensate for being cowards? By drowning their fears in alcohol. Trumptards do the same. As for me, I only drink at Thanksgiving and Christmas, although I'm not Christian. Two bottles of beer per year is sufficient for me. Ukrainians, Russians and Trumptards would be better off limiting their drinking, but I don't expect any change for the better in their behavior.
And once again, I'll tell you the same thing that I've told you 1,000 times before. The character of Second that you've created is bad fiction. Second is a Mary Sue character who faces no adversity in life because he is perfect in every way and the best at everything he does. Therefore he never needs to learn anything because everything he ever says and does is right.
It's no wonder that you don't subscribe to Christianity or any other religion for that matter. You have a god complex. You are god in your own mind.
And everybody hates you. Both online and real life.
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Is dipshit talking about how he's flawless again?
Why don't you say hi to Ted, dipshit. He's really been trying to earn your approval.
SECOND: BLAH BLAH BLAH...
SIX: See, Ted? He won't even say hi to you to spite me. That's how much Second resents you.
Nah. SECOND is trying to scrape THUGR off. THUGR is a zit on SECOND'S arguments, which embarasses him, so he does his best to ignore him.
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The Germans killed around 27 million Russians because Russians were stupid by comparison to the Germans, who only had 500,000 dead civilians during the war. But Russians revealed how stupid they were in the aftermath of WWII by killing another 2,000,000 German civilians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
How stupid are Russians? Stupid enough for Russia to kill 62 million of its own citizens.
From the book Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
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1 61,911,000 Victims: Utopianism Empowered, 1917-1987
2 3,284,000 Victims: The Civil War Period, 1917-1922
3 2,200,000 Victims: The NEP Period 1923-1928
4 11,440,000 Victims: The Collectivization Period, 1929-1935
5 4,345,000 Victims: The Great Terror Period 1936-1938
6 5,104,000 Victims: Pre-World War II Period 1939-June 1941
7 13,053,000 Victims: World War II Period, June 1941-1945
8 15,613,000 Victims: Postwar and Stalin’s Twilight Period, 1945-1953
9 6,872,000 Victims: Post-Stalin Period, 1954-1987
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Is dipshit talking about how he's flawless again?
Why don't you say hi to Ted, dipshit. He's really been trying to earn your approval.
SECOND: BLAH BLAH BLAH...
SIX: See, Ted? He won't even say hi to you to spite me. That's how much Second resents you.
Nah. SECOND is trying to scrape THUGR off. THUGR is a zit on SECOND'S arguments, which embarasses him, so he does his best to ignore him.
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Yup.
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With all eyes (including Congress and the Pentagon) focused on Israel, this is an opportune time to scrape off Ukraine and bury the fact that Russia is advancing from Rabotyno northeards to the Vremevsky salient to Avdiivka to Bakhmut.
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With all eyes (including Congress and the Pentagon) focused on Israel, this is an opportune time to scrape off Ukraine and bury the fact that Russia is advancing from Rabotyno northeards to the Vremevsky salient to Avdiivka to Bakhmut.
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Zelensky is a dead man walking now.
I already predicted that earlier, but I want to make this clear that it is my prediction.
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Quote:These tactical operations were aimed at freezing what has been a slow but steady Ukrainian advance ahead of Russian presidential elections, said Igor Girkin, a Russian military officer who organised the Russian militia that has fought the Ukrainian army since Donetsk and Luhansk declared they were seceding in 2014.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
With all eyes (including Congress and the Pentagon) focused on Israel, this is an opportune time to scrape off Ukraine and bury the fact that Russia is advancing from Rabotyno northeards to the Vremevsky salient to Avdiivka to Bakhmut.
“With a 99 percent probability, the Kremlin decided to freeze the war until the elections, that is, until March 2024,” wrote Girkin. Putin will do nothing to “seriously aggravate the social, economic and internal political situation in the country”, until spring, the sole priority being “to prevent deep breakthroughs or sensitive operational successes of the enemy”, until then.
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We are out of schedule – Head of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence
Alona Mazurenko, Ukrainska Pravda — Thursday, 12 October 2023, 12:38
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, believes that Ukraine is "out of schedule" but did not explain what this means.
Source: Budanov in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda
Budanov was asked about the chances of ending the war this year he spoke about, and whether something went wrong.
Quote: "There are objective and subjective reasons – everything is complex. But, sorry, most of the explanations are state secrets, and it's not for public discussion. Over time, all this will become clear."
Details: Budanov said that Ukraine is "out of schedule" but did not explain what he means by this.
Quote: "We got sidetracked. We are not behind, but out of schedule. That is an entirely different meaning…
Not everything went wrong. Let's not specify and explain all this; we are out of schedule – let everyone draw their own conclusions."
He added that the offensive continues in the south of the country. There are also impressive developments to bring Bakhmut back: "The fact that there are fierce battles there is definitely not a secret to anyone. But, as you can see, slowly, step by step, we are progressing there."
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/12/7423814/
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"We're out of schedule because we're not getting $40 Billion more from the US and Second is the only person in the US that still remembers that Ukraine is a country".
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Quote:Speaking about character, Putin declared the entire West to be Satanists, with the exception of Trump and his semi-Christian followers. Putin talks the same way as the Confederates did about the Northerners, the guys who won the Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) and ended a Satanist society built upon the foundation of slavery.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And once again, I'll tell you the same thing that I've told you 1,000 times before. The character of Second that you've created is bad fiction. Second is a Mary Sue character who faces no adversity in life because he is perfect in every way and the best at everything he does. Therefore he never needs to learn anything because everything he ever says and does is right.
It's no wonder that you don't subscribe to Christianity or any other religion for that matter. You have a god complex. You are god in your own mind.
And everybody hates you. Both online and real life.
https://www.google.com/search?q=putin+satanist
10 Facts: What Everyone Should Know About the Civil War
The Civil War profoundly shaped the United States as we know it today. Nevertheless, the war remains the most misunderstood event in American history. Here are ten basic facts you need to know about America's defining struggle.
November 12, 2013 • Updated September 7, 2023
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And once again, I'll tell you the same thing that I've told you 1,000 times before. The character of Second that you've created is bad fiction. Second is a Mary Sue character who faces no adversity in life because he is perfect in every way and the best at everything he does. Therefore he never needs to learn anything because everything he ever says and does is right.
It's no wonder that you don't subscribe to Christianity or any other religion for that matter. You have a god complex. You are god in your own mind.
And everybody hates you. Both online and real life.
Nah. Let's not.
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Putin declares holy war on Western 'Satanism'
Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked Jesus, Satan, and transsexual bogeymen in a Kremlin ceremony for carving up Ukraine on Friday (30 September 2022).
Putin signed eagle-embossed, leather-bound tomes declaring four Ukrainian regions to be part of Russia, in rites observed in a palatial hall, filled with clapping VIPs, including patriarch Kirill, and soldiers in dress uniform.
The last time this happened, when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014, marked a dark hour for Europe's post-WW2 security order.
This time it's more dangerous because Russia isn't in full control of the new territories it has claimed, amid Kremlin threats to fight for them with nuclear weapons if need be.
Using startling rhetoric, Putin portrayed the annexation as a holy war against the West, which is helping Ukraine to defend itself.
"They [the West] are moving toward open satanism," he said in a speech broadcast to millions online.
Western elites were teaching "sexual deviation" to children who changed their gender, he said. "We're fighting for historical Russia, to protect our children and grandchildren from this experiment to change their souls," he added.
Putin invoked Jesus by name to bear witness to his "truth" and portrayed himself in messianic terms.
"I believe in the spiritual power of the Russian people and my spirit is its spirit, the suffering of the people is my suffering," he said.
"The destruction of the Western hegemony is irreversible," he added, as he neared the climax of his oration.
His mysticism stood in contrast to his justification for seizing Crimea, which he based on historical grounds.
Putin also blamed "Anglo-Saxons", referring to the UK and US, for blowing up two Russian gas pipelines to Germany this week — in a potential casus belli with Nato.
He jeered the European public for soaring food and energy prices due to his invasion. "You need food," Putin said. "You can't heat your apartments", he said.
The rest of his speech went along well-worn lines, accusing Western countries of imperialism, colonialism, hypocrisy, and historical sins such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Dresden in WW2.
Satanic phantasmagoria and sexual hate-speech are also familiar themes in Russian propaganda.
But while Putin is known for using foul-mouthed language, such as necrophilia jokes, at state events, his cocktail of sex, religion, and geopolitics on Friday was headier than ever.
For their part, EU leaders are preparing to impose new sanctions on Russia when they meet in Prague next week.
They aim to blacklist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, who speaks of the Ukraine war and Russian identity in equally toxic terms, along with 28 others.
They are to strike at Russia's oil, steel, and forestry industries.
The EU is also preparing to copy-paste its Crimea travel and business ban to the new Russia-annexed areas, as the war drags out.
"Russian travel documents issued in those regions [the four Ukrainian areas annexed by Russia on Friday] are not recognised by member states as well as Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Lichtenstein for the purposes of issuing of a visa and of crossing the external borders," an internal EU document said, in a decision being prepared alongside the new Russia blacklists.
Ukraine said it was applying to join Nato in its riposte to Putin's move.
Putin's party
The Kremlin solemnities saw Russia's four puppet leaders in eastern Ukraine grip hands with Putin while chanting "Russia! Russia!" to a standing ovation.
Two of them wore Z-logo lapel badges — a symbol that has become synonymous with Russian atrocities committed in Ukraine over the past seven months.
The Crimea annexation, eight years ago, saw Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe back Putin at the UN, in a sign of what he might exp
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With all eyes (including Congress and the Pentagon) focused on Israel, this is an opportune time to scrape off Ukraine and bury the fact that Russia is advancing from Rabotyno northeards to the Vremevsky salient to Avdiivka to Bakhmut.
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Why Russia's Recent Lack of Air Strikes Should Terrify Ukraine
By Isabel van Brugen | On 10/13/23 at 10:00 AM EDT
Russia is likely stockpiling missiles to preserve them for winter attacks on Ukraine, according to British intelligence.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD) said in an intelligence update on Friday that Russian Air Force Long Range Aviation (LRA) aircraft have not conducted a strike against Ukraine for three weeks, since September 21.
That's despite Kyiv continuing with its grinding counteroffensive to reclaim the territories seized by Russian forces in the ongoing war. Ukraine's counteroffensive is now in its fifth month, with particularly heavy clashes taking place along the front lines in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
"While such breaks have not been unusual, the last similar break in strikes occurred between 9 March and 28 April 2023, a period of 51 days," defense officials said.
The British MOD said that in that instance it was likely that LRA had almost depleted its stocks of capable AS-23 missile munitions following its winter campaign against Ukrainian critical national infrastructure.
Putin ramped up missile attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure last winter, causing residents to be disconnected from the electricity grid, with those in Kyiv, Odesa, and western Ukraine worst affected.
"This time, it is likely that Russian LRA are preserving existing stocks of AS-23 missiles as well as using this pause to increase useable stocks in anticipation of further heavy strikes against Ukraine over the winter," defense officials said.
The intelligence update noted that recently, Russia has focused its airstrikes against grain-related facilities across the south of Ukraine, using SHAHED one-way-attack uncrewed aerial vehicles.
"This included strikes against Ukrainian Danube River ports, which likely required a high level of accuracy due to the target's proximity to the Romanian border," it said, adding that Russia likely used its SHAHED one-way-attack uncrewed aerial vehicles on these targets because of their better accuracy over other types of air-launched missiles.
Newsweek reached out to Russia's Defense Ministry via email for comment.
Ahead of a possible winter blitz by Russia on Ukraine's critical infrastructure, Oleksiy Chernyshov, the head of Ukraine's state-owned energy giant Naftogaz, told Newsweek last month that Kyiv is "more prepared" than it was in 2022.
"We expect Russia to continue serious missile attacks and drone attacks on our energy and infrastructure objects," Chernyshov said. "Their task is to deprive Ukrainians of basic services in heating, gas supply, electricity supply and others, and to actually target their morale and emotions."
"Ukrainians are more prepared," Chernyshov said. "They are more protected. We have prepared certain protections for our assets: energy production, gas distribution, gas storage, oil storage, oil refineries."
"Russia is also prepared. Both sides are smarter after the previous winter. The Russians will prepare more sophisticated attacks...They are using more sophisticated methods, so the risk is high," he added.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-stockpiling-missiles-winter-attack-183
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Zelensky might not survive the winter.
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Quote:Kinda slow to take in new info. Kiev has NOT been 'continuing its offensive'. It's been on defense for a week or two now, it's Russia that's on the offensive. (not BTW THE Big Offensive. Just smaller local ones.)
That's despite Kyiv continuing with its grinding counteroffensive to reclaim the territories seized by Russian forces in the ongoing war.
I noticed something interesting: in areas that have been properly prepared (eliminating artillery positions, drone operator positions, high vantage points, mines) Russian mechanized assaults are successful. Adiivka is an example. If, however, ALL defensive firepower isn't eliminated, then a column of armored vehicles will suffer the same fate as Ukrainian assault in 'Bradley Square' (so named for all of the dead Bradleys there). This happened to Russia further north, I forget the name of the village. In the Rabotyne area (near Bradley Square) the fighting involved mostly infantry, drones, and bombs. (Bombs are Russian.) (Military Summary Channel)
Which leads to the truism: it's easier to defend than attack.
So I see Kiev finally took my advice: Go on the defensive. Make the Russians come to you.
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Is Russia's Battlefield Shifting from Ukraine to the US Political System?
This is the current status of the war:
The US has invested something on the order of 2 percent of our defense budget to arm Ukraine (without putting a single American soldier in danger) and the result has been the destruction of more than 4,000 Russian tanks, 8,000 armored personnel carriers, several Russian warships, three elite Russian brigades, a major Russian air defense system, and just two weeks ago, Ukraine’s army commander claimed that Russia’s 72nd Motor Rifle Brigade, the 31st Air Assault Brigade, and the 83rd Air Assault Brigade were all “crushed” in the Bakhmut area fighting.
But while America is using Russia’s terrorist attacks on Ukraine as an opportunity to degrade the power and influence of Russia’s military, Putin is using social media and rightwing commentary to get Republican politicians on their side and thus kill off US aid to Ukraine. The war in Gaza is making it even easier, with Putin-aligned politicians like Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) tweeting: “Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately.”
Much more at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/13/2199133/-Is-Russia-s-Battl
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Russia's Likely Death Toll in Ukraine Revealed in Government Filing
Isabel van Brugen
Russia's proposed 2024 budget allocates funding to the families of 102,700 military personnel killed in Ukraine, giving insight into Moscow's likely death toll in Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine that began in February 2022.
The figures, which have not been independently verified by Newsweek, were reported on Thursday by independent Russian news outlet Mozhem Obyasnit, which analyzed Russia's federal budget draft for 2024 to 2026. The publication notes that in addition to one-time insurance payments for military personnel killed in Ukraine, relatives also receive monthly compensation of 21,922.12 rubles ($225) from the Social Fund of Russia.
For the 2024 budget, the government allocated 16.335 billion rubles ($168,335,278) to relatives of military personnel who were injured or died. Of this figure, 9.987 billion rubles ($102,917,932) is allocated for monthly payments to the relatives of soldiers who experienced trauma.
The remaining budget—5.798 billion rubles ($59,749,491)—is to be paid to the families of killed military personnel, with 550 million rubles ($5,667,854) set aside to repair homes, if the killed serviceman was previously the breadwinner of the family.
The remaining 5.248 billion rubles ($54,081,637) of the budget, divided by the government's monthly payment of 21,922.12 rubles ($225), is enough to pay the families of 239,300 killed military personnel, Mozhem Obyasnit reported, noting that the budget includes personnel killed in other conflicts as well as Ukraine.
According to the publication, the government's expenses more than doubled compared to 2022, and the difference of 2.250 billion rubles ($23,151,125.25), divided by the monthly payment, suggests Russia will need to pay the families of 102,700 military personnel killed in Putin's war in Ukraine.
"According to the authorities' forecasts, 100,000 Russian military personnel will die within two years of the [war]," Mozhem Obyasnit reported.
Newsweek has contacted Russia's Defense Ministry via email for comment.
Russia's death toll continues to rise amid Ukraine's grinding counteroffensive to recapture its occupied territories. According to figures released by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Friday, Moscow lost 1,030 soldiers over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 285,920.
Estimates of casualty figures vary, with Kyiv's figures usually exceeding those of its Western allies.
Russia itself rarely releases figures on troop losses. In September 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 5,937 Russian troops had been killed in the war in Ukraine since late February 2022.
A joint investigation by BBC's Russian Service and independent Russian news outlet Mediazona on Friday has so far identified the names of 34,412 Russian military personnel who have died in the war in Ukraine. It states that actual number of losses is higher than the figures stated in the investigation.
Ukraine also avoids publishing casualty figures for its own forces. However, Western intelligence estimates suggest they are also substantial. In April, a leaked U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment estimated that Kyiv had suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties, including 15,500 to 17,500 dead and 109,000 to 113,500 wounded.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-death-toll-ukraine-war-1834486
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Putin Accuses US Media of Distorting Reality: Unpacking the Claim
https://bnn.network/politics/putin-accuses-us-media-of-distorting-real
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Putin accuses the Media of lying about Russia while the Media accuses Putin of lying about Russia.
If only Russia could talk about who is telling the Truth . . .
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Putin Accuses US Media of Distorting Reality
In related news, the sky is blue.
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Quote:In other words: HASN'T HAPPENED YET
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Russia's Likely Death Toll in Ukraine Revealed in Government Filing
Isabel van Brugen
Russia's proposed 2024 budget
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SECOND: ... blah blah blah ...
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Putin Accuses US Media of Distorting Reality: Unpacking the Claim
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Why Western media claims its lies are the truth
Yanno, I just heard a Ukrainian claim on Military Summary Channel that Ukraine destroyed 57 .... 57! ... Russian armored vehicles in one operation!
a) As if Russia would commit 57 armored vehicles for a small operation near Avdiivka and
b) There is no evidence for this claim
Kiev lies as easily as breathing, and so does western media. I just bin that along with all of Kiev's other lies. And yours.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin restated boilerplate rhetoric threatening military escalation with the West, likely in an attempt to deter Western support for Ukraine. Putin claimed during an interview on Russian state television on October 15 that a “hot” conflict between the West and Russia would be a “completely different war” and not limited to the framework of the “special military operation.”[77]
Russian President Vladimir Putin may be trying to temper expectations of significant Russian advances around Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast. Putin claimed in an interview on Russian state television on October 15 that Russian forces are conducting an “active defense” in the Avdiivka, Kupyansk, and Zaporizhia directions.[1] Putin’s characterization of Russian offensive operations near Avdiivka as an “active defense,” instead of “active combat operations” as Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya claimed on October 13, or discussing Russian operations as an “offensive” as some milbloggers have, may be an attempt to temper expectations of significant Russian advances.[2]
The Russian information space writ large is also metering its initial optimism about the prospects of Russian offensive operations around Avdiivka. Russian milbloggers initially reported maximalist and unverifiable claims of Russian advances over 10km, likely exaggerated the degree of Russian successes near Avdiivka during initial offensive operations, and expressed optimism for rapid Russian advances.[5] Some Russian milbloggers have since acknowledged difficulties in the Russian advance near Avdiivka and noted that Russian forces decreased their pace of offensive operations around the settlement.[6]
Russian forces continued offensive operations aimed at encircling Avdiivka on October 15 but have yet to make further gains amid a likely decreasing tempo of Russian operations in the area. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled more than 15 Russian assaults near Avdiivka, as well as northwest and southwest of the settlement.[10] ISW has not yet observed visual confirmation of previous claims of Russian advances in the area or geolocated footage of any other Russian gains. Russian sources claimed notably fewer Russian advances in the area on October 15 compared to previous days and described these new alleged advances as marginal.[11]
Russian forces will likely continue offensive operations at this decreased tempo in the near term, however, and will remain a threat to Ukrainian forces in the area despite being unlikely to achieve a decisive breakthrough or encircle Avdiivka at this time.
Another Russian milblogger, who said on October 14 that he concurred with the “agreement” to stop any commentary about Russian operations in Avdiivka, complained a few hours later that Russian forces, in general, are experiencing ammunition shortages and continued issues combating Ukrainian drones.[20]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-october-15-2023
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Ukraine’s losses are eight times higher than those of Russia during an interview with Chinese media, stating that Kyiv’s counteroffensive has been unsuccessful.
“Since June 4, it [Ukraine’s counteroffensive began] has been continuing. So far there are no results, there are only huge losses,” for Ukraine, Putin said in an interview with the China Media Group this weekend, according to comments published by Russian news agency Tass.
“The losses are simply huge — approximately one to eight as a ratio,” Putin said.
CNBC was unable to verify the claims and Ukraine has not commented, although it’s generally understood that both Russia and Ukraine exaggerate the losses they claim to have inflicted upon each other and death toll figures tend to be very inaccurate during times of war.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-o
n-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html
http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72508
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Russia tallies Ukrainian losses from Ukrainian radio intercepts. It doesn't include death due to distant missile strikes, or death that occurs later in hospital.
Instead of swallowing the crap that western press spews, I've been following details from various pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources (I've already cited them) and that ratio is correct.
For example, adding up Ukrainian loses from Military Summary Channel comes out to about 700-1000/ day even as Ukraine has gone on the "defensive".
The BBC and Meduza last estimated Russian deaths at 50,000. Using the 8:1 ratio, that means Ukraine has suffered 400,000 dead. That calculation matches the tally so far.
FWIW Kiev has announced a total mobilization. And there is a rumor that Ukraine is going to launch one more offensive. Supposedly an amphibious attack across the Dneiper carried out by four elite brigades(?) if Marines.
Good luck on that!
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Quote:It is a battle between Dumb vs Dumber and I am not sure if Ukraine is Dumb or Dumber. The stupidest thing Ukraine did, noting that this is day 600, is not permanently stopping all traffic on the Crimean Bridge. Ukraine has made 3 attempts, so far, but Ukraine should have had a plan many years ago and bought/built/borrowed whatever weapons they needed to knock that bridge. Unfortunately, the designing, engineering, and necessary building have not yet been done because somebody on the Ukrainian side is seriously stupid, cowardly, and/or lazy. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hinted that the Ukrainians aren't listening when told they really should fix their strategy or else lose. Austin uses the euphemism that the Ukrainians are "learning". Yeah. Sure. They are incredibly . . . slow learners.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia tallies Ukrainian losses from Ukrainian radio intercepts. It doesn't include death due to distant missile strikes, or death that occurs later in hospital.
Instead of swallowing the crap that western press spews, I've been following details from various pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources (I've already cited them) and that ratio is correct.
For example, adding up Ukrainian loses from Military Summary Channel comes out to about 700-1000/ day even as Ukraine has gone on the "defensive".
The BBC and Meduza last estimated Russian deaths at 50,000. Using the 8:1 ratio, that means Ukraine has suffered 400,000 dead. That calculation matches the tally so far.
FWIW Kiev has announced a total mobilization. And there is a rumor that Ukraine is going to launch one more offensive. Supposedly an amphibious attack across the Dneiper carried out by four elite brigades(?) if Marines.
Good luck on that!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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