Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukraine is putting pressure on fighting-age men outside the country as it tries to replenish forces
By Jill Lawless, Illia Novikov | April 25, 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ukraine-ap-russia-kyiv-eurostat-b25
34639.html
Ukraine is seeking to reverse the drain of potential soldiers from the country, announcing that men of conscription age will no longer be able to renew their passports from outside the country.
The Cabinet of Ministers said Wednesday that men between 18 and 60 who are deemed fit for miliary service will only be able to renew their passports inside Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, mostly to neighboring European countries. The European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat, says 4.3 million Ukrainians are living in EU countries, 860,000 of them men 18 years of age or older.
The defense minister of Poland, home to one of the biggest Ukrainian diasporas, said the country was ready to help “in ensuring that those who are subject to compulsory military service go to Ukraine,” though he did not specify how.
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said “Ukrainian citizens have obligations towards the state.”
But Ukrainian opposition lawmaker Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze, who heads the Parliamentary Committee for Ukraine’s European Integration, said denying military-age men access to consular services could lead to “well-founded” legal challenges at the European Court of Human Rights.
“I think that these actions will only push an enormous number of Ukrainians to look for different ways to obtain citizenship from other countries,” she said.
Russia’s population of almost 150 million dwarfs Ukraine’s 38 million, and Moscow can draw on a much bigger army. Earlier this month, Ukraine lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to bolster the size of the military.
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Quote:Signym, I know where you get your ideas. Between "Russia can't lose a conventional war" and "Russia will nuke the West if it loses" Putin and Signym think he has all propaganda bases covered.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Still beating a dead horse, I see.
Ukraine can't win this conventional war.
NATO can't win this conventional war.
Not only that, but even with our "secret" delivery of ATACMS in February and this most recent aid package, there is a strong possibility that Ukraine will collapse before November. Now THAT would be poetic justice.
The only bloc that might be motivated to go nuclear is the west because time is on the BRICS' side.
Got the "I told you so's" primed and ready to go.
Putin warns West of risk of nuclear war, says Moscow can strike Western targets
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn
February 29, 2024, 8:05 AM CST
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-west-risk-nuclear-war
-says-moscow-can-strike-western-targets-2024-02-29/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Still beating a dead horse, I see.
Ukraine can't win this conventional war.
NATO can't win this conventional war.
Not only that, but even with our "secret" delivery of ATACMS in February and this most recent aid package, there is a strong possibility that Ukraine will collapse before November. Now THAT would be poetic justice.
The only bloc that might be motivated to go nuclear is the west because time is on the BRICS' side.
Got the "I told you so's" primed and ready to go.
Funny, let me remind you how you would boast about Russia controlling the black sea. That because of Russia, America and Britian were afraid to go there. The fact is, they are afraid to go there. Ukraine who doesn't have a navy, chased Russia out.
Too funny...
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Still beating a dead horse, I see.
Ukraine can't win this conventional war.
NATO can't win this conventional war.
Not only that, but even with our "secret" delivery of ATACMS in February and this most recent aid package, there is a strong possibility that Ukraine will collapse before November. Now THAT would be poetic justice.
The only bloc that might be motivated to go nuclear is the west because time is on the BRICS' side.
Got the "I told you so's" primed and ready to go.
THUGR: Funny, let me remind you how you would boast about Russia controlling the black sea.
Huh?
Where?
Too funny.
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Apr 25, 2024 at 11:51 AM EDT
Ukraine's military reported another 1,040 Russian troops "eliminated" between Wednesday and Thursday, which if accurate would make that 24-hour period the deadliest for Moscow's forces since 1,050 were reported eliminated on March 22.
The latest toll brings the total number of Russian casualties claimed by Kyiv since February 2022 to 462,980. The figure is higher than U.S. estimates, which as of February were at around 315,000 Russian troops dead or wounded.
The Ukrainian military on Thursday also reported another 13 tanks destroyed for a total of 7,255 since February 2022, another 28 artillery pieces for a total of 11,836, and one more air defense system for a total of 772.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-suffers-deadliest-day-kyiv-casualties-
1894085
Since WWII killed tens of millions of Russian soldiers, beyond the civilian death toll, Ukraine will have to increase the kills per day, or else Russia will overwhelm them with new births of soldiers. Putin is asking Russian women to have at least 8 children.
Vladimir Putin asks Russian women to have '8 or more' children, says it should be 'way of life'
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+is+asking+Russian+women+to+have+
at+least+8+children
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Still beating a dead horse, I see.
Ukraine can't win this conventional war.
NATO can't win this conventional war.
Not only that, but even with our "secret" delivery of ATACMS in February and this most recent aid package, there is a strong possibility that Ukraine will collapse before November. Now THAT would be poetic justice.
The only bloc that might be motivated to go nuclear is the west because time is on the BRICS' side.
Got the "I told you so's" primed and ready to go.
THUGR: Funny, let me remind you how you would boast about Russia controlling the black sea.
Huh?
Where?
Too funny.
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Britain has decided not to deploy its destroyer to the Back Sea after all...
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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
Here you go comrade. Just one of many.
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One of "many"?
I see one of ... one.
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And quibbling about one post doesn't change the fact that it's not Ukraine that's losing, its NATO.
Wake me up the moment NATO actually turns the tide of the war, m'kay?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
One of "many"?
I see one of ... one.
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And quibbling about one post doesn't change the fact that it's not Ukraine that's losing, its NATO.
Wake me up the moment NATO actually turns the tide of the war, m'kay?
There was a whole back and forth about how Russia, according to you, shut down the Black Sea.
As for Russia taking on NATO, too funny. Watch how things change now that Ukraine has Ammo again. And I'm thinking China is going to fall in line and stop helping Russia with what it needs to build up, I should say, rebuild its army. We both know Ukraine destroyed it.
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Quote:Signym, Russia is fighting impoverished Ukraine, which is begging NATO countries for ammo. The beggar Ukrainian forces have previously prevented Russian forces from making important gains during previous large-scale offensive efforts in Ukraine, and it is unlikely that Russian forces will conduct an offensive operation this summer that is significantly larger and more intense than their previous offensive efforts.[6]
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And quibbling about one post doesn't change the fact that it's not Ukraine that's losing, its NATO.
Wake me up the moment NATO actually turns the tide of the war, m'kay?
The Financial Times reported that a Western official stated that the Russian military is still an ineffective army characterized by old equipment and poorly trained soldiers and asserted that Russian forces have not improved since starting the invasion in February 2022.[7]
Judging Russian military effectiveness on the absolute quality of Russian forces ignores how Russian forces are leveraging their temporary relative advantages over Ukraine to place Ukrainian forces under increasing stress. The Russian military is facing constraints on the amount of modern and effective equipment that it can and will be able to deploy in Ukraine, and the overall combat effectiveness of Russian formations and units continues to decline as they suffer degradation in Ukraine.[8]
Russian forces are in part relying on their quantitative advantages in equipment and manpower to place consistent and increasing pressure on Ukrainian forces, however, and the Russian military is accepting losses that Ukrainian forces could not sustain.[9]
The Russian focus on mass, regardless of quality, has supported tactical Russian gains, especially as delays in Western security assistance have degraded Ukraine’s qualitative advantages over Russian forces, and Russian forces will likely use mass to achieve tactical advances against even well-provisioned Ukrainian forces this summer.[10]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-27-2024
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NATO has been arming Ukraine since 2014.
We gave Ukraine all of the weapons we thought it would need, that along with our "sanctions from hell" would create a crisis and regime change in Russia.
Well, it didn't work bc people like you, but in power, completely misperceived Russia. You believed your own propaganda, which is never a good way to win a war.
Now NATO is tapped out, and the USA is having to choose between arming and funding Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan.
****
Blinken visited China a few days ago to warn them to stop supporting Russia, or else Chinese banks would face sanctions.
China is being accused of "influencing" our elections.
Taiwan is being armed as part of that recent set of military aid.
Tell me if you've heard that story before!
Sounds like the deep state wants to recreate the whole Ukraine proxy-war- against Russia fiasco, but this time with Taiwan v China.
Either that, or they just want to make a lot of noise in that arena to distract from the clusterfuck that is Ukraine.
It's hard to tell what these bozos will do next, bc they -like you- are delusional.
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Quote:At the very beginning of the war, Ukraine asked for a No Fly Zone over Ukraine. It didn't get that. Ukraine asked for F-16s. It has received none. That is not because Ukrainians can't fly them without training nor because F-16s are rare. There are thousands of F-16s in the world. Ukraine asked for long-range weaponry that could reach Crimea. Didn't get that either. Ukraine asked for millions of artillery shells per year. That is a little more complicated because factories must be built to produce the shells. Years have passed but those factories have not been built despite the obvious need.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NATO has been arming Ukraine since 2014.
We gave Ukraine all of the weapons we thought it would need, that along with our "sanctions from hell" would create a crisis and regime change in Russia.
Well, it didn't work bc people like you, but in power, completely misperceived Russia. You believed your own propaganda, which is never a good way to win a war.
Now NATO is tapped out, and the USA is having to choose between arming and funding Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan.
The formulation to describe the situation is that the West does not want Ukraine to lose but the West also does not want Russia to lose because that might usher in someone less rational than Putin. The West is very clearly okay with a stalemate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+f-16+does+ukraine+have
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Instead of F-16s, what is the US providing Ukraine?
US buys 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russia's ally costing on average less than $20,000 each, report says
By Rebecca Rommen | Apr 28, 2024, 9:51 AM CDT
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-buys-81-soviet-fighter-jets-from-ru
ssian-ally-20k-2024-4
The US has acquired 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Kazakhstan, the Kyiv Post reported.
Kazakhstan, which is upgrading its air fleet, auctioned off 117 Soviet-era fighter and bomber aircraft, including MiG-31 interceptors, MiG-27 fighter bombers, MiG-29 fighters, and Su-24 bombers from the 1970s and 1980s.
The declared sale value was one billion Kazakhstani tenge, or $2.26 million, said the Post.
The US purchased 81 of the aged warplanes, said the Ukrainian Telegram channel Insider UA, per the Post.
The motive behind the US purchase remains undisclosed, said the Post, but it raised the possibility of their potential use in Ukraine, where similar aircraft are in service.
The sale was made through offshore companies, said Reporter, a Russian English language news site.
Given Ukraine's continued reliance on Soviet-era weapons, the aircraft could either serve as a source of spare parts or be strategically deployed as decoys at airfields, said the Post.
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So ...
Why didn't the USA and NATO supply weapons that could directly attack Russia or Crimea? (At least, not at first.)
They assumed it wouldn't be necessary:
Russia was only a gas station masquerading as a country.
Russians were only semi-civilized orcs.
The Kremlin was run by oligarchs who would turn on Putin once they were individually sanctioned.
Western weapons are far superior.
Russians don't know how to wage war.
Yanno, they believed all the nonsense you've been spewing nonstop since this started.
NOW they (we) realize their (our) mistakes, but it's too late.
IF we started our full -bore, we MIGHT have been able to overwhelm Russia. But at this point Russia is still building up a head of steam, and we've run out of gas.
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Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
If the West wanted to go beyond that, it could have directly bombed the Crimean Bridge. But the West would not even supply missiles to Ukraine to bomb the bridge, despite much pleading by Ukraine.
The West has never been serious about halting Russia's invasion.
The West doesn't care enough to be effective. Who knows why? Perhaps Europeans are cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Maybe Europeans won't spend more than 2% of GDP on defense because more would interfere with their spending on wine? Europeans won't admit it, but that is probably the truth. Drink one less bottle of wine? Never! Europeans would rather Ukraine lose.
How much do households spend on food and alcohol?
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-2023020
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
That ain't our fucking business, and the fact that we would even have the power to do that is probably terrifying to the rest of the world. We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations who have done something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:At the very beginning of the war, Ukraine asked for a No Fly Zone over Ukraine. It didn't get that. Ukraine asked for F-16s. It has received none. That is not because Ukrainians can't fly them without training nor because F-16s are rare. There are thousands of F-16s in the world. Ukraine asked for long-range weaponry that could reach Crimea. Didn't get that either. Ukraine asked for millions of artillery shells per year. That is a little more complicated because factories must be built to produce the shells. Years have passed but those factories have not been built despite the obvious need.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NATO has been arming Ukraine since 2014.
We gave Ukraine all of the weapons we thought it would need, that along with our "sanctions from hell" would create a crisis and regime change in Russia.
Well, it didn't work bc people like you, but in power, completely misperceived Russia. You believed your own propaganda, which is never a good way to win a war.
Now NATO is tapped out, and the USA is having to choose between arming and funding Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan.
The formulation to describe the situation is that the West does not want Ukraine to lose but the West also does not want Russia to lose because that might usher in someone less rational than Putin. The West is very clearly okay with a stalemate.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+f-16+does+ukraine+have
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Biden has taken the frog in the Boiling water approach to dealing with Russia. By the time they realize Biden has slow cooked them it will be to late.
tick tick
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Quote:Russia did something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction: $486 billion to rebuild Ukraine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
That ain't our fucking business, and the fact that we would even have the power to do that is probably terrifying to the rest of the world. We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations who have done something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction.
The World Bank, United Nations and European Commission estimate the cost of reconstruction and recovery after two years of war to be around $486 billion, according to a new joint report.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+rebuilding+Ukraine
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Russia did something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction: $486 billion to rebuild Ukraine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
That ain't our fucking business, and the fact that we would even have the power to do that is probably terrifying to the rest of the world. We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations who have done something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction.
The World Bank, United Nations and European Commission estimate the cost of reconstruction and recovery after two years of war to be around $486 billion, according to a new joint report.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+rebuilding+Ukraine
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Ain't our fucking business or our fucking problem. Period.
And don't underline half of my sentence to make your point when the half you didn't underline removes a lot of context from the statement as a whole.
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We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations
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Quote:Here is some context for 6ix:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Russia did something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction: $486 billion to rebuild Ukraine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
That ain't our fucking business, and the fact that we would even have the power to do that is probably terrifying to the rest of the world. We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations who have done something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction.
The World Bank, United Nations and European Commission estimate the cost of reconstruction and recovery after two years of war to be around $486 billion, according to a new joint report.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+rebuilding+Ukraine
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Ain't our fucking business or our fucking problem. Period.
And don't underline half of my sentence to make your point when the half you didn't underline removes a lot of context from the statement as a whole.Quote:
We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
In the last century, Russia killed Ukrainians by the millions. Russia never paid for that. In the last decade, Russia killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. Again, Russia never paid. I didn't even mention that the Russians murdered a plane full passengers. Putin's response was "You can't make us pay for what we did."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
The time has arrived for the Russians to pay from their frozen accounts, even if 6ix says different.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Here is some context for 6ix:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Russia did something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction: $486 billion to rebuild Ukraine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If the West wanted more than a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia, it would have confiscated 300 billion euros of Russia's deposits in the West, transferring ownership to Ukraine. Instead, it only froze the deposits.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So ...
That ain't our fucking business, and the fact that we would even have the power to do that is probably terrifying to the rest of the world. We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations who have done something terribly, terribly wrong to warrant that reaction.
The World Bank, United Nations and European Commission estimate the cost of reconstruction and recovery after two years of war to be around $486 billion, according to a new joint report.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+rebuilding+Ukraine
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Ain't our fucking business or our fucking problem. Period.
And don't underline half of my sentence to make your point when the half you didn't underline removes a lot of context from the statement as a whole.Quote:
We shouldn't even be able to freeze money outside of US borders, and it should only be used in extreme cases, mostly against large corporations
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
In the last century, Russia killed Ukrainians by the millions. Russia never paid for that. In the last decade, Russia killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. Again, Russia never paid. I didn't even mention that the Russians murdered a plane full passengers. Putin's response was "You can't make us pay for what we did."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
The time has arrived for the Russians to pay from their frozen accounts, even if 6ix says different.
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I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
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Biden has taken the frog in the Boiling water approach to dealing with Russia. By the time they realize Biden has slow cooked them it will be to late.
tick tick
You really believe that?
Evidence points the other way.
So how do you see this happening?
Or will you ginore ignore my question?
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Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Biden has taken the frog in the Boiling water approach to dealing with Russia. By the time they realize Biden has slow cooked them it will be to late.
tick tick
You really believe that?
Evidence points the other way.
So how do you see this happening?
Or will you ginore ignore my question?
Yup, wrong, quickly...
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
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Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck your fiction.
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Quote:There you go again, revealing your fundamental depravity/wickedness/moral corruption. 6ix, why not do what Signym does, and Putin? Vigorously come to Russia's defense. Praise Russia's superiority. I know you will feel better if you flip the polarity of the war, reversing who is right and who is wrong. 6ix, pretty please loudly declare that the Western World, which includes Japan and South Korea, is evil for sending ammo to Ukraine and Russia is good for killing Ukrainians and stealing their land.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
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Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck your fiction.
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Too few Russians are volunteering to defend Russia. I wonder why? This is why:
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Leo Docherty, stated on April 27 that the UK assesses that Russian forces have suffered 450,000 killed and wounded personnel since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.[72] Docherty stated that Russian forces have lost over 10,000 armored vehicles, including 3,000 tanks, as well as 109 fixed-wing aircraft, 135 rotary-wing aircraft, and 23 naval vessels.[73] US intelligence assessed in December 2023 that Russian forces had suffered 315,000 casualties in Ukraine since February 2022.[74] Russian opposition media outlets Meduza and Mediazona estimated in February 2024 that upwards of 75,000 Russian personnel died in Ukraine between the start of the full-scale invasion and December 2023.[75] Russian forces continue offensive operations in Ukraine despite heavy manpower losses by relying on crypto-mobilization efforts.[76] The Russian military is facing constraints on the amount of modern and effective equipment that it can and will be able to deploy in Ukraine, and the overall combat effectiveness of Russian formations and units continues to decline as they degrade in Ukraine.[77] Russian forces have weathered heavy losses in Ukraine, however, and will continue to rely on quantitative advantages in manpower and materiel to pressure Ukrainian forces.
What is Russia doing to offset too few volunteers defending Russia? This is what:
The Russian government published a resolution on April 28 announcing that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) will begin to issue electronic summonses through the Unified Military Registry for the fall 2024 conscription cycle starting on November 1.[78] The resolution states that Russian officials will consider an electronic summons served seven days after it is posted on the Russia State Services portal and that if a conscript does not appear within 20 days of the summonses being served, then Russian authorities will block the conscript’s ability to obtain a passport or register as an individual entrepreneur.[79] The resolution also states that Russian officials will collect information on the real estate and vehicles owned by those eligible for military service and information about foreign travel for the Unified Military Registry.[80] Russian officials have delivered limited electronic summonses alongside hard copy summonses during the ongoing spring 2024 conscription cycle.[81] The Russian State Duma adopted the bill creating the Unified Military Registry in April 2023, and the Kremlin likely intends to use the registry to crack down on Russian draft dodgers.[82]
Russian authorities have reportedly formalized a procedure for recruiting those accused of criminal offenses for military service in Ukraine. Russian outlet Kommersant reported on April 27 that Russian criminal investigators, prosecutors, and military commanders are coordinating efforts to recruit those accused of crimes for military service in exchange for dropping their criminal punishment.[83] Russian legal sources told Kommersant that investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee provide those accused of crimes with an ”explanation” document upon the completion of the investigation (presumably when Russian authorities arrest and inform the accused of the crime they allegedly committed).[84] The document reportedly informs the accused whether it is possible for them to obtain an exemption from criminal liability in exchange for military service during partial mobilization or by signing a military contract.[85] The investigator in charge of the case reportedly suspends and terminates criminal prosecution after the accused signs a contract for military service with the approval of the supervising prosecutor and the commander of the military unit in which the accused will be serving.[86] Kommersant noted that Russian authorities will not completely void a criminal case until the Russian military dismisses the accused from military service.[87] Russian
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Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers
https://www.ft.com/content/37776b16-0b92-4a23-9f90-199d45d955c3
Tens of thousands of civilian flights have been affected by the GPS jamming in recent months, according to experts. The jamming, which affects all GPS users in the area when it is in operation, has also impeded signals used by boats in the Baltic Sea, leading to warnings from the Swedish navy about the safety of shipping.
GPS jamming is easy to conduct with relatively cheap equipment, according to experts.
So why is Russia doing this? Nobody seems to know, and Russia denies everything. It's just to be annoying, I guess.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There you go again, revealing your fundamental depravity/wickedness/moral corruption.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck your fiction.
Nope. That's not what's happening here.
You don't give a single fuck about people who have been abused all over the globe and continue to be abused to this day. But you care about Ukraine because your dipshit news sites that are run by the Uniparty tell you to care about it everyday and you're a brainless lemming.
And let's be honest... you don't give a single fuck about anybody but yourself, including a bunch of Ukrainians you couldn't have even pointed out where they lived on a globe before Biden* was President.
This is just another zero-effort means for you Democrat voting trash to feel like you can claim some moral superiority over anybody who doesn't agree with you and has a problem with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS BEING FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET WHILE WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF FUCKING PROBLEMS TO FIX HERE AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Don't take my shit out of context.
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Quote:If Russia conquers Ukraine, China will follow the example and conquer Taiwan, where most of the world's electronics come from. All China has to do is send one missile into each of the cleanrooms of semiconductor factories. North Korea will attack South Korea, following Russia's example in Ukraine, since North Korea only exists because Russia set the country into motion. There goes the world's supply of semiconductors.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:There you go again, revealing your fundamental depravity/wickedness/moral corruption.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck your fiction.
Nope. That's not what's happening here.
You don't give a single fuck about people who have been abused all over the globe and continue to be abused to this day. But you care about Ukraine because your dipshit news sites that are run by the Uniparty tell you to care about it everyday and you're a brainless lemming.
And let's be honest... you don't give a single fuck about anybody but yourself, including a bunch of Ukrainians you couldn't have even pointed out where they lived on a globe before Biden* was President.
This is just another zero-effort means for you Democrat voting trash to feel like you can claim some moral superiority over anybody who doesn't agree with you and has a problem with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS BEING FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET WHILE WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF FUCKING PROBLEMS TO FIX HERE AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
If Russia can do as it pleases without fear that the USA will retaliate, China and North Korea will know they have nothing to fear.
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War in Ukraine: Why is the EU still buying Russian gas?
(Short answer: The EU doesn't care much who wins or loses so long as the gas keeps flowing)
April 29, 2024
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-ukraine-why-is-the-eu-still-buying-russia
n-gas/a-68925869
In February, Austria confirmed that 98% of its gas imports in December 2023 were from Russia. The government says it wants to break the contract with Gazprom as early as possible, but EU sanctions on Russian gas are necessary for that to happen legally.
According to the data provider Kpler, Russia is now the EU's second-biggest LNG supplier. LNG imports from Russia accounted for 16% of the EU's total LNG supply in 2023, a 40% increase compared with the amount Russia sold to the EU in 2021.
Import volumes in 2023 were slightly down from 2022, but data from the first quarter of 2024 shows that Russian LNG exports to Europe have risen again by 5% year-on-year. France, Spain and Belgium have been particularly big importers. Those three countries accounted for 87% of the LNG that came into the EU in 2023.
The EU says it wants the bloc to be completely free of Russian gas by 2027, a goal that Hilgenstock believes looks increasingly realistic.
"I think if this entire, sordid affair has shown us one thing is that we can, in fact, relatively quickly diversify our supply of gas and other energy sources away from Russia," he said.
However, he believes the political conditions "aren't particularly conducive" for a total gas embargo at present, particularly a pipeline embargo. He points to Hungary's presidency of the EU in the second half of 2024 as a potential barrier. Budapest has closer ties to Moscow than most EU member states.
On LNG, he is more optimistic and says that in addition to EU action, it is up to high-volume LNG importers such as Spain and Belgium to take measures themselves.
"This backdoor importing of Russian gas is a huge problem, especially from a messaging point of view," he said. "And we're helping Russia with its LNG supply chains, which we shouldn't."
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Thousands of Russian Soldiers Deserting Army: Kyiv
By Isabel van Brugen | Apr 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-deserting-army-ukraine-war-1
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The Latvia-based Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which was cofounded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, interviewed Russian servicemen who fled the war in Ukraine.
Ivan, who was an officer in the Russian army when Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, said he had "tried to quit" before the war began.
"I didn't like the military system and no longer wanted it to be a part of my life. None of my subordinates escaped from the front line, but I sent them on leave as often as I could and the majority simply didn't return," Ivan said in a report published on February 29.
"Sometimes, I talk to soldiers I served with who are still in Ukraine. Their moods vary. Some, who have been on the front line for almost two years, say they feel fine now and wouldn't go even if the opportunity arose."
Ivan said soldiers typically want to leave after being in "unbearable conditions", noting that they first "look for legal routes, and when they see there are none, they run."
"Desertion is as hard as it ever was and it all depends on where the soldier is. To leave the front, he must either be granted furlough or be sent to a hospital, from where he'll leave for another country, legally or illegally," Ivan said, adding that fleeing from the front line is "very dangerous."
"People are fully aware that there are criminal consequences, but that doesn't stop them. Some pretend they are one of the dead or injured; some shoot themselves in the foot to get out to a hospital and then escape from there," Ivan added.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If Russia conquers Ukraine, China will follow the example and conquer Taiwan, where most of the world's electronics come from. All China has to do is send one missile into each of the cleanrooms of semiconductor factories. North Korea will attack South Korea, following Russia's example in Ukraine, since North Korea only exists because Russia set the country into motion. There goes the world's supply of semiconductors.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:There you go again, revealing your fundamental depravity/wickedness/moral corruption.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Context is 6ix does not want Russia to pay. Pay for what? Russia has murdered millions of Ukrainians and destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Ukrainian property, all while Putin denies Russia's history and murder rampages inside Ukraine.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't need your bullshit context written by idiots like you who sit on Wikipedia all day long instead of FireFlyFans.net.
Don't take my shit out of context.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck your fiction.
Nope. That's not what's happening here.
You don't give a single fuck about people who have been abused all over the globe and continue to be abused to this day. But you care about Ukraine because your dipshit news sites that are run by the Uniparty tell you to care about it everyday and you're a brainless lemming.
And let's be honest... you don't give a single fuck about anybody but yourself, including a bunch of Ukrainians you couldn't have even pointed out where they lived on a globe before Biden* was President.
This is just another zero-effort means for you Democrat voting trash to feel like you can claim some moral superiority over anybody who doesn't agree with you and has a problem with HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS BEING FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET WHILE WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF FUCKING PROBLEMS TO FIX HERE AND WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THEM.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
If Russia can do as it pleases without fear that the USA will retaliate, China and North Korea will know they have nothing to fear.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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And thus is the core of your Legacy Media fearmongering and whataboutism.
It's how they turned Democrats into the pro-war party over the last 20 years. Unless it's in defense of the Jews, who Democrat brownshirt boot-lickers hate. Yanno... those dumb, brainwashed college kids, most of whom are homosexual, showing their love and support for Muslims that would sooner throw them off a bridge than stand anywhere 50 feet within the proximity of a homosexual.
I'll let you in on a little secret. If China really wanted Taiwan they could take it today and there's not a goddamned thing we could do about it except for fire off nukes and start WWIII.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
1) And thus is the core of your Legacy Media fearmongering and whataboutism.
2) It's how they turned Democrats into the pro-war party over the last 20 years. Unless it's in defense of the Jews, who Democrat brownshirt boot-lickers hate. Yanno... those dumb, brainwashed college kids, most of whom are homosexual, showing their love and support for Muslims that would sooner throw them off a bridge than stand anywhere 50 feet within the proximity of a homosexual.
3) I'll let you in on a little secret. If China really wanted Taiwan they could take it today and there's not a goddamned thing we could do about it except for fire off nukes and start WWIII.
For #1, consider why the defense budget and Department of Veterans Affairs cost $1 trillion annually.
For #2, consider why the Department of Energy spent $10 trillion building nukes for the Defense Department.
For #3, think about all the convoys torpedoed in WWII. China trades with the world via the oceans of the world.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
1) And thus is the core of your Legacy Media fearmongering and whataboutism.
2) It's how they turned Democrats into the pro-war party over the last 20 years. Unless it's in defense of the Jews, who Democrat brownshirt boot-lickers hate. Yanno... those dumb, brainwashed college kids, most of whom are homosexual, showing their love and support for Muslims that would sooner throw them off a bridge than stand anywhere 50 feet within the proximity of a homosexual.
3) I'll let you in on a little secret. If China really wanted Taiwan they could take it today and there's not a goddamned thing we could do about it except for fire off nukes and start WWIII.
For #1, consider why the defense budget and Department of Veterans Affairs cost $1 trillion annually.
For #2, consider why the Department of Energy spent $10 trillion building nukes for the Defense Department.
For #3, think about all the convoys torpedoed in WWII. China trades with the world via the oceans of the world.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Yeah. All reasons why the plausible futures you propose are pure rubbish.
Even if they weren't, it's not as if South Korea or Taiwan are necessary as far as chip production. That goes for any country on the map making anything that we use.
All of that can be done anywhere.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Taiwan. Fuck South Korea. Fuck Russia. Fuck China. Fuck North Korea.
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Quote:I woke up this morning to check the news and discovered, to my absolute amazement, that 6ixStringJack does not believe there is a reality beyond the few places he regularly visits. The Dept of Defense should send 6ix the defense money theoretically wasted defending these friendly but imaginary places with strange names such as Ukraine/Taiwan against hostile but imaginary places with strange names such as North Korea/Russia.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. All reasons why the plausible futures you propose are pure rubbish.
Even if they weren't, it's not as if South Korea or Taiwan are necessary as far as chip production. That goes for any country on the map making anything that we use.
All of that can be done anywhere.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Taiwan. Fuck South Korea. Fuck Russia. Fuck China. Fuck North Korea.
All will be well in the world of 6ixStringJack if the Dept of Defense stops wasting time and money in imaginary places and starts believing in the absolute importance of very real 6ixStringJack's opinions.
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Investigations by both Ukrainian news agencies and Russian opposition outlets suggest that Russia is denying the legal guardians of forcibly deported and adopted Ukrainian children the ability to repatriate these children, further undermining the Kremlin’s claims that the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children is a necessary humanitarian endeavor. BBC Panorama and Russian opposition outlet Vazhnye Istorii published investigations in November 2023 that detailed how “A Just Russia” Party leader Sergey Mironov and his wife Inna Varlamova deported a ten-month girl and a two-year old boy from an orphanage in Kherson Oblast in fall 2022.[9] Mironov and Varlamova adopted the girl and changed her name, surname, and birthplace on her new Russian birth certificate, and the whereabouts of the boy remain unknown. Ukrainian outlet TSN posted an investigation on April 28, 2024, that further details the circumstances of Mironov’s adoption of the girl and includes footage of Mironov and his wife attending a baptism for the child.[10] TSN alleged that Mironov and Varlamova brought both the girl and the boy to Moscow Oblast, but that the boy was ill and that Mironov and Varlamova abandoned him, which is why his whereabouts remain unknown.[11] TSN also reported that the Ukrainian Ombudsman’s Office found that the girl, who is now nearly three years old, actually has a legal guardian and a younger sister living in Greece and noted that the girls’ guardian is asking for her return.[12] Russian opposition outlet TV Dozhd similarly reported on April 27 that a Russian woman adopted a deported six-year-old boy from occupied Donetsk Oblast and changed his name and surname, which made it harder for journalists and the boy’s family to find him.[13] TV Dozhd noted that the boy’s sixteen-year-old sister attempted to find him and gain custody through the Russian court system, which denied her right to guardianship.[14]
The practice of changing the names and birthplaces of deported Ukrainian children and adopting them into Russian families is likely intended to erase the paper-trail of the circumstances of their deportations and their true identities to make it more challenging for the Ukrainian government or their guardians to find or repatriate them. Russian authorities, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin-appointed Commissioner on Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, frequently try to justify the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children on humanitarian grounds and cloak what is ultimately part of a genocidal enterprise to destroy Ukrainian identity in the guise of rescuing orphaned Ukrainian children.[15] Reports that some of these children have legal guardians who are asking for their return undermines the Russian effort to claim that the deportation of Ukrainian children is a humanitarian necessity and highlights the fact that Russian authorities seem intent on covering their tracks to make deported children harder to find and return to Ukraine.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-29-2024
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I wouldn't repatriate children to a war zone either.
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The first 10 days of May encompass Orthodox Easter, Putin's inauguration, and the Victory Day parade.
I wonder if there will be a mass terror attack on Russia during that time.
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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I woke up this morning to check the news and discovered, to my absolute amazement, that 6ixStringJack does not believe there is a reality beyond the few places he regularly visits. The Dept of Defense should send 6ix the defense money theoretically wasted defending these friendly but imaginary places with strange names such as Ukraine/Taiwan against hostile but imaginary places with strange names such as North Korea/Russia.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. All reasons why the plausible futures you propose are pure rubbish.
Even if they weren't, it's not as if South Korea or Taiwan are necessary as far as chip production. That goes for any country on the map making anything that we use.
All of that can be done anywhere.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Taiwan. Fuck South Korea. Fuck Russia. Fuck China. Fuck North Korea.
All will be well in the world of 6ixStringJack if the Dept of Defense stops wasting time and money in imaginary places and starts believing in the absolute importance of very real 6ixStringJack's opinions.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I never said that Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, China, South Korea or North Korea are imaginary.
I said FUCK ALL OF THEM.
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Quote:Really? Is that your deep insight on Foreign Policy?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I never said that Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, China, South Korea or North Korea are imaginary.
I said FUCK ALL OF THEM.
Quote:Really? The Russians are changing the children's names to make repatriation difficult to impossible. Oh, and during WWII, as the British and Americans moved eastward across Europe, German children were NOT sent to America to be adopted. America had an abundance of children but today's Russia has a severe shortage. This year Putin asked Russian women to have at least 8 children because of that shortage.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I wouldn't repatriate children to a war zone either.
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Investigations by both Ukrainian news agencies and Russian opposition outlets
Oh, now THOSE are unbiased sources!!
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suggest that Russia is denying the legal guardians of forcibly deported and adopted Ukrainian children the ability to repatriate these children,
Why can't they just say it out loud? Don't they have any evidence?
Just curious to see what kind of drivel SECOND posted today.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Really? Is that your deep insight on Foreign Policy?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I never said that Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, China, South Korea or North Korea are imaginary.
I said FUCK ALL OF THEM.
Yes.
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Ukraine soldiers getting 'destroyed' as soldier blames 'stupid' commanders
Russia will continue to pile the pressure on Ukraine as US military aid makes its way to the country, experts warn.
By Charlie Bradley | 08:37, Wed, May 1, 2024
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1894283/ukraine-war-russia-breakt
hrough-stupid-commanders
One Ukrainian serviceman described in a post on X how a lack of leadership in the military is costing Kyiv.
He said: "My company was literally destroyed, we carried out tasks in the worst conditions and no one cared, we stormed without support and with stupid command, we defended with almost no support and with the same stupid command."
Meanwhile, General Serhiy Krivonos said in a television interview: "What we have is a serious systemic failure."
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I feel bad for you boys.
It's been nice, at least up until this point, that we haven't had to worry about things like that in America for a very long time. You were all just born on the wrong piece of rock. And all them people responsible for it or any of their boys on both sides are never going to see the horrors you see or die the deaths you've died.
No US Taxpayer dollars funding foreign wars. Period.
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Quote:6ix, you surrender too easily. The war has always been Dumb vs Dumber, but the Ukrainian military command has recently (temporarily I hope) switched roles with the Russian command to become the Dumbest tacticians on the battlefield.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I feel bad for you boys.
It's been nice, at least up until this point, that we haven't had to worry about things like that in America for a very long time. You were all just born on the wrong piece of rock. And all them people responsible for it or any of their boys on both sides are never going to see the horrors you see or die the deaths you've died.
No US Taxpayer dollars funding foreign wars. Period.
A retired Ukrainian general said that the dominance of Ocheretyne’s high-rise apartment buildings over the surrounding steppe could have served as an effective deterrent against Russian troops and prevented the town’s takeover.
“What we have is a serious systemic failure,” General Serhiy Krivonos said in televised remarks.
The Russian side is predictably triumphant.
More at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/we-stormed-without-support-uk
raine-towns-fall-to-russia-in-latest-defeat
For reference on how to win a war: U.S. generals and admirals lost their commands when they lost battles in WWII. General Marshall and his commanders were quick to punish incompetence. Ukraine needs to punish its incompetent generals.
https://www.historynet.com/failure-not-option/
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General Sirsky (the overall commander of Ukrainian forces) is doing what Zelensky is telling him to do: defend every square millimeter.
The last top military commander who tried to mitigate Zelesnky's irrational commands, Zaluzhny, was fired and hasn't been seen in public since, either in Ukraine or in Britain where he was supposedly posted about a month ago. People are speculating that since he's had no public appearances for about a month that he's either dead or under arrest. All of Zaluzhnys top commanders were also fired and one was assassinated.
So.
Zelensky is no military commander. He's just doing what our neocons are telling him to do, and they (Burns, Stoltenberg, BoJo, etc) visit him regularly to tell him to keep fighting. Even our Uniparty Congress is indirectly telling him: Here'smore money, keep fighting.
We really do intend to keep fighting to the last Ukrainian.
So much for SECOND'S vacuous advice!
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Last I read, Ukrainian defenses have broken west of Avdiivka, in the Ocoretina (sp?) area, and hundreds of Ukrainian troops are trapped in cauldrons.
Since Ukraine rushed troops to defend Ocoretina, that left areas like Rabotina relatively undefended, and Russia, pushing wherever there is weakness, finally took that area too. (This is far to the south of Avdiika).
West of Bakhmut, Russia is pounding the Chasov Yar area. They've isolated the eastern most suburb, which is east of the Siversk-Donetsk Canal and already physically vulnerable, but haven't stormed it yet.
Too many small villages to name have been taken by the Russians in central Donetsk Oblast.
Russia continues to attrit Ukraine's military assets and dual-use infrastructure to the far rear, all the way west to Lvov and north to Kharkov.
The problem with Ukraine's ground fighting is that, at this point, they have no air defense and are vulnerable to missile, bomb, and drone attacks. They have almost no counterbattery capability to take out Russian artillery.
Well. In fact, they have very little capability at all, and seeing as how most of the west's previous contributions have been destroyed or used up, and there's nothing left to spare in our arsenal, since we're committed to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Japan, S Korea, the Philippines, Syria, Africa (Africa???) etc....
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Meanwhile, Ukraine is using the newer, longer-range ATACMS against Crimea. As I understand, these missiles have been modified to carry more fuel (longer range) but smaller payload. Not sure how successful these missile launches (possibly up to 15 missiles) have been, but as has been demonstrated in Israel and Ukraine, there is no such thing as a perfect air defense, especially if you're defending a large area in a long war. Swarm a system with enough drones, dummies, and active missiles and some will get thru, and eventually air defense will be depleted.
"Everyone" is expecting an attack against the Kerch Bridge some time during the first 10 days of May, which is an important time in Russia (Orthodox Easter, Victory Day parade, and Putin's inauguration).
I myself think that a drone attack against the Victory Day parade itself is not out of the question.
And, finally ... a number of small, missile-capable ships and a few landing crafts are being transfered to the Black Sea, leading to speculation of an offensive across the Dnieper.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated twitter video
A frank explanation by a Russian serviceman on whether it is worth going to Ukraine to earn money. I recommend watching it in full. He says that only fools would entertain such an idea, as any sense of patriotism fades rapidly once you realise that you want to live.
Finally, some among them are starting to grasp that the financial incentives, while significant by Russian measures, aren't worth risking a harrowing death from kamikaze drones or mortar attacks.
3:22 AM · Apr 29, 2024
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1784860717159477315
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Nobody cares.
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Too Few Law-abiding Russians are Volunteering to Fight Ukraine. But Putin Has A Solution!
Russian authorities continue recruiting convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine. Russian media reported on April 30 that Trans-Baikal Krai Head Alexander Osipov approved the release of Dmitry Vedernikov, head of the “Metsenatovskie” Trans-Baikal organized criminal group, from prison to fight with the Russian military in Ukraine.[68] Vedernikov was serving a 24-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony, and Russian sources reported that Vedernikov left the penal colony for Ukraine sometime in 2024. The sources reported that Vedernikov first appealed in October 2023 to go to the front but that Russian authorities refused the request. Vedernikov claimed that two other members of the “Metsenatovskie” criminal group have left prison to fight in Ukraine.[69]
Russian authorities continue international military recruitment efforts to staff its units in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) published a list on May 1 of many Nepalese citizens serving in the Russian 1099th Motorized Rifle Regiment.[70] The GUR reported that this regiment is currently serving in Luhansk Oblast and that many of these soldiers have deserted after the unit suffered extreme losses during infantry-led “meat” assaults, brutality from Russian field commanders, and extrajudicial executions for refusing to comply with orders.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-may-1-2024
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Yay. More propaganda...
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Yeah.
Must be SECOND doing his "PSA" for neocons. Again.
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Russian Airmen Filled A Shed With Powerful Glide Bombs. Soon, Dozens Of Ukrainian Drones Swarmed In.
The Saturday raid on Kushchyovskaya air base blew up a lot of KABs.
By David Axe | May 1, 2024, 05:48pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/01/russian-airmen-filled
-a-shed-with-powerful-glide-bombs-soon-dozens-of-ukrainian-drones-swarmed-in/?sh=5d3fe4311b9a
The Russian air force pummels Ukrainian forces with as many as 3,000 KAB glide bombs every month. Which is why, on Saturday, the Ukrainians launched dozens of long-range drones at an air base in southern Russia—and blew up a shed full of KABs.
Video and satellite imagery from the aftermath of the attack on Kushchyovskaya air base, 120 miles from the front line in southern Ukraine, depict burned-out buildings and heaps of wrecked KABs. The overhead imagery may also hint at the destruction of at least one Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bomber—the Russian air force’s primary KAB carrier.
It will take much more than one raid on one base hosting one shed full of glide bombs to tilt the firepower balance in the Russia-Ukraine war.
But it’s worth noting the Ukrainians are at least trying to disrupt the basic infrastructure of Russia’s glide-bombing campaign. “Ukraine’s ability to disrupt Russian tactical air, particularly glide-bomb usage, is key to the wider defense of the front line,” the U.K. Defense Ministry explained.
Since the middle of last year, the KAB has been the Russian air force's primary aerial munition. The bombs, rough analogues of the U.S.-made Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range and French-made Hammer glide bombs—both of which arm the Ukrainian air force’s own fighter bombers—range 25 miles on pop-out wings. They help keep Russian jets outside the range of Ukrainian air defenses.
Each KAB packs hundreds of pounds of explosives—enough to dig a crater dozens of feet deep. “All buildings and structures simply turn into a pit after the arrival of just one KAB,” wrote Egor Sugar, a trooper with the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade.
The KAB is a “miracle weapon” for the Russians, Ukrainian analysis group Deep State noted. And the Ukrainians have “practically no countermeasures.” Except, perhaps, to blow up the sheds where the Russians store the bombs before loading them four apiece onto their Su-34s.
It’s unclear exactly which drones the Ukrainians flung at Kushchyovskaya. They’ve got options, including ex-Soviet spy drones with warheads in the place of their cameras, modified hobby drones packing pounds of TNT and pilotless sport planes with bombs under their bellies.
Whichever drones struck Kushchyovskaya, they did so in huge numbers. The weekend attack was one of the biggest of Russia’s 27-month wider war on Ukraine. The Kremlin claimed its troops shot down 66 drones, “illustrating the scale of the raid,” the ministry in London noted.
The Russians didn’t shoot down every drone, however. At least one of them struck the likely main target of the raid: that shed full of KABs. In destroying potentially scores of glide bombs, the Ukrainian drone operators may have given some of their comrades on the front line a short reprieve—a day or so—from the Russian glide-bombing campaign.
It will take many more raids on many more bases to significantly constrain the bombings over the long term, however. And it’s an open question whether planners in Kyiv will add the KAB infrastructure to the list of repeat targets for Ukraine’s strike drones. Those same drones are already targeting Russian oil refineries and weapons factories.
The big unanswered question is just how many long-range drones Ukraine can produce. Mykhailo Fedorov, who oversees Ukraine’s high-tech war industries, recently told Reuters that there are 10 companies producing thousands of long-range drones annually—potentially enough for weekly raids on the scale of the Kushchyovskaya attack.
But drone production could expand. "We will fight to increase the financing even more," Fedorov said.
Sources:
1. U.K. Defense Ministry: https://twitter
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on How Kyiv Will Use American Aid
May 1, 2024, 3:48 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/01/kuleba-how-kyiv-plans-to-use-amer
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Ravi Agrawal: What impact has the passage of the U.S. aid package had on morale in your government?
Dmytro Kuleba: Well, it was definitely a boost for morale among Ukrainian soldiers, and also among the people of Ukraine. If the package that was announced immediately after adoption of the law had contained a battery of Patriots [missile defense systems], this boost would have been even stronger among the people, because Ukrainians suffer the most from Russian missile attacks.
Russian ballistic missiles are the real scourge of this war. They’ve been mainly used recently to destroy our energy system. I will dare to say that if another country suffered this scale of energy destruction, it would look much, much worse than Ukraine. We hold on because we have learned a lot. We are resilient; we know what the stakes are. But just to give an understanding to your viewers, half our energy system is damaged and we still have to run the country, run the war effort, and rally the world’s support.
RA: Does the aid package change your military strategy?
DK: There is a time gap between the announcement of the package and the moment when a Ukrainian artilleryman has more shells to fire back at the Russian invaders. And that moment has not come yet, because everything that was announced—we are grateful and we appreciate it—is still on its way. And therefore, in this time gap, bad things may happen, such as the advance of Russian forces on the ground.
The artillery ratio on the ground is incomprehensible. Basically, Ukrainian soldiers are starving because of the lack of artillery ammunition. And in the end, they get bombed and their positions get destroyed.
So, what really matters in terms of the war is not only the quantity and the quality of what is being provided, but also the timeline. And unfortunately, I have to admit that Ukraine’s allies are behind schedule, despite their efforts. Some of them are making a great effort. But when I look at what Russia achieved in restoring the production of its defenders’ industrial base and what the entire West has achieved so far, we have to face the truth and recognize that Russia is more effective in its war effort. And this raises a more fundamental question to the West. If it cannot be efficient enough in this particular war effort, then how efficient can it be if other wars and crises of the same scale break out?
RA: What types of weaponry are you prioritizing with the newly approved aid?
DK: We need artillery ammunition for the front line to stop Russia’s advance. We need air defense systems and missile interceptors to stop Russian missiles falling—literally on the heads of Ukrainians and on our energy infrastructure. We need radio jamming because modern warfare is largely a war of drones and software. And therefore, you need an abundance of electronic warfare to combat these modern, state-of-the-art weapons.
RA: Has America’s aid package energized Europe?
DK: I have to admit that between late autumn and April of this year, Europe was energizing the United States. Probably for the first time since World War II, Europe took the lead while the United States was, let’s call it, deliberating some very important decisions.
Europe realized that it faced the reality of the war in Europe on its own, and it had to act. So they adopted a decision on opening EU accession talks with Ukraine. They introduced the EU-Ukraine Facility, which is a multiyear macrofinancial program of assistance. Individual member countries announced unprecedented packages of military assistance. In the volume of military assistance provided to Ukraine, Germany was second to the United States, a reality completely unimaginable even in the immediate aftermath of the invasion in 2022.
Now, of course, finally the United States made their decision. And we thank everyone who made it possib
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Since you don't bother to read your own crap, I won't either.
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Quote:I did read it and learned. I have noticed since I was a very small boy that the world was full of people like you and the Russians, with a superiority complex who are certain there is a conspiracy that is preventing them from prospering as much as they deserve. But they are the conspiracy. They are preventing themselves from prospering by not learning. Obvious to themselves, they already know it all and it is the West conspiring against them.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since you don't bother to read your own crap, I won't either.
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Quote:You post the silliest things!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since you don't bother to read your own crap, I won't either.
SECOND: I did read it and learned.
According to you ... and I'm quoting here
Quote:Not much time for reading!
I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
And that explains why your posts contradict each other, even one right after the other.
You're a one-man shitstorm! But always good for laughs.
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Quote:When JFK was President and I was a child, speed reading had its 15 minutes of fame. I mastered the technique. I can read that fast. I was always amazed that Trumptards could take several minutes to read what I took several seconds to finish, such as the newspaper front page, but when the Trumptards were asked to recall facts about major points in the stories, they couldn't remember. I never think of myself as smart and don't know any Trumptards who think of themselves as stupid, but if I am average then Trumptards are retards. (Being retarded would explain why Trumptards struggle with modern American life.)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Not much time for reading!
https://www.google.com/search?q=speed+reading
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Quote:Simplicius goes on to discuss Ukraine's dire shortage of weapons and soldiers now frequently discussed in "elite" western publications, the probable collapse of the front, and the interesting tidbit that American Special Forces are learning Ukrainian, in possible anticipation of deployment.
SITREP 5/1/24: The Russian Steamroller Rolls On as Ukraine Braces for Impact
Simplicius
May 02, 2024
Let’s start things a little differently this time and go straight to battlefield updates, as the Russian forces continue to make headway in a number of key sectors.
On the Avdeevka axis there have been several noteworthy gains since last time.
Firstly, the large gap area between Arkhangelsk and Keramik has been completely taken, circled in yellow below:
Zooming out, we can once again see that the key hub of the region, Kostantinovka, is slowly being enveloped by the salients pushing in from Ocheretino [to the south] and Chasov Yar, [to the northeast] with the Ocheretino, the southern portion of the pincer now 10km from cutting Konstantinovka’s MSR [main supply road]
More, MUCH more, at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5124-the-russian-steamrolle
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You speed read.
Uh huh.
Then why don't you understand your own posts?
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Quote:I get asked by Trumptards how to work their smartphones. When I explain to them in words, they tell me I am wrong because they already tried exactly my solution. I then take their phone and fix their problems because they are stupid, have never read an Android or iOS manual, and never will because they read slowly and misunderstand the simple concepts, as do you, Signym. There is too much nonsense floating around in Trumptard's head which is interfering with them understanding what is directly in front of them, whether in print or on a phone's display.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You speed read.
Uh huh.
Then why don't you understand your own posts?
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Yeah, and you fix people's smart phones, too.
If you're so smart, why are your insults and lies so stupid?
Dood. Seriously.
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Quote:Signym, you can't help yourself, can you? I have seen many times that the thing which appeals to Trumptards about Trump is that he can't help being a stupid asshole, just like they are.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, and you fix people's smart phones, too.
If you're so smart, why are your insults and lies so stupid?
Dood. Seriously.
Trump’s penchant for bashing anyone who turns against him is so strong that last week, right before entering court for a separate hearing that also investigated a set of gag-order violations, he gave an interview to a local news station in which he violated the gag-order.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/donald-trump-attorney-todd
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For Reference: Russia at 6 to 7 percent of their GDP spent on their military, the US is at about 3.2 percent. - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/us-weapons-contract-ukraine-0
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Facing Russian threat and an uncertain America, Europe rearms
By Ned Temko | May 2, 2024 | London
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2024/0502/europe-arms-defense-s
pending-russia
Two words – stark, sober words – sum up a dramatic mood swing in Europe that could redefine, and ultimately loosen, the Continent’s decades-old alliance with the United States.
War footing.
That phrase, voiced most recently by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a speech last week, is especially significant because it is such a jarring departure from Europe’s long-settled economic credo.
Washington has long urged European nations to spend more on their own defense. Russia’s Ukraine invasion, and European doubts about America’s role in tomorrow’s world, have had the desired effect.
For years, the refrain heard in European capitals has been the post-Cold War “peace dividend” – the leeway governments found they had to slash defense spending and invest more money in domestic economic and social priorities instead.
Today, Mr. Sunak is only one of a growing number of European leaders to have concluded that the days of the “peace dividend” are over, and that Europe needs to spend more – much more – on its defense.
And while they’re aware of how politically and practically daunting that goal is, they clearly feel a growing sense of urgency.
That’s because of two increasingly unsettling security concerns, one to the east, the other to the west.
The more immediate threat is Russia’s full-scale war of subjugation against Ukraine.
But there is another, longer-range worry: that, whoever wins this November’s U.S. presidential election, Europe cannot necessarily keep relying on America to be the superpower guarantor of the Continent’s security.
Both these fears have sharpened in recent weeks.
In Ukraine, Russian forces have been intensifying their attacks and begun making advances.
And in Washington, even as the Ukrainians found themselves running short of artillery shells, it took months for the Biden administration to overcome opposition from House Republicans and secure some $60 billion in desperately needed military aid for Kyiv.
European countries did try to fill the gap.
Indeed, in a letter to European Union leaders ahead of a summit six weeks ago, it was the president of the bloc’s ministerial council, Charles Michel, who first raised the call for “a paradigm shift” in Europe’s defense thinking.
“It is high time that we take radical and concrete steps,” he told them, “to be defense-ready, and put the EU’s economy on a war footing.”
The EU went on to approve more than $5 billion of additional military aid to Ukraine, and began trying to buy up all available artillery shells from other countries. But European leaders know that they simply do not have a big enough defense industry, nor large enough arms stockpiles, to come anywhere near taking over Washington’s critical role.
A more profound shift in economic priorities is clearly going to be necessary for that to become possible, especially among Europe’s main economic and military powers.
That is one reason Mr. Sunak’s comments were especially significant.
Countries on Europe’s eastern fringe, closest to Russia – such as Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states – have never needed convincing of the need to ratchet up defense investment.
Yet that message has taken considerably longer to resonate in countries further west, especially in Europe’s leading economic powerhouse, Germany, and in its main military powers, Britain and France.
Mr. Sunak, speaking in Poland with the secretary-general of the NATO alliance also in attendance, announced plans to increase Britain’s defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product – above the decade-old NATO target of 2%.
He urged Europe’s other NATO members to make that their new minimum, too.
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Hundreds of Russian Troops Gathered Out In The Open. They Didn’t Know The Ukrainians Had Aimed Four ATACMS Rockets At Them.
Potentially more than 100 Russians died as the ATACMS struck near Kuban in eastern Ukraine.
By David Axe | May 2, 2024, 05:29pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/02/hundreds-of-russian-t
roops-gathered-out-in-the-open-they-didnt-know-the-ukrainians-had-aimed-four-atacms-rockets-at-them/?sh=7f8314b71a2e
No Russian air defenses can reliably shoot down an incoming ATACMS. The implication was clear: as of April, any exposed Russians within 190 miles of the front line were vulnerable to Ukraine’s growing arsenal of ATACMS.
Ignoring the danger, the Russians gathered out in the open near Kuban—and then more than a hundred of them reportedly died as the ATACMS thundered in.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, and you fix people's smart phones, too.
If you're so smart, why are your insults and lies so stupid?
Dood. Seriously.
Here's comrade signyms' precious Russia. To signym, Russia is great and America is not. But she claims to live in America instead of her precious Russia. Can you say comrade signym has zero credibility? I can, I can say it. Can you say comrade signym has no morals? I can, I can say it. Can you say Ukraine and NATO are making sure Russia's future, will be standing on the global street corner tin cup in hand? I can, I can say it.
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You sound like Dr Seuss writing fur four year olds, THUGR.
And SECOND? You took almost five hours to dream up calling me a "Trumptard"?
Sweet!
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, and you fix people's smart phones, too.
If you're so smart, why are your insults and lies so stupid?
Dood. Seriously.
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"In real life, I'm really really smart. Trust me."
I wonder if everybody has to deal with two of the stupidest people in the world every day, or if it's just us that willingly subject ourselves to this.
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Quote:Macron doesn't rule out troops for Ukraine if Russia breaks front lines – May 2 at 12:54 pm (Paris)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"In real life, I'm really really smart. Trust me."
I wonder if everybody has to deal with two of the stupidest people in the world every day, or if it's just us that willingly subject ourselves to this.
Speaking to The Economist, the French president said it's necessary to have a 'strategic ambiguity' when dealing with Vladimir Putin.
"I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," said Macron when asked if he stood by his earlier comments made on February 26.
Macron said "if Russia decided to go further, we will in any case all have to ask ourselves this question" of sending troops, describing his refusal to rule out such a move as a "strategic wake-up call for my counterparts."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/02/macron-doesn-t-rul
e-out-troops-for-ukraine-if-russia-breaks-front-lines_6670198_7.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Macron doesn't rule out troops for Ukraine if Russia breaks front lines – May 2 at 12:54 pm (Paris)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"In real life, I'm really really smart. Trust me."
I wonder if everybody has to deal with two of the stupidest people in the world every day, or if it's just us that willingly subject ourselves to this.
Speaking to The Economist, the French president said it's necessary to have a 'strategic ambiguity' when dealing with Vladimir Putin.
"I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," said Macron when asked if he stood by his earlier comments made on February 26.
Macron said "if Russia decided to go further, we will in any case all have to ask ourselves this question" of sending troops, describing his refusal to rule out such a move as a "strategic wake-up call for my counterparts."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/05/02/macron-doesn-t-rul
e-out-troops-for-ukraine-if-russia-breaks-front-lines_6670198_7.html
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No French citizen is going to go to Ukraine to fight for Macron.
Do you pay attention to ANYTHING happening in the world that isn't Russia or Trump?
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I think most ppl misinterpret Macron entirely.
They tend to portray him as "rabidly pro-western" or as a cheese eating surrender monkey.
In reality, his political vector is "European army" independent of the USA, and under his (France's, Rothschild banker's?) control. He has stated this MANY TIMES. It's a naked power grab propelled on RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria but heading in a different direction than the USA-dominated NATO.
So he'll flog the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria as long as it promotes the "EU army" but not if it promotes USA authority. Then, he'll backtrack.
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Quote:Why did Macron send troops to Africa, Signym? Give your fictional explanation.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In reality, his political vector is "European army" independent of the USA, and under his (France's, Rothschild banker's?) control. He has stated this MANY TIMES. It's a naked power grab propelled on RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria but heading in a different direction than the USA-dominated NATO.
France "deployed several thousand troops" to the Sahel region of Africa to combat terrorism at the request of sovereign states, Macron said.
"I think to rule it out a priori is not to learn the lessons of the past two years," he continued, referencing the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-troops-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-russia-18
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think most ppl misinterpret Macron entirely.
They tend to portray him as "rabidly pro-western" or as a cheese eating surrender monkey.
In reality, his political vector is "European army" independent of the USA, and under his (France's, Rothschild banker's?) control. He has stated this MANY TIMES. It's a naked power grab propelled on RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria but heading in a different direction than the USA-dominated NATO.
So he'll flog the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria as long as it promotes the "EU army" but not if it promotes USA authority. Then, he'll backtrack.
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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
I was thinking more along the lines of all the French farmers spraying shit everywhere and ruining their own crops because Fuck Macron. Remember the Yellow Vest protests?
French citizens got bent over and rawdawged repeatedly by Macron without any lube. Nobody is going to suit up and put their feet on the ground to fight Russia by his order. Anybody stupid enough to do that deserves what their very short future holds in store for them.
Fuck Macron.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on May 2 in which it confirmed that Russian forces have executed at least 15 surrendering Ukrainian soldiers since December 2023.[35] HRW reported that combat footage shows that Russian forces likely executed an additional six surrendering Ukrainian soldiers since December 2023.[36] HRW noted that in one case Russian commanders explicitly ordered Russian forces to execute Ukrainian soldiers instead of letting them surrender.[37] Attacking soldiers recognized as hors de combat, specifically including those who have clearly expressed an intention to surrender, is a violation of Article 41 of the Geneva Convention on the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflict.[38]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-may-2-2024
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Quote:Cannibal and Double-Murderer Selfie That Sums Up Ukraine War
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
he'll flog the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria
One of them filmed himself eating a human heart. The other dismembered two women. Now they’re both free to kill Ukrainians.
Russia appears to have two new poster children for its war against Ukraine and supposed crusade to save “traditional values” from the deviant West: a cannibal and a murderer united on the battlefield.
Nearly two years after Moscow first hatched its deranged prison-recruitment scheme to use hardened criminals as cannon fodder in Ukraine, a selfie shared on social media provides a glimpse of the country’s new normal.
Dmitry Malyshev, sentenced to 25 years in 2015 for murdering a man and filming himself eating the victim’s heart, among other things, can be seen grinning and embracing Alexander Maslennikov, who got 23 years for murdering and dismembering two women he met at a nightclub.
Malyshev confirmed to V1.ru that both he and Maslennikov signed a contract to get out of prison by serving in the Russian military—in a notorious unit comprised of convicted rapists and killers.
“Alexander and I served together and signed a contract together with the Defense Ministry in October 2023,” Malyshev told the outlet, adding that both are serving in Storm V, a penal military unit Vladimir Putin signed off on in June 2023.
He went on to claim that the two convicted murderers are not like other criminals unleashed on Ukraine. They’ve got principals, according to him.
“I’ve known people who came here from the colony just for a change of scenery. They usually disappear quickly. But I understood why I was going and where I was going. How would you react if your little daughter was told how to put a condom on correctly in elementary school? Or if men will walk down the street licking each other? Is this normal for you? It's not normal for me,” he said, apparently referring to sex-ed classes and gay men, a favorite bogeyman in Kremlin propaganda.
Malyshev’s words horrified the Russian public years ago when he was tried for killing and devouring another human being. “We’re frying human flesh. Here it is—a heart. I’ve already added onion,” he said in video he’d filmed on his phone as a souvenir.
Now Malyshev is among the hordes of ex-convicts elevated to hero status in the war as he supposedly fights to protect “traditional values.”
At least 57 ordinary Russians have been killed so far by convicts who returned home after receiving a pardon to take part in the war, the independent outlet Verstka reported last week. After a series of disturbing headlines in the Russian media about ex-convicts arriving home and butchering their neighbors or raping schoolgirls, the Russian Defense Ministry stopped offering pardons and began offering only conditional release.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cannibal-and-double-murderer-selfie-that
-sums-up-ukraine-war
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Quote:U.S. accuses Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
he'll flog the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that Russia has used chloropicrin against Ukrainian soldiers.
• The choking agent causes lung, eye and skin irritation and potentially vomiting, nausea and diarrhea.
• It said that Russia’s use of such chemicals in Ukraine "is not an isolated incident" and is likely driven by its effort to dislodge Ukrainian soldiers from fortified positions.
• The chemical is often used in riot control efforts but was banned on the battlefield by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
What they're saying: "Russia's ongoing disregard for its obligations to the CWC comes from the same playbook as its operations to poison Aleksey Navalny and Sergei and Yulia Skripal with Novichok nerve agents," the State Department said.
• The Treasury Department said it targeted three Russia-based entities and two individuals involved in procuring items for Russia's chemical and biological weapons programs with sanctions.
• Separately, the State Department targeted three Russian government entities and four Russian companies associated with Russia's chemical and biological weapons programs.
Flashback: Earlier this year, Ukraine accused Russia of using chemical weapons, including chloropicrin, in more than 200 attacks in January alone.
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/02/russia-chemical-weapons-ukraine-us
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Quote:Kremlin critics say Russia is targeting its foes abroad with killings, poisonings and harassment
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So he'll flog the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hysteria
The Kremlin, which routinely denies going after its opponents abroad, has been blamed for decades for such attacks.
The most famous cases include Soviet revolutionary-turned-exiled dissident Leon Trotsky, who was killed in 1940 in Mexico after being attacked with an ice ax by a Soviet agent, and Georgi Markov, a dissident working for the BBC’s Bulgarian language service, who died in 1978 in London after being jabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella.
Britain was the site of other poisonings blamed on Russian security services under Putin. Defector and former intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko died after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter fell gravely ill but recovered following an attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent in 2018. The Kremlin repeatedly denied involvement in the British cases.
Now, with a full-scale domestic crackdown underway inside Russia, most of the Kremlin’s political opponents, independent journalists and activists have moved abroad. There are strong suspicions, as well as accusations from officials, that Moscow is increasingly targeting them.
The breadth of those individuals pursued by Russia, “even if they look and sound completely insignificant,” is because Russian authorities believe they “might come back to the country and destroy it completely,” said security expert Andrei Soldatov.
There are multiple reports of exiles being persecuted not only in former Soviet countries with a large Russian diaspora but also in Europe and beyond.
Much more at https://apnews.com/article/russia-attacks-poisoning-killing-litvinenko
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Russia is not about to sweep across Europe or invade France, as Macron likes to fear monger.
There's a flood of narative about this.
It's a stupid scenario, but some elites find it a useful tool, and some believe it.
Is there any way for you to dial down the lies and hysteria about the ravening horde, SECOND?
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Second is a blunt instrument.
He can't act for himself because he has no agency.
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Quote:Putin threatened to nuke any Western country that sends ammo to Ukraine. That is a threat he should either withdraw or say he is very sorry when he misspoke. He has done neither.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia is not about to sweep across Europe or invade France, as Macron likes to fear monger.
There's a flood of narative about this.
It's a stupid scenario, but some elites find it a useful tool, and some believe it.
Is there any way for you to dial down the lies and hysteria about the ravening horde, SECOND?
Putin warns West of risk of nuclear war, says Moscow can strike Western targets
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn
February 29, 2024
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-west-risk-nuclear-war
-says-moscow-can-strike-western-targets-2024-02-29/
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+threatened+to+nuke+any+Western+c
ountry+that+sends+ammo+to+Ukraine
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Fuck off, warmongering NeoCon.
Go live your own life in constant fear and keep that shit to yourself, worm.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, warmongering NeoCon.
Go live your own life in constant fear and keep that shit to yourself, worm.
Kremlin tiptoes up to the line and whispers: We will nuke the West if it sends troops to Ukraine
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/03/kremlin-slams-dangerous-rema
rks-by-macron-about-troop-deployment-in-ukraine-a85028
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Yep. It's called deterrence. It's a time-honored way to prevent escalation.
Are the USA and EU smart enuf to take the hint?
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Quote:Zelenskyy outlines what is restraining Putin from nuclear strike on Ukraine
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yep. It's called deterrence. It's a time-honored way to prevent escalation.
Are the USA and EU smart enuf to take the hint?
By Kateryna Shkarlat | Fri, May 03, 2024 - 22:30
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/zelenskyy-outlines-what-is-restraining
-putin-1714764161.html
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin does not dare to launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine because he fears losing power, money, and, most importantly, societal support, stated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting with lyceum school students, cadets, and teachers of the National Academy of the State Border Guard Service named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
"When it comes to Russia's threats of nuclear catastrophe or nuclear strikes, these are sick-minded individuals, that's a fact. So, to say definitively whether they are capable or incapable of this is impossible. Because with sick-minded individuals, it's difficult to say until the end," noted Zelensky.
In his opinion, "despite this illness, these individuals cherish life very much, love themselves, are very afraid of losing power and money, and most importantly, losing societal support."
"All this, what I've listed: life, power, society, and the 'red line' that nuclear weapons cross with the whole world, this is a fact. Even those countries that balance between us and Russia and cannot decide, even these countries will turn away from Russia after a nuclear strike of any scale on any territory," the president said.
Zelenskyy believes that people who are afraid of losing money, power, and their lives will never use nuclear weapons.
"Otherwise, they will be eliminated. No matter how. They will all be eliminated, in my opinion," added the head of state.
Threats from the Russian Federation regarding the use of nuclear weapons
In February, the Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly. During his speech, he declared "full readiness" of nuclear forces and grimly hinted at the consequences of NATO military involvement in Ukraine.
Following this, the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, pointed out that the dictator's aggressive rhetoric, including his decisions and "announcements," should be taken seriously. In his opinion, the European Union must be prepared for worst-case scenarios.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that representatives of the Russian Federation have been constantly threatening with nuclear weapons for the past two years, but it is a psychological intimidation rather than real intentions.
American General Ben Hodges believes that Russia's threats regarding the use of nuclear weapons are unlikely to signify a genuine willingness to use them. However, it cannot be said that the chances of this happening are zero.
In early March, the Institute for the Study of War reported that the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine or any other country is unlikely. They noted that Putin is merely "traditionally brandishing the nuclear saber."
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yep. It's called deterrence. It's a time-honored way to prevent escalation.
Are the USA and EU smart enuf to take the hint?
Yup.
Once as a teenager I had unwittingly walked into a spot where I had blocked off the only route of escape for a skunk I didn't know was there until we saw each other.
All he needed to do was give me that little hiss and I got my ass out of there quick because there was no way I was going to school in the morning smelling like that.
Second and Ted are just salty that Putin doesn't bow down and kiss Joe Biden*'s withered dick.
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Skibitskyi stated that the current Russian military is unrecognizable from the force that launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022.[19] Skibitskyi noted that Russia’s once-elite airborne (VDV) and naval infantry elements have been completely degraded and that Russia will not be able to reconstitute them to their former combat capabilities for at least a decade.[20] Russian forces have heavily degraded relatively elite units by employing them in attritional ground assaults and counterattacks regardless of their designated functions and elite capabilities.[21] Degradation and the Russian military command’s decision to commit all forces along the frontline to more or less similar operations have transformed all Russian units in Ukraine regardless of their formal designations into motorized rifle units — mechanized infantry responsible for conducting combined arms ground assaults. Skibitskyi acknowledged that the Russian military is improving in some respects, however, and stated that the Russian military is now operating as a “single body, with a clear plan, under a single command.”[22] The Russian military has demonstrated an uneven propensity for operational, tactical, and technological innovation and learning, particularly with operational planning.[23] The Russian military is now entirely comprised of less-elite de facto motorized rifle units, but these units continue to innovate and adapt to fighting in Ukraine while relying on materiel and manpower advantages to increasingly pressure Ukrainian forces and exploit Ukrainian vulnerabilities.[24]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-may-3-2024
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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry
By Justin Ling | May 2, 2024
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-drone-startups-russia/
On the top floor of a building somewhere in Ukraine is a drone workshop.
Inside is a chaotic workbench covered in logic boards, antennas, batteries, augmented reality headsets, and rotor blades. On one end of the room is a makeshift photo studio—a jet-black quadcopter drone sits on a long white sheet, waiting for its close-up.
This particular workshop’s Geppetto is Yvan. He grins as he shows off his creations, flittering around with a lit cigarette in his mouth, dangling ash, grabbing different models. (Yvan is a pseudonym; WIRED granted some of the people in this story anonymity due to the security risk.)
Yvan holds up a mid-size drone: This model successfully hit a target from 11 kilometers away, he says, but it should be capable of traveling at least 20. He’s trying different batteries and controllers to try to extend the range. He screws on a stabilizer tailpiece to a hard plastic shell—Yvan 3D-prints these himself—and holds up the assembled bomb. It’s capable of carrying a 3.5-kilogram explosive payload, enough to take out a Russian tank.
He uses his index finger and thumb to pick up a nondescript beige chip: This, he says, is what he’s really proud of.
One big problem with these drones—which are based on commercially available first-person-view (FPV) or photography drones—is that their explosive payload is jimmy-rigged on. It requires the drone to crash in order to close the circuit and trigger the explosion.
This chip, Yvan says, allows for remote detonation from a significant distance, meaning the operator can park their drone and lay in wait for hours, even days, before it goes off. He expects this technology could, eventually, be connected to AI—exploding only if it registers a nearby tank, for example. He has created a long-range smart land mine, I note. After the idea is passed through our translator, he nods enthusiastically.
There are many of these FPV drone workshops around Ukraine—Kyiv estimates there are about 200 Ukrainian companies producing aerial drones, with others producing land- and sea-based uncrewed vehicles. But Yvan, grinning proudly, insists that the manufacturer which he represents, VERBA, is the best.
Ukraine is facing increasingly tough odds in its defensive war against a better-resourced, better-equipped enemy. Thanks to delayed aid from Washington and shortages in other NATO warehouses, Ukraine has lacked artillery shells, long-range missiles, and even air defense munitions.
These drones, however, represent a bright spot for the Ukrainians. Entrepreneurship and innovation is scaling up a sizable drone industry in the country, and it’s making new technological leaps that would make the Pentagon envious.
The age of drone warfare is here, and Ukraine wants to be a superpower.
After Yvan showed off his workshop, we loaded into the car to visit one of his factories.
Behind a steel door is a room filled with racks, where 30 3D printers are working simultaneously, printing various drone components in unison. The twentysomething employees seem accustomed to the screeching alarm—some are soldering the drones together, others are tinkering with designs in AutoCAD, one is lounging on a sofa.
Strung across one shelf of 3D printers is a black flag, a take on Blackbeard’s (apocryphal) pirate flag. It shows a horned skeleton wearing an AR headset and holding a controller, thrusting his spear toward a bleeding heart as a quadcopter flies above.
In the first year of the war, when FPV drones were providing extraordinary footage of the front lines and viral video of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) dropping grenades on Russian tanks captivated the world, Ukraine was snatching up every consumer drone it could find. Chinese technology giant DJI became a household name in Ukraine, thanks to its drones’ ubiquity on the front lines. Ukraine’s early advantage was quickly lost, however, as Russia scrambled to snatch up these Chines
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Quote:Alternatively, Putin is murdering people and stealing their land. Putin laughs and his military won't stop until it has taken Europe, proving that God loves Russia and hates the Satanic West:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yep. It's called deterrence. It's a time-honored way to prevent escalation.
Are the USA and EU smart enuf to take the hint?
Yup.
Once as a teenager I had unwittingly walked into a spot where I had blocked off the only route of escape for a skunk I didn't know was there until we saw each other.
All he needed to do was give me that little hiss and I got my ass out of there quick because there was no way I was going to school in the morning smelling like that.
Second and Ted are just salty that Putin doesn't bow down and kiss Joe Biden*'s withered dick.
Putin attacks West as 'satanic', hails Russian "traditional" values
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the West was "satanic" and rejected "moral norms" in a combative speech
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.
Putin invokes Satan, slavery, Goebbels, nukes to denounce West in annexation speech.
Much more at https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+Satan+West
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Shut the fuck up.
Nobody cares.
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Quote:Nobody in Russia cares: Russia Relying on 'Mass Over Quality'
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
Nobody cares.
May 04, 2024 at 8:16 AM EDT
The term "meat grinder" is used to describe Russia's tactic of sending waves of soldiers to wear down Ukrainian forces and expose their locations to Russian artillery. Using this method, Russia's gains have been incremental, albeit at a cost.
Despite the cost in life, Russia has fully adapted its military to attritional warfare which relies on mass over quality. This reliance on mass will almost certainly continue for the duration of the Ukraine war and have long-lasting effects on Russia's future army.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-mod-losses-1897297
Russia is adapting to war: Putin urges Russian women to have 'eight or more' children
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+asks+women+to+have+8+or+more+chi
ldren
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Nobody in Russia cares
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares. Period.
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Quote:Russians and Trumptards have shortened lives because they don't care and aren't careful. Have your teeth regrown, 6ix? No. Are you smoking? Yes. But you can brag about not drinking as much alcohol as a Russian.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Nobody in Russia cares
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares. Period.
How long does a Russian male live? 64.21 years. No one knows why. It couldn't be related to the way they live, could it? I knew many Trumptards who lived fewer years than a Russian. Death always came as a surprise for them, but it wasn't a surprise for me since they weren't careful.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/971100/life-expectancy-at-birth-in
-russia-by-gender/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Shut up retard.
You're about to get destroyed in November because you and your party are a bunch of idiots.
We got plenty of problems right here in our country that nobody in the Democrat party will even acknowledge, let alone has any will or desire to address, and nobody has time for your bullshit fear porn about Russia.
Nobody gives one single shit about Ukraine, just as I've said from the very beginning of all of this. Nobody goes around waving Ukraine flags or even putting Ukraine flag banners on their Twitter handles anymore. You Democrat voting lemmings are only capable of thinking about one issue at a time, to the exclusion of everything else, and everyone's long since moved on to other things.
Just look at yourself, for example... EVERYTHING in the news is bad for Joe Biden* right now, so you've posted in 5 separate threads just this morning about Russia and that's all you posted about yesterday as well.
The dumbass college kids are all in on supporting Hamas right now and probably forgot all about the fact that Ukraine is a country on the map, let alone anything going on over there.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Russia.
Nobody cares.
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Nobody in Russia cares: Russia Relying on 'Mass Over Quality'
May 04, 2024 at 8:16 AM EDT
The term "meat grinder" is used to describe Russia's tactic of sending waves of soldiers to wear down Ukrainian forces ... blah blah blah ...
UNLIKE YOU, OR NEWSPEAK, I've watched video after video of Russian assaults. These videos are posted by Ukraine from Ukrainian surveillance drones, and only when Kiev feels they show a tactical victory.
A Russian armored assault usually consists of a lead tank and two or three APCs. On occasion, they do something wild and crazy like assault at high speed with two or three dirt bikes (motorcycles).
Russians are profligate in their use of artillery, bombs, drones, and ... then ... armored vehicles, and these armored vehicles seem very protective. Time after time, I've seen videos of a Russian APC hit a landmine or be damaged by a FPV drone, and ALL the troops bail for the nearest cover. And remember, these are Ukrainian videos of Ukrainian "succeses".
No "meat grinder" there.
Russian clearing operations seem to work in small groups of three or four. Often under the watchful eye and guidance of a Russian surveillance drone.
No meat grinder there either.
I remember only two mass ARMORED assaults, one against the Avdiivka "terrakon" and one attempt thru fields SE of Avdiivka which had been heavily mined, and while they caused a lot of armored vehicle damage I didn't see much loss of life.
Total Rusian dead is estimated at 50,000-60,000. The Russian MOD and Kremlin are doing their best to minimize Russian casualties by attriting the other side as much as possible with, as I said, profligate use of missiles, bombs, artillery, drones, cluster munitions and TOS flamethrowers and defensive use of counterbattery artillery, EW, and air defenses.
They are highly aware that Russia's population is 130 million while the EU population is 450 million and USA is 330 million. The ONE THING that would probably cause the Kremlin to negotiate or, alternately, pull the trigger on WMD would be a scenario of mass casualties on the Russian side: an "existential threat" that Putin has referred to. The Kremlin and MOD have no intention of losing even a hundred thousand troops.
For comparison, Ukrainian dead and severely wounded are estimated at 400,000 to a million. Assuming 1/3 of those are deaths, that's 130,000- 300,000 dead.
How about bringing "real" into the "real world" events forum, SECOND, instead of your usual bullshit?
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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Quote:Signym, where is the real proof of only 50,000 dead Russian soldiers? Instead of mourning the Russian fallen by verifiable name, Putin asks Russian women to have 8 or more children so that nobody needs to know how many died since there is an overabundance of available bodies to throw away. Even today, Russia does not have a provable number of dead Soviet soldiers to the nearest 10,000,000 for WWII. The Russian tradition of not knowing or caring continues.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No meat grinder there either.
I remember only two mass ARMORED assaults, one against the Avdiivka "terrakon" and one attempt thru fields SE of Avdiivka which had been heavily mined, and while they caused a lot of armored vehicle damage I didn't see much loss of life.
Total Rusian dead is estimated at 50,000-60,000.
How about bringing "real" into the "real world" events forum, SECOND, instead of your usual bullshit?
In contrast to the Russian way, the US publicizes the names of the fallen. During World War II: 405,399 Americans died and the number is truth, not Russian propaganda. The USA still keeps a truthful list of dead soldiers. Russia never was truthful. (Russia pays volunteers ten times more than the average Russian to get new soldiers. Ten times would not be enough if the volunteers knew from official sources that a thousand of them die every day in Ukraine. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-military-offers-recruits-10x-av
erage-salary-to-fill-depleted-ranks-2023-5
Putin can afford to lose 365,000 Russians per year [8 or more children per woman!] but he can't afford to pay them a hundred times more than average. Therefore Putin's secrecy about the names of dead soldiers in Ukraine.)
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/ofs/namesOfFalle
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Originally posted by second:
Even today, Russia does not have a provable number of dead Soviet soldiers to the nearest 10,000,000 for WWII.
Translation: I'm just going to believe the numbers some random bloggers say without providing any proof because it's what I want to believe and I am a stupid, stupid person.
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