Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Seems kinda curious that, after doing Putin's bidding, pizmobeach/JJ/CC announced that his work was done here, and left us in peace.
Now that the rubles are flowing back into his account, he has returned to spread more disinformation for his masters.
huh.
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Russia on Friday released how many of its forces it says have died so far in the month-long war in Ukraine: 1,300 Russian troops have been killed.
NATO this week estimated that 7,000 to 15,000 Russians have died this month from fighting.
Kyiv on Friday said its accounting puts that number in excess of 16,000.
Russian state news deleted a post earlier this week suggesting troop deaths at roughly 10,000 with officials claiming the article’s publication originated from a cyberattack.
Regardless of the disparity, even the Russian accounting presents a staggering acknowledgement of battlefield carnage for a supposedly contemporary military. The U.S., by contrast, lost 7,000 troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan across two decades of at-times intense, grinding combat.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-25/russia-re
leases-its-forces-death-toll-in-ukraine-revealing-staggering-losses
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The USA bombs everything to rubble before strolling in. That was the lesson they learned in Vietnam: don't get involved in ground combat if you can help it. 50,000 dead Ameicans.
The problem with bombing everything to rubble is that you bomb everything to rubble, kill a lot of civilians and destroy a lot of infrastructure. IF you're trying to spare civilians, preserve infrastrcture, not create a hostile population AND a power vacuum, you will be stuck using more troops. And, if the defending forces have dug into cities and villages, you will be stuck with urban combat.
That's warfare, I guess.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
More than 1.3 MILLION people have now signed petition demanding Putin faces Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunal over Ukraine invasion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10640193/Putin-Nuremberg-styl
e-war-crimes-trial-Ukraine-backed-1-3million.html] People can be convinced of anything. Look how many were convinced that Saddam had WMD.
Others were convinced that Milosevic was a war criminal (He was found not guilty BTW.)
A billion people could sign it and be meaningless. Bc a billion fliesxeat shit.
How about EVIDENCE? That always seems to be the missing ingredient with these overly emotional types.
And then, how about equal application of law? Why isn't Obama in the dock? Why was Albright allowed to die unmolested?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William BlakeQuote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And others were convinced that we needed to destroy the world economy as we once knew it over a virus that doesn't kill anybody, and yet some still can't wait to inject their infants with an experimental drug that made tens of billions of dollars for Big Pharma so far.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
Signym, comrade, I've cut and pasted one of Jacks post from below so you can see, as I've pointed out in another post, the lunacy you post closely resembles the lunacy Jack posts. That's as low as you could go.
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Russian general says Russia will focus on Donbas
The latest from Ukraine:
Not long after Mr. Biden arrived in Poland, the Russian military signaled that it might be reducing its war aims. After a month of a grinding war in which Russian forces have been met by unexpectedly fierce Ukrainian resistance and have failed to capture major cities across the country, Maj. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said Russia would now be focused on defeating Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting a war since 2014.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/25/world/ukraine-russia-war
If they'd done that from the start this whole thing would have been another Crimea: a quick, easy sprint that would have left the world with a fait accompli it could do little about. And it would have solidified Putin's reputation for military genius instead of turning into a long, grinding war that's done nothing but expose the Russian military as far less capable than anyone imagined, including Putin.
What an idiot Putin is.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Ukraine’s Three-to-One Advantage
Jed wanted to discuss anti-armor weapons, particularly the American-made Javelin and the British-made NLAW. The past month of fighting had demonstrated that the balance of lethality had shifted away from armor, and toward anti-armor weapons. Even the most advanced armor systems, such as the Russian T-90 series main battle tank, had proved vulnerable, their charred husks littering Ukrainian roadways.
When I mentioned to Jed that I’d fought in Fallujah in 2004, he said that the tactics the Marine Corps used to take that city would never work today in Ukraine. In Fallujah, our infantry worked in close coordination with our premier tank, the M1A2 Abrams. On several occasions, I watched our tanks take direct hits from rocket-propelled grenades (typically older-generation RPG-7s) without so much as a stutter in their forward progress. Today, a Ukrainian defending Kyiv or any other city, armed with a Javelin or an NLAW, would destroy a similarly capable tank.
Russian doctrine relies on centralized command and control, while mission-style command and control—as the name suggests—relies on the individual initiative of every soldier, from the private to the general, not only to understand the mission but then to use their initiative to adapt to the exigencies of a chaotic and ever-changing battlefield in order to accomplish that mission. Although the Russian military has modernized under Vladimir Putin, it has never embraced the decentralized mission-style command-and-control structure that is the hallmark of NATO militaries, and that the Ukrainians have since adopted.
“The Russians don’t empower their soldiers,” Zagorodnyuk explained. “They tell their soldiers to go from Point A to Point B, and only when they get to Point B will they be told where to go next, and junior soldiers are rarely told the reason they are performing any task. This centralized command and control can work, but only when events go according to plan. When the plan doesn’t hold together, their centralized method collapses. No one can adapt, and you get things like 40-mile-long traffic jams outside Kyiv.”
The individual Russian soldier’s lack of knowledge corresponded with a story Jed told me, one that drove home the consequences of this lack of knowledge on the part of individual Russian soldiers. During a failed night assault on his trench, a group of Russian soldiers got lost in the nearby woods. “Eventually, they started calling out,” he said. “I couldn’t help it; I felt bad. They had no idea where to go.”
When I asked what happened to them, he returned a grim look.
Instead of recounting that part of the story, he described the advantage Ukrainians enjoy in night-vision technology. When I told him I’d heard the Ukrainians didn’t have many sets of night-vision goggles, he said that was true, and that they did need more. “But we’ve got Javelins. Everyone’s talking about the Javelins as an anti-tank weapon, but people forget that the Javelins also have a CLU.”
The CLU, or command launch unit, is a highly capable thermal optic that can operate independent of the missile system. In Iraq and Afghanistan, we would often carry at least one Javelin on missions, not because we expected to encounter any al-Qaeda tanks, but because the CLU was such an effective tool. We’d use it to watch road intersections and make sure no one was laying down IEDs. The Javelin has a range in excess of a mile, and the CLU is effective at that distance and beyond.
The longer we talked, the more the conversation veered away from the tangible, technical variables of Ukraine’s military capacity and toward the psychology of Ukraine’s military. Napoleon, who fought many battles in this part of the world, observed that “the morale is to the physical as three is to one.” I was thinking of this maxim as Jed and I finished our tea.
In Ukraine — at least in this first chapter of the war — Napoleon’s words have held true, proving in many ways decisive. In my earlier conversation with Zagorodnyuk, as he and I went through the many r
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Originally posted by second:
Russian general says Russia will focus on Donbas
The latest from Ukraine:
Not long after Mr. Biden arrived in Poland, the Russian military signaled that it might be reducing its war aims. After a month of a grinding war in which Russian forces have been met by unexpectedly fierce Ukrainian resistance and have failed to capture major cities across the country, Maj. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy said Russia would now be focused on defeating Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting a war since 2014.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/25/world/ukraine-russia-war
If they'd done that from the start this whole thing would have been another Crimea: a quick, easy sprint that would have left the world with a fait accompli it could do little about. And it would have solidified Putin's reputation for military genius instead of turning into a long, grinding war that's done nothing but expose the Russian military as far less capable than anyone imagined, including Putin.
What an idiot Putin is.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yes yes at which point the Ukrainians will surround them. Now that Russia has let the cat out of the bag this doesn't end until Russia is driven off all Ukrainian land. Putin's invasion has shown them they are a better fighting force than Russia and they are pissed.
Comrades Signym and kiki, I told you so...
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And we trained the Ukrainians since 2014.
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Putin's war: One month on, Nato on high alert as Russia recalibrates its strategy in Ukraine
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Quote:Spare civilians by targeting ballistic missiles into War Shelters for women and children like theaters, hospitals, churches, right?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The USA bombs everything to rubble before strolling in. That was the lesson they learned in Vietnam: don't get involved in ground combat if you can help it. 50,000 dead Ameicans.
The problem with bombing everything to rubble is that you bomb everything to rubble, kill a lot of civilians and destroy a lot of infrastructure. IF you're trying to spare civilians, preserve infrastrcture, not create a hostile population AND a power vacuum, you will be stuck using more troops. And, if the defending forces have dug into cities and villages, you will be stuck with urban combat.
That's warfare, I guess.
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Reports say that it was the Azov Battalion that held hostages in the theater and blew it up themselves to blame the Russians.
According to various non-Russian sources, the Russians flew no air missions or fired artillery that night in that area, so it would have been impossible for Ruusians to have destroyed the theater. We need to investigate to find the truth, since "people say" all kinds of things and often lie.
But as usual, you believe what 'sonebody said" without looking carefully at evidence. I'd sure hate to see you in a jury panel!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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