Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Quote:6ix, you've said a million times you don't care. I see the same attitude in all the Trump voters I know, with no exceptions. You guys are a combination of extreme selfishness with ineptitude at getting what you want out of life, plus a yellow streak of cowardliness. Obviously you wouldn't care, just so long as gasoline is cheap, and you are safe at home, far away from danger. And you will vote that way in November. You Trumptards are so pitiful and worthless as human beings, but with your huge egos protecting your feelings from self-knowledge, you can't see how insignificant all your little achievements are as you routinely go about your short, fearful and essentially futile lives.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Keep pushing this bullshit until November and see where it gets you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you've said a million times you don't care. I see the same attitude in all the Trump voters I know, with no exceptions. You guys are a combination of extreme selfishness with ineptitude at getting what you want out of life, plus a yellow streak of cowardliness. Obviously you wouldn't care, just so long as gasoline is cheap, and you are safe at home, far away from danger. And you will vote that way in November. You Trumptards are so pitiful and worthless as human beings, but with your huge egos protecting your feelings from self-knowledge, you can't see how insignificant all your little achievements are as you routinely go about your short, fearful and essentially futile lives.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Keep pushing this bullshit until November and see where it gets you.
LOL
I've got your greatest hits archived, Arthur.
Save your virtue signalling for the other oblivious morons without any sense of self-awareness on Twitter.
You are a waste of carbon, and every word you've ever written here in the RWED is a derivative of the meaninglessness you call your life.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Are you aware of the fact that a lot of people HATED Saddam Hussein .
Yup, and now he's dead. Is that your point?
T
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Quote:In the Winter War, Russia had 321,000–381,000 total casualties and Finland had 70,000 total casualties.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Are you aware of the fact that a lot of people HATED Saddam Hussein .
Yup, and now he's dead. Is that your point?
T
From the Russians' war in Finland, Hitler correctly predicted that Russians couldn't fight worth a damn. What Hitler got wrong was how many Russians he'd have to kill to get Stalin to surrender. With Stalin, the answer was kill all the Russians.
The result? Germany killed 27,000,000 Russians versus Russia killing 2,742,909 Germans on the Eastern Front. Russians were worse at fighting Germans than at fighting Finns.
(Germany kept an accurate count while Stalin couldn't give a damn how many Russians died.)
If the death toll in Ukraine shows that Russians can't fight worth damn compared to Ukrainians, China might reasonably attempt what Germany tried -- but this time China plans on killing all Russians and taking their land. Putin's future looks as hazardous as Stalin's if Russia gets beaten by Ukraine. To save himself from China, Putin will try to kill the maximum number of Ukraine civilians to show the Chinese that Russians are competent murderers. I bet the day is coming when Putin wishes he hadn't invaded Ukraine like Stalin wished he hadn't invaded Finland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Un
ion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
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Originally posted by second:
The Ukrainian Sovereignty Act of 2022 would ensure Ukrainians, whether they are US citizens or not, can seek monetary damages through the US courts for any losses incurred as a result of the Russian invasion, paid out by assets seized from Russia or Russian oligarchs the US government has sanctioned.
Tens of billions of dollars the Bank of Russia has stored in the US, not to mention the seized assets of other Russians and Russian entities facing sanctions, could be available to help compensate Ukrainian refugees and survivors of the war.
Ukraine could file a lawsuit in the United States and use any Russian funds to help rebuild the hospitals, schools and other structures that the Russian military destroyed during this unlawful invasion.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/ukraine-russia-monetary-damage
s-legislation/index.html
H.R.7205 - Ukrainian Sovereignty Act of 2022
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7205/text
Wow. The Build Ukraine Back Better bill, funded by Russian scum. It's almost too much to hope for.
I just hope there's something left to build back. I also wonder how many displaced Ukrainians would go back and live that close to Russia.
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Basically the USSA is robbing Russia, just like it robbed Libya, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq etc.
Makes the U$D an even riskier place to park assets.
I hope very few western-leaning Ukies return to Ukraine. Let them enjoy their refugee status in the collective west!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:So very funny you are Signym. The poor thief running Russia had his money confiscated.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Basically the USSA is robbing Russia, just like it robbed Libya, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq etc.
Makes the U$D an even riskier place to park assets.
I hope very few western-leaning Ukies return to Ukraine. Let them enjoy their refugee status in the collective west!
2022 -- Putin may be the wealthiest man in the world with assets totaling up to $200 billion.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/02/vladimir-putin-net-worth-2022/
2017 -- Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Richer Than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos Combined
https://fortune.com/2017/07/29/vladimir-putin-russia-jeff-bezos-bill-g
ates-worlds-richest-man/
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Despots go after the press first. Authoritarians are terrified of a free, independent press in Russia, and here at home.
Putin’s military bombed broadcast towers in Kyiv and kidnapped, tortured, or killed reporters because he knew any resistance movement relies on journalists to stay informed and strong. He brutally cracked down on what remained of his country’s independent media for the same reason. The feisty Echo of Moscow radio station was blocked and its FM signal, in a true middle-finger move, taken over by the propaganda outfit Sputnik. Mediazona, the independent site founded by members of Pussy Riot, was blocked by the censors for calling the war a war. The venerable Novaya Gazeta self-censored “with terrible shame” by removing its war coverage from the internet, then suspended publication.
A few weeks ago, I got an emergency message from one of these brave, independent newsrooms. My sister, who happens to be working for a reader-supported news organization in Germany, had been in touch with Meduza, the largest independent Russian newsroom that was still able to report the truth about Russia, for Russians. When Putin brought the hammer down, Meduza’s team grabbed their go bags and left the country. But their reporting didn’t stop, because they had planned for this. They were set up on servers outside Russia, and had taught their readers about how to get around the censors.
That week, though, Meduza did lose its lifeblood: the 30,000 readers who made their journalism possible. (Yes, reader-supported journalism is a global movement, and as a Mother Jones reader, you are part of it.) Because of Putin’s crackdown and the Western sanctions, they could no longer send Meduza money.
I got to meet Meduza’s editor-in-chief, Ivan Kolpakov, and some of his colleagues on an early morning video call. “People are surrounded by propaganda narratives,” he said. “A lot of people believe that the Russian military is destroying military infrastructure and not bombing cities. They don’t know about the refugees. Our role is to bring this war to our readers. We need to destroy this wall between the war and Russians.”
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/04/their-fight-is-our-fight/
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Quote:That explains the USA.
Originally posted by second:
Despots go after the press first.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:The Great Information War
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:That explains the USA.
Originally posted by second:
Despots go after the press first.
Putin’s war didn’t start with the invasion, and it’s not just against Ukraine. It began at least eight years ago, when he launched both his assault on Crimea and his first big offensive in what the British journalist Carole Cadwalladr calls the Great Information War. That offensive was directed against the West, including the United States.
What does an information war look like? Look around. It’s about disrupting the infrastructure of conversation and poisoning the way people relate to each other.
For the past 10 years, Putin and his government have been using propaganda, especially on social media and TV, to stoke division, anger, and fear. In Russia, Kremlin-friendly media is full of stories about how refugees turned Western Europe into a hellhole, and how LGBTQ+ people are destroying traditional values. (Here’s a great thread from our friends at CODA Story, another reader-supported newsroom based in Eastern Europe.) Whiteness, Christianity, and traditional gender roles are under attack, the narrative goes, and need to defend themselves with violence if necessary.
Ring a bell at all? Those are, to a tee, also the themes of right-wing media in America and, therefore, of the Republican Party. (Check out Republican Senatorial Committee chair Rick Scott’s American “rescue plan”: The “militant left” controls the government and most of corporate America, he says—without a hint of irony—and it wants to change or destroy “American history, patriotism, the nuclear family, gender, traditional morality, capitalism…” and the list goes on.) And like the Kremlin’s lies, homegrown disinformation is growing ever more brazen, as we saw over and over in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings.
When I heard the heartbreaking stories of Ukrainians trying to convince their parents in Russia that the war is real, it reminded me of trying to reason with a loved one who gets their news from Fox News. That’s propaganda at work.
Which, probably, is why Tucker Carlson is such a fan of Putin’s — and vice versa. As my colleague David Corn revealed:
On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson.
‘It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson,” advises the 12-page document written in Russian.
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/04/their-fight-is-our-fight/
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