What is Putin's end game?
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Yup. Because those damned Polacks are known for their oppressive behavior.
Shut up, moron.
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Quote:This is as far as I got b4 wading into more of your bullshit, distraction, and misdirection.
SignyM:
Yeah, like the Russians did that.
Bullshit.
SECOND: As these crimes were carried out, in full view of the world, the Russian state successfully hid this tragedy from its own people.
SIGNY: UH huh. And Saddam had WMD and Assad gassed how own people.
If this was "in view of the whole world" why didn't someone... OSCE, maybe? They're pro-western enough!... come forward with evidence AT THE TIME? Do an investigation AT THE TIME? Instead of, yanno, fabricating after the fact?
Like I said: You have an infinite capacity to absorb swill.
SECOND: Ukrainians tell a story of the origins of
Bc, yanno, you can't really address my point, can you?
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Quote:In what way are your points different than Putin's? You have written many words, but you have not deviated from Putin's positions. Why do you bother to write when Putin has already done all the work for you? Just copy and paste whatever official press release is coming out of Russia and save your energy for gardening or whatever you do in retirement.
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:This is as far as I got b4 wading into more of your bullshit, distraction, and misdirection.
SignyM:
Yeah, like the Russians did that.
Bullshit.
SECOND: As these crimes were carried out, in full view of the world, the Russian state successfully hid this tragedy from its own people.
SIGNY: UH huh. And Saddam had WMD and Assad gassed how own people.
If this was "in view of the whole world" why didn't someone... OSCE, maybe? They're pro-western enough!... come forward with evidence AT THE TIME? Do an investigation AT THE TIME? Instead of, yanno, fabricating after the fact?
Like I said: You have an infinite capacity to absorb swill.
SECOND: Ukrainians tell a story of the origins of
Bc, yanno, you can't really address my point, can you?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia’s threat to retaliate against US-Japan naval exercises shows it’s getting jumpy
Russia has warned Japan of “retaliatory measures” if it expands joint naval exercises with the United States near Russia’s eastern borders.
The threat is just the latest salvo from Moscow, which has been angered by Japan’s support for Ukraine and its growing ties with NATO countries, and is turning up the heat in a long-running dispute over the sovereignty of islands captured by Soviet forces at the end of World War II.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said Tuesday that US-Japan naval exercises were “potentially offensive in nature,” according to a report on Tuesday by Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti.
“We see such actions by the Japanese side as a threat to the security of our country,” Morgulov said. “If such practices expand, Russia will take retaliatory measures in the interests of strengthening its defense capabilities.”
However, he did not specify which US-Japan exercises he was talking about – nor did he make explicit what form Russia’s retaliation might take.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/asia/russia-threat-japan-naval-exercise
s-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
Long story shortened: Russia put troops into Japan and never withdrew. Russia did the same to Ukraine. That is why Japan is helping Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russian Leaders Know They’re Committing War Crimes. Their Laws of War Manual Says So.
The manual requires commanders to be aware that, generally, attacks are forbidden on targets including concentrations of civilians, their dwellings, infrastructure necessary to their survival, nuclear power plants and cultural icons. It also makes clear that attacks on those targets employing weapons such as indirect artillery and missile fire, indiscriminate automatic weapons fire, and landmines can constitute separate war crimes.
“Civilian” is defined in the manual as “any person present in the area of combat operations, who is not a member of armed forces and refrains from any act of hostility.”
The manual warns, “Especially dangerous objects are nuclear power stations … whose destruction may release dangerous destructive factors and consequent severe losses among the civilian population. These objects shall not become the object of attack even when they are military objectives if attacking them may result in the above-mentioned consequences.”
The manual tells a commander: “While organizing and conducting combat operations the commander and staff must take into account the rules of international humanitarian law.” Prohibited methods of warfare include “killing or wounding civilians … taking of hostages… terrorizing the civilian population; using starvation of civilians to achieve military objectives, the destruction, removal or reduction to uselessness of objects indispensable to their survival … destroying cultural property, historic monuments, places of worship and other objects of cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples …; destroying or capturing enemy property, unless required by military necessity; ordering to pillage a town or place.”
In addition, “the following shall be prohibited [during] combat operations: “booby-traps which are placed outside a military objective and in any way attached to, or associated … dead bodies; burial or cremation sites, graves[.]” If bodies were mined at Bucha, that was another direct violation.
The manual warns:
In accordance with … the penal legislation of the Russian Federation, perpetrators of international humanitarian law violations can be held criminally responsible. Such violations include actions against persons and objects protected under international humanitarian law: willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment…willfully causing great suffering or serious injury, or harm to health; … taking of hostages; intentionally making the civilian population or individual civilians, …, an object of attack if it causes death or serious bodily injury, or harm to health; illegal arrest; … unlawful deportation … of civilian population of the occupied territory beyond its borders;
… The actions of occupying forces must comply with the rules of international humanitarian law. The commander … in the occupied territory is obliged, …, to take all possible measures to ensure public order and security, prevent pillage and illegal confiscation of property. … Life, family, property, customs of the civilian population shall be respected.
Further, “search for, collection, identification, and burial of the dead members of the enemy armed forces as well as of other victims of armed conflicts shall be organized immediately, as soon as the situation permits and carried out … to establish the identity of the dead (deceased) and bury them with due dignity and respect as required by ethical principles.”
There are many other requirements, but those above were clearly violated in the shelling and bombing of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, the murders in Bucha, the expulsions from Mariupol into Russia, and the mistreatment of civilians in numerous occupied towns and villages.
Do these rules matter?
This Russian manual is clear evidence that the Russian military leadership is aware their actions and inaction in Ukraine constitute war crimes. In any trial, the manual provides the necessary nexus to demonstrate that Russian leaders are legally responsible for illegal attacks up
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Quote:
SignyM:
Yeah, like the Russians did that.
Bullshit.
SECOND: As these crimes were carried out, in full view of the world, the Russian state successfully hid this tragedy from its own people.
SIGNY: UH huh. And Saddam had WMD and Assad gassed how own people.
If this was "in view of the whole world" why didn't someone... OSCE, maybe? They're pro-western enough!... come forward with evidence AT THE TIME? Do an investigation AT THE TIME? Instead of, yanno, fabricating after the fact?
Like I said: You have an infinite capacity to absorb swill.
SECOND: Ukrainians tell a story of the origins of
SIGNY: This is as far as I got b4 wading into more of your bullshit, distraction, and misdirection.
Bc, yanno, you can't really address my point, can you?
SECOND: In what way are your points different than Putin's? You have written many words, but you have not deviated from Putin's positions.
All I'm doing is demanding evidence, which is what I did for Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Panama, Grenada etc etc
And all YOU'RE doing is repeating neocon/M$M lies.
If YOU had demanded evidence before signing up for Vietnam, maybe you wouldn't be the twisted fuck you are today. But instead of learning from your past mistakes, you seem to want others to follow your path to insanity. Bc that's what happens when you believe lies.
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Nobody cares.
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Quote:Putin cares too much. He is threatening, today, to nuke the world. He keeps making the threat. I wonder if he thinks he wasn't heard the first 6 times he said the same thing?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Russia has issued a chilling new threat to the UK over continued weapon supplies to Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said strikes could be authorised against NATO member countries' military targets.
She said: "Do we understand correctly that for the sake of disrupting the logistics of military supplies, Russia can strike military targets on the territory of those Nato countries that supply arms to the Kyiv regime?"
"After all, this directly leads to deaths and bloodshed on Ukrainian territory. As far as I understand, Britain is one of those countries.”
On Wednesday Putin also seemed to hint at a possible nuclear attack, telling assembled Russian lawmakers: "If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia.
"They must know that our response to counter strikes will be lightning fast. Fast."
He went on: "We have all the weapons we need for this. No one else can brag about these weapons, and we won't brag about them. But we will use them."
It comes after Russia also warned NATO weapons were a "legitimate" target in Ukraine - and that British diplomats in Kyiv could be targeted.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "nuclear" action was a "real" danger, adding the risk of World War 3 was now "considerable".
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russias-chilling-threat-launc
h-strike-26809824
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin cares too much.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
He's got a reason to.
You don't.
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Quote:Putin is the richest man in the world, but he will lose his wealth if he doesn't stop this stupid war he started whimsically because the richest man believed he could do anything. Think of Putin as a weirder and older Elon Musk with an army and a bureau of assassination to do his will.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin cares too much.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
He's got a reason to.
You don't.
How Putin might be 'the richest man in the world'
Throughout his decades-long political career, Russian President Vladimir Putin has amassed a fortune that some authorities believe is vast enough to crown him one of the richest people in the world.
Now that wealth is in the crosshairs of the West. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is believed to have killed thousands of civilians, has triggered economic sanctions that target him, his associates and now his adult children.
But the system that built Putin's riches has also frustrated U.S. and European efforts to punish him. Each round of sanctions raises new questions about whether those efforts can affect the man who treats the wealth of an entire nation as his own.
That wealth was not built solely by simple corruption or theft, according to statements from an array of government officials, interviews with experts in U.S. intelligence and law enforcement, and a USA TODAY review of thousands of pages of reports and documents.
While Putin was far from the first to capitalize on the wealth of the formerly communist country, he turned the tables on Russia’s oligarchs, using the power of his office to put himself in control of their futures – and their fortunes.
He installed his closest allies from St. Petersburg as a new class of oligarchs whose business riches became, effectively, Putin's own. Today, while Putin declares a $123,000 salary, his actual wealth is as hard to imagine as it is to quantify.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/26/russia-preside
nt-vladimir-putin-money-oligarchs/9543309002/
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