Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Yale University historian Timothy Snyder about his latest article for The New Yorker, "The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War."
Snyder writes about the colonial history that laid the foundations for the Russian war in Ukraine, such as Russia's imperial vision and how leaders including Hitler and Stalin have aimed to conquer Ukrainian soil on different premises.
"The whole history of colonialism … involves denying that another people is real. It involves denying that another state is real," says Snyder.
"That is, of course, the premise of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
When Vladimir Putin denies the reality of the Ukrainian state, he is speaking the familiar language of empire.
For five hundred years, European conquerors called the societies that they encountered “tribes,” treating them as incapable of governing themselves.
As we see in the ruins of Ukrainian cities, and in the Russian practice of mass killing, rape, and deportation, the claim that a nation does not exist is the rhetorical preparation for destroying it.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/the-war-in-ukraine-is-a-colonial-
war
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Gen. Jack Keane predicts how the Russia-Ukraine war will end
I think the Russians have to come to the realization that actually occupying a significant amount of territory in Ukraine is likely not going to happen. The Ukrainians, they have an opportunity here to push the Russians out. They're going to need a significant amount of support, in my calculation, just on artillery alone. Because the Russians - the one thing they do well is artillery. And the thing that kills artillery is artillery. We're going to have to send them a lot to be able to do that - a lot more than we've already sent any other nations. There is opportunity there. But at the end of the day, it'll be probably likely that there'll be some kind of stalemate, hopefully with the Ukrainians taking back most of their territory. The opportunity is there for them to do it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-jack-keane-predicts-russia-ukraine-w
ar-end
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Originally posted by second:
Gen. Jack Keane predicts how the Russia-Ukraine war will end
I think the Russians have to come to the realization that actually occupying a significant amount of territory in Ukraine is likely not going to happen. The Ukrainians, they have an opportunity here to push the Russians out. They're going to need a significant amount of support, in my calculation, just on artillery alone. Because the Russians - the one thing they do well is artillery. And the thing that kills artillery is artillery. We're going to have to send them a lot to be able to do that - a lot more than we've already sent any other nations. There is opportunity there. But at the end of the day, it'll be probably likely that there'll be some kind of stalemate, hopefully with the Ukrainians taking back most of their territory. The opportunity is there for them to do it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-jack-keane-predicts-russia-ukraine-w
ar-end
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Don't worry. We're voting the NeoCons out of office too.
4 months ago, dipshit second would have agreed with me that we dont' need to be spending all this money on war. Now he quotes Fox News.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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U.S. intelligence helps Ukraine kill Russian generals
The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.
Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.
The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/politics/russia-generals-killed-
ukraine.html
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Nobody cares.
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I see SECOND is jonesing for war, again.
Hey, SECOND, why don't YOU go to Kiev and help them out? You could help direct their war effort/relay orders from USA neocons. Or better yet, go to the front lines and show 'em how it's done.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Vladimir Putin’s propagandists explain the new meaning of Nazism: Anyone who is anti-Russian, and especially if they’re from Ukraine.
According to state TV, modern-day Nazis are not necessarily antisemitic at all, but anti-Russian, which apparently means Russians are the new Jews or something.
The propagandists on state TV, which has become a cauldron of foaming rage and historic victimhood during two months of war in Ukraine, are not letting up. On Thursday, on Vladimir Solovyov’s nightly show on Rossiya-1, a guest explained the new definition of Nazism.
“Nazism doesn’t necessarily mean antisemitism, as the Americans keep concocting. It can be anti-Slavic, anti-Russian,” said Solovyov, a sanctioned Kremlin propagandist who has had two villas seized on Italy's Lake Como.
“Of course,” replied political scientist Elena Ponomareva. “Today we are seeing substantive steps to revive a global Nazi project. And why is this a global Nazi project? Because Ukraine is the place where this revival starts, but not without the support of Great Britain, the United States, the European Union etc...”
Twisting the definition just a bit further, Ponomareva described a process of “antisemitism not just against Russians but against anything connected with Russia”—with Ukraine the spawning ground for a new army of “Orcs” including those members of the Azov Regiment fighting to the end at Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant.
The debate on the meaning of Nazism is more than just a sideshow for Kremlin ideologists. Since sending in his army in tanks and trucks into Ukraine bearing a Swastika-style “Z” insignia, Putin’s assertion of political control inside Russia itself has come straight out of the fascist textbook. Those who are not with us must be against us, is the refrain—and since we are fighting Nazis our enemies must also be considered Nazis.
Kamil Galeev, a Russian historian and fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center think tank whose Twitter threads have become a must-read during the conflict, said that for Putin’s propagandists the term Nazi “is first and foremost a racial or cultural traitor who could be Russian but refused to”—what is sometimes called a “vyrus’” or Russian-hating Russian.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-propagandists-explain-new-meaning
-of-nazism-and-its-got-nothing-to-do-with-jews
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American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:I read your list and laughed. You react backwards to everything, Signym. I asked myself 'Are there others like Signym?' There are! Here:
Originally posted by SignyM:
American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
Why Do Russians Never Smile? Finally, an explanation for Bitchy Resting Face Nation.
By Olga Khazan https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/culture-and-smilin
g/483827/
Here’s something that has always puzzled me, growing up in the U.S. as a child of Russian parents. Whenever I or my friends were having our photos taken, we were told to say “cheese” and smile. But if my parents also happened to be in the photo, they were stone-faced. So were my Russian relatives, in their vacation photos.
So why is this? Why do some societies not encourage casual smiling? I got my answer, or at least part of one, when I stumbled across a new paper by Kuba Krys, a psychologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Krys focused on a cultural phenomenon called “uncertainty avoidance.” Cultures that are low on this scale tend to have social systems—courts, health-care systems, safety nets, and so forth—that are unstable. Therefore, people there view the future as unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Smiling is a sign of certainty and confidence, so when people in those countries smile, they might seem odd. Why would you smile when fate is an invisible wolf waiting to shred you? You might, in those “low-UA” countries, even be considered stupid for smiling.
Krys also hypothesized that smiling in corrupt countries would be, um, frowned upon. When everyone’s trying to pull one over on each other, you don’t know if someone’s smiling with good intentions, or because they’re trying to trick you.
To test this theory, Krys had thousands of people in 44 different countries judge a series of eight smiling and non-smiling faces on a scale of honesty and intelligence. He compared their answers to the country’s rankings of uncertainty avoidance from a 2004 study of 62 societies and ratings of corruption.
He found that in countries like Germany, smiling faces were rated as significantly more intelligent than non-smiling people. But in—you guessed it—Russia, the smiling faces were considered significantly less intelligent. Even after controlling for other factors, like the economy, there was a strong correlation between how unpredictable a society was and the likelihood they would consider smiling unintelligent.
Ranking countries in order of their uncertainty avoidance can be kind of fraught. Confusingly, there’s an entire other ranking system of uncertainty avoidance, designed by a different researcher named Geert Hofstede in the 1980s, and the two rankings have completely different results. You know what they say about trying to understand Russia with the mind alone, and apparently questionnaires aren’t a whole lot better.
Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
No ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
She stands alone, unique –
In Russia, one can only believe. – Fyodor Tyutchev
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Tyutchev
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SECOND:
I read your list and laughed. You react backwards to everything, Signym.
Quote:So, you're saying that
Originally posted by SignyM:
American propagandists explain the new meanings of
Propaganda, fake news (anything "they" say)
True news (anything "we" say)
Sex (there are many!)
Extremists (anyone not onboard with the Biden* agenda)
Nazis (Russians)
Hitler (Putin)
Democracy (government by money)
Inflation (growth!)
Etc etc
Our M$M DOESN'T define their own news as "true" and everything else as "fake" conspiracy theory, but diligently considers all points of view and conducts it's own thorough investigations?
Putin ISN'T some sort of strongman "new Hitler" but is instead a wise President defending Russians security?
Genetically there are almost always two sexes (XX and XY) with only rare mixups (XXX, XXY, etc)?
Russians are NOT racist brutes but civilized well-informed citizens of the world?
People who disagree with the Biden* agenda are not neo-Confederate white supremacists or traitors, but patriots who love the USA and want to see it strong, free, and prosperous?
Wow, that's quite a change of heart, SECOND! I'm glad you've come to your senses!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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