Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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My my...
What a world of difference a weekend makes.
Oh wait... Nevermind.
Nobody still gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.
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Inside the Ukrainian resistance
In Kherson, Russian collaborators are being hunted down
BY David Patrikarakos, July 9, 2022
Right now, the global media is filled with talk of the battle for the Donbas. But it is in the south, with its long coastline and large grain stores, where the war for Ukraine will be won or lost. And it is in Kherson, now under Russian occupation, where we will find the answers to so many questions vital to that victory or defeat. Can the Ukrainian army fight back with sufficient effectiveness to retake a major city from the Russians? Can the country hold out while its grain is stolen and its ports are blockaded? And, perhaps most importantly of all, how real and how strong is Ukrainian resistance under Russian occupation?
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“We need to understand that the situation is different across the region,” Sergiy Danylov, Deputy Director for the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, tells me. He continues: “The south and west parts of the Kherson region are a catastrophe. There have been mass killings and rapes — it’s a second Bucha there. Some villages were just totally demolished by the Russians.”
More at https://unherd.com/2022/07/inside-the-ukrainian-resistance/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Since Bucha was a staged massacre/ false flag, that must mean everything he's saying about Kherson is bullshit too.
Originally posted by second:
Inside the Ukrainian resistance
In Kherson, Russian collaborators are being hunted down
BY David Patrikarakos, July 9, 2022
Right now, the global media is filled with talk of the battle for the Donbas. But it is in the south, with its long coastline and large grain stores, where the war for Ukraine will be won or lost. And it is in Kherson, now under Russian occupation, where we will find the answers to so many questions vital to that victory or defeat. Can the Ukrainian army fight back with sufficient effectiveness to retake a major city from the Russians? Can the country hold out while its grain is stolen and its ports are blockaded? And, perhaps most importantly of all, how real and how strong is Ukrainian resistance under Russian occupation?
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“We need to understand that the situation is different across the region,” Sergiy Danylov, Deputy Director for the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, tells me. He continues: “The south and west parts of the Kherson region are a catastrophe. There have been mass killings and rapes — it’s a second Bucha there.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Former CIA analyst for Russian affairs, Ray McGovern, on Ukraine and Russia
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I see the Democrats are still cheering on literal Nazis in Ukraine.
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Of all the western analysts out there (Duran, Scott Ritter, Dreizen, Saker, Martyanov etc etc) Larry Johnson has been the most accurate
https://sonar21.com/
I thought this was a funny title:
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Russia Grinds On and Ukraine Chases a Squirrel
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Quote:After the Bucha Massacre, Russian soldier Viktor Bulatov wrote on social media “We need to arrange a Bucha in every khokhol* (slur for Ukrainians) city from Kharkiv to Lviv". Today, the authorities in his hometown confirmed that he has been killed in battle by the Ukrainian Army
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since Bucha was a staged massacre/ false flag, that must mean everything he's saying about Kherson is bullshit too.
5:24 PM · Jul 9, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1545896619484348416
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Warning on cigs in Ukraine now says you should quit smoking so you get to see how Putin dies.
5:02 AM · Jul 9, 2022·Twitter for Android
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1545710060525047809
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Originally posted by second:
Warning on cigs in Ukraine now says you should quit smoking so you get to see how Putin dies.
5:02 AM · Jul 9, 2022·Twitter for Android
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1545710060525047809
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Hmmm...
I've been smoking for 26 years now.
Phillip Morris must not feel too good about the chances of anything other than natural causes killing Putin.
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Desperate for Recruits, Russia Launches a ‘Stealth Mobilization’
July 10, 2022, 12:01 a.m. ET
Leery of a national draft for the Ukraine war, the Kremlin is offering cash bonuses and employing strong arm tactics.
Four Russian veterans of the war in Ukraine recently published short videos online to complain about what they called their shabby treatment after returning to the Russian region of Chechnya, after six weeks on the battlefield.
One claimed to have been denied a promised payment of nearly $2,000. Another grumbled that a local hospital declined to remove shrapnel lodged in his body.
Their public pleas for help got results, but not the kind they were hoping for. Instead, an aide to Ramzan Kadyrov, the autocrat who runs Chechnya, berated them at length on television as ingrates and forced them to recant. “I was paid much more than they promised,” said Nikolai Lipa, the young Russian who had claimed that he had been cheated.
Ordinarily, these sort of complaints might be ignored, but the swift rebuke underscores how Russian officials want to stamp out any criticism about military service in Ukraine. They need more soldiers, desperately, and are already using what some analysts call a ‘‘stealth mobilization’’ to bring in new recruits without resorting to a politically risky national draft.
To make up the manpower shortfall, the Kremlin is relying on a combination of impoverished ethnic minorities, Ukrainians from the separatist territories, mercenaries and militarized National Guard units to fight the war, and promising hefty cash incentives for volunteers.
“Russia has a problem with recruitment and mobilization,” said Kamil Galeev, an independent Russian analyst and former fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington. “It is basically desperate to get more men using any means possible.”
The numbers of battlefield dead and wounded are closely held secrets on both sides. The British military recently estimated the number of dead Russians at 25,000, with tens of thousands more wounded, out of an invasion force of 300,000, including support units.
Yet, President Vladimir V. Putin hobbled the mobilization effort from the beginning, experts said, by refusing to put Russia on a war footing that would have allowed the military to start calling up reserves. Hence, the Kremlin has tried to glue together replacement battalions through other means.
Avoiding a draft for all adult males allows the Kremlin to maintain the fiction that the war is a limited “special military operation,” while also minimizing the risk of the kind of public backlash that spurred the end of previous Russian military debacles, like the one in Afghanistan and the first Chechen war.
The public outcry after Chechnya prompted Russia to ban the use on the battlefield of raw recruits, men aged 18-27 who are required to complete a year of mandatory military service. The revelations that hundreds were deployed in Ukraine anyway, including some of the sailors who died when the Ukrainians sank the Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea fleet, prompted the very outrage from parents that the Kremlin had sought to avoid.
Numerous analysts have raised doubts about how long Russia can sustain its offensive in Ukraine without a general mobilization. Igor Girkin, a military analyst and a frequent critic of the Ukraine strategy, has said that Russia cannot possibly conquer the entire country without one.
But the Kremlin seems determined to avoid taking such a drastic step. Instead, recruitment offices have resorted to calling reservists repeatedly to offer cash incentives for short deployments. Online want ads placed by the regional recruitment offices of the Ministry of Defense also overflow with thousands of postings for those with military specialties. Recent listings on global job sites like Head Hunter included units looking for combat engineers, anyone who could operate a grenade launcher and even the commander for a parachute squadron.
The salaries offered to some volunteers, which can range between $2,000 and $6,000 a month
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