Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Quote:Hahahaha!!!
Originally posted by second:Quote:If Ukraine can regain its old borders from 2014
Originally posted by SignyM:
How? Kiev has few military planes, no long-range artillery and old, slow missiles left in it's arsenal and Russia has decent air defenses.
Unless Kiev resorts to terror action. The Chechens tried it: it did not work well for them.
Not gonna happen, muchacho!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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When, THUGR??
WHEN??
Put your predictions on the line. Set a date. Next month? In six months?
Stop being a weasel.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:Let's do a calculation: Russia sends 250,000 troops to Ukraine. The USA sends $25 billion in ammo to Ukraine. Divide one number by the other gives $100,000 worth of explosives for each Russian. I'm pretty sure it is possible to kill every Russian inside of Ukraine. But then Putin has plenty more Russians to sacrifice for his personal glory. Maybe $25 billion in ammo isn't enough, but the USA has agreed to send $40 billion worth. Maybe that is enough to kill them all and discourage Putin. Only Putin knows how many Russians must die before he changes his mind.
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Hahahaha!!!
Originally posted by second:Quote:If Ukraine can regain its old borders from 2014
Originally posted by SignyM:
How? Kiev has few military planes, no long-range artillery and old, slow missiles left in it's arsenal and Russia has decent air defenses.
Unless Kiev resorts to terror action. The Chechens tried it: it did not work well for them.
Not gonna happen, muchacho!
U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Grows to Historic Proportions — Along With Risks
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/u-s-military-aid-to-ukraine-grows-to-his
toric-proportions-along-with-risks/
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 SignyM:
When, THUGR??
WHEN??
Put your predictions on the line. Set a date. Next month? In six months?
Stop being a weasel.
Are you a total idiot. It's happening now.
T
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Uh huh.
Pretty transparent dodge, THUGR.
You're not fooling anyone.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin said Ukraine should be wiped from the face of the earth, so Putin can't be trusted to remain peaceful after this war has a ceasefire.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sure thing, Z.
Poke the bear. See what happens to you.
Oh yeah? Show me.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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Quote:For the past three months, President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials have been ominously threatening to use nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine. According to Pavel Podvig, the director of the Russian Nuclear Forces Project and a former research fellow at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, now based in Geneva, the long-range ballistic missiles deployed on land and on submarines are Russia’s only nuclear weapons available for immediate use. If Putin decides to attack Ukraine with shorter-range, “tactical” nuclear weapons, they will have to be removed from an Object S site—such as Belgorod-22, just 25 miles from the Ukrainian border—and transported to military bases. It will take hours for the weapons to be made combat-ready, for warheads to be mated with cruise missiles or ballistic missiles, for hydrogen bombs to be loaded on planes. The United States will most likely observe the movement of these weapons in real time: by means of satellite surveillance, cameras hidden beside the road, local agents with binoculars. And that will raise a question of existential importance: What should the United States do?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin said Ukraine should be wiped from the face of the earth, so Putin can't be trusted to remain peaceful after this war has a ceasefire.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sure thing, Z.
Poke the bear. See what happens to you.
Oh yeah? Show me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220823232819/https://www.theatlantic.com
/ideas/archive/2022/06/russia-ukraine-nuclear-weapon-us-response/661315/
Signym, two world leaders constantly make threats to nuke their enemies. One is Kim Jong-un and the other is Putin. Neither is trustworthy. Kim has a 2 km wide demilitarized zone separating him from the world. Russia deserves a 50-mile wide demilitarized zone around it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Russian air force is missing in action. It has made no meaningful effort to halt the twin Ukrainian counteroffensives that kicked off on Aug. 30 in the south and eight days later in the east.
The Russian air force is airborne artillery. Pilots bomb — sight unseen — coordinates that ground commanders provide them, often based on old intelligence. The air force doesn’t track enemy ground troops in real time. It doesn’t free its pilots to hunt the enemy on their own.
As long as the Ukrainians keep moving — and to be clear, they’ve been moving fast since late August — they should be able to stay inside the Russian air force’s targeting processes, and avoid attack.
On those few occasions in the last 10 days that the Russians have launched sorties, pilots have faced stiff Ukrainian air-defenses. The government in Kyiv claimed its forces shot down nine Russian warplanes between Aug. 29 and Sept. 12. Independent analysts scouring social media for photos and videos have confirmed at least five losses, including two Su-25s, two Su-34s and an Su-30.
It’s unclear exactly how the Ukrainians shot down the Russian jets, but The Economist cited Ukrainian sources singling out the German-made Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. Berlin is providing Kyiv 20 of the classic vehicles.
The Gepard is mobile and protected, as it combines the basic chassis of a Leopard tank with a lightly-armored turret. Its twin Oerlikon cannons fire 550 rounds a minute out to a range of three miles. The three-person crew is cued by a turret-mounted radar with a nine-mile range.
The Ukrainians’ Gepards, combined with their other air-defense systems — including long-range S-300s, medium-range Buks and short-range Strelas and shoulder-fired missiles — should top the Russian air force’s list of targets. If it could suppress Ukrainian air-defenses and speed up its targeting cycle, the Russian air arm could become relevant again.
But 200 days into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russian air force still hasn’t made a concerted effort to find, track and attack Ukrainian air-defenses.
Contrast this with the Ukrainian air force’s own SEAD campaign. Ukrainian MiG-29s and Su-27s firing American-made anti-radar missiles have knocked out some Russian air-defense systems and suppressed many more. In essence, scaring their crews into turning off their radars.
Which is one reason why the Ukrainian air force – with its 100 or so surviving jets–is active where the much larger Russian air force — 300 jets just at bases near Ukraine — is idle. Photos and videos from the current counteroffensives depict Ukrainian planes conducting close-air-support missions near the fast-moving front lines.
It’s possible that, with the onset of winter in the next couple months, the front could freeze in place — and Russian commanders might discover that their outdated doctrine is useful again.
But Ukrainian air-defenses might be even more dangerous by then. The United States and Germany both have pledged to Ukraine new and better surface-to-air missiles, which should begin arriving soon.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-air-force-goes-missing-a
t-the-worst-possible-time-during-ukraine-s-counteroffensive/ar-AA11Komb
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 SIGNYM:
Kremlin anticipates operation to end soon, maybe within "days".
https://www.rt.com/russia/553495-operation-ukraine-end-days-kremlin/
The only military onjective that is within "days" is the destruction of a large part of Ukraine's army in SE Ukraine.
Meanwhile, I've been looking for General Gerasimov in the news, and he is nowhere to be found, indicationg a possible planning/military intelligence failure. (Based on human intel disinfo about the morale of the Ukie army and/or the "dug in" nature of Ukie positions).
I have no doubt that Russia could "win" the entire Ukraine, but what would "winning" look like? If Mariupol is any indication it would require Russian army losses, the destruction of alot of civilian infrastructure (which Russia would be responsible for fixing) and overseeing a resentful people. Cost v reward doesn't pencil out.
I think Russia will aim for achieving most of its goals by splitting off SE and coastal Ukraine and negotiating neutrality from "rump" Ukraine. Being practical.
Meanwhile, if Russia's other goals in this hybrid war were to
expose the west's hatred of Russia and Russians and solidify the Russian populatin
expose the risky nature of dollar-denominated assets
split the world and commit China to the Russian side
fully divorce Russia's economy and finances from the west
I'd say ... job well done.
Poor signym, her lies are being exposed in real time.
T
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