Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:That Russia Today article Signym quotes was dated April 7th. The Kremlin's operation did NOT end real soon nor within "days".
Originally posted by THG:Quote:Poor signym, her lies are being exposed in real time.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Kremlin anticipates operation to end soon, maybe within "days".
https://www.rt.com/russia/553495-operation-ukraine-end-days-kremlin/
T
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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.
I have a better idea comrade signym. Why don't you go and teach the Russians how to fight because they obliviously do not know how too.
T
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Quote:
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
My gawd, did she actually type that nonsense??? These 4 are laughable. I hope she is getting paid well.
expose the west's hatred of Russia and Russians and solidify the Russian population
--- Yeah, like they needed to kill Ukrainians to figure that out. Almost everyone hates Russians, and even more than ever now. Look at the scum they have for friends. "Solidifying Russian population" is being done by Russian police locking citizens up if they speak out against the *special operations* er, WAR.
expose the risky nature of dollar-denominated assets
--- because rubbles are now so much safer???
split the world and commit China to the Russian side
--- you mean make China think they could take down on Russia?
fully divorce Russia's economy and finances from the west
--- too funny! YOu owe me a keyboard! You mean destroy Russia's economy with sanctions imposed by the civilized first world? Check!
She's gotten even loonier.
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NY Times Russia/Ukraine updates today - so far it's one of the more consistently objective sources I have found online:
Welcome to the Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, your guide to the latest news and analysis about the conflict.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it was actively negotiating with both sides to end fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Ukraine took offline over the weekend.
Reversal of fortune
Ukrainian forces blitzed the northeast over the weekend, driving Russian troops from more than 1,000 square miles and completely reshaping the six-month-old war in a matter of days.
When we reported on Ukraine’s early gains on Friday, the reality on the ground was still not confirmed. But now there is no doubt: A grinding stalemate has been transformed in Ukraine’s favor, giving Russia its most humiliating defeat since the initial stages of the war.
The lightning gains, which at times seemed to have surprised both sides, have lifted morale in Ukraine, left Russia’s leadership with few good options and increased Ukrainian calls for more Western weapons.
“Ukrainian forces have inflicted a major operations defeat on Russia,” said the Institute for the Study of War, a group in Washington that tracks the war.
The advances in the Kharkiv region included the recapture of the town of Izium, a railway hub that has been a key military stronghold for Russian forces.
The Russian military acknowledged that its forces had pulled back to the eastern side of the Oskil River, about 10 miles east of Izium. Russian forces retaliated with airstrikes that knocked out power, water and other civilian infrastructure.
How it happened
The advance was enabled by a misinformation campaign by the Ukrainian military, which signaled throughout August that it was readying a counterattack on another side of the country, near the southern region of Kherson.
This led to Russia pulling troops from other occupied regions to reinforce defense lines in the south, with analysts estimating that about 15,000 to 25,000 soldiers had been deployed there by mid-August.
The decision by Ukraine to tout its counteroffensive in the south before striking in the northeast is a standard technique for misdirection used by the American Special Operations troops, who have been training the Ukrainians since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine was also aided by advanced weapons from its Western allies and increased intelligence sharing with the U.S., which provided information on command posts, ammunition depots and other key nodes in the Russian military lines.
Earlier in the war, American intelligence officials said they often had a better understanding of Russia’s military plans than of Ukraine’s. But as Ukraine started to plan its counteroffensive, senior leaders in Kyiv overcame their reluctance to share strategy with the U.S.
Finally, the blitzkrieg appears to have come about partly because of persistent morale problems in the Russian military. In the village of Zaliznychne, locals told The Washington Post that the Russians fled in disarray, disguised as locals and on stolen bicycles.
“What really surprises us,” Lieutenant General Yevhen Moisiuk, the deputy commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, told Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic in Kyiv, “is that the Russian troops are not fighting back.”
What’s next
In the northeast, Ukraine needs to consolidate the rapid gains it has made, the country’s defense minister said.
And despite the feint on the southern front, intense fighting continues there, with the Ukrainian military claiming to have recaptured nearly 500 square miles in the region in recent days.
Thousands of Russian soldiers west of the Dnipro River appear to be increasingly isolated as Ukrainian attacks erode Russian defenses and shell bridges over the river, cutting the Russians off from resupply. Ukrainian troops have also stepped up efforts to get Russian soldiers to surrender.
Videos and audio have cropped up on social media in recent days purporting to show Ukrainia
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Russian Top Gun in action -- turn on sound: https://imgur.com/gallery/5ECmnAv
One commenter explained the crash: "I guess he went into the tailing downdraft of his frontman. That's why you need extensive training for these formations."
Video shows Russian fighter jet crashing after takeoff in Crimea
https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/russian-fighter-jet-crashes-after-takeof
f-in-crimea/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Putin Has a New Opposition—and It’s Furious at Defeat in Ukraine
Right-wing nationalists are spreading a dangerous “stab-in-the-back” myth to explain Russia’s crushing defeats.
By Alexey Kovalev at Foreign Policy
A new Russian protest movement is coalescing, but it’s neither pro-democracy nor anti-war. Instead, it’s the most extreme of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters, who have grown increasingly furious at the unfolding military disaster for Russia in the six-month-long war in Ukraine. They want Putin to escalate the war, use more devastating weapons, and hit Ukrainian civilians even more mercilessly. And they’ve openly attacked the Russian military and political leadership for supposedly holding back Russia’s full might—even as they rarely mention Putin by name.
Their push to escalate the war, including widespread demands to use nuclear weapons, is dangerous in itself. But by creating a fantasy world in which a supposedly all-powerful Russian army is being defeated by domestic enemies—instead of by superior Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their own land with modern tactics and Western weapons—the movement has potentially disturbing implications for a postwar and possibly post-Putin Russia. In fact, the narrative sounds a lot like the Dolchstosslegende, the German “stab-in-the-back” conspiracy theory that blamed the country’s defeat in World War I on nefarious enemies at home, including Jews. This narrative of military defeat became an integral part of the propaganda that brought the Nazis to power.
The promoters of the Russian stab-in-the-back myth aren’t a single party, movement, or group. Rather, the protesters are a loose coalition—mostly active online—of far-right ideologues, militant extremists, veterans of the 2014 Donbas war, Wagner Group mercenaries, bloggers, war reporters running their own Telegram channels, and individual Russian state media staff. Some are soldiers or mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, and their channels have doubled as recruitment tools. Others already had a modest following before the war by promoting different causes, some obscure but mostly nationalist or right-wing issues: restoring the Soviet Union’s rule over Eastern Europe, building a new Russian empire, or promoting “Russia for the Russians.”
Their loyalty to the Kremlin varies from veneration of and complete submission to Putin as a godlike historical figure to activism in right-wing opposition movements. But unlike the Kremlin’s mouthpieces on state television and in its troll factories, members of this amorphous war escalation camp are united in their scathing criticism of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
Their demand comes down to this: They want more war crimes—no mercy, no remorse, no pretense to even caring about civilian deaths until Ukraine is completely subdued and the very idea of Ukrainian-ness erased forever. Frustrated by the astonishing, unexpected defeat on Ukraine’s Kharkiv front, many pro-war bloggers demanded a swift retribution without regard for civilian deaths. Some recommended a nuclear strike on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to decapitate the government; popular blogger Maxim Fomin (who blogs as Vladlen Tatarsky), called for a nuclear warning strike against Ukraine’s Snake Island. Others called for “total war” against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. When the Russian military appeared to oblige by launching missiles at several Ukrainian cities’ electricity grids overnight, an orgy of gloating ensued on Russian pro-war channels.
The level of hatred and derision toward everything Ukrainian in their blog posts is difficult to convey. Ukrainians are described as illegal squatters on Russian imperial lands or followers of the Nazi bandits supposedly governing in Kyiv. Their cities must be “hammered into the Stone Age” while massacres against civilians are gleefully referred to as “pig-butchering.” Even as they throw the Nazi slur at Ukrainians, these Russians’ views are not only genocidal in ways that recall the worst crimes of the 20th century but also, in s
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' Massive explosion in Kharkiv / Kharkov. '
https://twitter.com/UnerkanntW/status/1569303120529838081
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The US has sent 126 M777 cannons and more than 800,000 rounds of 155 mm ammunition to Ukraine as of early September.
The Army recently put out a market survey to identify US and Canadian companies that can manufacture up to 12,000 M795 155 mm high-explosive shells a month. It's not clear how many shells the Pentagon is aiming to produce.
The M795 is the standard shell for Army and Marine 155 mm howitzers and would be the prime ammunition for any US-designed 155 mm howitzers sent to Ukraine, which is already using M777 towed 155 mm guns sent by the US and Canada.
To the shell manufacturers, the government would provide "projectile metal parts, rotating band covers, wooden pallets, lifting plugs, IMX-101 explosive and TNT/PBXN-9 supplementary charges." However, the contractor would need to procure "bulk TNT" on its own.
The M795 is an unguided shell first deployed in 1999. It is 103 pounds and 33 inches long and has an attached fuze.
The high-fragmentation steel projectile is armed with 23.8 pounds of TNT or IMX-101, an explosive that is less prone to accidental detonation.
The M795 has a kill radius of about 55 yards, though fragments can inflict damage beyond that distance. The M795 has a range of about 14 miles.
Ukrainian forces were already firing 6,000 shells a day in June.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-us-has-given-ukraine-nearly-a
-million-155-mm-artillery-shells-now-it-s-looking-for-us-companies-to-build-more-of-them/ar-AA11NcfL
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Eight-Second Video Shows Ukraine's Astounding Gains From Russia Over The Last Week
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/volodymyr-zelenskyy-video-russi
a-ukraine_uk_63207b7de4b027aa405f8fa5
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Originally posted by second:
Russia’s inevitable defeat, deep economic malaise, and loss of great-power status at the hands of a country whose existence the Kremlin didn’t even recognize will be fertile ground for extremists. That counts double should Putin’s regime fall and a struggle for the future course of Russia ensue. If the pro-war nationalists searching for enemies to blame are the only opposition left in Russia, the world may be going down a dark and dangerous track.
Putin is getting squeezed on both sides. Something's gotta give - or someone.
https://puck.news/fear-and-loathing-in-moscow/
The former queen mother of the Russian opposition, Evgenia Markovna Albats, now living in exile, reflects on the terror that drove her compatriots from the capital, the contempt among those left behind, and the oligarchs who are on the verge of revolt.
Julia Ioffe: What are things like in Moscow?
Evgenia Markovna Albats - Moscow is unbearable. I couldn’t stand being there. In the square where I live, I saw the PriceWaterhouseCoopers sign come down and the Starbucks close and the office towers empty out. Even the faces have changed. They’re completely different. You suddenly see these fat men with beer bellies and t-shirts with Z’s on them. It’s astonishing the speed with which the public has changed. Some people still recognize me on the streets and thank me, while others literally spit at me.
There’s this absolute generational divide. There is, for example, the 35-year-old couple I met in Pskov. They are horrified by what’s happening but their parents are for the war and think they are being paid by the American government to be against it. Meanwhile, their children are being taught in school that the way to differentiate real information from fake information is to go on the website of the Ministry of Defense and if the information is on there, then it’s real. If it’s not, it’s fake. I can understand why they would want to save their children from the Russian school system.
Julia Ioffe: What about the older generation? Why do they support the war?
Evgenia Markovna Albats - That is what’s so extraordinary. I keep having these conversations with these people in regional cities, in the markets, and what I find over and over again is that they have relatives in Ukraine, but that they don’t believe their own brothers and sisters. Instead, they believe what the television tells them. I have only one explanation, that they grew up under Soviet rule and they know how important it is to conform, how important it is not to go against the regime, and that if you do what the regime wants, then you’ll get by more or less okay. You might even get a tasty morsel here and there. But if you resist, then everything will be very bad. That is the memory that still sits in these people’s cerebellums, because the K.G.B. is back in power, everyone understands that. And everyone is very, very scared.
Julia Ioffe: People in the U.S. constantly ask me, is this the thing that finally topples Putin? Is this Ukrainian offensive, for example, that brings Putin down? How would you answer this question? And is it a stupid one?
Evgenia Markovna Albats - I don’t think it’s a stupid question, but I do think it’s too early. But if the Ukrainian army continues pushing the Russian army back this successfully and beats them back from Kherson and Melitopol, then they’re well and truly fucked. But here’s the problem: any coup needs a mechanism. You can’t just have one guy among the elites call another guy and say, Hey, let’s go slit VVP’s throat. It doesn’t work like that. When Nikita Khrushchev overthrew Lavrentiy Beria, and when Leonid Brezhnev overthrew Khrushchev, there was a mechanism and it was the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They could say, Here is our collective decision. No such mechanism exists today. That’s the first thing.
The second thing is trust. No one in Russia trusts anyone else. Hugo Chavez could walk into his barracks and say, Comrades, let
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