Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Your stupidity is disturbing.
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Quote:His disturbance is stupid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your stupidity is disturbing.
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Quote:Your reaction to news out of Ukraine is very telling about who you are. I saw the same about news out of Vietnam in 1969. In my little corner of East Texas, the Trumptards still remember the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, but they remember it for the rank injustice when Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted for murder.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:His disturbance is stupid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your stupidity is disturbing.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
The Trumptards I'm familiar with, at least the ones who remember, were pleased that President Nixon freed Lt. Calley. Putin would probably do the same for Russia's version of Lt. Calley if a Russian military court should convict somebody for massacring Ukrainians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%BB%B9_Lai_massacre
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Russia won't leave in defeat until at least 2023, so there is a similarity to the long time lag between the US invading Vietnam and leaving.
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 second:Quote:Your reaction to news
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:His disturbance is stupid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your stupidity is disturbing.
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It's not news.
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SECOND: Your reaction to news
SIX: It's not news.
Indeed. SECOND posts lies, propaganda, and disinfo.
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SECOND, why was it that you volunteered for Vietnam? You never did explain that ginormously stupid mistake. A war, BTW, that was prosecuted and expanded BY DEMOCRATS AND ENDED BY A REPUBLICAN.
As far as I can tell, all you've ever done in your life was replace one belief system (Jehova's Witless) with another ("I hate everybody that I project my original mistake onto").
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Ukraine’s chiefs warn of a looming Russian offensive and the critical months that lie ahead
Russia is massing men and arms for a new offensive. As soon as January, but more likely in the spring, it could launch a big attack from Donbas in the east, from the south or even from Belarus, a puppet state in the north. Russian troops will aim to drive back Ukrainian forces and could even stage a second attempt to take Kyiv, the capital.
Those are not our words, but the assessment of the head of Ukraine’s armed forces, General Valery Zaluzhny. In an unprecedented series of briefings within the past fortnight the general, along with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, and General Oleksandr Syrsky, the head of its ground forces, warned us of the critical few months ahead. "The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops," General Zaluzhny told us. "I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv." Western sources say that Russia’s commander, General Sergey Surovikin, has always seen this as a multi-year conflict.
This is not the view outside Ukraine. In the freezing mud, the conflict is thought to be deadlocked. There has been almost no movement for a month along the 1,000km or so of battlefront. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, Britain’s most senior officer, this week said that, right now, a shortage of artillery shells means Russia’s scope for ground operations is "rapidly diminishing".
The appearance of stalemate is feeding new interest in peace talks. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, America’s Joe Biden and (for very different reasons) the Russian aggressor, Vladimir Putin, have all in recent days talked about a diplomatic solution. Many in the West, appalled at the suffering, and, more selfishly, wearying of high energy prices, would welcome this. But Ukraine’s commanders argue that it should not happen too soon, and they are right.
If Ukraine sought to stop the war today, freezing the battle lines where they are, the Russians could prepare better for the next attack. Mr Putin’s generals have been pushing on with their programme of training and deploying newly mobilised troops and retooling industry to help the war effort—including, say Ukrainian commanders, by producing artillery shells. A freeze would repeat the mistake of the three years leading up to the invasion on February 24th 2022. In that time Mr Putin talked endlessly to the West’s leaders, who indulged him, while all the while readying his armies for invasion.
The West’s highest responsibility is to ensure that any Russian counter-offensive fails. For that, the supply of weapons must increase, and fast. Ukraine has used HIMARS, a rocket system the Americans have been supplying since June, to devastating effect against Russian ammunition dumps and command-and-control centres, allowing the rapid advance first in the north-east and then in the south. But Russia has moved many such targets back out of range of Ukraine’s HIMARS batteries. So Ukraine needs more powerful ordnance, like the ATACMS missiles that could hit targets at least twice as far away. And it needs lots of them, as well as regular ammunition and artillery of all kinds; plus tanks and helicopters and much else, too.
Ukraine also needs help repelling Russian attacks on civilian electrical, water and heating systems. These are aimed at wrecking Ukraine’s economy as well as battering the morale of Ukrainian troops on the front line, who are worried about their families back home.
As General Zaluzhny explains, Ukraine is running low on stocks of ammunition for its existing defence systems (mostly Soviet-era anti-aircraft kit being repurposed for use against missiles). It also needs many more, and better, anti-missile defences; the American Patriots that now seem to be forthcoming will be a huge boost, but training soldiers to use them takes time and they should have been supplied months ago.
If Ukraine is to emerge from this conflict as a thriving democracy, even air defence will not be enough: it also needs to recapture more territory. Alth
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Quote:President Kennedy gave permission to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of South Vietnam. That overthrow became an assassination, showing Kennedy to be just as bad as the President with the worst judgment, Andrew Johnson, April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND: Your reaction to news
SIX: It's not news.
Indeed. SECOND posts lies, propaganda, and disinfo.
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SECOND, why was it that you volunteered for Vietnam? You never did explain that ginormously stupid mistake. A war, BTW, that was prosecuted and expanded BY DEMOCRATS AND ENDED BY A REPUBLICAN.
As far as I can tell, all you've ever done in your life was replace one belief system (Jehova's Witless) with another ("I hate everybody that I project my original mistake onto").
Signym, did you not understand that thanks to Kennedy's (and LBJ's and Nixon's) bad judgment and over-weaned pride, the US destroyed hundreds of billions of dollars in Vietnamese real estate and yet still lost? In contrast, Vietnam destroyed no US real estate and yet won. Putin, with judgment just as bad as Kennedy's, has put Russia on the same path to a loss after destroying hundreds of billions in Ukrainian real estate. It is possible Russia will continue fighting Ukraine after Putin is as dead as Kennedy, but this war will end with Russia losing to a smaller, weaker country because losing is NOT an existential threat to Russia. Eventually, some replacement for Putin will use good judgment and withdraw from Ukraine. It is too bad that Putin is too proud to admit his mistake and then rectify it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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SECOND:
Define "winning".
Define "losing".
BTW, why DID you volunteer for Vietnam? Can you explain your rationale, what was the winning argument that convinced you that it was necessary, or at least a good thing to do?
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Second was born no earlier than 2 decades after Vietnam ended.
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