Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Whatever.
Meanwhile, SECOND, you haven't defined "winning" and "losing".… important concepts in war, dontcha think?
Also, the only choices you could think of were college, Burger King, and the military? What made the military so meaningful? And, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objectors? Or do I have that wrong?
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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 THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You and Volodymyr Zelenskyy are about the same age. He was Born 25 January 1978 (age 44).
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Fuck Zelensky.
Children 2
Spouse Olena Kiyashko (m. 2003)
Occupation Politician • actor • comedian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
6ix, if you could tell jokes like Zelenskyy, you could have an expansive life rather than your present-day minimalist one.
Russia invades Ukraine. Many countries offered Zelenskyy a ride out. He said I don't need a ride I need amunation.
Jack says fuck Zelensky. That says it all. Jack=ass=loser.
T
Zelensky is a cross-dressing, child raping cunt that Obama put in charge of Ukraine in 2014.
You, Ted, are just a cunt.
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Quote:Still making a few points here.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Meanwhile, SECOND, you haven't defined "winning" and "losing".… important concepts in war, dontcha think?
Also, the only choices you could think of were college, Burger King, and the military? What made the military so meaningful? And, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objectors? Or do I have that wrong?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
First of all, if you're at all telling the truth, it sounds like you were just rebelling against your upbringing. You went into the military unformed, rootless,morally adrift, and you absorbed the lessons of Vietnam and came out a monster.
Why you keep virtue signaling when nobody believes a damn thing you say is beyond me.
But enuf of you.
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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 SIGNYM:Quote:Still making a few points here.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Meanwhile, SECOND, you haven't defined "winning" and "losing".… important concepts in war, dontcha think?
Also, the only choices you could think of were college, Burger King, and the military? What made the military so meaningful? And, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objectors? Or do I have that wrong?
First of all, if you're at all telling the truth, it sounds like you were just rebelling against your upbringing. You went into the military unformed, rootless,morally adrift, and you absorbed the lessons of Vietnam and came out a monster.
Why you keep virtue signaling when nobody believes a damn thing you say is beyond me.
But enuf of you.
Wow TWO, look at Signyms' distain for anyone who’s served our country. Are you surprised, I’m not? She’s a Polish Russian Collaborator. It runs in her family.
T
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Quote:I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but I did learn a few lessons that my Trump-voting relatives cannot comprehend. Number one lesson: if your life is going wrong (alcohol, tobacco, obesity, money problems, wife threatens them with divorce for their adultery, boss fires them for fighting on the job, police arrest them, etc.) it is not the fault of a political party or Satan or some group manipulating their life. It is their own fault. My Trump-voting relatives refuse to believe they are at fault.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Meanwhile, SECOND, you haven't defined "winning" and "losing".… important concepts in war, dontcha think?
Also, the only choices you could think of were college, Burger King, and the military? What made the military so meaningful? And, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objectors? Or do I have that wrong?
In extreme contrast to what I know is the truth about life, my East Texas relatives who voted for Trump will lie about their bad actions (for example claim they weren't driving recklessly when they were). And they will adamantly refuse to believe they are in control of what happens to them since there is a conspiracy run by Democrats and law enforcement and debt collectors to oppress my relatives who only want to be free to do whatever pleases them without consequences for their actions. They are antipathetic to being good Christians, but in deep confusion extending to their very core, they falsely claim to be Christians who are trying to be good. Ha-ha! I laugh. My Trump-voting relatives are self-deluding, much the same as Russians are about their own actions.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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As one senior NATO intelligence official put it, Russian generals “acknowledge the incompetence, lack of coordination, lack of training. They all recognize these problems.” Still, they seem confident of an “eventual victory” because, the official said, “Putin believes this is a game of chicken between him and the West, and he believes the West will blink first.”
Mr. Putin has already shown a talent for the long game, agreed Mr. Tinkov, the banking magnate who turned against the Kremlin, noting how the Russian leader had spent decades bringing Russia’s elite to heel.
“He slowly outplayed everyone, because the thing was: It was like he had unlimited time,” Mr. Tinkov said. “He is still behaving in this war as though he has an unlimited amount of time — as though he plans to live for 200 years.”
Domestically, the pressure on Mr. Putin has been fairly muted. For all the losses his army has endured, there have been no significant uprisings among Russian troops. Even the newly drafted continue to go without serious protest.
Aleksandr, the soldier drafted into the 155th, is still enraged at the way he and his comrades were dropped into Ukraine with few bullets for their aging rifles and forced to live in a cowshed with only a few meal packets to share. His commanders flat-out lied, he said, telling them they were going for additional training — when in fact they were sent to the front lines, where most were killed or grievously wounded.
After months of fighting, Russia announced last month that it had finally captured Pavlivka, but soldiers said it came at tremendous cost.
Aleksandr had been drafted in September along with three close childhood friends, he said. He and another suffered concussions. One lost both legs. The fourth is missing.
But when he is discharged from the hospital, he said, he fully expects to return to Ukraine, and would do so willingly.
“This is how we are raised,” he said. “We grew up in our country understanding that it doesn’t matter how our country treats us. Maybe this is bad. Maybe this is good. Maybe there are things we do not like about our government.”
But, he added, “when a situation like this arises, we get up and go.”
More at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-put
in-war-failures-ukraine.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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‘Wiped out’: War in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade
The bloody fate of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is emblematic of Vladimir Putin’s derailed invasion plans.
By late May, fewer than 900 soldiers were left in two battalion tactical groups that had departed the brigade’s garrison in Russia with more than 1,400. The brigade’s commander was badly wounded. And some of those still being counted as part of the unit were listed as hospitalized, missing or “refuseniks” unwilling to fight.
The brigade’s collapse in part reflects the difficulty of its assignment in the war. But a closer examination of the 200th shows that its fate was also shaped by many of the same forces that derailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion plans — endemic corruption, strategic miscalculations and a Kremlin failure to grasp the true capabilities of its own military.
The 200th entered the conflict with better training, newer equipment and more experience — including prior combat missions in Ukraine — than most other units. The brigade has been degraded from within. The skilled troops and professional officers sent into battle at the start of the war with state-of-the-art T-80BVM tanks have given way to an assemblage of poorly trained conscripts pressed into service with paltry or outdated gear.
The 200th had shown that it could be both lethally effective and fatally undisciplined. The erratic performance is characteristic of a unit that Western security officials describe as one of Russia’s higher-performing brigades but nevertheless plagued by systemic rot and dysfunction.
Attached to the elite Northern Fleet, 200th troops get special gear and training for Arctic conditions and are often first in line for Russia’s most advanced equipment. In 2017, the brigade was the first in Russia’s armed services to receive new T-80BVM tanks rolling off assembly lines.
And yet Westerners who ventured to Pechenga before Russia restricted travel describe the base as a grim garrison where officers neglected troops’ morale and soldiers could seem clueless about the brigade’s identity and mission.
Thomas Nilsen, editor of the Barents Observer — a Norwegian news site that closely follows the 200th — described an encounter several years ago with soldiers at a bar near the base who were oblivious to their proximity to NATO, until he pulled up a map on his phone to show them.
In 2020, three servicemen died — including one by suicide and another by choking on vomit — and several were injured in incidents that raised concerns about brigade conditions and safety, according to an investigation by the Russian news outlet Sever.Realii. One soldier was blinded and another reportedly lost a hand while training with a miniature drone armed with high-power explosives.
That same year, a warrant officer in the 200th posted videos on social media accusing superiors of neglect and corruption. One showed scenes of squalor in apartments reserved for officers, with rusted appliances, mold creeping up walls, and piles of trash stuffed into unoccupied units.
“This is how ensigns and officers of the Russian army live!” the warrant officer, Mikhail Balenko, said on the video, describing the compound with an expletive. “The brigade commander does not even come here. He doesn’t care how his subordinates live.”
In another video, Balenko accused commanders of stealing supplies, bribing military inspectors and selling fuel meant for brigade vehicles. Balenko did not respond to attempts to reach him for comment.
The war appears to have exacerbated these problems of morale and cohesion.
Dozens of soldiers in Pechenga refused to deploy during the initial months of the invasion, according to officials from Western security services. It’s unclear what happened to them.
Ukrainian commanders described battles in which 200th soldiers wouldn’t fight or defied orders. In mid-July, a Ukrainian reconnaissance unit captured audio of a Russian tank commander in Hrakove screaming at subordinates.
“Should I show you how to kill
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Still making a few points here.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Whatever.
Meanwhile, SECOND, you haven't defined "winning" and "losing".… important concepts in war, dontcha think?
Also, the only choices you could think of were college, Burger King, and the military? What made the military so meaningful? And, aren't Jehovah's Witnesses conscientious objectors? Or do I have that wrong?
First of all, if you're at all telling the truth, it sounds like you were just rebelling against your upbringing. You went into the military unformed, rootless,morally adrift, and you absorbed the lessons of Vietnam and came out a monster.
Why you keep virtue signaling when nobody believes a damn thing you say is beyond me.
But enuf of you.
Wow TWO, look at Signyms' distain for anyone who’s served our country. Are you surprised, I’m not? She’s a Polish Russian Collaborator. It runs in her family.
T
That's not what she did. She's calling out Second for being an entity of hate.
Second didn't serve in the military anyhow. Nothing about his online persona is real.
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Not true, THUGR. I find Brian Berletic (New Atlas), who was a Marine and is now a geopolitical analyst, to be an honorable person.
I've worked with and known vets, some who served in Vietnam and others in Iraq (I disagreed with both wars) and they were honest people. My BIL was in the navy. One of my nieces and her husband were in the army. They are we all decent people, even tho some had PTSD.
My problem is with SECOND specifically and individually because he's a malicious asshole who - despite knowing exactly who I am- spent years puking on the "Russian troll" libel and who threatens and harasses people IRL. He's dishonest, dishonorable, and a sociopath.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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You'll have to forgive Ted.
His brain works in the vein of "Hitler liked dogs. If you like dogs then you are Hitler."
He's simply projecting his 1st grade world view and critical thinking skills onto you.
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