Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Minsk
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Originally posted by second:Quote:"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.
Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.
They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.
Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.
You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.
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Quote:Just now I picked up my phone and said one word: "Minsk" to Google voice typing, with absolutely no context to help decipher what I said. And guess what appeared on the screen? It wasn't "MISSJ". It was "Minsk". If Signym can't type, I am pretty sure Signym can talk all day and give excruciatingly long defenses of Putin, Russia, Trump, etc. Tell everybody how wonderful Russia is, Signym, and that the world would be better if Russia, not the USA, was the richest country in the world, rather than Russia being the biggest and stupidest.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.
Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.
They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.
Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.
You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Just now I picked up my phone and said one word: "Minsk" to Google voice typing, with absolutely no context to help decipher what I said. And guess what appeared on the screen? It wasn't "MISSJ". It was "Minsk". If Signym can't type, I am pretty sure Signym can talk all day and give excruciatingly long defenses of Putin, Russia, Trump, etc. Tell everybody how wonderful Russia is, Signym, and that the world would be better if Russia, not the USA, was the richest country in the world, rather than Russia being the biggest and stupidest.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:"IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement"? What a puzzle for me. Oh! You meant "Minsk agreements". The Russians are pretending that they kept their agreements. Like Signym, Russians can't even spell MISSJ. Or is it Minsk?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All Ukraine had to do to avoid this clusterfuck was IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement. Yanno, the one they signed that had been approved by the western powers in the UN Security Council.
Now they're saying -out loud- that the only reason they signed was to buy time to arm up. Then they massed forces on their eastern border in late 2021.
They got what they deserved: being used as a pawn in our fight to destroy Russia. Too bad for them.
Sigs can spell just fine. She's no Ted.
You already know the reason that her spelling/grammar has taken a hit recently because it was discussed in the Garden and you read everything that's posted in there even though you don't participate because you're a creep.
Maybe she has a flip phone.
Not everybody wants to walk around being a dumb jagoff who relies on their phone to provide all of life's answers for them.
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Replying really fast on the fly, and not checking autocorrect.
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Quote:Very Russian of you in a world where precision counts. Google returns 424,000 results for "IMPLEMENT THE MISSJ agreement" and none of them mean a damn thing. Very Russian. Meanwhile:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Replying really fast on the fly, and not checking autocorrect.
U.S. expected to send Ukraine longer-range smart bombs in next aid package
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The next batch of U.S. military aid for Ukraine that could be announced as soon as Friday is expected to include longer-range smart bombs for the first time, people familiar with the matter said.
The new smart weapon is a Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb, or GLSDB, a precision-guided 250-pound bomb that is strapped to a rocket. It has a range of 94 miles, which is farther than any bomb the U.S. has so far provided to Ukraine.
The expected delivery of longer-range weapons comes as the U.S. and European allies have moved to provide modern battle tanks and other advanced weaponry to Ukraine ahead of an expected Russian offensive. The U.S. has pledged to provide Ukraine with more than $27 billion in military aid.
The GLSDB can be fired from rocket-launchers such as the Himars system already supplied by the U.S. to Ukraine. The bomb is equipped with wings allowing it to glide to its target and a rocket motor to give it extra range.
This allows it to be targeted accurately as though it was launched from an aircraft, without putting a pilot at risk and at lower cost. The bomb also has advanced tracking systems to make it more accurate, with a claimed precision to within the width of a car tire.
More at https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-expected-to-send-ukraine-longer-range
-smart-bombs-in-next-aid-package-11675270504?mod=djemalertNEWS
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Russian army officer defects, describes widespread torture
A former Russian army officer has described horrifying interrogations and the use of torture on Ukrainian war prisoners, speaking as the highest-ranking recruit to defect from his country so far.
Yefremov, who called himself "anti-war," did not describe participating in any of the abuses he talked about, and said that in the three years ahead of the 2022 conflict his main job as a soldier had been in mine clearances in Chechnya.
On Wednesday, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin alleged that his office had uncovered evidence of 65,000 Russian war crimes in newly liberated parts of Ukraine, as CNBC reported.
Yefremov's testimony comes as part of the latest — and most senior — of a string of public denunciations from defected members of either the Russian army or the Wagner Group, the notorious mercenary army fighting on Putin's behalf.
Attempting to leave either is extremely risky.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-army-officer-defects-desc
ribes-widespread-torture-including-threats-to-castrate-a-ukrainian-and-send-his-wife-the-video/ar-AA171ZQ8
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Good to know that officers in Russia are just as useless as officers in the US.
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Putin Promises Victory in Ukraine
Casting his war in Ukraine as a virtuous fight despite mounting deaths and his forces’ plodding progress, President Vladimir V. Putin vowed on Thursday that Russia would prevail, using a speech in the city formerly known as Stalingrad to compare his invasion with the Soviets’ defeat of the Nazis in a decisive World War II battle.
“The legacy of generations, values and traditions — this is all what makes Russia different, what makes us strong and confident in ourselves, in our righteousness and in our victory,” Mr. Putin said.
The Russian leader’s defiant remarks came as Ukrainian officials warned that Moscow was opening a new offensive aimed at capturing more of eastern Ukraine and giving Mr. Putin his first significant battlefield success in months. Hours before he spoke, Russian missiles struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, a key military hub for Kyiv’s forces.
Russia’s slow gains in the east and its attempts to capture the nearby city of Bakhmut have come at a huge cost in lives, Ukraine says, as the Kremlin throws thousands of often inexperienced fighters into brutal ground combat against dug-in Ukrainian forces. But there was no mention in Mr. Putin’s speech of Russia’s mounting losses.
Instead, speaking at a “celebratory concert” marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet triumph in Stalingrad, now known as Volgograd, Mr. Putin lashed out again at Western nations, which are sending increasingly advanced weapons to Ukraine. He made his most direct remarks yet in response to Germany’s recent decision to provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, calling it part of “the aggression of the collective West.”
The Russian leader then made a vague threat directed at Germany, which Mr. Putin long viewed as Russia’s most important link to the West. “We aren’t sending our tanks to their borders,” Mr. Putin said. “But we have the means to respond, and it won’t end with the use of armor. Everyone must understand this.”
Stalingrad — the turning point in what Russians call the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union’s fight against the Nazis in World War II — holds totemic significance for Russians as a symbol of wartime suffering, sacrifice and heroism. In 1943, the Soviets reversed the tide of Germany’s invasion there after a 200-day battle that cost hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians their lives.
After he landed on Thursday, Russian state media footage showed Mr. Putin laying red flowers at a Soviet commander’s grave below the giant Motherland Calls monument — which, at nearly 300 feet tall, is one of the world’s biggest statues. He was also shown kneeling before a wreath at a memorial flame nearby.
For Mr. Putin, the symbolism is a central trope in his messaging to Russians to push them to support his war in Ukraine, with the Kremlin’s propaganda falsely describing the Ukrainians as modern-day Nazis and twisting reality to describe the Russian invasion as a defensive war.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, told reporters that Mr. Putin would hold a meeting to discuss the consequences of “bombardment by Nazi formations from Ukraine” in Russia’s border regions. And in a meeting with World War II veterans last month, Mr. Putin reprised his description of Ukraine’s current government as carrying on the legacy of the Nazis of World War II.
“The neo-Nazis who have gained ground and are running the show in Ukraine,” Mr. Putin claimed in the January meeting, must be punished for carrying out “crimes against civilians.”
“It is essential to record everything they are doing now, especially to civilians,” he said, falsely drawing a parallel with Nazi crimes in World War II.
Mr. Putin’s last delivered a speech at a major public event in September on Red Square in Moscow, celebrating Russia’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions.
Ukraine has dealt Moscow further military setbacks since then, forcing a Russian retreat in November from the city of Kherson. Mr. Putin is also facing pressure because of heavy casualt
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The Grisly Cult of the Wagner Group’s Sledgehammer
The tool Russian mercenaries used to kill a Syrian army deserter and others has become a violent meme, similar to the Punisher logo in the U.S.
In the long, terrible history of the Syrian civil war, a 2017 video of a war crime committed by Russian mercenaries still stands out for its horror. The videotaped torture and murder of Hamadi Bouta, a Syrian Army deserter, by members of the notorious Russian-led Wagner Group generated global outrage as well as a legal case against the paramilitary organization. The footage of Bouta being beaten to death with a sledgehammer before his body was beheaded and set on fire rivaled the worst atrocities publicized by the Islamic State. Yet the film did not horrify everyone who saw it.
Among members of the Wagner Group and its supporters, the video of Bouta’s murder has given rise to a culture glorifying violence against noncombatants that is explicitly centered on the symbol of the sledgehammer. This cult is now being embraced by leaders of the group, including its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, who have turned the sledgehammer into part of its brand. T-shirts and other merchandise depict sledgehammers alongside the Wagner logo, while both supporters and members of the group have taken to picturing themselves holding both real sledgehammers and replicas in photographs shared online, often while dressed in imitation of the killers from the footage.
Wagner now seems to be making the sledgehammer its official calling card. Last November, on the heels of a symbolic European Union resolution designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, Prigozhin sent a sledgehammer smeared with fake blood to the European Union Parliament. That was followed by another incident in which a group of Russian ultranationalists threw sledgehammers at the Finnish Embassy in Moscow. Last month, Sergei Mironov, a Russian parliamentarian who heads an ultranationalist party, posted a photo of himself posing with a sledgehammer branded with Wagner’s logo atop an engraving of a pile of skulls, in yet another visual tribute to the group.
The macabre culture around Wagner Group comes at a time when it is ascendant within the Russian state and is making a strong recruiting push, appealing to foreign volunteers, including Americans, to join the group.
“A lot of the content that I see on Telegram and elsewhere is eerily reminiscent of neo-Nazi propaganda, which is an aesthetic that they seem to have copied,” said Colin P. Clarke, the director of policy and research at the Soufan Group, a global intelligence and security consulting firm that monitors Wagner activity online. “It makes sense given the audience they are trying to recruit, who are, essentially, for lack of a better word, sociopaths.”
Clarke said that Wagner’s recruiting pitch was in many ways reminiscent of the Islamic State, which had its own distinctive methods of carrying out executions and promised its fighters similar spoils — including sex slaves and property confiscated from minorities in Iraq and Syria — in exchange for their service. Similarly to the Islamic State, Wagner fighters have been accused of torture, murder, sexual violence, and looting in many areas where the group operates. Its brutality is increasingly seen as part of its sales pitch to potential clients, particularly in weak and failing states where governments are unconcerned with human rights abuses.
“As long as you go in and get the job done, no one is going to ask any questions about how you behave,” Clarke said, commenting on the culture promoted to recruits of the group. “That’s part of their brand right now.”
The creation of a cult of violence in wartime is not a uniquely Russian pathology. During the U.S.-led global war on terrorism, certain weapons, including tomahawks used by U.S. special forces to bludgeon enemies, became part of a culture glorifying death that took root among some members of the military and on the right-wing fringes of American society. The ubiquity today of the Punisher logo,
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