Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:I would not want you to know directly from Russians about what Russians are doing. Maybe the watered-down version of reality from The Christian Science Monitor, without all the dead bodies, is acceptable to you?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Uh huh.
Sorry I don't do Telegram.
US determines Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine
Russia’s response was that it was Ukraine that committed "crimes-against-humanity", not Russia. If anyone dares to accuse Russia of further crimes, that nation has crossed one of many Russian red lines protecting Russia’s sterling reputation as the finest law-abiding nation, unlike the criminally run US (although it must be noted that the US under Pres. Trump was very lawful and respectful toward Russia.) [/end sarcasm]
by Karl Ritter, Geir Moulson
The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that “justice must be served” to the perpetrators.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Ms. Harris said the international community has both a moral and a strategic interest in pursuing those crimes, pointing to a danger of other authoritarian governments taking advantage if international rules are undermined.
“Russian forces have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population – gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation,” Ms. Harris said. She also cited “execution-style killings, beatings, and electrocution.”
The Biden administration formally determined last March that Russian troops had committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders. A determination of crimes against humanity goes a step further, indicating that attacks against civilians are being carried out in a widespread and systematic manner.
“Russian authorities have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people, from Ukraine to Russia, including children,” Ms. Harris said. “They have cruelly separated children from their families.”
She also pointed to the attack in mid-March on a theater in the strategic port city of Mariupol where civilians had been sheltering, which killed hundreds, and to the images of civilians’ bodies left on the streets of Bucha after the Russian pullback from the Kyiv area last spring.
Ms. Harris said that, as a former prosecutor and former head of California’s Department of Justice, she knows “the importance of gathering facts and holding them up against the law.”
“In the case of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt,” she said. “These are crimes against humanity.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who also was attending the Munich conference, said in a statement issued as Harris spoke that “we reserve crimes against humanity determinations for the most egregious crimes.”
The new determination underlines the “staggering extent” of suffering inflicted on Ukrainian civilians and “also reflects the deep commitment of the United States to holding members of Russia’s forces and other Russian officials accountable for their atrocities,” he said.
Russia’s nearly yearlong invasion of Ukraine, has dominated discussions at the Munich conference, an annual gathering of security and defense officials from around the world. Ms. Harris told the assembled participants: “Let us all agree — on behalf of all the victims, both known and unknown, justice must be served.”
“Such is our moral interest,” she said. “We also have a significant strategic interest.”
“No nation is safe in a world where one country can violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another, where crimes against humanity are committed with impunity, where a country with imperialist ambitions can go unchecked,” Ms. Harris added.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds in attacking international rules and norms, “other nations could feel emboldened to follow his violent example,” she said. “
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More bullshit from SECOND.
Dood... your media circus has claimed that there was a pilot that shot down six... no 25... no, MORE... Russian fighter jets, ALL BY HIMSELF! (fake news)
That soldiers defended Snake Island to the last man. (no, they surrendered)
That Russian soldiers went on a rape orgy (lurid, but fake, news)
That 97pct of the Russian army is in Ukraine.
That 100,000 ... no, 140,000!... Russian soldiers have been killed
That Russia lost half of its army
That Russians were shelling .... THEMSELVES... at Zaparozhye Nuclear Power Plant
That "Russia is running out of missiles", any day now!
*****
Why should I believe anything you post?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:You told me everything I need to know about yourself when you wrote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why should I believe anything you post?
Quote:What did I write to cause you to tell me that there something seriously wrong with you, Signym? This:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Uh huh.
Sorry I don't do Telegram.
Quote:Video here: https://t.me/razgruzka_vagnera/10
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Is it possible that this so-called video is just a ... lie???
Google Translate:
Quote:Following a video posted on February 16 of Wagner Group troops stating that they have been cut off from artillery supplies Wagner fighters released another video on February 17 showing a room full of bodies of deceased Wagner fighters.[17] The fighter in the video claims that Wagner is losing hundreds of personnel a day because the Russian MoD is not providing them with the weapons, ammunition, and other supplies that they need.[18] Several Wagner-affiliated Telegram channels also amplified a #GiveShellstoWagner post that explicitly tags the Russian MoD and claims (falsely) that Wagner is the only formation currently advancing in Ukraine and that Wagner elements therefore need immediate support.[19] The escalation of Wagner’s direct accusations against the Russian MoD represents a new informational counteroffensive by Prigozhin that seeks to continue to undermine the Russian MoD and obscure Wagner’s attrition-based operational model by blaming the Russian MoD for its failures.
Every day we lose hundreds of our comrades. There could have been half as many of them if the military functionaries had supplied us with weapons, ammunition and everything that was needed on time. Stop messing around, let us fight, let us defend our country, our homeland. There are hundreds of our guys here. Send your children, sons-in-law, who shoot tik-toks, to this war.
More at https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-february-17-2023
When dealing with people who are crazy, such as Russians or Trumptards in East Texas, there always comes a point where the crazy people have to be (listed in order of severity of response)
1) avoided
2) fired
3) sued
4) jailed
5) conventional warfare
6) nuclear warfare
The crazy people of Russia are at stage 5. I don't think Russians understand how much trouble they are in. That is probably because the Russians think they could have beaten the Germans in WWII all alone, but the truth is Russia would have lost if the US hadn't attacked Germany. It is the US that could have beaten the Germans all alone. If the US Army joins this fight on Ukraine's side, Russia will be as defeated as Germany. I don't expect the Russians to understand how puny they are. They keep thinking their H-bombs will protect them from the US. The Russians are wrong. Instead, the Russians better put their faith in President Trump to save them. The Russians better do everything they can to get Trump reelected.
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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Wagner Group does a few things that make their statements problematic:
They make everything sound harder than it is
They take all of the credit for any gains, and
They blame the Russian MoD for any failures
Basically, they're advertising their services. They don't look particularly poorly-supplied. They look well-fed and well-rested. I think there's some bad blood between Wagner and the MoD.
*****
And for someone who keep complaining that "Russians keep threatending nukes" there YOU are.... threatening nukes.
You crazy.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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You are clueless about how racist you sound.
People are individuals. But Democrats don't understand that because all they want to do is throw everyone in intersectional boxes.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:6ix, what country do you live in? You are not an individual in America. You are very much the same as every other Trumptard. I suppose zebras can tell each other apart, and Trumptards can tell each other apart, but if you are not a zebra or a Trumptard, you all look the same.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You are clueless about how racist you sound.
People are individuals. But Democrats don't understand that because all they want to do is throw everyone in intersectional boxes.
6ix, you have shown over and over that something is wrong with you, but don't feel bad because the same is wrong with many Trumptards: 1) No teeth because you neglected them. 2) A lost decade from drunkenness. 3) An inability to hold a job. 4) Women walk out of your life, forever, because of your scintillating personality. 5) Incompetence on the job, but a sincere conviction that the boss needs you. 6) Bitterness and estrangement. 7) A feeling of generalized purposelessness and meaninglessness. Trump fills that hole in your psyche. If you were Russian, Putin fills that same hole in your soul. North Korean? Then Kim plugs the place where your spirit leaks out.
That matches up well with the Trumptards I know.
Back to war and how predictably stupid Russians are when under pressure, much the same as Trumptards mentally collapse when under the slightest pressure:
For the current war, the Russians seem to have deployed to Ukraine the majority of their roughly 50 TOS-1As. The Ukrainians have destroyed at least one of the 45-ton launchers and captured four others—and have fired at least one captured launcher back at the Russians.
It’s unclear exactly how many TOS-1As the Russians have left. Regardless, they were willing to risk at least one of the precious vehicles, which can cost up to $7 million to build, escalating their assault on Vuhledar.
After losing scores of tanks and fighting vehicles and potentially hundreds of troops trying to cross that minefield and break the Ukrainian defenses around Vuhledar, the Russians clearly are getting desperate. And maybe a bit sloppy.
The TOS-1A is a powerful weapon, but a vulnerable one. Its unwieldy rockets range just two miles, meaning a launcher must close to within range of enemy tank guns before it can open fire. It’s a dangerous proposition for the launcher’s three-person crew.
In Soviet doctrine, a TOS-1 deployed with tanks as escorts. “Doctrinally, the TOS-1 was envisioned to decimate a large area, by charging ahead, while under the protection of tanks, launching its rockets in rapid succession (all [24 or] 30 rockets in 7.5 seconds), and then returning to the rear for rearmament and redeployment,” Grau and Charles Bartles explained in their definitive The Russian Way of War.
It’s not clear the Russians are sticking to that doctrine. It seems there were no escorting tanks in sight when the Ukrainians blew up that TOS-1A outside Vuhledar. Which, of course, might be why the Ukrainians were able to hit the thermobaric launcher.
More at https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/18/when-russian-troops-g
ot-stuck-in-a-minefield-near-vuhledar-they-deployed-a-flamethrower-rocket-launcher-the-ukrainians-blew-it-up/
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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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, what country do you live in? You are not an individual in America.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You are clueless about how racist you sound.
People are individuals. But Democrats don't understand that because all they want to do is throw everyone in intersectional boxes.
Get fucked, you brainwashed little monkey.
You and your ilk on the verge of becoming completely irrelevant.
Enjoy the next 2 years. They'll be your last.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wagner Group does a few things that make their statements problematic:
They make everything sound harder than it is
They take all of the credit for any gains, and
They blame the Russian MoD for any failures
Basically, they're advertising their services. They don't look particularly poorly-supplied. They look well-fed and well-rested. I think there's some bad blood between Wagner and the MoD.
*****
And for someone who keep complaining that "Russians keep threatending nukes" there YOU are.... threatening nukes.
You crazy.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine and unleashed the full force of his propagandists on his own population. He had little doubt about his prospects. For years, he had been regarded in the world press as a singularly cunning strategist; at the same time, he methodically crushed civil society in his country and sidelined any dissenting voices in the Kremlin.
So who was going to stop him on the road to Kyiv? Hadn’t Donald Trump, during his Presidency, exposed and deepened the fissures in the NATO alliance? Under Joe Biden, the United States seemed finished with foreign adventures—humiliated by its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and distracted by its internal divisions. And what of Ukraine itself? It was a pseudo-nation, hopelessly corrupt and led by Volodymyr Zelensky, a former sitcom actor with an approval rating south of thirty per cent. Putin’s serene presumption was that, within a week, his forces would overrun Kyiv, arrest Zelensky and his advisers, and install a cast of collaborators. Putin was counting on historians to celebrate his rightful restoration of Imperial Russia.
To set the stage for this full-scale invasion—it should be recalled that the first act of aggression came in 2014, when Russian soldiers took Crimea and infiltrated the Donbas––he issued a long, historically perverse manifesto that asserted what he had been telling foreign leaders for years: that there is no such thing as Ukrainian nationhood.
Russian propagandists (much like the propagandists of the G.O.P.) refer to President Biden as a doddering hack, incapable of making it through a coherent sentence, let alone putting up an effective resistance to the Russian armed forces. Yet, in the past year, Biden has conducted a foreign policy of competence and moral clarity, skillfully balancing strength, diplomacy, and restraint. The opposition in Congress to supporting the Ukrainian cause has so far been limited mainly to the right wing of the Republican Party, with an assist from its attendant media outlets.
One of the top-selling books of the past year in Russia has been George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.” Not long after the invasion, police in the city of Ivanovo arrested two people who were handing out free copies on the street. Sales are so high, and the implications so obvious, that Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the foreign ministry, felt compelled to reject the notion that the novel resembles Putin’s rule in any way. “In school, we were drilled that Orwell was describing the horrors of totalitarianism,” she said. “This is one of those global fakes.” Instead, the novel “depicted how liberalism would lead humanity to a dead end.”
Putin told Ukraine that it is not a nation. Ukraine has given its response. As Orwell wrote in his novel, “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20230219192314/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2023/02/27/as-ukraine-marks-a-grim-anniversary-what-has-vladimir-putin-achieved
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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Quote:A review of Lenin’s Tomb
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Enjoy the next 2 years. They'll be your last.
Joel Eissenberg writes: Just finished “Lenin’s Tomb” by David Remnick. The book’s subtitle is “The last days of the Soviet empire.” At ca. 550 pages, it might seem a lot of text to devote to a few days or weeks, but that’s not what the book is really about. Remnick shows us how the history of the Soviet Union as codified by the Bolsheviks and Stalin became the foundational myth that drove that society. . . .
The final act of the Soviet Union was the failed coup of August 1991. Remnick does a great job here of conveying the fog of uncertainty. While Gorbachev was cut off from the outside at his Crimean dacha, the putschists clumsily tried to wield the flabby levers of crumbling Soviet power. The military and KGB proved unwilling to shed Russian blood and the coup leadership collapsed in incompetence and alcohol. Their collapse was aided by the steadfastness of Yeltsin and his supporters in the Russian White House. In retrospect, the coup looks like folly from the start, but as Remnick shows us, its failure didn’t seem assured to most people on the ground at the time. I found these fifty pages to be the most riveting and heart pounding in the entire book. Gorbachev resigned on Christmas 1991, beginning the Yeltsin era. Lenin’s Tomb ends in 1995. In an afterword, Reminck is pessimistic about a democratic future in Russia and points to political currents strongly favoring some form of autocracy.
A few days before my first visit to Moscow in the summer of 1998, the ruble collapsed, losing 50% of its value in a single day. By the second day of my visits, all the cash machines were shut down. Restaurant prices fluctuated hourly. But the subways ran, the stations were clean and a band played ragtime music in the Arbat. Lenin’s tomb was still in Red Square. The statue of Yuri Gagarin still towered over Leninsky Prospekt, a few blocks from the Hotel Sputnik where I was staying. The Kremlin grounds still hosted “the largest bell that never rang” and “the largest cannon that never fired.”
In 2000, Putin succeeded Yeltsin. The Yeltsin years were characterized by an explosion of criminal enterprises and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. This has continued under Putin, with Putin believed to be among the richest persons on the planet. Putin clearly yearns for the international stature of the Soviet Union, or some amalgam of it and the Russian Empire of the Tsars. Now that he is 70 years old and the war in Ukraine has exposed the Russian military as a paper tiger, it is unclear whether he can maintain his grip on power and if not, who and what will follow.
Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” to describe the infamous Nazi Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann, but it just as well describes many of the totemic evil figures of the Soviet Union—Stalin, Beria, Molotov—and ultimately the state they superintended. Today, we have the spectacle of Putin justifying his invasion of Ukraine to neutralize a ‘Nazi state’ lead by a Jewish president. Has the Russia of Putin returned to the Stalinist brand of banal evil, with its indifference to human suffering and death? Will the Russian people accept autocratic government under the guise of “free enterprise?”
The challenge of writing history for a lay reader is conveying the drama of events as they happened, even though we know the outcome already. Remnick was a reporter for the Washington Post at the time this book was written (he’s now the editor of The New Yorker). He has an ear for a good anecdote and can tell a gripping story. This is history written by a reporter, not an academic historian; he goes beyond the abstractions of economics, politics and the immensity of the Soviet carceral state, introducing us to people, places and personal narratives. This is great history and great history writing.
More at https://angrybearblog.com/2023/02/lenins-tomb
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