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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Monday, February 20, 2023 5:18 AM

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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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Monday, February 20, 2023 5:42 AM

Ukraine has a realistic chance to liberate Russian-occupied Crimea by the end of the summer if it gets long-range missiles, retired U.S. General Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. troops in Europe, told Ukrainian publication Ukrinform on Feb. 18.

"We will do everything possible for Ukraine to win this year," he said.

In his words, the prerequisite for such a speedy liberation of the peninsula, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014, would require all partners to provide all needed weapons, especially precision-guided long-range missiles. Hodges believes that the battle for Crimea will be "decisive."

Ukraine has repeatedly asked for long-range missiles such as the U.S. ATACMS, which can strike up to 300 kilometers away. This would give Ukraine the ability to destroy Russian supplies, command posts and other critical assets parked deep behind enemy lines, which would inflict severe damage on Russia's ability to fight, Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St. Andrew’s University, told the Kyiv Independent.

Western allies have balked at giving Ukraine missiles with ranges that long, concerned that Ukraine would be able to fire them into Russian territory.

https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/retired-us-general-hodges-with-l
ong-range-missiles-ukraine-can-liberate-crimea-by-end-of-summer


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, February 20, 2023 6:49 AM

The war with Ukraine will be over unless the EU finds a way in weeks to speed up the provision of ammunition to Ukraine, Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, warned on the final day of the Munich security conference.

He said a special meeting of EU defence ministers slated for 8-9 March will provide a chance for countries to offer ammunition from their existing stocks, adding it is taking up to 10 months for European armies to order and receive a single bullet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/19/ukraine-war-over-unless-
eu-boosts-military-support-says-top-diplomat


The cheese-eating French surrender monkeys can't deliver the bullets to Ukraine but all the baguettes Ukrainians need are baked and ready to eat today. C'est délicieux!

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, February 20, 2023 5:43 PM

Download the documentary Ukraine from Above: Secrets From the Frontline 2023

A year on from Russia’s invasion, a look at how the war has played out from the air and how Ukraine use drones, satellites and smart tech to thwart the enemy. Featuring drone photography of key locations from before and after the war. 47 minutes.

https://comment.rlsbb.ru/ukraine-from-above-secrets-from-the-frontline
-2023-1080p-hdtv-h264-darkflix
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Review
Ukraine from Above: Secrets From the Frontline

This one-off documentary is brought to you by the production company that made Europe from Above, Hidden Britain by Drone, and The Emirates from Above. It specialises in using aerial photography to find new perspectives, in other words – but Ukraine from Above: Secrets from the Frontline (Channel 4) is not like the others.

Almost a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, pictures taken from the air illustrate a story of destruction on a hideous scale. Before and after photographs show Ukrainian apartment blocks that used to teem with happy everyday life, now with every window blown out; previously magnificent theatres with craters in the roof; and pictures of whole cities which, when overlaid on a map, show the systematic razing of civilian buildings such as schools and health centres. Modern drone technology enables those images to be taken closeup, a development that has turned this theatre of war into a heavily surveilled crucible where atrocities are hard to conceal. When the Russians massacred surrendering civilians on the road out of Kyiv, a drone was in the air above them, clearly filming a man with his hands raised being shot dead.

A documentary rounding up such images would be fine and worthy, but Ukraine from Above is not just about the filth of conflict, as captured by drone cameras. It concerns a kind of asymmetric warfare in which the drone camera is a weapon. We see how – at least in the early phases of the invasion, before much heavyweight western hardware had made it across the border – the mighty Russian conquest machine was repeatedly banjaxed by hobbyists using kit you could’ve bought in the Kharkiv branch of Currys.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/19/ukraine-from-abov
e-secrets-from-the-frontline-review-the-startling-tale-of-how-a-child-destroyed-russian-tanks


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, February 20, 2023 6:33 PM

Russian State TV Says U.S. Has Declared War

In the video translated by TheKremlinYap, an account that tracks Kremlin propaganda, Russian journalist Igor Korotchenko hit out at the U.S.

"After the U.S. crossed every imaginable and unimaginable red line, today the U.S. State Department actually announced that it was going to war with Russia."

"I assume that this is how we should interpret Nuland's statement. There is no need for halftones. The U.S. is an enemy of Russia, a military adversary."

"If it expects massive missile strikes on Russian territory to be carried out with their help, but as if by someone else's hands, then perhaps we can regard this as a casus belli (cause for war) and react accordingly."

Korotchenko said he wanted Russian officials to "give adequate, conceptual, doctrinal, and military responses to this audacious statement of the United States, and appropriate measures should be taken. What kind of measures? We shall see."

Michael Clarke, professor in the War Studies department at King's College London, told Newsweek: "In order to justify the fact that Russians are now well aware that the SMO (special military operation) is, in reality, a nasty little war that is getting worse, the sacrifices the Russian public will now have to make can only be justified if the Russian homeland itself is under threat. Hence the steady ramping up of Kremlin rhetoric to justify the sacrifices required."

More at https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-says-us-has-declared-war-aft
er-crimea-comments-1782239


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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Monday, February 20, 2023 6:36 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Ukraine has a realistic chance to liberate Russian-occupied Crimea by the end of the summer if it gets long-range missiles, retired U.S. General Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. troops in Europe, told Ukrainian publication Ukrinform on Feb. 18.

"We will do everything possible for Ukraine to win this year," he said.

In his words, the prerequisite for such a speedy liberation of the peninsula, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014, would require all partners to provide all needed weapons, especially precision-guided long-range missiles. Hodges believes that the battle for Crimea will be "decisive."



Fuck Ukraine.

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Ukraine has repeatedly asked for long-range missiles such as the U.S. ATACMS, which can strike up to 300 kilometers away. This would give Ukraine the ability to destroy Russian supplies, command posts and other critical assets parked deep behind enemy lines, which would inflict severe damage on Russia's ability to fight, Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St. Andrew’s University, told the Kyiv Independent.


That's an act of war. Putin would and should treat it as such.

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Western allies have balked at giving Ukraine missiles with ranges that long, concerned that Ukraine would be able to fire them into Russian territory.


Good. Fuck Ukraine.

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Monday, February 20, 2023 7:05 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck Ukraine.

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Ukraine has repeatedly asked for long-range missiles such as the U.S. ATACMS, which can strike up to 300 kilometers away. This would give Ukraine the ability to destroy Russian supplies, command posts and other critical assets parked deep behind enemy lines, which would inflict severe damage on Russia's ability to fight, Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St. Andrew’s University, told the Kyiv Independent.


That's an act of war. Putin would and should treat it as such.

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Western allies have balked at giving Ukraine missiles with ranges that long, concerned that Ukraine would be able to fire them into Russian territory.


Good. Fuck Ukraine.

“There are four new regions of Russia,” Putin said in a televised ceremony from the Kremlin. Those new regions are inside Ukraine. When Ukrainian troops entered those regions, Russia was being invaded. In the "logical" mind of a Russian, that means the US has invaded Russia. The next "logical" step is for Russia to bomb 6ixStringJoker's house in Indiana. Those Russians are so very logical that it is almost indistinguishable from crazy.

Putin declares ‘four new regions of Russia’ as Moscow illegally annexes parts of Ukraine
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/putin-declares-four-new-regions-of-rus
sia-as-moscow-annexes-parts-of-ukraine.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, February 20, 2023 7:20 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Fuck Ukraine.

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Ukraine has repeatedly asked for long-range missiles such as the U.S. ATACMS, which can strike up to 300 kilometers away. This would give Ukraine the ability to destroy Russian supplies, command posts and other critical assets parked deep behind enemy lines, which would inflict severe damage on Russia's ability to fight, Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St. Andrew’s University, told the Kyiv Independent.


That's an act of war. Putin would and should treat it as such.

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Western allies have balked at giving Ukraine missiles with ranges that long, concerned that Ukraine would be able to fire them into Russian territory.


Good. Fuck Ukraine.

“There are four new regions of Russia,” Putin said in a televised ceremony from the Kremlin. Those new regions are inside Ukraine. When Ukrainian troops entered those regions, Russia was being invaded. In the "logical" mind of a Russian, that means the US has invaded Russia. The next "logical" step is for Russia to bomb 6ixStringJoker's house in Indiana. Those Russians are so very logical that it is almost indistinguishable from crazy.



The US and NATO are at war with Russia and are using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder. Joe Biden* just pledged even more money to child rapist Zelensky to ensure more Ukrainian men will die for the US and for NATO.

If we give them any missile tech that allows them to fire missiles into important Russian targets, we might as well have fired them ourselves.

Putin won't be firing a missile at Indiana, or Chicago for that matter. He'll start with blowing off chunks of California into the ocean like Lex Luthor should have done back in the early 80's.




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Monday, February 20, 2023 7:30 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

The US and NATO are at war with Russia and are using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder. Joe Biden* just pledged even more money to child rapist Zelensky to ensure more Ukrainian men will die for the US and for NATO.

If we give them any missile tech that allows them to fire missiles into important Russian targets, we might as well have fired them ourselves.

Putin won't be firing a missile at Indiana, or Chicago for that matter. He'll start with blowing off chunks of California into the ocean like Lex Luthor should have done back in the early 80's.

Brilliant minds think alike. 6ix, did you know you have everything in common with Putin? All you wrote are Putin talking points except for "blowing off chunks of California." The Russians said it would be the UK, not California.

Moscow could wipe Britain off the map with a nuclear tsunami in retaliation for supporting Ukraine
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/04/what-is-russia-s-poseidon-nuc
lear-drone-and-could-it-wipe-out-the-uk-in-a-radioactive-tsun


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, February 20, 2023 11:50 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

The US and NATO are at war with Russia and are using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder. Joe Biden* just pledged even more money to child rapist Zelensky to ensure more Ukrainian men will die for the US and for NATO.

If we give them any missile tech that allows them to fire missiles into important Russian targets, we might as well have fired them ourselves.

Putin won't be firing a missile at Indiana, or Chicago for that matter. He'll start with blowing off chunks of California into the ocean like Lex Luthor should have done back in the early 80's.

Brilliant minds think alike. 6ix, did you know you have everything in common with Putin? All you wrote are Putin talking points except for "blowing off chunks of California." The Russians said it would be the UK, not California.

Moscow could wipe Britain off the map with a nuclear tsunami in retaliation for supporting Ukraine



Makes sense. It's closer than California.

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