Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russia's Wagner chief warns of frontline collapse if forced to retreat from Bakhmut
March 6 (Reuters) - The founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said his troops now tightening their grip on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut were being deprived of ammunition and if they were forced to retreat the entire front would collapse.
"If Wagner retreats from Bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse," Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video published over the weekend. "The situation will not be sweet for all military formations protecting Russian interests."
Reuters could not independently verify when and where the video was recorded. The footage was published on a Telegram channel that has been disseminating Prigozhin news and has associated itself with the Wagner Group. The video was not published on Prigozhin's usual press service channel.
Prigozhin on Friday said that his units had "practically surrounded Bakhmut," where fighting has intensified in the past week with Russian forces attacking from nearly all sides.
But on Sunday he complained that most of the ammunition that his forces were promised by Moscow in February had not yet been shipped.
"For now, we are trying to figure out the reason: is it just ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal," Prigozhin said on his usual press service Telegram channel.
The mercenary chief regularly criticizes Russia's defense chiefs and top generals. Last month, he accused Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and others of "treason" for withholding supplies of munitions to his militia.
In a nearly four-minute video published on the Wagner Orchestra Telegram channel on Saturday, Prigozhin said his troops were worried that Moscow wanted to set them up as possible scapegoats if Russia lost the war.
"If we retreat, then we will go down in history forever as people who have taken the main step towards losing the war," Prigozhin said.
"This is exactly the problem with ammunition hunger."
Speaking seemingly from a bunker, Prigozhin said in the video that his troops would wonder whether they were being "set up" for defeat by the country's top brass or maybe even by someone "higher."
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Nick Starkov in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Stephen Coates)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-wagner-chief-warns-of-fr
ontline-collapse-if-forced-to-retreat-from-bakhmut/ar-AA18g80q
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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Ukraine Holds the Future
The War Between Democracy and Nihilism
By Timothy Snyder
Published on September 6, 2022
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-war-democracy-nihilism-
timothy-snyder
Russia, an aging tyranny, seeks to destroy Ukraine, a defiant democracy. A Ukrainian victory would confirm the principle of self-rule, allow the integration of Europe to proceed, and empower people of goodwill to return reinvigorated to other global challenges. A Russian victory, by contrast, would extend genocidal policies in Ukraine, subordinate Europeans, and render any vision of a geopolitical European Union obsolete.
A Russian victory would strengthen fascists and other tyrants, as well as nihilists who see politics as nothing more than a spectacle designed by oligarchs to distract ordinary citizens from the destruction of the world. This war, in other words, is about establishing principles for the twenty-first century. It is about policies of mass death and about the meaning of life in politics. It is about the possibility of a democratic future.
As it happens, Ukraine’s national symbol is the trident. It can be found among relics of the state that Vikings founded at Kyiv about a thousand years ago. After receiving Christianity from Byzantium, the Greek-speaking eastern Roman Empire, Kyiv’s rulers established secular law. The economy shifted from slavery to agriculture as the people became subject to taxation rather than capture. In subsequent centuries, after the fall of the Kyiv state, Ukrainian peasants were enserfed by Poles and then by Russians. When Ukrainian leaders founded a republic in 1918, they revived the trident as the national symbol. Independence meant not only freedom from bondage but the liberty to use the land as they saw fit. Yet the Ukrainian National Republic was short lived. Like several other young republics established after the end of the Russian empire in 1917, it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks, and its lands were incorporated into the Soviet Union. Seeking to control Ukraine’s fertile soil, Joseph Stalin brought about a political famine that killed about four million inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. Ukrainians were overrepresented in the Soviet concentration camps known as the gulag. When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler’s goal was control of Ukrainian agriculture. Ukrainians were again overrepresented among the civilian victims—this time of the German occupiers and the Red Army soldiers who defeated the Germans. After World War II, Soviet Ukraine was nevertheless subjected to a slow process of Russification in which its culture was degraded.
When the Soviet Union came to an end in 1991, Ukrainians again seized on the trident as their national symbol. In the three decades since, Ukraine has moved, haltingly but unmistakably, in the direction of functional democracy. The generation that now runs the country knows the Soviet and pre-Soviet history but understands self-rule as self-evident. At a time when democracy is in decline around the world and threatened in the United States, Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression provides a surprising (to many) affirmation of faith in democracy’s principles and its future. In this sense, Ukraine is a challenge to those in the West who have forgotten the ethical basis of democracy and thereby, wittingly or unwittingly, ceded the field to oligarchy and empire at home and abroad. Ukrainian resistance is a welcome challenge, and a needed one.
THE APPEASEMENT TEST
The history of twentieth-century democracy offers a reminder of what happens when this challenge is not met. Like the period after 1991, the period after 1918 saw the rise and fall of democracy. Today, the turning point (one way or the other) is likely Ukraine; in interwar Europe, it was Czechoslovakia. Like Ukraine in 2022, Czechoslovakia in 1938 was an imperfect multilingual republic in a tough neighborhood. In 1938 and 1939, after European powers chose to appease Nazi Germany at Munich, Hitler’s regime suppressed Czechoslovak democr
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That little brain is just floating in the propaganda broth.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is an analogy to testing if Signym could turn on the lights in a bathroom at night.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What is the test? Because your post seems to be all about Russia and Trump. You really cant help yourself, can you?
heh heh heh
1) Signym needs to find the light switch. It has a little LED to illuminate where it is. Remember, this is at night.
2) Signym needs to understand the switch. It is a push-button dimmer rather than an up/down toggle switch.
3) Signym could not find the switch. I can hear Signym knocking over things in the dark bathroom.
4) Signym smeared EVERYTHING in the bathroom. Signym never did find the toilet in the dark. Instead, Signym pooped on the floor.
Signym, here are your test results: You are stupid and/or you like to poop on the floor. It must be a Russian thing about you. Thankfully, I don't have to clean up the mess you have made out of life. Signym, you'll have to live and die in eternal darkness, as will the Russians, unless they leave Putin's Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
TBH I didn't even read the post thru. I got as far as the first "Trump" and quit. I guess you wasted a lot of typing-time, huh?
And then you went back to posting walls of gibberish. You're a sad little man.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Nihilism, it's your word SECOND and it accurately describes an aspect of comrade Signym and Jacks attitudes, beliefs. Well done...
T 
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Originally posted by THG:
Nihilism, it's your word SECOND and it accurately describes an aspect of comrade Signym and Jacks attitudes, beliefs. Well done...
T
I'm not a nihilist. I have a life, and I've filled it with purpose. Not just bettering myself and my situation, but being there for friends and family who need a leg up and finally figuring out how wonderful a feeling it is to be needed and appreciated, and how easily and willing those people are to reciprocate the assistance.
Your Party sucks and is destroying society. You'd better make your own personal, meaningful connections because if things keep going the way they're going you're going to need them sooner than later.
Especially with your learning disability, lower than average IQ and utter lack of critical thinking skills.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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nihilism
ni'?-liz??m, ne'-
noun
*The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless.
*Relentless negativity or cynicism suggesting an absence of values or beliefs.
*Political belief or action that advocates or commits violence or terrorism without discernible constructive goals.
I think the word you're looking for, THUGR, is nationalism. I see myself as a realist, focused on AMERICA'S long term national interests. I don't see us needing to be "global cop" or "global hegemon" or "bringing freedom to the globe" or global anything. Let's just be a nation among nations and make America the best it can be, and then we can be a positive example for others to aspire to.
Instead of overthrowing or invading nations willy-nilly and supporting corrupt regimes everywhere.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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ZH Geopolitical Week Ahead: Bracing For Bakhmut Loss, Pentagon Declares City 'Not Important'
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zh-geopolitical-week-ahead.
One way out of Bakhmut
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1632699567530561537/mediaView
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It's easy to forget what the numbers mean until you see vehicles blown to bits and know there were people in them. The only way for Ukraine's soldiers in Bakhmut to leave is either in a body bag, or by individually "evaporating" on foot thru the woods. I hope they choose survival.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Speaking on the Russia-1 state television channel, commentator Sergey Mikheyev — described as a political scientist — suggested the Ukraine war could outlast the lifespan of many, including the Kremlin's top figures.
"If we keep proceeding in this manner and at this speed, you and I won't live long enough to see any successes," he told guests, including anchor Vladimir Solovyov, in a clip translated and posted by journalist Julia Davis.
"Let's be honest with ourselves," Mikheyev added. "Our leadership won't live long enough for that either."
"If we move at this speed, this will last for decades," he continued.
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-wont-live-see-ukraine-war-vict
ory-russia-state-tv-1785695
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 SIGNYM:Quote:
nihilism
ni'?-liz??m, ne'-
noun
*The doctrine that nothing actually exists or that existence or values are meaningless.
*Relentless negativity or cynicism suggesting an absence of values or beliefs.
*Political belief or action that advocates or commits violence or terrorism without discernible constructive goals.
I think the word you're looking for, THUGR, is nationalism. I see myself as a realist, focused on AMERICA'S long term national interests. I don't see us needing to be "global cop" or "global hegemon" or "bringing freedom to the globe" or global anything. Let's just be a nation among nations and make America the best it can be, and then we can be a positive example for others to aspire to.
Instead of overthrowing or invading nations willy-nilly and supporting corrupt regimes everywhere.
All the older members who've left, Jack loves taking credit for that by the way, all referred to you as being a Russia Troll. Therefore, your posts are received as if you are. You don't have to admit it.
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