Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Who knows if the Ukrainians are as competent as they claim? But we will soon find out:
A high-ranking Ukrainian military official on Thursday dismissed warnings from NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that the hotly contested city of Bakhmut could soon fall to the Russians. Col. Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for Ukraine's Eastern Group of Forces, said NATO does not fully understand that Ukrainians have developed "much greater stability and power of tactical solutions" as the war has dragged on, he said.
"They approach this purely pragmatically with dry calculations," Cherevaty said. "I think that NATO is studying this and they need to study it all further. I think that such statements should be treated with respect, but with the understanding that they do not fully understand the whole situation."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/03/09/ukraine-russia-wa
r-live-updates/11433880002/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:No, Signym. North Korea learned that from its parent, Russia. Who taught the North Koreans about political prison fatalities? Russians taught them how to run prisons:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
N Korea learned that behavior from us.
Your point was about Russian nuclear weapons. You changed the topic to N Korea and got your ass handed to you and changed the topic. Again. If you can't find one excuse to hate, you'll latch onto another. Your roulette wheel of excuses to hate just keeps going round and round. Anything to keep that hate going, huh?
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Quote:OMFG. Thank you Captain Obvious!
Originally posted by second:
US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines stated on March 8 that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely recognizes the Russian military’s current limited capability to sustain a short-term offensive and may pursue a protracted war.
Maybe someone finally listened to the Russian MoD? Bc that's what they've been saying for at least three months!
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Quote:Signym, I was hoping you'd understood that Russia has been impoverished and in trouble for many decades because it has repeatedly threatened to nuke the world. But you don't seem to understand that.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:No, Signym. North Korea learned that from its parent, Russia. Who taught the North Koreans about political prison fatalities? Russians taught them how to run prisons:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
N Korea learned that behavior from us.
Your point was about Russian nuclear weapons. You changed the topic to N Korea and got your ass handed to you and changed topics. Again. If you can't find one excuse to hate, you'll latch onto another. Your roulette wheel of excuses to hate just keeps going round and round. Anything to keep that hate going, huh?
Signym, you don't seem to understand that North Korea has repeatedly threatened to nuke the world and it, too, is an impoverished and troubled land because of the exact same behavior as Russia constantly engages in.
By the way, North Korea says it is not North Korea threatening to nuke the world, but rather the US. If you knew anything about North Korea or Russia, you'd know that both of them blame their bad behavior on the US.
Signym, the funny thing is that Canada, right next door to the supposed cause of all Russia's and North Korea's problems, has a bigger economy than Russia. At the same time, Canada doesn't feel a need to threaten to nuke the US or anybody.
I wonder how Canada has prospered so easily while Russia and North Korea struggle and bluster and threaten their neighboring countries. It must be some huge and inexplicable mystery that Signym will never understand. Certainly, Russia and North Korea don't understand how to get along peacefully with their neighbors. It might have something to do with the millions and millions of political prisoners that both Russia and North Korea have killed to bring "peace".
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The War in Ukraine Is Just Getting Started
In the Iran-Iraq war, both sides refused to back down despite a long, bloody stalemate. The same thing could happen to Russia and Ukraine.
By Murtaza Hussain
March 9 2023, 9:36 a.m.
For nearly a decade in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the newly founded Islamic Republic of Iran waged a merciless war against each other. The fighting saw the return of World War I-style human-wave offensives, trench warfare, and chemical weapons attacks.
Though it dragged on for years, the Iran-Iraq war benefited neither side. In the end, the conflict claimed the lives of over a million people, since, despite the carnage and wishes of ordinary people on both sides to end it, no diplomatic solution proved possible over eight years of fighting.
There is good reason to worry that this ugly history is repeating itself today in Eastern Europe.
Like the Iran-Iraq war, the war in Ukraine was triggered by an expansionist dictator hoping to make quick work of a neighbor whom he had wrongly predicted would prove incapable of defending itself. Now, over a year into the fighting, the conflict, which has already claimed hundreds of thousands of casualties by some estimates, has ground to a bloody stalemate that has transformed once-anonymous Ukrainian towns like Bakhmut and Marinka into killing fields.
A peace treaty that puts a stop to this chaos is attractive for many obvious reasons, and foreign powers like China and India have recently indicated that they would like to encourage one. Yet observers say that all signs point to the war dragging on for years to come, with both sides — like Iranians and Iraqis in the past — committed to the belief that victory is within their grasp and that pressing the war forward is worthwhile.
“I don’t see any prospect of diplomacy. What both sides would accept as an equitable settlement to the war is very far apart,” said Rajan Menon, the author of “Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order” and a research fellow at Columbia University. Menon pointed to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that the four Russian-controlled Ukrainian provinces had already been annexed — a position he is extremely unlikely to back away from.
“I don’t see any prospect of diplomacy. What both sides would accept as an equitable settlement to the war is very far apart.”
“On the Ukrainian side,” Menon said, “because their country has been invaded and has witnessed immense destruction and atrocities, there is a coming together of Ukrainian sentiment to fight against Russia. They have no illusions about a quick victory and have already priced in that they will have to endure this for a long time.”
Menon argues that the war is thus likely to continue for many years to come, a prediction that is echoed by many other observers. Some have argued that the conflict will become a permanent part of the international system, only concluding if either Ukraine or Russia collapses, or both cease to exist as states. Even if a negotiated settlement emerges sometime in the future, the amount of destruction that will have likely taken place by that time will be staggering.
The war has already taken a devastating toll on the Ukrainian population, which has suffered civilian massacres and systematic destruction of infrastructure. Yet it has also proved damaging to Russia. In addition to suffering Western sanctions, which are likely to escalate in the years to come, huge numbers of young Russian men have been killed, wounded, or simply fled the country to escape military enlistment. According to The Economist, this exodus and killing off of young Russians means that there are now 10 million more Russian women than men in the country — a situation that portends a demographic nightmare for an already rapidly aging population.
In a sense, the U.S. has played a role in prolonging the conflict by heavily arming the Ukrainians to resist Russia’s aggression. The position has drawn scrutiny from some sectors of the U.S. political establishm
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Quote:I don't understand that because
SIGNYM:
N Korea learned that behavior from us.
SECIND: No, Signym. North Korea learned that from its parent, Russia. Who taught the North Koreans about political prison fatalities? Russians taught them how to run prisons: blah blah blah...
SIGNY: Your point was about Russian nuclear weapons. You changed the topic to N Korea and got your ass handed to you and changed topics. Again. If you can't find one excuse to hate, you'll latch onto another. Your roulette wheel of excuses to hate just keeps going round and round. Anything to keep that hate going, huh?
SECOND: Signym, I was hoping you'd understood that Russia has been impoverished and in trouble for many decades because it has repeatedly threatened to nuke the world. But you don't seem to understand that.
1) YOU'RE WRONG, and
2) you keep shifting your "point"... WHATEVER IT IS... From nukes to Trump to prisons to "Trumptards" to imperialism to inability to fight wars to whatever the fuck pops up on the media that moment. Your posts are a Rorschach splatter of shit. And when you get your ass handed to you on one point, you just shift focus to a different blob of shit.
So, let's go back to your point about WHO threatens the world with nukes, and whether that has any bearing on a nation's wealth. And this time, try to stick to a point.
And please, no dodges to Trump, "Trumptards", Putin, N Korea, genocide, or whatever the fuck pops into your brain, m'kay?
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:You do NOT live in the United States, Signym, if you think Russia is superior to the US. Russia is a mud puddle of a country. It murdered tens of millions of its citizens for political reasons. It has a dinky economy. Its European neighbors hate it. And that is after a thousand years of history, plenty of time for Russia to become a beacon of enlightenment, freedom and humanity. But that didn't happen.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't understand that because
1) YOU'RE WRONG, and
2) you keep shifting your "point"... WHATEVER IT IS... From nukes to Trump to prisons to "Trumptards" to imperialism to inability to fight wars to whatever the fuck pops up on the media that moment. Your posts are a Rorschach splatter of shit. And when you get your ass handed to you on one point, you just shift focus to a different blob of shit.
So, let's go back to your point about WHO threatens the world with nukes, and whether that has any bearing on a nation's wealth. And this time, try to stick to a point.
And please, no dodges to Trump, "Trumptards", Putin, N Korea, genocide, or whatever the fuck pops into your brain, m'kay?
Signym, if you and Russians think the Russian economy isn't impoverished by a multi-year War in Ukraine and by pouring money into making Russia into an even bigger nuclear threat than it was last year, you and the Russians are headed for poverty.
Freedom in the World 2023
Russia Score & Status: 16/100 & Not Free
Political Rights 5/40
Civil Liberties 11/60
Last Year's Score & Status: 19/100 & Not Free
https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-world/2023
Signym, you could compare that to the United States if you want to know what a better-run country looks like. It would also explain the things about the United States that Russia seriously lacks.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2023
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You do NOT live in the United States, Signym, if you think Russia is superior to the US.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't understand that because
1) YOU'RE WRONG, and
2) you keep shifting your "point"... WHATEVER IT IS... From nukes to Trump to prisons to "Trumptards" to imperialism to inability to fight wars to whatever the fuck pops up on the media that moment. Your posts are a Rorschach splatter of shit. And when you get your ass handed to you on one point, you just shift focus to a different blob of shit.
So, let's go back to your point about WHO threatens the world with nukes, and whether that has any bearing on a nation's wealth. And this time, try to stick to a point.
And please, no dodges to Trump, "Trumptards", Putin, N Korea, genocide, or whatever the fuck pops into your brain, m'kay?
DID I POST THIS?
NO, I DID NOT.
WAS THIS THE POINT OF DISCUSSION?
NO, IT WAS NOT.
You're just a shit-splattering troll.
Thank you for proving my point.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:OMFG. Thank you Captain Obvious!
Originally posted by second:
US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines stated on March 8 that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely recognizes the Russian military’s current limited capability to sustain a short-term offensive and may pursue a protracted war.
Maybe someone finally listened to the Russian MoD? Bc that's what they've been saying for at least three months!
Russia’s biggest bank suffers 78% collapse in profit as sanctions bite
Russia’s dominant lender Sberbank reported a nearly 80% plunge in 2022 net profit Thursday as sweeping Western sanctions rattled Russia’s financial sector in what the bank’s CEO called “the most difficult year.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-biggest-bank-suffers-78-
collapse-in-profit-as-sanctions-bite/ar-AA18p9dI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=574b8737c1ec49a98ed6ae09246b8034&ei=84
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Tell it to Lehman Bros.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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