Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russia's Sberbank expects strong profit rebound after sanctions-hit 2022
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-sberbank-posts-357-bln-
net-profit-2022-2023-03-09/
Yanno THUGR, when Russia comes out a winner from the sanctions war by the west, and a winner in the proxy war in Ukraine- as I fully expect it will- I'll be so glad to stuff it up your and SECOND's ass sideways.
Not because I'm such a Russophile but because you've been such pricks, and stupid ones to boot.
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How many Russians have been killed in Ukraine?
The death toll probably exceeds all Soviet and Russian wars since 1945 combined
NEARLY 1,200 Russian soldiers were recently killed in a single day around Bakhmut, according to Mark Milley, America’s top general, in an interview with Politico, a news website. “That’s Iwo Jima,” he reflected, referring to a brutal 36-day Pacific battle during the second world war. “That’s Shiloh”—a battle in the American civil war. A recently published paper offers a new assessment of the extraordinary losses Russia is facing in Ukraine.
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think-tank in Washington, says that Russia is likely to have suffered 60,000 to 70,000 combat fatalities in the first year of its invasion, citing American and other Western officials, as well as public reports. Our chart depicts the central estimate in that range. Including those killed, wounded and missing, total casualty numbers swell to 200,000 to 250,000. Calculating such things is a highly uncertain business. But the CSIS tally is only a little higher than Western government estimates that draw on intelligence.
Stratospheric Russian casualties are unsurprising. Russia’s initial blitzkrieg in February 2022 failed, and the conflict has since turned into a war of attrition: huge volumes of shellfire continue to pound forces on each side. In its quest to capture the eastern city of Bakhmut, which is teetering, Russia sent waves of conscripts and prisoners to fight. They have been mown down in large numbers. For two weeks in late January and early February, as Russia intensified its attacks across eastern Ukraine, its casualties probably reached over 800 per day, killed and wounded, according to British defence intelligence.
This level of carnage far exceeds what Russia has faced in any of its modern conflicts. It lost 95 to 185 soldiers per month in Chechnya between 1999 and 2009 and 130 to 145 soldiers per month in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. In Ukraine it has seen 5,000 to 5,800 military deaths (including mercenaries) per month. The number of Russian soldiers killed in the past year probably exceeds the death toll in every other Russian and Soviet conflict since 1945, combined. Its casualties are dwarfed only by the second world war, in which the Soviet Union lost more than 8m men.
Russia’s severe losses forced it to conduct a mobilisation drive in September but it has largely frittered away those forces. It could launch another wave of mobilisation, though that would come with political risks. Already, two-thirds of Russians know someone who has been mobilised or is fighting in the war. Moreover, the troops killed in 2022 were many of Russia’s best young officers and most experienced soldiers. The men who replace them will have less training, discipline and skill. Nor will they have the same quality of equipment.
When American intelligence officials briefed Congress on Russian preparations for war last year, they suggested that 25,000 to 50,000 Ukrainian civilians might die. The true total has been considerably smaller: at least 8,000 confirmed civilian deaths, according to the UN. The officials also estimated that Russia would lose 3,000 to 10,000 military personnel—a range that reflected expectations of a relatively short conventional war. They could not have imagined that Russia would immolate an entire army in the space of a year.
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Quote:Signym, you are howling-at-the-moon mad. Here is a sample of Signym foaming at the mouth:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno THUGR, when Russia comes out a winner from the sanctions war by the west, and a winner in the proxy war in Ukraine- as I fully expect it will- I'll be so glad to stuff it up your and SECOND's ass sideways.
Not because I'm such a Russophile but because you've been such pricks, and stupid ones to boot.
Quote:There is more Signym ranting and raging at
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Given that their plans look blatantly ineffective to anyone who gives them a moment's thought, who do TPTB think they're fooling? Certainly not Chinese and Russian officials who realize that they're in power only bc they raised the standard of living in their countries, and not the many people of the globe who aspire to a better life and are willing to work for it, in an even partially honest system.
No, they're meant to fool guilty westerners who've been edged or inveigled into being "consumers". People who don't know how they earn their place in the world. Permanent students. Advanced degrees in useless fields working in McJobs. People living on government dole or in mom's basement. Bc while they aspired to be "consumers", in a consumer society, they didn't realize that "consumer" is just another word for "useless eater".
TPTB foresaw a future where they'll no longer be able to freely plunder an entire world, and the only way for them to maintain THEIR extravagant standard of living is to plunder their home economies and people. And the only way to do THAT is to get people to acquiesce to being plundered by sacrificing themselves to a Great Cause.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64016&mid=11706
31#1170631
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Originally posted by second:
There is more Signym ranting and raging at
There is more of Second ranting and raging at
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
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Quote:6ix, that whole thread is you ranting and raging against me: "I'm (6ixStringJack) asking Haken now to finally remove Second from these boards. Ever since his other handle Reaverfan was banned from Fireflyfans.net, his Second handle has devolved into little more than a violence fantasy factory."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
There is more Signym ranting and raging at
There is more of Second ranting and raging at
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
6ix, whoever was Reaverfan was not me, alias "second". And 6ix, did you notice that Haken didn't do what you wanted? I can't be certain, but I don't think Haken will do what you want. I theorize that the reason is Haken thinks you are crazy. But it could be that Haken wants you to use this website for therapy. Haken is here to help you recover from your traumatic life, 6ix. Maybe Haken is your psychiatrist, your Sigmund Freud. Or Signym is your Signym Freud. Maybe the war against Ukraine is all about you, 6ix and Signym, not about Ukrainians fighting Russians who intend to murder them and erase the word Ukraine from the maps of the world.
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Jen Psaki on Trump praising Putin’s moves into Ukraine:
“Well, as a matter of policy, we try not to take advice from anyone who praises President Putin.” That is a quote from White House Hits Back at Donald Trump for Praising Putin's 'Genius' on Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-hits-back-donald-trump-praise-vla
dimir-putin-genius-ukraine-russia-1681635
Donald Trump is a narcissistic grifter and a sociopath. How anyone trusts him is mind-boggling.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that whole thread is you ranting and raging against me
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
There is more Signym ranting and raging at
There is more of Second ranting and raging at
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
No it's not. Click on the links. It's a nice collection of the words of a sociopath.
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6ix, whoever was Reaverfan was not me, alias "second".
Yes. It was you. I have receipts.
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And 6ix, did you notice that Haken didn't do what you wanted?
Not yet. But you haven't crossed the line and told individuals here to kill themselves and how to do it in gory detail with your appropriately name second handle. That's what ultimately got your Reaverfan handle banned. Apparently Haken believes that death threats to public figures falls under free speech. As a free speech advocate myself, I'll admit... maybe he's right. Putting it in writing on an old website where a simple Google search could find them and any non-member is free to come in and read all of them in their entirety is still a really fucking dumb thing to do though.
But that's okay. I've got your death threats all on record and backed up at several archive sites in case one of the people you have threatened end up having an accident.
I know it wasn't you who did it if that happens because you're nothing but a loudmouthed pussy, but I'd be happy to contribute to your miserable life by adding legal pressures on you because of the dumb shit you've said online that you can't erase.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, you are howling-at-the-moon mad. Here is a sample of Signym foaming at the mouth:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno THUGR, when Russia comes out a winner from the sanctions war by the west, and a winner in the proxy war in Ukraine- as I fully expect it will- I'll be so glad to stuff it up your and SECOND's ass sideways.
Not because I'm such a Russophile but because you've been such pricks, and stupid ones to boot.Quote:There is more Signym ranting and raging at
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Given that their plans look blatantly ineffective to anyone who gives them a moment's thought, who do TPTB think they're fooling? Certainly not Chinese and Russian officials who realize that they're in power only bc they raised the standard of living in their countries, and not the many people of the globe who aspire to a better life and are willing to work for it, in an even partially honest system.
No, they're meant to fool guilty westerners who've been edged or inveigled into being "consumers". People who don't know how they earn their place in the world. Permanent students. Advanced degrees in useless fields working in McJobs. People living on government dole or in mom's basement. Bc while they aspired to be "consumers", in a consumer society, they didn't realize that "consumer" is just another word for "useless eater".
TPTB foresaw a future where they'll no longer be able to freely plunder an entire world, and the only way for them to maintain THEIR extravagant standard of living is to plunder their home economies and people. And the only way to do THAT is to get people to acquiesce to being plundered by sacrificing themselves to a Great Cause.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64016&mid=11706
31#1170631
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You think that's ranting and raging? Read any threats?
I wasn't angry at all! I was thinking out loud, just connecting facts together using logic.
I think the guilty (that's you) flees when nobody is pursuing.
But thanks for linking the thread!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia's Sberbank expects strong profit rebound after sanctions-hit 2022
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-sberbank-posts-357-bln-
net-profit-2022-2023-03-09/
Yanno THUGR, when Russia comes out a winner from the sanctions war by the west, and a winner in the proxy war in Ukraine- as I fully expect it will- I'll be so glad to stuff it up your and SECOND's ass sideways.
Not because I'm such a Russophile but because you've been such pricks, and stupid ones to boot.
Don't think so comrade. The Russia economy is doomed for decades at this point. And of course the bank says it is going to do better next quarter. They say whatever Putin tells them to say.
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