Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Battle of Bakhmut: Ukrainian soldiers worry Russians begin to ‘taste victory’
DONETSK OBLAST – Just days before heading back to fight in the Battle of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian soldier Volodymyr, 54, said he felt ill-prepared.
"When they drive us to Bakhmut, I already know I'm being sent to death," Volodymyr told the Kyiv Independent during his brief stay in Kramatorsk, a city in Donetsk Oblast some 25 kilometers west of the front line.
Volodymyr, an infantryman from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade, said he struggled to eat after fighting in Bakhmut for months. He looked shaken as he talked.
For two months, Volodymyr's unit was tasked with guarding Bakhmut against small Russian assault groups creeping into the city. The brigade was constantly under mortar fire as soldiers were outdoors where shrapnels could wound or kill them at any moment.
"(The Russians) keep firing at us, but we don't have artillery – so we have nothing to attack them back with," Volodymyr said. "I don't know if I will return or not. We are just getting killed."
Ukrainian infantrymen interviewed by the Kyiv Independent described the fighting in Bakhmut as a desperate survival challenge against Russia's "infinite" stocks of artillery munitions and manpower. With just their machine guns and rifles, they say they braced relentless Russian mortar and artillery attacks until their hideout was eventually destroyed.
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ers-worry-russians-begin-to-taste-victory
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:The point you are making is that Ukrainians should refuse to accept US ammo because the ammo is more fatal to Ukrainians than to Russians. Instead, Ukrainians should surrender to the tender mercy of the Russians. Otherwise, to protect themselves, the Russians will be forced to kill the Ukrainians and it will be all the fault of the US for sending the ammo.
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ers-worry-russians-begin-to-taste-victory
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The point is not to let America "befriend" you bc you'll get fucked over.
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Voltaire said that humanity invented hell to dissuade people from doing wrong when they noticed there didn’t seem to be any consequences for it here on Earth. Signym, your quote is still wrong.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The point is not to let America "befriend" you bc you'll get fucked over.
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger said in November 1968, after Richard Nixon was elected U.S. president but before he took office: “Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu (South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu—ed.) before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Former NATO Chief: Trump Could Sabotage the War
Regardless of whether he wins, Trump’s nomination would blow up Republican support for Ukraine, says Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
By Alexander Burns
03/15/2023 04:30 AM EDT
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former secretary-general of NATO, packs his prognosis for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign into one loaded word.
“I think President Trump will be a loser,” he tells me.
It is a notoriously triggering term for the former president, evoking deep humiliation. Rasmussen uses it casually.
“His baggage is too heavy, too controversial,” says Rasmussen, 70, who was Denmark’s prime minister for most of this century’s first decade.
Yet Rasmussen, a right-of-center politician who is now a white-shoe international consultant, remains scared of Trump. What disturbs him more immediately than the idea of Trump back in the White House is a far likelier scenario: Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination.
It may seem counterintuitive to fear Trump’s nomination more than his return to power, a less probable but vastly more dangerous outcome. But Rasmussen’s mind is on the war in Ukraine — and what Trump’s candidacy might do to sabotage it.
The former NATO chief serves as an adviser to the Ukrainian government and recently came to Washington to see members of Congress and Biden administration officials. He is lobbying them to supply more and heavier weapons and to make long-term security guarantees to Ukraine.
That’s where the Trump angst comes into play.
Just by winning the Republican nomination Trump could shatter the bipartisan front in favor of Ukraine, Rasmussen fears. Trump has been forthright about his views of Russia’s invasion, praising Putin as a clever strategist in the early days of the war and recently suggesting that Ukraine should have ceded “Russian-speaking areas” in a deal with the invader.
Rasmussen says Trump’s apparent Ukraine policy would amount to “surrender.”
“I call it a geopolitical catastrophe if Trump were to be nominated, because in the campaign his influence would be destructive,” Rasmussen says. It would move Trump’s terrible ideas closer to the mainstream and make it harder to secure congressional support for the war.
Already, he notes, opinion polls show “a weakening of the support for Ukraine” in the United States. Trump’s nomination could accelerate that, Rasmussen argues: “The mere fact that his thinking appeals to a certain element, a certain segment of the American public, will push American politics in the wrong direction.”
“I really hope that Republicans will get their act together,” he says. “I do hope, I would say not only from a European perspective but from a global perspective, that Republicans will nominate a candidate that is much more attached to American global leadership than Trump and Trumpists.”
There are only a few candidates circling the Republican race who fit that description. The most promising may be Mike Pence, the former vice president who has called f
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Ukraine hasn’t ousted all its pro-Russia politicians — for good reason
A Feb. 18, 2022, fistfight on Ukraine’s most popular political talk show punched through simmering internal tensions just six days before Russian President Vladimir Putin began his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. When Nestor Shufrych, a member of the Ukrainian parliament in the pro-Russia Opposition Platform For Life (OPZZh) party, refused to call Putin a “murderer and a criminal,” his fellow panelists had had enough. Journalist Yuriy Butusov slugged Shufrych before the two squared up and tackled each other to the ground, on live TV, as former President Petro Poroshenko and former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk looked on. Battered and bruised, Shufrych amazingly finished the show.
Perhaps more amazingly, after more than one year of the death, destruction and atrocities wrought by Russian forces in Ukraine, Shufrych and his pro-Russia cadres still sit in the Ukrainian parliament. That pro-Moscow lawmakers remain as members of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada while the country fights for its survival from Russian invaders is one of Ukraine’s least understood and most bizarre stories of the past year.
Paradoxically, Moscow-friendly lawmakers’ continued presence in parliament is an unexpected example of the strength of Ukraine’s democracy.
Understandably desperate to rid the government of potential Russian collaborators, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration so far has avoided the temptation to unilaterally strip pro-Russia MPs of their mandates. It would have been popular, though unconstitutional, to oust politicians widely seen as traitors from their official positions by presidential decree. Instead, authorities in Kyiv are applying a lighter touch to legally dismantle Russia’s longstanding fifth column in Ukrainian politics.
Perhaps Western observers shouldn’t be surprised that Shufrych and his ideological brethren are still present in Ukrainian politics. Kyiv’s pro-Russia camp may be generously described as a gaggle of political survivors — willing to regroup and rebrand as much as necessary to maintain political influence. Ukraine’s politics have changed massively since the 2013-14 EuroMaidan protests that ousted pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovych and the Russian military began its war against Ukraine in Crimea and Donbas. And yet, Moscow-friendly political parties remain a loathsome but longstanding staple of the country’s political climate.
Before EuroMaidan, Yanukovych’s Party of Regions was genuinely popular, holding the most seats in parliament at the time. When Yanukovych eventually fled the country, the party morphed into the Opposition Bloc under the guidance of Paul Manafort — who later became Donald Trump’s presidential campaign manager — and held on to roughly 10 percent of seats in parliament.
In 2019, Viktor Medvedchuk, the godfather of Putin’s daughter, co-founded OPZZh, a more hardline iteration of the Opposition Bloc, with pro-Russia politician Yuriy Boyko and oligarchs Vadym Rabynovych and Dmytro Firtash. OPZZh became the dominant pro-Russia party in Ukraine and built out a solid parliamentary faction in the 2019 parliamentary elections that won 43 of 423 seats.
When Russia began its full-scale invasion in February 2022, many of OPZZh’s rank-and-file members, such as Shufrych, fled Ukraine to Europe and the Middle East. In April 2022, Ukrainian defense authorities suspended OPZZh on suspicion of treason and the party looked to be dead in the water. Pro-Russia political leaders certainly were — Rabinovych was among the first MPs to be stripped of his citizenship and then his parliamentary mandate. Authorities captured Medvedchuk trying to escape to Russia in April, exchanged him in a prisoner swap in September, and then stripped him and others of their status in January 2023.
While Shufrych himself was detained on suspicion of treason in March, he and his lesser-known colleagues stayed on as members of parliament. The paper trail documenting Medvedchuk’s treasonous activities in Ukraine was l
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Quote:Voltaire said that humanity invented hell to dissuade people from doing wrong when they noticed there didn’t seem to be any consequences for it here on Earth. Signym, your quote is still wrong.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The point is not to let America "befriend" you bc you'll get fucked over.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger said in November 1968, after Richard Nixon was elected U.S. president but before he took office: “Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu (South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu—ed.) before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem,. the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”
Yanno, you insisted for weeks that I got the meaning of my previous quote wrong, too. Until you learned something of the social cost of British industrialization.
And you've got this one wrong, too. I changed the emphasis to make Kissinger's point clearer.
Did you know that Saddam and Assad were once presented as a secular bulwark against Iranian extremism and that Noriega worked with the CIA? Ukraine and Germany are also "friends of the USA"...and look what's happening to them.
Anyway, I see you're now threatening people with hell, Mafia-style?
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Signym, previously you were quoting William Blake "Pity would be no more,
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, you insisted for weeks that I got the meaning of my previous quote wrong, too. Until you learned something of the social cost of British industrialization.
And you've got this one wrong, too. I changed the emphasis to make Kissinger's point clearer.
Did you know that Saddam and Assad were once presented as a secular bulwark against Iranian extremism and that Noriega worked with the CIA? Ukraine and Germany are also "friends of the USA"...and look what's happening to them.
Anyway, I see you're now threatening people with hell, Mafia-style?
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake". Blake has been dead for two hundred years, and the conditions that Blake wrote about don't exist anymore, and you misquoted him by chopping off most of his words. You completely missed the target, Signym. You are doing the same with your "Kissinger" quote, because you got that one wrong, too.
What was William Blake writing about? Living standards in England did not actually improve much for average people due to the Industrial Revolution. That helps explain why critics like William Blake and Karl Marx were so fiercely critical of the industrialization process.
Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution by Charles H. Feinstein
New estimates of nominal earnings and the cost of living are presented and used to make a fresh assessment of changes in the real earnings of male and female manual workers in Britain from 1770 to 1870. Workers’ average real earnings are then adjusted for factors such as unemployment, the number of their dependents, and the costs of urbanization. The main finding is that the standard of living of the average working-class family improved by less than 15 percent between the 1780s and 1850s. This long plateau is shown to be consistent with other economic, political, and demographic indicators.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2566618
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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Vladimir Putin: US issued fresh warning not to ignore his nuclear threats, 'it is certainly not impossible'
Arecent report has warned of the dangers of the Kremlin’s ‘hysterical rhetoric’ as it explores the likelihood of nuclear weapons being used by Russia. The study fears that Vladimir Putin’s volatile state of mind could drive him to use nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as the risk of escalation increases.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vladimir-putin-us-issued-fresh-wa
rning-not-to-ignore-his-nuclear-threats-it-is-certainly-not-impossible/ar-AA18IfsU?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4598cc74391a4fd0b7d07a8982cc8637&ei=190
Yep, he is losing it alright.
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Quote:This is where you're wrong. Like you're wrong about nearly everything.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, previously you were quoting William Blake "Pity would be no more,
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno, you insisted for weeks that I got the meaning of my previous quote wrong, too. Until you learned something of the social cost of British industrialization.
And you've got this one wrong, too. I changed the emphasis to make Kissinger's point clearer.
Did you know that Saddam and Assad were once presented as a secular bulwark against Iranian extremism and that Noriega worked with the CIA? Ukraine and Germany are also "friends of the USA"...and look what's happening to them.
Anyway, I see you're now threatening people with hell, Mafia-style?
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake". Blake has been dead for two hundred years, and the conditions that Blake wrote about don't exist anymore,
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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Must be a wonderful feeling for you, Signym. Here is a review for you, where you are always right and I am always wrong. In this review, the American empire is crumbling:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This is where you're wrong. Like you're wrong about nearly everything.
Unrest around Russian borders shows when empires crumble, they become murderous
The new eruptions of the old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan add to the general picture, namely, instability all around the Russian borders
Dmitry Kosyrev March 16, 2023 16:03:15 IST
Dmitry has recently read Caroline Elkins book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire and he makes predictions about what America will do by looking back at the fall of the British Empire. Since Dmitry works for the Russian State agency website ria.ru, he sees the Ukraine war as the fall of the American Empire.
"Elkins’ book was mostly about the retreating, not about an attacking empire. So why they could not retreat without war and mayhem? After all, they’ve had enough. Look at these attempts to estimate the riches, plundered from India in 200 years, amounting to today’s $45 trillion, with about 165 million premature deaths between 1880-1920. Not to mention the hunger of 1943 or the victims of Amritsar in 1919. But why should the outgoing empire start an operation in Palestine after the Second World War? Why build concentration camps for 230,000 people in Kenya in 1953?
The American lady gives a lot of good answers for that. And most of these answers are about the mentality of the masters of the world when they see that something wrong happens with their power. The reviews are quoting her lines about the sadistic methods that marked the last acts of empire, being not an anomalous aberration but learned behaviours of imperial power."
More at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/unrest-around-russian-borders-shows-
when-empires-crumble-they-become-murderous-12303052.html
Download Caroline Elkins free books from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.boo/search.php?req=Caroline+Elkins
1) Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
2) Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
3) Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies
4) Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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