Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Since then, Russia has launched four great offensives. Three were military; the fourth was economic. And while you don’t hear much about that last offensive, its failure offers some very important lessons. What can we learn from the failure of Russia’s energy offensive?
First, Russia looks more than ever like a Potemkin superpower, with little behind its impressive facade. Its much-vaunted military is far less effective than advertised; now its role as an energy supplier is proving much harder to weaponize than many imagined.
Second, democracies are showing, as they have many times in the past, that they are much tougher, much harder to intimidate than they look.
Finally, modern economies are far more flexible, and far more able to cope with change, than some vested interests would have us believe.
For as long as I can remember, fossil-fuel lobbyists and their political supporters have insisted that any attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be disastrous for jobs and economic growth. But what we’re seeing now is Europe making an energy transition under the worst possible circumstances — sudden, unexpected and drastic — and handling it pretty well. This suggests that a gradual, planned green energy transition would be far easier than pessimists imagine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion/putins-energy-natural-gas.h
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Russia’s missile campaign to degrade Ukraine’s unified energy infrastructure has failed definitively, and Russia appears to have abandoned the effort.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko announced on April 8 that Ukraine is resuming energy exports for the first time since October 11, 2022.[24]
Russian authorities began efforts in October to degrade Ukrainian energy infrastructure to a significant extent by the end of winter, which Russians consider March 1;[25] however, the series of large-scale Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure failed to achieve the assessed Russian aims of causing a humanitarian disaster, weakening Ukrainian military capabilities, and forcing Ukraine to negotiate. State-run Russian media acknowledged this failure on March 1.[26] Russia likely abandoned the effort soon after.
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (UK MoD) noted on April 8 that the frequency of Russian large-scale, long-range attacks on energy infrastructure has decreased since March 2023. The UK MoD assessed that Russia continues small-scale strikes (strikes using fewer than 25 munitions) with predictably less effect.[27] Russia maintains the capability to renew such strikes though, if it so desired. Halushchenko stated that Ukraine has the flexibility to adjust Ukrainian energy exports if the situation changes.[28]
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) may be setting conditions for a false flag attack in Sumy Oblast. The Russian MoD claimed on April 8 that Ukrainian forces have been delivering dead bodies from morgues to Okhtyrka, Sumy Oblast and applying toxic chemicals to the remains and the area in order to allege that Russian forces used chemical weapons.[35] Russian forces may be attempting to set informational conditions for future chemical weapons attacks in Sumy Oblast or to justify previous chemical weapons use, although ISW has not observed Russian forces recently using chemical weapons in the area. It is unclear what overarching effect the Kremlin intends to achieve with increasingly outlandish and ineffective Russian information operations alleging Ukrainian false flag attacks.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-8-2023
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There Is No Fixing Stupid When It Comes to Western Delusions About Russia
https://sonar21.com/there-is-no-fixing-stupid-when-it-comes-to-western
-delusions-about-russia/
Do you mean delusions like this guys.
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Waiting for two signal events...
The fall of Bakhmut. Coming soon.
Kiev's long-advertised spring offensive. Coming... soon?
Makes more sense aiming at Kherson, not Zaparozhiy.
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Kiev takes a page from USA racism and jihadists, burns churches.
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Quote:Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, nicknamed 'Putin's voice' because of his ideological affinity with the Russian president, predicted Russia will "fully move onto the war footing" if Ukraine achieves "strategic success" with a counter-attack.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Waiting for two signal events...
The fall of Bakhmut. Coming soon.
Kiev's long-advertised spring offensive. Coming... soon?
Makes more sense aiming at Kherson, not Zaparozhiy.
Claiming he has "no doubt" how Putin would respond to such a reverse, he said: "If necessary, there will be a mobilization of our society and industries. All necessary army reserves will be brought in.
"The country will fully move onto the war footing. It will get stirred up like never before and will continue to fight, despite temporary losses, until the Nazi Ukrainian nation is completely destroyed along with its collaborators, including Poland, the Baltic states, and other dirtbags."
Russian State TV Host Attacks 'Pacifists' Against Using Nuclear Weapons
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-host-attacks-pacificists-aga
inst-using-nuclear-weapons-1793349
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There are rumors going around speculating what the west will do if Kiev's long-advertised fails to meet it's objectives (whatever they are).
Redefine the objectives to match the results?
Use nukes?
One interesting rumor is that some neocons would like to create a Polish-Lithuanian -western Ukraine Commonwealth. Seems like it would be a hard sell to Germany and France, creating a strong bloc like that. OTOH we DID manage to convince Germany to commit economic suicide, and just to make sure we blew up their pipelines lifelines, with nary a peep of protest. So while knows? Maybe Germany will roll over like it's done before.
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Quote:Give a citation for where you got the rumors. Did you make them up because they seem plausible to you? For example: "a Polish-Lithuanian -western Ukraine Commonwealth" is from 1569 and 2020, not 2023: Lublin Triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lublin_Triangle
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
There are rumors going around speculating what the west will do if Kiev's long-advertised fails to meet it's objectives (whatever they are).
One interesting rumor is that some neocons would like to create a Polish-Lithuanian -western Ukraine Commonwealth.
Just to make it a little clearer because Signym is far too articulate (as in talks and gossips too much) and yet is completely stupid about practicalities, the Lublin Triangle is not some secret conspiracy by neocons . . .
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Foreign Policy (FP) magazine has been referenced. Supposedly in the last month.
.... Ah, here it is.
Quote:MORE AT
A political construct created nearly 700 years ago offers solutions for Europe today.
By Dalibor Rohac, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
In 1386, the last pagan ruler of Lithuania, Jogaila, married the child queen of Poland, Jadwiga, then in her early teens. The marriage created a political union between Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which encompassed large parts of today’s Belarus and Ukraine. By doing so, it solved a twofold problem. One, it helped bring the vast Eastern European territories, including lands of the former Kyivan Rus’, into the fold of Western Christendom. Two, the union addressed the immediate security concern facing both Poles and Lithuanians: the threat of Teutonic Knights.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/26/its-time-to-bring-back-the-polish
-lithuanian-union/
Be a dear and get us the rest of the text.
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Oh BTW SECOND whenever I delve into your "Putin says/ some random member of the Duma says/ some random Russian commentator says" posts, I find - in the first para or so- the headlines misquote take out of context, or completely fabricate shit. Not going to do a point-by-point refutation bc, really, it's not worth my time. Just a general observation that they're written by droids who can't even lie without tripping over themselves.
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Russia continues to weaponize religion in an effort to discredit Ukraine in the international arena and is using information operations about religion to advance military objectives despite itself committing gross violations of religious freedom in occupied Ukraine.
The Kremlin continues an information operation aimed at falsely portraying Russia as a religiously tolerant state while deliberately repressing religious freedoms in Ukraine. Putin consistently presents Russia as the defender of traditional “Christian values” that also supports Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism religions.[37] The Kremlin uses this information operation to accuse Ukraine of religious intolerance towards the Moscow Patriarchate and gain favor with religious communities worldwide. This information operation is at odds with Russian religious repressions on the ground. The Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration’s indicated that Russians have reduced religious diversity by over 50 percent in Crimea, for example.[38] The Kremlin continues to use long-standing false narratives that the Ukrainian government is oppressing religious liberties as a moral justification for its refusal to negotiate with Ukraine, likely in the hopes of turning international public opinion against Ukraine.[39] The Kremlin is especially keen on accusing the Ukrainian government of persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP).[40]
Much more at https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-april-9-2023
Quote:Signym, you have written the same lines a hundred times. Do you have a special key to produce it on your Russian-made computer?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW SECOND whenever I delve into your "Putin says/ some random member of the Duma says/ some random Russian commentator says" posts, I find - in the first para or so- the headlines misquote take out of context, or completely fabricate shit. Not going to do a point-by-point refutation bc, really, it's not worth my time. Just a general observation that they're written by droids who can't even lie without tripping over themselves.
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