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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 5:32 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Get fucked, retard.

You are the guy with no teeth, no job, diabetes, a 450-pound brother, a broken family, 5 feet tall, and a deep lover for Mein Führer Trump. Congratulations, 6ix! You are the bedrock of America! An absolutely essential man who is necessary to keep America strong. Sieg Heil!

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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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 9:58 AM

You're the lunatic who posts death threats to public figures and encourages people to kill themselves under the handle that you managed to actually get banned from fff.net, a site that is almost impossible to get banned from.

You're a little boy who lives with his mother who hates you and wishes she could have the world's latest term abortion.

If you were going through half of what I'm going through now, you would have already killed yourself, because you're a pussy.


BTW... How was work today, honey?



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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 5:44 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're the lunatic who posts death threats to public figures and encourages people to kill themselves under the handle that you managed to actually get banned from fff.net, a site that is almost impossible to get banned from.

You're a little boy who lives with his mother who hates you and wishes she could have the world's latest term abortion.

If you were going through half of what I'm going through now, you would have already killed yourself, because you're a pussy.

BTW... How was work today, honey?

It is satisfying having meaningful work. I might eventually write a Firefly story where River gets Kaylee a paying job, kept secret from Mal so that she keeps the money, as an engineer. It is a sitting job that can be done from her quarters. She is a star-ship engine designer. (Kaylee's ultimate payday is a ride to Earth.) For River, Kaylee designs physics experiments for telepathy and precognition. River's psychic powers will go, with Kaylee's engineering, from weird flavors occasionally added to Firefly episodes to whole episodes. And all the while, Mal never figures out what is going on. Better he does not know because he'd say "NO!" You don't have to be psychic to know that about Mal.

6ix, you are pure Russian. Bragging all the time about nothing, making predictions that go nowhere, contemplating Russian roulette. With Russians, their sad story is the history of WWII and the Soviet Union's collapse. With 6ix, his sad story is his family's history. No wonder you drank like a Russian. When will your pain end? Only when the US Democrats are destroyed and the word "Ukraine" is removed from all maps! 6ix and Putin share that need.

Putin Is Running out of Red Lines

Washington finally agreed that American-made F-16 jets could be delivered to Ukraine after months of reluctance and concerns over whether, for Vladimir Putin, giving the aircraft the green light might cross a red line.

Since the start of the Russian president's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies have incrementally stepped up their provision of headline-grabbing weapons. HIMARS, the M777 Howitzers and the Leopard and Challenger tanks and, most recently, Patriot missile systems.

The F-16 will encourage Putin to make statements, as he has done before, that Russia might have to resort to draconian measures, such as a nuclear response. The Russian leader threatened in October that it was "not a bluff" to say he would use all means to protect his country.

"Simply put, unless Putin is willing to deploy its nuclear weapons, Moscow cannot retaliate in a meaningful way," Wes Renfro, political science professor at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut. "Escalation with nuclear weapons is a losing game for Putin and is unlikely until or unless the Ukrainian boondoggle threatens his grip on power," he told Newsweek.

The planes are not going to be a game-changer on the battlefield, given the strength of Russian air defenses. But Putin is playing a waiting game, hoping that the West will lose interest in supporting Ukraine if the fighting doesn’t end by the second anniversary of this war.

"There will be limits on the munitions and supporting capabilities provided, and I would expect such weapons systems and support for them will come with limits on how they can be used," said Lewis Griffith, professor of international studies at the University of Denver.

Griffith told Newsweek that the U.S. views the F-16 as it did the Abrams tank earlier, as "a technological step up for the Ukrainians but below direct U.S. and NATO involvement and not a system in these numbers that alters Russia’s fundamental strategic calculations.”

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-red-lines-f16s-ukraine-russia-war-escal
ation-1802264


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firef

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 6:29 PM





Working out accurately who is spending what can be difficult. For international comparison, defence spending is usually reckoned as a share of gdp, at market exchange rates. By this measure global military expenditures appear close to a post-cold-war low, at around 2.5%. But market exchange rates greatly underestimate the true size of defence establishments in countries such as China and Russia, where a given dollar of military spending can pay for a lot more weapons and soldiers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230524072143/https://www.economist.com/i
nternational/2023/05/23/what-a-war-tax-means-for-the-global-economy


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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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 6:51 PM

Russian Lawmaker Suggests Alaska As Nuclear Target

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 5/24/23 AT 7:22 AM EDT

Retired general Andrey Gurulyov, a State Duma deputy, raised the possibility of Moscow attacking the territory that the U.S. purchased from the Russian government in 1867. He discussed with TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov the war in Ukraine. Gurulyov started spitballing some ideas of how Moscow could wrest back the initiative in its fight with the West. He then described how strikes with tactical nuclear weapons against command centers, airfields and so on, would "paralyze" Ukraine. "Then a totally different conversation will start," he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-nuclear-solovyov-ukraine-russia-guruly
ov-1802315


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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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 7:57 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're the lunatic who posts death threats to public figures and encourages people to kill themselves under the handle that you managed to actually get banned from fff.net, a site that is almost impossible to get banned from.

You're a little boy who lives with his mother who hates you and wishes she could have the world's latest term abortion.

If you were going through half of what I'm going through now, you would have already killed yourself, because you're a pussy.

BTW... How was work today, honey?

It is satisfying having meaningful work.



Bitch, please... You work at Walmart. You're not curing cancer.

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I might eventually write a Firefly story where River gets Kaylee a paying job, kept secret from Mal so that she keeps the money, as an engineer. It is a sitting job that can be done from her quarters. She is a star-ship engine designer. (Kaylee's ultimate payday is a ride to Earth.) For River, Kaylee designs physics experiments for telepathy and precognition. River's psychic powers will go, with Kaylee's engineering, from weird flavors occasionally added to Firefly episodes to whole episodes. And all the while, Mal never figures out what is going on. Better he does not know because he'd say "NO!" You don't have to be psychic to know that about Mal.


I'm sure that Kaylee is as one dimensional in your story as your fake life you made for your boring Second avatar. At least Reaverfan was pure hate and insanity 24/7.

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6ix, you are pure Russian.


No. Actually, Russian is one of the few white people places that I have no blood ties to. Fortunately, the same can be said about Ukraine.

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Bragging all the time about nothing,


It's not bragging if it's true.

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making predictions that go nowhere,


Most of my predictions have already come true. Of the few that haven't, time is on my side.

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contemplating Russian roulette.


Nah. I don't own a six shooter. Not much of a game of Russian Roulette when you've got a Colt 45.

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With Russians, their sad story is the history of WWII and the Soviet Union's collapse. With 6ix, his sad story is his family's history.


Sure. Attack somebody for the family they were born into. Stay classy.

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No wonder you drank like a Russian.


And I've been sober for 6 years and 6 months next week.

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When will your pain end?


What pain?

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Only when the US Democrats are destroyed


That's good for every American. Even the stupid ones that don't realize it.

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and the word "Ukraine" is removed from all maps!


I don't give a shit about the future of Ukraine. It can stay on the maps.

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6ix and Putin share that need.


The only thing that Putin and I share is the desire for the end of US imperialism.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 9:42 PM

You've really gotten under SECOND'S skin, SIX. I think he's drunk-posting.


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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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THG
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

You've really gotten under SECOND'S skin, SIX. I think he's drunk-posting




Russia’s military is less than meets the eye

While the offensive has seen Moscow field a broad range of conventional weaponry, those next-generation technologies haven’t yet made a meaningful appearance. To the contrary, as the conflict has dragged on, Russia has been forced to rely more and more on foreign military supplies and old Soviet-era hardware to shore up its badly depleted forces.

An exception in this regard has been the Kinzhal, Russia’s most high profile — and supposedly formidable — hypersonic missile. The Kinzhal (“dagger” in Russian), has been billed by Russian president Vladimir Putin as an unstoppable super-weapon for the past half-decade. But it has proved distinctly underwhelming in practice. Last week, for instance, half a dozen of the advanced missiles were neutralized by Ukraine using American-provided defenses.

The second factor affecting Russia’s deteriorating military potential is its deepening “brain drain.” For years, the country’s best and brightest engineers, scientists and innovators have been abandoning Putin’s increasingly authoritarian regime in droves, deepening Russia’s larger trajectory of demographic decline. This trendline has accelerated dramatically since the start of the war in Ukraine, as Russians have voted with their feet to protest the conflict or simply to avoid conscription. Perhaps as many as 1,000,000 Russians are estimated to have left the country since the invasion began, representing the largest such exodus in over a century.

The results have been truly ruinous both for the long-term health of Russia’s population and for its innovative capacity. This was recently made clear by Valentin Parmon, the Vice President of the prestigious Russian Academy of Scientists. In a recent interview with the Interfax news agency, Parmon explained that “no other countries have lost so many workers in the scientific field” as Russia over the past half-decade, numbering a staggering 50,000 people. “[T]he future depends on knowledge-intensive technologies,” said Parmon, “[and] Russia as a state has let those who can do [these specialties] go.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-military-is-less-than-me
ets-the-eye/ar-AA1bD32L?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b8447256fcfe4513b5d63bd1684ad7e3&ei=516




Here is some more drunk posting comrade.

T

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 10:26 PM

Nether side is saying how many of its soldies were killed at Artemovsk (Bakhmut) but I'm going to take a stab a it and guess 80,000 Ukrainians (appx 100 per day over appx 800 days) and, since was this was urban combat, assuming 5:1 in Russia's favor (lower than the estimated 6-7:1 for defensive fighting) 16,000 Russians.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 10:46 PM

THUGR, you're posting complete and utter bullshit. VIDEO EVIDENCE shows that a Patriot missile battery firing off 32 missiles in appx 2 minutes was itself struck on the ground. Probably by (a) Kinzhal missile(s). Go look at the video yourself (if you can find it.It's been scrubbed from the inet, but I watched it myself). You'll see a lot of launches followed by one (some say two) explosions on the ground. Russia says it destroyed one radar and five of eight launchers.

USA says that the installationt was "damaged". (Yeah, I'll bet it was! )

Kiev says, not that anyone should pay attention to them, that they knocked out a perfect score on Kinzhal missiles. If that were the case, then apparently they failed to hit and destroy older, slower, missiles.

When you read claims like that, THUGR, you really REALLY REALLY should look for evidence, especially when those claims come from habitual liars.

ETA: And with all of the potential sources I linked for you, why are you still going to bullshit websites? Yanno, there are thoughtful analysts and reporters out there. They don't always get it right, but at least they're not 90% propaganda 100% of the time.

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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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