Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Uh huh.
Whatever happened to your narrative of Russians' centuries-long history of being ravening cannibalistic barbarian imperialists?
Can't you even lie consistently?
Russian leaders killed other Russians by the tens of millions during the 20th Century. Stalin killed far MORE Russians than Germans. As a strategy, Russian leaders kill their own as a way toward military victory. Here is that mechanism at work in Ukraine:
Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed during an interview with Russian political strategist Konstantin Dolgov on May 23 that Wagner lost 10,000 convict recruits and 10,000 full-time professional Wagner fighters killed in action over the course of the Battle for Bakhmut.[1] Prigozhin specifically noted that Wagner had recruited 50,000 prisoners, 20 percent of whom (10,000) died in fighting for Bakhmut.[2] Russian milbloggers immediately seized on the reported losses, thereby shifting the overall Russian conversation away from discussions of the significance of the capture of Bakhmut and towards amplifying speculation surrounding the reported losses. The nationalist pro-war faction, exemplified by the views of former Russian officer Igor Girkin, commented on the massive scale of the reported losses and speculated that real losses may be much higher. Russian politician Viktor Alksnis simply remarked that the Soviet Army lost far fewer soldiers (15,051) in nine years in Afghanistan.[3] Girkin stated that he believes that Wagner’s actual losses could be more than 1.5 times higher than Prigozhin’s claims and pointed out that of the 50,000 recruits Wagner received from prisons, 10,000 died in action and 26,000 reportedly received pardons and returned to Russia, leaving 14,000 prison recruits unaccounted for.[4] Girkin suggested that a large portion of these 14,000 unaccounted-for prison recruits may have also been killed in action and claimed that Wagner has likely suffered more than 40,000 killed in action.[5] Girkin suggested that Prigozhin “keep [his] mouth shut” and stop talking about “wild losses for a very insignificant result.”[6] Another Russian milblogger, by contrast, praised Prigozhin for being open about the scale of losses and stated that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) would have hidden such figures.[7]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
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Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 by R. J. Rummel
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Russian leaders use Russians like artillery shells. If a shell won't do what the Russian leaders want, which is to blast itself at the enemy, the shell is destroyed anyway. That is why it is a crime in Russia to be anti-war. The Russian 2022 Laws Establishing War Censorship and Prohibiting Anti-War Statements and Calls for Sanctions is a group of federal laws promulgated by the Russian government during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_2022_war_censorship_laws The laws have been strongly condemned by human rights groups but when you are only an artillery shell to the Russian leadership, you don't have human rights.
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Russia’s military is less than meets the eye
May 24, 2023 Ilan I. Berman
For many years now, officials in Moscow have extolled the virtues of Russia’s “wonder weapons,” military breakthroughs and technological advances (such as fifth generation fighter jets, autonomous battle tanks, and mechanized combat walkers) that they maintained were nothing short of game-changers in modern warfare. For most of that time, officials in Washington and European capitals believed them, and tempered a great many of their policies so as not to antagonize the Kremlin.
But the war in Ukraine has changed all that. Nearly a year-and-a-half into Russia’s “special military operation” against its western neighbor, its next-generation arms have failed to materialize in any meaningful way. 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.
Russia’s high-tech military, in other words, is turning out to be much more modest than advertised. Nor is this state of affairs likely to change any time soon, for at least two reasons.
The first is the widening array of Western sanctions levied on Russia for its ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Contrary to Kremlin claims, those measures appear to be having a real impact on the health of the national economy and manufacturing. Yet the impact on Russia’s future warfighting potential — including its development of next-generation weapons — is likely to be even more pronounced.
A recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a prominent DC think tank, noted that sanctions “create shortages of higher-end foreign components and force Moscow to substitute them with lower-quality alternatives,” and that “for now, Moscow’s efforts at state-backed import substitution remain largely unsuccessful.”
“This ultimately impacts Russia’s ability to manufacture, sustain, and deliver advanced weapons and technology to the battlefield in Ukraine,” the report notes. “Therefore, while the quality of the military equipment used by the Ukrainian army continues to improve thanks to the Western aid, the quality of Russia’s weapons continues to degrade.”
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
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Quote:Ask SECOND a simple question .... get a wall of bullshit.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Speaking of slender threads ... Zaluzhny, Ukraine's military commander and link between Ukraine and NATO, has been missing since May 8.He missed a meeting with NATO that is SO important, Europeans are openly speculating that Zaluzhny is either dead or in critical condition.
Commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces said to be in critical condition after being wounded
https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/05/20/commander-in-chief-of-ukrainian-
armed-forces-said-to-be-in-critical-condition-after-being-wounded/
SECOND: If people at the pinnacle of the Ukrainian hierarchy stop coming to work because they died, somebody else will do the work and the war continues. Why? Because Ukraine's existence is threatened by ending the war.
On the other hand, if Putin stopped coming to work, the war is over. Whoever replaces Putin has zero reasons to continue Putin's pet project of annihilating Ukraine. Russia's existence is not threatened by ending the Ukraine War just like the US's existence was not threatened by abruptly ending the Afghanistan War. Putin said this war is existential, but Putin is lying to justify his "special military operation" (Russians don't say war or they go to jail).
SIGNY: Uh huh.
Whatever happened to your narrative of Russians' centuries-long history of being ravening cannibalistic barbarian imperialists?
Can't you even lie consistently?
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Quote:Signym, nothing changes if Zaluzhny, Ukraine's military commander and link between Ukraine and NATO, is dead. The War continues because Ukraine continues fighting or else it is annihilated. Is that so hard for you to understand, Signym?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ask SECOND a simple question .... get a wall of bullshit.
But if Putin is dead, the War ends abruptly because this War is a total waste of Russian resources. Signym, is that also too hard for you to understand?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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There wouldn't be a war if Trump were President.
This isn't a zero sum game and it needs to stop being treated as if it were.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:All the countries invaded by Russia in 1939 joined NATO because Russia would do it again once it recovered from its collapsing government in 1991. Trump can't change that unless Trump nuked Russia in 2017, which he did not.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There wouldn't be a war if Trump were President.
This isn't a zero sum game and it needs to stop being treated as if it were.
6ix, in war there has to be a loser who ends with less than zero gains.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:All the countries invaded by Russia in 1939 joined NATO because Russia would do it again once it recovered from its collapsing government in 1991.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There wouldn't be a war if Trump were President.
This isn't a zero sum game and it needs to stop being treated as if it were.
No.
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Trump can't change that unless Trump nuked Russia in 2017, which he did not.
It would never have happened in the first place if Democrats hadn't stolen the 2020 election through en masse mail-in-fraud ballots and ballot harvesting.
Trump will end the war when he is reelected in November of 2024 and Joe* finally gets the boot.
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6ix, in war there has to be a loser who ends with less than zero gains.
There doesn't need to be a war. There never needed to be a war.
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Quote:Do you understand the concept of a sore loser? Trump can't admit he failed and, for perverted psychological reasons, must change the game to claim he was cheated out of a win. If the world was a better place, sore losers would be knocked down and kicked until all their ribs were broken, just to emphasize that they lost. That rib kicking should have happened after the Civil War, but a slave-owning President, Andrew Johnson, pardoned all the Confederates, who then never needed to admit they lost for good reasons.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No.
It would never have happened in the first place if Democrats hadn't stolen the 2020 election through en masse mail-in-fraud ballots and ballot harvesting.
Trump will end the war when he is reelected in November of 2024 and Joe* finally gets the boot.Quote:
6ix, in war there has to be a loser who ends with less than zero gains.
There doesn't need to be a war. There never needed to be a war.
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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"Ukraine has said that it intends to take back Crimea, but that it would prefer to do so bloodlessly," Tannehill explained. "The moment that a JASSM [Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile] fired from an F-16 is capable of isolating Crimea, that's the moment when the F-16s are needed most."
The JASSM missiles that Tannehill mentioned as being critical for any potential future operations aimed at disabling the Kerch Strait Bridge or driving the Russian navy from its port in Sevastopol have a range of 370 kilometers. Without JASSMs, the F-16s would still be of use to Ukraine, but their potential would be limited largely to providing an extra layer of air defense against cruise missiles.
"Nobody in Ukraine treats F-16s as a silver bullet that will suddenly end the war," Bielieskov said, "but the aircraft give our military necessary capabilities which could at least help to shorten it."
Despite the best predictions of aviation warfare experts, exactly how the Ukrainian military will put its F-16s to use remains a closely guarded secret.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-needs-f-16s-most-isolate-crimea-18025
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Quote:How do you know that? Do you know the stance of every possible Putin successor, the Duma, the military, various political parties, and the Russian people?
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, nothing changes if Zaluzhny, Ukraine's military commander and link between Ukraine and NATO, is dead. The War continues because Ukraine continues fighting or else it is annihilated. Is that so hard for you to understand, Signym?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Ask SECOND a simple question .... get a wall of bullshit.
But if Putin is dead, the War ends abruptly because this War is a total waste of Russian resources. Signym, is that also too hard for you to understand?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
No, of course you don't. But that doesn't keep you from making shit up and pretending it's real.
According to some analysts, if Putin is gone people who are more hardline will take his place.
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