Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:During the Holodormor, the Russians killed four million Ukrainians. Ukrainians still remember as does the US State Department and Defense Department. According to the Russians, Holodormor never happened, which makes the Russians seem even more unworthy to die happy than if they admitted to what happened.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seriously dood, stop harping about Russian nukes. They're not the ones who started this whole shit show, they're not the ones who put nukes on our borders, and they're not the ones who backed out of every agreement. Whatever happens, we're just reaping what we sowed.
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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The true scale of Russian combat losses
Prigozhin's latest statements confirmed the actual scale of Russian combat losses in Ukraine.
Analysis of open sources confirms this as well. Biden announced in Hiroshima on May 21 that Russia lost 100,000 troops in the battle for Bakhmut. On May 24, Prigozhin confirmed the truth of Biden's words and, for the first time, named specific information about losses during the operations in Bakhmut: 10,000 former prisoners and 10,000 Wagner volunteer mercenaries. There were 20,000 Wagnerite KIA, plus the losses of Russian troops at Bakhmut in May-August 2022 until the Wagner took over. Casualties also include the wounded, and Russian sources talk about the ratio of injured and concussed to dead as 1:4 or 1:5. This adds up to about the same numbers as given by the Americans.
More at https://english.nv.ua/opinion/the-true-scale-of-russian-combat-losses-
50328379.html
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SECOND CHANGES TOPIC...AGAIN.
Troll.
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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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Fuck Ukraine.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:The topic is always the same: why do the US, UK, and the EU not stop Russia? (Russia has always been incompetent at warfare but has ever so slowly achieved conquests because nations are not pushing back with even one-tenth of their might against Russia.) Previously, Russia was stopped when the Soviet Union slowly collapsed. Then Russia was forced to withdraw from places it had invaded: Afghanistan, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic States. But now Russia is back to its old ways of invasion while the US, UK, and the EU are back to their old ways of dithering over what to do about it.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND CHANGES TOPIC...AGAIN.
Troll.
The Biden administration showed a "continued reluctance" to provide long-range precision weapons which was "the result of its reluctance or inability to clearly define the strategic outcome it seeks and its unwillingness to say it wants Ukraine to win."
"This has led to slow, incremental decision-making that only helps the Russians because the Kremlin knows that the (Biden) administration will continue to self-deter out of concern over possible Russian nuclear escalation."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-biden-atacms-missile-1803298
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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How Putin’s taste for jail jargon changed Russia
Growing up in St Petersburg, Russia’s leader was fascinated with prison songs and sambo, a form of wrestling.
When Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary company, bristled at Russia’s top brass, he did not mince his words.
“Scum”, “damn it” and “go to hell” were among the most quotable phrases from the video rant filled with homophobic slurs and prison slang that was released on Prigozhin’s Telegram channel on May 5.
The diatribe does not seem surprising given his background. In 1981, he was convicted of robbery and assault and served nine years in Soviet jails.
His knowledge of “fenya”, as jail jargon is known, proved important to the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in Ukraine last year when he toured dozens of Russian prisons to enlist tens of thousands of inmates.
But the problem with Prigozhin’s profanities – as well as the corrupting influence of fenya and the overtly romanticised lifestyle of career criminals on Russia’s politics, culture and daily life – lies much deeper.
It was Prigozhin’s boss, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who started peppering his speech with salty phrases and fenya idioms since the dawn of his rule 23 years ago.
Long before former US President Donald Trump built his political career on jingoistic, misogynistic and intolerant parlance, Putin did something similar in Russia – with much broader consequences.
“We’ll soak ’em in the outhouse,” Putin, a newly appointed prime minister in President Boris Yeltsin’s government, said in 1999 about the Russian bombing of Grozny, the capital of the then de facto separatist Chechnya region.
‘I Want Someone Like Putin’
Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who spent years in gulags, pointed out that the phrase referred to the killing of snitches by drowning them in feces in giant prison outhouses.
But average Russians unfamiliar with fenya’s intricacies liked Putin’s phrase anyway.
Many more colourful, nearly obscene quotes, along with the scrupulously sculpted image of a macho man, paved the way to Putin’s first presidency in 2000.
Women were among his earliest supporters.
“‘Soak ’em in the outhouse’ was more about [Putin] becoming sexually attractive to the women whose men are drunks and who think that they need a strong hand to simply survive,” Nana Grinstein, a playwright whose family fled Russia after the all-out war began in Ukraine last year, told Al Jazeera.
She used an old Russian trope of comparing women to “necks” that support their men, the “heads” of families, and recalled “I Want Someone Like Putin”, a 2003 pop hit that describes a woman who kicks out her substance-abusing lover because she craves someone like the president.
“When these ‘necks’ turned towards Putin, then machismo worked both ways. For men, he became an example because ‘someone like Putin’ is wanted in the most open sexual way,” Grinstein said.
Other popular ‘Putinisms’
Throughout his years in office, Putin became known for language that reinforced his strongman image just as much as the photographs of him bare-chested, hunting, fishing, riding horses and doing judo did.
“He turned out to be a mighty man, raped 10 women. We all envy him,” Putin said in 2006 after Israeli President Moshe Katsav was accused of raping his female employees.
“They wore contraceptives [condoms],” Putin said in 2011 in response to opposition rallies whose participants wore white bands.
“No matter how one acts during the wedding night, the result has to be the same,” he said in 2013 about the European Union’s political consolidation.
“We, as martyrs, will go to paradise, and they will simply croak,” he said in 2018 about the possibility of a global nuclear war.
“Whether you like it or not – be patient, my beauty,” he said in 2022 about Ukraine’s reluctance to stick to the Minsk accords, a peace settlement in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
‘We’re thieves-humanists’
Some people who knew Putin as a teenager growing up in Leningrad, now St Peter
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND CHANGES TOPIC...AGAIN.
Troll.
SECOND: The topic is always the same: why do the US, UK, and the EU not stop Russia?
Why should we?
You haven't managed to give one convincing reason.
What you do is post a "reason", and when you get your ass handed to you, you change the specific "reason" and then circle back to it a few posts down the line.
Example: Russia killed 62 million of its people.
I have looked at quite a few historians' online estimates of "deaths under Joseph Stalin" and NONE of them support that figure. Aside from which, that number is implausible bc it would have accounted for at least half of the extant Russian population. Don't you think that would have been demographically noticeable??
Example: Russia is an imperial power threatening USA, UK, and the core nations of the EU (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc)
Does Russia constitute a threat to the USA, UK, and the original core NATO countries?
NO, it doesn't. Russia has never invaded USA, Canada, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the lowlands, etc, and Germany only defensively (WWII).
But the UK and France HAVE invaded Russia, and the USA and UK have a robust history of attempting to destroy Russia.
More importantly, it wasn't Russia that crept up to NATOs borders, it is the other way aaroud, despite clear promises from the west not to do so. Russia is simply looking to remove the nuclear and military threat that was aggressively moved up to its border.
Example: Russia threatens the USA with nukes all the time.
NO. Every step that Russia has taken has been a defensive response to USA attempted nuclear domination. The USSR/Russia has shown a willingness to sign AND ABIDE BY whatever nuclear treaties the USA was willing to negotiate. The USA, OTOH, has backed out of, or never ratified, almost every bilateral treaty.
Because of our hitory of not abiding by treaties (eg nuclear arms), breaking promises *NATO) and agreements (Minsk II), breaking contracts (SWIFT, gas payments), stealng money, and terrorist acts (Nordstream) Russia has decided, with good reason, that the USA and the collective west is NOT AGREEMENT CAPABLE.
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You HAVE posted multiple "reasons" that cancel each other out or are demonstrably wrong.
So far, the only thing you've proven is that nobody should listen to you, bc you post walls of lies.
Troll
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Quote:Think back to WWII. Japan invaded China in 1937 but not one Republican would vote for war with Japan. Germany invaded all of Europe in 1939 but not one Republican in Congress would vote for war with Germany. By 1942, Republicans even claimed that FDR had conspired to get the US into a war with Japan and Germany. The conspiracy theory was that FDR had tricked the USA into a War that was none of the USA's concern. Americans who vote for Republicans have always found reasons to not help when other countries are invaded and therefore it is no surprise when Americans who find Trump adequate would continue the long-standing Republican tradition of not helping when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND CHANGES TOPIC...AGAIN.
Troll.
SECOND: The topic is always the same: why do the US, UK, and the EU not stop Russia?
Why should we?
You haven't managed to give one convincing reason. You HAVE posted multiple "reasons" that cancel each other out or are demonstrably wrong.
So far, the only thing you've proven is that nobody should listen to you, bc you post walls of lies.
Troll
Americans have never stopped believing that President Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor happen in order to draw the U.S. into World War II
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/06/504449867/no-fdr-did-not-know-the-japan
ese-were-going-to-bomb-pearl-harbor
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND CHANGES TOPIC...AGAIN.
Troll.
SECOND: The topic is always the same: why do the US, UK, and the EU not stop Russia?
SIGNY: Why should we?
You haven't managed to give one convincing reason. You HAVE posted multiple "reasons" that cancel each other out or are demonstrably wrong.
So far, the only thing you've proven is that nobody should listen to you, bc you post walls of lies.
Troll
SECOND: Think back to WWII. Japan invaded China in 1937 but not one Republican would vote for war with Japan. Germany invaded all of Europe in 1939 but not one Republican in Congress would vote for war with Germany. By 1942, Republicans even claimed that FDR had conspired to get the US into a war with Japan and Germany. The conspiracy theory was that FDR had tricked the USA into a War that was none of the USA's concern. Americans who vote for Republicans have always found reasons to not help when other countries are invaded and therefore it is no surprise when Americans who find Trump adequate would continue the long-standing Republican tradition of not helping when Russia invaded Ukraine.
See my previous edits
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WTF does today have to do with WWII?? All you'retrying to do is recruit that gut feeling that WWII was a "JUST WAR!" and that Republicans would have kept us from fighting a "JUST WAR!"
First of all, if you look a the CAUSES of WWII, you'll see that:
The USA's embargo of Japan, and Japan's need for oil, led them to attack the USA in an attempt to break our stranglehold. So, in a way, we were part of the problem.
The WWI reparations payments that Germany owed was unspportable and led to economic collapse (people politely starving in their homes), hyperinflation, political chaos, and eventually nazism. Furthermore, whatever justice there was in fighting WWII in Europe, it was the SOVIETS that won. If you want to credit anyone, give credit where it's due: Russia. Our claims to being Europe's savior are 80% stolen valor.
So, what's your excuse for trying to tie today's situation to WWII? Yanno, other than trying to elicit a knee-jerk reaction?
The problem today, SECOND, IS US. If we're going to fix the problem, we have to start with us.
Troll
Please see the edits in my previous post.
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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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