Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Bakhmut No Longer Under Russian Control, Prigozhin Says
Days after forces from Russia's Wagner Group withdrew from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, its chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said the city is no longer under Russian control, and that troops under the leadership of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov are fleeing.
Ukrainian forces have now retaken part of the settlement of Berkhivka, north of Bakhmut, Prigozhin said, calling it "shameful."
https://www.newsweek.com/bakhmut-russia-ukraine-wagner-group-prigozhin
-shoigu-gerasimov-1804502
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Wagner boss rubbishes Russian claims of Ukrainian casualties
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin dismissed Russia's claims to have inflicted heavy losses on Ukraine in the Donbas when Kyiv attempted offensive action.
Prigozhin said the claims were "simply wild and absurd science fiction".
But Russia's defence ministry doubled down on the claims on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65825304
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IMHO Progozhin has lost it. Bakhmut is firmly in Russia's hands, and Progozhin wasn't anywhre near the latest fighting, so how would he know?
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Quote:Tell me how you know where Prigozhin was and what he knows. I am really curious about how you achieve so much "certainty".
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
IMHO Progozhin has lost it. Bakhmut is firmly in Russia's hands, and Progozhin wasn't anywhre near the latest fighting, so how would he know?
And while you are at it, explain your "certainty" in this statement: "And since America blew up Nordstream we KNOW they have no compunction against blowing up critical and environmentally sensitive infrastructure."
Did Seymour Hersh tell you? Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream Theory: Fact or Fiction?
https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/seymour-hershs-nord-stream-theory-
fact-or-fiction/
The US bombing Nord Stream was fiction. Fact: Ukraine was behind the Nord Stream bombing all along
It turns out that the country behind the September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline was almost certainly Ukraine—and US government officials have known it all along. The Washington Post reported this today based on intelligence leaks from the Discord Papers:
Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022....The highly specific details, which include numbers of operatives and methods of attack, show that for nearly a year Western allies had a basis to suspect Kyiv in the sabotage.
....European officials in several countries have quietly suggested that Ukraine was behind the attack, but resisted publicly saying so over fears that blaming Kyiv could fracture the alliance against Russia. At gatherings of European and NATO policymakers, officials have settled into a rhythm as one senior European diplomat said recently, “Don’t talk about Nord Stream.”
The European intelligence made clear that the would-be attackers were not rogue operatives. All those involved reported directly to Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the country’s highest-ranking military officer, who was put in charge so that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, wouldn’t know about the operation, the intelligence report said.
Details of the Ukranian operation that were shared by the intelligence source are strikingly similar to evidence gathered by German law enforcement:
For instance, the Ukrainian individual that informed the European intelligence service in June said that six members of Ukraine’s special operations forces using false identities intended to rent a boat and, using a submersible vehicle, dive to the floor of the Baltic Sea then damage or destroy the pipeline and escape undetected. In addition to oxygen, the team planned to bring helium, which is recommended for especially deep dives.
German investigators now believe that six individuals using fake passports rented a sailing yacht in September, embarked from Germany and planted explosives that severed the pipelines, according to officials familiar with that investigation. They believe the operatives were skilled divers, given that the explosives were planted at a depth of about 240 feet, in the range that experts say helium would be helpful for maintaining mental focus.
Investigators...have linked Ukrainian individuals to the rental of the boat via an apparent front company in Poland. Investigators also suspect that at least one individual who serves in the Ukrainian military was involved in the sabotage operation.
Ukraine certainly makes more sense as a saboteur than either Russia, which had little reason to bomb its own pipeline, or the United States, which had already been mostly successful at persuading Germany to halt imports of Russian gas.
One interesting aspect of this is that it's yet another example of Ukraine's remarkable wartime proficiency. Just as Russia's performance in the war has been surprisingly poor, I don't think anyone expected Ukraine to be as capable and skilled on the battlefield as they have been. That the pipeline bombing, a complex and
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
IMHO Progozhin has lost it. Bakhmut is firmly in Russia's hands, and Progozhin wasn't anywhre near the latest fighting, so how would he know?
SECOND: Tell me how you know where Prigozhin was and what he knows.
How do YOU, Nazi troll?
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You know Joe Biden* blew up the dam.
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Quote:Well, he* blew up Nordstream.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You know Joe Biden* blew up the dam.
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Sounds like a State Dept/neocons/CIA/Kiev secret op, with implausible deniability all around.
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How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine? May 30th 2023
By historical standards, it’s a puny amount. That tells you three big things
SINCE RUSSIA invaded Ukraine in February 2022 it has caused enormous damage. Thousands of people have died and billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure has been destroyed in Ukraine. Yet all this damage has come at a relatively mild cost to Russia. As we have reported, its economy is holding up much better than almost anyone expected. And the direct fiscal cost of the war—what it is spending on men and machines—is surprisingly low.
Russia’s budget is murky—especially its military one. So our estimate of what Russia is spending on invading Ukraine is imprecise. However, in consultation with various experts, and using our own analysis, we have come up with a figure. In essence this involved taking the Russian government’s pre-invasion forecast of what it would spend on defence and security, and comparing that with what it is actually spending. That would put the cost of its invasion at 5trn roubles ($67bn) a year, or 3% of GDP.
That is, by historical standards, a puny amount. We compiled estimates of spending on other wars—some involving Russia, some not. At the peak of the second world war the USSR spent 61% of GDP on the war effort. Around the same time America spent about 50% of GDP on its military forces.
Three reasons explain why Russia is spending so little. The first is political. Many within the Russian government would like to continue to portray the war on Ukraine as a “special military operation”. It would hardly make sense for such an operation to cost a double-digit percentage of GDP.
The second is economic. Russia would struggle to expand the war effort without costing its citizens dearly: printing money would spur inflation, eroding living standards; loading up banks with public debt might have a similar effect; tax rises or a big shift in public expenditure towards defence would also eat into personal incomes. This is a problem for Vladimir Putin, who has presidential elections in 2024. Mr Putin’s victory seems certain, but he does not want the potential embarrassment of large demonstrations, as happened for example in legislative elections in 2011. “Of course, national defence is the top priority,” he said recently, “but in resolving strategic tasks in this area, we should not repeat the mistakes of the past and should not destroy our own economy.”
The third reason relates to defence economics more broadly. Today’s armed forces are far more efficient than the ones of the past. They need ever fewer people and their machines are ever more accurate. The economic theory of “cost disease” suggests that high-productivity sectors tend to command a smaller share of GDP over time (unlike something like health care, which tends to take up a bigger share). Spending a lot less than you did in 1945 can still buy you a powerful army.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/30/how-much-is-russia
-spending-on-its-invasion-of-ukraine
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In other words, no sweat off Putin's balls.
Meanwhile, child rapist Zelensky has spent over $150 Billion in US taxpayer dollars and will run out by September if we don't give him more.
Go Joe*!
Keep that sunk cost fallacy up in perpetuity until the US Dollar is worthless.
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Quote:The US Defense Department wrote on May 31, 2023: In total, the United States has committed more than $30.4 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $32.4 billion and more than $29.8 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. I get the feeling that 6ixStringJack is Stupid and Crazy and Dishonest. He'd make a fine Russian. And 6ix, just like Trump, does not pay taxes so all the whininess about tax dollars is his nuttiness.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In other words, no sweat off Putin's balls.
Meanwhile, child rapist Zelensky has spent over $150 Billion in US taxpayer dollars and will run out by September if we don't give him more.
Go Joe*!
Keep that sunk cost fallacy up in perpetuity until the US Dollar is worthless.
https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Support-for-Ukraine/Timeline/
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