Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Fantasy is Putin's entire oeuvre. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently announced the good news: Ukraine has been demilitarized! Here are his exact words:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You believe in fantasy?
Troll.
“Indeed, Ukraine was heavily militarized at the time of the beginning of the Special Military Operation. And, as Putin said yesterday, one of the tasks was to demilitarize Ukraine. In fact, this task is largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses the weapons systems that Western countries supply it with.”
Peskov’s is a strikingly bizarre interpretation of demilitarization. True, Ukraine has used up much of the equipment and ammunition that hailed from Soviet days. Equally true, it’s been the recipient of far more effective and modern and NATO-compatible weapons systems from the fifty-plus countries in the Ramstein group.
Just how this amounts to demilitarization, especially at a time when Ukraine has launched what appears to be a successful counteroffensive, is unclear.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putins-big-lie-might-be-a-scheme-
to-exit-the-ukraine-war/ar-AA1cK49k
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Because now it's no longer using it's own weapons and it's using weapons funded by your federal taxes.
This article is an admission that you are now paying for a war that Americans can't afford to be paying for.
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Quote:6ix, there is something seriously wrong with you, but you don't know it. Meanwhile, Ukrainian POWs describe Russian captivity.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because now it's no longer using it's own weapons and it's using weapons funded by your federal taxes.
This article is an admission that you are now paying for a war that Americans can't afford to be paying for.
“Please let me die”: Freed Ukrainian POW describes first thoughts after Russian capture | 60 Minutes
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You believe in fantasy?
Troll.
T
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Ukrainian POW reveals torment at hands of Russians
Speaking to Sky's Sally Lockwood, one former marine tells of being treated 'like an animal' - stripped, beaten, duct-taped, shocked and humiliated while being held captive.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, there is something seriously wrong with you
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because now it's no longer using it's own weapons and it's using weapons funded by your federal taxes.
This article is an admission that you are now paying for a war that Americans can't afford to be paying for.
Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment.
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Brutalized Russian Society by Natalia Antonova
During Russia’s wars on Chechnya, videos of beheadings of Russian soldiers shocked and dismayed Russian society. But only for a while. Today, that kind of brutality has become entertainment for mainstream Russian society — as long as Russians are doing it.
In a way, I wish I were shocked by the horrific video that came out last week of a screaming Ukrainian prisoner of war being brutally beheaded by Russian soldiers.
At the same time, how can I be? Russians have done the same in Syria. The brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine is deliberate — and Russian society is caught in a paradoxical spiral of denial and applause for it.
The so-called Chechenization (a term frequently used by Russian dissidents and academics, originally to refer to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy of leaning on local warlords) of Russian society has been a long time coming. I use that term with caution; there’s nothing inherently brutal about Chechen society itself, as horrendous as the wars there were. Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, propped up by Putin, has inflicted the greatest suffering on his fellow Chechens, whether through day-to-day oppression and corruption or through violent purges.
But the wars in Chechnya, in 1994-96 and 1999-2000, played a key role in brutalizing Russian society. The spread of technology allowed for the filming of war crimes, and, at the same time, the murders of Chechen civilians were routinely downplayed or excused in the Russian press. Violence against Russians was used to justify violence committed by Russians. Ensuing terrorism against civilian targets in Russia deepened the process of brutalization further: The Beslan school siege is one of the most soul-destroying examples.
Both then and now, what ends up in the news about Chechnya is usually the tip of the iceberg, as any seasoned observer will tell you, but even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the violence sown in the North Caucasus found ways of rippling out elsewhere.
After opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was gunned down not far from the Kremlin in 2015, the men convicted of the killing would prove to be connected to Kadyrov, though who hired them remains undisclosed. At the time, the smartest people I knew in Moscow, including academics, law enforcement officers, and businesspeople already scrambling to get out, were muttering that the murder was a sign—the “marginal” politics of Chechnya had been normalized in the heart of the Russian capital. “Things will get worse,” these people said. And so they did get worse.
Recordings of the horrific violence had arguably also been normalized. When director Kantemir Balagov included authentic videos of the torture and murder of Russian soldiers in his 2017 film Closeness, Western critics were naturally upset — while Russians didn’t bat an eye. I was in my last months in Moscow when that film came out, and I remember fainting in the theater — I had been given no warning as to what I was about to see — while the rest of the audience didn’t think it was a big deal.
A society where citizens brutalize one another and are brutalized by their own government is inevitably going to commit even greater acts of violence against anyone it perceives as both evil and weaker — remember that Russians initially didn’t count on Ukrainians to resist and are therefore all the more enraged by how their war is going now.
This leads us back to the brutality of the present day. In the video from Ukraine, which was likely filmed last year, due to the foliage present in the video, the perpetrator wears a balaclava as he is being cheerfully egged on by his friends. That these people know to conceal their faces likely means that they’ve done it before or know friends who have. The comparatively small weapon used suggests the desire to prolong the victim’s torture.
Other footage of beheaded Ukrainian soldiers began circulating around the same time. In occupied Popasna last year, the severed head of a Ukrainian P
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US defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin indicated that it is ready to help Ukraine fly and maintain Lockheed’s F-16 fighter jets if NATO states agree to send them to Ukraine.[10] The Financial Times quoted Lockheed Martin Chief Operating Officer (COO) Frank St. John as stating that Lockheed is prepared to build new F-16s; modify existing airframes; and provide F-16 training, equipment, and systems support if NATO agrees to supply Ukraine with F-16s. US and other Western officials have recently signaled an increased willingness to provide Ukraine with F-16s, as ISW has previously reported.[11]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-19-2023
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Quote:Putin heard about the F-16s and immediately threatened to nuke somebody.
Originally posted by second:
US defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin indicated that it is ready to help Ukraine fly and maintain Lockheed’s F-16 fighter jets if NATO states agree to send them to Ukraine.[10] The Financial Times quoted Lockheed Martin Chief Operating Officer (COO) Frank St. John as stating that Lockheed is prepared to build new F-16s; modify existing airframes; and provide F-16 training, equipment, and systems support if NATO agrees to supply Ukraine with F-16s. US and other Western officials have recently signaled an increased willingness to provide Ukraine with F-16s, as ISW has previously reported.[11]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-19-2023
Putin warns NATO over being drawn into Ukraine war, says Russia has more nuclear weapons
“NATO, of course, is being drawn into the war in Ukraine, what are we talking here,” Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.
“The supplies of heavy military weaponry to Ukraine are ongoing, they are now looking into giving Ukraine the jets.”
The comment appeared to be a reference to the F-16 fighter jets some members of the NATO alliance are making plans to supply Ukraine with.
During his speech to the forum, Putin also suggested Russia’s large number of nuclear weapons would “guarantee” its security – noting that Russia had more such weapons than NATO countries.
“Nuclear weapons are created to guarantee our security in the broader sense and the existence of the Russian state,” Putin said.
“But first of all, there is no need and secondly the very fact of talking about it reduces the possibility of the threshold for using these weapons being reduced.”
“Also, we have more weapons like this than the NATO countries. They know it and they keep driving towards negotiation on reduction.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/europe/nato-danger-ukraine-war-putin-in
tl-hnk/index.html
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Originally posted by second:
US defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin indicated that it is ready to help Ukraine fly and maintain Lockheed’s F-16 fighter jets if NATO states agree to send them to Ukraine.[10] The Financial Times quoted Lockheed Martin Chief Operating Officer (COO) Frank St. John as stating that Lockheed is prepared to build new F-16s; modify existing airframes; and provide F-16 training, equipment, and systems support if NATO agrees to supply Ukraine with F-16s. US and other Western officials have recently signaled an increased willingness to provide Ukraine with F-16s, as ISW has previously reported.[11]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-19-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
And now you're not just blowing neo-cons... You're blowing the US War Machine too.
You guys are too funny.
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Quote:Putin said he'd nuke anybody who gave F-16's to Ukraine. The manufacturer of F-16's will call Putin's bluff . . . if somebody will pay for those F-16's. I'd be impressed if Lockheed Martin gave away free F-16s, but then Lockheed Martin would be charitably losing money and daring Putin to nuke the F-16 factory in Greenville. A small Russian nuke because it is a small American town.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And now you're not just blowing neo-cons... You're blowing the US War Machine too.
You guys are too funny.
Behold The First F-16 Viper Built In South Carolina
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/behold-the-first-f-16-viper-buil
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