Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by second:
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We would like to formally apologize for using Russia as antagonists in our Call of Duty series. Had we known the truth we would have used a much more competent military, such as Cuba or Laos.
2:25 PM ¦ Feb 28, 2022
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At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
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Quote:Says the Nazi who doesn't recognize he is a Nazi. Direct your “Heil Hitler!” to Trump, the head Nazi.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
The two-day poll that was concluded on Tuesday charted a sharp rise in backing for arming Ukraine, with 65% of the respondents approving of the shipments compared with 46% in a May poll.
Eighty-one percent of Democrats, 56% of Republicans and 57% of independents favor supplying U.S. weapons to Ukraine, according to the latest poll.
The survey was conducted just days after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private Wagner mercenary company, launched and then called off a mutiny over what he charged was the Russian defense ministry's mishandling of the war in Ukraine.
The findings appeared to provide firmer backing for U.S. President Joe Biden's policy of doing "whatever it takes" to assist Ukraine in recapturing territory that Russia seized in an initial assault in 2014 and its full-scale invasion 16 months ago.
"This definitely reinforces Biden's decision to be all-in on this," said William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine now with the U.S. Institute of Peace.
"The Republican leadership of the House and Senate will also take heart from this," Taylor said. Some right-wing Republican lawmakers have opposed continuing U.S. military support for Ukraine.
The Biden administration has approved 41 weapons packages for Ukraine totaling more than $40 billion since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he calls "a special military operation" in February 2022.
The online Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted nationwide, collecting responses from 1,004 adults, including 400 Democrats and 383 Republicans. It had a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 4 percentage points in either direction.
The poll found that 76% of Americans believe that providing aid to Ukraine demonstrates to China and other rivals that the United States has "the will and capability to protect our interests, our allies and ourselves."
In other findings, the survey said large majorities of Americans - 67% and 73% - are more likely to support a candidate in next year's U.S. presidential election who will continue military aid to Ukraine and one who backs the NATO alliance.
https://www.reuters.com/world/most-americans-support-us-arming-ukraine
-reutersipsos-2023-06-28/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Says the Nazi who doesn't recognize he is a Nazi. Direct your “Heil Hitler!” to Trump, the head Nazi.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
There's my Reaverfan.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
SECOND: Says the Nazi who doesn't recognize he is a Nazi. Direct your “Heil Hitler!” to Trump, the head Nazi.
'While visions of genocide danced in SECOND'S head...'
Says the liar who calls others liars, the Nazi who calls others Nazis, the troll who calls others trolls, the killer who claims others kill, the sociopath who sees evil in everyone else.
'But I pay my taxes!!! and 'I don't overeat!/ are your only claims to being a 'good person'?
Say, did you know Hitler was a vegetarian and was nice to his dog?
Likely he never killed anyone either https://historywench.com/2016/11/17/hitler-kills/ And I'll bet he paid his taxes, too.
He was obviously a better person than you!
Troll
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Second's straight up on tilt now. I've even got him posting baseless personal attacks with increasing frequency in the Cinema board. But not without first quoting part of something I said and responding with something not at all related to what he quoted, as per usual.
I wonder if his imaginary wife left with his imaginary daughters, or maybe one of his imaginary cats died.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
SECOND: Says the Nazi who doesn't recognize he is a Nazi. Direct your “Heil Hitler!” to Trump, the head Nazi.
'While visions of genocide danced in SECOND'S head...'
Says the liar who calls others liars, the Nazi who calls others Nazis, the troll who calls others trolls, the killer who claims others kill, the sociopath who sees evil in everyone else.
'But I pay my taxes!!! and 'I don't overeat!/ are your only claims to being a 'good person'?
Say, did you know Hitler was a vegetarian and was nice to his dog?
Likely he never killed anyone either https://historywench.com/2016/11/17/hitler-kills/ And I'll bet he paid his taxes, too.
He was obviously a better person than you!
Troll
Hey TWO, can you believe it? Hitler was good to his dog and likely never killed anyone. What the fuck is wrong with these two. They don't think Hitler killed anyone. He killed millions and in a brutal fashion.
Want a new lamp shade? Here try this its the latest fashion. I call it Jew skin pink. Wow these two are sick.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
At least they weren't using Nazis. That's kind of played out in current year.
SECOND: Says the Nazi who doesn't recognize he is a Nazi. Direct your “Heil Hitler!” to Trump, the head Nazi.
SIGNY: 'While visions of genocide danced in SECOND'S head...'
Says the liar who calls others liars, the Nazi who calls others Nazis, the troll who calls others trolls, the killer who claims others kill, the sociopath who sees evil in everyone else.
'But I pay my taxes!!! and 'I don't overeat!/ are your only claims to being a 'good person'?
Say, did you know Hitler was a vegetarian and was nice to his dog?
Likely he never killed anyone either https://historywench.com/2016/11/17/hitler-kills/ And I'll bet he paid his taxes, too.
He was obviously a better person than you!
Troll
THUGR: Hey TWO, can you believe it? Hitler was good to his dog and likely never killed anyone. What the fuck is wrong with these two. They don't think Hitler killed anyone. He killed millions and in a brutal fashion.
Want a new lamp shade? Here try this its the latest fashion. I call it Jew skin pink. Wow these two are sick.
Sarcasm doesn't register with you?
But, to the point: UNLIKE SECOND, who claims to have shot people in Vietnam from a helicopter, Hitler most likely did not PERSONALLY kill anyone.
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Quote:If you had to decide what the stupidest thing Hitler did was, what would you pick? Besides, you know, being a racist fascist? The invasion of the Soviet Union is a good option, as is the subsequent abandonment of Moscow to split his forces against Stalingrad and the oil fields. Taking on Italian failures in North Africa and committing needed resources there is also solid. The use of amphetamines and encouraging its use by his troops? The fascination with wonder weapons (V1, V2, Jet aircraft)?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Say, did you know Hitler was a vegetarian and was nice to his dog?
Likely he never killed anyone either https://historywench.com/2016/11/17/hitler-kills/ And I'll bet he paid his taxes, too.
He was obviously a better person than you!
All solid, defensible choices. But I have an easily overlooked alternative: A failure to properly fund his U-boat fleet, the actual wonder weapon that worked, had a good record, and could have knocked Britain and its empire out of the war. If Hitler had just signed off on a purchase order of U-boats for Admiral Karl Donitz, he might’ve won. These boats inflicted stunning losses with the average U-boat sinking four Allied ships per patrol. In the first months of 1942, sinkings skyrocket and Germany sunk almost 900,000 shipping tons per month, 50% higher than Donitz's plans.
So, what went wrong? Short answer: Not all U-boats returned to port and Hitler didn’t buy replacements for the losses.
More at https://news.yahoo.com/hitlers-greatest-mistake-mightve-u-182805966.ht
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Russia Has Reached a Dead End
An indifferent response to a warlord’s march on Moscow heralds the dawning realization that Russia has no good way out in Ukraine.
By Greg Yudin
Yevgeny Prigozhin had his reasons for launching a mutiny over the weekend. For all the inconsistencies, Prigozhin’s speech carried an overarching message that was entirely clear: Putin fails to execute his own plans. His system is so inefficient that it cannot win the war it started.
Prigozhin’s statements can seem chaotic, but they are not improvisations. Rather, the mercenary warlord commands a team of spin doctors and speechwriters that has been running political campaigns in Russia for years. His appeals to various discontented constituencies, from military hawks to anti-war pragmatists, are based on a careful analysis of the tendencies and moods in Russian society. And that analysis yields a singular conclusion: More and more Russians feel that the country has reached a dead end.
In Ukraine, no visible path leads to a Russian victory. Putin keeps inventing stories about how Russia will inevitably prevail: First, it was supposed to win easily by removing the government in Kyiv, then by seizing the Donbas, then by destroying Ukraine’s crucial infrastructure, then by freezing Europeans last winter, then by waiting until the West grew tired of supplying Ukraine with weapons. Many in Russia were once willing to believe Putin’s fairy tales, but few can now pretend to believe a good end is in sight. Rather, a defeat is looming, and even though the word is virtually prohibited for public use, it comes up more and more often in private conversations. In his public appearance during the mutiny, Putin finally hinted at the real possibility of a defeat, openly invoking the “dagger in the back” metaphor that was used to fuel resentment in Germany after it lost in World War I.
In Moscow, where I was that Saturday afternoon, the city streets were eerily empty, even though no curfew or evacuation had been declared. On a public bus, I overheard conversations that mentioned the mutiny, but not with strong emotion. Muscovites seemed calm, as if such a thing had long been bound to happen and would be greeted with indifference.
Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow made clear that Putin was no longer the arbiter of a conflict among warlords: He was himself part of the conflict, which was why not he but Belarus’s president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, served as its mediator. And although the two forces at odds on Saturday could hardly be classified as supporters versus opponents of the war in Ukraine, the deeper import of their standoff is the unspoken acknowledgment that the invasion, and with it Russia, has reached a dead end. Nobody has a working plan, all responsibility is delegated, and the president keeps doing what is clearly not working, while his power gradually erodes. Russia is reckoning with the fact that it cannot continue like this.
Today this recognition enters Russia through the loathsome figure of Yevgeny Prigozhin. But the Wagner Group leader’s uncanny crusade is probably a sign of things to come. Russia needs a way out of the impasse, and Putin is unlikely to offer one. Even getting rid of Prigozhin will not change this basic fact. His march may be the last call to start the search for a way out.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-has-reached-a-dead-end/ar-
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How to End Russia’s War on Ukraine
Safeguarding Europe’s Future, and the Dangers of a false peace
Chatham House report 27 June 2023
Ukraine’s Western backers debate the likely endgame for the war and its aftermath. The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while impressive in many ways, remains inadequate to the task and wobbly.
Many proposals have been put forward for how the conflict could, or should, be brought to a close. Some, though well-intentioned, involve concessions that would effectively appease Russia.. Persistent calls for a ceasefire or ‘negotiated settlement’ to end the fighting without tackling its underlying cause – Russia’s ambition to eliminate Ukraine as we know it – will do no more than reward the aggressor while punishing the victim.
This multi-author report takes nine commonly espoused ideas for quick fixes or objections to bolstering assistance to Ukraine, and weighs them against both current reality and their long-term consequences. The unanimous conclusion of the authors is that the only outcome to the war that can safeguard the future security of Europe is a convincing Ukrainian victory – hence, Western military support to Kyiv should be redoubled before it is too late.
Summary
• It’s now or never for Ukraine. A protracted or frozen conflict benefits Russia
and hurts Ukraine, as does a ceasefire or negotiated settlement on Russia’s terms. If Ukraine is to avoid these outcomes and turn tenacious defence and incremental battlefield gains into outright victory, it needs far more ambitious international military assistance than it has received to date. This report presents the case for an immediate and decisive increase in such support, seeks to dispel overhyped concerns about provoking Russia, and counsels against accommodating Moscow’s demands.
• Ukraine’s need is all the more pressing because the United States - the principal donor of financial and military aid to Kyiv - is entering an election cycle that could soon reduce US foreign policy engagement or ultimately result in a more inward-looking administration in Washington. Increasing the West’s supply of weaponry for Ukraine now would, in addition to helping ongoing military actions against Russian forces, provide a measure of insulation against any future weakening of US solidarity.
• The argument for Western military and diplomatic resolve is reinforced by the impacts of Russian aggression beyond Ukraine itself. Not only is European security under threat, but the viability of the rules-based international order is potentially at stake. With this full-scale invasion, Russia has directly challenged arrangements that have helped to secure peace for over 70 years. The world will be safer with Russia defeated soundly on the battlefield than with an ambiguous outcome that, for instance, institutionalizes Ukrainian territorial losses.
• The search for peace is fraught with pitfalls. Any temporary solution that preserves, or partially preserves, the battlefield status quo will buy time for Russian forces to regroup after recent heavy losses and prepare for the next onslaught, while leaving Ukraine enfeebled and less than fully sovereign. While a diplomatic solution seems attractive to many in the West, and may suspend hostilities for a period, it would merely postpone an essential reckoning with Russia and is pointless without an achievable long-term plan for Ukraine’s security in place.
• Backing a full and unambiguous Ukrainian victory is essential on practical grounds. Although recent increases in Western supplies of munitions and other hardware are welcome, the fundamental solution to many of the problems raised in this report remains: that Ukraine still needs a massive influx of weaponry. Without it, Ukraine will cease to exist as a sovereign state and an emboldened Russia will continue its imperialist campaign of expansionism against neighbours and aggression against perceived adversaries, democratic and otherwise, the world over. In the longer term, backing Ukraine will serv
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