Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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russia refuses to extend grain deal. the deal, which allowed ukraine to use the port of odessa to export grain, had provisions in it, NONE of which, predictably, the west honored ('not agreement capable')
turkey to inspect ships for weapons to interdict weapons transfer to ukraine
shipping corridor not to be used for military purposes
reattach russian agricultural bank to SWIFT to make payment for russian grain 9
(for example, by african countries) easier
let russian ships be insured again by western insurance companies (lloyd'sof london, mostly)
since none of he provisions have been honored, despite russian extending the grain deal a few times in order to give kiev, turkey and the west 'more time', russia let the deal expire. despite un scy guiterrez' two-faced plea for yet another extension.
timed with the grain deal's expiration, russia rained hellfire on odessa two night in sucession, using a combination of drones and cruise missiles, ruining kiev's main export (the equivalent of the west blowing up nordstream, ruining germany's economy).
i've heard reports that russia has crafted a different grain deal with turkey, this time shipping grain out of crimea, setting aside grain for poorer nations (most urkainian grain went to the EU. So much for ending world hunger!!!) and arranging for payment through non-SWIFT systems.
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the attack on kerch bridge has not yet been responded to. some say it will most likely be an attack on 'command centers' in ukraine. 'command centers' aren't simply plces were commanders gove orders: they are what might most accurately be considered 'fusion centers' where satellite data, AWACS data, videos and photos from soldiers and civilians, drone data, humint etc are combined in real-time to form a picture of the war at any one moment, and perform a threat assessment (what are the threats, which of those threats is the most immediate, how can it be countered etc) these command centers exist ON BOTH SIDES. the urkrainian army and russian are are about equivalent. where ukraine's army falls down is in 'multi-domain superiority'
this is a long video whcih discusses NATO capabilities, strategy and tactics v russia in great detail, as well as taiwan, featuring scott ritter, former marine intelligence officer, and andrei martyanov, former russian naval commander. they don't always agree but they always have something interesting to say.
and, as always, simplicius the thinker
https://simplicius76.substack.com/archive
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Military briefing: the mines stalling Ukraine’s advance
No obstacle has been as daunting for Ukraine’s counteroffensive as the fields of explosives laid by Russia
Christopher Miller in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions July 19 2023
Dmytro was marching through shrubbery at the front line east of the town of Lyman when his Ukrainian assault unit came under fire from Russian lines. He stepped aside to dodge the bullets. Then came the explosion.
Dmytro had triggered an anti-personnel mine. The blast dislocated his hips, fractured his pelvis, buried shrapnel deep in his left leg and nearly tore off his left ankle.
“We got him here just in time,” said doctor Viktor Stercheus, a doctor with the MOAS aid organisation, after riding with Dmytro and the Financial Times over rocket-cratered roads to Kramatorsk hospital. “He now has a 90 per cent chance of surviving and keeping his leg.”
Hundreds more treated by Stercheus and his colleagues have not been as fortunate. Six weeks into Ukraine’s counteroffensive to reclaim its eastern and southern regions from Russian occupiers, no military obstacle appears as daunting as Russia’s vast and dense minefields, which are destroying Nato-supplied armour, wounding soldiers and zapping morale.
“We can push with 10 brigades but it won’t work because the mines are everywhere, every half a meter there are mines,” said Sultan, a commander in the 78th regiment, a special forces unit, at a field hospital near the front line in Zaporizhzhia region. “They are everywhere.”
Ukraine’s advance has been painfully slow, and frontline soldiers in southern Zaporizhzhia region and eastern Donetsk region largely blame Russia’s minefields — a hidden threat that has become a psychological torment.
To recapture territory, troops must cross miles of open fields littered with thousands of mines: anti-tank, anti-personnel, improvised explosive devices and an array of booby traps.
Some are launched at random into fields from afar, so-called “distance mining”; others bounce in the air when triggered to spray shrapnel as far as possible. Small green plastic ones that soldiers call “butterfly” mines, a reference to their double-winged shape, are hard to de-mine and especially menacing, troops and doctors said.
Sultan, who preferred to be identified by his call sign, encountered his Russian mine as he sought cover in a thin tree line previously used by Russian soldiers. He pushed a branch out of his way and flicked a tripwire. The blast threw him on his back but the tree took most of the shrapnel. He suffered a concussion — his third — and was evacuated to a frontline hospital.
Russian forces, according to the officer, have noticed the Ukrainians’ tactic of capturing enemy positions and then using them to regroup and launch the next assault. Now booby traps are common.
Western armoured vehicles such as the American-made Bradley fighting vehicles and German Leopard 2 battle tanks have provided some protection. But mine strikes have put many vehicles out of commission, halting advances, and leaving the troops to trek on foot through minefields while under fire.
“These are real people in real machines that are out there really clearing real minefields and they’re really dying,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday. “So, when that happens, units tend to slow down and that’s rightly so, in order to survive, in order to get through these minefields.”
A harrowing drone video published by a Ukrainian journalist captured such a situation earlier this month. It showed Ukrainian soldiers in a rocket-cratered field stepping on anti-personnel mines one after the other, as they tried to evacuate a group of badly wounded men with a Bradley vehicle but became casualties themselves.
The failed assault turned into a rescue operation and lasted about three hours, soldiers with direct knowledge of it said.
“The mines are channelling the Ukrainian efforts, and they are severely limiting the Ukrainians’ manoeuvre space, which is usually not a great t
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mines are just one reason why i question the west's implaccable desire to ee a ukrainian 'offensive'. the only thing the offensive is doing is creating a lot od dead soldiers and amputees.
if the ukrainians had gone on the defensive instead, it would be russians having to thread their way thru minefields.
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Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups
Michael Weiss
20 July 2023
https://theins.ru/en/politics/263596
Yevgeny Prigozhin's coup attempt in June left everyone in the world stunned - except Russian intelligence officials, some of whom tacitly supported the catering magnate's efforts. In this exclusive for The Insider, sources in the FSB, GRU and Ministry of Internal Affairs explain why Vladimir Putin's security apparatus failed to stop Wagner from seizing a key military base and charging all the way to the gates of Moscow.
For Russian spies and soldiers, the biggest shock from last month’s abortive coup in Russia is that Yevegeny Prigozhin didn’t succeed in overthrowing a regime that they say curries little devotion. The Insider has spoken with several sources in Russia’s special services. Prigozhin, the rogue catering magnate turned mercenary financier, they insist, faced little resistance because he enjoys widespread support within the ranks of the very institutions meant to safeguard the state and Vladimir Putin.
To most outside observers, Prigozhin’s rebellion on June 23-24, which saw his Wagner forces come within 120 miles of Moscow, was a cause of astonishment and confusion. Astonishment because few saw it coming and even fewer could understand why it was mostly met by shrugs from the rank-and-file of the Russian army and the nation’s sprawling security apparatus. Confusion because Prigozhin, who came closest to challenging Putin’s 23-year reign, has not been shot or imprisoned – this at a time when merely posting truthful information about Russia’s faltering war in Ukraine can land an ordinary person fifteen years in jail.
In fact, Prigozhin has met at least once with Putin in St. Petersburg since his abortive coup. He still travels in and out of Russia on his private plane, suggesting his passport hasn’t even been confiscated. And now, after much speculation as to his whereabouts, he has turned up in a training camp in Belarus, just outside Minsk, evidently his new home in exile, along with some of his Wagner mercenaries.
The GRU: The Dog That Didn't Bark
One high-ranking source in the Main Directorate of the General Staff, the GRU, Russian military intelligence, previously warned The Insider that a coup attempt was possible in light of Russia’s flailing war in Ukraine; the only unexpected development was the timing and architect of this one.
“Everyone in the Ministry of Defense and in the government as a whole is already tired of this war and would like to stop it,” the source said. “You can feel the discontent , so I expected something similar could happen by autumn. The fact that Prigozhin turned out to be at the head of the rebellion is surprising, but he would never have done such a thing if he had not understood that there would be those in the GRU leadership who would support him.” This echoes statements anonymous Western intelligence officials have made in the past several weeks about the existence of a Russian fifth column.
During Prigozhin’s march on Moscow, the same GRU source told The Insider that he had no doubt it could end in Putin’s overthrow: “Ten thousand motivated people are stronger than a hundred thousand unmotivated people,” this officer said. “If you blow up the bridges on the Oka, then you can try to prevent the column from reaching Moscow. But otherwise there are no serious obstacles for the ‘musicians,’” this GRU officer added, referring to Wagner.
Nor has the meeting between Putin and Prigozhin, the man he had branded a “traitor,” made the Russian president any safer. “Now everyone is convinced of how easily and without a fight you can take power, so there may be many who want to,” the GRU officer said. “Everyone saw that, in fact, no one stood up for Putin. What until recently was considered by many to be absolutely impossible almost succeeded, and now many may want to repeat it again.”
There are generals in the Russian army, the source added, who gave a variety of excuses for not interfering in Prigozhin’s blitzkrieg, which began wit
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Quote:NATO’s infamous invasion of Palestine. Syria, Somalia, and Yemen have literally nothing to do with NATO, and Yugoslavia was committing a genocide that NATO ended. Yugoslavia is what really gets me. Did they prefer if the genocide continued? Then there is Libya, which was run by Gaddafi, a man gearing up for a genocide who was so insane, Russia and China ABSTAINED in the UN vote to permit NATO military intervention. What's the Commie list of mountains of dead? Russia, Poland, Ukraine,China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, also Afghanistan, Ethiopia.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughCommieSpam/comments/13df84o/povyou_dont
_know_history/
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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Konstantin Sivkov, who serves as the deputy president of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, has put forth the idea of detonating nuclear weapons at the North Pole "if necessary" as a way to convey a message to the West, in a statement on Russian state-run TV.
During his speech, Sivkov called for the potential deployment of nuclear weapons and show-casing their presence at the North Pole as a demonstration, under certain circumstances.
"If the situation escalates to an extremely critical stage, we could consider demonstrating a detonation, say, at the North Pole,” he said.
“Similar to what we did with the [thermonuclear aerial bomb with a power of] 58 megatons on Novaya Zemlya, where the test went as planned, proving effective and sending a powerful educational message.”
Sivkov emphasized his desire for Russia to prioritize the "intensive mass-scale development of strategic nuclear weapons," arguing that such armament would provide protection "against any possible encroachments" on the Russian Federation.
He further advocated for Russia to adopt "unconventional forms of using nuclear weapons," specifically referring to "high-powered nuclear munitions capable of causing severe geo-physical consequences, such as supervolcano explosions."
"Therefore, the deployment of these nuclear weapons is, of course, necessary.”
“It’s a pivotal matter... I strongly believe that transitioning to intensive deployment is strategically imperative.”
Russian officials have repeatedly made nuclear threats against Ukraine and the rest of the world. Medvedev, the former President and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has notably threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine on a number of occasions.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/retired-russian-colonel-calls-for-nuking-
north-pole-to-send-message-to-the-west-ukraine-news-50340925.html
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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND: NATO’s infamous invasion of Palestine. Syria,
SYRIA
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Even without invoking Article 5, NATO has taken collective defense measures several times, including in Syria
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088683957/what-is-nato-ukraine-russia-
putin
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SECOND: Somalia
SOMALIA
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Operational support includes strategic air- and sealift, as well as planning support for the AU mission in Somalia.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_8191.htm
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SECOND: and Yemen
YEMEN
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the US, France and the UK part of the Saudi-led coalition ... blocked all ships from entering Yemen with [FOOD, MEDICAL] supplies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Yemeni_civi
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SECOND: have literally nothing to do with NATO, and Yugoslavia was committing a genocide that NATO ended. Yugoslavia is what really gets me. Did they prefer if the genocide continued?
YUGOSLAVIA
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In June 1991, Croatia and Slovenia ... “ethnic cleansing” –
... in March 1992... Srebenica the massacre constituted genocide [1995] Later... Macedonia and Montenegro seceded, as [well as] Kosovo. In each case, violence against civilians defined along identity-based lines existed... In 1999 Kosovo. In 1999, a multilateral force conducted a ten-week-long bombing campaign against Serbian forces, whom Western leaders feared were set to wage another campaign of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo
https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/yugoslavia-former
So actually, if you knew history at all, you'd know the the dissolution of Yugoslavia which began in 1991, was accompanued throughout with various ethnic cleansings, and that the most infamous of those, Srebenica, occurred a full four years before NATO began bombing.
Quote:Genocide?
SECOND: Then there is Libya, which was run by Gaddafi, a man gearing up for a genocide who was so insane,
Against who??? I'll bet you can't even name the supposed target group, can you?
LIBYA
Quote:NATO's stated aim was to create a NO FLY zone, that is, to prevent a potential bombing campaign. as it turned out, NATO forces actively bombed Libyan troops and provided weapons to 'the rebels' who - again, as it turned out- were JIHADISTS who took over much of Libya and turned it into a hellhole, with open-air slave markets and everything.
Russia and China ABSTAINED in the UN vote to permit NATO military intervention.
WAY TO GO, NATO!!!
NATO, and NATO's big member states in various 'coalitions of the willing', have been busier than you thought, SECOND.
Quote:Whataboutism
SECOND: What's the Commie list of mountains of dead?
What about 'commies'?
SECOND, we are not responsible for what Russia/ 'commies'/ jihadists do, bc we can't control them. In fact, we shouldn't try to take on the responsibility for controlling anyone but ourselves. And that's the one thing we can't seem to do: control ourselves. So why don't we start by controlling our debt, our trade deficit, our borders, our joblessness, our security agencies, and all of the other things that DC seems unwilling/unable to tackle?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Zelensky Blames Failing Counteroffensive On Lack Of Munitions From West, Delayed Training
So, Zelenskiy admits the offensive IS failing.
And now begins the blame shifting and finger pointing.
NATO/USA rebuttal in 3...2...1...
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Quote:What does "control" mean to you, Signym? Nuking Moscow was dinner table conversation during the Manhattan Project. Joseph Rotblat — the only scientist to resign from the Manhattan Project — got a nasty shock in May 1944 when, at a dinner, Groves said, “You realize, of course, that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russians.” Later, Groves testified that “there was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge of this Project, any illusion on my part but that Russia was our enemy.”
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, we are not responsible for what Russia/ 'commies'/ jihadists do, bc we can't control them. In fact, we shouldn't try to take on the responsibility for controlling anyone but ourselves. And that's the one thing we can't seem to do: control ourselves. So why don't we start by controlling our debt, our trade deficit, our borders, our joblessness, our security agencies, and all of the other things that DC seems unwilling/unable to tackle?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/7/22/23803380/j-robert-oppenhe
imer-film-movie-nuclear-weapons-manhattan-project-world-war-ii-christopher-nolan
As for your other complaints, Signym, the Nation Debt for one example, there would not be a National Debt if somebody had nuked the Republicans who have stood in the way of collecting $1 trillion in taxes each year since IRS made its first estimate of how much cheating the wealthy do. And if the same somebody had nuked Moscow which has threatened to nuke the US since Stalin got his first nuke, the USA would not have spent more than $10 trillion on nukes to dissuade Moscow from going through with its threats.
Cutting IRS funding is a gift to America’s wealthiest tax evaders
Vanessa Williamson, January 26, 2023
Currently, the tax gap, which is the amount in taxes that are owed but not paid, comes to nearly $7 trillion over a decade. Three fifths of the tax gap is due to underreporting of income by the top 10% of taxpayers, and more than a quarter comes from the top 1%.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cutting-irs-funding-is-a-gift-to-am
ericas-wealthiest-tax-evaders/
The United States has the world’s highest national debt with $30.1 trillion owed to creditors as of the first quarter of 2023.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/31/infographic-how-does-us-de
bt-rank-compared-world
That $10 trillion for nukes is not inflation adjusted. It could very well be worth $30 trillion if adjusted. The US government is very secretive about how much it has squandered on nukes, thanks to the Republicans. And Moscow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_States
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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