Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Gee, I sure hope the Russians don't take out the radar and command center with a hypersonic missile. Or a drone.
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Quote:If Russia was competent, the war would have been over after a few weeks. For example, in the war between the USA and Saddam Hussein, the war lasted a few weeks and then Iraq's ruler had to go into hiding. Ukraine's ruler appears at international conferences, as does his wife. Russia is doing a very poor job in Ukraine compared to what the USA did to Iraq, where the US bombing could shut down Iraq.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Gee, I sure hope the Russians don't take out the radar and command center with a hypersonic missile. Or a drone.
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Russia decries U.S. plan to send Ukraine depleted uranium rounds
The ammunition can not only pierce Russian tank armor but also ignite inside, burning Russians slowly, screaming as they die.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-sending-ukraine-ammo-punch-holes-ig
nite-russian-tanks-2023-9
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-sending-ukraine-depleted-uranium
-rounds-russia-war-rcna103812
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Russian commander used military helicopters 'to airlift pet cat’ during Ukraine war
The former pilot said six military personnel were on board for the mission despite Russia experiencing a lack of pilots.
Maksim Kuzminov, a former Russian airman, claimed that the cat was airlifted in a military-grade helicopter for around one hour, while another flew alongside it to provide cover during the 114-mile journey, reported The Independent.
When asked for examples of any illogical uses of aviation during the war in Ukraine, in an interview with The New Voice of Ukraine, Kuzminov said, “Our commander needed to transport a cat which had some impressive pedigree. To do this, two Mi-8 and Mi-24 (helicopter) crews were assigned”.
“We burned a lot of fuel, resources. Furthermore, the crews aren’t always allowed to rest.”
The 28-year-old Kuzminov is now urging his former Russian colleagues to leave the Russian army and switch sides.
“The truth is, there are no Nazis or fascists,” he told the Ukrainian news outlet, to counter the message President Putin has used to justify the “special military operation” launched in February last year.
He said he got in touch with representatives of the Ukrainian military intelligence about the possibility of changing sides and he was offered safety as well as a financial reward.
Edited By: Manisha Pandey
Published On: Sep 7, 2023
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/russian-commander-used-military-
helicopters-airlift-pet-cat-during-ukraine-war-2432253-2023-09-07
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If Russia was competent, the war would have been over after a few weeks. For example, in the war between the USA and Saddam Hussein, the war lasted a few weeks and then Iraq's ruler had to go into hiding. Ukraine's ruler appears at international conferences, as does his wife. Russia is doing a very poor job in Ukraine compared to what the USA did to Iraq, where the US bombing could shut down Iraq.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Gee, I sure hope the Russians don't take out the radar and command center with a hypersonic missile. Or a drone.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Russia didn't WANT to go to total war and destroy Ukraine. THEY STILL DON'T.
In the beginning they were hoping to bluff/scare Zelensky into negotiating and it worked. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators initialed a peace deal in Turkey in March 2022, remember? But BoJo swooped in, told Zelensky what's what, threatened cutting Z out from under the west's umbrella and promised all the weapons Z might want (and, ahem, MONEY) and Z reneged on the negotiated agreement.
And like I said, Russia STILL doesn't want to destroy Ukraine. But they sure want to degrade Ukraine's and NATO's military assets. Which they're doing at a considerable clip.
Russia isn't waging an American-style combined arms/Nazi-style blitzkrieg war. You STILL haven't figured that out? Well, apparently neither have our generals.
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Quote:The Kremlin has transformed the “special operation” into a “people’s war,” a shared task that should unite the nation. Anyone who is against the Kremlin—“national traitors,” in Putin’s words—must be fought against.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia didn't WANT to go to total war and destroy Ukraine. THEY STILL DON'T.
Previously, the model was one of “us” at the bottom of the social pyramid and “them” at the very top—in charge of the country and living well, with their yachts and palaces. Now that vertical construction has been made horizontal. “We” Russians are all together and we’re fighting “them”—the Ukrainians, NATO, the United States, the EU, and the collective West.
The new “we” are developing a collective goal which, just like Communism under the Soviets, is forever being pushed further into the distance, but can nevertheless be glimpsed on the horizon. The goal is victory over the West. The specific parameters of what such a victory would look like or how it may be achieved remain entirely unclear, but the rest of eternity can be spent moving toward that horizon.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/89486
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Thanks to constant USA attempts at global hegemony, including trying to destroy Russia, angling for war with China, and sanctioning the hell out of a lotta nations, the world is dividng into two blocs, again.
And since the USA can't POSSIBLY by wrong and continues on its quest for total world dominance and the Great Reset, expect to see continued polarization as fewer and fewer nations are allowed to remain neutral.
And now, back to our story ...
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Quote:Russia has been thrown back not just forty years — to a time when behavioral patterns largely consisted of adapting to the decline of the Soviet system — but to the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle against “cosmopolitans” and any “kowtowing to the West”; to an epidemic of denunciations and new waves of repression.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Thanks to constant USA attempts at global hegemony, including trying to destroy Russia,
Under Russia’s internal rules, a “good Russian” is someone who at the very least does not rock the boat. The state feeds this obedient mass with rituals of unity, a national history of uninterrupted victories, and an ideology of imperialism. Consequently, weariness of the “special military operation” is not expressed in calls for peace and more transparency in Russia, but in either more aggressive or more passive, incurable support for the authorities. The scale of this adaptability is such that Russian society is giving Putin carte blanche to continue both his war on the country’s borders and the repressive practices within it.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/89486
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During a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that "those who have enabled [Vladimir] Putin's war of aggression should pay for it."
Blinken said: "For the first time we are transferring to Ukraine assets seized from sanctioned Russian oligarchs, which will now be used to support Ukrainian military veterans."
Reports suggest the amount seized so far is around $5.4 million. (If this number is correct, that is a pitifully small amount.) Representatives from the U.S., the U.K., and the EU held talks on Thursday about how to stop Russia from evading sanctions, according to reports.
In comments to reporters on Thursday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow considered the blocking, seizure or withholding of funds linked to the Russian state abroad "as illegal acts."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-blinken-kremlin-oligarchs-tran
sfer-1825258
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That's stupid. The oligarchs that Blinken is "punishing" are those who've taken their money out of Russia, and in many cases followed their money out. They aren't Putin's friends. Often they're on the opposite side. It's the usual braindead neocon approach. I personally think they just want to wrest something from their effort that they can call a "victory" and then bag the whole thing.
USA NEOCONS READY TO DUMP UKRAINE IN FAVOR OF WAR WITH CHINA
PER SKY NEWS, VIA THE DURAN (48:00)
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