Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Nobody could be that stupid as to believe this load of crap. Synder is a plant.
SECOND: You misspelled
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Snyder so it is not surprising you could not find him or his books using Google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Timothy+Snyder
Snyder is real
Hey, plants are real people too! So now you micraggressed against plants everywhere, you bully!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
I see signym is confessing to living with a drunk. That explains where a lot of her anger comes from.
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Glad to see you're still alive, Ted.
I was worried about you.
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Ammo sales from US are fueling the war in Ukraine
The planes were bound for Rzeszów, Poland. The ancient city sits at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains in southeastern Poland. It has a gleaming modern airport next to a major east-west freeway. From there, it’s barely 60 miles to the border with Ukraine.
It was an expensive journey. The trucking company’s bill for those 18 semis? $85,000. Chartering the two 747s? $625,000. Each.
But this shipment of .50-cal rounds was profitable for Battle Born Munitions, according to Brown.
The company purchased the 3 million rounds from Northrop Grumman at a bargain and resold them for more than double the price.
Retail prices for .50-caliber ammunition run roughly $5 per bullet. At that rate, the whole shipment would have been worth $15 million.
How many Russians will this kill? If 999 rounds miss out of every 1,000, that is 3,000 dead Russians, or $5,000 in ammo to kill one Russian. A competent gunner could aim much better, but how competent are the Ukrainians? As far as I can tell, not so competent. Even Imperial Stormtroopers from Star Wars are better marksmen.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/07/war-in-u
kraine-private-ammunition-sales/70708811007/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated boilerplate rhetoric justifying the current war in Ukraine while commemorating a Soviet military victory during the Second World War on September 8. Putin claimed that soldiers of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics’ (DNR and LNR) militias inherited their courage and resilience from ancestors who fought to recapture Donbas in the Second World War and reamplified the narrative falsely portraying the current Ukrainian government as “Nazis.”[34] Putin’s September 8 speech is a continuation of the rhetoric from his September 5 speech invoking the memory of significant Soviet military victories to set ideological conditions for a prolonged war effort.[35]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-september-8-2023
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And I think there may a Russian offensive this winter that could bring the war to a quick close.
I'm seeing a lot of hopium and copium in western press, which makes me think they're deliberately trying to fool everyone. Yanno, like usual.
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Quote:Putin's general thinks the war will go on and on for years and years. No quick end, Signym. Just more and more war:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And I think there may a Russian offensive this winter that could bring the war to a quick close.
I'm seeing a lot of hopium and copium in western press, which makes me think they're deliberately trying to fool everyone. Yanno, like usual.
Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe
A key Russian general whom Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted this week views the invasion of Ukraine as a mere "stepping stone" to further conflict with Europe.
Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, sparking fears from many analysts that the Kremlin may have greater ambitions beyond taking control of its former Soviet neighbor. Russian commentators and lawmakers have often heightened those fears with their anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) rhetoric throughout the war—routinely encouraging direct strikes on European and even American targets.
This week, Putin promoted Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev to the rank of Colonel-General. The military leader had already been serving in the role of commanding the Central Military District and Russian Central Grouping of Forces in Ukraine.
In a recent interview with Moscow's state-run Russia-1, a clip of which circulated widely on social media Saturday, Mordvichev said he believes Putin's war will last quite a long time and expand in the future.
"I think there's still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer," the general said.
"Ukraine is only a stepping stone?" the interviewer then asked.
"Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning," Mordvichev responded, who went on to say that the war "will not stop here."
Newsweek reached out to the Russian embassy via email for comment.
Ahead of the invasion of Ukraine, Putin laid out a vision to reconstitute the long-defunct Russian Empire's territories into a unified block. The Russian leader and his allies have repeatedly said they do not view Ukraine as independent from Russia, saying that the sovereign nation should be brought back under Moscow's control.
Some of Putin's allies have often floated the possibility of expanding the Kremlin's invasion into NATO countries, including Poland and several other Eastern European nations. Analysts have citied the Russian president's vision and the suggestions to expand the war from his various allies as worrying signs that Moscow could push its military efforts beyond Ukraine.
NATO leaders have defended their military and humanitarian aide to Ukraine, saying their aim is to prevent Putin from pushing his forces further west into Europe. Eastern European nations, such as Poland, have been some of Ukraine's loudest defenders as their leaders fear their borders could be next to be challenged by Putin's forces.
Russian leaders claim that their Ukraine invasion was defensive to prevent NATO's expansion, and to protect Russian-speakers in Ukraine from "genocide." They claim that Kyiv's government is led by Nazis, while also saying that Ukraine is too supportive of LGBTQ+ rights.
Many view the Nazi claim as particularly bizarre. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish, and is himself a native Russian-speaker. During his 2019 election campaign he drew criticism for his accent when he spoke Ukrainian. At the time when Zelensky won and took office, Ukraine's prime minister was also Jewish.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-general-admits-ukraine-just-stepping-
stone-invade-europe-1825776
Putin Promotes General With Eye for Attacking Eastern Europe
LONGER AND LONGER
Shannon Vavra, National Security Reporter
Updated Sep
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And I think there may a Russian offensive this winter that could bring the war to a quick close.
I'm seeing a lot of hopium and copium in western press, which makes me think they're deliberately trying to fool everyone. Yanno, like usual.
SECOND: "Putin's general thinks the war will go on and on for years and years. No quick end, Signym. Just more and more war:
Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe
Translation: Russian General ALSO sees a near-term end to Ukraine as we know it
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A key Russian general whom Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted this week views the invasion of Ukraine as a mere "stepping stone" to further conflict with Europe.
Translation: Unless the collective west takes Russian border security SERIOUSLY, items which have been expressly stated since 2007 (NATO expansion, USA missile installations on Russia's western border) and most recently explicitly stated Dec 2021 (and ignored by the west) then expect more military action.
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After
* having had the promise not to expand NATO "one inch eastward" broken (1991)
* having Ukraine and Georgia invited into NATO in 2008
* seeing a coup engineered in Ukraine in 2014 (and other attempts in neighboring nations)
* watching the west arm Kiev while it ethnically cleansed its eastern oblasts,
* being diddled for 7 years with the Minsk agreements by Kiev, France, and Germany.
* having contract after contract broken (destruction blessed by EU courts) and its pipelines blown up,
* being the subject of "sanctions from hell",
* watching BoJo (and the west) press Zelensky into reneging on peace deal initialed in March 2022 ...
* being diddled on "The Grain Deal" which the west never intended to honor and
* watching the USA successively withdraw from nuclear treaties
...
Russia has learned that the collective west can't be trusted, is 'not agreement capable' AND ONLY RESPONDS TO MILITARY FORCE.
Yanno, tough luck for the EU who are led mostly by mush-brains, and tough luck for the us, the USA. But like with China, we brought this on ourselves by assuming we (NATO) could roll over Russia like we rolled over everyone else. We will be economically bleeding endlessly over this, and if we're not careful a lot of actual American blood will be spilled.
My only hope is that there still are some realists hiding in their offices somewhere in the vast USA military, political, foreign affairs, and spook agencies who will one day have a come to Jesus moment and see the error of our ways.
Russia didn't want to be our enemy, but we made it so. Maybe some time in the distant future, we can learn to let our hubris go and deal with other nations even-handedly instead of as vassals or enemies, or hollywoodesque "good guys" and "bad guys" (us being the main "good guy", of course!)
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Quote:Russia-Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin has a new opposition and it’s furious at defeat in Ukraine
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia didn't want to be our enemy, but we made it so. Maybe some time in the distant future, we can learn to let our hubris go and deal with other nations even-handedly instead of as vassals or enemies, or hollywoodesque "good guys" and "bad guys" (us being the main "good guy", of course!)
A loose coalition of far-right ideologues and militant extremists are spreading a dangerous “stab-in-the-back” myth to explain Russia’s crushing defeats.
Alexey Kovalev
Sep 15, 2022 – 8.00am
A new Russian protest movement is coalescing, but it’s neither pro-democracy nor anti-war. Instead, it’s the most extreme of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s supporters, who have grown increasingly furious at the unfolding military disaster for Russia in the six-month-long war in Ukraine.
They want Putin to escalate the war, use more devastating weapons, and hit Ukrainian civilians even more mercilessly. And they’ve openly attacked the Russian military and political leadership for supposedly holding back Russia’s full might – even as they rarely mention Putin by name.
Vladimir Putin is under pressure to use more brutal force in Ukraine from right-wing nationalists.
Their push to escalate the war, including widespread demands to use nuclear weapons, is dangerous in itself. But by creating a fantasy world in which a supposedly all-powerful Russian army is being defeated by domestic enemies – instead of by superior Ukrainian soldiers fighting for their own land with modern tactics and Western weapons – the movement has potentially disturbing implications for a postwar and possibly post-Putin Russia.
In fact, the narrative sounds a lot like the Dolchstosslegende, the German “stab-in-the-back” conspiracy theory that blamed the country’s defeat in World War I on nefarious enemies at home, including Jews. This narrative of military defeat became an integral part of the propaganda that brought the Nazis to power.
The promoters of the Russian stab-in-the-back myth aren’t a single party, movement, or group. Rather, the protesters are a loose coalition – mostly active online – of far-right ideologues, militant extremists, veterans of the 2014 Donbas war, Wagner Group mercenaries, bloggers, war reporters running their own Telegram channels, and individual Russian state media staff.
Some are soldiers or mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, and their channels have doubled as recruitment tools. Others already had a modest following before the war by promoting different causes, some obscure but mostly nationalist or right-wing issues: restoring the Soviet Union’s rule over Eastern Europe, building a new Russian empire, or promoting “Russia for the Russians.”
Their loyalty to the Kremlin varies from veneration of and complete submission to Putin as a god-like historical figure to activism in right-wing opposition movements. But unlike the Kremlin’s mouthpieces on state television and in its troll factories, members of this amorphous war escalation camp are united in their scathing criticism of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
Nuclear strike on Kyiv
Their demand comes down to this: They want more war crimes – no mercy, no remorse, no pretense to even caring about civilian deaths until Ukraine is completely subdued and the very idea of Ukrainian-ness erased forever. Frustrated by the astonishing, unexpected defeat on Ukraine’s Kharkiv front, many pro-war bloggers demanded a swift retribution without regard for civilian deaths.
Some recommended a nuclear strike on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to decapitate the government; popular blogger Maxim Fomin (who blogs as Vladlen Tatarsky), called for a nuclear warning strike against Ukraine’s Snake Island. Others called for “total war” against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. When the Russian military appeared to oblige by launching missiles at several Ukrainian cities’ electricity grids overnight, an or
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia didn't want to be our enemy, but we made it so. Maybe some time in the distant future, we can learn to let our hubris go and deal with other nations even-handedly instead of as vassals or enemies, or hollywoodesque "good guys" and "bad guys" (us being the main "good guy", of course!)
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"Russia-Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin has a new opposition and it’s furious at defeat in Ukraine
A loose coalition of far-right ideologues and militant extremists are spreading a dangerous “stab-in-the-back” myth to explain Russia’s crushing defeats." It
Somebody is either delusional or joking.
I'm going with delusional.
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Quote:Signym, instead of writing Putin/Russian fan fiction, please use your talent to write Firefly fan fiction. The Firefly and Russian actors are real, but the stories both tell are fake. Because the stories were believable, I was sad for the actors when Firefly was canceled by Fox. What would they do with their lives? When the Russian War gets canceled by Ukraine, I won't be sad for the dead Russians because the stories Putin and Signym were telling weren't believable.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Somebody is either delusional or joking.
I'm going with delusional.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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