Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by second:
Both sides have refrained from using armored vehicles extensively due to the presence of minefields, the high density of artillery fire, and the presence of portable anti-tank weapons, according to Kyrylo Budanov, the Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.
The only time I can remember when Budanov wasn't lying was when he almost took credit for assasinations of civilians in Russia.
This time, he's projecting Ukraine's difficulties on Russia.
Russia isn't using many tanks or armored vehicles bc those are primarily used for attack. Since Russia is playing defense, not much armor is being used.
Also, Ukraine doesn't have much artillery munitions left, and what they have is mostly cluster munitions, which are less effective against armored vehicles. Scratch that "high density of artillery fire" off the list. (So Ukraine fires their cluster munitions into civilian areas like Topmak. See today's Military Summary Channel.)
What astonishes me,SECOND, is the amount of time you spend trolling the Internet for crap, only to splatter it here.
Don't you have wells to dig, or a business to run, or trash to take out for your mom, or something?
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Neocon v neocon
Alexander Mercouris of The Duran brought up an article in The Economist which appears to be part of an ongoing, semi-public argument between two neocon fractions about "the Ukraine solution".
One idea, which I brought up before, is the "land for cease fire" proposal where Russia gets to keep the land it currently holds (not recognized by the west) in order to freeze the conflict. Meanwhile, "real" Ukraine gets security guarantees from the west and an open path to EU/NATO membership. Sounds like a sweet deal for Zelenskiy but he's having none of it- at least, not publicly. (Maybe he's worried about the Bandera neo-Nazis nailing his hide to a wall?) And then Russia feels it got hoodwinked that LAST time Ukraine offered a cease fire. They even withdrew their troops from around Kiev, only to have the initialled agreement get torn up by Zelensky, at BoJo's insistence. So - totally unaccpetable to Russia. (That's what we get for being "not agreement capable"! Karma sure sucks, doesn't it?)
Well, now there is an equally unrealistic proposal in The Economist, which Alexander believes represents the uber-neocons: Ukraine gives up on its land offensive and goes into defense (behind what fortifications? I wonder), and instead launches a missile and drone offensive against Russia. Meanwhile, Ukraine rebuilds it's economy (ahem! With the 'help' of the Clinton foundation?? I wonder if that will work as well as it did for Iraq dn Haiti???) and becomes Fortress Ukraine.
So we have two neocon proposals, both equally unrealistic. Perhaps the CFR/Sullivan wing versus the Nuland wing? Or maybe the Biden* wing versus the Clinton wing.
A few thoughts-
The DNC would probably LOVE to scrape Biden* off. With him not a candidate, they can avoid the issue of his obvious infirmity, and throw him under the bus along with his failed-policy baggage. And with a new candidate they can pretend to have new-all-new policies, even if they intend to follow the same old ones.
Poor Jake Sullivan. His tenure is as long as Joe's, and as much as he would like to solve the Ukraine problem, he can't solve the Biden problem either.
And then there's the neocons(v1.0) versus the neocons(v2.0) issue, both of which are in la-la land
And I've heard the CIA is none too happy with either the neocons or the DIA.
Biden himself seems to be reflexively an intransigent neocon, with the intransigient neocon wing, altho given diminished capacity it could just be the irritability of an old confused man.
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Quote:Putin Is Worried, So He Turned to Anti-Semitism
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NAZIS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
By Leon Aron
His recent rhetoric targeting Jews suggests that his grip on power may be loosening.
September 24, 2023, 7:30 AM ET
After Joseph Stalin died in 1953, an underground joke from my Moscow youth declared, the Politburo found three envelopes on the Soviet dictator’s desk. The first, inscribed “Open after my death,” contained a letter telling his successors to place his body next to Lenin’s in the Red Square Mausoleum. “Open when things get bad,” read the second envelope, and the note inside said, “Blame everything on me!” The third envelope, marked “Open when things get really bad,” commanded, “Do as I did!”
Things must be really bad for Russian President Vladimir Putin, because he is resorting to one of Stalin’s preferred ways of holding on to power: appealing to anti-Semitism. Recently, Putin has made a series of remarks dwelling on the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. And in a discussion at an economic forum earlier this month, Putin mocked Anatoly Chubais, a half-Jewish former Kremlin adviser who fled Russia after its invasion of Ukraine last year and is reportedly living in Israel. “He is no longer Anatoly Borisovich Chubais,” Putin said, using his former aide’s first name and patronymic. “He is Moshe Izrayilevich, or some such.”
As a scholar who has been studying Soviet and Russian politics for decades; who discusses that subject regularly with friends, family members, and professional colleagues; and who keeps tabs on what Putin’s critics say about him, I cannot remember him publicly trafficking in anti-Semitism before now. Indeed, his seemingly benevolent attitude toward his Jewish subjects made him unusual among Russian leaders. For more than a century until 1917, Jews in the Russian empire were confined to the Pale of Settlement, mostly in what today is Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Lithuania, and were terrorized by periodic pogroms. Early in the 20th century, the czar’s secret police propagated (and are widely suspected of sponsoring) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a vicious anti-Semitic forgery that purported to expose a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world and has inspired generations of violent anti-Semites.
Stalin capitalized on that history to consolidate his own control of the Soviet Union. Beginning in the late 1940s, after 20 million Soviet citizens had died in World War II and millions more were starving and homeless, he unleashed a national anti-Semitic campaign, complete with the frenzied unmasking of “rootless cosmopolitans”—whom everyone understood to be Jews—in newspapers. Well-known members of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, formed during the war to organize international support for the Soviet military effort, were arrested, tortured, and executed. In what became known as the “Doctors’ Plot,” a predominantly Jewish group of physicians ministering to the Kremlin leadership was accused of poisoning or deliberately mistreating patients; the medics were tortured, some to death, to extract “confessions.” During that period, tens of thousands of Jews were fired from their jobs, and even graduates of prominent educational institutions became unemployable. (My mother, just out of the Moscow Medical Institute No. 2, was among them.)
Putin’s recent rhetoric has been jarring because, despite everything else he has done, he has not tried to whip up public sentiment against Jews. During his 2005 visit to Israel—the first ever to the Jewish state by a Soviet or Russian leader—Putin had an emotional reunion with Mina Yuditskaya-Berliner, his high-school German teacher, and bought her an apartment in central Tel Aviv. He made Arkady and Boris Rotenberg—two brothers of Jewish heritage who have been among Putin’s judo sparring partners—into billionaire oligarchs.
Although he spoke at the unveiling of two monuments to Russia’s penultimate czar, Alexander III—a notorious anti-Semite who encouraged pogroms—Putin not on
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From Wall Street Journal: Russia’s war machine is adapting at home as well, managing to sustain and even increase defense production of some items despite sanctions.
Western officials thought Russia could produce about 100 tanks a year, but the actual tank production is closer to 200 a year now, according to a Western defense official. However, the official said Russia had lost more than 2,000 tanks, which he said would take it a decade to make up.
The West thought Russia might be able to produce about one million artillery shells a year, the Western defense official said. But now it believes Russia is on a path over the next couple of years to produce two million artillery shells annually. To put that in perspective, he said, Russia fired 10 to 11 million shells last year . . .
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-army-learns-from-its-mis
takes-in-ukraine/ar-AA1hagj5
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Russia Appears Ready To Accept Crimea as Ukraine's — On One Condition
By Brendan Cole on 9/25/23 at 4:22 AM EDT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has appeared to back the territorial integrity of Ukraine agreed upon after the break-up of the Soviet Union when Crimea was internationally recognized as part of the country Moscow has invaded.
Ukrainian social media users noted Lavrov's response at a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday when asked whether Russia will "recognize the sovereignty of Ukraine."
Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, and Kyiv has repeatedly stated that one of its war aims is the recapture of the occupied peninsula, which has been the scene of a series of recent high-profile strikes conducted by Ukrainian forces.
Lavrov said that in 1991 Moscow "recognized the sovereignty of Ukraine on the basis of the Declaration of Independence, which it adopted upon leaving the USSR," in which Crimea was considered to be under the control of Kyiv.
He said that the declaration "contained a lot of good things," which formed part of Ukraine's constitution, including protecting minority rights and the status of the Russian language.
"One of the main points for us was that Ukraine would be a non-aligned country and would not enter into any military alliances, Lavrov said. "Under those conditions, we support the territorial integrity of this state."
This reiterates one of the Kremlin's justifications for its invasion, namely the alignment of Kyiv towards NATO and the encroachment of the alliance on Russia's borders.
Lavrov then repeated Kremlin rhetoric about American interference in Ukraine in a "coup" in 2004 and said that in 2014 Crimea "joined" Russia following a referendum, the results of which have been condemned internationally. He also claimed Kyiv instigated the war in the Donbas.
"We have no problems with the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It was destroyed by those who carried out and supported the coup, whose leaders declared war against their own people and began to bomb them," Lavrov added, according to a transcript of his comments on the Russian foreign ministry website.
"Surprise, surprise! Russia recognizes the territorial integrity of Ukraine within the framework of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of July 16, 1990," wrote Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko on X (formerly Twitter), next to a video clip of the comments.
Gerashchenko added that the declaration "also mentions twice the inviolability of the borders of the Ukrainian SSR," which as "a sovereign national state is developing within its existing borders."
"The territory of the Ukrainian SSR within its existing borders is inviolable and cannot be changed or used without its consent," he added.
Maria Drutska, who works in Ukrainian foreign affairs, posted on X: " I hope this nonsense didn't fly with the Western audience. Although it's interesting, if you respect Ukraine's integrity so much, give Crimea back to us?"
Lavrov also used the press conference to accuse the West of "de facto" fighting against Moscow in Ukraine, and referred to Western military equipment supplied to Kyiv.
Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-lavrov-united-nations-crimea-1
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Quote:Signym, pulverizing the Russian Army has wide-spread support from all factions in the US, except those who repeat Trump's mantra "Russia, Russia, Russia".
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And then there's the neocons(v1.0) versus the neocons(v2.0) issue, both of which are in la-la land
And I've heard the CIA is none too happy with either the neocons or the DIA.
https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_trump-downplays-suspected-russia-led-hac
k/6199762.html
What U.S taxpayers are getting for their money in Ukraine
By Holly Williams, September 24, 2023 / 7:00 PM
While in Kyiv, we learned that three of McCain's former colleagues were also in town: Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. They don't normally agree on much – together, though, they're some of the staunchest supporters of U.S. funding for Ukraine's resistance.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: They're on track to break the Russian army, and the only way they could possibly lose is if we pull the plug on them.
The wreckage of Russia's war machine was on display for Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations – even as almost a fifth of the country remains under occupation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham: People ask me, "Is it worth it?" Here's what we've gotten for our investment. We haven't lost one soldier. We reduced the combat power of the Russian army by 50%, and not one of us has died in that endeavor. This is a great deal for America.
Holly Williams: You've previously said that it's the best money we've ever spent. That still true?
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Since we helped Churchill stand up to the Nazis.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-aid-ukraine-60-minutes-transcript/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin Is Worried, So He Turned to Anti-Semitism
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NAZIS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
The War Machine and the Legacy Media bullhorn for it is worried, so they've turned unsubstantiated and impossible to prove or disprove allegations of Anti-Semitism from Putin.
Because they know that saying he fondled some young female aide's asshole without her permission wouldn't move the needle because the Twitter Leftoids couldn't think any lower about the dude than they already do right now anyhow.
The ADL is cancer. Nobody cares.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, pulverizing the Russian Army has wide-spread support from all factions in the US, except those who repeat Trump's mantra "Russia, Russia, Russia".
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And then there's the neocons(v1.0) versus the neocons(v2.0) issue, both of which are in la-la land
And I've heard the CIA is none too happy with either the neocons or the DIA.
No. It doesn't.
When did you Democrats become a bunch of warmongering Bushites? Was it during the Obama administration, or did that only start when you were inflicted with terminal TDS?
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Quote:Putin’s allusions to Zelensky’s Jewishness grew sharper. The “Western sponsors” of the Ukrainian government, he told an interviewer, had deliberately chosen a Jewish president of Ukraine to camouflage the “antihuman” essence of the Kyiv regime. It’s “utterly despicable,” Putin concluded, to see a Jew covering up the “glorification of Nazism and those who led the Holocaust in Ukraine.” While still purporting to be ridding Ukraine of Nazis, Putin is zeroing in on a flesh-and-blood culprit: The Russians and the Ukrainians are killing one another because of a Jewish schemer.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin Is Worried, So He Turned to Anti-Semitism
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NAZIS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
The War Machine and the Legacy Media bullhorn for it is worried, so they've turned unsubstantiated and impossible to prove or disprove allegations of Anti-Semitism from Putin.
Because they know that saying he fondled some young female aide's asshole without her permission wouldn't move the needle because the Twitter Leftoids couldn't think any lower about the dude than they already do right now anyhow.
The ADL is cancer. Nobody cares.
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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Quote:Ukrainians kill Russian soldiers in retribution for Russians murdering 4,000,000 Ukrainian civilians. That is not war-mongering. It is justice and payback for Russians again on a new murder rampage against Ukrainians.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, pulverizing the Russian Army has wide-spread support from all factions in the US, except those who repeat Trump's mantra "Russia, Russia, Russia".
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And then there's the neocons(v1.0) versus the neocons(v2.0) issue, both of which are in la-la land
And I've heard the CIA is none too happy with either the neocons or the DIA.
No. It doesn't.
When did you Democrats become a bunch of warmongering Bushites? Was it during the Obama administration, or did that only start when you were inflicted with terminal TDS?
Why would US citizens take a side in a long-standing conflict between Russia and Ukrainians? Because Russian threats to nuke the US caused the US to spend over $10 trillion on nukes deterring Russians from carrying out the threats. The US is even now spending far more per year on deterring Russia from nuking the US than the Ukraine War costs the US per year.
Do you want to know how much the US spends on nuclear forces per year? Then google it and be amazed at the cost:
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+much+does+the+US+spend+on+nuclear+
forces+per+year
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