Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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I swear the news out of Russia is so fucking stupid. Russia doesn't want to be seen needing help from North Korea, Russia's little Padawan:
The Kremlin said on Tuesday there was "no proof" North Korea was sending supplies of weapons to Russia, after Washington released images purportedly showing arms shipments from Pyongyang.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia last month and met President Vladimir Putin, sparking speculation among Western countries over the possibility of a potential arms deal.
"They report this all the time, without providing any proof," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies when asked about the reported arms shipments.
The White House said on Friday that North Korea had already delivered over 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia in recent weeks for use in Ukraine.
While Russia said no agreements were signed during Kim's visit in September, Putin said he saw "possibilities" for military cooperation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to arrive in the reclusive country on Wednesday for a two-day visit. Details of the trip remain unclear.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/17/russia-says-no-proof-north-k
orea-sending-weapons-a82790
The Ukraine War is Dumb vs Dumber, but now it has added Dumbest North Korea.
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Russian Governor Denounced for Saying 'We Didn't Need' Ukraine War
Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district Governor Natalia Komarova said “We didn’t need” Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine when asked about ill-equipped troops during a meeting with constituents Saturday.
Local activist Yury Ryabtsev filed a petition asking Russia’s Interior Ministry to launch a criminal probe into Komarova, according to the RFE/RL regional affiliate Sibir.Realii.
“Fifth column enemies of the SVO [special military operation] are awaiting their punishment,” Ryabtsev said in a social media post, the outlet said.
The Kremlin has sought total loyalty as it pursues what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, which is entering its 20th month.
The Khanty-Mansiisk regional administration said Monday that Komarova’s words were taken out of context and that she supports the Russian troops.
“Russia did not prepare for a war with the West and was not interested in the conflict with Ukraine,” the administration said in a statement carried by local radio.
“This is exactly what the President [Vladimir Putin] has repeatedly said: an economic and sanctions war has been declared against us, while the Kyiv regime is also carrying out a physical extermination.”
Russia has launched thousands of misdemeanor cases for “discrediting” the Russian army since lawmakers outlawed the act days after Moscow's troops rolled into Ukraine in February 2022.
Repeat offenders risk being jailed for up to seven years, while those convicted of “spreading false information” — another crime under Russia's wartime censorship laws — face up to 15 years in prison.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/16/russian-governor-denounced-f
or-saying-we-didnt-need-ukraine-war-a82777
As a reminder for Signym, Russia had ten times the number of deaths compared to Germany during WWII because Russians are fucking stupid. Russia didn't land men on the moon because Russians are fucking stupid. Instead, Russia's moon missions blew up on the launch pad.
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Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.
American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.
But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.
Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.
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The Ukrainian military on Tuesday used U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to strike nine Russian helicopters in eastern Ukraine, after Washington secretly shipped the weapons in recent weeks.
The delivery and use on the battlefield, confirmed by two people familiar with the move, marks a major ramp up of the administration’s defense of Ukraine, for the first time providing Kyiv’s forces with the ability to strike Russian targets far behind the front lines.
President Joe Biden had been hesitant to deliver the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, for fear of escalating the conflict. The transfer indicates the administration’s calculus has changed after a slow-moving Ukrainian counteroffensive. The two people who confirmed the transfer and usage in Ukraine were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that the missile had been transferred and used.
The acknowledgment that the ATACMS are in Ukrainian hands and already in use comes after months of secrecy around Biden’s decision to send the longer-range weapons. Ukraine announced Tuesday that its forces had destroyed nine Russian helicopters, as well as other military equipment, in an attack on the cities of Berdyansk and Luhansk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped
-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932
Will the Crimean Bridge be next? Or at least soon? By Xmas 2023?
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Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say
The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.
Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.
With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.
With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”
“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.
While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.
Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.
Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.
“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”
Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html
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Originally posted by second:
Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say
The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.
Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.
With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.
With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”
“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.
While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.
Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.
Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.
“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”
Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html
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I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.
Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.
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Originally posted by second:
Any significant changes are NOT likely to take place on the battlefield, with ‘Putin banking almost everything on a Trump return’, analysts say
The Ukraine war may remain a “stalemate” throughout 2024, military experts have told The Independent, as hopes fade for a major breakthrough in this year’s counteroffensive against Russia.
Delays in Western military aid handed Moscow time to build heavily fortified defences which have largely held up against months of intense assaults – and constraints in ammunition and weaponry now mean both armies may struggle to sustain the current pace of the war, some analysts believe.
With the prospect of a Middle East conflict likely to further stretch Washington – Ukraine’s largest backer – ahead of a US presidential election in November 2024, Vladimir Putin’s strategy may now be to preserve the current state of the front line and “wait it out”, Western experts say.
With just weeks likely left before seasonal weather changes dampen offensive efforts in Ukraine, Dr Patrick Bury of the University of Bath said: “There hasn’t been a breakthrough, there’s been tactical gains, low-level operational gains – but not strategic.”
“What this summer has shown is that [Ukraine] can fight at company level [of around 100 soldiers] but when you go the next level up to the battalion, they just don’t really have the coordinated experience to fight with all the moving parts”, said Dr Bury, a former Nato analyst and British Army captain.
While the US is due to start providing F-16 fighter jets next year, the sophistication of the Russian air force means Ukraine will still struggle to achieve air superiority, “and you need air superiority really to be able to free up the chance of large-scale manoeuvre”, he added.
Therefore “unless there’s significant widespread packages of training, new weapons and equipment”, Dr Bury said, “it’s looking like 2024 is a bit of a stalemate” – with any significant shifts instead likely to take place off the battlefield.
Agreeing that “we’re [already] seeing a stalemate now”, Dr Frank Ledwidge – a former military intelligence officer, now at the University of Portsmouth – questioned “whether any tactics would have worked against defenders who [Ukraine] didn’t outnumber three to one”.
“In the most basic military algorithms, you need an attack ratio of three [troops] to one, and the Ukrainians don’t have anything like that,” he said. “So barring any significant change in that force ratio there’s no reason really now to assume that future operations will be any different.”
Warning that there are “no game changers”, including F-16s, Dr Ledwidge likened the situation to the Western Front in 1917, adding: “Breakthroughs were made eventually in the First World War, but only when the Americans came in with two million soldiers.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-wa
r-map-b2431533.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I've been largely ignoring Second's posts on this topic as of late, but I did want to point out that he's now making posts quoting people who are advocating sending in 2 Million US soldiers to fight the war for Ukraine.
Not a great plan, sending in 2 Million of our battle-aged men when we've let in far more battle-aged men among the illegal invaders that have crossed the border under Joe Biden*'s watch.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
That's one thing I appreciate about FFF.net: I don't have to scour the M$M for crap and propaganda when SECOND so kindly does it for me.
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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 lik
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Originally posted by second:
Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.
American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.
But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.
Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.
https://jabberwocking.com/pax-americana-isnt-declining-it-never-existe
d/
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TRANSLATION: We're not really losing bc we never really "won".
Don't let THUGR see this post!
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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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Originally posted by second:
Pax Americana isn’t declining. It never existed.
American power was at its peak in the '50s and '60s, when the US accounted for nearly half the world's economy and the Cold War made us the world's uncontested military leader as well.
But did that scare off the Soviet Union? It did not. They seized control of Eastern Europe after World War II. They blockaded Berlin. They invaded Hungary in the '50s and Czechoslovakia in the '60s. They fought proxy wars against the US in Korea, Vietnam, Congo, and Nicaragua. As bad as Vladimir Putin is, his record of military intervention pales in comparison to the Cold War USSR.
Hamas's attack on Israel, needless to say, is also nothing new. Israel has literally been at war since its founding, and terrorist groups have never been intimidated by American power.
https://jabberwocking.com/pax-americana-isnt-declining-it-never-existe
d/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
TRANSLATION: We're not really losing bc we never really "won".
Don't let THUGR see this post!
I think that the days of Ted trying to win Second's approval are certainly comin' to a middle.
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Whatever Putin advises the US to NOT do is the thing that should be done the most:
US decision to supply Atacms missiles to Kyiv ‘just prolongs the agony’ for Ukraine, warns Putin
Vladimir Putin has warned Washington’s decision to supply the long-range army tactical missile systems (Atacms), whose use Kyiv confirmed on Tuesday, “just prolongs the agony” for Ukraine, saying the US is wading deeper into the conflict.
The Russian president, who was speaking earlier to journalists during a visit to China, was quoted by Reuters as saying:
"Firstly, this of course causes harm and creates an additional threat. Secondly, we will of course be able to repel these attacks. War is war.
But most importantly, it fundamentally lacks the capacity to change the situation on the line of contact at all … This is another mistake by the United States …"
Putin added:
"A mistake of a larger scale, as yet invisible but still of great importance, is that the United States is becoming more and more personally drawn into this conflict.
And let no one say that they have nothing to do with this. We believe they do."
Ukraine had repeatedly asked Washington for the long-range missiles to help it attack and disrupt supply lines, airbases and rail networks in Russian-occupied territory.
Several US media outlets reported that Ukraine had used the Atacms missiles in an overnight attack on Tuesday on two airbases in Russian-held territory.
Without mentioning the US missiles, Ukrainian special forces said they had carried out an overnight operation named “Dragonfly” striking a military airfield in Berdiansk and another one in the Luhansk region and resulting in “significant losses” on the Russian side.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/18/russia-ukraine-war-
live-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-beijing-us-missiles
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