Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Speaking of indelible marks on souls... how's yours doing lately?
SECOND: Per usual, you misunderstand the simplest things. I am literally, not figuratively, surrounded by Trumptards who would fit perfectly into the unethical Confederacy. They have the same racist attitudes, the same overinflated egos, and the same too-lazy-to-do-their-own-work ethics as a Confederate Colonel who owns a couple of dozen slaves. These Trumptards are every bit as likely to cheat in business, break contracts, and finagle as Trump or the Confederates did. They got that way because they weren't punished for rotten behavior. Neither were the Russians who stole Eastern Europe, lost it, and are now in the middle of stealing Ukraine.
Avoiding the question I see!
SECOND, you should try living in San Francisco or Detroit or NYC or Chicago or any Democrat stronghold. I guarantee you would be even more disappointed in your fellow residents than you are in Texas. So stop projecting your hick, hidebound attitude across the USA, and the globe. There's a whole ginormous world out there you know nothing about, apparently.
So, back to REAL NEWS which contradicts your ridiculous prejudices: Ukrainian are fighting like you say Russians fight: throwing untrained men, boys, and women by the hundreds of thousands onto the front lines, only to get slaughtered. Meanwhile, Russians are attriting the Ukrainian military using superior force of arms while preserving their troops. Ukraine is an economic ruin, Russia's economy is robust. The west is throwing its resources and weapons down the drain fighting an enemy they don't even see clearly, let alone comprehend.
And Ukraine shells Donetsk City civilians with cluster rounds for the third time in a month. But it looks like Russian progress in Avdiivka will force Ukie artillery to move, and put Donetsk City out of range.
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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 SIGNYM:
Speaking of indelible marks on souls... how's yours doing lately?
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Both inside and outside Russia, scholars and analysts are discerning important throughlines in patterns and practices from tsarist times to the present.
Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine
Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.
Russia’s colonization of Alaska — and the rampant violence, spiraling massacres and decimation of local Alaska Native populations that came along with it — is hardly well-known among the broader American body politic. Russia’s role in smothering and seizing Alaska stands apart as an overlooked chapter of colonialism on the continent.
It’s also an overlooked aspect of Russian history inside Russia. Official accounts of Russian expansion suggest that Russia simply agglomerated neighboring peoples as part of its defensive acquisition of territory, happily gathering new peoples and new lands into Moscow’s embrace. In Russia’s telling, the word “colonialism” applies to only other empires, not to the Russian one. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently claimed, Russia has “not stained itself with the bloody crimes of colonialism.”
Russia’s colonial legacy is not forgotten in Alaska. And given Russia’s renewed lurch toward imperialism in places like Ukraine, that legacy is arguably more resonant now than it’s been in decades.
In Western universities and research institutes, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a sweeping reassessment of Russia’s relationship with other peoples and nations, including Ukraine. For decades, Western scholars saw the Soviet Union as a fundamentally different country from the Russian Empire that preceded it, and analyzed its system and behaviors primarily through the regime’s communist ideology. As such, when the Soviet Union collapsed, many in the West assumed that once Moscow had shed communism, democracy would naturally follow.
But post-Soviet Russia has turned out differently, and both inside and outside Russia, scholars and analysts are discerning important throughlines in patterns and practices from tsarist times to the present. One of those throughlines is colonialism, which is turning out to be one of the best explanations for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
You cannot argue that Russia needed to conquer Alaska in a search for territorial security, for so-called strategic depth that put distance between tsarist forces and any enemies. There was only wealth to be extracted — furs to be found, pelts to be culled, all as part of the “most important source of imperial revenue” for patrons in St. Petersburg.
Aside from Alaska, the record is clear that Russia engaged in colonial conquest and exploitation from the earliest days of the tsarist empire. For hundreds of years, tsarist forces launched any number of colonial campaigns along its outer reaches, decimating neighboring powers and transforming them into tributaries of wealth for the Russian state, toppling governments, slaughtering local populations, unleashing genocidal violence on those who opposed the expansion of Russian state power.
More about Russians in Alaska at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/russia-colonization-
alaska-ukraine-00123352
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:Don't be so silly, Signym. The explanation is the Sheep and the Goats parable from the Bible, about separating the good people from the bad. The Sheep and Goats are spread about the country, but it doesn't take a God to tell them apart. The USA has at least 80 million goats, Trumptards, most trying to pass as sheep, including even Trump, but they can't maintain the sheep disguise 100% of the time.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Avoiding the question I see!
SECOND, you should try living in San Francisco or Detroit or NYC or Chicago or any Democrat stronghold. I guarantee you would be even more disappointed in your fellow residents than you are in Texas. So stop projecting your hick, hidebound attitude across the USA, and the globe. There's a whole ginormous world out there you know nothing about, apparently.
The Sheep and the Goats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats
Quote:Signym, it is absurd that Russia wasn't able to crush Ukraine in the first 30 days of the invasion but that was because the Russian Generals believed the propaganda about Russians being vastly superior. The Russian Generals learned that they were equals of the Ukrainians. It is on the battlefield where you find out who knows how to hit a target without wasting ammo. Very clearly, Ukraine vs Russia is Dumb vs Dumber. Both sides are grotesquely wasteful and incompetent. I happen to be opposed to the Dumber side because the dumbest Russians, as well as Russia's leaders, regularly threaten to nuke the US. For my entire life, that Russian behavior caused Congress to squander over $10 trillion to build the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) defense. What difference does it make if Congress wastes on Ukraine about 1% of what it already wasted on US nukes to deter the Russians?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, back to REAL NEWS which contradicts your ridiculous prejudices: Ukrainian are fighting like you say Russians fight: throwing untrained men, boys, and women by the hundreds of thousands onto the front lines, only to get slaughtered. Meanwhile, Russians are attriting the Ukrainian military using superior force of arms while preserving their troops. Ukraine is an economic ruin, Russia's economy is robust. The west is throwing its resources and weapons down the drain fighting an enemy they don't even see clearly, let alone comprehend.
And Ukraine shells Donetsk City civilians with cluster rounds for the third time in a month. But it looks like Russian progress in Avdiivka will force Ukie artillery to move, and put Donetsk City out of range.
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 second:Quote:Don't be so silly, Signym. The explanation is the Sheep and the Goats parable from the Bible, about separating the good people from the bad. The Sheep and Goats are spread about the country, but it doesn't take a God to tell them apart. The USA has at least 80 million goats, Trumptards, most trying to pass as sheep, including even Trump, but they can't maintain the sheep disguise 100% of the time.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Avoiding the question I see!
SECOND, you should try living in San Francisco or Detroit or NYC or Chicago or any Democrat stronghold. I guarantee you would be even more disappointed in your fellow residents than you are in Texas. So stop projecting your hick, hidebound attitude across the USA, and the globe. There's a whole ginormous world out there you know nothing about, apparently.
We've come full circle and Second finally admits what I've known about him from the very beginning.
He's a fucking sheep.
Baaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Quote:I'm a sheep because I never cheated on my taxes or my wife and never killed anybody who didn't richly deserve it. Meanwhile, Trump is a goat because he has cheated on his taxes, and his wives, and he did kill people who didn't deserve it. See his policy on drone strikes:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Don't be so silly, Signym. The explanation is the Sheep and the Goats parable from the Bible, about separating the good people from the bad. The Sheep and Goats are spread about the country, but it doesn't take a God to tell them apart. The USA has at least 80 million goats, Trumptards, most trying to pass as sheep, including even Trump, but they can't maintain the sheep disguise 100% of the time.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Avoiding the question I see!
SECOND, you should try living in San Francisco or Detroit or NYC or Chicago or any Democrat stronghold. I guarantee you would be even more disappointed in your fellow residents than you are in Texas. So stop projecting your hick, hidebound attitude across the USA, and the globe. There's a whole ginormous world out there you know nothing about, apparently.
We've come full circle and Second finally admits what I've known about him from the very beginning.
He's a fucking sheep.
Baaaaaaaaaaaa!
The newly-revealed Trump rules show how far that administration went in casting aside any meaningful constraint on the United States’ use of lethal force abroad.
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-secret-rules-for-dr
one-strikes-and-presidents-unchecked-license-to-kill
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:BFD. That's a pretty low bar. I never cheated either, and I never killed anyone, period.
I'm a sheep because I never cheated on my taxes or my wife and never killed anybody who didn't richly deserve it.
I never did understand that sheep/goats parable. Goats are incredibly useful and intelligent creatures, able to survive where sheep can't. And their kids are amusing as hell to watch. The down side I suppose, is that they don't flock and aren't easily led.
A metaphor for our times: A Donkey Leads a Flock of Sheep
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BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH UKRAINE?
Seems like you're spending a huge amount of energy dragging the discussion off-topic, BECAUSE RUSSIA IS WINNING.
Don't worry, I'll bring you regular updates of Ukraine's slow and painful defeat.
Feel sorry for the people of Ukraine, who let themselves be turned into America's proxy, whose slaughter is our "good investment".
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Quote:Signym, this is a test of your reading comprehension. I will help you by underlining a few words about goats. It is repeated by wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats :
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:BFD. That's a pretty low bar. I never cheated either, and I never killed anyone, period.
I'm a sheep because I never cheated on my taxes or my wife and never killed anybody who didn't richly deserve it.
I never did understand that sheep/goats parable. Goats are incredibly useful and intelligent creatures, able to survive where sheep can't. And their kids are amusing as hell to watch. The down side I suppose, is that they don't flock and aren't easily led.
A metaphor for our times: A Donkey Leads a Flock of Sheep
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BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH UKRAINE?
Seems like you're spending a huge amount of energy dragging the discussion off-topic, BECAUSE RUSSIA IS WINNING.
Don't worry, I'll bring you regular updates of Ukraine's slow and painful defeat.
Feel sorry for the people of Ukraine, who let themselves be turned into America's proxy, whose slaughter is our "good investment".
But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.'
Then they will also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?
Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, because you did not do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.' These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
— Matthew 25:31–46
Signym, by the way, Russia has not won. If you weren't stupid, you'd stop declaring which side is winning. You can't know this soon.
"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein
"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then they are sorry Trumptards." - second
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https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/29/trenches-and-tech-on-ukrai
nes-southern-front
Drone pilots have become increasingly valuable — and are targets for both sides | Oct 29th 2023
THE DRONE might not spot you, but if it does, there is only one thing to do: hide well, and hide quickly. “Major”, a 25-year-old drone pilot operating near the hottest front lines of the south, in Zaporizhia province, says your chances are not good if an enemy pilot has you in his sights. The drone can come from behind your own positions, and masquerade as your own. The cameras are not great. But running at speeds of 150-160 km/h, it will always outpace you. “If your cover is poor, then you are likely a dead man,” he says. Major has survived a pursuit four times, the last time in mid October. Two of his closest comrades have been less fortunate. “God, not physics, decides if you survive,” he says.
In a war increasingly dominated by aerial killing-machines, the hunters are rapidly becoming the hunted. The controllers for most drones leave their own electronic trace, and if a pilot isn’t careful, the enemy can home in on them. “Hummer,” a commander in Ukraine’s 47th brigade, also operational along the Zaporizhia front, says the Russians fire everything they have once they identify a target. They can use their own strike drones, but they also apply high-precision artillery, mines, glide bombs, and even, on occasion, saboteur groups. Major says he has lost 15% of his colleagues over the last few months. Hummer says his figures are lower, but refuses to elaborate.
Ukraine is the pioneer of the first-person-view (FPV) drones: craft that are flown, video-game-like, by goggle-wearing pilots with real-time manoeuvrability. The drones can cost just a few hundred dollars to build, but can deliver explosives capable of destroying or incapacitating equipment with a value of millions. In a day, a single operator can take out a dozen high-value assets, with corresponding human losses. That has made the drone pilot an even more prized kill than a sniper, one front-line commander suggests. “A lot of people want to become drone pilots because they think the work is further back and safer. The reality is that it’s extremely dangerous to be flying battlefield drones.”
The first FPV drones appeared in eastern Ukraine in the spring. They were a response to limited supplies of Western ammunition and the challenge of a much better-equipped adversary. Drones have since played a leading role degrading Russian firepower as part of Ukraine’s southern counter-offensive in the Zaporizhia region. But though Ukraine initially enjoyed total dominance in this new class of drones, Russians are catching up. The first Russian FPV drones appeared by July, and are now harassing Ukrainian units along the front lines. Ukraine is also hampered by the fact its drones are still largely assembled and paid for by volunteers. Command structures are similarly anarchic with freelance drone operators, brigade drones, secret services and others operating in the same areas. Meanwhile Russia has clear superiority when it comes to more expensive classes of drones, such as high-powered reconnaissance drones.
But the small FPV battlefield drones have challenged many accepted rules of war, and doctrine is struggling to adapt. “The future is already with us,” says Genius, a deputy battalion commander in the 47th brigade. In mid-October, a Ukrainian pilot set a 22km record for the distance at which he incapacitated a Russian tank, 18km behind the front line. His commander says the Russians have imposed a 10km no-tank zone behind the front, dramatically decreasing the value of such weapons. Hummer says that his own forces have a 58% success rate in hitting targets. But the traffic is not one-way, and the Ukrainians have many losses too. Russian FPV drones have destroyed several Bradley Fighting Vehicles (each worth some $2m) and even a Leopard tank.
The Russians are learning “from their mistakes…and from ours,” says Hummer. Earlier in the summer, some units began to equip hi
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why do you bring up irrelevant history?
A) Russia is not the Soviet Union
B) Putin is not Stalin. Or Hitler for that matter.
Head out of ass, m'kay?
Poor comrade Signym. First she posts propaganda about Biden, still no evidence to back up her claims, to back up her lies. Then she proclaims background information about Russia is irrelevant.
Comrade Signym, who is always posting shit from the past in a whataboutism attempt to make current happenings seem irrelevant. And even then she twists the facts of history in an attempt to protect the criminally insane leadership globally, authoritarians, that like Trump, she admires.
Sick, she is very sick.
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