Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:Last time I checked, you denied that Russians killed 64 million Russians over political disputes. The typical Russian response is: "Where are the bodies? You have no proof! Ha! Ha! Ha! You have no proof! Even if you had bodies, how would you prove we did it? It is impossible! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Last time I checked, Spanish was NOT a state or sponsored language is SW USA, and yet, it is not 'eradicated' either. Typical SECOND lies...
The Ukrainians are fighting Russians now because 4,000,000 of them were killed way back when.
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 SIGNYM:
Last time I checked, Spanish was NOT a state or sponsored language is SW USA, and yet, it is not 'eradicated' either. Typical SECOND lies...
SECOND: Last time I checked, you denied that Russians killed 64 million Russians over political disputes.
What does this have to do with your lie that Russia is "eradicting" the Ukrainian language?
Oh, "NOTHING", you say? Just another attempted deflection?
"Eradicating" a language means to make it ILLEGAL to speak, post signs etc. That's not what's happening on the Donbas.
But that's what UKRAINE was doing to Russian speakers. Where was your outrage then, huh?
Even Stalin, who was a tyrant, was dedicated to preserving the many native languages of Russia. He even had written forms created for them so they wouldn't die out. Russian is the common language, but many other languages are in use.
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Also, BTW, last time I checked, NO OTHER HISTORIAN agrees with your figures. It's not ME that disputes your figures, SECOND. It's every other source that I checked.
Get fucked.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Zelensky: TIME may be on his side, but real time, isn't
Official Ukraine narrative collapses as Zelensky’s inner circle admits to magazine that the war cannot be won militarily.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zelensky-war-time-magazine/
No. Real time is not on Zelensky's side.
He's a dead man walking.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Actually, the article in TIME is cutting. A TIME reporter accompanied Zelensky thru his last (disastrous) visit to Washington, and back to Kiev, and spoke with a number of staffers, politicians and military people.
The word most commonly used to describe Zelensky was "delusional". And there is so much more in the article, this is just a sampling:
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Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary, his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.”
. . .
The cold will also make military advances more difficult, locking down the front lines at least until the spring. But Zelensky has refused to accept that. “Freezing the war, to me, means losing it,” he says. Before the winter sets in, his aides warned me to expect major changes in their military strategy and a major shake-up in the President’s team. At least one minister would need to be fired, along with a senior general [Zaluzhny] in charge of the counteroffensive, they said, to ensure accountability for Ukraine’s slow progress at the front. “We’re not moving forward,” says one of Zelensky’s close aides. Some front-line commanders, he continues, have begun refusing orders to advance, even when they came directly from the office of the President. “They just want to sit in the trenches and hold the line,” he says. “But we can’t win a war that way.”
When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October, he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of Horlivka, a strategic outpost in eastern Ukraine that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”
. . .
Amid all the pressure to root out corruption, I assumed, perhaps naively, that officials in Ukraine would think twice before taking a bribe or pocketing state funds. But when I made this point to a top presidential adviser in early October, he asked me to turn off my audio recorder so he could speak more freely. “Simon, you’re mistaken,” he says. “People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.”
In some branches of the military, the shortage of personnel has become even more dire than the deficit in arms and ammunition. One of Zelensky’s close aides tells me that even if the U.S. and its allies come through with all the weapons they have pledged, “we don’t have the men to use them.”
https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/
What this reminds me of is the portrayal of Hitler towards the end of WWII: completely deluded about the disaster overtaking his army, issuing crazy orders that nobody follows.
Yes, it's an exaggeration: Ukrainian soldiers are still fighting, and they're doing their best to establish a beachhead on the e
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So I've been watching this from several entirely different (non M$M) viewpoints, pro-Ukrainian, "both sides", and pro-Russian.
Military Summary, despite its bias, is interesting from a tactical POV. Ukraine's attempts at "combined arms" advances have been a disaster, leading to massive losses of armored vehicles. Russian firepower has been targeting Ukrainian planes, air defenses, fuel, munitions, arilltery pieces, armored vehicles, etc. 'Large targets' are fewer and fewer in number, altho Russian bombs and missiles still find munitions and fuel depots, bridges, bunkers, the old Soviet-style apartment buildings that could withstand a tactical nuke, and planes. Ukraine is fighting, or defending, with mines (when they have them), cluster munitions, DRONES, and light infantry in small groups. AFAIK light infantry weapons include mortars, shoulder- or tripod-fired ATGMS, machine guns, RPGS, as well as the usual assault rifles and grenades. Where they have them, Ukrainian are sticking to bunkers and other pre-made fortifications.
I wonder if this leads to an imbalance of weaponry... there's no point firing big artillery shells at 20 men (unless you're using cluster munitions, which Russia is NOT doing). So except for taking out buildings and fortifications, I wonder if all of those artillery shells and tanks that Russia is producing will wind up being useless, especially since drones are so good at taking them out.
To some extent this reminds me a bit of Syria, where Russia committed its air force but not infantry. Once the ISIS fuel convoys were taken out, and Aleppo was taken, the 'big jobs' were done. Maybe some 'bunker buster' bombs needed? Fuel-air bombs? But beyond that...
I saw a video of a USA jet shooting million dollar missiles at a Toyota pickup truck with a 50 cal machine gun mounted in the back. Kind of a waste, no?
FWIW, Russia's MoD announced they were bringing 25,000 "specialists" into the field. Drone operators, perhaps? However, Russia is reluctant to field "light infantry" or "stormtroopers" in order to preserve its soldiers.
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Quote:Signym, you must have inherited the liar genetics from both Mommy and Daddy. You are very smooth at it, Signym. Use that trait to transform the following into innocuousness.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, BTW, last time I checked, NO OTHER HISTORIAN agrees with your figures. It's not ME that disputes your figures, SECOND. It's every other source that I checked.
Get fucked.
Murder, torture, rape: Russia’s crimes are a long-running horror show
By Lee Hockstader, Columnist, European Affairs
October 31, 2023 at 1:08 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/31/russian-war-crimes-
ukraine/
The reports pile up like desiccated bones in a mass grave, each brimming with a ghoul’s gallery of horrors, each bearing a dreary title and, often, the imprimatur of the United Nations:
“Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine.”
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil
/coiukraine/23-10-04-OHCHR-36th-periodic-report-ukraine-en.pdf
“Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.”
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil
/coiukraine/A-78-540-AEV.pdf
“Detention of Civilians in the Context of the Armed Attack by the Russian Federation Against Ukraine.”
https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/OHCHR%20Ukraine%20D
etention%20report%20-%20June%202023%20-%20ENG.pdf
There have been dozens of such reports — fastidious, documented, footnoted — weighing in collectively at who-knows-how-many pages. Their heft alone, along with their repetitive sameness, exerts a numbing effect. Who can absorb such an endless litany of crushing cruelty?
Yet the evidence attesting to Russia atrocities in Ukraine also obscures an essential fact: It represents a small fraction measured against the likely scale of atrocities carried out by President Vladimir Putin’s forces.
We know that because we know this: Notwithstanding the lurid accounts detailing systematic torture, rape, execution and other forms of abuse deployed by Moscow’s troops, independent investigators are denied access to territory seized by Russian forces.
That matters in what has become a static war, with front lines barely budging for months. It means the Kremlin’s commanders have time to eliminate traces of physical evidence as well as civilians who might bear witness to crimes. And it means that testimony gathered so far by international monitors comes mainly from survivors who manage to leave after Russian troops occupied their towns and villages. Those caught behind the lines are beyond reach.
Yet even from a limited sampling, and in the dry lexicon of U.N. commission reports, the abominations perpetrated by Russian security services and soldiers are plain.
In its latest report, released Oct. 20, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the U.N. Human Rights Council, recounted what it called evidence of war crimes. It includes details of electric shocks routinely used to torture detained Ukrainian civilians, a form of torture that Russian forces term “a call to Putin.”
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142617
“Victims reported that perpetrators connected wires or clamps to earlobes, ankles, hands, toes, or genitals,” the report says. “According to victims, in some cases water was poured on them or otherwise used to amplify the effect of electric shocks. A woman who endured the electric shocks stated: ‘It was so painful that I could not stop screaming like crazy, I was crying.’ ”
That report and others include chilling testimony about murders, rapes and other forms of sexual violence, as well as the removal of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia — nearly 20,000 of them, according to Ukrainian authorities. Based on those abductions, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin. The Kremlin’s response was to use the children for photo ops in Red Square and to continue the kidnappings.
https://childrenofwar.gov.ua/en/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, you must have inherited the liar genetics from both Mommy and Daddy. You are very smooth at it, Signym. Use that trait to transform the following into innocuousness.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, BTW, last time I checked, NO OTHER HISTORIAN agrees with your figures. It's not ME that disputes your figures, SECOND. It's every other source that I checked.
Get fucked.
Murder, torture, rape: Russia’s crimes are a long-running horror show
By Lee Hockstader, Columnist, European Affairs
October 31, 2023 at 1:08 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/31/russian-war-crimes-
ukraine/
I got this one, Sigs.
That's easy, Second. It came from Washington Post.
It's bullshit. They don't write anything that isn't bullshit.
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Quote:The eternal question the stupid and 6ix ask themselves privately:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I got this one, Sigs.
That's easy, Second. It came from Washington Post.
It's bullshit. They don't write anything that isn't bullshit.
"Why do bad things happen to me?"
The simple answer they can't understand: "Because you are stupid. Yes. Really. It's that simple, and you would know this if only you were not convinced you are a Genius."
The Ukrainians are noticeably stupid.
Ukrainian Marines Almost Wasted Their First Batch Of French AMX-10RC Scout Vehicles. Now They’re Getting A Second Batch.
David Axe | Forbes Staff | I write about ships, planes, tanks, drones, missiles and satellites.
Nov 1, 2023, 07:24pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/11/01/ukrainian-marines-alm
ost-wasted-their-first-batch-of-french-amx-10rc-scout-vehicles-now-theyre-getting-a-second-batch/
Ukraine reportedly is getting 40 more AMX-10RC reconnaissance vehicles from France. Which might be surprising. The Ukrainians used the thinly-armored but well-armed scout vehicle all wrong in the early days of their now four-month-old counteroffensive.
They used them as tanks—and promptly lost a bunch of them.
That the Ukrainians wanted another 40 AMX-10RCs might indicate that they’ve really internalized the awful lessons of the counteroffensive’s first week, and have settled on an appropriate role for the wheeled vehicles.
Excitement ran high when, in January, the French government announced it would donate an initial 40 AMX-10RCs to the Ukrainian war effort. The first of the 15-ton, six-wheel vehicles arrived in Ukraine in April.
The speedy AMX-10RC with its 105-millimeter main gun and day-night optics is a “sniper rifle on ... fast wheels,” Oleksii Reznikov, then the Ukrainian minister of defense, crowed after test-driving one of the vehicles.
Reznikov’s praise should have come as no surprise. French firm GIAT specifically designed the AMX-10RC for exactly the attributes the defense minister singled out. Fighting range. Situational awareness. Speed.
An AMX-10RC with its robust wheels, fuel-efficient 280-horsepower diesel engine and reliable suspension can achieve and maintain a high top speed: 53 miles per hour by road. Its F2 rifled main gun, while unstabilized, is pretty accurate—when fired from a halt, of course.
GIAT didn’t design the AMX-10RC to resist enemy fire. It weighs just 15 tons. Its hull is thin aluminum. A four-person AMX-10RC crew is supposed to speed toward the enemy, fire a few rounds in order to draw a response—like kicking an anthill—and then register the enemy’s position and speed away before the return fire gets too heavy.
The Ukrainian defense ministry seemed to appreciate the AMX-10RC’s attributes, at first. After all, it assigned the French vehicles not to the army, but to the marine corps.
Ukrainian marine brigades train and organize for raids and riverine assaults: operations that beg for speed and violence, even if speed and violence come at the cost of protection.
But when the 37th Marine Brigade sent its AMX-10RCs into combat for the first time, on one of the first days of Ukraine’s widely-anticipated counteroffensive in southern Donetsk Oblast, inexperienced junior officers made all the wrong choices.
When the brigade assaulted Russian positions in Velyka Novosilka on June 5, officers placed the AMX-10RCs at the front of assault columns as they attempted a direct assault on Russian fortifications. It was a role the officers should have reserved solely for the marine corps’ T-80 tanks.
What happened next was terrible ... and entirely predictable. At least two, and perhaps as many as five, of the AMX-10RCs were immobilized or destroyed. Russian forces captured one of the immobilized vehicles.
At least one four-person AMX-10RC crew died, a marine major told AFP. “There was artillery shelling and a shell exploded near the vehicle. The fragments pierced the armor and the ammunition
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Forgetting about the 4,000,000 Ukrainians killed by Russia
Putin reiterates that Ukraine never existed and he was forced to start the war
Olena Roshchina — Friday, 3 November 2023, 18:35
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/3/7427096/
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has once again stated that Ukraine did not exist before Soviet times, that the territories in the south and east of Ukraine historically belonged to Russia, and that Russia had no choice but to "dust off the assault rifle" when Ukraine was implementing its pro-Ukrainian policy.
Source: TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet, quoting Vladimir Putin at a meeting with new members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation https://t.me/tass_agency/217280
Quote: "All the southern Russian lands were transferred during the formation of Soviet Ukraine, during the creation of the USSR. There was no Ukraine within the empire: there were oblasts, but Ukraine itself, which came [into the Russian empire – ed.] in the 16th century, consisted of three oblasts: the city of Kyiv and the oblasts of Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv – that's all. It came from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita), from Poland, voluntarily.
We have a letter in our archives: ‘We, the Orthodox people of Rus, appeal to Moscow, to the tsar, and so on.’ And in an attempt to defend their rights, they also sent appeals to Warsaw: ‘We, the Orthodox people of Rus, ask you to preserve this and that, and demand this.’
Then what happened happened. The Soviet Union was formed and a vast Ukraine was formed, first and foremost, to a significant extent, at the expense of the southern Russian lands - the entire Black Sea region and so on - although all of these cities, as you know, were founded by Catherine the Great after a series of wars with Turkey, the Ottoman Empire."
Details: Putin claimed that modern Russia had "come to terms with" the loss of Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR, but "when they started destroying everything of Russian origin there, that was obviously unacceptable!"
"And they ended up declaring that Russians are not indigenous to these lands – well, this is complete nonsense. And at the same time, they began to exterminate Russians in Donbas," Putin ranted, not specifying who he meant by "Russians".
According to Putin, the Ukrainian authorities had no intention of implementing the Minsk agreements and "started pulling all this territory into NATO", ignoring Russia's protests.
Quote: "This is what is at the centre of the conflict that is happening today. This is the cause of this conflict.
And of course, if we had had normal, modern, friendly relations with fraternal Ukraine – we are brothers as far as ethnicity is concerned! – no one would have thought of taking actions related to Crimea, for example.
If everything had been fine there, if Russian people, the Russian language and Russian culture had been treated normally, and if there had not been those coups d'état, would anyone in Russia have thought of acting the way we did in Crimea [referring to the annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea – ed.]? Of course not! We had to protect people from this Nazi abomination.
They simply put us in a position where we could do nothing else but defend the people living there. The same thing happened later with Donbas and Novorossiya [Ukraine’s south]."
Details: Putin said that before you "dust off the assault rifle", you have to think about whether it is possible to do without it. In the case of Ukraine, this was impossible, he said. He reiterated the propaganda that these were historical territories of Russia and that the people living there were "Russians".
According to Putin, Russia had no choice but to launch the "special operation" because "we had already been attacked". By "us", Putin meant Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Ukraine’s east and south.
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Boy, you have a real grotch against Stalin, don't you?
Here's a hint to guide you to reality, SECOND:
Stalin is dead.
Putin is not Stalin.
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And now, for some real news:
ZALUZHNY: admits "counteroffensive" has failed. But if we give him a whole new army with innovative weapons like better electronic warfare, he could win
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Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, says the battlefield reminds him of the great conflict of a century ago. “Just like in the first world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” he says. The general concludes that it would take a massive technological leap to break the deadlock. “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.”
. . .
he urges innovation in drones, electronic warfare, anti-artillery capabilities and demining equipment, as well as in the use of robotics.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/01/ukraines-commander-in-chie
f-on-the-breakthrough-he-needs-to-beat-russia
ZELENSKY: HERO TO ZERO
Last year, Time magazine named Zelenskiy "Man of the Year". This year, he's described as delusional and messianic, a man who gives crazy orders that commands are afraid to follow
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‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ Inside Volodymyr Zelensky’s Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight
https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/
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