Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:At that point, the USA had an assembly line to build nukes until Japan surrendered.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Except at that point, we had used up our only two nuclear weapons. We didn't even have one left, let alone 40.
Before the end of World War II, the United States was planning to detonate a third bomb — and more — on Japan. Signym and most Americans believe that dropping two atomic bombs on Japan was always the plan. But the historical evidence shows otherwise. Not a single document from before Japan’s surrender indicates that only two bombs were to be used. It wasn’t until after the war ended that new meaning was given to the bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A surge of memoirs produced by those involved in the Manhattan Project asserted it was common knowledge that two atomic bombs would be enough.
But, before the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no one thought two bombs would end the war. Most certainly, not the two men in charge of the Manhattan Project. Three days after the Trinity Test, General Groves wrote to Oppenheimer that it would be necessary to drop Little Boy and Fat Man and possibly two more Fat Man bombs.
The pilot of the plane that dropped Little Boy, Colonel Paul Tibbets, told varied accounts. According to his earliest recollection, it would take five atomic bombs to force surrender. He had fifteen bombers and trained crews ready to go in case they needed to drop more atomic bombs during the war.
On August 13, 1945—four days after the bombing of Nagasaki—two military officials had a phone conversation about how many more bombs to detonate over Japan and when. According to the declassified conversation, there was a third bomb set to be dropped on August 19th. This "Third Shot" would have been a second Fat Man bomb, like the one dropped on Nagasaki. These officials also outlined a plan for the U.S. to drop as many as seven more bombs by the end of October.
https://outrider.org/nuclear-weapons/articles/third-shot
Signym, Moscow and Leningrad could have been next, and by next I mean in 1945. But little man Truman was scared of the power and responsibility. He choked.
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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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitri Peskov dismiss criticisms of the Russian government and the war in Ukraine as unfounded and urged Russian citizens to self-censor. Putin stated at the International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg on November 17 that “the head is not only a tool for speaking but is also for thinking before you say something.”[20] Putin commented that many educated, knowledgeable, and talented adults do not follow or understand what is happening, presumably in Ukraine, but acknowledged that “the mood in society and the opinion of a country’s people...is an objective factor that no one can escape.”[21] Peskov similarly stated in a video interview published on November 17 that there should be a level of censorship during wartime that would be unacceptable during peacetime.[22] Peskov stated that the line between criticizing the Russian military and discrediting the Russian forces is very thin and advised those who want to “indiscriminately” speculate about and criticize the Russian military to “think ten times” before doing so.[23]
Peskov also stated that he believes Putin will announce his presidential campaign and that he "does not doubt” that Putin will win the 2024 presidential elections.[24] Peskov also responded to a question about Russian leadership after Putin and the characteristics that Putin’s eventual successor should have, stating that Putin’s successor should be someone exactly like Putin.[25]
May I suggest Putin as Putin’s successor? If you have been following the TV show Foundation, the Emperor cloned himself so that he could always rule. That was very Russian. See Lenin's and Stalin's Mausoleum for how creepy Russians are. https://tv.apple.com/us/show/foundation/umc.cmc.5983fipzqbicvrve6jdfep
4x3
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-november-17-2023
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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Russia Wants Female Prisoners to Give Birth as Population Fears Grow
Julia Davis, journalist and creator of the Russian Media Monitor, posted a photo Thursday on X (formerly Twitter) showing a billboard featuring a split image of a baby in the womb on one side and a young child wearing military fatigues and saluting.
The image reportedly translates to read: "Protect me today" and "I'll be able to defend you tomorrow."
"The link between Putin's current and potential wars and looming restrictions on abortion is far from subtle," Davis wrote.
In a piece published Thursday by The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Davis documented how Russia's population dwindled by about 997,000 people between October 2020 and September 2021 — its largest ever peacetime decline.
She also noted that the Kremlin has attempted to combat the population decrease by forcibly bringing in Ukrainian refugees, women and some 700,000 children — of which war crime warrants were issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, commissioner for Children's Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.
Meduza, an independent Russian- and English-language independent news outlet, reported on November 13 that the anti-abortion movement is being pushed by women like Natalya Moskvitina, who established the "Women For Life" organization.
She reportedly believes rape victims should give birth and that "true womanhood" is only possible through motherhood. She has also stated that women who have fewer than three children are part of a global evil.
The foundation, which has allegedly received grants and funding directly from the Kremlin, also openly instructs its volunteers to employ "manipulation" and deceit when talking with pregnant women.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-wants-female-prisoners-give-birth-low-
birthrate-babies-1844810
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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Meanwhile, Ukraine sends pregnant women to the front...
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Now for an ON TOPIC observation: I noticed on Military Summary channel while there are plenty of videos of Russia bombing, shelling, droning, and attacking Ukrainian positions all along thr front, there are few videos of Urainian troops doing anything. Yesterday IIRC there were two. I don't know what's going on, but it appears that Ukrainian soldiers have stopped fighting, except as infantry.
A Ukrainian pilot defected to Russia and took his SU 27 with him.
Penny Pritzker, wealthy wife of Governor Pritzker and part of the Chicago Dem machine, was delegated to oversee Ukraine reconstruction [pause for laughter] and went to Kiev to give Zelensky and Yermak these stark words:
Quote:
Imagine there may be no help
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/imagine-there-may-be-no-help-conc
lusions-of-us-special-representative-s-visit-to-ukraine/ar-AA1k1fU4
With Yermak apparently in discussion with Alex Soros, I wonder if the plan is to throw Ukraine into Soros' waiting arms, where he will strip Ukraine of its national assets and resources, and Russian assets in Ukraine, in return for a few dollars/ Euros more to keep Kiev officials warm and well fed this winter, where they will continue pretending that Ukraine can be revived.
I think Ukraine is toast*. I believe we will see mass desertion before the end of the year, when soldiers utterly run out of ammo.
* Altho, come to think of it, Ukraine's been toast for at least six months. With an economy, government and military 100% dependent on foreign donations and no tax receipts to speak of, Ukraine disappeared as a functioning nation and economy.
So, to quote Kissinger:
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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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Newsweek: Ukraine Sure Doesn't Look Like a Democracy Anymore
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-sure-doesnt-look-like-democracy-anymo
re-opinion-1844799
Even stupid people eventually figure that one out.
The rest of us knew that Ukraine was never actually a Democracy.
Hell... even the word Democracy itself when used like that is a misnomer.
America isn't a Democracy either. It's a Democratic Republic.
There's a BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE between the two, but stupid people who watch CNN/MSNBC and read Newsweek for the "truth" have no idea.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Russia frees killers from prison to go to war and kill in Ukraine
By Mary Ilyushina | November 18, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/18/putin-pardon-criminals
-murderer-ukraine/
Vladislav Kanyus, a young man from Kemerovo in southwestern Siberia, brutally killed his ex-girlfriend Vera Pekhteleva, torturing, suffocating and stabbing her for hours.
He was sentenced in July 2022 to 17 years after a high-profile trial that reignited a national conversation in Russia about the lack of protections against domestic violence and law enforcement indifference to such cases. But then Pekhteleva’s bereaved mother, Oksana, received a photo of Kanyus — not in prison but in a military uniform surrounded by other Russian soldiers.
Her daughter’s murderer was pardoned by President Vladimir Putin in exchange for taking up arms in Ukraine.
“I thought I was going crazy, I keep zooming into this photo and staring into his face in disbelief,” Oksana Pekhteleva said, described the shock it brought to her family. “You know what the human psyche is like, the first stage is denial.”
To avoid calling another controversial mobilization and risk angering the public ahead of presidential elections next year, Russia’s military has relied increasingly on prison recruitment to bolster its ranks, a tactic pioneered by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the late Wagner Group mercenary boss.
According to rights activists, the Russian Defense Ministry has enlisted as many as 100,000 people this year by scouring prison colonies and offering to chop off years from the sentences of people convicted of some of the country’s most gruesome crimes.
Just days after the Kanyus pardon made headlines came news that a former police officer convicted for his role in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent journalist, was also pardoned by Putin after serving six months of military duty in Ukraine.
The ex-police officer, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2014 as one of five men charged with organizing Politkovskaya’s murder. (Who ordered the killing was never determined.) Politkovskaya’s work, uncovering Russian abuses during the Chechen wars, had resulted in numerous threats and attacks before she was shot to death in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building.
Khadzhikurbanov’s lawyer told Russian media that his client recently signed another contract and will remain in the army.
Kanyus was secretly pardoned in April. Vera Pekhteleva’s family was not informed but suspected that he was out of prison when they received the photo of him holding a weapon.
By fall, Kanyus was posting photos of himself barbecuing on social media. About a week ago, Vera’s father got an official notice from the local prosecutor’s office informing them that Kanyus had indeed been pardoned and sent to the front line.
The Kremlin has expressed no regret when questioned about Putin’s decision to free murderers to reinforce the Russian ranks in Ukraine.
“Convicts, including those convicted of serious crimes, atone for crimes with blood on the battlefield, in assault brigades, under bullets, under shells,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters.
Alena Popova, a human rights activist who represents Pekhteleva’s family and has long lobbied for the introduction of a domestic abuse law in Russia’s criminal code, said she is concerned that freed convicts will bring a wave of violence back home, emboldened by their early release.
Popova and her team said they are being flooded by calls and messages from people who have already come in contact with, or fear seeing, their abusers or the killers of their loved ones. Most cases most don’t generate headlines, she said, because people are afraid to speak out.
Affected families fear repercussions because their abusers are fighting in what Putin has described as a “war for Russia’s future.” Any criticism of those taking part in hostilities could be viewed by the authorities as criticism of the war or of the military — which is now illegal in
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According to Meduza
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Records from Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service indicate that Russian prisons contained a total of almost 349,000 people at the start of August. By September, that number had decreased by about 1,000 — a change consistent with a years-long trend of the number of prisoners gradually decreasing. Over the two months that followed, however, the prison population declined by more than 23,000, reaching 338,000 by early October and 325,000 by early November.
So that "up to 100,000" is probably a lot like Russian KIA figures: exaggerated to absurdity.
I don't have a problem with prisoners serving their sentences in the military. (Think French Foreign Legion, or any number of Hollywood movies )
I DO have a problem with releasing them into society where they might commit crimes again. It's hard enough returning normal people to society. So unless military service is some sort of reform process, I think this might ultimately be dangerous to society.
Another question is whether they will show the necessary discipline, or will they use their newfound freedom to commit crimes.
And finally, I'd be worried about their level of training. The Kremlin didn't have problems with Prighozin recruiting from prison, and, frankly, neither did I. But where they put their foot down... and there were many places where they could have .. was the number of casualties that those men suffered taking a city that Russia had no intention of taking.
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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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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
According to MeduzaQuote:
Records from Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service indicate that Russian prisons contained a total of almost 349,000 people at the start of August. By September, that number had decreased by about 1,000 — a change consistent with a years-long trend of the number of prisoners gradually decreasing. Over the two months that followed, however, the prison population declined by more than 23,000, reaching 338,000 by early October and 325,000 by early November.
So that "up to 100,000" is probably a lot like Russian KIA figures: exaggerated to absurdity.
I don't have a problem with prisoners serving their sentences in the military. (Think French Foreign Legion, or any number of Hollywood movies )
I DO have a problem with releasing them into society where they might commit crimes again. It's hard enough returning normal people to society. So unless military service is some sort of reform process, I think this might ultimately be dangerous to society.
Another question is whether they will show the necessary discipline, or will they use their newfound freedom to commit crimes.
And finally, I'd be worried about their level of training. The Kremlin didn't have problems with Prighozin recruiting from prison, and, frankly, neither did I. But where they put their foot down... and there were many places where they could have .. was the number of casualties that those men suffered taking a city that Russia had no intention of taking.
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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
Examining Prison
Releases in
Response to COVID:
Kelly Lyn Mitchell
Julia Laskorunsky
Natalie Bielenberg
Lucy Chin
Madison Wadsworth
July 2022
LESSONS LEARNED FOR REDUCING THE
EFFECTS OF MASS INCARCERATION
https://robinainstitute.umn.edu/sites/robinainstitute.umn.edu/files/20
22-07/Examining%20Prison%20Releases%20in%20Response%20to%20COVID%20-%20July%202022.pdf
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We estimate that a total of 80,658 people were released from prisons in 35
jurisdictions (34 states and the federal prison system) due to COVID-related
policies, which was equivalent to about 5-1/2% of the total state and federal
prison population in 2019
More than a million prisoners have been released during COVID-19, but it’s not enough
https://theconversation.com/more-than-a-million-prisoners-have-been-re
leased-during-covid-19-but-its-not-enough-170434
Yeah. Let them all out.
But just not in your neighborhood, right lady?
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Here is an article about Ukrainian Commanders being too incompetent to command
After Losing a Leg, One Ukrainian Army Officer Is Mad At His Commanders. But He’s Not Mad at His American-Made M-2 Fighting Vehicle.
The M-2 saves lives, Mykola Melnyk said.
David Axe | Nov 18, 2023,04:03pm EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/11/18/after-losing-a-leg-on
e-ukrainian-army-officer-is-mad-at-his-commanders-but-hes-not-mad-at-his-american-made-m-2-fighting-vehicle/
Mykola Melnyk was a lawyer in Ukraine when Russia invaded in 2014. Melnyk immediately abandoned his practice and volunteered to help the Ukrainian army to defend Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
Nine years later, Melnyk—now a 38-year-old senior lieutenant—joined the army’s new 47th Mechanized Brigade. The brigade that, on June 9, would lead the initial assaults of Ukraine’s long-planned 2023 counteroffensive.
Melynk’s counteroffensive was a short one. On day one, he stepped on a mine and lost a leg, barely surviving. Looking back on the counteroffensive’s chaotic early days, the lawyer-turned-infantryman has ... opinions.
Ukrainian military leaders underestimated the Russians’ determination to hold territory they’d captured, Melynk said in a wide-ranging interview with Censor. The same leaders changed units’ organization and equipment at the last minute, wrecking their cohesion, Melynk claimed. Ukrainian aviation didn’t show up to support the ground troops, he added.
https://censor.net/en/resonance/3453607/company_commander_of_the_47th_
brigade_mykola_melnyk_the_russians_knew_our_routes_of_advance_and_everything
But for all his criticism of the top brass and the air force, Melynk had only good things to say about the American-made M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles his company rode into battle. “The Bradley withstood everything,” Melynk said.
The 47th Brigade is the main operator of the roughly 200 M-2A2ODS(SA) Bradleys that the United States pledged to Ukraine early this year.
Updated for better situational awareness (the “SA” in the designation) in the aftermath of the 1991 Operation Desert Storm (the “ODS”), the 28-ton, nine-person M-2 with its 25-millimeter autocannon and add-on reactive armor might be the best IFV in Ukrainian service, although Ukraine’s ex-Swedish CV90 could also claim that honorific.
Yes, the 47th Brigade has lost dozens of M-2s. But many of them might be recoverable and repairable. And more importantly, the 47th Brigade hasn’t lost dozens of M-2 crews. The Americans designed the vehicle to protect its occupants, after all. “A Bradley may be hit, but the crew survives,” Melynk said.
The same can’t be said of the BMP-2 IFV, Russia’s answer to the M-2. Hit a BMP-2, Melynk said, and “the entire crew dies.”
Melynk’s own M-2 ate a Russian shell during the assault on June 9. “The projectile hit under the right side,” the former lawyer recalled. “The armor withstood the fragments, but the shockwave tore the wiring in the vehicle.” The driver was concussed, but the M-2’s 600-horsepower diesel engine kept right on running. “We drove on.”
In Melynk’s experience, the M-2 is most vulnerable to attack from the air. Which makes sense, as the Bradley’s designers left the tops of the hull and turret lightly-protected in order to add protection—and weight—to the front and sides.
“The only case when the Bradley did not withstand impacts was from the work of helicopters,” Melynk said. He recalled a raid bv Russian air force Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters that hit a 47th Brigade assault column. “One Bradley detonated.”
But Melynk stressed that, in other cases, the 47th Brigade’s M-2s rolled right through Ka-52 raids. “In principle, this is a very reliable vehicle,” he said.
The M-2 saves Ukrainian lives. After Melynk stepped on the mine that took his leg, an M-2 speeded in to evacuate him.
But the Bradley’s robustness doesn’t make it some wonderweapon. According to Melynk, some Ukrainian commanders genuinely believed Russian troops would simply give up the first time they saw
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