Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:6ix doesn't respond bravely or rationally to life's major challenges, just the minor ones. The results are that his house is cold in winter because 6ix can't afford to heat or insulate sufficiently since he doesn't have the money.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What part about FUCK UKRAINE do you not understand?Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK (April 23, 2022):
Nobody cares.
Nothing has changed.
It is not rational nor brave to let Russia do what it pleases to Europe, but what exactly are Russia's goals that need a rational response? Look to Russia's recent past of invading countries and then holding them prisoner, at least until the Soviet Union collapsed due to incompetence at running an empire. Now Russia is reanimating that glorious yet dead past because Putin thinks he is vastly more competent than recent Russian leaders. Putin compares himself favorably to Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, long-dead empire builders. Russia now threatens to nuke anybody that might stop the Russian Empire from reinflating itself. They never drop the nukes but the many threats, several every month, prove present-day Russia is a country with evil goals. Russia's historic past also proves that Russian goals are evil. It is not rational nor brave to let Russia achieve its murky goals of reliving past greatness because that past is filled with tens of millions of corpses that got in the way of Russia's Empire. There will be millions more as Russia continues toward its goal unless stopped abruptly in Ukraine when Russia is rudely awakened from its dreams of a renewed Empire.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix doesn't respond bravely or rationally to life's major challenges, just the minor ones. The results are that his house is cold in winter because 6ix can't afford to heat or insulate sufficiently since he doesn't have the money.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What part about FUCK UKRAINE do you not understand?Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK (April 23, 2022):
Nobody cares.
Nothing has changed.
I haven't worked since July of 2019 and I'm okay, but thanks for worrying.
Have fun at work today, honey.
I'll have a nap for you.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
NEWS FLASH! Russians NOT starving this year!!
Sad to say, tho, an estimated 500,000 to a million Ukrainians were killed fighting a war for us.
Now THAT'S stupid!
SECOND: Russia did starve people this year by stopping the flow of grain a
... blah blah blah
NEWSFLASH! Russian grain exports at record high!
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-grains-export-idUSKBN2YJ13A/
You keep "misunderestimating" Russia, just as you did N Vietnam. (And a there's a third people you've grossly misunderestimated. Want to know who?)
Failure to learn. Coddling your errors with lies and more lies.
Now THAT'S stupid.
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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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The West’s False Choice in Ukraine
The crossroads is not between war and compromise but between victory and defeat.
By Nona Mikhelidze, a senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, and Nathalie Tocci, the director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. | Nov 27, 2023, 3:46 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/27/ukraine-russia-war-west-negotiati
ons-stalemate-weapons-aid/
Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, recently painted a somber picture of Russia’s war against Ukraine: A positional war teetering on the precipice of a stalemate, slowly tilting in Russia’s favor. Against this backdrop, talk of war fatigue is gaining momentum in Western capitals and the media, with growing calls for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
A year ago, Zaluzhny had underscored the need for specific weapons to achieve a breakthrough in the next Ukrainian counteroffensive. His prerequisites included air defense systems, fighter aircraft, main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, howitzers, and long-range missiles to strike Russian facilities and supply lines well beyond the 50-mile range of previously delivered systems. “I know that I can beat this enemy,” Zaluzhny told the Economist then. “But I need resources!” But Western support, in both types and quantities of weapons, fell significantly short of his appeals.
Western reluctance to promptly furnish Ukraine with the required military equipment in sufficient numbers — exacerbated by ongoing shortages in artillery ammunition — inadvertently afforded Russia the time to strengthen its frontline through extensive construction of fortifications, trenches, and minefields. Notably, the United States held back on the delivery of Advanced Tactical Missile Systems until very recently, while German reluctance to provide Ukraine with Taurus missiles added another layer of hesitation. The results are evident on the ground: Whereas we cannot know whether greater and faster delivery of weapons would have led to a Ukrainian military breakthrough, we do know that, without it, the result of Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the land war has been marginal at best. In the Black Sea, on the other hand, Kyiv has achieved significant recent success.
Doubling down on the narrative that it has thwarted Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russia has launched attacks in several sectors of the front, including near the city of Avdiivka and town of Vuhledar. While they are exacting a significant toll on Russian lives and military resources — October was the bloodiest month for Russia since February 2022 — Russian advances are paying off. The strategic value of Russia’s small territorial wins is questionable, but the benefits in the informational realm are clear: They give many observers the impression that the military initiative is back in Moscow’s hands. Alongside the lackluster Ukrainian counteroffensive, the fear that the tables are turning in Russia’s favor is adding to the war fatigue among Western nations and eliciting calls for negotiations.
The West has indeed reached the limits of its current strategy. In practice, if not in words, this strategy has centered on ensuring Ukraine’s survival without enabling it to achieve a decisive victory. Ukraine’s Western supporters are now at a crossroads.
Some believe that there are only two routes ahead: either the perpetuation of war — with the risk that it tilts in Russia’s favor — or negotiations that lead to some form of territorial compromise. Yet reality in Ukraine — and, above all, in Russia — suggests that the negotiation option is not available. Ukrainians believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions reach beyond the annexation of a few regions and instead extend to the genocidal subjugation and erasure of their country and identity. For Ukrainians, the stakes extend beyond affirming an abstract principle of territorial integrity; their concern is about the lives of their compatriots living under Russian occupation. Framing negotiations around a land-for-peace compromise is un
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‘Accidental Czar’: A Creative Take on the Putin Biography
In Weiss/Brown’s near-psychoanalytic account, Putin acts out of deep insecurities brought on by an inferiority complex coupled with a Napoleon complex; a suspicious, even paranoid nature; and a fraught xenophobia—especially of the West—inherited from his ancestors. In a sense, Putin encapsulates, in a diminutive package, the worst of Russian culture as imagined by thinkers at home and abroad.
And yet, we have no choice but to deal with him. As Weiss writes in his foreword,
“We need to understand his motivations, along with the heavy burden of history that helped shape them. We need to see the parts of a man who is in many ways ordinary, even if the problems he has created are often extraordinary.” Hence chapters with titles like “Superspy,” “Into the Abyss,” “O Happy Man!” and “Feet of Clay,” as well as the chilling story of how Putin’s future mother was almost dumped in a mass grave during the WWII-era Leningrad siege and was rescued at the last moment by his injured future father, who had just returned from combat. Putin was born seven years later; on such slender threads do the fates of nations hang.
One of the more fun parts of the book deals with Putin’s fixation—shared with many of his generation—on the impossibly heroic Stierlitz (Vyacheslav Tikhonov) from the Soviet TV serial “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (1973). Putin modeling himself on the imaginary spy seems banal and pathetic, a feeling enhanced by Brown’s splash (a page made up of only one large image) of the young Putin daydreaming of himself in his idol’s role: the gigantic figure, some 95% of the page, overwhelms the tiny Volodya at the bottom: a cutting portrait of misidentification if I ever saw one. The large image works precisely because the book, as noted, mostly uses multi-panel pages made up of smaller pictures, which makes the occasional deviation from the pattern stand out. In any case, Putin’s inflated sense of self is soon punctured by Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, deputy head of the Leningrad KGB Office, who drily reports, “He was a nobody.”
There have already been a number of fine Putin biographies, most notably Clifford Gaddy’s and Fiona Hill’s “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” (2015), Masha Gessen’s “The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin” (2013) and more recently Philip Short’s “Putin” (2022). It is not the remit of “Accidental Czar” to add anything new in terms of content, but rather to make its subject accessible to a different, wider readership. In this sense it succeeds, though those interested in much better comics works about contemporary Russia are directed to Victoria Lomasko’s “Other Russias” (2017) and Igort’s “The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks” (2016).
https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/accidental-czar-creative-take-p
utin-biography
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:
The West’s False Choice in Ukraine
The crossroads is not between war and compromise but between victory and defeat.
By Nona Mikhelidze, a senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, and Nathalie Tocci, the director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali. |
Nov 27, 2023, 3:46 AM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/27/ukraine-russia-war-west-negotiati
ons-stalemate-weapons-aid/
Oh, anyone in Ukraine and the west thinks they have a choice, whether it's victory or compromise v defeat?
HAHAHAHA!!!
Hate to tell you this, but neither victory nor compromise are in the cards. It's gonna be utter, devastating defeat all the way, no matter what weapons the west supplies. Including nukes.
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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:You are not psychologically prepared for reality, are you? Your Russian future is going to be as disorienting and upsetting as discovering your "parents" are not your biological parents after their deaths or having all your children die before you, perhaps in a fire or a car crash. These things happen.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hate to tell you this, but neither victory nor compromise are in the cards. It's gonna be utter, devastating defeat all the way, no matter what weapons the west supplies. Including nukes.
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:You are not psychologically prepared for reality, are you? Your Russian future is going to be as disorienting and upsetting as discovering your "parents" are not your biological parents after their deaths or having all your children die before you, perhaps in a fire or a car crash. These things happen.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hate to tell you this, but neither victory nor compromise are in the cards. It's gonna be utter, devastating defeat all the way, no matter what weapons the west supplies. Including nukes.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You are a total piece of shit.
You don't deserve to breathe the same Oxygen that Sigs does.
Please die of old age.
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Quote:Planning on setting house fires, are you?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hate to tell you this, but neither victory nor compromise are in the cards. It's gonna be utter, devastating defeat all the way, no matter what weapons the west supplies. Including nukes.
SECOND: You are not psychologically prepared for reality, are you? Your Russian future is going to be as disorienting and upsetting as discovering your "parents" are not your biological parents after their deaths or having all your children die before you, perhaps in a fire or a car crash. These things happen.
If you don't deny it, I'll take that as a threat.
The person not prepared for reality is you. You've been weird ever since you started posting, and you've only gotten weirder since reality started diverging more and more from whatever narrative is stuffed up your belfry.
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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:I am on the side of Ukraine, the Democrats, and the University of Texas at Austin football team. 6ix and Signym have taken opposing positions.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Planning on setting house fires, are you?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hate to tell you this, but neither victory nor compromise are in the cards. It's gonna be utter, devastating defeat all the way, no matter what weapons the west supplies. Including nukes.
SECOND: You are not psychologically prepared for reality, are you? Your Russian future is going to be as disorienting and upsetting as discovering your "parents" are not your biological parents after their deaths or having all your children die before you, perhaps in a fire or a car crash. These things happen.
If you don't deny it, I'll take that as a threat.
The person not prepared for reality is you. You've been weird ever since you started posting, and you've only gotten weirder since reality started diverging more and more from whatever narrative is stuffed up in your belfry.
I want Ukraine, Democrats, and UT to win. But if they lose, I won't. If 6ix and Signym die in a fire, it won't perturb me. By the way, UT has 11 wins and 1 loss (to Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl)
https://texassports.com/sports/football/schedule/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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