Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russia launched another huge missile strike against Ukraine after Orthodox Christmas (which was Jan 7).
There are very few videos of the strikes, since Ukrainian security services arrested people who posted videos online of explosions from the last waves of strikes.
Cities hit include Odessa, Krivoy Rog, Zaparozhiy, all around Kharkov and from Kharkov eastward to the border shelled and struck, and cities to the west (but since no announcement from Russia and no videos or posts from there, hard to say which ones).
Also, active and some Russian advances along much of the frontline.
See Military Summary Channel for this morning
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Quote:And yet Russian victory does not arrive because Russia does not have a sufficient number of multi-million dollar missiles. It's time for Russia to bring out the nukes, which it has more than sufficient numbers of and which it never stops hinting that it will use one day soon.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia launched another huge missile strike against Ukraine after Orthodox Christmas (which was Jan 7).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:Russia is attriting Ukraine and, by extension, NATO and the USA. As had been said, you want to wear your opponent down so much that at the end you can knock him down with a feather. Not at that point yet.
Originally posted by second:Quote:And yet Russian victory does not arrive because Russia does not have a sufficient number of multi-million dollar missiles. It's time for Russia to bring out the nukes, which it has more than sufficient numbers of and which it never stops hinting that it will use one day soon.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia launched another huge missile strike against Ukraine after Orthodox Christmas (which was Jan 7).
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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"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:That explains why Germany only had 7 million dead while fighting on land, sea, and air on two fronts with supply lines stretching 1,000 miles while Russia had 27 million dead fighting on one front with short supply lines. A sensible military strategy is to hit your enemy at its weakest point as hard and fast as possible. That is how successful military campaigns are conducted.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia is attriting Ukraine and, by extension, NATO and the USA. As had been said, you want to wear your opponent down so much that at the end you can knock him down with a feather. Not at that point yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Signym, if Russia had the goal you claim, it would have cut all fuel deliveries from Russia to the World, not just some European countries, at the same time it invaded Ukraine once the spring thaw had passed and the ground was hard. Then Ukraine, EU, UK, and USA would have been knocked out in the first round, a worthy goal for Russia. But Russia didn't because its goal was to steal all Ukrainian land by capturing Kyiv.
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A 1929 Soviet novel shows how dangerous ideas can destroy a society.
By Anastasia Edel | January 8, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/chevengur-andrey-pla
tonov-russia-book-review/677042/
As Vladimir Putin’s army continues to wage war in Ukraine, many people may find themselves probing the culture of modern Russia to make sense of the war. In the past, those looking to art or literature to better understand Russian society might have picked up works by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. But these writers feel less relevant today: The 19th century is receding into the distance, and so are the glorified or mystical qualities its authors ascribed to Russia and its people.
Today, few books offer the level of insight into modern Russian history as Chevengur does, a 1929 novel by the Soviet writer Andrey Platonov, composed as the Bolsheviks established the Soviet Union and consolidated power. Never published in its entirety in his lifetime, Platonov’s epic of the Russian Revolution has recently been translated into English by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781681377681
Despite having been born in Russia, I discovered Platonov relatively late in life. He wasn’t taught in Soviet schools, and tamizdat (banned material published abroad and smuggled back to the U.S.S.R.) wasn’t available in the provincial town where I grew up. Though Platonov was himself a Communist who took part in the Bolshevik revolution, he owed his obscurity to Joseph Stalin, who disliked his depictions of the savage undercurrents of the revolutionary dream. (Platonov simply saw his book as a truthful ode to Soviet power.) His four novels and numerous plays, scripts, stories, and sketches thus weren’t available in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s.
Chevengur shows how an embrace of violence destroys the soul of a nation, and lays bare humanity’s inexhaustible capacity for carnage in the search for a better future. Terror isn’t a side effect of the Revolution, the novel suggests, but rather something endemic to Russian society.
Even after Stalin’s death, and during glasnost, the period of liberalization that led to the rediscovery of Platonov’s work, he was eclipsed by other previously banned writers such as Mikhail Bulgakov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I hadn’t even heard the name Platonov until I moved to America in the late 1990s and merged my book collection with my husband’s. One summer evening in California, I plucked a plain green volume with a mysterious name — Chevengur — from our bookcase and didn’t put it down until I read the last sentence. I remain under its spell.
Set from 1913 to the mid-1920s, a dramatic decade that spanned World War I, revolutions, famines, epidemics, and civil war, Chevengur charts the breakup of the old Russia and the birth of the new communist world. Like War and Peace, Chevengur is a portrait of a society in crisis. But unlike Tolstoy, whose epic is wrapped into an entertaining upper-crust-family saga, Platonov begins his story in an entirely different social milieu: a Russian village where misery is a “habit rather than a torment.” Part coming-of-age novel, part odyssey, part dystopian chronicle, Chevengur has no epic battle scenes, no love triangles, and no glory. It shows the Revolution and the country that engendered it as they were — strewn with dead bodies, broken promises, and dreams turned into nightmares.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-once-forgotten-novel-that-exp
lains-russia-s-violence/ar-AA1mCUp6
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:For explanations of why Russians are that way there are Russian novels. For explanations of why 6ixStringJack is this way, there is the movie Joker. 6ix, your sympathizing with the Joker's situation revealed your inner self.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Ukraine.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Russia is attriting Ukraine and, by extension, NATO and the USA. As had been said, you want to wear your opponent down so much that at the end you can knock him down with a feather. Not at that point yet.
Originally posted by second:Quote:And yet Russian victory does not arrive because Russia does not have a sufficient number of multi-million dollar missiles. It's time for Russia to bring out the nukes, which it has more than sufficient numbers of and which it never stops hinting that it will use one day soon.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia launched another huge missile strike against Ukraine after Orthodox Christmas (which was Jan 7).
SIGNYM
That's funny, the purpose in war is to win. Not to lose all your troops and equipment. And Putin's intention was not to expand NATO, which is what his actions led to.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:For explanations of why Russians are that way there are Russian novels. For explanations of why 6ixStringJack is this way, there is the movie Joker. 6ix, your sympathizing with the Joker's situation revealed your inner self.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Ukraine.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
That tired line again, huh?
Fuck Ukraine.
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Quote:6ix, once you sympathize with the Joker quietly murdering his mother with a pillow, you can't take it back by writing "That tired line again, huh?" Your mother should not allow you into her presence because you might suffocate her with a pillow. Yes, I know your mother was bad, but you are not under her control now. Consult with your local Sigmund Freud for what to do about your twisted mind, 6ix. Wanting your own mother dead is why you keep writing "Fuck Ukraine".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:For explanations of why Russians are that way there are Russian novels. For explanations of why 6ixStringJack is this way, there is the movie Joker. 6ix, your sympathizing with the Joker's situation revealed your inner self.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Ukraine.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
That tired line again, huh?
Fuck Ukraine.
Then there are these nihilistic gems that would make Sigmund Freud ask 6ixStringJack to leave his office and never return.
Quote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=65735&p=4
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Every time there was a show that me and my old man liked and it got cancelled, I'd just say instead of leaving it on a cliffhanger like The Sarah Connor Chronicles, they should have just had one final episode where the entire planet gets nuked and everyone dies. Firefly could have had the sun go supernova and everyone dies. Freaks and Geeks? Maybe North Korea fired the first nuke and everyone dies.
You can't cancel my show. I'm going to destroy it first.
Let's just kill off pretty much all the main characters on both sides at the end and call it a day.
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But I'm glad they just killed everyone off and made it so that the entire season didn't matter since the network killed it.
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I like the idea of a supernova just killing everybody in the solar system off, because FOX killed Firefly anyhow, so Joss should have just said fuck it and made a huge catastrophe outside of anybody's control just coming in and making the entire show as pointless as FOX decided it was.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
Putin said much the same. If Russia cannot have what it wants, why should the world survive? Why should life go on without Russia? Just his subtle way to remind the world he has nukes. The Joker did the same in his movie. He'd kill everybody if he can't have fame.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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