Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You act like someone who shamefully crossed over from Star Trek's Mirror Universe.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not at all a legitimate reply to my post.
Ignored, just as anything you ever post should be.
I've lived here the whole time motherfucker.
You're in my universe, and you're always wrecking my calm with your bullshit.
Don't ever bring up my finances again. I have far more a handle on them than you will ever manage.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:You lived in Indiana, where shitheads run the state. I lived in Texas, where shitheads also run the state, but I learned how to evade their deep-seated stupidity that keeps them suffering and poor. You haven't learned. The smarter Russians learned how to evade the hereditary stupidity of Russian shitheads, but effective evasion required the smart ones to emigrate from Russia. Russia ought to have been able to instantaneously crush Ukraine. But because most of the smartest Russians had a long time ago left the country, Russia struggles with military strategy and tactics from the brains of the least competent/energetic.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You act like someone who shamefully crossed over from Star Trek's Mirror Universe.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not at all a legitimate reply to my post.
Ignored, just as anything you ever post should be.
I've lived here the whole time motherfucker.
You're in my universe, and you're always wrecking my calm with your bullshit.
Don't ever bring up my finances again. I have far more a handle on them than you will ever manage.
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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Have fun at work today making money to pay off all those loans you're never going to pay off before you die, bitch.
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Quote:I have no debt. I do have people who owe me, all of whom are Trumptards. They are very erratic at repaying on time, especially the one who owes me $898,392. Despite it being a zero-percent interest loan. Trumptards are lying sacks of shit, but I knew that before the first loan. All it takes is a phone call to my lawyer to shove those liars into bankruptcy. Some might even kill themselves. No skin off my nose what happens to them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today making money to pay off all those loans you're never going to pay off before you die, bitch.
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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Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told a “People and Defense” conference last weekend that “there could be war in Sweden.”
He noted that it wasn’t his “primary intention to appeal to your fear, but rather to your situational awareness” and said he was trying to make Swedes aware of the potential for conflict, and to ask them to be prepared.
When asked to respond to Bohlin’s comments, Sweden’s military Commander-in-Chief Micael Bydén said he agreed with the minister, stating: “We need to prepare as far as possible, at all levels, throughout society.”
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Thursday announced a fresh 80 million euros ($87.5 million) in military assistance to Ukraine, and said Estonia would provide long-term assistance equaling 0.25% of its GDP over the next four years.
“If all the countries supporting Ukraine made a similar commitment, this would lead to a definite victory for Ukraine,” Kallas said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-o
n-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I have no debt.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today making money to pay off all those loans you're never going to pay off before you die, bitch.
Nobody buys that or any of the other bullshit you're selling.
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Quote:Ah. Since you can't deny she's lying you become the typo Nazi and hurl personal insults?
Originally posted by second:Quote:Since the article was by Anne Applebaum, not Apolebaum, you have photophobia. But I've always been convinced you and the Russians were from the Mirror Universe of Star Trek where characters are aggressive, mistrustful and opportunistic in personality.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It amazes how many lies Anne Apolebaum works into each para
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Universe#Characteristics
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How Ukraine Must Change If It Wants to Win
Ukraine can't win
Quote:Its version of democracy includes banning opposition parties and jailing opposition activists, canceling elections, and kidnapping men off the street to serve in the army
A beleaguered country needs more than volunteerism and chutzpah to protect its version of democracy.
Quote:Infamous rabid neocons
By Anne Applebaum
Quote:Targets are military installations: weapons factories, troop concentrations, air defense systems, depots etc. Civilian targets were rarely struck, and according to Ukraine's head of Air Force, by incoming missiles knocked astray by air defense missiles (I quoted him previously)
| January 9, 2024, 8:30 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/rustem-umerov-defens
e-minister-ukraine/677060/
On December 29, Russia launched the largest missile attack against Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. On January 2, another attack of the same magnitude hit schools, hospitals, and apartment blocks
Quote:Finally! Truth!
across Ukraine. Early yesterday morning—the day after Orthodox Christmas—the Russians hurled yet another missile barrage at Ukraine. Together, these attacks sent a message: Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in negotiations, cease-fires, or swapping land for peace.
Quote:First of all, "he" isn't fighting Ukraine, it's Russia. Second, Ukraine is ALREADY being overwhelmed.
Although he cannot overwhelm Ukraine militarily,
Quote:mind-reading
Putin now believes
Quote:targets are military not civilian. But Ukraine does use civilian buildings for military uses
that he can keep up the pressure, destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure,
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wait for Ukraine’s allies to grow tired, goad the Ukrainian public into turning against the government, and then win by default.
AFAIK Russia is making every move to guarantee a military victory. If there happens to be a coup in Ukraine, that's a side effect
Quote:Russian KIA estimated at 50,000
Often, this new phase of fighting is described as a “war of attrition,” as if the only thing that will determine the outcome is the number of bullets. But although the number of bullets does matter, the war has an important narrative and psychological component too. Alongside the bombings, Kremlin officials are now telegraphing to everyone—to Western politicians and journalists, to Ukraine, to the Russian people—that they can absorb 300,000 casualties
Quote:Not sure about "massive" losses, but at the rate Russia is producing tanks, shells, drones etc they can absorb more than Kiev and the west
and massive equipment losses,
Quote:by all reports, including the IMF and western visitors, it is
that their country’s economy is thriving,
Quote:lie
that they are willing to devote half of the national budget to defense
Quote:EVERYBODY (except western neocons) describe Ukraine that way! These are well-known facts
production indefinitely. At the same time, the Russians and their supporters in the United States and Europe describe Ukraine as corrupt, politically divided,
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and, above all, certain to lose. In Washington, some Republicans justify their (so far) successful attempt to block American aid to Ukraine by using this language. Viktor Orbán, theNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Russians are highly organized for a long-term war. Ukrainians? Not so much.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 11, 2024
The reported concentration of the Russian military’s entire combat-capable ground force in Ukraine and ongoing Russian force generation efforts appear to allow Russian forces to conduct routine operational level rotations in Ukraine. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Deputy Chief Major General Vadym Skibitskyi stated on January 11 that Russian forces have 462,000 personnel in Ukraine and that this represents the entire land component of the Russian military.[1] Skibitskyi stated that most Russian units in Ukraine are manned at between 92 and 95 percent of their intended end strength and that the size of the Russian grouping in Ukraine allows Russian forces to conduct rotations throughout the theater.[2] Skibitskyi stated that Russian forces withdraw units that are at 50 percent or less of their intended end strength to rear areas and return them to the front following recovery and replenishment.[3] Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev stated on January 11 that the Russian military has successfully replenished Russian forces in Ukraine through an ongoing crypto-mobilization effort that generated over 500,000 new personnel in 2023.[4]
ISW previously observed routine Russian struggles to conduct operational level rotations from the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 through Ukraine’s summer 2023 counteroffensive.[5] The apparent Russian ability to generate forces at a rate equal to Russian losses likely provides Russian forces the ability to replenish units that the Russian command has withdrawn from the line due to degradation and later return these replenished units to the front.[6] Russian forces maintain the initiative throughout eastern Ukraine, and the absence of Ukrainian counteroffensive operations likely removes pressure on operational deployments that had previously partially restrained the Russians‘ ability to conduct rotations.[7] Russian forces have not seized the battlefield initiative in Kherson Oblast, however, and appear to be degrading units and formations operating near the Ukrainian bridgehead on the east (left) bank of the Dnipro River without making apparent efforts to conduct operational level rotations (although they do appear to conduct tactical-level rotations).[8] Russian forces have conducted several regroupings during localized offensive operations in the Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Lyman, and Kupyansk directions since early October 2023, which likely provided Russian forces time to conduct the rotations Skibitskyi described.[9] ISW has not observed widespread Russian complaints about a lack of rotations throughout the theater since summer 2023, and the overall tempo of Russian operations is consistent with Skibitskyi’s reporting.[10]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-11-2024
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Russians are highly organized for a long-term war. Ukrainians? Not so much.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 11, 2024
The reported concentration of the Russian military’s entire combat-capable ground force in Ukraine and ongoing Russian force generation efforts appear to allow Russian forces to conduct routine operational level rotations in Ukraine. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Deputy Chief Major General Vadym Skibitskyi stated on January 11 that Russian forces have 462,000 personnel in Ukraine and that this represents the entire land component of the Russian military.
"The Russian military is one of the largest in the world, with an estimated active duty personnel of around 900,000 and an additional 2 million in reserve"
https://thegunzone.com/how-large-is-russian-military/
"Russia has one of the largest militaries in the world. It ranks fifth by active military personnel, which was measured at over 830 thousand[ active duty
https://www.statista.com/topics/9957/armed-forces-of-russia/
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How the best chance to win the Ukraine war was lost
By Yaroslav Trofimov | January 9, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/09/ukraine-war-win-cha
nce-west-lost/
Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. This article is adapted from his new book, “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.”
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was flying home on a Turkish Airlines plane from New York when Russia invaded. He had just been welcomed into the White House by President Biden. It felt like he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, he thought. The warm handshakes, the empathetic smiles were meant to be final farewells — for him, and for his country.
In Washington, and in most European capitals, no one expected Ukraine to survive in February 2022. The CIA director, William J. Burns, had secretly flown to Kyiv at Biden’s request, warning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia was planning to assassinate him.
“They spoke about the physical liquidation of our leadership, about the creation of filtration and concentration camps,” said Zelensky’s national security adviser, Oleksiy Danilov. “But what could we do? We kept asking: give us weapons. But they didn’t really give weapons to us.”
As the United States shut down its embassy in Kyiv ahead of the invasion, it did ship some weapons to great fanfare, such as Javelin antitank missiles. But the quantity was puny: only about 90 Javelins, according to Danilov. Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while also briefed about the hopelessness of the Ukrainian cause, had overruled internal objections and authorized a heftier load of about 2,000 NLAW missiles. Still, those were weapons best suited for a guerrilla campaign, not a conventional war.
At the time, Ukraine’s military leadership, under Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, had successfully kept Kyiv’s war planning secret — and not just from the Russians. Neither Washington nor many senior officials in the Zelensky administration knew Zaluzhny’s blueprint. “We were pessimistic about Ukraine holding out in part because the Ukrainians didn’t share any of their preparations or planning with us,” a senior Pentagon official told me later. “And the preparations and plans that they did share with us were military deception.”
Western governments were stunned by the speed of the Russian advance and mindful of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings not to interfere. Johnson called Zelensky with an offer to arrange an escape, one of several such calls that the Ukrainian president received. One possibility, Johnson explained, was to set up a Ukrainian government-in-exile in London, the way a Polish government-in-exile had been established there after the Nazi and Soviet invasions of 1939. Zelensky asked for weapons instead.
Poland, perhaps because of its history, was the only nation that didn’t despair in these early hours. Rerouting his connecting flight, Kuleba attended Poland’s national security council meeting on Feb. 24, the day of the invasion. The Polish government, like other NATO members, had been told by the alliance’s intelligence that a swift collapse of the Ukrainian state was near certain. Still, Warsaw refused to give up. Immediately, Poland sent several truckloads of ammunition and heavy weapons. “The Poles believed in us more intuitively than fact-based, because all the facts spoke against us at the time,” Kuleba recalled.
The mood was very different in other European capitals. “Nobody was giving the Ukrainians any chances,” Johnson said. “If this is going to happen, the best thing is that maybe it should happen quickly,” a senior aide to German chancellor Olaf Scholz told him at the time.
In his speech on the day of the invasion, Putin threatened unimaginable consequences should the West try to help Kyiv. And, since the first days of the war, the White House’s overriding priority had been not to overstep Russia’s “red lines” and provo
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