Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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The War in Ukraine Now Has Its First Draft
By Elliot Ackerman | January 18, 2024, 7:48 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/01/war-ukraine-now-has-
its-first-draft/677163/
The One Element Keeping Ukraine From Total Defeat
If history becomes the final battlefield on which a war is waged, Yaroslav Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence might be the opening salvo in the struggle to define what has happened in Ukraine over the past two years, even as the war continues. Trofimov, who is Ukrainian-born and the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, crisscrossed the country
Only on one side of the line. How about talking to the residents of Donetsk City, who'd been shelled for years by Ukraine? Or Russian speakers who left bc of repression? Talking to the million or more refugees who fled to the EU, or Russia?
Hardly an objective account.
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Quote:Objectivity can function only when Russians are objects, not someone to empathize with or hear their screams as they die. Plug your ears, Signym, to maintain your high level of true objectivity.
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Only on one side of the line. How about talking to the residents of Donetsk City, who'd been shelled for years by Ukraine? Or Russian speakers who left bc of repression? Talking to the million or more refugees who fled to the EU, or Russia?
Hardly an objective account.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The Russian information operation aimed at painting defensive NATO actions in response to real Russian aggression on NATO’s eastern flank as provocative seeks to deflect from recent aggressive Russian rhetoric and behavior towards NATO.
Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, recently threatened Finland and the wider NATO alliance.[11]
Putin identified the West as Russia’s “enemy” and implied that Russia is fighting in Ukraine in order to defeat the West.[12]
Kremlin officials and Kremlin-affiliated actors have also repeatedly attempted to set information conditions for future aggressive action against NATO member states and their neighbors.[13]
Russian electronic warfare (EW) exercises in Kaliningrad may have caused unprecedently high levels of GPS jamming across northern and central Poland and the southern Baltic region on December 25-27, 2023 and January 10 and 16, 2024.[14]
ISW continues to assess that Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 not to defend Russia against a nonexistent threat from NATO but rather to weaken and ultimately destroy NATO – a goal he still pursues.[15]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-19-2024
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The Broken Bargain of Russian Womanhood
Why they won’t rebel against the war that kills their men.
By Anastasia Edel | January 20, 2024, 6:00 AM
Russian women have, shockingly, embraced the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine despite the heavy toll it exerts on their men.
Though Russia doesn’t disclose casualties, they are mounting. Scores of new graves housing the remains of “heroes” are popping up across the country as the labor ministry requests certificates for families of the deceased by the hundreds of thousands. While the state heaps praise on these men in death, in life it seems to view them as disposable. Russian officials have made this abundantly clear, repetitive to the point of cliché: “Women will give birth to more.”
Despite standing to lose so much, the wives, mothers, sisters, and girlfriends of Russian soldiers have largely nodded along with the Kremlin’s moribund determination to grind down their men. They weep at makeshift memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late chief of the paramilitary Wagner Group. They show little gender allegiance to the women of their former sister republic. Some are actually proud of their “defenders,” egging them on to rape Ukrainian women should they get the chance. In packed concert halls across the country, girls sing along ecstatically to “Ya Russky” (“I am Russian”), the country’s new patriotic anthem. Their faces soften the song’s promises to “fight to the end” and “spite the whole world.” That seems to be the point.
Russian womanhood, routinely held up in the country’s lore as a paragon of strength, patience, and sacrifice, is now functionally a cover-up for the crimes of Russia’s men. Two of Russia’s most notorious propagandists, Margarita Simonyan of Russia Today and Olga Skabeyeva of the Russia-1 television channel, are women, as is Maria Zakharova, the boorish spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Beneath them lurk less prominent figures with important platforms. There’s Putin’s Brigades, a motley crew of activist grandmothers who have abandoned their communal yard benches to rally the masses for President Vladimir Putin and his war. They call on U.S. President Joe Biden to stop “NATO’s war against Russia” and on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender. The Project in Red Dresses, which is supported by an organization run by one of Putin’s relatives, mobilizes women across Russian towns. Draped in red, they waltz through public spaces, seeking to both boost women’s confidence and unite Russians around their leader.
Women support the war effort in other ways, too. Back in my hometown, my mother’s acquaintances are knitting camouflaging nets for Russian troops and teaching children how to make trench candles to send to the battlefield. Schoolteachers—the majority of whom are women—are now responsible for children’s patriotic upbringing. In the state-mandated weekly class “Conversations about important things,” teachers disseminate Kremlin-approved talking points and rally support for the war among children as young as kindergarteners—lining them in Z-formations, organizing visits and weapons demonstrations from “defenders of the motherland,” and even engaging children to help produce those weapons. Teachers who disagree with the war or try to get out of this duty are denounced—often by other women—and subsequently fired or forced to quit.
Women haven’t always been so compliant with the state’s agenda. In 1917, they famously took to the streets to protest food shortages and the monarchy, sparking the strike that eventually triggered the Russian Revolution. More recently, the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia was instrumental in pressuring then-President Boris Yeltsin to end his war on Chechnya in 1996.
Nearly two years of Russian carnage in Ukraine, however, have produced mostly acts of individual heroism. For instance, Channel One Russia employee Marina Ovsyannikova made an on-air appeal to viewers not to believe the state’s lies about the war. The artist Sasha Skochilenko swapped supermarket labels with
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Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin threatened Denmark, a founding member of NATO, on January 20 in response to a recent US-Danish agreement allowing US forces access to military bases in Denmark. Barbin claimed during an interview with Russian news outlet RIA Novosti that the December 2023 US-Danish agreement “creates new challenges” for Russia’s security in the Baltic Sea region and stated that Russia will determine the “necessary responses" to such actions.[6] The US and Denmark signed a Defense Cooperation Agreement on December 21, 2023, allowing the US to permanently station forces and equipment at military bases in Denmark.[7] Barbin called the agreement a “deliberate course towards further degradation of the military-political situation in the region under the slogans of containing and intimidating Russia.”[8] A prominent Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger previously claimed that Finland is becoming a “second Ukraine” in response to a similar US-Finnish agreement.[9] Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have recently threatened Finland, and the Kremlin’s threats against a founding member of NATO that shares no borders with Russia is a notable challenge to the wider alliance.[10] Russian threats made towards a founding member of NATO also undermine Russia’s longstanding information operation that its aggressive actions are in response to NATO expansion.[11]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-20-2024
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Russia closes the Bering Sea to British fisheries. Britain calls it an "attack" on their fishing vessels.
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THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GOOD
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This is what LOSERS do
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At least 25 killed in Ukrainian strikes on Russian-controlled Donetsk, officials say
By Darya Tarasova, Teele Rebane, Radina Gigova, Victoria Butenko, Josh Pennington, Andrew Carey and Maria Kostenko, CNN
Updated 9:29 PM EST, Sun January 21, 2024
People remove debris at a food market following, what local Russian-installed authorities say, was a Ukrainian military strike in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russia controlled Ukraine, January 21, 2024.
CNN —
At least 25 people were killed and 20 were injured, including two children, in Ukrainian shelling near a market in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, officials say.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement published that a market and shops in the city’s Kirovsky district were targeted with multiple launch rocket systems, with the shelling reportedly coming from the direction of Avdiivka.
MORE AT https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/21/europe/ukraine-strikes-russian-cont
rolled-donetsk-intl/index.html
Losing militarily, so they strike at civilians.
Sheesh.
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Quote:I am assuming you completely forgot that the USA firebombed civilians in Tokyo and Dresden during WWII. After peace treaties were signed, the War on Germany and Japan was over for the US, but not for Russia, which killed a further two million German civilians in retribution.
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This is what LOSERS do
At least 25 killed in Ukrainian strikes on Russian-controlled Donetsk, officials say
Losing militarily, so they strike at civilians.
Sheesh.
Russia kills two million civilians after WWII
https://www.google.com/search?q=Russia+kills+two+million+civilians+aft
er+WWII
Signym, you ought to read Expulsion of Germans after World War II and the forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#Expuls
ion_of_Germans_after_World_War_II_and_the_forced_labor_of_Germans_in_the_Soviet_Union
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