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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Friday, January 26, 2024 3:18 AM

Supplying a weapon is not the same as murder. Period.

Only twisted fucks would equate the two.

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Friday, January 26, 2024 4:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supplying a weapon is not the same as murder. Period.

Only twisted fucks would equate the two.

Netherlands Public Prosecution Service wrote a Report
Findings of the JIT MH17 investigation into the crew members of the Buk TELAR and those responsible in the chain of command
https://www.prosecutionservice.nl/topics/mh17-plane-crash/documents/pu
blications/mh17/map/2023/report-mh17


If you scan the report for the word "Putin", every step was Putin’s except the last step: pulling the trigger to fire the weapon. Since then, Putin has denied all knowledge. "What? How dare you accuse me? I know nothing!" was his plaintive cry.
Kremlin dismisses claims Putin was involved in MH17 downing
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-dismisses-claims-putin-wa
s-involved-mh17-downing-2023-02-09
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, January 26, 2024 5:24 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supplying a weapon is not the same as murder. Period.

Only twisted fucks would equate the two.



The Hague-ites are ideologically-driven twisted fucks.
I'm not going to bother looking into your post bc you, too, are an ideologically twisted fuck who only accidentally posts the truth.



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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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Friday, January 26, 2024 5:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supplying a weapon is not the same as murder. Period.

Only twisted fucks would equate the two.



The Hague-ites are ideologically-driven twisted fucks.
I'm not going to bother looking into your post bc you, too, are an ideologically twisted fuck who only accidentally posts the truth.


Signym, you are a special kind of person. Had much trouble during your life? It is your specialness that attracts woe. The Russians have that same quality and it has attracted historic amounts of trouble for them. It sticks to them and it is almost impossible to scrape off.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, January 26, 2024 5:19 PM

NATO Ally Proposes Taurus Missile Solution for Ukraine

By Ellie Cook | Jan 25, 2024 at 9:28 AM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/nato-taurus-missile-ukraine-germany-1863917

The British government has offered to replenish Ukraine's long-range Storm Shadow missile stocks if its own cache is replaced with German Taurus missiles, according to a new report, in a move likely intended to break months of deadlock on sending the latter to Ukraine.

London extended the offer several weeks ago, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday. A British defense ministry spokesperson said the U.K. "and our partners, including Germany, continue to work together to equip Ukraine as best we can to defend its sovereign territory – delivering significant quantities of military aid via the International Donors Coordination Cell in Stuttgart."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, January 26, 2024 5:20 PM

The Kremlin is reportedly no longer offering pardons to convict recruits and is significantly changing the terms of their service, likely in response to the reduction of the pool of convicts suitable for recruitment into Russian force generation efforts. The BBC reported that Russian officials likely ended recruitment into “Storm-Z” units in August 2023 and began recruiting convicts into “Storm-V” units based on new contract terms in September 2023.[33] Russian officials previously recruited convicts through promises of pardons and six-month contracts, and “Storm-V” units reportedly provide no promise of pardon or even parole and extend convicts’ contracts indefinitely until the end of the war.[34] Russian officials likely extended the contracts on the basis of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization order as the Russian military does for mobilized personnel. The BBC reported that Russian military registration and enlistment offices formally release convict recruits in a procedure that is no longer legally equivalent to “parole/conditional release,” suggesting that convict recruits are legally still considered prisoners.[35] Russia has heavily relied on convict recruits to maintain a level of force generation that is roughly equivalent to Russian losses in Ukraine, and which is likely helping enable Russian forces to conduct regular operational-level rotations.[36] Russian officials reported that as of October 2023 the Russian prison population was 266,000 people — a notable reduction of 54,000 prisoners from January 2023.[37] The loss of convict recruits to attritional assaults in Ukraine and the relatively short terms of their service contracts may have prompted the Kremlin to enact more restrictive terms of service in order to retain more convict recruits at the front in Ukraine. The contract terms for service in new “Storm-V” units are far less attractive and may dampen efforts to recruit convicts, although Russian officials have routinely used coercive measures to force convicts to sign contracts.[38]

Russian officials may have also changed the status of convict recruits in order to relieve force generation burdens on the Russian federal budget. Russian opposition outlet Vazhnye Istorii reported on January 25 that Storm-Z personnel addressed a letter to Putin asking him to resolve a widespread lack of promised payments, payments for injuries, and documents on the expungement of criminal records for Storm-Z personnel.[39] Vazhnye Istorii reported that a response from a Russian military prosecutor’s office to a Storm-Z fighter stated that Putin’s recent decree promising single payments in cases of injury or death do not apply to Storm-Z fighters.[40]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-25-2024


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, January 26, 2024 7:47 PM

How much are Russian soldiers being paid to fight?

By Simon Newton | 25th January 2024 at 1:13pm

https://www.forces.net/russia/what-are-russian-soldiers-being-paid-fig
ht-putins-war


All men aged between 18 and 30 have to serve a year in the Russian forces – officially at least those conscripts cannot be sent to Ukraine.

A growing number of the troops in Ukraine are contracted.

The starting wage for them is around three-and-a-half times the national average, according to official Russian government figures. The average monthly wage earned by Russians is 71,419 roubles a month ($756 or £639).

It is estimated this is more than a dozen times the average in many of the country's poorer and remote regions, which is where a lot of Vladimir Putin's troops are being recruited.

Putin also gave contracted troops a one-off payment of 195,000 roubles ($2,178 or £1,710).

This came with a price when, a few months later, the Kremlin banned volunteer soldiers from ending their contracts.

It is thought Wagner troops were being offered around 240,000 rubles a month ($2,690; £2,108).

Their relatives also got $60,000 if they were killed and they were given that money in cash to avoid paying tax.

Some former prisoners have said they were offered 205,000 rubles a month ($2,298 or £1,805) to sign up, plus 3m rubles ($33,664 or £26,453) for an injury or 5m rubles ($55,844 £43, 920) if they are killed.

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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Friday, January 26, 2024 9:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Supplying a weapon is not the same as murder. Period.

Only twisted fucks would equate the two.



The Hague-ites are ideologically-driven twisted fucks.
I'm not going to bother looking into your post bc you, too, are an ideologically twisted fuck who only accidentally posts the truth.


Signym, you are a special kind of person. Had much trouble during your life? It is your specialness that attracts woe. The Russians have that same quality and it has attracted historic amounts of trouble for them. It sticks to them and it is almost impossible to scrape off.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



Personal insult = no credible reponse.

BTW I see you're still posting lies.

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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM


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Friday, January 26, 2024 9:33 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Personal insult = no credible reponse.

BTW I see you're still posting lies.

You have never understood that Russia's problems are caused by Russians. Obviously, there will be external problems, but the Russian response to such problems has been, shall we say, suboptimal which is why Russia is poor compared to the EU. It is also why North Korea, Russia's protege, is poor compared to South Korea, America's protege. A quick check of recent news shows that South Korea is being militarily threatened by North Korea which follows Russia's habitual ways of confronting its problems by threatening the neighbors.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, January 26, 2024 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Personal insult = no credible reponse.

BTW I see you're still posting lies.

You have never understood that Russia's problems are caused by Russians. Obviously, there will be external problems, but the Russian response to such problems has been, shall we say, suboptimal which is why Russia is poor compared to the EU. It is also why North Korea, Russia's protege, is poor compared to South Korea, America's protege. A quick check of recent news shows that South Korea is being militarily threatened by North Korea which follows Russia's habitual ways of confronting its problems by threatening the neighbors.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Coming from a guy who tells everybody, everyday that he doesn't have any problems even though he does nothing but bitch and moan about the world, you and your alter-ego Reaverfan's consensus on who does and doesn't have problems and what the cause of them are is meaningless.

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