Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:This is close to admitting that your mental problems nearly overwhelm you. Don't feel alone. The Trumptards I know are filled with sweaty anxieties that alcohol, porn, tobacco and Trump can ease. Same with Russians. They need alcohol and Putin to make the world feel safe for them, again.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
Make Russia Great Again is the same as Make America Great Again.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated boilerplate Kremlin narratives that blame Ukraine for the war. Putin claimed on January 26 during a meeting with students at the St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University that
a) Ukraine “refused” to implement the Minsk Agreements,
b) Ukraine committed “genocide” against Russians in “[Russia’s] historical territories” in Ukraine,
c) and the West “deceived” Russia multiple times by expanding NATO
– all of which he claimed forced Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022.[17]
Putin’s comments continue to indicate that the Kremlin is framing
1) NATO expansion and
2) Ukraine‘s existence as an independent, sovereign state
– as existential threats to Russia that Russia must eliminate with force.
Putin further falsely claimed that Russia’s full-scale invasion was a “response to [Ukraine’s] use of armed force” after Ukraine “started the war in Donbas in 2014” and that Russia had to “protect [its] interests.”
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-26-2024
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Ukrainian Leopard 1A5 tanks transform into massive shotguns with new ammunition
12:00 AM EST, January 27, 2024
https://essanews.com/ukrainian-leopard-1a5-tanks-transform-into-massiv
e-shotguns-with-new-ammunition,6988971276297857a
Ukrainians have received the distinctive M1040 canister ammunition designed to battle soft targets such as infantry soldiers. These ammunitions create a literal hail of deadly tungsten fragments that can be lethal over several kilometers.
The entire M1040 unified cartridge weighs approximately 44 - 50 lbs and contains a payload of 2000 tungsten balls. These are stored in a polymer or aluminum sabot, disintegrating upon exiting the barrel and dispersing them sideways. This results in a formidable torrent of fragments with a range of up to 550 yards, essentially "sweeping" everything in its path.
In effect, these tanks mimic the behavior of a traditional smoothbore shotgun loaded with buckshot ammunition, albeit on a significantly larger scale. Given the distances over which battles may take place in Ukraine, an effective range of less than 550 yards is deemed sufficient. A single tank, therefore, can effectively clear a line of trenches.
https://www.facebook.com/tanksbeingtanks/videos/the-m1028-canister-car
tridge-is-a-120mm-anti-personnel-ammunition-developed-for-/1590688227656583/
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Nepal wants its men back from Russia's war in Ukraine after deaths on the front
By Shalu Yadav, Rajneesh Bhandari | January 27, 2024, 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1226170192/russia-ukraine-war-nepal-sol
diers-killed
SYANGJA DISTRICT, Nepal — Reema Karki is angry, but she's good at hiding it with a stoic look on her face.
The 31-year-old woman from Nepal received a letter from the Nepalese Embassy in Moscow with news that her husband, Pritam Karki, had died on Nov. 15 while serving in the Russian military in Ukraine.
Thousands of miles away from their village in the Syangja district of Nepal, her husband used to send her texts and voice messages on the Telegram messaging app every two weeks. But the communication had gone silent.
In his last voice message, Pritam said he was in Russia, away from the front, and tried to reassure her: "My dear wife, this country is huge. It's risky on the front line, but I'm not there, so it's all good. It's just a matter of one year. After that, we will have a citizenship card and you can move here with me."
He was referring to the Russian government's offer of citizenship to foreigners after one year of serving in its army on a contractual basis.
He was one of hundreds of Nepali men Russia has recruited to bolster its military forces in nearly three years of war against Ukraine. Now, after some of them have died or disappeared, Nepal's government says it's taking steps to prevent citizens from going and urging Russia to send back the country's men.
"I didn't know much about the situation in Russia," Reema Karki tells NPR, saying her husband kept details from her.
"He never told me stories of war, never told me about the hardships he faced there. He used to say he is safe there. Had I known about the war, I would have never let him go," she says. "Only after I heard the news [of his death], I could sense that he was hiding things from me."
Nepal's Foreign Ministry estimates 400 of its citizens have gone to serve in the Russian army. Nepali fighters in Russia interviewed by NPR believe the total is more than 1,000.
Russia has been luring them with offers of Russian citizenship and salaries of about 300,000 Nepali rupees ($2,260) a month, while providing little clarity about what their roles would be, the Nepali fighters say.
The deal is appealing to some men in Nepal, where typical wages are much lower than that and unemployment hovers around 11%, according to the World Bank's latest estimate in 2022.
Pritam's mother, Kumari, calls it a trap and blames the Russian government for sending her son to his death.
"[The] Russian government should have kept their army in the front line of battle, and not our men. If we had known about the situation, we would have tried our best to bring Pritam back home alive. We would have begged or done everything in our power to make ends meet. We would have rescued him," she says.
Not only were they unable to bring him home alive, but also to get his remains back from Russia.
The Nepalese Embassy sent the family a death certificate, viewed by NPR, that said he had suffered "explosive trauma with damage to chest organs and left lower limb" and "injuries by shrapnel in an explosion as a result of military operations" and died in a hospital in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.
"We heard that his body was in pieces when he died. We would have to get DNA tests to match his body parts and spend thousands of dollars to bring his body back. We just don't have that kind of money," laments Reema.
Hopeless, they performed the ritual of Pritam's last rites on a dummy made of hay.
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Quote:TRUE.
Originally posted by second:
Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated boilerplate Kremlin narratives that blame Ukraine for the war. Putin claimed on January 26 during a meeting with students at the St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University that
a) Ukraine “refused” to implement the Minsk Agreements,
Ukraine never abided by the agreement and France and Germany (as signatories and garantors) never made them. (Russia wasn't a signatory and therefore had no terms to meet.)
At one time or another, Merkel and Poroshenko said that the Minsk agreements were used to buy time for Ukraine's rearmament.
https://www.news18.com/news/world/ukraine-war-merkel-says-minsk-talks-
helped-kyiv-buy-time-prepare-better-6467083.html
https://www.ft.com/content/39356ee4-a505-4391-a7a9-998252cb67ee
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b) Ukraine committed “genocide” against Russians in “[Russia’s] historical territories” in Ukraine,
EXAGGERATED
Ukraine conducted a campaign of "ethnic cleansing", outlawing the Russian language, beating and killing Russian speaking people, and attempting to militarily subjugate their eastern provinces (oblasts). When that failed, they took to regularly shelling civilians in Donetsk City and cutting off the water supply to Crimea. Killing, and the control needed to implement genocide never, IMHO, reached the level of "genocide".
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c) and the West “deceived” Russia multiple times by expanding NATO
TRUE.
Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany based on American promises not to expand NATO "one inch eastward".
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all of which he claimed forced Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022.[17]
Putin’s comments continue to indicate that the Kremlin is framing
1) NATO expansion and
2) Ukraine‘s existence as an independent, sovereign state
– as existential threats to Russia that Russia must eliminate with force.
Putin further falsely claimed that Russia’s full-scale invasion was a “response to [Ukraine’s] use of armed force” after Ukraine “started the war in Donbas in 2014” and that Russia had to “protect [its] interests.”
TRUE. Ukraine had massed 100,000 soldiers on its eastern border and increased shelling significantly. Whether this was preparation for war or provocation, it had the west's desired effect.
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Quote:Yes! I see now that it is Russia facing annihilation by the West. You are, as always, insightful, Signym. Russia is bravely fighting for its continuing freedom from enslavement by the West and its proxy soldiers, the Ukrainians.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
TRUE.
EXAGGERATED
TRUE.
TRUE. Ukraine had massed 100,000 soldiers on its eastern border and increased shelling significantly. Whether this was preparation for war or provocation, it had the west's desired effect.
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Yep!
You finally understand.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:This is close to admitting that your mental problems nearly overwhelm you. Don't feel alone.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
No. It most certainly is not.
It's calling out the opinions and remarks of a chronic liar with a god complex who only has one handle left on fff.net that hasn't been banned as the trash that they are.
Period.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:You are funny in the same way Putin is. There is such a riot of laughter as his writers in the Kremlin gather together to craft speeches where every sentence is absurd:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. It most certainly is not.
It's calling out the opinions and remarks of a chronic liar with a god complex who only has one handle left on fff.net that hasn't been banned as the trash that they are.
Period.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and Kremlin officials claimed that Russia is in an existential geopolitical conflict with an alleged modern Nazi movement that extends beyond Ukraine while marking the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad. Putin attended the opening of a memorial to the Soviet victims of Nazi genocide in Leningrad Oblast on January 27 and focused heavily on long-standing claims that Russia is fighting “Nazis” in Ukraine.[1]
Putin asserted that select countries have adopted Nazi ideology and methods and tied this assertion to a number of European states promoting “Russophobia as a state policy.”[2] Putin declared that Russia will “do everything to suppress and finally exterminate Nazism” and cast Russia as pursuing the “aspirations of millions of people...all over the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.”[3]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko also attended the ceremony and stated that Belarus and Russia “are again faced with the question of the right to life of our civilization and the preservation of ancestral...[and] cultural values.”[4]
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin stated that Russia will not stop halfway in its fight against current Nazi followers, and Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin explicitly stated that “fascist ideology is becoming the norm...for leaders of NATO states” and specifically accused US President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of sponsoring genocide in Ukraine.[5]
Volodin framed this alleged growing fascist movement as a “dangerous path that could lead to a new world war.”[6]
Putin specifically accused the Baltic states of adopting “Nazism,” likely as part of continued Kremlin efforts to set information conditions for future Russian aggression against NATO members.[11] Putin alleged that the Baltic states have declared thousands of people living there “subhuman,” are “depriving“ them of their “most basic rights,” and are subjecting them to “persecution.”[12] Although Putin did not specifically claim that the Baltic states are “persecuting” Russians or Russian speakers, Kremlin officials have routinely accused Baltic governments of having “neo-Nazi” policies and of oppressing Russians and Russian speakers.[13]
The Kremlin has historically used its concept of “compatriots abroad,” which vaguely includes ethnic Russians and Russian speakers of other ethnicities, to justify Russian aggression in neighboring states.[14] ISW continues to assess that Kremlin officials and mouthpieces may be attempting to set information conditions for possible future Russian aggression in the Baltic states – and other NATO members, such as Finland – under the guise of protecting Russia’s “compatriots abroad.”[15] The Kremlin may also use the pretext of protecting people from alleged “Nazi” policies in the future.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-january-27-2024
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Quote:Is Congress Really Going to Abandon Ukraine Now?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yep!
You finally understand.
By Anne Applebaum | January 27, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/us-congress-support-
ukraine-war/677256/
The U.S. rallied the world to help the Ukrainians. Are Americans really going to leave them to their fate?
As I write this I am in Warsaw, 170 miles from Poland’s border with Ukraine. The front line, where Ukrainians are right now fighting and dying, is another 450 miles beyond that. Not so far, in other words. A long day’s drive. I am well within range of Russian missiles, the kind that have hit Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv so many times over the past two years.
Tens of millions of other people — Poles, Germans, Romanians, Finns, Estonians, Swedes, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Czechs, Latvians, Norwegians — are also in range of Russian conventional missiles, whether launched from Belarus, Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine, or Russia itself. Anyone in Europe could also be hit by Russian nuclear weapons, of course, as Russian television propagandists so frequently like to remind us. Dmitri Medvedev, a former Russian president, in recent months has threatened Poland with the loss of its statehood, threatened Sweden and Finland with nuclear and hypersonic missiles, and said the Baltic states belong to Russia anyway.
Most of the time, the possibility of Russian aggression doesn’t affect anybody or change anything. No one talks about it. Life goes on as normal. In Finland and Romania, preparations for presidential elections are underway. In Germany, farmers are on strike. Lithuania is holding an international light festival.
The moment the Ukrainians start to lose, all of that will change. For the past few months, Western observers have been tossing around the word stalemate, as if the Russian invasion of Ukraine had settled into some kind of dull, permanent stasis. In fact, the battlefield is dynamic. The front line is constantly changing, and the changes, both material and psychological, are starting to favor Russia. The Ukrainians are just as brave as they were a year ago and just as innovative. Their drones recently hit a Russian gas depot near St. Petersburg, hundreds of miles from Ukraine, among other targets. With no navy of their own, they have pushed much of the Russian Black Sea fleet away from their shores. But on the ground, in the southern and eastern parts of their country, they are rationing ammunition. They’ve never had sufficient missiles and bullets, and now they are at risk of not having enough to keep fighting at all.
Were their front line to fall back dramatically, the horrific violence alone would trigger a shock wave through the rest of Europe. Russian occupation of more territory would continue to mean what it has meant for the past two years: torture chambers, random arrests, and thousands of kidnapped children. But an even deeper, broader shock wave would be triggered by the growing realization that the United States is not just an unreliable ally, but an unserious ally. A silly ally. Unlike the European Union, which collectively spends more money on Ukraine than Americans do but can’t yet produce as many weapons, the U.S. still has ammunition and weapons to send. Now Washington is on the verge of refusing to do so, but not because the White House has had a change of heart.
The looming end of American aid to Ukraine is not a policy decision. For two years, the Biden administration successfully led an international coalition to provide not soldiers but rather military aid to Ukraine. Officials convened regular meetings, consulted with allies, pulled in military support from around the world. Majorities in the U.S. continue to support Ukraine. Majorities in both houses of Congress do too. The Senate is said to have its legislation almost ready to go. But now, for reasons that outsiders find impossible to understand, a minority of Republican members of Congress, in a fit of political pique, are preparing to cut it all off. They
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Anne Apolebaum runs elbows with fellow neocons Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, John Bolton. Haven't you noticed that she always writes whackadoodle opinions?
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