Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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I've got 50 sources. Show me another source backing this up.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR, do you really think making life miserable for civilians in Crimea will dent Russia's warmaking capacity?
Jeez! Get a grip!
"Time works in Russia's favor."
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by THG:
I've got 50 sources. Show me another source backing this up.
A billion flies eat shit.
I have a lot of sources too. I post THIS source bc he gets his news from both sides, official as well as Telegram and others. More importantly, he backs his map with VIDEOS from the frontline and "behind the line" attacks.
None of your "sources" have specific, detailed info backed by evidence. They don't compare and contrast both sides. They just repeat whatever yaking points they want to repeat without ever trying to source it or determine if it's meaningful.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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I think the likelihood that any of you are getting legitimate information or have any idea what any of this is all really even about underneath all the 24/7 spin from every single angle is pretty slim-to-none.
But how horrible a reality would that be to face?
To question if all the online arguments that you've had over the last 20 years over politics didn't really mean nothing because nobody ever had any of the facts and 99% of the stuff people cared about one day were tossed aside the next, melded into one big blob of crap with all the other daily meaningless internet onslaught, and all but completely forgotten about by the time the next big thing they want you focusing on starts.
Let's face the truth here.
Joe Biden*, the former President of the United States had a crackhead son who is addicted to hookers and bad decisions. This son was never in control of his problems, although I would imagine that being paid $60,000 per month to sit on the board of one of Ukraine's power companies and having Joe as a dad would get your ass out of most of the trouble. At least until you left your unencrypted laptop with all sorts of naughty stuff at a repair shop for months, because you obviously dropped it off while tripping balls and had no recollection of where the damn thing even went until it was announced that somebody had it.
Left or Right, I'm not even making that argument here. Everything I just said is the absolute truth, and to this day nobody has ever given me a reasonable explanation for Hunter Biden's seat at Burisma that isn't some sort of payoff or shakedown and wasn't all about getting Hunter as far away from his dad as possible so he didn't ruin his run for the Presidency.
Nobody in the media on either so-called "side" even asks anything or anyone about this. It's just deal with it or pretend it doesn't exist and never happened.
The Democratic Party and the Media don't seem to particularly like Joe Biden* and the Biden* family right now, and yet they still can't bring themselves to look into any of this and get any answers.
We'll just never know. Because nobody is ever going to look into it. And the only reward for the people who have shown they have the balls to do real investigative journalism and get some answers to questions the Legacy Media refuses to ever ask is to have their lives ruined.
What are we really doing there?
For 12 years now. At least...
Who do you even get angry at and over what topic anymore? There's just so much to choose from all the time.
Do you continue to vote for the people who swear they will make things the way that they used to be and don't even pretend to try and deliver on any of their promises after the election is won? Or, do you vote for the people who tell you that you, yourself and everything you remember about the world as it used to be are the problem?
So yeah...
When I hear any of you talking anything about Russia here, which has been nearly every goddamned day for nearly four and a half years now, I just kind of shake my head and laugh.
Just like I said from day one, nobody gives a shit about Ukraine. I know it felt for a while like that wasn't true. When so many people with pronouns in their bios on Twitter had their Ukraine flags along side them to show their support in the current thing. Ted proudly showing Uncle Sam with the American Flag with the caption "America Supports Ukraine" over and over and over again.
And that support lasted for about 2 or 3 months. And that support ended over 4 years ago to this day.
Talking about this right now would be like if we were still talking about the Iran situation during the 2030 midterms and Gavin Newsom were our sitting President.
Nobody on either side is ever going to fix anything. Even those who think that they will get inside and the curtain is lifted and they see just a fraction of the shit that is really going on and find out pretty quick they
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Ukraine's drone chief explains how Crimea could force Moscow into a corner
What ingredients are in the Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces "recipe"?
By Vladyslava Kovalenko | Sun, June 21, 2026 – 13:53
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-s-drone-chief-explains-how-cri
mea-1782039162.html
"Moscow and the old man in the bunker will cling to Crimea until the very end as the main trophy of this war, even if it becomes an 'island.' Of course — it’s a pillar of their ideology of greatness and comes with plenty of perks, like turning the Sea of Azov into an 'internal Russian body of water,' and so on," Madyar said. . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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'They attack with everything at once' — How Russia exploits Ukraine's vulnerability to ballistic missiles
By Tania Myronyshena | June 22, 2026 10:55 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/they-attack-with-everything-at-once-how-ru
ssia-exploits-ukraines-vulnerability-to-ballistic-missiles/
On June 2, Russia carried out its largest ballistic and hypersonic missile attack of the year. On June 15, it nearly surpassed that record.
The attacks point to a disturbing change in tactics: The Kremlin may be refining a new model of strikes on Ukrainian cities, relying on concentrated salvos of ballistic and hypersonic missiles to inflict maximum damage as Ukraine faces a growing shortage of Patriot interceptors.
The two mass strikes in June followed a similar pattern. Russia launched more than 600 drones and around 70 missiles. Both attacks relied heavily on ballistic and hypersonic missiles and were directed primarily at Kyiv.
The June 2 strike also marked the largest simultaneous use of Zircon missiles during the full-scale war, with eight launched in a single attack. Two weeks later, Russia again aimed every Zircon missile used in the attack at the Ukrainian capital, alongside up to 19 ballistic missiles.
Both the types of weapons deployed and the chosen targets reflect Russia's changing approach.
"In 2022, cruise missiles made up roughly 70-80% of Russia's missile attacks, while ballistic missiles played a much smaller role," aviation expert Kostiantyn Kryvolap told the Kyiv Independent. "Now this has changed, and Russia is placing all its bets on ballistic missiles. And cruise missiles have transformed from a means of delivering strikes into a tool for exhausting air defense."
Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department of the Ukrainian Air Force, said the latest attacks also stood out for their concentration of different weapons against a single target.
"They choose one target — Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, or a city in western Ukraine — and attack it with every available weapon at once," Ihnat told the Kyiv Independent. . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Turning Crimea From An Asset Into A Russian Liability
It Seems To Be Happening In Front Of Our Eyes
Phillips P. OBrien | Jun 22, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/turning-crimea-from-an-asset-in
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The last few days have given some concrete evidence about both the situation for the Russian occupiers of Crimea and Ukrainian plans for the peninsula. The Ukrainian strategy of isolating the peninsula seems to be both accelerating and having concrete results. If the Russians do not have the ability to counter soon, Crimea could be isolated, with pretty dire strategic results for them.
The best piece of concrete evidence for the isolation of Crimea is that the peninsula is running out of fuel. Yesterday, the Russian governor was forced to take the dramatic step of forbidding fuel sales to civilians. According to a BBC story:
Governor Sergey Aksyonov said individuals and businesses would be turned away from petrol stations, and fuel would only be sold to government agencies ensuring Crimea's “functioning and security”.
It is hard to overstate how serious the fuel situation must be on Crimea for such a draconian restriction to be imposed on civilians. Putin has always maintained the fiction that Crimea is some happy and functioning part of the Russian state. No more.
Back in July 2024, I wrote that Ukraine isolating Crimea would be a three step process, and at that point only the first step has been accomplished (which was the cutting off of Crimea from the sea). The next two steps would be far more difficult, but if they could be accomplished, the whole process might culminate in an attempt to take down the Kerch Bridge.
And here is the conclusion:
Quote:I saw this Ukrainian boast that they had just disabled the remaining Russian air defense systems protecting the Kerch Bridge:
Now that the seas are no longer safe for Russia, the Ukrainians want to deny the Russians the air over Crimea as much as possible—why giving themselves (the Ukrainians) the ability to attack what they want across and connecting to Crimea. This campaign will basically lead to the air-sea isolation of Crimea— and those who know my work know what that usually means. I promise to write more on that later if you are interested.
Only once the air-sea isolation of Crimea is complete can Ukraine really go for the last part of the campaign—possibly the most difficult, but one that would be the nail in the coffin for Russian control over Crimea. That would be completely severing or at least severely damaging the road and rail links into the peninsula.
People might wonder why the Ukrainians haven’t gone against the Kerch Bridge like they might have expected—its because it will only be truly devastating to shut the Kerch Bridge off completely if Russia has lost air-sea control around the peninsula, and the road-rail connections from the north (occupied Ukraine) into Crimea can be shut off or severely damaged as well.
This is the ultimate end point, one imagines, for the Ukrainian campaign against Crimea. Once you start seeing more efforts to take down the Kerch Bridge its because Ukraine feels it has successfully completed the first two steps.
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Army Media @armyinformcomua
Ukraine just stripped the Kerch Bridge of its air defence.
In a joint operation on June 21, Ukraine’s Security Service and Special Operations Forces struck two Pantsir air defence systems deployed directly on the Crimean Bridge — and simultaneously disabled four S-400 radar stations.
Six air defence assets. One operation. The bridge that Russia built as a symbol of its grip on Crimea is now unprotected.
Every air defence system destroyed around the Kerch Bridge expands the operational window for what comes next. Every radar station disabled removes another layer of early warning for Russian forces defending the peninsula.
What the Ukrainians have done is remarkable. It has taken years of planning and effort, a number of extremely difficult steps, and has put the Russians in a terrible strategic bind.
The
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Quote:Ukraine declares Crimea's beach season 'closed' after wave of strikes
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR, do you really think making life miserable for civilians in Crimea will dent Russia's warmaking capacity?
Jeez! Get a grip!
"Time works in Russia's favor."
The statement highlighted what has happened in Crimea in recent days
By Kateryna Danishevska | Mon, June 22, 2026 – 15:44
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-declares-crimea-s-beach-season
-closed-1782131739.html
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense announced the "closure of the beach season" in Crimea, according to a statement from the ministry.
"Closing the beach season in Crimea," the ministry said in its statement.
"The forecast for tourists is unfavorable," the Ministry of Defense emphasized.
Over the past few days, the Defense Forces have struck the following targets in Crimea:
• An oil depot,
• Gas compressor stations,
• Pantsir and S-400 air defense systems,
• Nebo-U and Kasta radar stations.
During the night of June 21, explosions were reported in various parts of Crimea, and traffic on the Kerch Bridge was temporarily suspended. Witnesses also reported thick black smoke rising from a fire near the seaport area.
Later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed details of the nighttime operation. According to him, Ukrainian forces struck targets on both sides of the Kerch Bridge, located about 300 kilometers from the front line.
Also during the night of June 20, the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a large-scale operation against Russian forces and their logistics infrastructure in temporarily occupied territories.
According to Robert Brovdi, commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, known by the call sign Madyar, four gas compressor stations in Crimea and a road bridge across the Henichesk Strait were hit. In addition, drones struck some Russian fuel supply and military logistics facilities.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Crimea Without Fuel: The Logistics Lockdown Delivers Results After Just One Month
Following Ukraine's latest strikes, the Crimean peninsula has been left without access to fuel. Petrol sales to civilians have been banned, with supplies reserved exclusively for emergency services and the military. Ukraine has effectively sealed the peninsula off logistically, leaving only one route open: the Crimean Bridge. The only question is how long that will last.
By Illia Kabachynskyi | Jun 22, 2026 19:14
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/crimea-without-fuel-the-logis
tics-lockdown-delivers-results-after-just-one-month-20057
In the early hours of 21 June, Ukrainian drone and missile strikes on Crimea produced significant results: a series of oil and gas infrastructure facilities were hit, along with air defense systems, logistics nodes, and three ferries. In this instance, strikes against enemy air defenses were more of a welcome bonus; the primary target was the fuel infrastructure. Storage tanks will continue to burn for some time, and replenishing them will not be straightforward: the ferries destroyed were transporting fuel tankers, and there is nothing available to replace the vessels quickly.
Later that same day, Crimean officials announced that petrol sales had been suspended at petrol stations, both cash and card transactions. In other words, Crimea simply has no more petrol, and there is no clear way to obtain it. All supplies reaching the peninsula are reserved for special services and military needs. Russia continues to choose war over the welfare of its own civilians.
The situation on the peninsula is the direct result of a program run by Ukraine's General Staff and Ministry of Defense called the "Logistics Lockdown." Within a week of the head of the Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Brovdi, declaring the "isolation of Crimea," that prediction has proved accurate.
The Crimea Logistics Lockdown
In late May 2026, the Ministry of Defense announced a program called the Logistics Lockdown. Its concept was to destroy the enemy's ability to move personnel, weapons, and equipment to the front. The strike force: Middle Strike class drones with a flight range of up to 200 kilometers.
For two months prior, this category of strikes had been steadily gaining momentum and producing results, with hundreds of air defense systems destroyed, continuous elimination of equipment, drone, and ammunition depots, and headquarters kept under constant threat. Seeing the returns, Ukraine allocated an additional $100 million to the procurement of drones in this class, and the number of units operating them expanded.
In just one month of effective operations, Ukrainian forces achieved visible and tangible results. Strikes began with the land corridor from Russia into Crimea, then moved to destroying ferries, before hitting all the bridges connecting Crimea to the Ukrainian mainland.
At this point, the only consistently functioning link between Crimea and Russia is the Crimean Bridge, which has not been the target of precision strikes for some considerable time. There is, however, a strong sense that this will not last: Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has published a strike map clearly showing the Crimean Bridge within range as a potential target for Ukrainian drones. Strikes against it feel like a matter of timing and accumulating sufficient means to achieve a meaningful result.
For Ukraine, strikes on Crimea are a critical element of deterrence: the peninsula functions as a staging ground for offensive operations in southern Ukraine. By degrading that capability, the Ukrainian army faces less pressure on its own lines, and gains room to conduct offensive operations of its own.
Managing the situation in Crimea now requires Russia to commit ever greater numbers of troops. Military convoys have appeared on the roads to counter Ukrainian drones, logistics have become significantly more complex as routes have deteriorated and journey times have grown. Even the military itself i
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I think the likelihood that any of you are getting legitimate information or have any idea what any of this is all really even about underneath all the 24/7 spin from every single angle is pretty slim-to-none.
But how horrible a reality would that be to face?
To question if all the online arguments that you've had over the last 20 years over politics didn't really mean nothing because nobody ever had any of the facts and 99% of the stuff people cared about one day were tossed aside the next, melded into one big blob of crap with all the other daily meaningless internet onslaught, and all but completely forgotten about by the time the next big thing they want you focusing on starts.
Let's face the truth here.
Joe Biden*, the former President of the United States had a crackhead son who is addicted to hookers and bad decisions. This son was never in control of his problems, although I would imagine that being paid $60,000 per month to sit on the board of one of Ukraine's power companies and having Joe as a dad would get your ass out of most of the trouble. At least until you left your unencrypted laptop with all sorts of naughty stuff at a repair shop for months, because you obviously dropped it off while tripping balls and had no recollection of where the damn thing even went until it was announced that somebody had it.
Left or Right, I'm not even making that argument here. Everything I just said is the absolute truth, and to this day nobody has ever given me a reasonable explanation for Hunter Biden's seat at Burisma that isn't some sort of payoff or shakedown and wasn't all about getting Hunter as far away from his dad as possible so he didn't ruin his run for the Presidency.
Nobody in the media on either so-called "side" even asks anything or anyone about this. It's just deal with it or pretend it doesn't exist and never happened.
The Democratic Party and the Media don't seem to particularly like Joe Biden* and the Biden* family right now, and yet they still can't bring themselves to look into any of this and get any answers.
We'll just never know. Because nobody is ever going to look into it. And the only reward for the people who have shown they have the balls to do real investigative journalism and get some answers to questions the Legacy Media refuses to ever ask is to have their lives ruined.
What are we really doing there?
For 12 years now. At least...
Who do you even get angry at and over what topic anymore? There's just so much to choose from all the time.
Do you continue to vote for the people who swear they will make things the way that they used to be and don't even pretend to try and deliver on any of their promises after the election is won? Or, do you vote for the people who tell you that you, yourself and everything you remember about the world as it used to be are the problem?
So yeah...
When I hear any of you talking anything about Russia here, which has been nearly every goddamned day for nearly four and a half years now, I just kind of shake my head and laugh.
Just like I said from day one, nobody gives a shit about Ukraine. I know it felt for a while like that wasn't true. When so many people with pronouns in their bios on Twitter had their Ukraine flags along side them to show their support in the current thing. Ted proudly showing Uncle Sam with the American Flag with the caption "America Supports Ukraine" over and over and over again.
And that support lasted for about 2 or 3 months. And that support ended over 4 years ago to this day.
Talking about this right now would be like if we were still talking about the Iran situation during the 2030 midterms and Gavin Newsom were our sitting President.
Nobody on either side is ever going to fix anything. Even those who think that they will get inside and the curtain is lifted and they see just a fraction of the shit that is really going on and find out pretty quick they
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Ukraine is finally setting the terms for Russia — so should the US
By Andrew Chakhoyan and Victor Rud, opinion contributors - 06/22/26 1:30 PM ET
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5933672-ukraine-is-framing-r
eality-for-russia-so-should-we/
Three things have happened recently that should focus minds in Washington.
First, Russia’s war came home, because Ukraine’s startling innovations are changing the universe of what’s possible. Second, Ukraine has shattered the myth of inevitable Russian victory, recapturing territory and disrupting Russian military logistics with newly developed capabilities.
But the third change is subtler, and its consequences won’t be felt for a long time after headlines move on.
Kyiv has opened a new front where few Western leaders have dared to fight: the cognitive warfare where Moscow operated largely unopposed — at least until now. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote a letter to his Russian counterpart demanding a face-to-face meeting and an immediate ceasefire.
This was packaged as diplomacy and nominally addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but it was obviously meant for a much wider audience. And it was a strategic masterstroke: Ukraine is now setting the agenda, and the Kremlin, at last, must respond.
On June 5, Putin was due to appear at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kremlin’s annual exercise in self-congratulation. The event was meant to project confidence, global relevance and that much-advertised Russian “stability.” Instead, smoke from Ukrainian strikes hung over the proceedings, and Putin found himself responding to a public challenge from the leader of the country whose existence Moscow denies.
Authoritarian systems rest on the appearance of total control. Russia can lose staggering numbers of troops — 1.3 million killed or badly wounded and counting — burn through equipment and impoverish its own regions, all in the service of imperial ambition. Human life has never been the measure of power in Moscow. A visible weakness at the center is what is intolerable.
Zelensky understood this. His note did not merely propose talks. It punctured the “dear leader” pose and went straight for the autocrat’s deepest fears.
“You cannot fail to notice it,” Zelensky wrote. “After 26 years in power, age is beginning to take its toll. And with time, the fatigue with you will only grow.”
For Putin, that line must have cut deep. Last September, caught on a hot mic in Beijing, he was heard discussing radical life extension with Chinese President Xi Jinping, including the possibility of living to 150 with the help of organ transplants. Zelensky aimed at the one force no tyrant commands: time.
Then came the sharper passage: “You will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: When Russia grows tired, change comes.”
Facing thousands of delegates, Putin referred to Zelensky several times as “the letter’s author,” as if saying the Ukrainian president’s name would itself concede too much. Putin wanted to telegraph confidence. But try as he might, he did the opposite. Attempting to laugh it off, the aging tyrant spoke of his age, and his words no longer mattered. Putin took the bait, and that was that.
Zelensky’s letter recalibrates the GPS for Washington. Phillips O’Brien’s sharp verdict on President Biden’s Ukraine policy, back in November 2024, was that he treated Russia’s war as “a crisis to be managed, not a war to be won.” Trump now treats it as a deal to be struck. Both approaches are oblivious to the fact that Moscow is not seeking peace. It is doubling down on revanchism, global disruption and war crimes in Ukraine. Washington keeps conceding the psychological initiative to Moscow, surrendering what George Orwell called “reality control.”
No surprise, then, that America keeps swinging between panic and hope, ricocheting from one Kremlin-m
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