Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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OMG, you STILL don't get it!
Do you still believe that someone spouting into a camera is providing FACTS?
Dood, I could get in front of a camera and spin a convincing yarn about ... a killer outbreak, a swarm of invading bugs, whatever.... and show flashes of irrelevant pictures and you'd never know that it was completely fabricated.
YOUR filter for whether something is true or not is whether it aligns with what you want. That's a piss poor way of learning the truth.
FACTS, dood.
You can't admit to facts. I get that. Nonetheless, I'm going to post them, and time will show all you've done by defending all things Russia is bury you head in the sand. And the people speaking into microphones that I listen to are honestly trying to report accurately. Not so much with you aye comrade?
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I’m grateful for your posts because they will be around when your reality comes crashing down.
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Russian anti-war opposition had a 5-day run
By Katie Marie Davies | August 11, 2026 12:07 AM
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-anti-war-opposition-had-a-5-day-ru
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Russia's Supreme Court, on Aug. 10, barred the country's only anti-war party from taking part in parliamentary elections scheduled for September. The liberal Yabloko party had been approved to take part in the vote and was assigned a spot on the ballot five days prior.
Between the two dates, a few notable events took place — the largely obscure party received wide-ranging support from anti-war activists and the country's exiled opposition, and pro-Kremlin political projects went after it as a result.
The accusations, spearheaded by the nationalist pro-war Rodina party, circled around Yabloko's anti-war stance, which they viewed as a "support for extremism" and compared to calls for Russia to cede its sovereign territory.
"Part of Russia's territories are occupied by a neo-Nazi regime," a Rodina representative told the court, as cited by Russian news outlet Meduza, referring to Ukrainian territories that Russia views as theirs and has inscribed their ownership into its own constitution.
"Calls for an immediate ceasefire agreement constitute calls to stop the liberation of the occupied territories or to abandon their liberation."
A few other accusations were brought up against Yabloko, among them not asking OpenAI for permission to use an image generated by ChatGPT and violating campaign financing laws, Russian media outlets reported.
Russia's Central Election Committee, which greenlit Yabloko's place in the election days earlier, told the court that they had uncovered foreign sources of funding for Yabloko candidates.
Yabloko denied all of the charges. "(Young voters) support us simply because they want to live in Russia and do not want to be killed. I do not know how to explain this to the plaintiffs," Yabloko chairman Nikolai Rybakov told the court. The party said they would appeal the decision.
Grigory Yavlinsky, Yabloko's co-founder and the chair of its political committee, said that the move exposed "the true nature" of Russia's political system.
"This decision speaks volumes about the importance of our platform — far more than any official election results could. It is evident that the public demand for peace and freedom today has proven far stronger than the authorities anticipated."
A safety valve for dissent
Yabloko is the only officially registered political party in Russia to promote a pro-peace platform.
Short and delicately worded, its manifesto calls for "a ceasefire agreement, diplomacy, and the achievement of peace." It does not directly reference Ukraine.
The text — which, in Russian, reaches just 43 words — shows the difficult line that Yabloko has chosen to walk in order to survive in Russia's increasingly repressive public sphere.
Several of Yabloko's leading members have been jailed for sharing information about Russia's war against Ukraine. Maxim Kruglov, one of the party's deputy chairs and a former member of the Moscow city council, was sentenced to seven years in prison in June after sharing information on Russia's killing of civilians in Bucha and Mariupol. Another deputy co-chair, Lev Shlosberg, is currently facing similar charges.
More high-ranking members have been legally designated as "foreign agents," or found guilty of "displaying extremist symbols" — a designation that in Russia can include images of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny or Facebook and Instagram logos — meaning they are unable to run for office.
But so far, the party itself has been allowed to survive.
For the Kremlin, Yabloko's place on the ballot paper helped to preserve the image of a competitive vote, says David Szakonyi, an associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University.
Founded in 1993, the p
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82% of Ukrainians believe Ukraine will win war with Russia, poll finds
By Alex Stezhensky | August 10, 2026, 09:35 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/poll-82-of-ukrainians-believe-ukraine-wil
l-win-war-with-russia-50631422.html
A large majority of Ukrainians — 82% — believe Ukraine will win the war against Russia, including 59% who are certain of victory and 23% who “tend to believe Ukraine will win.”
The findings come from a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, or KIIS, on July 16–31.
Only 3% believe Russia will win, while 16% were undecided.
In February 2024, a KIIS poll found that 89% believed Ukraine would win, including 60% who were certain of victory.
Only 7% of Ukrainians believe the current battlefield situation favors Russia, while 39% said it favors Ukraine. Another 32% believe neither side has the advantage, while 22% were undecided.
By comparison, in February 2024, when KIIS conducted a similar survey, 15% of Ukrainians believed Russia had the advantage and 24% believed Ukraine did. Another 47% said neither side had the advantage, while 14% were undecided.
Only 22% of Ukrainians expect the war to end by the end of 2026. Another 13% expect it to end in the first half of 2027, while 39% believe it will end in the second half of 2027 or later. Another 26% could not answer the question, further indicating that only a minority expect the war to end in the near term, the survey results said.
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology conducted the nationwide public opinion survey on July 16–31, 2026. The survey used a mixed-mode methodology: half of respondents were interviewed by telephone using computer-assisted telephone interviewing, or CATI, while the other half took part in face-to-face interviews using tablets.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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82% of Ukrainians believe Ukraine will win war with Russia, poll finds
Wow. Their propaganda machine was way better than yours was before it broke.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Polish MP calls for deporting unemployed Ukrainians
August 11, 2026, 07:07 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/polish-opposition-lawmaker-calls-for-depo
rtation-of-unemployed-ukrainians-50631700.html
Polish opposition lawmaker Andrzej Sliwka of the Law and Justice party said unemployed Ukrainians in Poland should be deported, arguing they could form at least one brigade to fight for their country, Polsat News reported on Aug. 11.
The lawmaker was commenting on a recent proposal by his party to deport Ukrainian men of draft age from Poland if they do not have legal employment in the country.
Asked whether his party had any proposals regarding "unemployed Georgians, Belarusians, Russians or Germans," Sliwka said his proposal was prompted by the fact that "Ukraine is facing a shortage of personnel in its military."
"I believe a deadline should be set for these people to return to Ukraine, and if they do not return, Polish authorities should take action in accordance with the law and deport them. To me, this is obvious," the lawmaker said.
On June 26, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner said the European Commission was proposing to extend temporary protection for Ukrainians until March 4, 2028. However, the extension would not apply to recently arrived Ukrainian men ages 23 to 60 who are eligible for mobilization in Ukraine.
The same day, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, citing an anonymous EU official, reported that Ukrainian men eligible for military service could begin being denied temporary protection within weeks.
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At the end comrade signym he asks me to share this video with my friends. So, I'm sharing it with you and Gilligan.
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How Ukraine retook Donetsk territory after four-hour assault I Battle Plans Exposed
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Aug. 11, 2026, 5:44 pm
If you’re not from Ukraine and Russia, then who cares. But if you know the region, what’s going on here is hugely embarrassing for Russia and Russian seashore defenses; it’s the equivalent of Xi Jinping sailing an explosives-packed robot cigarette boat back and forth past Mar-a-Lago while Trump was entertaining some of his business buddies, and the US Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard not even showing up to try and interfere with it.
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/82150
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The petty loyalty beef behind the MAGA Ukraine revolt
Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes advantage of the America First split between Laura Loomer and Tucker Carlson
By Sophia Tesfaye | August 11, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)
https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/the-petty-loyalty-beef-behind-the-mag
a-ukraine-revolt/
The spectacle of Laura Loomer touching down in a Kyiv bomb shelter to announce her sudden conversion to supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia has been covered by much of the media as a sort of a political awakening. . . .
. . . There is no ideological conversion here. Loomer’s evolution comes at precisely the moment when the Republican coalition is undergoing a bitter fight over what “America First” is supposed to mean. The old MAGA formula — distrust Ukraine, NATO and GOP hawks, and view Putin as a potentially useful counterweight to American liberalism — is colliding with a newer reality related to Trump’s ongoing and unpopular war of choice against Iran. Russia is increasingly difficult to portray as a friendly or even neutral power while it cooperates with the Islamic Republic. Ukraine’s resilience and effective drone campaigns, meanwhile, have made it impossible for even the most hardened cynics to paint Moscow as the inevitable victor.
Loomer’s reversal is also inseparable from her rivalry with fellow podcasters Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly and other right-wing media figures who have become increasingly hostile to Trump over Israel, Iran and the use of American military power. Loomer herself has said the right-wing split over Iran prompted her to reconsider Ukraine, and she claimed to have noticed that people she regarded as opponents of Trump were simultaneously advancing Russia-friendly arguments. Now she worries those pro-Russian voices inside the MAGA coalition have become “the biggest detriment to social cohesion” heading into what, by all credible predictions, will be a brutal midterm cycle for Republicans.
Owens’ decision to travel to Putin’s marquee conference in St. Petersburg and Carlson’s ongoing pushing of lines amplified directly by Russian state media have provided Loomer with a tactical opening. She realized that her online nemeses had cornered the market on reflexive Kremlin apologetics. By pivoting to a pro-Ukraine posture wrapped in the language of America First security investments, she’s weaponizing patriotism against her rivals while positioning herself as the true guardian of the movement’s ideological purity. This evolving narrative frames support for Ukraine not as an act of charity or foreign aid, but as a hard-headed business transaction, one Trump appears to have welcomed. He publicly endorsed her meeting with Zelenskyy, and Loomer has said she spoke twice with Trump while in Ukraine. . . .
. . . Republican voters have also been moving in this direction. In January 2026, Pew Research Center found that 47% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents described Russia as an enemy of the U.S, up from 40% the year before. Republican confidence in Zelenskyy also rose four points to 34%.
While Loomer works to convert MAGA to the Ukrainian cause, the press should stop treating her reversal as a heroic story about one brave influencer seeing the light. They should instead frame it for what it actually is: a split in MAGA media over Ukraine and Russia that is ultimately a domestic turf war disguised as statecraft.
Much more at https://www.salon.com/2026/08/11/the-petty-loyalty-beef-behind-the-mag
a-ukraine-revolt/
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'Hemingway Knows Nothing': Ukraine's writers are redefining literature of war
By Kate Tsurkan | August 12, 2026 1:07 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/war-faith-and-a-new-kind-of-literature-eme
rge-from-hemingway-knows-nothing/
When war, loss, and unimaginable suffering become routine, a book can offer a kind of lifeline — especially one by a writer who has lived through such an ordeal and tried to make sense of it.
At the start of Russia’s full-scale war, some Ukrainians speculated if they’d see the rise of their own Ernest Hemingway: a writer whose books would not only capture the experience of a generation but come to define it.
Yet it soon became clear that the old paradigms of war literature no longer spoke to them in quite the same way. Among those who sensed this was Artur Dron, a young writer who, after Russia invaded, joined the fight to defend the country.
“Hemingway knows nothing about (our) war. That’s it. For a long time, I believed in what Hemingway wrote, but I got a radically different war than the one he knew,” Dron writes in his essay collection “Hemingway Knows Nothing.”
“In 2022, it became clear that Ernest Hemingway couldn’t tell me the most important thing about what had been happening in my country since 2014.”
Originally published in Ukraine in 2025, Dron’s “Hemingway Knows Nothing” became a bestseller, with readers praising the book for how it explored the dynamics of front-line realities, the question of faith amid crisis, and how Russia’s war of total annihilation is compelling people to rethink everything they once thought they knew.
It is set to be released in Hanna Leliv’s English translation by Jantar Publishing on Sept. 10.
The strength of the book is arguably Dron's thoughts on faith. Among the book’s most arresting passages are those that circle a question that has haunted writers across generations: How does one go on believing in God after witnessing the horrors of war? Moreover, is being faced with the prospect of one’s own death enough to inspire a previously lacking faith in God?
It all boils down, as Dron explains, to choice: the greatest blessing and curse bestowed by God upon man. When confronted by evil in the world, it is too easy to conclude that God “allowed” it to happen. Dron, however, writes that when people commit atrocities, it is not because God has turned away, but because they have turned away from God.
“It wasn’t God who drove tanks into Northern Saltivka in Kharkiv. It wasn’t God who fired a bullet into (my brother-in-arm’s) chest. It wasn’t God who bombed hundreds of churches in eastern Ukraine. It wasn’t God who destroyed Bakhmut and Mariupol. Human beings did that,” Drone writes.
Yet amid the horrors of war, as Dron notes, God does not abandon us. The self-sacrifice, courage, and moral authority shown by people in Ukraine — who choose to protect, help, and care for others even as they long for the chance to return to their ordinary, pre-war lives — are qualities that reveal God’s continued presence, despite the suffering Russia has inflicted upon them.
“The habit of seeing the heroes as ‘someone else’ makes it easy to justify inaction.”
In the book, Dron also explores the inevitable rifts in a society between those who went off to fight and those who did not. It's a common wartime theme, but one he approaches with unique frankness.
While it’s important to honor and thank those defenders who show remarkable bravery in wartime, Dron warns there’s also an inevitable mental trap: we can come to see their courage as so exceptional that ordinary people begin to believe they could never rise to such acts themselves.
“The habit of seeing the heroes as ‘someone else’ makes it easy to justify inaction,” Dron writes. But “joining the army now isn’t quite heroism. It’s maturity and awareness of the new mechanism of existence. You may become a hero on the battlefield. Or you might not. Not every soldier is a hero; any soldier will tell you that.”
The harsh reality — one t
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THGR, thank you for doubling down on bullcrap.
Here are a few issues in the first part of the video
The ship being buzzed by a drone is a grain ship. Do you know how to tell the diff between a grain ship and a tanker? I do bc I looked it up.
No mention of WHERE the "highly trained" Ukie soldiers took a position. No way to validate it.
Who was filming the drone chasing a fruit vendor? Bc, of course, there's always a handy videographer when you need one! (i.e. was thus staged? )
ONE instance of a French glide bomb? Hardly a stunning success. In addition, everyone knows that Ukraine has no air defenses to speak of.
Oh goodie. Ukraine is attacking Russia's equivalent of Amazon. That's pretty pointless.
And finally, the BIG LIE: @ appx 11:20 map shows Konstantinovka still under Kiev's control! Sorry dood. EVERYONE knows Konstantinovka is fully under Russian control! Either the video is a year out of date or the presenter is lying his ass off.
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So here's what's really happening:
Since Ukraine started attacking Wildberries (fully civilian) warehouses and Russian grain ships, Russia has returned the favor by attacking all ships near Odessa area ports (Ukraine's ONLY port), destroying its facilities, preventing grain and iron ore exports and weapons imports, and damaging the bridges that connect Odessa to the rest of Ukraine, in addition to destroying Ukraine's fuel distribution network, the weapons sites that Ukraine thought were protected in Kiev, NATO sites etc. Plus, the front line has moved a lot farther than your sources admit.
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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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