Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Archived.
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Nope.
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Originally posted by THG:
Second, I remember when anyone would post about Russia signym and kiki would respond in a flash. They were incapable of letting anything negative about Putin or Russia pass without a rebuttal. Now kiki is dead.
HAHAHAHA! Kiki is not dead.
THGR
The Minsk Agreements
SIGNY:
Russia wasn't even a signatory, ya dope.
THGR:
In early 2022, amid rising tensions, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed," using this as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This marked a significant escalation in the conflict and highlighted the agreements' failure to provide a sustainable framework for peace
THGR:
kiki is dead.
a) I know for a fact KIKI isn't dead bc we've been in touch, ya dope.
b) Despite your misunderstanding, Russia was never a signatory. The agreements were between Kiev and eastern Ukraine.
Stop posting shit about which you know nothing.
It makes you look stupid.
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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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Putin hails Russia's test launch of new ICBM known as Satan II, calls it "most powerful missile in the world"
The Russian leader has repeatedly brandished the nuclear sword after sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022 to try to deter the West from ramping up support for Ukraine.
May 12, 2026 | 5:23 PM EDT
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-test-launch-missile-satan-ii-calls
-putin-worlds-most-powerful/
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is leaning on nuclear saber-rattling to project military strength after Russia’s apparent failure to ensure full security for the May 9 Victory Day parade without asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a ceasefire.
Putin’s posturing with the Sarmat ICBMs also likely aims to distract from Russia’s worsening performance on the battlefield, particularly during the Russian spring-summer 2026 offensive. Putin and senior Russian military officials have intensified their exaggerations of Russian battlefield successes throughout 2026, but the Russian rate of advance has declined monthly since October 2025 as Ukrainian forces escalated their mid-range strike campaign and imposed additional costs on Russian efforts to advance.[6]
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-may-12-2026/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Mikhail Kasyanova, Russian Prime Minister from 2000 to 2004, told Digi24 that Putin’s sudden death could trigger a ceasefire within three months or sooner, as a new leader would prioritize restoring ties with the West. He compared this to Stalin’s death in 1953, when Soviet leaders quickly moved to end the Korean War. Kasyanov claimed many in Russia’s current administration want the war to end, but President Putin remains the main barrier.
Elite dissatisfaction and potential change
Garry Kasparov told RBC-Ukraine that elites and ordinary Russians increasingly believe Putin cannot win the war, a situation that historically leads to leadership change. He noted that Russian tradition does not forgive a leader for losing a war, and signs of economic, military, and psychological strain are growing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/kasyanov-says-putin-s-death-cou
ld-end-war-in-3-months/gm-GMC2A74F1E
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Let’s Re-Do the Math on Ukraine
The deadly arithmetic of Russian casualties may add up to Putin’s defeat.
By Brynn Tannehill | May 12, 2026
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lets-re-do-the-math-on-ukraine-vance-dron
es-support-war-russia-putin-trump
IN 2024, REPUBLICANS WHO WERE SOURING on Ukraine came up with lots of arguments for why the United States should cut off its support for the besieged democracy. They ranged from allegations that most of the aid was gobbled up by waste and corruption to warnings that helping Ukraine would lead to World War III to “we’re ignoring our own people’s problems.” Each of these arguments was flawed, but perhaps none exploded quite so spectacularly as the one championed by JD Vance and adopted by President Trump: that Ukraine is doomed to lose anyway, so American aid is a waste.
Vance became the chief proponent of this argument when he published an op-ed in the New York Times under the title “The Math on Ukraine Doesn’t Add Up.” His argument was simple: “Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscription policies. And it needs more materiel than the United States can provide.” In other words, defeat was certain and “This reality must inform any future Ukraine policy, from further congressional aid to the diplomatic course set by the president.”
President Trump, in his less articulate fashion, repeated this same argument to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the infamous February 28, 2025 Oval Office ambush: “You’re, right now, not in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position,” Trump told Zelensky. “You don’t have the cards right now.”
This argument is worth reexamining not only because it proved so demonstrably false, but because the Russian government has dedicated such effort into ensuring that Trump still believes it. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked hard to convince the world that Ukraine’s defeat is inevitable when it is not,” reports the Institute for the Study of War. “His biggest success has come not on the front line but in the battle of narratives.”
As recently as December, Trump said that Russia had the “upper hand” in Ukraine, adding, “At some point, size will win.” If that was true then, it certainly isn’t now.
Last weekend, at Russia’s annual Victory Day celebrations commemorating the end of World War II in Europe, Putin suggested that the war in Ukraine “may be coming to an end.” What he meant is open to varying interpretations, but whatever his intent, that “end” is clearly not the inevitable Russian victory Vance, Trump, and others have clearly had in mind.
WHEN VANCE PUBLISHED THAT New York Times article in 2024, he was thinking in terms of expensive and/or outdated U.S. weapons systems. He focused on surplus military equipment sent to Ukraine billed at the sticker price, such as 155-millimeter artillery shells. But, even as far back as May 2023 it was clear that the war was increasingly using drones, and that high-end systems and artillery would matter less over time.
Ukraine still needs a few high-value American systems, like PATRIOT missile interceptors used for defense against Russian Kinzhal and Iskander missiles. But almost all of the military items that Vance argued the United States would have to provide turned out to be largely irrelevant. Other particularly expensive U.S. systems, like Abrams tanks, Switchblade drones, and guided artillery have largely underperformed on the battlefield.
At the start of the war, Ukraine had to make do with whatever it could get its hands on. This was mostly “exquisite” Western weapons systems, but older and surplus models. By definition, Ukraine was getting the things the United States and other countries were most willing to part with. Since then, Ukraine has built up its own, far more cost-effective capabilities. As the effectiveness of PATRIOT has dropped over time, Ukraine has increasingly been using electronic warfare to severely degrade Russian Shahed drones, Kinzhal missiles, and thousands of precision gli
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Originally posted by THG:
Second, I remember when anyone would post about Russia signym and kiki would respond in a flash. They were incapable of letting anything negative about Putin or Russia pass without a rebuttal. Now kiki is dead.
HAHAHAHA! Kiki is not dead.
THGR
The Minsk Agreements
SIGNY:
Russia wasn't even a signatory, ya dope.
THGR:
In early 2022, amid rising tensions, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed," using this as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This marked a significant escalation in the conflict and highlighted the agreements' failure to provide a sustainable framework for peace
THGR:
kiki is dead.
a) I know for a fact KIKI isn't dead bc we've been in touch, ya dope.
b) Despite your misunderstanding, Russia was never a signatory. The agreements were between Kiev and eastern Ukraine.
Stop posting shit about which you know nothing.
It makes you look stupid.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
She is dead. One day she was just gone, and she hasn't posted once since then.
T
PUTIN'S PARADE IS OVER
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Europe doesn’t make missile defenses at scale. Thirteen countries just joined Ukraine to fix that.
Thirteen European countries and NATO met in Kyiv on 12 May to launch coordinated anti-ballistic missile production—a shift from US Patriot dependence.
By Alexander Moisseenko | May 13, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/13/europe-doesnt-make-missile-defe
nses-at-scale-thirteen-countries-just-joined-ukraine-to-fix-that/
The American Patriot system armed with PAC-3 interceptors remains Ukraine's primary shield against Russian ballistic missiles, and the United States produces too few of them for everyone who needs them.
The math European armies are trying to fix
Russia produces roughly 70 ballistic missiles per month, 840 per year, many going directly from factory to launch site. Annual global production of the PAC-2 GEM-T and PAC-3 MSE interceptors that Patriot systems use against ballistic missiles is 850 missiles. That figure barely exceeds the lower-end estimate of Russia's annual ballistic missile output.
What the anti-ballistic coalition has not yet specified is timeline, production targets, financing structure, or how it will navigate the US State Department approvals that govern licensing of Patriot components and missiles. European defense manufacturer MBDA, which now produces Patriot missiles in Bavaria under joint venture with Raytheon, has flagged those approvals as the main constraint on genuine European independence from the slow US production rate of Patriot missiles.
Much more at https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/13/europe-doesnt-make-missile-defe
nses-at-scale-thirteen-countries-just-joined-ukraine-to-fix-that/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Second, I remember when anyone would post about Russia signym and kiki would respond in a flash. They were incapable of letting anything negative about Putin or Russia pass without a rebuttal. Now kiki is dead.
HAHAHAHA! Kiki is not dead.
THGR
The Minsk Agreements
SIGNY:
Russia wasn't even a signatory, ya dope.
THGR:
In early 2022, amid rising tensions, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements "no longer existed," using this as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This marked a significant escalation in the conflict and highlighted the agreements' failure to provide a sustainable framework for peace
THGR:
kiki is dead.
a) I know for a fact KIKI isn't dead bc we've been in touch, ya dope.
b) Despite your misunderstanding, Russia was never a signatory. The agreements were between Kiev and eastern Ukraine.
Stop posting shit about which you know nothing.
It makes you look stupid.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
She is dead. One day she was just gone, and she hasn't posted once since then.
T
By that logic, maybe Wish is dead. Maybe JO is dead. Maybe Chrisisall is dead. Maybe Frem is dead. Maybe every single person you've ever talked to or called a Nazi that once posted here is dead.
You need to get a fucking life, loser.
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The Kremlin is doubling down on its demand that Ukraine withdraw from all of Donbas as a precondition for the resumption of negotiations. . . .
Russia’s exaggerated territorial ambitions and aggressive territorial demands run completely counter to battlefield reality. Anonymous sources in contact with Putin and additional sources familiar with the matter, as well as a Ukrainian intelligence assessment shared with FT, indicate that senior Russian commanders have convinced Putin that Russian forces could seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts by Fall 2026.[5] ISW is no longer prepared to forecast when Russian forces might seize Donetsk, including the Fortress Belt, since the slowing rate of Russian advances and the challenging nature of the Ukrainian-held terrain in Donetsk make it unclear that Russia is capable of seizing the territory at all.[6]
ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces have only advanced 349.89 square kilometers in Donetsk Oblast since the start of 2026, an advance rate of 2.63 square kilometers per day. Strong Ukrainian fortifications, the area’s challenging human and physical geography, and Ukrainian counterattacks and mid-range strike campaigns that are already inhibiting Russian offensive operations across the theater make the prospects for a Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk dim.[7] Russian forces first infiltrated into Kostyantynivka (the Fortress Belt’s southernmost city) in October 2025 and have failed to make any significant tactical gains in the city over the last six months.[8] Ukrainian counterattacks in southern Ukraine since early 2026 have also forced Russia to choose between defending against them and allocating manpower and resources to priority sectors of the front, including the Fortress Belt.[9] Ukraine’s recent successes are accomplishing tactical, operational, and strategic battlespace effects that undermine Putin’s narrative that the Ukrainian frontlines are on the verge of collapse.[10]
Two people involved in back-channel negotiations over ending the war told the FT that Putin’s ambitions are still to control all the Ukrainian territory between Russia and the Dnipro River, and possibly farther into Kyiv City and the port of Odesa, despite Russia’s stalled offensive.[11] Putin’s thinking thus appears to be further and further removed from battlefield realities, likely resulting in orders to the Russian military to make gains it is not capable of achieving.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-may-13-2026/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Nicolas Tenzer: the French geopolitical expert on Putin’s nihilist regime
• Putin is not negotiating territory — he is dismantling rules:
The Kremlin's project is destruction itself, which means there is no settlement to be reached with it.
• The West has made four mistakes when dealing with Russia:
ignoring Russia's crimes, treating its invasion as a land dispute rather than a war of extermination, being duped by Moscow's nuclear blackmail, and clinging to the romantic notion of a "Great Russia."
• Stop talking about peace; start talking about victory:
Every time a Western leader floats "peace talks," they hand Moscow leverage before negotiations begin.
• Europe has to build its own defense, with or without Washington:
European leaders can no longer assume the US will show up — not under Trump, and not necessarily under his successor.
• From "as long as it takes" to "whatever the cost and until final victory":
Europe must commit, not just support, and end business as usual with Moscow.
More at https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/13/nicolas-tenzer-stop-talking-abo
ut-peace-question-is-victory/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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