Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Now Zelensky is really a dead man.
Tick Tock
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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THGR:
Nope!
And... nope!
Jeez! You and your clickbait.
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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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Russian opposition media source Meduza reported on June 18 that major Russian state media TV channels Perviy Kanal and NTV did not cover the Ukrainian strikes on Moscow City in their daytime broadcasts, that the Rossiya-1 channel only quoted official statements, and that none of the channels ran a separate strike report.[19] Meduza noted that Russian news channels instead primarily focused on the need to punish residents who film the strikes and their aftermath.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-june-18-2026/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Macron: Trump thought Ukraine was losing but changed his mind after G7 summit
By Iryna Kutielieva, STANISLAV POHORILOV — 19 June, 14:10
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/06/19/8040144/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why do Russians shrug at the minor misfortune of Putin killing Russians?
History is why:
The Great Terror
On 1 December 1934, Stalin found a pretext for launching his second revolution from above. On this day, a slightly deranged gunman shot the Leningrad Party boss dead. Stalin immediately took charge of the investigation into his comrade’s murder and used it to ‘uncover’ all kinds of ‘enemies’ within the party ranks. Some of the victims of the emerging Great Purge were truly in opposition to Stalin. Many more were loyal Stalinists who had confessions beaten out of them. Each arrest triggered several others, as the accused were forced to point fingers at alleged co-conspirators. The purge began in the Party and the state apparatus but soon broadened to include the military, decapitating the Red Army. Three out of five Marshals did not survive the decade. More army-level commanders were shot between 1936 and 1941 than had been in these positions at the start of the period: the terror chewed up replacements, too. Many more experienced cadres saw their careers destroyed even if their lives were spared. Lower down the hierarchy the impact was less spectacular and reinstatements lowered the overall share of victims to about 8 per cent of the officer corps in 1937 and 4 per cent in 1938. But the purge truly only became the Great Terror after it spread to the population at large in a series of ‘mass operations’ in 1937 and 1938. Overall, in these two years, nearly 1.6 million people were arrested, and a staggering 681,692 of them shot. More died in detention, as a result of torture, malnutrition, overwork, disease or accidents, increasing the death toll of these two bloody years to maybe 1.5 million.10
To Stalin, this bloodletting was an essential part of war preparation. Wreckers were everywhere, he told the Central Committee in 1937. They were ready to ‘do their spoiling work . . . in the period immediately preceding war or during war itself’.11 The closer his police looked at personal networks within the party, the more conspiracies they thought they saw. The more he learned about the views of the population, relentlessly eavesdropped upon by party members and police agents, the more isolated he felt. A public debate about a new constitution, the promise for more open elections and a census of the population all revealed widespread hostility to his form of socialism. In the context of the looming threat of Japan from the east and a militarizing Nazi Germany from the west, it was clearly not enough to just purge state, party and army from hidden enemies. Formerly well-off peasants (‘kulaks’), whose property had been confiscated and who had been sent into exile as part of collectivization at the start of the decade, people who had fought with anti-Bolshevik armies in the Civil War, officers and civil servants of the old regime, members of competing socialist or non-socialist parties, clergymen, common criminals, ‘anti-Soviet elements’, Poles, Germans, Finns, Latvians, Chinese, Koreans and other diaspora nationalities all fell victim.12
from Stalinism at War The Soviet Union in World War II by Mark Edele, 2021
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Vladimir Putin has actively overseen the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin's reputation, promoting him primarily as a victorious wartime leader and a strong, effective statesman rather than a mass-murdering dictator.
• De-emphasizing Terror: While the Kremlin has acknowledged that Stalin committed crimes, it emphasizes that these were necessary for industrialization and that his legacy should not overshadow the victory in World War II (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War).
• Monuments and Museums: State-sanctioned monuments to Stalin have been erected across the country, and restored Stalinist-era aesthetics and symbols have appeared in public spaces like the Mosco
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR:
Nope!
And... nope!
Jeez! You and your clickbait.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Who do you and Jack think you're Bullshiting. What you call clickbait is what's being reported globally. Here's a statistic for ya. 50% of Russians don't have toilets. The first thing they did when they found themselves in Ukraine was to start stealing them.
tick tock comrade, tick tock Putin.
T
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Dozens Of FPVs Chip Away Support Columns To Bring Down Road Bridge In Ukraine
By David Hambling | Jun 18, 2026, 10:08 am EDT
A recent video shows 43 FPV drones collapsing a Ukrainian road bridge by repeatedly striking its five support columns. This marks a significant military first, demonstrating that small, inexpensive drones can destroy robust infrastructure from a distance, a task previously requiring costly missiles or airstrikes. The drones, equipped with RPG warheads, cumulatively chipped away concrete from the reinforced columns, compromising their structural integrity until the bridge failed. This method is efficient and cost-effective, using minimal munitions compared to traditional bombing campaigns. This development suggests FPVs could increasingly target larger structures, revolutionizing bridge destruction tactics and posing new challenges for defense.
View the video https://twitter.com/i/status/2065470545802477724
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/06/17/dozens-of-fpvs-c
hip-away-support-columns-to-bring-down-road-bridge/
Bridge Dropping 101
Bridges are natural chokepoints, making them obvious targets for military action. But they are robustly built and most weapons have little effect. Blast and shrapnel effects that are lethal to personnel and soft-skinned vehicles barely scratch stone and concrete, and direct hits with large amounts of explosive are needed. Even heavy artillery generally fails to do the job, which usually requires 250 pounds or more of explosive in one hit.
During World War II, the U.S. military carried out extensive research on bombing road and rail bridges. They found it took an average of 190 sorties by medium bombers dropping a phenomenal 350 tons of bombs to take out a bridge. These were a mix of 500-pound and 1,000-pound weapons.
The number of bombs needed decreased sharply with bombing accuracy, the report stating, “It is worth noting that if bombing accuracy could be improved to something approaching training school accuracy….The number of sorties required would be reduced from 190 to 33.”
These days, the USAF uses precision-guided 2,000-pound bombs to destroy bridges, as these have sufficient explosive weight and are accurate enough that only one or two weapons are needed.
FPV drones typically carry repurposed RPG anti-tank warheads
FPV drones provide even better accuracy with a much smaller payload, typically a repurposed warhead from an RPG anti-tank rocket launcher weighing around five pounds. This warhead is a shaped charge which produces a narrow jet of high-speed metal capable of punching through a foot of steel armor or more than three feet of concrete.
This is not an obvious choice of munition for attacking bridge supports. The columns are reinforced concrete, and the warhead is unlikely to damage the steel rebar. But the Russian drone operators knew what they were doing.
Termite Tactics
The video reportedly shows an attack by the Kontora group of the Zapad unit, posted on the Telegram channel "Military correspondents of the Russian spring." The bridge is described as crossing the Nitrus River near the village of Andriivka in the Kherson region. Several successive FPVs strike each of the bridge’s five supporting columns. They claim that 43 FPVs were used, but the video shows about 37 of them.
The first couple of strikes on each bridge support only remove small amounts of concrete
The first couple of hits on each column just chip the concrete, but after that the column cracks up and larger fragments break off. After multiple hits a section of concrete is stripped away, exposing the bare skeleton of steel reinforcing bars.
The key to the attack is how reinforced concrete works. Adding steel bars to concrete makes it less brittle and greatly improves the tensile strength. Unlike plain concrete, a reinforced concrete beam can withstand lateral forces as well as compression without breaking. This makes a bridge resilient to lateral movement from earthquakes or other forces. But the compressive strength i
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR...
Nope!
And... nope!
Jeez! You and your clickbait.
THGR:
Who do you and Jack think you're Bullshiting. What you call click bait is what's being reported globally.
tick tock comrade, tick tock Putin.
"Globally" by mainstream/ anti-Putin sources. Please adjust your view of the globe!
Here's an example of how your videos are clickbait meant for the gullible:
"Moscow under siege"
Really????
Ukraine targeted "a" refinery. That's it.
Moscow and environs is over 21 million, similar to LA county's 18 million. Like Moscow, we have refineries that supply the area. Since I moved here, we've had a few refineries close down due to regulations. We had one major one - Exxon- blow up its gasoline-producing unit, a fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) and ultimately shut down the whole refinery. Recently, we had the remaining refinery blow up. It had such a major upset that all the emergency flaring units went off all at once, we could see for MILES the flames shooting skyward a hundred feet.
And yanno what happened to LA??
NOTHING
NADA
ZIP
Gas prices went up a bit, and then went down in a few months. That's it.
Look at a map, THGR. There are so many roadways and railways into Moscow, which is hugely expansive on a flat plain, with no specific tunnel or bridge chokepoints, it would take literally tens, or more likely hundreds, of thousands of drones and TROOPS ringing Moscow to besiege it.
Kiev's attack was a publicity stunt to get more EU aid.
Please stop posting clickbait.
More importantly, please stop believing it.
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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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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THGR...
Nope!
And... nope!
Jeez! You and your clickbait.
THGR:
Who do you and Jack think you're Bullshiting. What you call click bait is what's being reported globally.
tick tock comrade, tick tock Putin.
"Globally" by mainstream/ anti-Putin sources. Please adjust your view of the globe!
Here's an example of how your videos are clickbait meant for the gullible:
"Moscow under siege"
Really????
Ukraine targeted "a" refinery. That's it.
Moscow and environs is over 21 million, similar to LA county's 18 million. Like Moscow, we have refineries that supply the area. Since I moved here, we've had a few refineries close down due to regulations. We had one major one - Exxon- blow up its gasoline-producing unit, a fluidized catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) and ultimately shut down the whole refinery. Recently, we had the remaining refinery blow up. It had such a major upset that all the emergency flaring units went off all at once, we could see for MILES the flames shooting skyward a hundred feet.
And yanno what happened to LA??
NOTHING
NADA
ZIP
Gas prices went up a bit, and then went down in a few months. That's it.
Look at a map, THGR. There are so many roadways and railways into Moscow, which is hugely expansive on a flat plain, with no specific tunnel or bridge chokepoints, it would take literally tens, or more likely hundreds, of thousands of drones and TROOPS ringing Moscow to besiege it.
Kiev's attack was a publicity stunt to get more EU aid.
Please stop posting clickbait.
More importantly, please stop believing it.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yup, you have lots of trains and roadways in Russia. And in the past week Ukraine has sent hundreds of Drones into Moscow. Three nights in a row. And what you claim to be clickbait is video showing it happen.
Ukraine ISSUES ORDER To Attack Belarus Forces; Moscow HIT By Missile Drone Strikes
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THGR, you can't damage a road, railway, or bridge with drones. You can't even destroy a significant industrial facility with drones. It's that "payload v distance" trade-off. You'd need missiles.
That's why Ukraine targets storage tanks. They're lightly built, full of flammable material, and make big clouds of black smoke. A great show.
Try to put things in perspective. While you're busy cheering Ukraine managing to hit some storage tanks here or there, or vehicles here or there, or a truck stop or substation or two, this is something Russia has been doing multiple times a day for years.
*****
And attacking Belarus.
Again... seriously??
Are Zelenskys handlers following the Trump model of warmaking? When getting your ass handed to you in one conflict, start another one (and overextend yourself)?
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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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