Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:I haven't seen such a load of happy horseshit since the last time you posted "Trumptards think ..."
Originally posted by second:
Europe’s Russia problem
The prevailing mood of denial in Europe has allowed Russian society to wholeheartedly embrace .. blah blah blah ... blah blah blah...
In fact, I gave up about one para in.
Astonish us, SECOND. Instead of putting words in the EU's and Russia's mouths, why don't you report what they ACTUALLY say?
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In parallel, The Lords of (Proxy) War will continue with their own strategy, which is to pillage an enfeebled, fearful, Europe, then dressing it up as a perfumed colony to be ruthlessly exploited ad nauseam by the imperial oligarchy.
Europe is now a runaway TGV – minus the requisite Hollywood production values. Assuming it does not veer off track – a dicey proposition – it may eventually arrive at a railway station called Agenda 2030, The Great Narrative, or some other NATO/Davos denomination du jour.
As it stands, what’s remarkable is how the “marginal” Russian economy hardly broke a sweat to “end the abundance” of the wealthiest region on the planet.
Moscow does not even entertain the notion of negotiating with Brussels because there’s nothing to negotiate – considering puny Eurocrats will only be hurled away from their zombified state when the dire socio-economic consequences of “the end of abundance” will finally translate into peasants with pitchforks roaming the continent.
t may be eons away, but inevitably the average Italian, German or Frenchman will connect the dots and realize it is their own “leaders” – national nullities and mostly unelected Eurocrats – who are paving their road to poverty.
http://thesaker.is/all-the-way-to-odessa/
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Quote:Typically the word from Russia's mouth is that Russia didn't kill those people, but there is a law authorizing assassination.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In fact, I gave up about one para in.
Astonish us, SECOND. Instead of putting words in the EU's and Russia's mouths, why don't you report what they ACTUALLY say?
In 2002, Putin, a former KGB operative, started ratcheting up the practice of “wet affairs” and “special tasks” by approving a federal law, “On Countering Extreme Activity.” The law authorizes targeted assassinations for “extremist activity,” which includes “crimes” such as “diminishing national dignity” and “publicly expressing slander or false accusation of persons who hold Russian government positions.”
Many Russian journalists and political opponents have fallen afoul of this law. After journalist Anna Politkovskaya reported on the atrocities committed by her country’s forces during the Second Chechen War (1999–2009), she was shot and killed in her apartment elevator on Putin’s birthday in October 2006. Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister and ardent Putin critic, was shot on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015.
Then there’s Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former FSB intelligence officer who defected to England and did contract work for British intelligence. In 2006, Litvinenko was murdered by two Russian GRU operatives who met with him in a luxury London hotel and served him a cup of tea laced with the radioactive agent polonium.
Cases have even happened to people on US soil.
In November 2015, Mikhail Lesin, a former Russian media executive and Putin advisor, was found dead in an upscale Washington, DC, hotel. Lesin’s death happened a day before he was due to be interviewed by the Justice Department about the Kremlin-funded media company, RT, which he had founded. An official at the Chief Medical Examiner’s office revealed that Lesin’s neck bone was fractured in a way that is “commonly associated with hanging or manual strangulation.”
In US intelligence circles, it is believed that Lesin was a victim of a Russian hit job.
In March 2007, another Kremlin critic, former CIA officer Paul Joyal, survived a brutal attack near his home in Maryland. Joyal was shot in the groin four days after he implied during a Dateline NBC broadcast that Putin and the Kremlin were behind the killing of Litvinenko. Although the FBI initially investigated the attack, they dropped the case and the criminals have never been found. Joyal believes he was the victim of another Russian hit job.
It is doubtful that DC law enforcement will devote the necessary time and resources to investigate this month’s “suicide” of Rapoport either. It took British investigators more than 10 years to conclude that Russian intelligence operatives were responsible for the murder of Litvinenko on UK soil.
And it could be true that some of Putin’s critics have intentionally jumped off high rises to their deaths. But usually they have helpers.
More at https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/two-shocking-deaths-are-right-out-of-put
ins-assassination-playbook/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russian troops in Kazakhstan are refusing to return to Russia because they do not want to be deployed to the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian intelligence officials said Saturday.
There are roughly 1,000 Russian troops in Kazakhstan according to Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense. The directorate says that the the military contingent stationed in the country "does not want to replenish the composition of the occupation contingent" in Ukraine, according to a translation of a post on Telegram.
However, it also said that the "formal reason for the refusal is the lack of special air transport, which is fully engaged in the war with Ukraine."
Ukrainska Pravda first reported on the claims from the intelligence officials on Saturday.
In its Telegram post, the directorate said that Moscow does not want to completely withdraw troops from Kazakhstan. The troops were sent to the country in January following rallies against its government. The directorate added that Russia has almost completely withdrawn its troops from nearby Tajikistan and Armenia to support its war in Ukraine.
Newsweek has reached out to Russia's Ministry of Defense for comment.
The claims about Russia's troops in Kazakhstan come as Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for his military to add additional troops amid the ongoing war. Putin has ordered the military bring on 137,000 new troops, which would bring the total number to 1.15 million, by January 1.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling said Saturday that he believes the development shows the Russian military is "in trouble."
"Are they going to just put these new soldiers that they recruit through the basic training that they have, which truthfully, is not very good and then send them right out to a unit to try to learn combined arms operations, which are very difficult, without any additional training? If that's the case, they're going to be in trouble," Hertling said in an interview on CNN.
In May, The Daily Beast reported that a Russian soldier said that his commander shot himself in the leg to escape the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian intelligence directorate released a phone call at the time, identifying the speaker as a Russian soldier speaking with his mother.
"This won't end anytime soon. What the hell do I need this for? At 20 years old...I'm not at all interested in Ukraine. I need to come back and resign," the soldier said during the call. "I had a commander...who shot himself in the leg just to get out of here. And that was in the very beginning!"
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-force-wont-return-mission-fearing-ukr
aine-deployment-report-1737586
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Director of Russia’s National Guard has begun a campaign to reassure Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukrainians are supportive of Russia seizing territory in Ukraine when the reality couldn’t be further off.
“I would like to emphasize that we can feel that the population of the liberated areas is supporting us. They realize that we are defending their right to a peaceful life and their children’s happiness,” the director, Viktor Zolotov, told Putin, according to the Kremlin.
In a video of the exchange, Putin looks visibly troubled and concerned, gripping the table, while Zolotov shares his thoughts.
Zolotov’s efforts to feed Putin a narrative that Ukrainians want Russia to be capturing territory in Ukraine come just as two U.S. officials told The Daily Beast that the Biden administration has concerns that Russia may be preparing to run sham referenda in seized territories in Ukraine, in order to make it appear like Ukraine supports Russia’s invasion. Russia also ran a sham referendum, which the United States and other allies have repeatedly declared is invalid, in Crimea following Russia’s takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-general-viktor-zolotov-lies-
to-vladimir-putin-about-ukraine-war-in-awkward-briefing
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Gorbachev was born in Stalin’s Russia, but he began his career during the post-Stalin “thaw,” a moment when it became possible to acknowledge some truths out loud, but not too many. While he was still a student at Moscow State University, one of his closest friends was a Czechoslovak student named Zdenek Mlynár. Both believed that communism could be reformed, if only the corruption and violence were removed. Mlynár’s convictions led him to become one of the leaders of the Prague Spring, a 1968 movement that started out by calling for “reformed communism” and “socialism with a human face.” That movement was crushed by Soviet soldiers, proving that corruption and violence were intrinsic to a system with no human face. Even cautious Czech reformers could not remove them so easily.
Still, the language of “reformed communism” continued to appeal to Gorbachev, who revived it when he became leader of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985. But although he knew that Soviet society was stagnant and Soviet workers were unproductive, he had no idea why. In fact, his first instinct was not that the system needed democracy, or even free markets. Instead, he thought: Russians drink too much. Just two months after taking power, he restricted the sale of vodka, raised the drinking age, and started digging up vineyards. By some accounts, the resulting loss of tax income to the Soviet budget, plus the dramatic shortages — people were buying sugar and other products in bulk to make moonshine at home — were the tipping point that sent the Soviet economy into its final death spiral.
Real change had to wait until the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe of April 1986. News of the accident was initially hushed up, just as bad news was always hushed up in the U.S.S.R. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were allowed to march in the Kyiv May Day parade even as radioactivity spread silently across the city. But the scale of the disaster finally convinced Gorbachev that the real problem with his country was not alcohol, but its obsession with secrecy. His solution was glasnost — openness — which, like the anti-alcohol campaign, was originally meant to promote economic efficiency. Open conversation about the Soviet Union’s problems would, Gorbachev believed, strengthen communism. Managers and workers would talk about what was going wrong in their factories and workplaces, find solutions, fix the problem. No deeper reforms were needed, as he told a group of party economists early on: “Many of you see the solution to your problems in resorting to market mechanisms in place of direct planning. Some of you look at the market as a lifesaver for your economies. But, comrades, you should not think about lifesavers, but about the ship, and the ship is socialism.”
But once glasnost became official policy, once Soviet citizens could talk about whatever they wanted to talk about, factory efficiency was not their first choice of topic. Nor did they want to rescue the sinking ship of socialism. Instead, there was an explosion of debate and discussion about the past, about the history of mass arrests and mass murders, about the Gulag and Soviet political prisons. Historical accounts, memoirs and diaries that had been hidden in desk drawers, raced off the printing presses and became best sellers. Newspapers printed stories of sleaze and mismanagement in the economy, politics, culture, and everything else. Calls for the creation of a different kind of society, a more democratic society, a more law-abiding society, began immediately. The economists whom Gorbachev had silenced started openly talking about the end of central planning. Poles, Czechs, East Germans, Ukrainians, Balts, Georgians, and others then in the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union itself all began talking about the end of the empire too. Contrary to the retrospective Putinist historiography now prevalent in Russia, the glasnost era was a creative, exciting, hopeful time for millions of people, even millions of Russians.
Gorbachev seemed bewildered, and no wonder. Having
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Nobody cares.
Not even in California anymore, now that they've been ordered not to charge their coal burning cars during the day and to keep their thermostats down to 78 degrees.
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Quote:Putin cares and kills opponents to his War
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Ravil Maganov is the eighth Russian oil executive to die under mysterious circumstances since war began
Forbes reports:
Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s biggest private oil company, Lukoil, died after falling through the window of a hospital in Moscow, Russian media reported on Thursday, a death which comes under mysterious circumstances just months after his company emerged as a rare high profile voice of dissent against the invasion of Ukraine.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, Maganov died from his injuries after falling out of the window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.
State-run news agency TASS reported Maganov’s death was the result of suicide as he was taking antidepressant drugs while being treated for a heart attack.
Adding to the confusion around the incident, Lukoil issued a statement saying the 67-year-old died after a “serious illness” but made no mention of the purported plunge from the hospital window.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2022/09/01/ravil-maganov-is-the-eight
h-russian-oil-executive-to-die-under-mysterious-circumstances-since-war-began/
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20220902011757/https://www.forbes.com/site
s/siladityaray/2022/09/01/russian-executive-maganov-whose-company-urged-end-to-ukraine-invasion-dies-after-reportedly-falling-through-hospital-window/?sh=38c6ccdc58ee
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:I watched the video, which they apparently looped to make it seem longer. I've watched other videos of Putin for health problems, as I've watched videos of Hillary and Biden and Trump, and I think I'm a pretty good diagnostician.
Originally posted by second:
The Director of Russia’s National Guard has begun a campaign to reassure Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukrainians are supportive of Russia seizing territory in Ukraine when the reality couldn’t be further off.
“I would like to emphasize that we can feel that the population of the liberated areas is supporting us. They realize that we are defending their right to a peaceful life and their children’s happiness,” the director, Viktor Zolotov, told Putin, according to the Kremlin.
In a video of the exchange, Putin looks visibly troubled and concerned, gripping the table, while Zolotov shares his thoughts.
Zolotov’s efforts to feed Putin a narrative that Ukrainians want Russia to be capturing territory in Ukraine come just as two U.S. officials told The Daily Beast that the Biden administration has concerns that Russia may be preparing to run sham referenda in seized territories in Ukraine, in order to make it appear like Ukraine supports Russia’s invasion. Russia also ran a sham referendum, which the United States and other allies have repeatedly declared is invalid, in Crimea following Russia’s takeover of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-general-viktor-zolotov-lies-
to-vladimir-putin-about-ukraine-war-in-awkward-briefing
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Most Putin interpretations are IMHO bogus. For instance, in a video where they claimed he had "uncontrollable shaking" of his right hand, it seemed clear to me that he was GESTURING "come here". What nobody commented on in that video was his obviously unsteady first few steps.
In this particular video, Putin is doing what I've seen him do before: gripping the table with his right hand. It looks to me as if he's controlling the movement of his right hand. Perhaps he has early Parkinson's. Maybe he's had a stroke or it could be something as benign as familial essential tremors. In any case, I wouldn't say he looked "troubled", just attentive.
AFA Ukraine is concerned, the western press is trying to disappear the deep split in Ukrainian people, which was evidenced by the Yanukovich vote and the formation of eastern militias immediately following the 2014 coup. Militias which are still fighting today.
It's disingenuous to speak of Ukrianians as if they're monolithic and have a single opinion. They're not, and they don't. Western press is trying to discredit the referendum votes ahead of time, which means they believe the vote will swing to Russia.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Putin cares and kills opponents to his War
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Of course HE cares.
It's not his war. NATO and Biden* started it.
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