Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of course, YouTube censors any content it doesn't like. No wonder so many Americans are in the dark about... well, pretty much anything.
Well, YouTube can't censor this: A brief history of the Donbas
But I can. Russia's done comrade.
T
Hear what CNN reporter noticed about crowd watching Putin's speech
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Ukraine Submits Application to Join NATO
“We are taking our decisive step by signing Ukraine’s application for accelerated accession to NATO,” Mr. Zelensky said in a statement posted on the presidential website. He said Ukraine was already cooperating closely with NATO and argued that Ukraine’s army has already helped secure alliance members in Europe against Russian aggression by inflicting battlefield defeats on the Russian army in Ukraine.
“It is in Ukraine that the fate of democracy in the confrontation with tyranny is being decided,” he said. “It is here, with the firmness of our state borders, that we can secure the firmness of the borders of all European states. Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine’s application could be fast-tracked similarly to the applications of Sweden and Finland.
https://president.gov.ua/en/news/mi-robimo-svij-viznachalnij-krok-pidp
isuyuchi-zayavku-ukrayi-78173
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Self-generated imperial authoritarianism is the real curse of Russia and the cause of all its troubles. Opportunities to get rid of it are provided by history.
Russia had its last chance of this kind after the end of the U.S.S.R., but both the democratic public inside the country and Western leaders at the time made the monstrous mistake of agreeing to the model — proposed by Boris Yeltsin’s team — of a presidential republic with enormous powers for the leader. Giving plenty of power to a good guy seemed logical at the time.
Yet the inevitable soon happened: The good guy went bad. To begin with, he started a war (the Chechen war) himself, and then, without normal elections and fair procedures, he handed over power to the cynical and corrupt Soviet imperialists led by Putin. They have caused several wars and countless international provocations, and are now tormenting a neighboring nation, committing horrible crimes for which neither many generations of Ukrainians nor our own children will forgive us.
In the 31 years since the collapse of the U.S.S.R., we have witnessed a clear pattern: The countries that chose the parliamentary republic model (the Baltic states) are thriving and have successfully joined Europe. Those that chose the presidential-parliamentary model (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia) have faced persistent instability and made little progress. Those that chose strong presidential power (Russia, Belarus and the Central Asian republics) have succumbed to rigid authoritarianism, most of them permanently engaged in military conflicts with their neighbors, daydreaming about their own little empires.
In short, strategic victory means bringing Russia back to this key historical juncture and letting the Russian people make the right choice.
The future model for Russia is not “strong power” and a “firm hand,” but harmony, agreement and consideration of the interests of the whole society. Russia needs a parliamentary republic. That is the only way to stop the endless cycle of imperial authoritarianism.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2022/09/30/alexei-navalny-this-is-wha
t-a-post-putin-russia-should-look-like/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia's withdrawal from Lyman comes a day after Putin said he was annexing the region.
Moscow's withdrawal from Lyman prompted immediate criticism from some Russian officials.
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed the retreat, without evidence, on one general being "covered up for by higher-up leaders in the General Staff." He called for "more drastic measures."
Meanwhile, on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, the governor of the city of Sevastopol announced an emergency situation at an airfield there. Explosions and huge billows of smoke could be seen from a distance by beachgoers in the Russian-held resort. Authorities said a plane rolled off the runway at the Belbek airfield and ammunition that was reportedly on board caught fire.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/1126404515/russia-withdraws-troops-ukra
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In Washington, President Joe Biden signed a bill Friday that provides another infusion — more than $12.3 billion — in military and economic aid linked to the war Ukraine. The bill passed the House by a vote of 230-201. Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the measure.
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/national/biden-signs-bill-to-avert-
government-shutdown-aid-ukraine/article_2d91d9cf-b67b-51e3-9d1f-606307ce65c6.html
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 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.
The New World Order is in control now.
Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.
Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.
During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.
You're a fucking moron Jongsstraw. Comrade signym, can_you_see_me_laughing?
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Old uniform and boots that don't fit. After Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization in Russia, more and more conscripts complain that all military uniforms are completely unusable. According to the recruits, not only are they forced to go to war, but they also have to buy the equipment with their own money. Another problem of the Russian army is the strikingly low level of providing soldiers with weapons. Many have weapons that date back to the Soviet era. In several military units, the Russian command has handed out rusty Kalashnikov assault rifles, which were used during the first Chechen war.
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Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like
By Alexei Navalny, September 30, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. This essay was conveyed to The Post by his legal team.
If we examine the primary things said by Western leaders on this score, the bottom line remains: Russia (Putin) must not win this war. Ukraine must remain an independent democratic state capable of defending itself.
This is correct, but it is a tactic. The strategy should be to ensure that Russia and its government naturally, without coercion, do not want to start wars and do not find them attractive. This is undoubtedly possible. Right now the urge for aggression is coming from a minority in Russian society.
In my opinion, the problem with the West’s current tactics lies not just in the vagueness of their aim, but in the fact that they ignore the question: What does Russia look like after the tactical goals have been achieved? Even if success is achieved, where is the guarantee that the world will not find itself confronting an even more aggressive regime, tormented by resentment and imperial ideas that have little to do with reality? With a sanctions-stricken but still big economy in a state of permanent military mobilization? And with nuclear weapons that guarantee impunity for all manner of international provocations and adventures?
It is easy to predict that even in the case of a painful military defeat, Putin will still declare that he lost not to Ukraine but to the “collective West and NATO,” whose aggression was unleashed to destroy Russia.
And then, resorting to his usual postmodern repertoire of national symbols — from icons to red flags, from Dostoevsky to ballet — he will vow to create an army so strong and weapons of such unprecedented power that the West will rue the day it defied us, and the honor of our great ancestors will be avenged.
And then we will see a fresh cycle of hybrid warfare and provocations, eventually escalating into new wars.
To avoid this, the issue of postwar Russia should become the central issue — and not just one element among others — of those who are striving for peace. No long-term goals can be achieved without a plan to ensure that the source of the problems stops creating them. Russia must cease to be an instigator of aggression and instability. That is possible, and that is what should be seen as a strategic victory in this war.
There are several important things happening to Russia that need to be understood:
First, jealousy of Ukraine and its possible successes is an innate feature of post-Soviet power in Russia; it was also characteristic of the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin. But since the beginning of Putin’s rule, and especially after the Orange Revolution that began in 2004, hatred of Ukraine’s European choice, and the desire to turn it into a failed state, have become a lasting obsession not only for Putin but also for all politicians of his generation.
Control over Ukraine is the most important article of faith for all Russians with imperial views, from officials to ordinary people. In their opinion, Russia combined with a subordinate Ukraine amounts to a “reborn U.S.S.R. and empire.” Without Ukraine, in this view, Russia is just a country with no chance of world domination. Everything that Ukraine acquires is something taken away from Russia.
Second, the view of war not as a catastrophe but as an amazing means of solving all problems is not just a philosophy of Putin’s top brass, but a practice confirmed by life and evolution. Since the Second Chechen War, which made the little-known Putin the country’s most popular politician, through the war in Georgia, the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the war in Syria, the Russian elite over the past 23 years has learned rules that have never failed: War is not that expensive, it solves all domestic political problems, it raises public approval sky-high, it does not particularly
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Great article - visionary. It seems to be one of the great hurdles mankind faces at the moment, trying to advance (evolve) past the current glut of sociopathic dictator/ authoritarian dinosaurs. These fcking old men and their old ideas.
My only disagreement is with the author's suggestion that the West needs to push for >blank< a specific type of government after Putin. That's a sure way to fire up even more anti-Western feelings. "Are we going to let them dictate to us who we are?!?!"
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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Great article - visionary. It seems to be one of the great hurdles mankind faces at the moment, trying to advance (evolve) past the current glut of sociopathic dictator/ authoritarian dinosaurs. These fcking old men and their old ideas.
My only disagreement is with the author's suggestion that the West needs to push for >blank< a specific type of government after Putin. That's a sure way to fire up even more anti-Western feelings. "Are we going to let them dictate to us who we are?!?!"
Yeah. "Let's shape Russia into current year America."
Doesn't seem like a great sales pitch. It never has been, no matter when or where we've forced it and no matter which members of which political party held the reins of the government at the time, because it's always ended up in corruption and failure.
I still have to admit that Cap'n somehow has maintained the ability for critical thinking despite the last 3 years. That center of the brain isn't always working for him, of course, but at least there is evidence that it does exist, and that means there's still hope.
Without critical thinking skills you are just an easily programmable automaton. Most of the time when I'm posting here it feels like I'm having conversations with AI bots.
Thanks Cap'n.
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Quote:The article put the blame here: "monstrous mistake of agreeing to the model — proposed by Boris Yeltsin’s team — of a presidential republic with enormous powers for the leader. Giving plenty of power to a good guy seemed logical at the time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Great article - visionary. It seems to be one of the great hurdles mankind faces at the moment, trying to advance (evolve) past the current glut of sociopathic dictator/ authoritarian dinosaurs. These fcking old men and their old ideas.
My only disagreement is with the author's suggestion that the West needs to push for >blank< a specific type of government after Putin. That's a sure way to fire up even more anti-Western feelings. "Are we going to let them dictate to us who we are?!?!"
Yeah. "Let's shape Russia into current year America."
Doesn't seem like a great sales pitch. It never has been, no matter when or where we've forced it and no matter which members of which political party held the reins of the government at the time, because it's always ended up in corruption and failure.
I still have to admit that Cap'n somehow has maintained the ability for critical thinking despite the last 3 years. That center of the brain isn't always working for him, of course, but at least there is evidence that it does exist, and that means there's still hope.
Without critical thinking skills you are just an easily programmable automaton. Most of the time when I'm posting here it feels like I'm having conversations with AI bots.
Thanks Cap'n.
Yet the inevitable soon happened: The good guy went bad. To begin with, he (Boris Yeltsin) started a war (the Chechen war) himself, and then, without normal elections and fair procedures, he handed over power to the cynical and corrupt Soviet imperialists led by Putin. "
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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