Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Quote:By evacuating Kherson, Russia is luring the Ukrainians into a diabolical trap where the Ukrainian fools, Nazis, torturers, and murderers shall be utterly destroyed. A celebratory victory will be Russia's! All as a Thanksgiving for the great people of Russia who never wavered in their loyalty to Putin's dream of a reunified Greater Russia!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Kiev is going to fire missiles into civilian areas of Kherson city, same as they fire missiles into the civilian areas of Donetsk city.
What else is new?
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 SIGNYM:Quote:
Americans Better Wake Up and Realize the Russians Are genuinely Pissed Off
Oh no comrade, say it ain't so.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Kiev is going to fire missiles into civilian areas of Kherson city, same as they fire missiles into the civilian areas of Donetsk city.
What else is new?
Brilliant really. If Ukraine army kills all Ukraine people there will be no more war.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
“I hate them,” Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on social media in early June. “They are bastards and scum,” he went on. “As long as I live, I will do everything to make them disappear."
Ah, a favorite M$M technique: The Snippet. And one that SECOND likes to exploit endlessly.
"Them"?
Who (or what) "them"?
Ukrainian women and children?
Western neocons and warhawks?
Fleas?
Bad shoes?
It's not clear who Medvedev is talking about, or even if he's talking about anything living. But the media just loves them some out-of-context phrases that they can interpret endlessly, and SECOND can quote them endlessly for his propaganda war.
At least Medvedev didn't say he was willing to genocide the entire globe "down to the last 100". Now THAT would have been truly horrific.
A glum Putin is given stern dressing down from President of Tajikistan
Vladimir Putin was given a stern dressing down by the president of Tajikistan in another indicator that the Russian dictator has lost respect and influence in his own backyard. Fellow longstanding dictator Emomali Rahmon, ruler of the Central Asian state of 9 million since 1994, seized upon Putin's woes back home and in Ukraine to give him a piece of his mind and tell him how he really feels during a summit in the Kazakh capital of Astana.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-glum-putin-is-given-stern-dress
ing-down-from-president-of-tajikistan/ss-AA12ZKGx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=4c31a46535aa45c4ac68e7f3de72817d#image=1
Yep, it's over for Putin. Hey comrade signym. I told you so.
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A story from 2018: Don’t Fear the Russian Military
The week-long exercises, which kicked off yesterday, are intended as a show of might. But the country is in no position to wage a real conflict.
Russia, like an animal puffing out its fur and baring its teeth when faced with a predator, wants to look as formidable as possible. As an authoritarian nation, it spends more than it should on its military — more than a third of the total federal budget goes toward security, broadly defined.
Putin is aware that the objective indicators do not help him make his case that Russia, with an economy smaller than that of Texas, should be treated as one of the great world powers. Instead, he relies on bluff and bluster, theater and shadow play. He wants to project an image of a dangerous yet confident country, one that should be placated, not challenged. Hence, the pictures we’ll soon see of tanks rumbling across the steppe as rockets, drones, and gunships roar overhead are part and parcel of a campaign to make Russia (look) great again. That campaign also includes Putin’s claims that Russia will soon deploy nuclear-powered cruise missiles. (Prototypes have been tested four times in the past year and have crashed every time.) It’s good to be strong, but it’s more important to be seen as strong.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/don-t-fear-the-russian-military
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Putin tried for years to stop his military from using Western parts — and mostly failed
By Alberto Nardelli, Bloomberg
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/10/15/world/russia-weapons-west
ern-parts/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral
Oct 15, 2022
Even before sanctions cut off access to vital components and technologies for President Vladimir Putin’s defense industry, an internal Russian government review found years of attempts to reduce reliance on imports had largely failed.
Previously unreported assessments show a program with specific targets was put in place from 2019 to slash Russia’s dependence on Western parts for its arsenal by 2025 — everything from radar to advanced submarines to anti-missile defense systems. But an internal review of the plan 10 months before Putin invaded Ukraine found it was falling short on almost every metric.
Conversations with European officials including those familiar with the audit report highlight the protracted struggle by Russian companies and the trade ministry to move away from parts supplied by NATO member states and Ukraine. One of the Russian assessments explicitly warned the state’s defense procurement program could fail under a tougher sanctions regime, a European official said, asking not to be identified discussing sensitive matters.
Information on Russia’s challenges in sourcing components has been shared among a number of Western governments and fed into the discussions on trade penalties imposed since late February.
Shortages of modern weapons have forced Russia to rely on models dating to the Soviet era, many of which are less accurate and reliable, according to U.S. and European officials. They said the Kremlin is unlikely to be able to sustain the kinds of massive assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure seen this week, despite Putin’s threats to continue escalating.
Russia is already struggling to resupply its troops on the ground, has suffered heavy losses of tanks and aircraft, and is burning through its missile arsenal, those officials say. In Russia, senior officials have repeatedly said they are able to resupply their forces in Ukraine and Putin on Friday said he had no regrets about the invasion.
Since the war broke out the U.S., the European Union and others have also hit Moscow with hefty sanctions, including penalties designed to cut off access to semiconductors and other key components used in high-tech weaponry.
“The costs to Russia — in people and equipment — are staggering,” Sir Jeremy Fleming, the director of Britain’s signals intelligence agency, said this week of the war in Ukraine. “We know — and Russian commanders on the ground know — that their supplies and munitions are running out.”
The import substitution program was set up in 2014 in the aftermath of Russia’s previous invasion of Ukraine, and accelerated with detailed targets set in 2019. But what has been described to Bloomberg as a 20-page audit by the office of Russia’s prosecutor general in April 2021 — covering a mammoth 177,058 components used in 278 types of military equipment — found widespread shortcomings. In 2020 alone, Russia had hoped for 18,047 substitutions covering 43 types of equipment but only managed 3,148 replacements across five items, the people said.
Kremlin officials have repeatedly said the import-replacement efforts across the economy have missed targets: Putin remarked in 2019 that, “in a number of cases as practice shows, obvious mistakes were made in the planning and organization of work on import substitution.”
The trade minister was recently made a deputy prime minister, according to Russian state media, with greater powers to work on import substitution. The shortcomings have been discussed at meetings where public comments were made afterward.
Still, officials have said the efforts to limit reliance on foreign components allowed the industry to withstand the impact of sanctions imposed after the start of the war. “For some sectors, 100% import replacement isn’t that significant or necessary. But here w
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Warmongering Democrats are the worst Democrats.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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Quote:After Putin finishes Ukraine, there are more countries to conquer. We wouldn't want him to stop with just one when he could have them all! Russia once owned half of Germany. Why not take back what is Russia's and a little more to make Russia's efforts worthwhile?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Warmongering Democrats are the worst Democrats.
As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine continues to escalate, many are asking what the Russian dictator ultimately hopes to achieve.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/inside-vladimir-put
ins-criminal-plan-to-purge-and-partition-ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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1989 TWO. Russia occupied half of Germany as little as 30 years ago. I would have thought because of that they would have made helping Ukraine their number one priorty. They haven't and that's sad.
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Quote:Seriously, Germany placed its fate into Putin's hands when Germany signed long-term natural gas contracts with Gazprom. I assume the Germans are thinking that, once this is all over, the selling and buying between Germany and Russia can go back to almost normal, but only if Germany doesn't extravagantly offend Putin by really trying hard to help Ukraine rather than Germany mostly pretending to help. It is no secret to Putin exactly what Germany has done for Ukraine. So far, not so much.
Originally posted by THG:
1989 TWO. Russia occupied half of Germany as little as 30 years ago. I would have thought because of that they would have made helping Ukraine their number one priorty. They haven't and that's sad.
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On the Ukraine War, Germany Has a Leadership Problem. Here’s Why.
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/ukraine-war-germany-has-leadership-proble
m-heres-why
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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