Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I got as far as your mention of Trump.
After that, I tossed your posts into the mental trash, where they belong.
SECOND: For both Russians and Trumptards, ignoring what they wish wasn't true is a very poor strategy, but frequently used. Too late they wonder why things go wrong for them. This strategy for handling disagreeable news is not helping them cope.
SIX: Second posting about how nothing has ever gone wrong for him. His life is perfect because he didn't vote for Trump, you see
SECOND: 6ix, you are not a picture of mental well-being.
This from Mr. Instability himself?
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I got as far as your mention of Trump.
After that, I tossed your posts into the mental trash, where they belong.
SECOND: For both Russians and Trumptards, ignoring what they wish wasn't true is a very poor strategy.
SIGNY: I'm not ignoring unpleasant news, SECOND. I'm ignoring YOU, bc you're a troll.
Maybe... MAYBE ... what you post about yourself is true IDK. But I can't recall a single time you posted the truth about anything else. Not even accidentally.
SECOND: When the war finally comes to a close, Russia will say it won the war
Oh, so now your crap has devolved from lying, libel, mind- reading, and projection to... prognostication?
/snicker
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Ukraine is set to receive more than a dozen cutting-edge robotic vehicles that can be used to evacuate battlefield casualties and clear routes of explosive devices, among other tasks, Estonian military contractor Milrem Robotics announced Tuesday. A Russian think tank previously offered a bounty for the capture of one of these vehicles.
The unmanned vehicles, known as Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry Systems or simply "THeMIS," are being paid for by the German government as part of a deal between Milrem Robotics and German defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. The companies have agreed to deliver 14 of them by the end of the year.
"Casualty evacuation and route clearance are two labour-intensive activities that require the engagement of several people who remain in constant threat of enemy fire," Jüri Pajuste, director of research and development at Milrem Robotics, said in a statement. "Automating these tasks with unmanned vehicles alleviates that danger and allows more soldiers to stay in a safe area or be tasked for more important activities."
An earlier delivery of THeMIS vehicles to Ukraine prompted a Russian think tank tied to the Kremlin's defense establishment to issue a $16,000 bounty — more than a typical Russian soldier receives in a year — for the capture of one "by any means," with the stated intent of studying it and manufacturing similar equipment in Russia itself.
"The conflict in Ukraine has demonstrated that modern warfare is unthinkable without the widespread use of unmanned vehicles," Ruslan Pukhov, the director of Moscow's Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, said in a September statement to Insider, adding that "we are lagging behind."
At the time, a spokesperson for Milrem Robotics told Insider: "We take the bounty as a compliment."
The shipment to Ukraine is said to be of the unarmed variant of the THeMIS system, which can carry a payload of up to 1,650 pounds, enabling it to move multiple casualties at once. But according to the manufacturer, the vehicle can be "rapidly configured from having a transport function to being weaponized."
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-getting-more-themis-robots-165638784.ht
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Quote:I predict Russia will sue, calling this theft: The European Commission announced plans to manage frozen Russian assets through a new centralized structure, which it could use to compensate Ukraine. Von der Leyen said the E.U. has blocked 300 billion euros ($311 billion) of Russian Central Bank reserves since the beginning of the invasion, along with 19 billion euros ($19.7 billion) belonging to Russian oligarchs.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, so now your crap has devolved from lying, libel, mind- reading, and projection to... prognostication?
/snicker
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-live-briefing-e-u-moves-t
o-set-up-russia-war-crimes-tribunal-nato-allies-unveil-energy-support/ar-AA14IDRO
I also predict that after years of legal rigamarole, Russia will pay for the damage it did to Ukraine.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Imagine, for a moment, 40 million people waking up every morning and thinking, “What can I do today to save lives and save my country?”
That is happening in Ukraine every single day.
Let’s be clear about what’s on the other side: a regime whose brutality is underestimated, even now. Russia invaded a sovereign country by bombing maternity wards and bread lines. They have raped and tortured children, according to United Nations testimony.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/23/europe/russia-ukraine-zaporizhzhia-
maternity-hospital-strike-intl/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/03/16/ukraine-bread-line-bom
bed-chernihiv-sot-nr-vpx.cnn
https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/09/update-chair-independent-i
nternational-commission-inquiry-ukraine-51st-session
Preventing those atrocities also has implications beyond Ukraine. Pushing Russia back now will deter it from invading other former Soviet states further down the line. Russia’s flagging fortunes on the battlefield are also giving China a reason to pause amid renewed speculation of invasion of Taiwan.
But the truth is the stakes are even higher. Every day in Ukraine, I am surrounded by modern day versions of the patriots who won American independence. Though they are different struggles, we fought for freedom and self-determination, just like Ukrainians today. They face one of the largest and most extensively resourced armies in the world, just like we did. The righteousness of their cause matches our own from almost 250 years ago.
For Americans, backing Ukraine is a moral and strategic imperative rooted in our values. Republicans and Democrats have always come together to defend those values because we’ve always agreed that allowing corrupt autocracies to thrive breeds chaos and instability that ultimately hurts us at home. That unity is now faltering.
As a new Congress takes office in January, I implore my fellow Americans – and policymakers who decide how we use our resources to advance our values – to recognize that support for Ukraine is support for people just like us, who want the same things we do.
Just a few days ago, a young man in Kherson told me that his country “can survive anything … because we are free.”
The fight for his city and his country is not over, but it’s hard to think of a sentiment that would resonate with Americans more than that.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/opinions/kherson-ukraine-putin-heroism-
darkness-khan/index.html
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Biden and virtually the entirety of established political power across the U.S. government is unified in the project of flooding Ukraine with weapons and other military support. Milley, it must be noted, has been a major proponent of heavily arming Ukraine and has advocated continuing to do so indefinitely. Biden currently has a request before Congress for nearly $40 billion in new aid to Ukraine, and the military component of his proposal would, with the swipe of a pen, more than double the entire U.S. expenditure since the invasion began in February.
There is legislation pending in Congress that indicates that the U.S. government believes the Ukraine war may continue for years. On October 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted its amended draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2023. Nestled within the draft is a provision that would establish an “emergency” multiyear plan to award massive defense contracts to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and other war corporations to produce weapons for Ukraine . . .
An amendment, spearheaded by New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and co-sponsored by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, would allow the Pentagon to award noncompetitive no-bid contracts to arms manufacturers under the plan.
Among the weapons that would be preauthorized for procurement by the Pentagon, according to the legislation, are: 100,000 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, 30,000 Hellfire missiles, 36,000 Joint Air-to-Ground missiles, and 700 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — all manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The list also includes a staggering stream of other missiles, rockets, and ammunition.
https://theintercept.com/2022/11/30/ukraine-war-weapons-ndaa/
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Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat claimed the US posed an existential threat to Russia through its support for Ukraine.
Sergei Lavrov, the Kremlin’s foreign minister who has a reputation for wild statements, used a press conference on Thursday to condemn Washington and Nato, while defending Russia’s bombing of Ukraine’s civil infrastructure.
He said the Kremlin’s assault on the Ukrainian power grid was aimed at cutting off the country’s supply of western arms, countering the view held by Kyiv and allies that knocking out heat and electricity for ordinary citizens was an attempt to break the national spirit.
His remarks came hours after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said around 6 million Ukrainians were facing winter without power due to a two-month long series of strikes on power plant, substations and transmission lines, among other key energy infrastructure.
On Wednesday night, the governor of Kherson said the region’s recently liberated capital city had lost power after heavy shelling from Russian forces.
The West has been feeding Ukraine weapons throughout the war, lately turning towards the supply of air defence systems to counter the Russian strikes which have rained on cities all over the country, far from the front lines of the war in the south and east.
Mr Lavrov claimed the arms shipments along with training of Ukrainian soldiers on western soil amounted to direct participation in the conflict by Nato, in particular the US.
He went on to charge that Kyiv was taking military orders from “Western masters”, a claim popular among Russian officials during the ten months since Mr Putin ordered the invasion.
Mr Lavrov said: “We attack energy facilities that make it possible for west to pump weapons into Ukraine. So don’t say that the US and Nato are not participants in this war – you are directly participating. Including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel – you train the Ukrainian military on your territory.” He added: “The vast majority of the targets struck by the Ukrainian Nazi battalion are determined by the Western masters of that regime.”
Though the minister devoted most of the conference to criticising the west, he insisted that Russia was open to the possibility of talks, both with Ukraine and the United States.He said Russia had never walked away from contacts with the US but was yet to hear any “substantive ideas” from Washington, continuing Russia’s attempts to paint itself as being denied a chance at peace, despite being behind the invasion of Ukraine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201191531/https://www.independent.co.
uk/news/world/europe/russia-lavrov-us-ukraine-nato-b2236886.html
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Originally posted by second:
Imagine, for a moment, 40 million people waking up every morning and thinking, “What can I do today to save lives and save my country?”
That is happening in Ukraine every single day.
blah blah blah
a) Given the emigration of Ukrainians into other nations, especially draft-age men, and people seeking a better life, I doubt that "Ukraine" has 40 million within its former borders. 30 million. Maybe.
b) Somewhere in the realm of 1/3 of the remainder consider themselves more Russian than Ukrainian at this point, given how Kiev has abused them, and
c) of THAT remainder, if Ukraine follows the normal age distribution of EU nations, roughly 1/4 to 1/5 are younger than 10 and probably don't have much political thought. And some portion of the adult population just wants to get through the day with water and food and heat.
What you're left with is about 25 million at best.
It discredits your posts when you begin with nonsense, SECOND. And I don't care if you weren't the one to first publicize it, bc you chose to spread it.
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