Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
VIEWED: 562266
PAGE 217 of 1104
Quote:
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzez wolynska, lit.?'Volhynian slaughter'; Ukrainie Rromanized: Volynska trahediia, lit.?'Volyn tragedy'), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and Lublin region from 1943 to 1945.[7] The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children.[8] Many of the Polish victims regardless of age or gender were tortured before being killed; some of the methods included rape, dismemberment or immolation, among others. The UPA's actions resulted in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eas
tern_Galicia
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
"The Russian plans for the invasion of Ukraine were detailed and offered solutions to most of the practical problems that Russia would face in occupying Ukraine," the report read. "If competently executed, these plans could have succeeded."
https://www.newsweek.com/leaked-invasion-plan-reveals-4-assumptions-pu
tin-regime-wrong-1764309
"If competently executed, these plans could have succeeded." Russians haven't competently handled their economy, which is why Russians, on average, are poor compared to the EU average. Luckily, the Russians are fighting a country where the average citizen is even more backward and incompetent than the Russians. Given enough time, maybe the Russians will win, but so far Russians are not performing competently in battle.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
That's what I thought, bitch.
Fuck you, and Fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Before the February invasion, Russia's potential adversaries assumed Russian forces would utilize their seemingly massive stores of firepower and manpower with "a basic level of competence," in line with what they'd exhibited in smaller-scale military operations around the world in the recent decades.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's what I thought, bitch.
Fuck you, and Fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But there were flaws in that assessment. There was too much focus on the quantity of equipment, rather than the quality of Russian personnel, their leadership, training and motivations.
https://www.newsweek.com/leaked-invasion-plan-reveals-4-assumptions-pu
tin-regime-wrong-1764309
Trumptards number in the tens of millions, but they are low quality individuals, which is why they suffer in the American economy. Same is true of Russians. Because they are low quality, they suffer in the world economy compared to EU citizens. Russian and Trumptard oversized pride doesn't allow them to acknowledge their low quality, which leaves them confused about the cause of their low economic status. In the case of Russians, they blame the "West" and Ukraine, not themselves. Trumptards blame Democrats, RINOS, illegal aliens, Coastal Elites and Ukraine, but, again, not themselves.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
License to kill: How Europe lets Iran and Russia get away with murder
For rogue states, solving a problem by assassination often proves irresistible.
The war in Ukraine offers profound lessons about the inherent risks of coddling dictators. Though Germany, with its thirst for Russian gas, is often criticized in that regard, it was far from alone in Europe. Europe’s insistence on giving Putin the benefit of the doubt over the years in the face of his crimes convinced him that he would face few consequences in the West for his invasion of Ukraine. That’s turned out to be wrong; but who could blame the Russian leader for thinking it?
Kremlin’s killings
Some hope the growing outrage in Western societies over Iran’s crackdown on peaceful protesters could be the spark that convinces Europe to get tough on Iran. But Europe’s handling of its other favorite rogue actor — Russia — suggests otherwise.
Long before Russia’s annexation of Crimea, much less its all-out war against Ukraine, Moscow, similar to Iran, undertook an aggressive campaign against its enemies abroad and made little effort to hide it.
The most prominent victim was Alexander Litvinenko. A former KGB officer like Vladimir Putin, Litvinenko had defected to the U.K., where he joined other exiles opposed to Putin. In 2006, he was poisoned in London by Russian intelligence with polonium-210, a radioactive isotope that investigators concluded was mixed into his tea. The daring operation signaled Moscow’s return to the Soviet-era practice of artful assassination.
Litvinenko died a painful death within weeks, but not before he blamed Putin for killing him, calling the Russian president “barbaric.”
“You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price,” Litvinenko said from his deathbed.
In the end, however, the only one who really paid a price was Litvinenko. Putin continued as before and despite deep tensions in the U.K.’s relationship with Russia over the assassination, it did nothing to halt the transformation of the British capital into what has come to be known as “Londongrad,” a playground and second home for Russia’s Kremlin-backed oligarchs, who critics say use the British financial and legal systems to hide and launder their money.
Litvinenko’s killing was remarkable both for its brutality and audacity. If Putin was willing to take out an enemy on British soil with a radioactive element, what else was he capable of?
It didn’t take long to find out. In the months and years that followed, the bodies started to pile up. Critical journalists, political opponents and irksome oligarchs in the prime of life began dropping like flies.
Europe didn’t blink.
Angela Merkel, then German chancellor, visited Putin in his vacation residence in Sochi just weeks after the murders of Litvinenko and investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and said … nothing.
Even after there was no denying Putin’s campaign to eradicate anyone who challenged him, European leaders kept coming in the hope of deepening economic ties.
Neither the assassination of prominent Putin critic Boris Nemtsov just steps away from the Kremlin in 2015, nor the poisoning of a KGB defector and his daughter in the U.K. in 2018 and of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020 with nerve agents disabused European leaders of the notion that Putin was someone they could do business with and, more importantly, control.
‘Anything can happen’
Just how comfortable Russia felt about using Europe as a killing field became clear in the summer of 2019. Around noon on a sunny August day, a Russian assassin approached Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen with Georgian nationality, and shot him twice in the head with a 9mm pistol. The murder took place in a park located just a few hundred meters from Germany’s interior ministry and several witnesses saw the killer flee. He was nabbed within minutes as he was changing his clothes and trying to dispose of his weapon a
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Before the February invasion, Russia's potential adversaries assumed Russian forces would utilize their seemingly massive stores of firepower and manpower with "a basic level of competence," in line with what they'd exhibited in smaller-scale military operations around the world in the recent decades.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's what I thought, bitch.
Fuck you, and Fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
But there were flaws in that assessment. There was too much focus on the quantity of equipment, rather than the quality of Russian personnel, their leadership, training and motivations.
https://www.newsweek.com/leaked-invasion-plan-reveals-4-assumptions-pu
tin-regime-wrong-1764309
Trumptards number in the tens of millions, but they are low quality individuals, which is why they suffer in the American economy. Same is true of Russians. Because they are low quality, they suffer in the world economy compared to EU citizens. Russian and Trumptard oversized pride doesn't allow them to acknowledge their low quality, which leaves them confused about the cause of their low economic status. In the case of Russians, they blame the "West" and Ukraine, not themselves. Trumptards blame Democrats, RINOS, illegal aliens, Coastal Elites and Ukraine, but, again, not themselves.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
FUN FACT: 90% of welfare recipients in the US are Democratic voters.
Fuck you and fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I know these self-described "democrats". I realized after hearing a hundred different black "democrats" speak the same ideas that might well come out of the mouth of a Trumptard, that the "democrat" wasn't a real Democrat. They only voted for the Democratic Party because the Republican Party made the "democrat" feel very uncomfortable for being black. These black "democrats" didn't live or act or believe or understand at all like a real Democrat. They would fit perfectly well into the Republican Party if only they were white. I saw the exact same thing happen with White "democrats" in Texas who didn't like President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society or the Voting Rights Act or Medicare or the Vietnam War Protestors. Those White "democrats" denounced the Democratic Party and switched to being Republicans in Texas.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
FUN FACT: 90% of welfare recipients in the US are Democratic voters.
Fuck you and fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
6ix, what I am saying is that the poorer you are, whether black, brown or white, the more likely you are to be strongly attracted to the ideas that Trump sells. Poor blacks are repelled by Trump only because he makes his racial hatred of black obvious to even the most obtuse blacks, exception for jackasses like Kanye West. Have you seen the cartoon series The Boondocks with stories mostly about blacks? Uncle Ruckus is the wacko Kanye West character in The Boondocks. Uncle Ruckus thinks he is a white man with a skin condition the exact opposite of vitiligo.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373732/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I know these self-described "democrats". I realized after hearing a hundred different black "democrats" speak the same ideas that might well come out of the mouth of a Trumptard, that the "democrat" wasn't a real Democrat. They only voted for the Democratic Party because the Republican Party made the "democrat" feel very uncomfortable for being black. These black "democrats" didn't live or act or believe or understand at all like a real Democrat. They would fit perfectly well into the Republican Party if only they were white. I saw the exact same thing happen with White "democrats" in Texas who didn't like President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society or the Voting Rights Act or Medicare or the Vietnam War Protestors. Those White "democrats" denounced the Democratic Party and switched to being Republicans in Texas.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
FUN FACT: 90% of welfare recipients in the US are Democratic voters.
Fuck you and fuck Ukraine.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
6ix, what I am saying is that the poorer you are, whether black, brown or white, the more likely you are to be strongly attracted to the ideas that Trump sells. Poor blacks are repelled by Trump only because he makes his racial hatred of black obvious to even the most obtuse blacks, exception for jackasses like Kanye West. Have you seen the cartoon series The Boondocks with stories mostly about blacks? Uncle Ruckus is the wacko Kanye West character in The Boondocks. Uncle Ruckus thinks he is a white man with a skin condition the exact opposite of vitiligo.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373732/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You should show a little more fucking respect for black people.
If you didn't have them, Democrats wouldn't ever win an election at any level ever again.
--------------------------------------------------
Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
... A victory for the Russians, even one that resembles the apocalypse, is a very real and very jarring possibility. For the Kremlin, securing Bakhmut — one of the few places it is not in retreat — represents the frenzied feat needed to change the narrative of their losing “special military operation.”
To counter the Wagner assault is a group of mostly retired western military professionals known as The Mozart Group. The irony of two composers of beautiful classical music giving namesake to booming, ugly factions of war is not to be missed.
The Mozart Group, a nongovernmental organization founded by former U.S. Marine Special Forces Col. Andy Milburn, sprang to life in the spring with a small but resolute team that travels deep into dangerous territory, to the voids where no other aid organization or government outfit dares venture.
However, even Andy worries that the moving chronology of David defeating Goliath has warped some of the on-ground realities.
“What is less understood [in the media] are some of the more sophisticated aspects of what is happening here. Morale might be the strongest weapon [Ukrainians] have, but it is not enough by itself,” he cautions. “This can lead to complacency, and that is very damaging.”
... I watch helplessly as missiles whirl above and slam into civilian infrastructure. Certainly, Moscow’s targeting of non-combatant dwellings has been well-documented throughout the war. However, what I also observe is that Ukraine’s military often sets up posts directly outside humanitarian headquarters, hospitals and homes. It is for self-protection or because there are no longer conventional sandbagged frontlines and delineations between the armed and the unarmed. Nevertheless, it makes the scenario uncomfortable and makes every inch a pronounced target.
MORE AT https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/12/04/losses-in-ukr
aine-have-come-on-a-massive-generational-scale/
Quote:
The commander of the neo-Nazi Svoboda battalion, Petro Kuzik, whose unit is trying to hold Bakhmut, told Western media that the fields and forests around are littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers, and they have to defend themselves in extreme cold and knee-deep in water.
“They [the Russians] sensed a weakness in our defenses because there are units that are less motivated than ours. And yesterday they slightly weakened our defenses in the area immediately around Bakhmut. Some units could not withstand this artillery onslaught and retreated.”
Asked how serious the loss of life is, he said: “They are colossal. We don’t even count the bodies.”
https://www.australiannationalreview.com/state-of-affairs/the-commande
r-of-the-neo-nazi-svoboda-battalion-petro-kuzik-whose-unit-is-trying-to-hold-bakhmut/
Commentary at https://sonar21.com/the-ukrainians-are-in-real-trouble-in-bakhmut/
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Can Ukraine Pay for War Without Bankrupting Its Economy? Here's What Economists Say
Ukraine has won victories on the battlefield against Russia but faces a looming challenge on the economic front.
By David Mchugh • Published December 3, 2022 • Updated on December 3, 2022 at 10:13 am
Even as Ukraine celebrates recent battlefield victories, its government faces a looming challenge on the financial front: how to pay the enormous cost of the war effort without triggering out-of-control price spikes for ordinary people or piling up debt that could hamper postwar reconstruction.
The struggle is finding loans or donations to cover a massive budget deficit for next year — and do it without using central bank bailouts that risk wrecking Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia.
Economists working with the government say that if Ukraine can shore up its finances through the end of next year, it is Russia that could find itself in financial trouble if a proposed oil price cap by the U.S., European Union and allies saps Moscow's earnings.
Here are key facts about Ukraine's economic battle against Russia:
How Has Ukraine Been Paying For Its Defense So Far?
In the first days of Russia's invasion, the Ukrainian government turned to foreign help that came at irregular intervals. When it didn't have enough, the central bank bought government bonds using newly printed money. The alternative would have been to stop paying people's pensions and state salaries.
Economists say printing money — while a badly needed stop-gap measure at the time — risks letting inflation get out of control and collapsing the value of the country's currency if it continues.
Ukraine has painful memories of hyperinflation from the early 1990s, economist Nataliia Shapoval said. As a child, she watched her parents use large bundles of bills for everyday purchases as the currency lost value day by day, before being replaced by today's hryvnia.
“Ukraine has been through this, so we know what inflation that is out of control looks like, and we don't want this again,” said Shapoval, vice president for policy research at the Kyiv School of Economics. “The government and the central bank are already on the slippery slope by printing so much.”
Price stability and the ability to pay pensions have enormous impact on ordinary people and society at a time when Russia is trying to demoralize the population by knocking out power and water heading into winter.
With inflation already high at 27%, price hikes have made it hard for lower-income people to afford food.
Bread that used to cost the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents has doubled, said Halyna Morozova, a resident of Kherson, a recently liberated southern city.
“It is very depressing, and we are nervous. We were living on old stocks (of food), but now the light is turned off, the refrigerator doesn’t work and we have to throw away the food," the 80-year-old said recently.
She said the Russians kept paying her Ukrainian pension in rubles but since they started to withdraw in October, she has received nothing. She’s counting on the government to return any pension money that was lost, she said.
Tetiana Vainshtein, also in Kherson, says natural gas is too expensive to keep her home heated. “I am cold. I like warmth, and I’m terribly cold,” the 68-year-old said.
Bank closures during the Russian occupation kept her from getting her pension cash, forcing her to carefully ration every hryvnia for food, she said.
How Much Support Does Ukraine Need?
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs $38 billion in outright aid from Western allies like the U.S and 27-nation EU, plus $17 billion for a reconstruction fund for war damage.
Economists associated with the Kyiv School of Economics say a lower overall total of $50 billion from donors would be enough to get Ukraine through the year.
Defense spending is six times higher in the 2023 budget recently passed by the Ukrainian parliament compared to last year. Military and security s
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME