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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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Friday, March 17, 2023 5:42 AM

Russia is so aggressive, it moved its borders right next to American military installations. /snark


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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Friday, March 17, 2023 5:43 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

This is where you're wrong. Like you're wrong about nearly everything.

Must be a wonderful feeling for you, Signym. Here is a review for you, where you are always right and I am always wrong. In this review, the American empire is crumbling:

Unrest around Russian borders shows when empires crumble, they become murderous

The new eruptions of the old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan add to the general picture, namely, instability all around the Russian borders

Dmitry Kosyrev March 16, 2023 16:03:15 IST

Dmitry has recently read Caroline Elkins book Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire and he makes predictions about what America will do by looking back at the fall of the British Empire. Since Dmitry works for the Russian State agency website ria.ru, he sees the Ukraine war as the fall of the American Empire.

"Elkins’ book was mostly about the retreating, not about an attacking empire. So why they could not retreat without war and mayhem? After all, they’ve had enough. Look at these attempts to estimate the riches, plundered from India in 200 years, amounting to today’s $45 trillion, with about 165 million premature deaths between 1880-1920. Not to mention the hunger of 1943 or the victims of Amritsar in 1919. But why should the outgoing empire start an operation in Palestine after the Second World War? Why build concentration camps for 230,000 people in Kenya in 1953?

The American lady gives a lot of good answers for that. And most of these answers are about the mentality of the masters of the world when they see that something wrong happens with their power. The reviews are quoting her lines about the sadistic methods that marked the last acts of empire, being not an anomalous aberration but learned behaviours of imperial power."

More at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/unrest-around-russian-borders-shows-
when-empires-crumble-they-become-murderous-12303052.html


Download Caroline Elkins free books from the mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.boo/search.php?req=Caroline+Elkins
1) Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
2) Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
3) Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies
4) Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

. I'll save your post for the future.


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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Friday, March 17, 2023 11:38 AM

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I'll save your post for the future.

Too much for you? Here is a much shorter reading task: http://report.heritage.org/bg3753

The U.S. and Its Allies Must Understand and Respond to Russia’s Nuclear Threats | March 13, 2023

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Putin’s martyr complex risks emboldening Russia to consider the use of nuclear and chemical weapons in the Ukraine war.

Russia redefined justifications for nuclear weapons use in 2020, elevating concerns that hysterical Russian rhetoric may result in the use of nuclear weapons

Summary

Vladimir Putin’s dreams of Ukraine re-incorporated into Russia, of breaking up NATO, and of Russia leading a global anti-Western alliance are collapsing about him. Disaster for Russia’s imploding armed forces may well await, and, eventually, Ukraine’s armed forces will likely threaten to break Russia’s land corridor linking Crimea to the Donbas. At that point, Putin will make one of the most fateful decisions of the century: to use nuclear or chemical weapons or not. The U.S. must minimize that threat and ensure the protection of the American public and of U.S. allies.


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 17, 2023 12:29 PM

No. Your posts aren't worth reading past the the first couple of sentences anyway. It's just one more stupid post in a long string of posts that in a year, will prove how wrong you were.


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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Friday, March 17, 2023 6:27 PM

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Nobody cares. No more Ukrainian flags to be found anywhere on Twitter, I'm afraid.

Elon Musk owns twitter. If he turned off the Ukrainian flags on twitter, that makes perfect sense since Elon Musk also owns Star Link, which he turned off in Ukraine because it was being used to support Ukrainians. Elon Musk also told Ukraine to surrender to Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_satellite_services_in_Ukraine#D
rone_control


Elon Musk Fans Horrified as He Suggests Ukraine Give in to Putin's Demands
"You are assuming that I wish to be popular."
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-fans-ukraine

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly




Nope. The Ukrainian Flag emoji is still there.

Nobody is using it anymore.



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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Friday, March 17, 2023 8:52 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No. Your posts aren't worth reading past the the first couple of sentences anyway. It's just one more stupid post in a long string of posts that in a year, will prove how wrong you were.


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" It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger


A Nightmarish New Report Has Detailed Russia’s War Crimes In Ukraine

A new UN-backed report released Thursday found Russia has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during its yearlong invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil
/coiukraine/A_HRC_52_62_AUV_EN.pdf


. . .
Thousands of children have been transported to Russia against their parents' will. Some of these children have since had Russian citizenship imposed on them and been placed with foster families, unlikely to ever return to Ukraine.

More at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/russia-war-crimes-ukrai
ne-un-report-human-rights


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 17, 2023 8:54 PM

A UN-backed report you say?

I'm sure that's legit.



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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Friday, March 17, 2023 9:15 PM

Russia’s military leaders have sacrificed military units, equipment and soldiers; squandered strategic resources for small tactical gains; and doubled down on flawed strategy and tactics in desperate attempts to save face. Everyone can see the truth. Russia’s military and its defense industry are failing in Ukraine.

Historically, that is the Russian way of war: throwing men and resources on a target rather than finding more cost-effective ways to fight. A military’s culture will affect the way it fights even if decades pass and more modern weapon systems are introduced. As we can see from Ukraine, the Russian way of war is costly, to say the least.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/03/putin-is-bleeding-out-the-russian-
military-in-ukraine
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 17, 2023 10:55 PM

Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti's Crimean arm quoted Crimean politician Vladimir Konstantinov as saying that kindergarten and school-aged children were now being taught in "martial arts" and "drill training."

In an accompanying video, a group of schoolchildren can be seen racing to handle weapons, dissembling and re-assembling what appear to be rifles in a race against one another.

Russia's education ministry has updated school curriculums to "include training with AK series assault rifles and hand grenades, military drill and salutes, and the use of personal protective equipment."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-preparing-forced-evacuation-crimea-ukr
aine-1788424


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Friday, March 17, 2023 11:02 PM

One and a half minutes of Tucker Carlson parroting Vladimir Putin



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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