Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.
No...
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Yes. Period.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey KRAPO! Nice to see you still being a lying sack of shit!
Never change, dood!
Are you pissed because your "Bakhmut conquered by January" prediction has turned out so bad?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia wants a NATO- and missile-free border (yanno, like Austria) which seems eminently sensible to me: it would solve everyone's security problems.
Lol, the UK just gave Ukraine new cruise missiles capable of hitting the Kerch bridge
Add all the Lend Lease provided by the West since the invasion - if "strategic mastermind" Putin's whole aim was to make Ukraine toothless militarily he has a funny way of achieving the complete opposite
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Ukraine can get fucked.
Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ukraine can get fucked.
Your tax dollars say different
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Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?
Z was elected in 2019, 2.5 years after Obama left office... Do you mean "Trump plant"? *shrug* This makes as much sense as anything you say.
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Quote:Signym, your personal version of history does not match European history. Russians 'Haven't Changed' Since World War II: Estonian Prime Minister
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey dumb shit SECOND:
Russian forces fighting in Ukraine are exhibiting the same "brutality" as the Soviet troops that occupied much of eastern and central Europe during the Second World War, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said.
While Ukraine's Western partners analyze Russian capabilities on display through more than one year of full-scale war, Kallas said European Union and NATO nations must also end what she called the "historical cycle" of Russian aggression against its neighbors.
"I'm very surprised that they haven't changed since the Second World War," Kallas told Newsweek in an exclusive interview at Stenbock House, the official seat of the Estonian government—in Tallinn.
"The way they operate, the brutality, the atrocities; it hasn't changed at all. And the question that I have in my mind is, how is that possible, really, in 2022 or 2023? But it is still so."
Estonia, which shares a 183-mile border with Russia, has long been among those nations sounding the alarm over the threat from Moscow. Tallinn and its Baltic neighbors emerged from hundreds of years of Russian — and later Nazi German and Soviet — rule, punctuated by brief periods of independence. For them, Ukraine's struggle echoes their own.
Moscow's clear defeat and subsequent war crimes trials for its leaders, Kallas said, are imperative for all those along Russian borders.
"We are carefully gathering lessons: how they act, how they fight, and how they operate, generally, to be prepared," she explained. "There's a much broader question that is outside the military scope, and this is the question of how to really cut this historical cycle that Russia always continuously attacks its neighboring countries. And the key to this is accountability.
"There hasn't been any accountability for the crimes that Russians have committed in their neighboring countries. Whereas for the Germans, there were the Nuremberg Trials. And the Nazi crimes are widely condemned across the world.
"One of the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials, for example, was that the German people got to know about the crimes that the Germans committed, and hence they have this public guilt about this. The Russians don't have that."
Ukraine is now working with foreign partners to set up a special tribunal to try Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top officials — likely all in absentia — for their aggression against Ukraine. How such a tribunal will be formed, operated or be given international legitimacy remains to be seen.
"The special international tribunal to prosecute the crimes of aggression is of utmost importance," Kallas said. "Crimes of aggression are leadership crimes. Somebody decides to attack another country. And if there isn't any leadership crime — the crime of aggression — there are no war crimes, either.
"Russia has seen that nothing happens when they attack another country. All the aggressors, or would-be aggressors, in the world are carefully taking notes. If the outcome of aggression as a policy tool is that you walk away with more territories than you had before, that aggression pays off. And it's a call for everybody to use that."
'They Can't Win'
Western hopes of a mass uprising or palace coup to unseat Putin have not come to fruition. Infighting among Moscow's elites may undermine Putin's leadership, but there is little indication that he is losing his grip on power.
"We see those signs, but we would want to see those signs much stronger. They definitely have some infighting going on," Kallas said, noting the recent public protests of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin against rivals in the regular Russian military hierarchy.
Polls — ever q
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Ukraine can get fucked.
Your tax dollars say different
Not MY tax dollars. I haven't paid federal tax since before child rapist Zelensky was inaugurated.
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Why do you support child rapist and Obama plant Zelensky?
Z was elected in 2019, 2.5 years after Obama left office... Do you mean "Trump plant"? *shrug* This makes as much sense as anything you say.
The Obamas and the Bidens and all the higher ups in Ukraine have had each others dicks up their collective asses since 2014. You didn't think that Trump being President was going to stop that from happening, did you?
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Hey dumb shit SECOND... did you get an award at school for "stupid"? Or was it for "lying"?
Asking an Estonian elite about Russia is like asking ... well... you. 
I don't read your walls of gibberish and I sure didn't read his.
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Quote:Signym, why don't you start screaming that only you know the Holy Truth about Russians and every contradiction is Fake News from the Faithless?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey dumb shit SECOND... did you get an award at school for "stupid"? Or was it for "lying"?
Asking an Estonian elite about Russia is like asking ... well... you.
I don't read your walls of gibberish and I sure didn't read his.
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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Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool
by Thomas L. Friedman
I have not written much about the war in Ukraine lately because so little has changed strategically since the first few months of this conflict, when three overarching facts pretty much drove everything — and still do.
Fact No. 1: As I wrote at the outset, when a war of this magnitude begins, the key question you ask yourself as a foreign affairs columnist is very simple: Where should I be? Should I be in Kyiv, the Donbas, Crimea, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels or Washington?
And from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head. Unfortunately, Putin doesn’t grant visas to his brain.
That’s a real problem because this war emerged entirely from there — with, we now know, almost no input from his cabinet or military commanders — and certainly with no mass urging from the Russian people. So Russia will be stopped in Ukraine, whether it’s winning or losing, only when Putin decides to stop.
Which leads to fact No. 2: Putin never had a Plan B. It’s now obvious that he thought he was going to waltz into Kyiv, seize it in a week, install a lackey as president, tuck Ukraine into his pocket and put to an end any further European Union, NATO or Western cultural expansion toward Russia. He would then cast his shadow across all of Europe.
This leads to fact No. 3: Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop. There’s no way he can seize control of all of Ukraine anymore. But at the same time, he can’t afford to be defeated, after all the Russian lives and treasure he has expended. So he can’t stop.
To put it differently, because Putin never had a Plan B, he’s defaulted to a punitive, often indiscriminate rocketing of Ukrainian towns and civilian infrastructure — a grinding war of attrition — with the hope that he can somehow drain enough blood from Ukrainians, and instill enough exhaustion in Kyiv’s Western allies, that they give him a big enough slice of Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine he can sell to the Russian people as a great victory.
Putin’s Plan B is to disguise that Putin’s Plan A has failed. If this military operation had an honest name, it would be called Operation Save My Face.
Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool.
You can see from Putin’s Victory Day speech in Moscow on Tuesday that he is now grasping for any rationale to justify a war he started out of his personal fantasy that Ukraine is not a real country but part of Russia. He claimed his invasion was provoked by Western “globalists and elites” who “talk about their exclusivity, pit people and split society, provoke bloody conflicts and upheavals, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism and destroy traditional family values that make a person a person.”
Wow. Putin invaded Ukraine to preserve Russian family values. Who knew? That’s a leader struggling to explain to his people why he started a war with a puny neighbor that he says is not a real country.
You might ask, why does a dictator like Putin feel he needs a disguise? Can’t he make his people believe whatever he wants?
I don’t think so. If you look at his behavior, it seems that Putin is quite frightened today by two subjects: arithmetic and Russian history.
To understand why these subjects frighten him, you need to first consider the atmosphere enveloping him.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as a foreign affairs writer reporting from autocratic countries is that no matter how tightly controlled a place is, no matter how brutal and iron-fisted its dictator, EVERYBODY TALKS.
They know who is stealing, who is cheating, who is lying, who is having an affair with whom. It starts with a whisper and often stays there, but everybody talks.
Putin clearly knows this
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Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov contradicted the pre-war Kremlin justifications for the war by asserting that the Russian “special military operation” began as “a conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” He said that Russia has “partially” achieved the goals of “protecting” people in Donbas,[9] but added that Russia is still far from fully achieving these goals. He said that it was ”hard to believe” at the beginning of the war that NATO, the United States, and European countries would ”intervene in this conflict.” ISW previously reported that the Kremlin has begun to shift its domestic narratives to claim that Russia is fighting only against NATO in an effort to set informational conditions for potential Russian military failures during the planned Ukrainian counteroffensive.[10] Peskov’s statement is consistent with the new Russian narrative but contradicts Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements prior to the February 24, 2022 invasion. Putin stated on February 21, 2022, that Russia is ”not fighting the Ukrainian people” and claimed that Ukraine had become a hostage of its ”Western masters.”[11] The Russian pre-war justification for the invasion relied heavily on portraying a NATO threat to Russia supposedly emanating from Ukraine.[12]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-may-11-2023
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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