Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:With you being Russian, THUGR, apparently you have problems with English.
Originally posted by SECOND:
Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
SIGNY: unny but that's not what the article says.Quote:Ya think?
war-related fires may be the result of Russian attacks as well as Ukrainian ones.Quote:
The overall number of war-related fires has not increased in the past few days. ... IF the Ukrainians truly have begun their counter-offensive...
There is literally nothing in the article about a Ukrainian advance. Anywhere. In fact, they apparently can't even detect a counteroffensive yet. A more accurate title would be
"Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia might be able to be seen from space"
THUGR: Being Russian comrade Signym wouldn’t know that you probe an enemy as you start an offensive. You’re looking for weak spots and even strong areas of resistance you may want to avoid. You look for areas you can take advantage of. This is what is happening now.
I wasn't saying there wasn't a counteroffensive happening. I was just commenting on the stupid headline, which pretends that something is in the article that isn't even there.
According even to you, there are no "advances" along the front. Just "probing".
I just heard a funny summary of Kiev's description of the counteroffensive so far: Don't say it's happening until you achieve a breakthrough somewhere. Until you do (and as you suffer losses) claim that these are "probing attacks" or (if bigger) "reconnaisance in force" or (if bigger still) "shaping operations".
I expect to see those designations from Kiev for the foreseeable future and extravagant publicity if Kiev achieves a 10-km advance anywhere.
/snark
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Putin's Shifting Strategy
Anders Åslund, an economist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, said that the conflict has now entered a "new phase."
"Putin has gradually changed strategy," Åslund, who has served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia and Ukraine, told Newsweek.
"During the first week of the war, the Russians just tried to go in and take everything. They did not bomb anything but really military targets," he said.
Russian forces then targeted Ukraine's critical infrastructure from October 2022 in retaliation for an attack on the Kerch bridge. This links the annexed Crimea peninsula to Russia. Kyiv denied responsibility.
"First, they went for the [power] grid, and then, from January, they went for the power stations. So they have gone deeper and deeper into infrastructure, in steps," said Åslund.
He drew a comparison between the dam's destruction and how Iraqi President Saddam Hussein set oil wells on fire in 1991 when he was forced out of Kuwait.
"When you have lost territory, then you destroy it," Åslund said. "I think that this is something that you do when you give up. It's not an offensive action but sour grapes. [Russia is saying], 'We have lost the apple; we are destroying as much as possible.'"
Domestic Stability
Åslund said he believes the Russian leader has become increasingly concerned about his domestic stability in Russia. There have been recent attacks by Russian anti-Putin militia groups in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
"It's also important that these incursions into the bordering regions show that Russia cannot defend its own border. So, all of a sudden, Putin has spoken about it repeatedly, 'it's a question of our country's survival,'" Åslund said.
"They substantially changed tone from being aggressive to claiming some false victimhood, but I think that he's really concerned about domestic stability now," Åslund added.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-war-ukraine-new-phase-kakhovka-dam-floo
ding-russia-1804965
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For Ukrainians, Devastation Caused by Russians Destroying Dams Is No Surprise
In August 1941, Nazi troops swept through Soviet-era Ukraine and were believed to be approaching the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. Moscow – some say, under the direct orders of Josef Stalin – sent agents from the NKVD (the predecessor of the KGB/FSB) to blow up the city’s DniproHES hydroelectric dam.
The dam, which stood a few miles north of the town of Zaporizhzhia, was 760 meters long and 48 meters high. It raised the river level by almost 40 meters and made the Dnipro navigable over almost 2,000 kilometers by eliminating stretches of rapids.
The aim was to slow the Nazi advance and to deprive German forces access to the electrical power produced by the dam, as well as the large agricultural and industrial areas that existed on both sides of the Dnipro. The NKVD team used almost 20 tons of explosives to tear a 165-meter-long breach in the dam.
The destroyed dam released a tidal surge reaching ten meters in height at its peak. It washed away everything in its path, killed thousands of civilians in settlements along the Dnipro, devastating homes and villages along the coastal city strip, Khortytsia island marshes and the neighboring towns of Nikopol and Marhanets. It also killed Red Army troops and destroyed their defensive positions, as they had not been warned of the sabotage plan and, even if they had, would be totally unprepared to protect themselves from the power of the released water.
In echoes of yesterday’s attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam, Moscow disseminated information that claimed it was the Wehrmacht that had blown up the dam – they were helped in this attempted fiction by the several hundred unprepared Soviet troops who died both on the dam and downstream. The Soviets did not keep records of the death toll caused or the extent of the destruction, but based on an earlier census it is believed that as many as 100,000 Ukrainians died.
Historian Vladyslav Moroko believes that, in actual fact, the Germans had no plans to seize Zaporizhzhia at the time and had very few troops in the area. The NKVD team seem to have gone ahead anyway, afraid of being accused of failing to carry out Stalin’s orders.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17942
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Quote:OMFG.
Originally posted by second:
Putin's Shifting Strategy
Anders Åslund, an economist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, said that the conflict has now entered a "new phase."
"Putin has gradually changed strategy," Åslund, who has served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia and Ukraine, told Newsweek.
"During the first week of the war, the Russians just tried to go in and take everything. They did not bomb anything but really military targets," he said.
Russian forces then targeted Ukraine's critical infrastructure from October 2022 in retaliation for an attack on the Kerch bridge. This links the annexed Crimea peninsula to Russia. Kyiv denied responsibility.
"First, they went for the [power] grid, and then, from January, they went for the power stations. So they have gone deeper and deeper into infrastructure, in steps," said Åslund.
He drew a comparison between the dam's destruction and how Iraqi President Saddam Hussein set oil wells on fire in 1991 when he was forced out of Kuwait.
"When you have lost territory, then you destroy it," Åslund said. "I think that this is something that you do when you give up. It's not an offensive action but sour grapes. [Russia is saying], 'We have lost the apple; we are destroying as much as possible.'"
Domestic Stability
Åslund said he believes the Russian leader has become increasingly concerned about his domestic stability in Russia. There have been recent attacks by Russian anti-Putin militia groups in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
"It's also important that these incursions into the bordering regions show that Russia cannot defend its own border. So, all of a sudden, Putin has spoken about it repeatedly, 'it's a question of our country's survival,'" Åslund said.
"They substantially changed tone from being aggressive to claiming some false victimhood, but I think that he's really concerned about domestic stability now," Åslund added.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-war-ukraine-new-phase-kakhovka-dam-floo
ding-russia-1804965
So, let's see... Russia blew up its own gas pipelines to deny Germany natgas...when it could have simply turned off the taps?
And Russia was shelling the Zaparozhiy Nuclear Power Plant even tho they were positioned there?
And Russia blew up the Kakhova Dam even tho they were in control of it, to sweep away a Ukrainian advance (that wasn't happening) ...even tho they could have simply opened the gates???
How stupid do they think we are??
How stupid are YOU, Nazi troll?
Jeez!!
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Quote:You, 6ix, Trump, and Russian State TV announcers have got two things in common: highly articulate and stupid. You can talk yourself and your kind into believing any old thing that makes you feel superior.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
OMFG.
So, let's see... Russia blew up its own gas pipelines to deny Germany natgas...when it could have simply turned off the taps?
And Russia was shelling the Zaparozhiy Nuclear Power Plant even tho they were positioned there?
And Russia blew up the Kakhova Dam even tho they were in control of it, to sweep away a Ukrainian advance (that wasn't happening) ...even tho they could have simply opened the gates???
How stupid do they think we are??
How stupid are YOU, Nazi troll?
Jeez!!
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians will be truly murdering 2 or more Russians for every Ukrainian that dies and Russians will be falsely claiming that they have a 10 to 1 or higher advantage in the kill ratio over the Ukrainians. Time will tell who is superior, but I'm betting it is the Ukrainians because the smartest Russians have been either emigrating or being executed since 1914. Either way, those smart Russians leave their homeland, and the Russians left behind get stupider and stupider, poorer and poorer, less and less fit for life. It is Russian-style evolution in action, creating a decidedly inferior race of Slavic human beings to run Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I think YOU'RE the one who keeps going on and on about how perfect you are and how stupid "Trumptards" are and how evil and subhuman Russians are, and how they deserve to be killed, Nazi troll
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think YOU'RE the one who keeps going on and on about how perfect you are and how stupid "Trumptards" are and how evil and subhuman Russians are, and how they deserve to be killed, Nazi troll
You never answered my question comrade. Just an oversight, I’m sure. Tell me how long you have to stand online for a bag of potatoes. Are things as bad in Russia as we hear?
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Quote:Attacking Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam Fits Russia's Centuries' Old Pattern
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think YOU'RE the one who keeps going on and on about how perfect you are and how stupid "Trumptards" are and how evil and subhuman Russians are, and how they deserve to be killed, Nazi troll
by Christopher Atwood
All it takes is a brief review of Russian state television to understand what drives Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Just days before the destruction of the dam, a prominent Russian propagandist called for the destruction of "every living thing" in one of Ukraine's eastern regions in order to "punish and deter" Ukrainians for resisting Russian occupation. This state news rhetoric is rooted in a colonial understanding of Russia's own national and imperial history. There is a cruel, perverse irony in a now-viral tweet from the United Nations celebrating Russian language day, which very intentionally coincides with the birthday of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. As Russian literature's most celebrated poet, Pushkin infamously derided Ukrainians as bandits and traitors in his poem Poltava. One of Ukraine's most prominent philosophers, Volodymyr Yermolenko, has argued that a direct line can be drawn from Pushkin's rhetoric to contemporary neo-imperial Russian narratives.
These narratives manifest in the genocide taking place against the Ukrainian people. According to Russian opposition media, Russian soldiers prevented Ukrainians from leaving the flooded areas near the Nova Khakhovka dam, telling civilians that "you're all going to die right here." This report follows a well-documented pattern of targeting Ukrainian civilians for destruction.
Yet this is not Russia's first attempt to destroy Ukrainian national identity. In the 1930s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin forcibly starved to death millions of Ukrainians in a genocide known in Ukraine as the Holodomor. During that same decade, the Soviet police carried out a campaign to erase Ukraine's cultural leaders. As Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko has argued, Western countries made a grave mistake in attributing these atrocities to Communism alone. The problem was not simply the poisoned ideology of Marxism-Leninism. The problem was Russian colonial chauvinism, barely hidden beneath the guise of slogans such as "friendship of peoples."
Crucially, Ukraine stands on the front lines of not only the fight to preserve Western-style democracy, but it also stands as the most viable opposition to Russian colonialism as such. Russia has never confronted its colonial past, and its colonial chauvinism has continued to drive atrocities in Ukraine, along Russia's periphery, and in the colonized territories and republics within Russia.
Of course, this paints a bitter reality. Atrocities like the ones in Bucha, Irpin, Izium — and now the cities and villages near Nova Kakhovka — will continue until the root of the problem is addressed. The only way to end a colonial war is to win it.
Christopher Atwood is a specialist on Eastern Europe. He works at Razom for Ukraine and serves as the head of the Advisory Board at the Souspilnist Foundation. Follow him at https://twitter.com/tca1_?lang=en
https://www.newsweek.com/attacking-ukraines-kakhovka-dam-fits-russias-
centuries-old-pattern-opinion-1805110
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think YOU'RE the one who keeps going on and on about how perfect you are and how stupid "Trumptards" are and how evil and subhuman Russians are, and how they deserve to be killed, Nazi troll
SECOND: Attacking Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam Fits Russia's Centuries' Old Pattern
by Christopher Atwood
All it takes is a brief review of Russian state television to understand what drives Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Just days before the destruction of the dam, a prominent Russian propagandist called for the destruction of "every living thing" in one of Ukraine's eastern regions in order to "punish and deter" Ukrainians for resisting Russian occupation.
Who? Links?
Besides,!"Every living thing" in what is, or was, eastern Ukraine would include an awful lot of Russian-speaking, pro-Russians.
That makes me think that this quote is bogus and the article is utter nonsense.
More bullshit from a Nazi troll.
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Hey, I can post long articles, too! The difference is, this one is funny and actually points to something teal.
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First There Were Neo-Nazis, Then There Were No Nazis, Then There Were
June 6, 2023
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost
I tell you, serving as a New York Times correspondent these days cannot be easy. You have to convey utter nonsense to your readers while maintaining a straight face and a serious demeanor. You have to suggest the Russians may have exploded a drone over the Kremlin, that they may have blown up their own gas pipeline, that their president is an out-of-touch psychotic, that their soldiers in Ukraine are drunkards using faulty equipment, that they attack with “human hordes” (Orientalism, anyone?) and on and on—all the while affecting the gravitas once associated with the traditional “Timesman.” You try it sometime.
I am reminded of that pithy passage in Daniel Boorstin’s regrettably overlooked book, The Image. “The reporter’s task,” Boorstin wrote in 1962, “is to find a way of weaving these threads of unreality into a fabric that the reader will not recognize as entirely unreal.”
Boorstin reflected on America’s resort to imagery, illusion, and distortion as Washington geared up its gruesome follies in Vietnam. The reporter’s task is a whole lot harder now, given how much farther we have wandered into illusion and distortion since Boorstin’s day.
And now we have the case of Thomas Gibbons–Neff, a square-jawed former Marine covering the Ukraine war for The Times—strictly to the extent the Kyiv regime permits him to do so, as he explains with admirable honesty. This guy is serious times 10, he and his newspaper want us to know.
Tom’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia, idolizing Jew-murdering, Russophobic collaborators with the Third Reich, gathering ritually in Nazi-inspired cabals, marching through Kyiv in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think. Nah, our Tom tells us. They look like neo–Nazis, they act like neo–Nazis, they dress like neo–Nazis, they profess Fascist and neo–Nazi ideologies, they wage this war with the Wehrmacht’s visceral hatred of Russians—O.K., but whyever would you think they are neo–Nazis?
They are just regular guys. They wear the Wolfsangel, the Schwarze sonne, the black sun, the Totenkopf, or Death’s Head—all Nazi symbols—because they are proud of themselves, and these are the kinds of things proud people wear. I was just wearing mine the other day.
The slipping and sliding starts early in “Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History,” the piece Gibbons–Neff published in Monday’s editions. He begins with three photographs of neo–Nazi Ukrainian soldiers, SS insignia plainly visible, that the Kyiv regime has posted on social media, “then quietly deleted,” since the Russian intervention began last year. “The photographs, and their deletions,” Gibbons–Neff writes, “highlight the Ukrainian military’s complicated relationship with Nazi imagery, a relationship forged under both Soviet and German occupation during World War II.”
Complicated relationship with Nazi imagery? Stop right there, Mr. Semper fi. Ukraine’s neo–Nazi problem is not about a few indiscreetly displayed images. Sorry. The Ukrainian army’s “complicated relationship” is with a century of ultra-right ideology drawn from Mussolini’s Fascism and then the German Reich. As is well-known and documented, the neo–Nazis who infest the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the AFU—among many other national institutions—have made idols of such figures as Stepan Bandera, the freakishly murderous nationalist who allied with the Nazi regime during the war.
This history is a matter of record, as briefly outlined here, but Gibbons–Neff alludes to none of it. It’s merely a matter of poor image-making, you see. In support of this offensive whitewash, Gibbons–Neff has the nerve to quote a source from none other than BellingcNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME