Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You, 6ix, Trump, and Russian State TV announcers have got two things in common: highly articulate
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!!
Don't be salty that the only articulate posts you've ever made here were the ones that you plagiarized word for word.
You're nearly as stupid as Ted. You get bonus points for knowing how to steal and cheat to make yourself look smarter.
And say what you will about Ted and his low IQ, but I don't think he'd be the type to steal and cheat like you do everyday... So maybe you're both around the same intelligence level, but only one of you is a sociopath.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Russian authorities continue to restrict international travel for those eligible for military service. The Russian Federation Council approved a law on June 7 that clarifies rules on declaring Russian passports invalid and introduces travel restrictions on certain categories of citizens.[62] The law holds that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs can essentially take passports for “storage" (confiscate them) for citizens who are restricted from leaving Russia due to conscription for military service or alternative civilian service.[63] Such legislative manipulations are likely aimed at maintaining a force generation pool and preventing Russians from fleeing abroad to avoid military service.
Russian milbloggers criticized the Russian MoD for falsely claiming that Russian troops destroyed a Leopard tank in Ukraine. The Russian MoD posted footage June 6 that claims to show a Russian strike destroying a Leopard tank.[68] Russian milbloggers were quick to notice, however, that closer examination of the footage shows that the object resembles a piece of agricultural equipment and suggested that Russian forces actually destroyed a John Deere tractor.[69] Several Russian milbloggers criticized the MoD for posting the footage and urged Russian military authorities to vet their public posts more carefully.[70] Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin sardonically congratulated the Russian MoD for a “job well done” in reference to the tractor.[71]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-7-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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In blowing up the dam, Russia committed a war crime
by Andreas Kluth
In a way, this says it all: Just as the Ukrainians are finally launching their long-expected counteroffensive against the Russian invaders, the latter preempt the former with another war crime. They appear to have blown up a huge dam that blocks the Dnipro - the Ukrainians are certainly blaming the Russians, and it's hardly plausible that the Ukrainians did it.
The floodwaters will deluge several villages and maybe a city. The attack will probably also put a hydroelectric power plant out of commission. It may even compromise the cooling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant just up the river.
Is this fair game? There are different ways to answer this question, none of them satisfying. You can start with the inner logic or illogic of warfare, the long history of such tactics, or international law. But however you choose to look at these Russian detonators, they're hardly comparable to Britain's Dambusters of 1943.
Those Dambusters — in what was called Operation Chastise, later heroized on the big screen — were fighting a world war against the Third Reich, which had started the conflict by invading much of the continent. So the British tried to take out dams on rivers in Germany's prime industrial area, and factories that powered the Nazi war machine. More than a thousand civilians were killed, whereas the strategic value of Chastise is still debated. Morally and legally, however, the operation can be justified in the context of the war being waged at that time.
Especially in places defined by rivers, like Ukraine and its Dnipro, the manipulation of floodwaters has always been popular as a tactic. In Mesopotamia (the land "between rivers"), Cyrus the Great took Babylon in one night by diverting the Euphrates. Seventeen centuries later, the Mongol conqueror Hulagu used the floodwaters of the Tigris for victory there. More than seven centuries hence again, in the 1980s, the Iranians bombed Iraqi dams. The most recent to target them was the Islamic State.
The worst modern dam attack was launched by the defending side in its own country. In 1938, Chinese nationalists fighting Japanese invaders blew up the dikes holding back the Yellow River. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died, either by drowning or losing drinking water and shelter. The breach slowed the Japanese advance, but didn't stop it.
On it goes, with almost every major belligerent using the tactic at some point or another - the Americans bombed dams in North Korea and North Vietnam, for instance, and again in Syria in 2017. As a weapon, water is both obvious and frightening.
But is it ethical, or even legal? As ever when lawyers are involved, that question leads to frustrating quagmires of fine print. The oldest answers come from so-called customary international law, which derives from established practices among states rather than the written words in treaties. It acknowledges that bombing dams may be fair game (as in the case of Operation Chastise, in my opinion) when the targets have military importance, as long as the consequences for civilians are "proportionate."
The first international treaties dealing with attacks on dams were the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1977. They stipulate that "dams, dikes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack, even where these objects are military objectives, if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces and consequent severe losses among the civilian population." (Emphasis added.)
Note the telling conflation of floodwater and nuclear radiation in the protocol. These two hell scenarios have much in common, in that a belligerent can take out a target with ambiguous military relevance — the dam on the Dnipro or the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant — and kill, harm and terrorize vast numbers of civilians in the vicinity. In that sense, dams and nuclear stations make perfect targets for the least scrupul
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How can you POSSIBKY keep thumping such ridiculous lies, Nazi troll?
Yanno, you're like good Berliner Nazis at the end of WWII: They firmly believed that some wunderwaffe would defend them. LOSUNG THE WAR TO RUSSIA CAME AS A VAST SURPRISE.
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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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Quote:After peace was declared in WWII, Russians continued to kill German civilians by the millions, but at a slower pace with more torture. According to Russians, nobody died. Which history is more persuasive?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
How can you POSSIBKY keep thumping such ridiculous lies, Nazi troll?
Yanno, you're like good Berliner Nazis at the end of WWII: They firmly believed that some wunderwaffe would defend them. LOSUNG THE WAR TO RUSSIA CAME AS A VAST SURPRISE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2
%80%931950)#Legacy_of_the_expulsions
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-expulsions-film/film-depict
ing-germans-as-ww2-victims-fires-debate-idUSL0515685120070305
https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/poland-post-wwii-as
saults-on-minorities/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Russian Soldiers Complain That 'Entire Regiments' Are Being Wiped Out
By Isabel van Brugen On 6/8/23 at 10:56 AM EDT
The Russian soldiers said poor leadership and a lack of reinforcements and equipment are to blame for high casualty numbers.
"We are ready to defend our homeland, but with proper supplies," the unit said. "And to be taken prisoner without arms or with no possibility to counteract is not defending the homeland. On behalf of the 1009th regiment we ask you to look into this serious problem and make decisions as soon as possible."
An unverified video has also circulated on Russian and Ukrainian social media channels, purportedly showing a Russian soldier from the 138th Brigade posted in the Belgorod region. In the video, the solider said his unit lost 80 percent of its personnel and that he and his fellow soldiers were "forced to retreat without permission and without reinforcements."
"After some time, the same situation occurred with two other groups [units]. They mowed down entire regiments of our men," the soldier said.
Who is attacking the Russian soldiers? Not Ukrainians but two Russian rebel groups—the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC)—entered Belgorod last week, and intense fighting has been ongoing since. The Legion is made up of defectors from the Russian armed forces and Russian and Belarusian volunteers, and the RVC says its members include Russians fighting on Ukraine's side and against the Kremlin regime.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-belgorod-freedom-russia-legi
on-volunteer-corps-ukraine-war-1805354
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
How can you POSSIBKY keep thumping such ridiculous lies, Nazi troll?
Yanno, you're like good Berliner Nazis at the end of WWII: They firmly believed that some wunderwaffe would defend them. LOSUNG THE WAR TO RUSSIA CAME AS A VAST SURPRISE.
Comrade, oh no comrade, the Russian lines have broken.
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THREE-PLUS HOURS?!?!
R U KIDDING???
Some of us have a life to live, dood!
If you want to get a PRO-UKIE summary from a pro-Ukrainian Belorussian, WITH MAPS, go to YouTube Military Summary Channel.
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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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The great counteroffensive gets caught up in minefields...
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So, as you can see. The enemy approached the minefields in the ‘no man’s land’ between the two armies south of Orekhov. They rode in vehicles with headlights off, counting on their fancy NATO ‘nightvision’. They began to clear mines with trawls and with the UR-77 ‘Snake Gorynch’ mine clearer. However, many of them still appeared to hit mines anyway at one point or another.
Russian analyst Yuriy Podolyaka gives further details:
Yuriy Podolyaka: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine could not clear the fields, they are forced to go through narrow corridors. There are shots of a cluster of tanks: one is hit, and the rest are afraid to bypass it, run into mines. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are compressed, our artillery and aviation are working. All night long, our night hunters worked as a carousel, shooting a lot of enemy equipment.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/offensive-confirmed-afu-strikes-ha
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Well, tomorrow is another day. Let's see what it brings.
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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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Russian sources provided explanations for claimed Russian successes during the June 8 attacks, praising Russian forces’ effective use of electronic warfare (EW) systems, air support, and landmines against Ukrainian forces. Multiple Russian sources reported that Russian EW severely interfered with Ukrainian command and control signals, GPS-enabled devices, UAV controls.[12] Russian sources reported that Ukrainian forces had insufficient air defense in the Orikhiv sector, that Russian forces operated with an “unprecedented” amount of rotary wing air support, and that Russian aviation was able to return to a high level of activity after not actively engaging in combat operations since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022.[13] Continuous Russian missile and drone attacks against Kyiv and critical Ukrainian infrastructure may have fixed Ukraine’s more advanced air defense systems away from the frontline, although ISW cannot assess which systems would be effective against the kinds of air support missions Russian aircraft were flying. ISW’s previous assessments that Russian air and missile attacks were not setting conditions to defend against the Ukrainian counter-offensive may thus have been inaccurate. Russian sources also praised at length their claimed defensive success using layered field fortifications and landmines, with Major General Popov stating that Russian minefields played a “very important role” in defeating the initial Ukrainian advance in the early hours of June 8.[14] CNN additionally reported that an anonymous US official said that Russian landmines degraded Ukrainian armored vehicles.[15]
Russian forces appear to have executed their formal tactical defensive doctrine in response to the Ukrainian attacks southwest of Orikhiv. Russian doctrine for a defending motorized rifle battalion calls for a first echelon of troops to repel or slow attacking forces with minefields, fortifications, and strongpoints, with a second echelon of forces counterattacking against an enemy breakthrough.[16] Russian forces apparently operated in this fashion in this sector – Ukrainian forces penetrated the initial defensive lines; Russian forces pulled back to a second line of fortifications; and Russian reserves subsequently counterattacked to retake the initial line of defenses.[17] This maneuver is a regular feature of defensive operations and has been executed by both Ukrainian and Russian forces throughout the war. Early control of terrain changes day to day should thus not be misconstrued as the overall result of a wider attack.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-8-2023
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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