Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukraine Could Be Forced to Compromise
With support for the war against Russia waning in the U.S., the counteroffensive may define a new border.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-could-be-forced-to-compromise-408
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At the beginning, support for Ukraine in the U.S. was strongly bipartisan. No longer. While Democrats continue to back current levels of assistance, the share of Republicans who believe that we are doing too much has risen steadily, from 9% in March 2022 to 44% today, according to Pew. Recently, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rebuffed a plan backed by both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that would provide supplemental aid for Ukraine outside the normal appropriations process, on which the debt-ceiling agreement imposes caps for defense as well as nondefense spending. Assistance to Kyiv could be cut as soon as the end of September.
Mr. Zelensky must also take into account the possibility that Donald Trump, no friend of Ukraine, will return to the Oval Office after the November 2024 election. Mr. Trump has promised to end the war within 24 hours of taking office. Allowing for hyperbole, there is every reason to believe that he would swiftly reverse current policy, weakening Ukraine’s ability to resist Russian aggression. Unless Mr. Zelensky is prepared to wager the future of his country on the whims of American voters, he should seriously consider locking in the best deal he can get from his allies while support remains strong.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by second:
Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate
Because the USA and the collective west have broken every agreement, treaty, contract, and promise we made with the USSR and Russia?
Because we bragged that the Minsk Agreement was just a delaying tactic that we
never intended to keep?
Bc we, the collective west, have shown ourselves to be dishonest, dishonorable, and "not agreement capable"?
Because they're winning?
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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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate
Because the USA and the collective west have broken every agreement, treaty, contract, and promise we made with the USSR and Russia?
Because we bragged that the Minsk Agreement was just a delaying tactic that we
never intended to keep?
Bc we, the collective west, have shown ourselves to be dishonest, dishonorable, and "not agreement capable"?
Because they're winning?
Poor comrade signym. She blames everyone but the Russians for their sins upon humanity. No comrade, no. Stand next to Russia as you look in the mirror. You will see who is guilty of broken promises and crimes against humanity.
And understand this. For decades to come the crimes of Russia will be tried not only in the courts, but in the court of public opinion.
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Originally posted by second:
Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate
SIGNY Because the USA and the collective west have broken every agreement, treaty, contract, and promise we made with the USSR and Russia?
Because we bragged that the Minsk Agreement was just a delaying tactic that we
never intended to keep?
Bc we, the collective west, have shown ourselves to be dishonest, dishonorable, and "not agreement capable"?
Because they're winning?
THUGR: Poor comrade signym. She blames everyone but the Russians for their sins upon humanity. No comrade, no. Stand next to Russia as you look in the mirror. You will see who is guilty of broken promises and crimes against humanity.
And understand this. For decades to come the crimes of Russia will be tried not only in the courts, but in the court of public opinion.
Poor comrade dupe. Everything you post about Russia applies to us as well. World opinion outside of the collective west is turning sour, you're just ignoring it. You're like the bully in the schoolyard who thinks he's on top of the world ... until he's not.
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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 RUSSIAN WAY OF WAR IN UKRAINE: A MILITARY APPROACH NINE DECADES IN THE MAKING.
It’s fascinating enough to do a full breakdown on because much of the analysis confirms not only many things we’ve been discussing here for months, but also that Russia is adapting, evolving, and arguably revolutionizing modern warfare. And more to the point, it validates the assertions long held by those in the know that Russia’s current—sometimes mystifying—frontline tactics are precisely intentioned choices, rather than the haphazard bricolage of a fouled-up or directionless command.
The article begins with a cautionary note about how Russia’s perceived shortcomings or ‘blunders’—like the Kharkov retreat, etc.—have been over-simplified into a false narrative of a weak or failing armed forces. The author immediately establishes that Russia is actually ‘ahead of [its] time’ in terms of conceptual military strategic advancement.
MORE AT https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/dissecting-west-point-think-tanks
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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 Russian State Duma adopted a law in the third reading that increases age limitations for contract servicemen during the period of mobilization, martial law, and wartime.[69] High-ranking officers to colonel generals will serve until the age of 70, and all other contract servicemen will be able to retire at 65 years of age - likely essential to keep many aging Russian General Officers in their positions without needing special exemptions.[70] The Russian Federation Council approved a law that allows individuals who committed crimes of “small or medium gravity” and men of limited fitness for military service to sign military contracts with the Russian MoD.[71]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-june-21-2023
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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Quote:Signym, you don't read much, do you?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate
Because the USA and the collective west have broken every agreement, treaty, contract, and promise we made with the USSR and Russia?
Because we bragged that the Minsk Agreement was just a delaying tactic that we
never intended to keep?
Bc we, the collective west, have shown ourselves to be dishonest, dishonorable, and "not agreement capable"?
Because they're winning?
Objectives such as substituting Western imports with domestic products, having Russians vacation inside the country, and restoring the prestige of the Russian armed forces have been on Putin’s agenda for decades, but in the end, only war proved capable of making Russian bureaucrats, businessmen, and wider society implement them for real.
None of these developments are as straightforward as they may look to Putin — and their costs for Russia are immense. But the key lesson he has drawn from Russian history is that if you want to achieve something worthy in such a vast and disorganized country, the cost will inevitably be high. While the losses will fade with time, the achievements will be remembered by later generations. And even if the costs are high, Putin has not found anything that can rival the war in its destructive efficiency for shaping the history of Russia and the world.
And that is why Putin will never agree to de-escalate.
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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Quote:Russia has signed multiple treaties, agreements, and contracts with us (the USA and collective west) and scrupulously kept up their end of every agreement. For example, they kept gas flowing thru Ukraine, paying transit fees even as Ukraine shelled Donbas and refused to pay Russia the $3 billion that they owed.
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym, you don't read much, do you?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why Putin Will Never Agree to De-escalate
Because the USA and the collective west have broken every agreement, treaty, contract, and promise we made with the USSR and Russia?
Because we bragged that the Minsk Agreement was just a delaying tactic that we
never intended to keep?
Bc we, the collective west, have shown ourselves to be dishonest, dishonorable, and "not agreement capable"?
Because they're winning?
Objectives such as substituting Western imports with domestic products, having Russians vacation inside the country, and restoring the prestige of the Russian armed forces have been on Putin’s agenda for decades, but in the end, only war proved capable of making Russian bureaucrats, businessmen, and wider society implement them for real.
None of these developments are as straightforward as they may look to Putin — and their costs for Russia are immense. But the key lesson he has drawn from Russian history is that if you want to achieve something worthy in such a vast and disorganized country, the cost will inevitably be high. While the losses will fade with time, the achievements will be remembered by later generations. And even if the costs are high, Putin has not found anything that can rival the war in its destructive efficiency for shaping the history of Russia and the world.
And that is why Putin will never agree to de-escalate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
We OTOH have renged on every promise made and every document signed, from nuclear treaties to dicking over long-term gas contracts and loans, from stealing Russia's assets to banning Russian ballet. Russians started talking about Americans not being "agreement capable" years ago, and they just added Europe to the list.
The one lesson they learned from being constantly backstabbed by the west is that the only thing we understand is power, and the only thing that will make us stop behaving like world-class jerks is ignominious defeat.
That's our fault, not theirs.
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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:Signym, do you realize that Russia is poor compared to nations in the EU? Putin explains it by blaming the West. That is not reality. Under Putin, Russia has developed into a fully criminal gang state where the courtiers and leading supporters of the Kremlin leadership have been permitted to plunder the state. This plundering has now continued for more than 20 years. And the state that has been plundered is a petrostate with natural gas and oil revenues with assets on the order of “low trillions” of dollars. Plundering is how Russia became poor. The late author Karen Dawisha, in her book Putin’s Kleptocracy, noted that in Russia, every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are paid to affiliates of the regime in bribery money alone.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Russia has signed multiple treaties, agreements, and contracts with us (the USA and collective west) and scrupulously kept up their end of every agreement. For example, they kept gas flowing thru Ukraine, paying transit fees even as Ukraine shelled Donbas and refused to pay Russia the $3 billion that they owed.
We OTOH have renged on every promise made and every document signed, from nuclear treaties to dicking over long-term gas contracts and loans, from stealing Russia's assets to banning Russian ballet. Russians started talking about Americans not being "agreement capable" years ago, and they just added Europe to the list.
The one lesson they learned from being constantly backstabbed by the west is that the only thing we understand is power, and the only thing that will make us stop behaving like world-class jerks is ignominious defeat.
That's our fault, not theirs.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/21/russian-frozen-assets-ukraine-rec
onstruction/
Download all of Karen Dawisha's books for free from the mirrors at http://libgen.is/search.php?req=Karen+Dawisha
A quote from chapter 7 of Putin's Kleptocracy:
Corruption, Society, and the Economy
Russian society has had years of turbulence that produced decreased birth rates and increased mortality rates, especially among Russia’s men. While Putin’s early years brought greater social stability, this has eroded since the mid-2000s, so that by 2012 the 1.7 births per Russian woman, although slightly higher than previously (thanks to numbers from non-Russian republics like Chechnya, Dagestan, and Tuva), was still 20 percent below replacement level. Birth rates are not that different from European norms, but statistics on mortality rates are striking. The lack of adequate medical care produces five times more deaths from cardiovascular disease among women in Russia than in Europe. More Russian women die annually from domestic violence than the number of soldiers the USSR lost in the entire Afghan war. For Russian men, the situation is even grimmer. Poor workplace and road safety standards, plus high rates of suicide and homicide combine with the negative health effects of high alcohol consumption to make life especially precarious for Russian men. According to the World Health Organization, the life expectancy of a fifteen-year-old male is three years lower in Russia than in Haiti.1 Added to these demographic maladies are the millions of Russians, mainly girls, that have been lost to sex trafficking. Russia’s compliance with international conventions on human trafficking declined for nine straight years, and in 2013 the U.S. State Department finally gave Russia’s compliance the lowest ranking possible, below Rwanda.2
These statistics are directly affected by corruption. When the health budget is raided and stolen, funds dry up for neonatal care, medicines to treat cancer, public health campaigns against HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis, and improved emergency response. Russia committed to building its first eight-bed women’s shelter in St. Petersburg, but by 2013 it still had not opened.3 Despite receiving $1.6 trillion from oil and gas exports from 2000 to 2011, Russia was not able to build a single interstate
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dragging another red herring across your very own argument again, I see.what does poverty have to do with whether or not we (the collective west) can be trusted to keep our promises?
it doesn't.
sod off, troll.
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