Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:To "waste" means to kill. Russians have wasted Russian lives by the tens of millions. The Ukrainians are aware that Russians are wasteful. The Ukrainians fight the Russians because they know their lives will be wasted if Russians control them.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Looks like sig agrees with you 2. And it's a damning account of Russia. History shows Russia is and has always been, amongst the worst of the worst. The most corrupt, bad, evil, and morally ill.
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I'm sure that is a part of it.
T
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Quote:There are economic and health comparisons that are easy to make between wasteful Russia and careful Canada. Russia looks bad on both measures because of its philosophy of life, or of death, whichever you prefer to call it.
Originally posted by THG:
I'm sure that is a part of it.
T
The Russian economy is wasteful compared to the Canadian economy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Compare+gnp+russia+canada
GDP per capita Russia $18,388.40 Canada $71,212.86
https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/fact_sheet-fiche_document
aire/russia-russie.aspx?lang=eng
A Russian's lifespan is short compared to a Canadian: https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+Russia+Canada+lifespan
In Russia, the average life expectancy is 72 years (67 years for men, 78 years for women) as of 2022. In Canada, that number is 84 years (82 years for men, 86 years for women) as of 2022.
I don't think the Russians can truthfully blame their sad lives on the US, especially when Canadians do so well despite living adjacent to the US. There is something that shall remain unnamed intrinsically wrong with Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:There are economic and health comparisons that are easy to make between wasteful Russia and careful Canada. Russia looks bad on both measures because of its philosophy of life, or of death, whichever you prefer to call it.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I'm sure that is a part of it.
T
The Russian economy is wasteful compared to the Canadian economy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Compare+gnp+russia+canada
GDP per capita Russia $18,388.40 Canada $71,212.86
https://www.international.gc.ca/country-pays/fact_sheet-fiche_document
aire/russia-russie.aspx?lang=eng
A Russian's lifespan is short compared to a Canadian: https://www.google.com/search?q=compare+Russia+Canada+lifespan
In Russia, the average life expectancy is 72 years (67 years for men, 78 years for women) as of 2022. In Canada, that number is 84 years (82 years for men, 86 years for women) as of 2022.
I don't think the Russians can truthfully blame their sad lives on the US, especially when Canadians do so well despite living adjacent to the US. There is something that shall remain unnamed intrinsically wrong with Russia.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Russia's run by a Mafia strongman. It's what Trump wants to do here.
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Quote:Russia's problem is succinctly summarized -- Russians are half-asses. For example:
Originally posted by THG:
Russia's run by a Mafia strongman. It's what Trump wants to do here.
Half of Russian Losses Could Have Been Prevented With Proper First Aid
Monday's U.K. MOD update cited a claim by the Kalashnikov company's combat medicine training division that it was likely that "up to 50 percent of Russian combat fatalities could have been prevented with proper first aid."
The leading causes of preventable fatalities and amputations were slow evacuations and "the inappropriate use of the crude in-service Russian combat tourniquet," the MOD said.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-losses-first-aid-prevented-ukraine-war
-1811860
Russians need to, but won't, get their shit together. Whether making real plans for replacing their ruler at predetermined times and regular intervals or evacuating their wounded, Russians just haven't got their shit together. The Russians could do themselves a favor by sobering up and acting with common sense instead of like they are raging lunatics howling for blood (Russia made another death threat to nuke the US). Russians are nuts.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:Russia's problem is succinctly summarized -- Russians are half-asses. For example:
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Russia's run by a Mafia strongman. It's what Trump wants to do here.
Half of Russian Losses Could Have Been Prevented With Proper First Aid
Monday's U.K. MOD update cited a claim by the Kalashnikov company's combat medicine training division that it was likely that "up to 50 percent of Russian combat fatalities could have been prevented with proper first aid."
The leading causes of preventable fatalities and amputations were slow evacuations and "the inappropriate use of the crude in-service Russian combat tourniquet," the MOD said.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-losses-first-aid-prevented-ukraine-war
-1811860
Russians need to, but won't, get their shit together. Whether making real plans for replacing their ruler at predetermined times and regular intervals or evacuating their wounded, Russians just haven't got their shit together. The Russians could do themselves a favor by sobering up and acting with common sense instead of like they are raging lunatics howling for blood (Russia made another death threat to nuke the US). Russians are nuts.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
This is the type of dumbassery that comes out of people who view an entire country as a single hive-mind.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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Yanno, that's exactly what people say about Ukrainian casualties.
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Quote:I don't know every Trump supporter, but every Trump supporter I know was an untrustworthy, dishonest, lazy, lying, drunken asshole before Trump came along. My experience with Trump supporters doesn't "prove" that all the many millions of Trump supporters are participants in a single Hive-mind but sorting out who is and is not will waste my time and energy without giving me anything in return. The same is true about Russians. It is not worth the time and energy to sort out who is what as far as Russians. Kill them, kill them all, which is why the US should send all stockpiled cluster bombs to Ukraine so that Ukrainians can explosively fix what is wrong with a few, but not all, Russians.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
This is the type of dumbassery that comes out of people who view an entire country as a single hive-mind.
Ukraine Burning Through Ammo Alarms NATO as Divisions Emerge Over War
Ellie Cook
Ukraine's NATO backers are split over the U.S. supply of cluster munitions, which will be a much-needed boost for Kyiv's ammunition stockpiles as it forges on with its counteroffensive.
Cluster bombs will help Ukraine keep up with its sky-high ammunition needs, experts have told Newsweek, but several of Kyiv's supporters have balked at the provision of the controversial munitions.
On Friday, the U.S. said it was supplying dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM), a form of cluster bomb that disperses submunitions over a wide area. They are considered an effective military weapon, but they can pose a danger to civilians.
U.S. President Joe Biden told CNN that Washington had made the "difficult" decision because "the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition."
In a media briefing, Colin Kahl, a senior Pentagon official, said the new military package – which also included more ammunition for Patriot air defense systems and HIMARS – meant the U.S. could furnish Ukraine "with hundreds of thousands of additional artillery ammunition immediately."
"By providing Ukraine with DPICM artillery ammunition, we will ensure that the Ukrainian military has sufficient artillery ammunition for many months to come," Kahl added.
Although there are no figures available for how much ammunition Ukraine has left, what it needs, or how much it has used, Kyiv has repeatedly called for ammunition supplies from its Western backers.
Sending cluster munitions will boost Ukraine's counteroffensive efforts in the eastern and southern parts of the country, experts told Newsweek.
Ukraine's incredibly high ammunition consumption "far outstrips present Ukrainian and Western ammunition production," according to Frederik Mertens, of The Hague Center for Strategic Studies. In February, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance's "unprecedented support" was "consuming an enormous quantity of Allied ammunition, and depleting our stockpiles."
Any weapon that boosts Ukraine's ammunition stockpiles is useful from the Kyiv military's point of view, Mertens told Newsweek, "especially in this crucial phase of the war when Western support still is firm, and Kyiv is on the offensive."
Cluster munitions will give Ukraine's artillery units "a far superior capability to deal with hostile mechanized units," he added. Cluster bombs spread submunitions over a far greater area than other ammunition, and they are more effective against hard targets.
This "really enhances the abilities of the Ukrainian artillery to support their offensive," Mertens argued. Ukraine at the same time receives additional ammunition through this military package, but these munitions also go further than other ammunition, which is then conserved for other targets.
Cluster munitions are "very useful for clearing out large numbers of infantry," Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute think tank, previ
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Ukraine Should NOT Be in NATO | Opinion
Daniel R. DePetris , fellow, Defense Priorities
On 7/10/23 at 5:00 AM EDT
Bringing Ukraine into NATO would scratch the itch of teaching Russia a lesson. But it would do nothing to end the war or shorten its duration—precisely the opposite. If Putin knows that Ukraine will be invited into the alliance after the war is over, he will have even more reason to fight in order to prevent that outcome.
Putin would be given two choices: lose and watch NATO's border with Russia get even longer than it is today (and courtesy of Finland's own entry into the alliance this year, the NATO-Russia border has already increased by more than 800 miles), or continue to pour men and resources into the conflict to win or at least maintain a stalemate. Any semblance of a diplomatic settlement to the war would evaporate.
The U.S. would also be burdening itself with another security commitment in Europe at a time when the center of gravity in U.S. foreign policy is now focused on Asia. Perhaps this would be necessary if Ukraine's security was an ingredient to ensuring that Europe remains whole, free, and largely at peace. But nobody can make this argument with a straight face. Russia couldn't invade or occupy a European country even if it wanted to. If that was true before the war in Ukraine began, it's even more true now, with tens of thousands of Russian troops dead, tens of thousands more wounded, and the Russian army reportedly losing half its combat power in about a year and a half. Europe can and should continue to aid Ukraine, but realistically, Europe simply doesn't need Ukraine as a formal ally to maintain its economic or military advantage over Russia.
It's past time for NATO to close the proverbial open door, not keep it open in perpetuity.
Daniel R. DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a syndicated foreign affairs columnist at the Chicago Tribune.
More at https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-should-not-nato-opinion-1811669
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Russian elites flaunt their inhumanity
by Alexander J. Motyl, opinion contributor - 07/11/23 2:00 PM ET
TV host Solovyov makes what amount to endorsements of genocide. Former president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev blithely speaks of a nuclear apocalypse. The Bryansk Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church enjoined Russian soldiers to “to wipe the Ukrainian nation from the face of the earth.” One leading Russian separatist in the Donbas, Pavel Gubarev, warned Ukrainians to recognize that they’re really Russians or else: “if you don’t want to be convinced by us, then we’ll kill you. We’ll kill as many as is necessary: 1 million, 5 million, or exterminate all of you. Until you understand that you are possessed and need to be cured.” Television personality Anton Krasovsky opined that Ukrainian children who don’t like Russians should be drowned or incinerated.
This, then, is what over two decades of Putin’s misrule has wrought in Russia. The regime’s normalization of brutality, violence and criminality has either created or reinforced Russian cultural norms that both countenance and endorse crimes against humanity.
More at https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4089556-russian-elites-flaun
t-their-inhumanity/
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Ukraine Needs NATO—and NATO Needs Ukraine, Too
Arguments against admitting Ukraine into the alliance aren’t convincing.
Garry Kasparov
Jul 11, 2023
Last week, an opinion article in Foreign Affairs argued for locking Ukraine out of NATO. The authors, Justin Logan and Joshua Shifrinson of the Cato Institute, offered five claims to support their arguments. But as is typical of the genre, their article is long on opinion and short on facts. Because articles like this are so useful in Kremlin propagandists’ disinformation campaigns, it is worth refuting Logan and Shifrinson’s five claims one by one.
Claim 1: Russia does not threaten NATO. “The idea that Russia could pose a serious threat to Poland, much less to France or Germany, is outlandish.”
This claim is so divorced from reality, so historically illiterate, that it shocks. For more than fifteen years, Vladimir Putin has waged war on NATO, directly and indirectly. When democratic Georgia sought NATO membership of its own free will, Putin invaded. When Ukrainian citizens marched in the pro-European Maidan Revolution (the Revolution of Dignity) in 2014, Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin and his Wagner Group proxies carpet-bombed hospitals in Syria, on the border of another NATO member, Turkey. And they armed coups around the world, with the aim of undermining democracy everywhere.
Russian state agents have murdered British citizens, attempted to conduct a coup in a country that had already signed a NATO accession protocol, kidnapped an Estonian border guard, and are currently holding multiple American hostages. Russian influence operations left fingerprints on the pro-Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom and Yevgeny Prigozhin rose in the Kremlin’s mafia ranks by helping Putin interfere with U.S. elections. And when Putin deemed NATO nations weak—mistakenly, this time—he invaded Ukraine again. Every action Putin has taken, every person Putin’s forces have killed in his bloody-minded fixation on undermining NATO, demonstrates clearly his intentions. If you are still fooled by Putin, I cannot help you.
Claim 2: “If Ukraine were in NATO, the United States could be pushed to come to Ukraine’s defense by deploying troops and even threatening to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine’s behalf.”
Claim 3: The United States would not defend Ukraine. “Extending Article 5 protections to Ukraine could also undermine their overall credibility.”
These two claims are linked, so we can refute them together. First, it is important to clarify that Ukraine is not asking for membership today. It is asking, by virtue of all the blood it has shed and the benefits it offers to NATO, for membership in the future, after Ukrainian forces have liberated their lands and people.
More at https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-needs-nato-and-nato-needs-ukrain
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